The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.
Regular supplies: For fuel for officers,
offices. forage for IT the horses mules and
oxen of the Quartermaster's Department E
at the several posts and stations, and with
the armies IN the field, and for horses Of
the several regiments of cavalry and bat
teries of artillery, and such companies of
and for the authorized nuInbe r of 0fIicersS
horses, including bedding for the animals,
straw for soldiers bedding, stationery, in
Guiding blank books for the Quartermas-
ter'S Department, certificates of diScharg-
ed soldiers blank forms for the Pay and
QuartermastertS Departments and for the
printing of division and department or
ders and reports, being for the service of
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three, one hum
dred thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses, consisting of
postage and tefegramS or dispatches re-
ceived and sent on public business, extra
pay to soldiers employed under the direc-
fion of the Ouarter1nasterss Department
in the erection of barracks, quarters store
houses. and hospitals; in the construction
of roads and other constant labor, for peri
ods of not less than ten days, including
those employed as clerks at division and
department headquarters, and hospital
stewards on clerical duty: expenses of ex-
presses to and from the frontier posts and
armies in the field; of escorts to paymas-
ters and other disbnrsing officers, and to
trains. where military escorts cannot be
furnished; expenses of the interment of
officers killed in action, or who die when
on duty in the field or at posts on the from on
Secretary of War, and of non-commission-
ed officers and soldiers; authorized office
furniture; hire of labor in the Quarter
masters Department, including the hire
of Interpreters, spies, and guides for the
Army; compensation of clerks for officers
of the Quartermaster's Department.; COM
pensation of forage and wagon masters;
for the apprehension, securing and deliv-
ering of deserters, and the expenses Incl.
dent to their pursuit; and for the following
eNOendltlraS rPnnire6 for the several
iments of cavalry, the batteries of light
artillery. and such companies of infantry
and scouts as may be mounted, namely:
the purchase of travelling forges, black
smiths and shoeing tools, horse and mule
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoe1ng
nire 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
of the Army not expressly assigned to any
other department. being a deficiency for
the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For transportation of the Army, includ-
ing the baggage of the troops, when NOV
ing either by land or water: of clothing
and camp and garrison equipage, from the
depOtS at Philadelphia 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 ST the
service may require them to be sent; of
ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms
from the founderies and armOries to the
arsenals, fortifications, frontier-pcsts, and
Army-depots: freights, wharfage, tolls and
ferriaSes; the purchase and hire of horses,
mules, oxen, and harness, and the pur-
chase and repair of wagons, carts, and
dIays, and of ships and other sea going
vessels, and of boats reVuired for the trans
pOrtation of supplies and tor garriSon-pur-
poses; for drayage and carriage ut the sew
eral posts; hire of teamsters; transporta-
tion of funds for the Pay and other dis
bursting Departments; the expense of sail
ing public transports on various rivers.
the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the
Pacific: for procuring water at such posts
as from their situation require that 1t be
brought from q distance; and for clearing
roads, and for removing Instructions from
road. harbors and rivers, to the extent
which may be required for the actual OPP
erations of troops in the field, being de-
hciency for fiscal year ending June Thrift
eth, eighteen hundred and Seyenty-threc,
not including Pacific railroad accounts.
one hundred and seventy-hve thousand
dollars: Provided, That no part of the sum
appropriated by any provision of this act
shall be paid to 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 quarters: For rent or hire
of quarters for troops and for officers on
military duty; of store houses for safe
keeping of military stores; of offices: of
for temporary frontier stations; for con-
structiOn and repair of temporary hutS, of
stables and other military buildings at es-
tablished posts, and for repairs OF build
ings occupied by the Army, being def
cheney for fiscal year ending June Thrift
eth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
ninety thousand dollars.
Signal-Cfhce: For expenses of the obSer-
walton and report of storms by telegraph
and signals; for the manufacture, purchase
or repair of meteorological and other nee
essary instruments; for telegraphing re-
ports; for expenses of StOIn-SignalS, an
nouncing probable approach and force of
storms: for instrument shelters; for hire.
furniture and expenses of offices, main
tanned for public use in cities or ports re-
and bulletins, to be displayed in chambers
of commerce and boards of trade rooms,
and for distribution; for books and sta
tionery: and for incidental expenses not
provided for, being a deficiency
for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth.
hundred and seventy-four, forty
five thousand dollars.
To pay Benn Pitman balance due him
for transcribing photographic notes of the
testimony and proceedings of the court of
inquiry into the operations of the Army
under the command of Major-General u. |
c. Buell., in Kentucky and Tennessee, dur
ing the winter and spring OF eighteen
hundred and Sixfy-two and eighteen hun
dred and sixty-thTee, nine hundred and |
ninety dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation of the two commits
siOnerS appointed from civil life on the |
military prison board, under the second |
section of San act to provide for the eStab-
approved March third eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-three. while |
actually on duty, four hundred and sixty |
and of the Secretary of War un- |
der said act one thousand five hundred |
dollars: P9-oUided, That the duties of said |
shall cease after the expira- |
ton OF the current fiscal year.
INTERIOR DEPPRTMENT.
INDIAN OFFICE.
For thir amount, or so much thereof as |
gay be necessary, for the subsistence and |
of the Arickarees, Gros Ven- |
tres, and Mandans, to be expended in |
as the President may determine, for agri- |
cultural and mechanical pursuits, and for |
the pa6 of employees, up to june thirtieth,
hundred and seventy-four, twcn- |
ty-five thousand dollars.
For this amount. or so much thereof as |
may be necessary, to subsist the Navajo |
of l.. E. Dudley, superintendent of Indian |
affairs. up TO juno thirfieth, eighteen hum
dred and seventy-four. twenty-five thou
sand dollars
For this amount, so much thereof as |
may be necessary, to pay for the services
and expenses of five Indian inspectors,
being the difference between the sum re-
quired, thirty thousand dollars, and the /
amount appropriated February fourteenth |
eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
twelve thousand four hundred dollars, sew
enteen thousand six hundred dollars.
For the first of ten instalments, to be |
paid. under direction of the President, to
the Flathead Indians removed from the
Bitter Root Valley to the Jocko reserva-
ton. in the Territory of Montana. in ac-
With the second section of the
act entitled IAN act to provide for the re-
moval of the Flathead and other Indians
from the Bitter Root Valley in the Terri
tory of Montana" approved June fifth.
eighteen hundred and seventy-two. five
thousand dollars: Prorited. That said sum
shall be paid only to those Indians of said
tribe who shall have settled upon the joe
ko reservation.
For this amount, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, for the removal and
subsistence; up to July first, eighteen hum