Chapter CXXXIII. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for other Purposes.* July 5, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and
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Chap. CXXXIII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for other Purposes.* July 5, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army appropriation. 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 sixty-three:
For the recruiting service of the army, namely: For the enlistment ofRecruiting service. recruits, for quarters, fuel, stationery, straw, postage, bunks, compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, transportation from rendezvous to depots, and all other expenses until put in march to join regiments, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For purchase of books of tactics and instructions for volunteers, fiftyBooks of tactics, &c. thousand dollars. For pay of the army, eight million nine hundred and five thousandPay of army. three hundred and eighteen dollars.
For commutation of officers subsistence, one million five hundred andCommutation of subsistence, &c. seventy-four thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, two hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundredPayments for and in lieu of clothing. and fifty thousand dollars. 506 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 133. 1802.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, seventy-one thousand six hundred and thirty dollars. Pay of Volunteers.1861, ch. 9, 17. *Ante*, pp. 268, 274.For pay of volunteers under acts of twenty-second and twenty-fifth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred and twenty-six million two hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-two Limit to number of major-generals and brigadiers.dollars: *Provided*, That the President shall not be authorized to appoint more than forty major-generals, nor more than two hundred brigadier-generals.
And all acts and parts of acts authorizing a greater number of major and brigadier-generals than are above provided for, are hereby repealed. Subsistence.For subsistence in kind for regulars and volunteers, seventy-eight million three hundred and eighty-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents. Quartermaster’s department.For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, and 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 several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of 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 blank books for the quartermaster’s department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments; and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, thirty-six million nine hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses of quarter-master’s department.For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by 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, 1802, ch. 9, § 21. 22.Vol. ii. p. 136.eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, 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 1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576.the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department head-quarters; 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; 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 at other posts and places when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks of the officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, 1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257.authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling 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 for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, twenty million eight hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Cavalry and artillery horses.For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, five million four hundred thousand dollars. THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 133. 1862. 507 For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for theMileage and transportation of officers. transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, one million two hundred and ninety-one thousand six hundred dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troopsTransportation of the army. when moving, either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and 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 foundaries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and 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 cartage 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 such posts as, from their situation, require that it beWater. brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be requiredClearing roads harbors, &c. for the actual operations of the troops in the field, forty million dollars.
For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hireHire and commutation of quarters, &c. of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, of grounds for summer cantonments, for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, four million two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars. For healing and cooking stoves, ninety thousand dollars.Heating, &c., stoves.
For maintenance of gunboat fleet proper, two millions one hundredGunboat fleet. and sixty thousand dollars. For maintenance of steam rams, one hundred and eighty thousandSteam rams. dollars. For contingencies of the army, five hundred thousand dollars.Contingencies. For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and for expensesClothing, camp equipage, &c. of offices and arsenals, thirty-nine million three hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
For constructing and extending the telegraph for military purposes,Telegraph for military purposes. and for expenses in operating the same, five hundred thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital department, including pay of privateMedical and hospital department. physicians, purchase and repair of surgical instruments, purchase of extra hospital bedding, clothing, ice, pay of male citizens as hospital attendants; .the maintenance of sick and wounded soldiers, placed in private houses or hospitals; and other necessary comforts for the sick and convalescing in the various military hospitals, five million seven hundred and five thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For contingent expenses of the adjutant-general’s department atContingent expenses of adjutant general’s department. department headquarters, two thousand dollars. For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, three million three hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-eightSupplies, &c., of prisoners of war. dollars. For armament of fortifications, one million sixty-two thousand fiveArmament of fortifications. hundred dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, seven hundredOrdnance service. and thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horseOrdnance, ordnance stores. &c. equip508ments for all mounted troops, seven million three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Manufacture of arms.For the manufacture of arms at the national armory, one million eight hundred thousand dollars. Repairs, &c., of machinery at armory.For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the national armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Gunpowder and lead.For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, one million one hundred thousand dollars.
Extension, &c., of arsenals.For additions to and extension of shop-room, machinery, tools, and fixtures at arsenals, five hundred thousand dollars. Purchase and manufacture of arms, &c.For the purchase and manufacture of arms for volunteers and regulars, and ordnance and ordnance, stores, thirteen million dollars. Military surveys.For surveys of military defences, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Purchase, &c., of instruments.For purchase and repair of instruments, ten thousand dollars.
Lake surveys.For printing charts of lake surveys, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Northern and Northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Fort Clinch.For completion of Fort Clinch, Amelia Island, Florida, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Secret service fund, &c.For secret service fund, and to reimburse the contingent, fund of the army, five hundred thousand dollars. Bounty to volunteers, &c.For payment of bounty to volunteers, and to the widows and legal heirs of such as may die or be killed in the service of the United States, authorized by the fifth and sixth sections of an act entitled “An act to 1861, ch. 5, §§ 4,5.*Ante*, p. 269.authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, twenty millions of dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary.
Collecting, &c., volunteers.For collecting, organizing, and drilling volunteers, in addition to any sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, five millions of dollars. Discharged soldiers.For providing for the comfort of discharged soldiers who may arrive in the principal cities of the United States so disabled by disease or by wounds received in the service as to be unable to proceed to their homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes, two millions of dollars, to be applied and expended under the direction of the President of the United States.
