The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-30

Secretary Of War.
For contingent expenses of the Ad-
jutant-General'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-teIegraphs
and signal equipments, twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For pay of the Army. and for al
loWances to officers of the Army for
transportation OF themselves and their
baggage when travelling on duty with
out troops, escorts, or supplies. and
for compensation of witnesses while
OH court-martial service; for travelling
expenses of paymasters' clerks. for
payment of postage on letters and
packages, and cost Of telegrams re-
celved and sent by officers of the
Army on public business, eleven mill
ion four hundred thousand dollars {:
PT0rttted. That only actual travelling
expenses shall be allowed to any per-
son holding employment or appoint
ment under the United States, and all
allowances for mileages and trans
portation i'll excess of the amount
actually paid are hereby declared il
legal; and no credit shall be allowed
to any O. the disbursing officers of the
United States for payment or allow
ances in violation Of this provision.
For subsistence of regular troops,
engineers. and Iadian scouts. two mill
ion four hundred and nine thousand
dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quarter
masters Department. to wit: For
the regular supplies of the Quarter
masters Department, consisting of
stoves for heating and cooking; OF
fuel for officers, enlisted men. guards,
hospitals, stOre-houses, and offices: of
forage In kind for the horses, mules,
and oxen of the Quarterlnaster's De-
partment. at the several posts and sta
tiOns, and with the armies in the field;
tor the horses Of the several regiments
of cavalry, the batteries of artillery.
ard such companies of infantry and
scouts as may be mounted, and for the
authorized number of officers horses,
including bedding for the animals; of
straw for soldiers bedding; and of
stationery, including blank books for
the Quartermaster's Department. cer-
titicates for discharged soldiers, blank
forms for the Pay Quartermaster's
Departments. and for printing of di-
vision and department orders and re-
ports, four million Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars Pr0ttded,
That thee hundred thousand dollars
thus appropriated may be applied by
the Commisary-Gen of Subsistence
prior to the first day July, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, to the pur-
chase of subsistence supplies intended
for the posts supplied through the Up
per Missouri, and for other distant
posts.
For incidental expenses, to wit:
For postage and telegrams of dis
patches; extra pay to soldiers employ
ed under the direction of the Quarter
masters Department, in the erection
OF barracks, quarters. store-houSeS,
and hospitals; in the construction of
roads and other constant labor. for
periods of not less than ten days.
under the acts of March second. eight
cen hundred and nineteen, and August
fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty
rour, Including them employed as
clerks at division and department
expenses of expresses
to and from the frontier-poSts and
armies in the field; of escorts to pay
masters and other disbursing officers,
and to trains where military escorts
cannot be furnished; expenses of the
iDterment of officers killed in action,
or who die when on duty in the field,
OF at posts on the frontiers, or when
travelling on orders, and of non-com-
officers and soldiers; author
lied office furniture; hire of laborers
in the Quartermaster's Department,
the hire of interpreters,
spies, and guides for the Army; COM
pensation of clerks to officers of the
Quartermaster's Department; compen-
satiOo of forage and wagon masters
by the act of Jnly fifth,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; tor
the apprehension of Geserters, and the
incident to their pursuit; and
for the following expenditures requir-
ed for the several regiments ofcavalry,
the batteries of light artillery, and
such companies OF intantray and scouts
as may be mounted, TO wit, hire of
surgeons, medicine TOR
horses and mules, picket-ropes, and
for shoeing the horses of the corps
also, generally, the proper
and authorized expenses for the move
ment and operations of the Army not
assigned to any other de-
partment, one million two hundred
thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses for the caval-
ry and artillery, and for the Indian
scouts, and for such infantry as may
be mounted, three hundred thousand
dollars.
For transportation of the Army, in
cluding baggage of the troops when
either by land or water; of
camp and garrison equipage
from the depots of Philadelphia and
Jacksonville to the several posts and
and from those depots
to the troops in the field; of horse
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 service may require them to be
sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores,
and small-arms from the founderies
and armories to the arsenals, fortitica-
tions, frontier-posts, and army-depots;
freights, wharfage, VOLS, and ferriages;
the purchase and hire of horses, mvles,
oxen, and harness, and the purchase
and repair of wagons, carts, and drays,
and of ships and other sea-going YES
sells and boats required for the trans
portatIon of supplies and for garrison
purposes; tor drayage and carriage at
the several posts; hire of teamsters,
transportation of funds for the pay
and other disbursing departments; the
expense OF sailing public transports on
the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico,
and the Atlantic and Pacific; for pro-
curing water at such posts as from
their situation require it to be brought
from distance; and for clearing roads
ana Tor removing Instructions from
roads, harbors, and rivers to the ex-
tent which may be required for the
actual operations of troops in the field,
four million dollars