The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-11-26
L sTAUNTON, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26. 1874.

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For hire of quarters for officers military
duty hire of quarters for troops; of store houses
for the safe keeping of military stores, off-
ces, and Of grounds for camps and summer
cantonments, and for temporary fronticr-sta-
| lions; for the construction of temporary huts
and stables; and for repairing public buildings
| at established posts, one million four hun.
| dred thousand dollars.
For construction and repairs of hospitals,
one hundred thousand dollars.
l. For purchase and manufacture of clothing,
camp and garrison equipage, and for preserv-
ing and repaeking stock of clothing, camp and
garrison equipage, and materials on hand at
the Schuylkill Arsenal and other depots, one
million four hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars: Provided, That none of the money here
by appropriated shall be used in the purchase
| Of hats, uniform-caps, forage-caps, uniform
coats, ununiform-j Jackets, flannel sacK-coats,
| and unlined coats, which articles the Quarter
masters Departmen shall issue from The sup
ply now on hand, known as the old pattern;
4 and none Of the articles above enumerated
shall be purchased until those now on hand
are exhausted.
For preservation of clothing and equpage
! from moth and mildew, thirty thousand dol
lars. grs
| For maintaining national military cemctries,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
| For army contingencies not provided for by
other estimates, embracing all branches of the
! military service, one hundred thousand dollars:
Provided, That none of the money hereby APP
propriated shall be expended, directly or indi-
/ rectly, for any use not strictly necessary for
and directly connected with the military SER
vice OF the Government. s..e5 f.ss
For purchase OF medical and hospital sup
Plies pay of private physicians employed in
emergencies, hire Of hospital-attendants, ex-
penses of purveying-depots, of medical exam
! lung boards, and incidental expenses of the
Medical Department, two hundred thousand
dollars.
For the Army Medical Museum and for med
zeal and other necessary works for the library
of the Surgeon Generals Office, ten thousand
! dollars.
For engineer-depot at Willet'ss Point, New
York, namely remodling portions OF bridge
equipage and for the current expenses of the
| depot, purchase of engineering for
use in instruction of EXPERIMENTATION, and
purchase and repair Of instruments for general
service Of the Corps OF Engineers, line thou
sand dollars.
For trials with torpedoes for harbor and land
land defense, and to instruct the engineer
troops in their practical construction and ap-
plication, ten thousand dollars. sos
For the orunance-serYice required to defray
the expenses at the arsenals; OF receiving
stores and Issuing arms and other ordnance
supplies of police and office duties;of rents, tolls
fuel, and lights; of stationery and ofice-iurni=
t,lre; Of tools and Instruments for Use; OF pub
lie animals, forage, and vehicles; Incidental
expenses OF the ordnancc-scrvice, Including
those attending practical trials and tests of or
dnance, small-aras, and other ordnance sup
plies, one hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars. Provided, That none of the money
hereby appropriated shall be expended, direct
ly or indirectly, for any use not strictly nee
essary for, and directly connected with, the
military seryic. of the Governments; and this
restriction shall apply to the use of public amin
ais. forage.and vehicles And provided further.
That none OF the money hereby appropriated
shall be expended for the construction or re-
pair OF buildings. ssf liz
For manufacture of metallic ammunition for
snall-arms, seventy. five Thousand dollars.
, For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving
new ordnance stores OH hand at the arsenal,
fifty thousand dollar.
For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores
. in the hands of troops and for issue ut the ar
senals and depots, twenty-five thousand dol
| lars.
For saddlers' tools, smiths tools and mat
, erials, tool-bags, cavalry FORCES, with Their
: tools and materials, for the cavalry service,
$ twenty thousand dollars. ss 81
: For purchase and manufacture of ordnance
stores to fill requsitlons of troops, and for al
! ITERATION of carriages now i'll use in sea coast
forts, one hundred thousand dollars. ~
+ For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equip
) ments, consisting of valises haversacks, call
teens, and great coat straps, and for recover
ing cavalry saddles with leather, and for man
/ ufacture OF saddle-bags and repairing horse
equipments for cavalry troops, one hundred
y thousand dollars. sse ;ssi
; For manufacture. at national armories, oil
9 the new model breech loading lnusket and car
: bine adopted for the military service on re-
commentator of the board of officers cohven-
+ ed under act of June sixth. eighteen hundred
: and seventy-two, one hundred thousand dol
u lars: Provided, That Ito part OF this sum shall
be expended at said armories III the perfection
: of patentable inventions in the manufacture Of
! arms by the officers Of the Army. otherwise
o compensated for their services to che United
: States.
i For the construction OF a post on the north
v fork of Loupe River in Nebraska, fifty thou
. sand dollars: Provided, That the cost Of sale
. | post shall not exceed the amount hereby ap
/: propriated.
: SEC. 2. That all balances Of appropriations
q for whatever account, made for the service oil
: the Departments of the Quartermaster Gen
d eral and of the Commissary General of Sub
sistence, prior to July first, eighteen hundred
d and seventy-two, which on the thrtieth day O
+ June, eighteen hundred and seyenty-four ishal
! remain on the books of the Treasury, shall bt
carried to the surplus fund, except such as the
Auditor of the Treasury whose duty it is to set
! tie accounts against such appropriations shal
i certify to the Secretary of the Treasury to bt
d necessary in the settlement of such accounts az
: have been reported to him for payment by the
Il Quarternasters and the Comnlissary Depart
! ments pending Ill his office. And the Quarter
d master General. Commissary General, ant
0 Third Auditor of the Treasury shall continu,
e to receive, examine. and consider the justice
/ and validity of such claims as shall be brough
l. before them under the act Of July fourth, eight
l. cen hundred and sixty-four, and the act
), ameHdatory thereof; and the Secretary Of tn
e Treasury shall make report of each claim al
), lowed by them, at the commencement Of eacl
). session Of Congress, to the Speaker of I'll,
9 House of Representatives, who shall lay tin
/ same before Congress for consideration.
II Approved, June 1e, 1874.
e GENERAL N1ATURE-No. 45.]
) AN ACT to change the time for holding tn
: circuit and district courts of the Unite
!, States for the eastern district of Wisconsin
- at Oshkosh. Fey
I'll Be it enacted by abe Senate and House o
: Representatives of the United States of Amer
= carin Congress assembled, That the time 0