Chapter CXXIV. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.* June 15, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army appropriation
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Chap. CXXIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.* June 15, 1864. *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-five:— Recruiting, &c.For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, three hundred thousand dollars.
Books of tactics, &c.For purchase of books of tactics and instructions for volunteers, fifty thousand dollars. Contingencies of adjutant-general’s department.For contingent expenses of the adjutant-general’s department at the headquarters of the several military departments, five thousand dollars. Copying official reports.For copying official reports of the armies of the United States, for publication, five thousand dollars. Bounties for enlistments;For bounties and premiums for the *enticement* [enlistment] of recruits for the regular army, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. for volunteers and drafted men.For the pay of advance bounties to volunteers and drafted men, five million dollars.
Collecting, drilling, &c., volunteers.For pay of premiums, rent of buildings and grounds, transportation, subsistence, lodging, commutation of fuel and quarters, straw, postage, stationery, advertising, medicines, and medical attendance, and all other necessary expenses incidental to the collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, and for the necessary expenses under the enrolment act, five million dollars. Pay.For pay of the army, nine million nine hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty cents.
Commutation.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, one million seven hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars. Pay in lieu of clothing.For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, eighty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of volunteers, including the bounties authorized by law, oneTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 124. 1864.127 hundred and seventy-seven million four hundred and sixty-two thousandPay of volunteers. seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents: *Provided*, That if any officer in the regular or volunteer forces shall employ aOfficers using soldiers as servants not entitled to allowances. soldier as a servant, such officer shall not be entitled to any pay or allowances for a servant or servants, but shall be subject to the deduction from his pay required by the third section of the act entitled “An act to1862, ch. 200. § 3.Vol. xii. p. 594. define the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the army, and for other purposes,” approved July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: *And provided, further*, That the second section of the act entitledConstruction of former act,1827, Ch. 42, § 2.Vol. iv. p. 227.
“An act giving further compensation to the captains and subalterns of the army of the United States in certain cases,” allowing ten dollars additional per month to any officer in actual command of a company, as compensation for his duties and responsibilities with respect to the clothing, arms, and accoutrements of the company, shall be construed to apply only to company officers in actual command as aforesaid. For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers, and drafted men,Subsistence in kind ninety-one million four hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consistingQuartermaster’s department. of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen for 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 quartermasters’ departments; and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, sixty million dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consistingIncidental expenses of quarmaster’s department. of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial, military commissions, 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 pay1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 136. 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 the acts of March second, eighteen hundred1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576. and nineteen, and August fourth [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; 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 officer’s 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 to officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth,1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257. 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 traces, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horses and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons,128 medicines for horses and males, 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, thirteen million dollars.
Cavalry, &c., horses.For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, twenty-one million dollars. Mileage.For mileage, or the allowances made to officers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, seven 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 depots at Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and of subsistence stores 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 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, 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 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 operations of the troops in the field, forty million dollars.
Quarters.For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire 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, five million dollars. Stoves.For heating and cooking-stoves, one hundred thousand dollars. Telegraph.For constructing and extending the telegraph, for military purposes, and for expenses in operating the same, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Prisoners of war.For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, nine hundred thousand dollars. Steam-rams.For purchasing, constructing, and maintenance of steam-rams, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Clothing and camp equipage.For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and for expenses of offices and arsenals, fifty-eight million dollars. Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, four hundred thousand dollars. Medicines, &c.For medicines, instruments, and dressings, two million seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Hospital stores.For hospital stores, bedding, and so forth, three million five hundred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars. For hospital furniture and field equipment’s, six hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Books, stationery, &c.For books, stationery, and printing, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Ice and comforts.For ice, fruits, and other comforts, three hundred thousand dollars. Hospital clothing.For hospital clothing, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Citizen nurses.For citizen nurses, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Private hospitals.For care of sick soldiers in private hospitals, thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Artificial limbs.For artificial limbs for soldiers and seamen, forty-five thousand dollars. THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 124. 1864. 129 For citizen physicians, and medicines furnished by them, four hundredCitizen physicians, &c. and five thousand dollars. For hire of clerks and laborers in purveying depots, seventy-five thousandPurveying depots. dollars.
For examining and recording meteorological observations taken at theMeteorological observations. military posts of the United States army, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For army medical museum, five thousand dollars.Medical museum. For contingent expenses of the medical department, forty-seven thousandContingencies. eight hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For laboratory for testing and rearranging medicines and hospital supplies,Laboratory. five thousand dollars. For washing and washing-machines for hospitals where matrons cannotWashing and machines. be employed, fifteen thousand dollars.
For expenses of the commanding general’s office, ten thousand dollars.Commanding general’s office. For the secret service, one hundred thousand dollars.Secret service. For armament of fortifications, two million dollars.Armament of fortifications. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, five hundred thousand dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including the purchaseOrdnance and stores. and manufacture of arms, accoutrements, and horse equipments for volunteers and regulars, twenty million dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the national armory, two million fiveManufacture of arms. hundred thousand dollars. For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at the national armory,Repairs, &c., at armory. one hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, two million dollars.Gunpowder and lead. For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new and additionsArsenals. to present buildings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, two million dollars. For the signal service of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.Signal service.
For compensation of two clerks in the signal-office, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That all persons of color who havePay, rations, &c., of persons of color mustered into the military service. been or may be mustered into the military service of the United Slates shall receive the same uniform, clothing, arms, equipments, camp equipage, rations, medical and hospital attendance, pay and emoluments, other than bounty, as other soldiers of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States of like arm of the service, from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; and that every person of color who shall hereafter be mustered into the service shall receive such sums in bounty as the President shall order in the different states and parts of the United States, not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That all persons enlisted and musteredBounties to be paid to certain volunteers without regard to color. into service as volunteers under the call, dated October seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for three hundred thousand volunteers, who were at the time of enlistment actually enrolled and subject to draft in the state in which they volunteered, shall receive from the United States the same amount of bounty without regard to color.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That all persons of color whoPay, bounties, &c., of colored soldiers. were free on the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and who have been enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States, shall, from the time of their enlistment, he entitled to receive the pay, bounty, and clothing allowed to such persons by the laws existing at the time of their enlistment. And the Attorney-General ofAttorney-General to determine, &c. the United States is hereby authorized to determine any question of law arising under this provision.
And if the Attorney-General aforesaid shall determine that any of such enlisted persons are entitled to receive any pay, bounty, or clothing, in addition to what they have already received, the Secretary of War shall make all necessary regulations to130THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 124, 125. 1864 enable the pay department to make payment in accordance with such determination. Sec. 5. Enlistments into the regular army may be for three years.*And be it further enacted*, That all enlistments hereafter made in the regular army of the United States, during the continuance of the present rebellion, may be for the term of three years.
Approved, June 15, 1864.