Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-31
IoFFICIAL.l
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the First Session Of tbs POrfy.
third COBsrsss.
(OFFlCIAL,l
IGtNERAL NATURB-No. 72.l-COntinued.
WAR DEPARTMENT.

NATURE-NO. GZ.I-COntlnIeI.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
QCARTRRMAsTeR's DEPARTMENT.
Regular supplies: For fuel for officers enlist
GO men, guards storeboUses, and Off ces, forage
for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quarter
masters Department at the several posts and
stations, and with the armies in the deld, 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
including bedding for the animals, straw for
soldiers, bedding, stationery, including blank
books for the Quar- term aster's Department
certificates Of discharged soldiers, blank forms
Tor the Pay and Quartermaster's Departments,
ana for the printing of division and department
orders and reports, being for the service eff the
hscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dollars.
For incidental expenses, consisting of postage
and kilograms or dispatches received and sent
on pubic business, extra pay to soldiers en-
ployed under the direction of the Quartermas-
ter's Department in the erection of barracks,
quarters, store houses, ana hospitals; in the
construction of roads and other constant labor
for periods OF not less than ten DAYS including
those employed as clerks at division and depart
ment headquarters, and hospital stewards on
clerical duty; expenses of expresses to and from
the frontier posts and armies in the field; of es-
corts to paymasters and other disbursing Off
GERS, and TO trains, where military escorts can
not be furnished; expenses of the interment of
ofncers killed in action, or who died 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 SOL
aiers; authorized ohice furniture; hire OF labor
IN the Quartermaster's Department, including
the hire OF interpreters, spies, and guides for
the Army; compensation of clerks for Offices of
OF forage and wagon masters; for the apprehen-
sion, securing and delivering OF deserters and
the expense incident to their pursuit; and for
. .se Iono%lhg expenditures required for the
light artillery, and such companies of infantry
ana scouts as may be mounted, namely: the
purchase OF travelling FORCES, blacksmiths' and
shoe1Dg 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 author
lied expenses Tor the movement and operations
or the Army not expressly assigned to any other
oeIattment, being deficiency for the fiscal
year endlng June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy three, two hundred thousand dol
lare.
For transportation of the Army, including
the baggage of the troops, when moving either
by land or water; of clothing and camp and
garrison equlpage, from the depots at Phila-
delphia and Jeffersonville 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 purchase
and from the places of delivery, under contract,
to such places as the circumstances of the SER
vice may require them to be sent; of ordnance,
ordnance stores, and small arms, from the
founderies and armories to the arsenas, fortifi-
cations, frontier posts, and Army depots;
freiehts, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the pur-
chase ana nlre OF horses, mules. oxen, and har-
ness, and the purchase and repair OF wagons,
carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-
going vessels. and Of boats required for the
transportation of supplies and for garrison pur
Ioses; for draysge and carriage at the several
posts; hire or Transfers; transportation OF funds
for the Pay and other dIsbursing Departments;
the expense OF sailing public transports on vari-
Gus rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantlc
and the Pacific; for procuring water at such
pests as from their situation require that 1t be
brought from q distance; and for clearing
ROADS, and for removing distractions from
roads, harbors and rivers, to the extent which
msy be required for the actual operations of
troops in the feld, being . deficiency for fiscal
year ending june thiraeth, eighteen hundred
and seventy three, not including Pacidc rail-
road accounts, one hundred aud seventy-fve
Thousand dollars: Prorided, That no part Of the
sum appropriated by any provision Of this act
shall be paid 70 any railroad company which
has received grant OF land on the condition
that its road should be public highway for
the transportation OF the property and troops OF
the United States free from toll or other
charge.
Barracks and qusrters: For rent or hire of
quarters for troops, and for ofhcers on military