New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-02

To pay Thomas j Durant balance due
him under contract with Joint Committee
| on the Revision of the Laws, for the prepa-
ration of the report of the late commission
| treaties, pOstrOad bill, and the bill regulatr
| ing the punishment of military offsnses,
| three thousand one hundred and seventy.
| five dollars and three cents.
To enable the proper accounting officers
| OF the Treasury to pay the amount found
due the United States Associate Justice for
| the Territory of Montana for the fractional
part of the third quarter of the year eight
cen hundred and seventy-two, eighty. one
dollars and tifty.two cents, or go much
thereof o. may BIZ necessary.
To enable the Secretary Of the Treasury
to adjust the account Of the expenditure
for dies, paper, and stamps for the Internal
Revenue Department for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy three, transfer on the books
Of the Treasury of such sums as may be
necessary is hereby authOrized: provided,
that the same shall not involve any actual
expenditure of money from the Treasury.
To pay John Cooper, of the John Cooper
Engine Manufacturing Company for tools
and work done on the South west Pass light
house in eighteen hundred and seventy-two
five hundred and fourteen dollars and
twenty nine cents.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
QUARTERMAsTER's DEPARTMENT.
Regular supplies: For fuel for officers, en-.
listed men, guards, stOre-hOuses, and Of
fees, forage for the horses, mules, and oxen
of the Quartermaster's Department at the
several posts and stations, and with the
armies in the field, and for horses of the
several regiments of cavalry and batteries
of artillery, and such companies of infantry
and scouts as may be mounted, and for the
authorized number of officers horses, in
Guiding bedding for the animals, straw for
soldiers bedding, stationery, including
blank books for the Quartermaster's Depart
ment, certificates OF discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the pay and Quartermas.
ter's Departments, and for the printing of
division and department orders and reports.
being for the service of the fiscal year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy three, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For incidental expenses, consisting of
postage and kilograms or dispatches re-
oeived and sent on public business, extra
pay to soldiers employed under the direc-
ton of the Quartermaster's Department in
houses, and hospitals; in the construction of
roads and other constant labor, for periods
of not less than ten days, including those en-
ployed a. clerks at division and department
headquarters, and hospital stewards on
clerical duty; expenses Of expresses to and
from the frontier posts and armies in the
field; of escorts to paymasters and other
disbursing officers, and to trains, where
military escorts can not be furnished; ex-
penses of the interment of officers killed in
action, or who die when on duty in the field
or at posts on the frontier or other places,
when ordered by the Secretary of War, and
of non-cOmmissiOned officers and soldiers;
authorized office furniture; hire of labor in
the Quartermaster's Department, including
the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides
for the army; compensation of clerks for
officers of the qusrtermaster's department;
compensation of forage and wagon masters;
for the apprehension, securing and deliver
ing of deserters, and the expenses incident
to their pursuit; and for the following ex-
penditures, required for the several regi-
ments of cavalry, the batteries of light
artillery, and such companies of infantry
and scouts as may be mounted, namely:
the purchase of travelling FORCES, black
smiths and shoeing tools, horse and mule
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shOeing;
hire Of veterinary surgeons; medicine for
horses and mules; picket ropes; and for
shOeing the horses of the corps named: also,
generally, the proper and authorized ex-
penses for the movement and operations Of
the army not expressly assigned to any
other department, being deficiency for
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight
cen hundred and seventy three, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For transportation of the Army, includ-
ing the baggage of the troops, when moving
either by land or water; of clothing and
camp and camp and garrison equipage,
from the depots at Philadelphia and Jeffer
sonville to the several posts and Army
depots, and from these depOts to the troops
in the field; of horse equipments and of
subsistence stores from the places of pur
chase and from the places of delivery,
under contract. to such places as the cir
cumstances of the service may require
them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance
stores, and small arms from the founderies
and armories to the arsenals, Notifications,
frontier posts, aud Army depots, freights,
wharfage, tolls and ferriages, the
purchase and hire of horses. mules,
oxen and harness, and the purchase and
repair of wagons, carts and drays, and of
ships and other seagOing vessels, and OF
boats required for the transportation of sup
plies and for garrison purposes; for drayage
and carriage at the several posts; hire of
teamsters; transportation of funds for the
pay and other disDursing departments; the
expense of sailing public transports on
various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, the At
lantic and the Pacific; for procuring water
at such posts as from their situation require
that it be brought from distance; and for
clearing roads, and for removing Obstruc-
tiOns from roads, harbOrs and rivers, to the
extent which may be required for the actual
operations of troops in the field, being a
deficiency for fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three.
not including Pacific railroad accounts, one
hundred aud seventy-fve thousand dollars;
provided, that no part of the sum apprO-
priated by any provision of this act shall be
paid to any railroad company which has
received a grant of land ON the condition
that its road should be a. public highway
for the transportation of the property and
troops Of the United States free from toll or
other charge.
Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire
of quarters for troops and for officers on
military duty; of storehOuses tor safe-keep-
ing of military stores; of offices; of grounds
for camps and environments, and for tenn
pOrary frontier stations; for construction
and repair of temporary huts, Of stables
and other military buildings at established
posts. and for repairs of buildings occupied
by the army, being deficiency for fiscal |
year ending June thirtieth. eighteen hun
bred and seventy-three, ninety thousand |
dollars.
Signal Office: For expenses of the obser- |
vatiOn' and report of storms by telegraph |
and signals; for the manufacture, purchase,
or repair of meteorological and other neces-
sary inst ruments; for telegraphing reports; |
for expenses of storm signals, announcing |
probable approach and force of storms; for |
instrument shelters; for hire, furniture and
expenses of offices, maintained for public
use, in cities or ports receiving reports; for
river reports; for maps and bulletins, to be
displayed in chambers of commerce and
boards of trade rooms, and for distribution;
for books and stationery; and for incidental
not otherwise provided for, being