Chapter CLVI. making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine
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Chap. CLVI.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.June 12, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedAppropriation. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine:
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, three months’Recruiting and reënlistment. extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates on re-enlistment, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For pay of the army, three million five hundred and ninety-onePay. thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars. 333THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 156. 1858. For commutation of officers’ subsistence, nine hundred and ninety-eightCommutation of subsistence.Rank and pay of Superintendent of the Military Academy, and of the commandant of Cadets, (who shall be instructor in tactics,) and of the senior assistant instructor in each arm of the service. thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents: *Provided,* That the superintendent of the military academy, while serving as such by appointment of the President, shall have the local rank, the pay and allowances of a Colonel of Engineers; that the commandant of the corps of cadets at the military academy while serving as such by appointment of the President, shall have the local rank, the pay and allowances of a Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, and besides his other duties, shall be charged with the duty of instructor in the tactics of the three arms and headmen; and that the senior assistant instructor in each of the arms of service, viz.; of artillery, cavalry, and infantry, shall severally receive the pay and allowances of the assistant professor of mathematics.
For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and twenty-fourCommutation of forage. thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, fiftyClothing. thousand dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For subsistence in kind, one million three hundred and eighty thousandSubsistence in kind. six hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-five cents.
For clothing for the army, camp, and garrison equipage, one millionClothing, &c. and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and two dollars and ninety-nine cents. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consistingQuartermaster’s department. of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen, of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, the two regimentsRegular supplies. of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the field and at the outposts, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments; and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consistingIncidental expenses. of postage on letters and packets received and sent by the officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 136. under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the construction of roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen,1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576. and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department 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 furnished; expense of the internment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at the posts on the frontiers, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagonmasters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters,1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257. and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the following expenditures required for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments 334 of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of portable forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and shoeing the horses of those corps, five hundred thousand dollars.
For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it may beBarracks, &c. necessary to occupy during the year; and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; and for temporary frontier stations, seven hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For the repairs of the barracks at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the sum ofRepairs at Baton Rouge. twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
For mileage or the allowance made to officers of the army for the transportationMileage of officers. of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops,Transportation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; of horse equipments, and of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage; tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and garrison purposes; for drayage and carriage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at suchWater. posts as, from their situation, require that it be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, andRoads. rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, three million four hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the twoHorses. regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and the companies of light artillery, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, twenty-five thousand dollars.Contingencies. For the medical and hospital departments, one hundred and five thousandMedical, &c. departments. dollars. For contingent expenses of the adjutant-general’s department at divisionMiscellaneous. and department headquarters, five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the commanding general, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the commanding general, three hundred dollars. For armament of fortifications, three hundred thousand dollars.Fortifications. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equipmentsOrdnance, &c. for the mounted regiments, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, including experiments in the manufacture of cannon and cannon powder, and for tests of arms and ammunition, not otherwise provided for, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder for the land service, one hundred thousandGunpowder. dollars. 335 For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, four hundredArmories. thousand dollars. For the purchase of breech-loading carbines of the best model, to beBreech-loading carbines. selected and approved by a board of ordnance officers, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the alteration of old arms so as to make them breech-loading arms,Alteration of old arms. upon a model to be selected and approved by a board of ordnance officers, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That any portion of said sum, notProviso. exceeding five thousand dollars, may be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and at his discretion, in applying to the old or newPrimers. arms any recent improvement in the mode of priming.
For the Allegheny arsenal, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars.Allegheny arsenal. For Fort Monroe arsenal, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.Fort Monroe. For Kennebec arsenal, eleven thousand six hundred dollars; two thousandKennebec. dollars of which may be used in bringing gas upon the arsenal grounds, and with leave to extend gas-pipes through the grounds by the gas company. For St. Louis arsenal, thirty-one thousand dollars.St. Louis. For Washington arsenal, nine thousand three hundred and seventy-nineWashington. dollars.
For an additional timber and carriage storehouse at the North CarolinaNorth Carolina. arsenal, twenty-five thousand dollars. For Watervliet arsenal, thirty thousand dollars.Watervliet. For repairs and preservation of the public buildings, fences, drains,Repairs of public buildings. culverts, and so forth, at all the smaller arsenals, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the arsenal in California, one hundredArsenal in California. thousand dollars. For contingencies of arsenals, ten thousand dollars.Contingencies.