Northwest Executive Building.For enlarging, repairing, and furnishing the Northwest Executive Building, twenty thousand dollars. Judiciary Square.For grading and improving that part of Judiciary Square, in the city of Washington, upon which the general hospital of the United States is located, four thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Surgeon-General. Sec. 2. Repeal of part of act of 1851, ch. 25, § 7.Vol. ix. p. 596.*And be it further enacted*, That so much of the seventh section of the act approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act to found a military asylum for the relief and support of invalid and disabled soldiers of the army of the United States,” as requires that “all moneys, not exceeding two thirds of the balance on hand, of the hospital fund and of the post fund of each military station, after deducting the necessary expenses,” shall be set apart for the support of the military asylum, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. Designation of enlisted men in Ordnance Department.*And be it further enacted*, That the enlisted men of the Ordnance Department now designated as master-workmen shall hereafter be designated and mustered as sergeants; those now designated as armorers, carriage-makers, and blacksmiths shall be designated and mustered as corporals; those now designated as artificers shall be designated and mustered as privates of the first class; and those now designated as laborers shall be designated and mustered as privates of the second509 class: *Provided*, That the pay, rations, and clothing now authorizedPay, &c., not to be chanced. by law to the respective grades of enlisted ordnance men shall not be changed.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That in all cases where recruitingPayment to recruiting officers for recruits. officers have in good faith paid the two dollars for bringing accepted recruits to the rendezvous, before receiving notice of the repeal of the regulation allowing the same, the accounts of such officers shall be allowed in settlement by the Treasury Department. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That there shall be added to theAdditional clerks in office of Surgeon-General;of Paymaster-General;of Adjutant-General; clerical force of the Surgeon-General’s office one clerk of class one and one clerk of class two; and there shall be added to the clerical force of the Paymaster-General’s office twenty clerks of class two and twenty clerks of class one; and there shall be added to the clerical and other force of the Adjutant-General’s office four clerks of class two, six clerks of class one, and ten other clerks, at a monthly compensation of sixty dollars each; and the Adjutant-General may detail ten more non-commissionednon-commissioned officers. officers of the army as clerks in his office; and the sum of fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of anyAppropriation. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the salaries of the clerks hereby authorized.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, That section five of the act “to$25 of the bounty of $100, to be paid to volunteer after enlistment.1861, ch. 9, § 5.1861, ch. 24, § 5.*Ante*, pp. 269, 280. authorize the employment of volunteers to aid in enforcing the laws and protecting public property,” approved July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and section five of the act “to increase the present military establishment of the United States,” approved July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be so construed as to allow twenty-five dollars of the bounty of one hundred dollars therein provided to be paid immediately after enlistment to every soldier of the regular and volunteer forces hereafter enlisted during the continuance of the existing war, and the sum of seven millions five hundred thousand dollars is herebyAppropriation. appropriated for such payment.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted*, That all the aides-de-camp appointedCertain aides-de-camp to be nominated to Senate for consent, &c.1861, ch. 24.1861, ch. 47.*Ante*, p. 314. by authority of the act approved fifth August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled an act to increase the present military establishment of the United States,” approved July twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be nominated to the Senate for its advice and consent.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, That the President of the UnitedMilitary store-keepers in Quartermaster’s Department. Slates be, and he hereby is authorized, by and with the consent of the Senate, to appoint as many military storekeepers in the Quartermaster’s Department of the army as the exigencies of the service may require; provided the whole number of military storekeepers in that departmentLimit to number. shall not exceed twelve. Sec. 9. *And be it farther enacted*, That the following sums be, andAppropriation for year ending June 30, 1862. the same are hereby, in like manner, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two:
For the construction and maintenance of the gunboat fleet proper, fourGunboats hundred thousand dollars. For purchasing, construction, and maintenance of steam rams, fourSteam rams. hundred thousand dollars. For pay of private physicians, purchase and repair of surgical instruments,Private physicians, surgical instruments, &c. purchase of extra hospital bedding, clothing, ice, and other necessary comforts for the sick and convalescing in the various military hospitals, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation of chaplains of hospitals, from the date of the commencementChaplains of hospitals. of their service to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, twelve thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the Pay master-General’s office for theOffice of Paymaster-General510THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 133, 134. 1862. year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one thousand dollars. Sec. 10. Ration of coffee and sugar may be commented, if, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War be authorized to commute the army ration of coffee and sugar, for the extract of coffee, combined with milk and sugar, to be procured in the same manner and under like restrictions and guarantees as preserved meats, pickles, butter, and desiccated vegetables are procured for the navy, if he shall believe it will be conducive to the health and comfort of the army, and not more expensive to the Government than the present ration, and if it shall be acceptable to the men.
Sec. 11. Painting of E. Leutze in the Capitol to be completed and paid for.*And be it further enacted*, That the restriction or limitation contained in the proviso to the joint resolution, approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, transferring the superintendency of the Capitol extension from the War Department to the Department of the Interior, shall not be so construed or applied as to prevent the completion of, and the payment for, the painting now in progress on the wall over the stairway on the western side of the south wing agreeably to the terms of the contract made between General M.
C. Meigs, on behalf of the Government, and E. Leutze, the artist, on the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Approved, July 5, 1862.