Chapter VI. making additional Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and Appropriations of Arrearages for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. July 17, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House

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Chap. VI.— An Act *making additional Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and Appropriations of Arrearages for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.* July 17, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be, andArmy appropriations. 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-two.

For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits from the differentRecruiting, &c. rendezvous to general depots, procuring of medical attendance, and all other expenses attending the raising of twenty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-five men, to be organized into nine regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of artillery, as per general orders number sixteen, dated War Department, Adjutant-General’s Office, Washington, May fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, three hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars.

For purchase of books of tactics and instruction for the volunteers,Books of tactics fifty thousand dollars. For pay of the army, three million nine hundred and sixty-nine thousandPay and commutation. eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. For commutation of officers’ subsistence, four hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty cents. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, seventy-three thousand and fifty-six dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, fifty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For pay of the three months’ volunteers, two million five hundred and seven thousand dollars. For pay of the two and three years volunteers, fifty-five million dollars. For subsistence in kind for regular troops, two million four hundred andSubsistence262THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6. 1861.ninety-three thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents.

For subsistence in kind for two and three years’ volunteers, twenty-three million eighty-four thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars. Quartermaster’s department.For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospital, 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 regiments of dragoons, 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 department, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, fourteen million two hundred and sixty-five thousand fifty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents.

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 judges advocate, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of [March sixteenth] eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed under 1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 136.the direction of the quartermaster’s department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of second 1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576.of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and of fourth of August, 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; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at the 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 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 of fifth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for 1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257.the apprehension of deserters and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the regiments of dragoons and light artillery, 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, seven million six hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars.

Dragoon and artillery horses.For the purchase of dragoon and artillery horses, ten million five hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. Mileage.For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, escorts or supplies, five hundred thousand dollars. Transportation.For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops 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, 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 the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of 263horses, mules, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays; and of ships and other seagoing 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 thePublic transports.Water.Roads.

Atlantic, and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operation of the troops in the field, sixteen million two hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and fifty-four dollars. For gunboats on the western rivers, one million dollars.Gunboats. Hire of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the safe-keeping of militaryQuarters, &c. stores; of grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary huts, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, thirteen million four hundredClothing and sixteen thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and two cents. For contingencies of the army, two hundred thousand dollars.Contingencies. For the medical and hospital departments, one million two hundred andMedical and hospital departments. seventy-one thousand eight hundred and forty-one dollars. For armament of fortifications, four hundred and fifty-seven thousandArmament of fortifications. six hundred dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, two hundred and sixOrdnance. thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equipments for all mounted troops, two million three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the manufacture of arms, two million five hundred and seventy-threeManufacture of arms. thousand three hundred and ten dollars. For increasing the manufacturing capacity of the national armory, four hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, four hundred and fifty-oneGunpowder and lead. thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For the purchase of artillery horses, two hundred and seventy-fiveArtillery horses. thousand dollars. For additions to and extensions of the shop-room, machinery, tools and fixtures at the different arsenals, one hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. For the following fortifications:Fortifications. Fort Montgomery, Lake Champlain, New York, twenty thousand dollars.

Fort Knox, Penobscot River, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. Fort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland harbor, Maine, fifteen thousand dollars. Fort Adams, Newport harbor, Rhode Island, five thousand dollars. Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York, ten thousand dollars. Fort on site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island, New York, fifty thousand dollars. Fort at Willet’s Point, opposite Fort Schuyler, New York, one hundred thousand dollars. Fort Carroll, Baltimore harbor, Maryland, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred thousand dollars. Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, one hundred thousand dollars. Fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, California, fifty thousand dollars. 264 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6, 7. 1861. Fort at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco bay, California, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort at Sandy Hook, New York harbor, one hundred thousand dollars. Repairs, &c., of barracks.For repairs and alterations of barracks quarters at forts not permanently occupied by troops, ten thousand dollars.

For contingencies of fortifications, thirty thousand dollars. For surveys for military defences, fifty thousand dollars. Refunding to States expenses of volunteers.For amount required to refund to the States expenses incurred on account of volunteers called into the field, ten million dollars. Sec. 2. Arrearages for year ending June 30, 1861. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for arrearages for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

Subsistence of volunteers.For subsistence in kind for three months’ volunteers, one million two hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars. For subsistence in kind for two and three years’ volunteers, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Quartermaster’s departmentFor the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, five hundred and sixty-five thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-three cents. For incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, three hundred and sixty-live thousand and thirteen dollars and eighty cents.

Transportation.For transportation of the army and its supplies, two million two hundred and fifty-tour thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-one cents. For transportation of officers’ baggage, fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars. Dragoon horses.For purchase of dragoon horses, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars. Clothing and camp equipage.For clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, one million three hundred and fifty thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents.

Ordnance.For current expenses of ordnance service, twenty thousand dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equipments for all mounted troops, four hundred thousand dollars. Manufacture of arms.For manufacture of arms, sixty thousand dollars. For increasing the manufacturing capacity of the national armory, fifty thousand dollars. Gunpowder and lead.For purchase of gunpowder and lead, forty thousand dollars. Artillery horses.For purchase of artillery horses, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Quarters for troops, &c.For hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, of grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary huts, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand, two hundred and eighty-three dollars, and eighty-one cents. Sec. 3. Appropriations applicable to all classes of volunteers. *And be it further enacted,* That all appropriations and all provisions of law herein contained applicable to three years’ volunteers shall apply to two years’ volunteers, and all other volunteers who have been or may be received into the service of the United States, for a period exceeding three months.

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