Chapter XXXII. to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three
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Chap. XXXII.— An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.Feb. 12, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, andDeficiencies; appropriations. the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *State Department.*—For salary of the marshal of the United StatesState Department.
Consular Court at Bangkok, from September sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, at one thousand dollars per annum, eight hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-three cents. For salary of marshal in Consular Court at Canton, from first July, eighteen hundred and sixty, to thirtieth August, eighteen hundred and sixty, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-six cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the contingent fund ofWar Department. the War Department, as follows:
In the office of the Secretary of War, seven thousand five hundred dollars; office of the Adjutant-General, four thousand five hundred dollars; office of the Commissary-General, five thousand dollars; office of the Surgeon-General, five thousand dollars; office of the Chief of Ordnance, two thousand five hundred dollars; Northwest Executive building, five thousand dollars; building corner of649THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 32. 1863. F and Seventeenth streets, two thousand dollars,—making thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars. *Treasury Department.*—For amount required for additional clerks,Treasury Department keeper, messenger, watchmen, fireman, a laborer in the office of the Assistant Treasurer, at New York, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For amount required for additional clerks and messenger in the office of the Assistant Treasurer at Philadelphia, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the several acts of Congress authorizing loans and the issue of Treasury notes, five hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For expenses incident to carrying into effect an act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes, for salaries of tax commissioners who have been or may be appointed in the present fiscal year, their clerks, and contingent expenses, fifty-four thousand six hundred dollars. *Interior Department.*—For travelling expenses for a special agent,Interior Department.1862, ch. 186, § 12. authorized by act of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, two thousand dollars.
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for annual repairs of the*Ante*, p. 568. President’s House, one thousand dollars. For liquidation of agency debts contracted under late agents Head andAgency debts in Colorado. Colley, Colorado Territory, and for the pay of employees to the close of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To supply deficiency in the appropriation, under the treaty of FortFort Laramie treaty. Laramie, the amount expended in the purchase of guns and ammunition for the Upper Platte agency in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and seized by order of the Government as contraband, two thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirteen cents: *Provided,* If the said guns and ammunition, or any part thereof, are on hand and not in actual use, they shall be forwarded in compliance with said treaty, and shall be considered a part of the guns and ammunition provided for by this appropriation.
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for salary of Surveyor-General of Illinois and Missouri for the six months ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one thousand dollars. *War Department.*—To supply deficiency in the appropriation for additionalWar Department. clerks in the War Department, twenty-three thousand four hundred dollars. To supply deficiency in the appropriation for blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items for Paymaster-General’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For regular supplies for the Quartermaster’s department, six million dollars. For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, eleven million dollars. For transportation of the army and its supplies, twenty-five million dollars. For the erection, hire, and repairs of barracks, quarters, and hospitals, one million seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, twenty-seven million one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. To supply deficiency in the appropriation for maintenance and support of fleet of steam rams from September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 650THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 32, 33. 1863. For purchase of arms for volunteers and regulars, and ordnance andWar Department. ordnance stores, thirteen million two hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For purchase of gunpowder and lead, one million five hundred thousand dollars. To supply deficiency in the appropriation for the medical and hospital department of the army, four million four hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. For surveys for military defences, including the purchase of campaign maps, manuscript surveys of railroads, canals, of lines within the States in rebellion, fifty thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind for regulars and volunteers, eigh[t]een million one hundred and sixty-three thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty cents. *Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.*—For foldingContingent expenses of House of Representatives, documents, two thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, four thousand dollars. For stationery, five thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes for members, seven thousand dollars. *Contingent expenses of the Senate.*—For miscellaneous items, fifteenof the Senate. thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-eight cents.
For clerks of committees, messengers, pages, horses, and carry-alls, thirteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents. *Public Printing.*—To supply the deficiency in the appropriation forPublic Printing. paper for the public printing, two hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars. To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing, fifty thousand dollars. Approved, February 12, 1863.