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LAWS
L Avs
OF THE
UNITED STATES
PASSED AT THE
FirstSess,on of the FOrty-Third Congress.
GENERAL NATuRE-No. AL

GENERAL NATURE-No. AL
AN ACT making appropriations for the support
of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-1iye, and fol
other purposes.
Be IL eaacsed Jy the Senate and House of Repre-
seatdtices ofthe United States Of america in Con-
gress assembled, That the following sums be, and the
same are hereby, appropriated out OF any moneys
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
support of the Army Tor the year ending june
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seyenty-five as
follows:
For expenses of the Commanding Generals Office,
five thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting aud transportation OF
recruits, one hundred and five THOUSAND dollars
And no money appropriate by tits act shall be paid
for recruiting the Army beyond the number Of
twenty-five thousand enlisted men, including Indian
scouts Nothing, however, in this act shall be con
strued to diminish the Signal Service, which shall be
maintained as INV. organized under the authority
of the Secretary of War.
For contingent expenses of tie Adjutant-Gen
al's Department at the headquarters OF military
divisions and departments, three thousand dollars
For expenses OF the Signal Service of the Army
purchase, equipment, and repair of electric field
teiegrapks and signa-equipments, twelve thousand
For pay of the Army and for allowances to Off
GERS OF the Army tor transportation of themselves
and their baggage when travelling On duty without
troops escorts or supplies and for compensation OF
witnesses while on court-martial service; for trav-
cling expenses OF payU'asters clerks; for payment
of postage ON letters and packages and cost of tee-
grams received and sent by officers of the Army on
public business, eleven million four hundred thou
sand dollars: Pr0Ctdtd That only actual travelling
expenses shall be allowed to any person holding en-
poyment or appointment under the United States,
and al allowances for mileages and transportation
. in excess OF the amount actually paid are hereby
declared Illegal; and credit shall be allowed 10
any of the disbursing officers of the United STATES
for payment OF allowances in violation OF this pro-
vision.
For subsistence of regular troops, engineers, and
Indian scouts, two million four hundred and nine
thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quarterniaster's De-
partmeni, 10 wit: For the regular supplies OF the
Tor heating and cooking of fuel for officers, enlisted
men, guards hospitals ssore-houses anu offices; OF
forage in kind for the horses mules and of the
Quartermaster's Department, at the several pests
and stations, and with the armies in the field; for
the horses OF the several regiments Of cavalry, tie
batteries of artillery. and such companies of an-
Try and scouts as may be mounted, and for the al-
thoiiZed number Of officers horses, including bed
ding for the animals; of straw for soldiers bedding;
and of stationery, including blank books for the
Quar.ermastei' rs Department, certificates for dis
charged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quar-
iernasters Department. and tor printing of diyis-
ion aud department orders aud reports, four million
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: ProDided,
That three hundred thousand dollars thus appropi-
atcd may De applied by the Comrissary- eneial OF
Subsistence prior to the first day of July, eighteen
hunlreI and seyenty-four, to the purchase ui sub
sistence supplies intended for the posts supplied
through the Upper Missouri, and for Other distant
posts.
For incidental expenses, to wit: For POSTAGE and
tele9rlms or dispatches; extra pay soldiers en-
ployed under the direction of the Quartermaste' IS
Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters.
storehouses, and hospitals; in the construction OF
roads and other constant labor, for periods oil net
less than ten days, under the acts of March second
eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August four,l,,
eighteen hundred and fif y-iour including those en-
ployed as clerks at division and department head
quarters; expenses of expresses TO and from The
frontler-posts and armies in the field; of escorts
paymasters and other dsbursing officers, and to
trains where military escorts cannot be Furnished
expenses of the intermsnt OF officers killed in ac-
ton, or who die when on duty in the field, at posts
on the frontiers, or when travelling orders. and of
non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized
Office furniture; hire OF laborers in the Quarter
masters Department, including the hire Of inter-
preters spies. and guides for the Army; compensa-
ton OF clerks to officers OF the QuarteInasters De-
partmeni; compensation of forage an wagon mas
ters authorized by the act OF July fifth eighteen
hundred and thirty eight; for the apprehension of
dcserteis and the expense incident their pursuit;
ana Tor the following expenditures required for tie
several regiments of cavalry the batteries of light
artillery, and such companies OF infantry and scouts
as may be mounted, to wit, hire of veterinary sur
geons, medclne Tor horses and mules, picketropeS,
and for shoeng the horses of the corps named also
generally, the proper and authorized expenses for
tie movement and operations Of the Army not eX-
pressly assigned to any other department, one mill
ion two hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses for the cavalry and arti,-
lery ana for the Indian scouts, aud for such infantry
as may be mounted, three hundred thousand dollars
For transportation of the Army, including bag
gage OF tae troops when moving either by land or
water; OF ciothlDg, camp and garrison cquipage
from the depots Of Philadelphia and Jefersonyiile
to tue several posts and army depots, and from thore
depots to the tro ps in the field; OF horse-equip-
ments and Of subsistence from the places Of
purchase, and from the places of delivery under
contract TO such places as the circumstances of the
service may require them to be sent; of ordnance
ordnance-stores, aud sma arms from the found
fles anu armories to the arsenas, Notifications.
