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


keeping of military stores, offices, and
OF rrounds for camps and summer
cantanments, and for temporary from
tier stations; for the construction OF
temprary huts and stables; and for
repairing public buildings at establish
| eel posts, one million four hundred
thousand dollars.
For the construction and repairs OF
hospitals, one hundred thousand dol
lars.
For purchase and manufacture OF
clothing. camp and garrison equipage,
and materials on hand at the Schuyl-
kill Arsenal and other depots, one
million four hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars PForidcd, That none OF
the money hereby appropriated shall
be used in the purchase of hats. uni
torm-coats, unifor.iackets, flannel sack
coats, and unlined coats, which articles
the Quartermaster's Department shall
issue from the supply now on hand.
known as the old pattern; and none OF
the article 5 above enumerated shall be
purchased until those now on hand are
| exhausted.
For preservation of clothing from
moth and tnildew, thirty thousand
| dollars.
For maintaining national military
cemeteries, one hundred snk fifty thou
| sand dollars.
For army contingencies not proyid-
ed for by other estimates. embracing
all branches of the military service,
| one hundred thousand dollars: Pro-
rfded, That none of the money hereby
| appropriated shall be expended, direct
| ly or indirectly, for any use not ltrictly
necessary for and directly connected
with the military service Of the Gov
| ernment.
For purchase of medical and hospital
supplies, pay OF private physicians
employed i'll emergencies, hire of hos
| pital attendants, expenses of purvey-
| ing depots. of medical examining
boards, and incidental expenses of the
Medical Department, two hundred
thousand dollars.
For the Army Medical Museum and
for medical and other necessary works
| for the library OF the Surgeon Gener-
ais Office, ten thousand dollars.
For engineer-depot at Willet's
Point, New York, namely. remodel
ing portions of bridge equipage. and
for the current expenses of the depot,
| purchase of englneering-m materials tor
Use in instruction Of engineer battalion
| and purchase and repair of instiIl-
ments Tor general service of the Corps
of Engineers. nine thousand dollars.
| For trials with torpedoes for horbor
| and land defense, 9nd to instruct the,
engineer-troops in their practical con-
struction and application, ten thousand
| dollars.
For the ordnance service required to
detray the current expenses at the
arsenals; of receiving stores and issu-
ing arms and other ordnance supplies;
| of police ard office duties; of rents,
tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery
and office furniture; of tools and in
stauments for use; OF public animals,
forage, and vehicles; incidental ex-
| penses of the ordnance service. includ-
ing those attending practical trials and
tests of ordnance. small-arms and other
ordnance supplies, one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars. Pro-
| tfdc1, That none of the money hereby
| appropriated shall be expended. direct
ly or Indirectly, for any use not strictly
| necessary for, and directly connected
with, the milittry service OF the Gov
| ernment; and this restriction shall ap-
ply to the use of public animals, for
age, and vehicles: Ind gfOrGded
further, That none OF the money here
by appropriated shall be expended for
the construction or repair of buildings.
For manufacture of metallic amuni-
ton for small arms, seyenty-five thou
sand dollars.
For overhauling, cleaning, and pre-
| serving new ordnance stores on hand
at the arsenals, fifty thousand dollars.
For repairing ordnance and ord
nance stores in the hands of troops
and for issue at the arsenals and
depots, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Foa saddlers' tools, smiths tools
and materials, tool-bags, cavalray
fOrges, with their tools and materials.
for the cavalary service, twenty thou
sand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of
ordnance stores, to fill acquisitions of
troops, and for alteration of carriages
now i'll use i'll sea coast forts, one hum
dred thousand dollars.
For infantry, cflvalray, and artillery
equipments, consisting of valises, hay
ersacks, canteens, and great coat
straps, and for recovering cavalry sad
dies, with leather, and for manufac-
lure of saddle-bags and repairing horse
equipments for cavalry troops, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For manufacture at national armor-
les, of the new model breech loading
musket and carbine, adopted for the
military service on recommendation of
the board Of officers convened under
act of June sixth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two. one hundred thou
sand dollars: Prorided. That no part
OF this sum shall be expended at said
armories i'll the Perfection of patent
able inventions in the Manufacture 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 Loupe River in Nebras-
ka, fifty thousand dollars Procidetl,
That the cost of said post shall not
exceed the amount hereby appropri-
ated.
Sec. 2. That all balances of appro-
priations, for 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 seventy-two, which on the thirt-
ieth day of June, eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, shall remain on the
books of the Treasury, shall be carried
| to the surplus fund, except such as the
Auditor of the Treasury who's duty it
is to settle accounts against such ap-
preparations shall certify to the Seere-
tary of the Treasury to be necessary
in the settlement of such accounts as
have been reported to him for pay
ment by the Quartermasters and the
Commissary Departments pending in
his office. And the Quarterlnaster
General, Commissary General, and
| Third Auditor OF the Treasury shall
continue to receive, examine. and con-
slider the justice and validity of such
claims as shall he brO,lrht bafnra thar,