National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-28
WAR DEPARTMENT.
eUARTrRxAsTEK,s DEPARTMENT.


Regular supplies: For fuel for officers, en-.
listed men, guRrds, store houses, and offices,
forage for the horses, mules, and oxen of the
-QUartermaster's Department at the several
posts and stations, and with tbs 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, including bedding for the AMI
mails, straw for soldiers bedding, stationery,
including blank books for the Q1artermsster's
Department, certificates Of discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the Pay aud QUartermaster's
Departments, and for the printing OF division
and department orders and reports, being for
the service Of the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses, consisting Of post
age and kilograms or dispatches received and
sent on public business, extra pay to soldiers
employed under the direction of the Quarter
masters Department in the erection of bar
racks, quarters, stOre-houses and hospitals; in
the construction Of roads and other constant
labor, for periods Of not less than ten days, in
GLIDING those employed as 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 psymasters and other
disbursing officers, and to trains, where mill
tsry escorts cannot he furnished; expenses 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-commis-
stoned officers snd 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 Quartermsster's De-
PGrtment; compensation Of forage and wagon
he or,V,rabnFaefor ovI
delivering Of deserters, and the expenses Incl
dent to their pursuit. and for the following ex-
penditures required for the several regiments
of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and
such companies of infantry and scouts as may
be mounted, namely: the purchase of travelling
FORCES, blscksmiths' and shoeiRg tools, horse
and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for
shooting; hire Of veterinary surgeons; medicine
for horses and mules; picket ropes; aud for
shOeing the horses Of the corps named; also,
generally, the proper and authorized expenses
for the movement and operations Of The army
not expressly assigned to any other depart
ment, being deficiency for the fiscal year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-three, two hundred thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including
the baggage Of the troops, when moving either
by land or water; of clothing and camp and
garrison equipage, from the depots at Phila-
delpbia and Jacksonville to the several posts
and army depots, and from these depots TO the
troops in the field: o: horse equipments and of
subsistence stores from the places of purchase
and from the places of delivery, under con
tract, 70 such places as the circumstances of
the service may require them 20 be sent, of
ordnance, ordnance stores and small arms,
from the founderies and armOries to the ar
senRls, Notifications, frontier posts and 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 ana drays, and of ships and
other sea-going vessels, and of boats REQUIRED
for the transportation of supplies ard for gar
rison purposes; for drayage and carriage at the
several posts: hire of teamsters; transporta-
ton of funds for the pay and other disbursing
departments; the expense Of sailing public
transports on various rivers, the Gulf Of Mex
leo, the Atlantic and the Pacific; for procuring
water at such posts as, from their situation,
require that il be brought from distance; and
for clearing roads and for removing obstTuc-
lions from roads, harbors and rivers, to the
extent which may be required for actual opera
lions of troops IN the field, being deficiency
for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight
cen hundred and seventy -three, not including
Pacific railroad accounts, one hundred and sew
enty-1ve thousand dollars: ProyiGed, That no
part of the sum appropriated by any provision
Of this act shall be paid TO any railroad COM
psny which has received grant Of land on the
fonQlllOn Lnat It's rOao snOuld De puDnc
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 sto-e-housss for safe-keepiHg OF mill
tsry stores; of Offices; Of grounds for camps
and environments, and for temporary frontier
stations; for construction and repair Of tenn
porary huts, of stables and otEer military
buildings NJ established posts and for repairs
of buildings occupied by the Army, being de-
6eiency for fiscal year ending June thiEtisth,