Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-08-07
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OF THE
UNITED STATES
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FIRST SESSION OF THE FoR1Y.1HIRD COSeRts;
GENERAL NAruRn-No. AL


AN ACT making appropriations for the
support of tho Army for the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy five, and for other purposes.
BE IL enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United SAFES Of
1mcricd in Congress assembled, That the
following sums be, and the same are here
by appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury, not otherwise az proprated, for
the support of the Army for the year end
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
scventy-iive, as follows:
For expenses of the Commanding Cen
erals Office, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of recruiting and trans
portation of recruits, one hundred and five
thousand dollars. And no money apprO-
priated by this act shall be paid for re-
cruitng the Army beyond the number of
twenty-five thousand enlisted men, includ-
ing Indian scouts. Nothing, however, in
tins act shall be construed to diminish the
Signal Service, which shall be maintained
us now organized under the authority of
the Secretary of War;
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-
Generals Department at the headquarters
of military divisions and departments,
three thousand dollars.
For expenses Of the Signal Service of
the Army, purchase, equipment, and re-
pair of electric field-telegraphe and signal
equipments, twelve thousand fve hundred
dulsrs.
For pay of the Army, and for allowance
70 officers of the Army for transportation
of themselves and their baggage when
travelling on duty without troops escorts,
or supplies, and for compensation of wit
nesses while on court-martial service for
travelling expenses of paymasters' clerks
for payment of postage on letters and pack
ages and cost of kilograms received and
sent by officers of the Army on public
business, eleven million four hundred
thousand dollars Provided, That only act
ual travelling expenses shall be allowed TO
any person holding employment or APP
pOntment under the United States, and all
allowances for mileages and transportation
in excess of the amount actually paid ar
hereby declared illegal and mo- credit
shall DO allowed to any of the disbu rising
officers of the United States for payment
or allowances in violation of this prOvis
ion.
For subsistence of regular troops, engin-
GERS and Indian scouts, two million four
hundaed and nino thousand dollars.
For regular supplies of the Quartermas-
tCrs Department, to wit: For the regular
supplies of the Quartermaster's
Department consisting of stoves tor
heating and cooking; Of fuel for officers,
enlisted men, guards, hospitals, store
houses, and offices; of forage in kind 70
the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quar-
termastor's Department, at the several
posts and stations, and with the armies in
the field for the horses of the several reg
iments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery,
and such companies of infantry and scouts
Ms may be mounted, and for the authorized
number of officers horses, including bed
ding for the animals; of straw for soldiers
bedding; and of stationery, including
blank books for the Quartermaster's De-
partment, certificates for discharged SOL
diers blank forms for the Pay and Quar-
tapt,1aqfar'a napn rt m and e., nri N N 4,
of division and department orders and
reports, four million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars: Provided That three
hundred thousand dollars thus appropriate
cd may be applied by the Commissary-
General of Subsistence prior to the first
day of July, eighteen hundred and seven
ty-four, to the purchase of subsistence sup.
plies intended for the posts supplied
through the Upper Missouri, and for other
distant posts.
For Incidental expenses, to wit: For
postage and kilograms or dispatches; extra
pay 10 soldiers employed under the direc-
ton of the Quartermaster's Department,
in the erection of barracks, quarters, store
houses, and hospitals; in the construction
Of roads and other constant labor. for pc
RODS of not less than ten days, under the
acts of March second, eighteen hundred
and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen
hundred and ffty-four, including those
employed as clerks at division and depart
ment headquarters, expenses of expresses
to and from the frontier-posts and armies
in the field of escorts to paymasters and
other disbursing officers, and to trains
where military escorts cannot be furnish
ed expenses of the interment of officers
killed in action, or who die when on duty
in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or
when travelling on orders, and of nom
commissioned officers and soldiers au-
thorized office furniture hire of laborers
tla nttn Ill nuin No ~
ing the hire of Interpreters, spies, and
guides for the Army; compensation OF
clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's
Department; compensation of forage and
wagon masters authorized by the act oil
July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty
eight; for the apprehension of deserters,
and the expense incident to their pursuit
and for the following expenditures requir-
cd for the several regiments of cavalry
the batteries of light artillery, and such
companies of infantry and scouts as may
be mounted, to wit, hire of veterinary sur
Geons, medicine for horses and mules,
picket-ropes, and for shooting the horses OF
the corps named also, generally, the prop
or and authorized expenses for the move
Inent and operations of the Army not ex-
pressly assigned to. any other department
one million two hundred thousand dollars
For purchase of horses for the cavalry
and artillery, and for the Indian scouts
and for such infantry as may be mounted
three hundred thousand dollars.
For transportation OF the Army, includ-
ing baggage of the troops when moving,
either by land or water of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage from the depots oil
Philadelphia and Jacksonville to the sew
eral posts and army -depots, and from those
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 10 such places
-NT. af.f
quire them to be sent; OF ordnance, ord
nance-stores, and small-arms from the
foundries and armories to the arsenals
Notifications, frontier-posts, and army de-
pots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and fer
riages; the purchase and hire of horses,
mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase
ana repair OF wagons, carts, and drays, and
of ships and other sea-going vessels and
boats required for the transportation OF
supplies and for garrison purposes for
drayage and carriage at the several posts F;
hire of teamsers, transportation of funds
for the pay and other discussing depart
ments; the expense of sailing public
transports on the various rivers, the Gull
of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific
for procuring water at such posts as from
their situation require II to be brought
from a distance and for clearing roads,
and for removing distractions from roads
harbors, and rivers to the extent which
may be required for the actual operations
of the troops in the field, four million dol
lars.
That no part OF the money appropriated
by this act shall be paid TO any railroad
company for the transportation of any prop
erty or troops of the United States over
any railroad which, in whole or In part,
was constructed by the aid OF grant OF
public land on the condition that such rail-
road should be ga public highway for the
use of the Government of the United States
free from toll or other charge" or upon
any other conditions for the use of such
road, for such transportation nor shall
any allowance be made out of any money
appropriated by this act for the transporta-
tion OF officers Of the Army oyer any such
road when on dnIY and under ordera "a q