For repairing the arsenal and two eighteen-pound gun carriages, atArsenal at Stonington, Ct. Stonington, Connecticut, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory,Springfield armory. Massachusetts, fifty-five thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry,Harper’s Ferry armory. one hundred and one thousand nine hundred and seven dollars. For surveys for military defences, geographical explorations, and reconnaissances,Surveys. for military purposes, and surveys with armies in the field, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For purchase and repairs of instruments, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, seventy-five thousand dollars. For printing charts of lake surveys, ten thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to employ temporary clerks in theTemporary clerks. office of the Quartermaster-General, on bounty land service, five thousand dollars. For the support of four companies of volunteers mustered into theVolunteers in Utah Territory. service of the United States, at Camp Scott, Utah Territory, in October, November, and December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and seventy-three thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents.
For continuing the construction of the following works of defence:Construction of forts in Portland Harbor. Fort at Hog Island ledge, in Portland Harbor, Maine, forty thousand dollars. Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York Harbor, New York, seventy-fiveNew York Harbor. thousand dolars. Fort Delaware, Delaware River, Delaware, seventy-five thousand dollars.Delaware River. Fort Carroll, Soller’s Point flats, Baltimore Harbor, Maryland, seventy-fiveBaltimore Harbor. thousand dollars. 336 Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, seventy-five thousand dollars.Key West.
Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Tortugas, Florida, one hundred and fiftyGarden Key, Tortugas. thousand dollars. Fort Point, San Francisco, California, one hundred and twelve thousandSan Francisco. five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of fortifications, preservation of sites, protectionContingent expenses of fortifications, &c. of titles, and repairs of sudden damage, thirty thousand dollars. For construction of permanent platforms for modern cannon of largePermanent platforms for heavy guns. calibre in existing fortifications of important harbors, thirty thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims favorably reported upon by the board ofClaims. army officers (appointed under the sixth section of the act approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two) in their final report to Congress dated April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, seven1852, ch. 110, § 6.Vol. x. p. 108. thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-two and one third cents. For the construction of bridges, and the improvement of the crossingsBridges, &c. on road from Fort Smith, Ark. to Albuquerque, New Mexico. of streams on the road from Fort Smith, in Arkansas, to Albuquerque, in New Mexico, fifty thousand dollars; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in completing connected sections of the road extending from Albuquerque, in the TerritoryRoad from Albuquerque westward. of New Mexico, westward, on the route to the Colorado River, on, or near the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the balances from the appropriationsBalances of appropriations for suppression, &c. of Indian hostilities, how to be expended. for “preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, and for travelling allowance of volunteers,” already expended in the payment of Florida volunteers called into service by authority of the War Department, may be applied by the accounting officers of the treasury to the settlement of the accounts of paymasters by whom said balances were disbursed.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be lawful for any commissionedCommissioned officer may administer oath of enlistment to recruits if there be no civil magistrate. officer of the army to administer the prescribed oath of enlistment to recruits; *Provided* the services of a civil magistrate authorized to administer the same cannot be obtained. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That there be appropriated, outDrawings of sailing charts of Bhering’s Strait, &c. expedition. of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for preparing drawings of the sailing charts of the Bering’s Strait and North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition under the control and direction of the Secretary of the Navy, but not for printing the same, six thousand seven hundred dollars.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the eleventh section of the actAct of 1847, ch. 61, § 11, taking from sutlers a lien on the soldiers’ pay, repealed.Vol. ix. p. 185. of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled “An act making provision for an additional number of general officers and for other purposes,” which deprives sutlers in the army of their right to a lien upon any part of the pay of the soldiers, or to appear at the pay table to receive the soldiers pay from the paymaster, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That all the existing laws, or partsAll laws authorizing the sale of military sites useless for military purposes, are repealed.Proviso.1856, ch. 129.*Ante*, p. 87. of laws which authorize the sale of military sites which are or may become useless for military purposes be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and said lands shall not be subject to sale or preëmption under any of the laws of the United States: *Provided, further,* That the provisions of the act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, relative to certain reservations in the State of Florida, shall continue in force.
Approved, June 12, 1858.