National Republican., 1874-07-07

! euuiDage. and forst, o current expenses of the
i depo., purchase of engineering materials for
| rse in instruction of engineer battalion, and
purcha,e e and repair OF instruments for general
service of the corps of engineers, nine thou
sand dollars.
defence and to instruct the engineer tr, o Js IL
their nnactical construction and application,
| ton thousand dollars.
| For the ordnance service required to defray
the current expenses at the arsenals; OF receiy-
ing stores and issuing arms and other ordnance
! supplies; of police and office duties; OF rents,
tolls, fuel, and lights; OF stationery and office
furniture; of tools and instruments for use; OF
public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental
expenses of the ordnance service, including
those attending practical trials and tests OF
ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance SUD-
plies, one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars; PrOVided, That none of the money
hsreby appropriated shall be expended, directly
or indirectly, for any use not strictly necessary
for, and directly connected with, the military
service of the Government; and this restriction
shall apply to the use Of public animals, for
age, and vehicles: Aad provided further, That
none OF the money hereby appropriated shall
be expended for the construction or repair of
buildings.
For manufacture Of metallic ammunition for
small arms, seyenty-ive thousand dollars.
For overhauling, cleaning and preserving
new ordnance stores on hand at the Arsenals,
fifty thousand dollars.
For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores
in the hands of troops and for issue at the
arsenals and depots, twenty-five thousand dol-
lars.
For saddlers' tools, smiths tools and mate
rials, too-bags, cavalry forges, with their tools
and materials for the cavalry service, twenty
thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture Of ordnance
stores, to fill requisitiOns of troops and for al
teratiOD of carriages now in use in sea-coast
forts, one hundred thousand dollars.
For infantry, cavalry and artillery equip
ments, consisting of yalises, hGversacks, can
teens and great coat straps, and for recover
ing cavalry saddles with leather, and for man
Ufacture of sGddle-bags and repairing horse
equipments for cavalry troops, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For manufacture, at national armOries, Of
the Cew model brcech-lOad:ng nuSket and
carbine adopted for the military service on
Recommendation of the board of officers con-
vened under act Of June sixth, eighteen hun
dred and seycutT-twO, one hundred thousand
dollars: P!op.ied, That no part of this sum
shall be expended at said armOr.es in the per-
lection of patentable inventions in the manu-
facture Of arms By officers Of the army other
wise compensated for their services to the
United States.
For the construction Of post on the north
fork of LouPc river, in Nebraska, fifty thou
sand dOlarsI Provided, That tine cost of said
post shall not exceed the amount hereby ap-
prOPriated.
Sec. 2. That all balances OF appropriations,
fer whatever account, made for the service of
the departments of the Quartermaster General
and of the Commissary General Of Subsistence,
prior to July first, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-two, which on the thirtieth day of June,
eighteen hundred and sevcnty-Eour, shall re-
main on the books of the Treasury. shall be
carried to the surplus fund, except such as the
Auditor OF the Treasury, whose duty it is to
settle accounts against such appropriations,
shall certify to the Secretary OF the Treasury
to be necessary in the settlement of such ac-
counts as have been reported to him for pay
meut by the quartermasters and the commits
sary departments pending IN his Office. And
the Quartermaster General, Comm!Ssary Gen
eral; and Third Auditor of the Treasury shall
continue to receive, examine, and consider the
Justice and validity of such claims as shall be
brought before them under the act of July
fourth, eighteen hundred and siXty-four, and
the acts amendatOry thereof; and the Secre-
tary oE the Treasury shall make report OF each
claim allowed by them, at the commencement
Of each session of Congress, to the Speaker of
the House Of Representatives, who shall lay
the same before Congress for consideration.
Approved, juno 1G, 1874.