1rontler-posts and army depots; freight, Wharfage
tolls, and ferriages; the purchase aad hire of horses
mules, oxen, anu harness. ana the purchase and re-
par OF wagons carts, and drays, and of ships and
other sea-goins vessels and boats required for the
trans or aCion of supplies and for garrison pur-
poses; Tor drayage and carriage at the several
posts; hire OF teamsers transportation of funds for
the pay and other disbursng departments; the ex-
pense OF sailing public transports on the various
rivers, the Gulf OF Mexico, and the Atlantic and
racine; Tor procuring water at such posts as from
their situation require it to be brought from dis
tance and for clearing roads, and tor removing OBJ
sructlons from roads, harbors and rivers to the
tent which may be required fothe actual operations
OF the TROOPS in the field four million dollars.
That no part of the money appropriated by this
act shall be paid to any railroad company for the
transportation of any property or troops of the
United States over any railroad which, in whole or
IN part, was constructed by The aid of grant of
public laid on the condition that such railroad
should be "a public highway for the of the gov
ernment of the United States free from toll or oIher
charge" upon any other conditions for the use of
such road, for such transportation; shall any
allowance DC made out OF any money appropriated
Dy tnlS act for the transportation of officers of
the army over any such load when on duty and
unuer orders as military officer of the United
States But nothing herein contained shall be con-
stfued as preventing any such railroad from BRING
ing suit in the Court of Claims for che charges of
such transportation, and recovering for the same,
II found emitted thereto by virtue of the laws in
force prior 70 the passage ofthis act
For hre OF quarters for officers on military duty:
hire of quarters for troops: of store -hou es r TX
eafekeeping of miitar, stores Offices and of ero d
LOT camps and summer cant0nments and for temno-
rary manifestations and for the con str,cton OF
temporary nuts and stables; and for repairing pub
Tic buildings at established posts one million four
hundred Thousand dollars.
For construction and repair of nosnitals one hun
bred Thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of clothing camp
ana garrison equipage, and for preserving and re-
packing stock OF clothing, camp and garrison eouip-
age, and materials hand al the Schuylkill Arse
nal and other depots, million four hundred ana
MY thousand Collars: Proctded, That none of the
money hereby Appropriated shall be used in the pur-
chase of hats, uniform-caps. foraec-caps uniform
coats, uniform Jackets, flannel sack-coats and I'M
partment shat issue from the supply now on hand
known as the old pattern; and of the articles
now on hand are exhausted
For preservation OF clothing and euuipaee from
moth ana mildew thirty thousand dollars.
For maintaining national military cemeteries 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: PT0Uided
fhat none OF the money hereby appropriated Shall
be expended, directly or indirectly for any use not
strictly necessary for and directly with te
military service of the governments
For purchase OF medic Il and hospital supp les. paw
OF prlvaae physicians employed in emergencies hire
OF hospital attendants, expenses Of puiyeyne de-
pots, OF medical examining boards and Incidental
expenses OF the Medical Department, two hundred
thousand dollars. "
For the Army Medical Museum and for medical
and other necessary works for the library of the Sur
ge0n GensraPs Office ten thousand dollars
For englneer-depot at Wietts Point. New York
namely, remodeing portions of bridge e9uipaee and
for the current expenses of the DEPOT purchase nj
for in instruction of en-
cheering battalion, and purchase and repair of IN
struments for general service Of the corps Of en-
gineers, nine thousand dollars.
For trials NTH torpedoes for harbor and land de-
tense, and to instruct the engineer troops in their
practical construction and application ten thousand
dollars,
For the ordnance-servce REQUIRED TO defrav tho
current expenses at the arsenas; of receiving stores
and Issuing arms and other ortlnance-sunnIes. If
police and office duties; of rents tolls fuel and
lghts of stationery and ofice-frnitu1e; Of tools
anu Instruments for use; of public animals forage
anu Vehlcles Incidental expenses of the ordnance
service including those attending practical trials
aiu eests Of ordnance smalarins, and other ord
aIe 1supples' one hundred and twenty-five tbou-
s''iro uonars. Proeded That none of the money
indirsctip e shall be expended, directly or
directly connected with, the miarv sarys 90 ~ t
government; and this restriction sb,Ii a, " =, ti e
use OF pnbl animals, forage and vebii ppy 70 tie
pjded faTttr That none OF tie m, A@d pro-
proprlated shall be expended for the nJ neiepy APP
repair of buildings e construction or
For manufacture of metallic ammunit;on
arms, seyenty-fve thousand do1rs 'h lof small
For oyerhauling, cleaning, and praser1;n
ordnance stores on hand at the arsenas ft,Is hew
sand dollars. ' my thou-
For repairing ordnance, and ordnance stores in H.,