Chapter LXXXI. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and Army appropriations
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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and Army 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-six:
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation Recruiting, &c.to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, three hundred thousand dollars. For bounties and premiums for the enlistment of recruits for the regular Bounties, &c.army, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of the army, ten million dollars. Pay. For commutation of officers’ subsistence, one million seven hundred and Commutation.*and* forty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, eighty-two thousand Pay in lieu of clothing.seven hundred and sixty dollars. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of volunteers, two hundred million dollars. Pay of volunteers. For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers, and drafted men, ninety-two million seven hundred and eighty-two thousand and forty-three Subsistence in kind.dollars and seventy cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting Quartermaster’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 quarter master’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 bat teries of artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, anti 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, fifty million dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting Incidental expenses of quartermaster’s department.of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers bf 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; 496 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 81. 1865. 1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.
Vol. ii. p. 136.under the act of March sixteenth, 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 1819, ch. 45. Vol. iii, p. 488. 1854, ch. 247, § 6. Vol. x. p. 576.than ten days, under ads of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, 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; 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 to officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of 1838, ch. 162, § 10.
Vol. v. p. 257.forage and wagon masters, 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, horses 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, ten million dollars.
Cavalry, &c., horses. For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, twenty-one million dollars. Officers’ baggage. For transportation of officers’ baggage, 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 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, or ordnance stores, and small arms, from fondness 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 trans p orts 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 maybe required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, thirty million dollars.
Quarters. For the 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; lor the construction of tem porary 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, five hundred thousand dollars.
Prisonera of war. For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, one million dollars. 497 For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and for expenses Clothing and camp equipage.of offices and arsenals, fifty million dollars. For contingencies of the army, four hundred thousand dollars. Contingencies. For the medical and hospital department, six million dollars. Medical, &c., department. 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, three million five hundred thousand dollars. Armament of fortifications. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ordnance service.For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horses, and the Ordnance, stores, &c.purchase and manufacture of army accoutrements and horse equipments for volunteers and regulars, twenty million dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the national armory, Manufacture of arms.three million five 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 five hundred Gunpowder and lead.thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new and additions Arsenals.to present buildings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, five hundred thousand dollars.
For signal service of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. Signal service. For salaries of two clerks in the signal office, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That to supply a deficiency in the Deficiency for 1865, for ordnance, &c.appropriations for the current fiscal year, for ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including the purchase and manufacture of arms, accoutre ments, and horse equipments for volunteers and regulars, the sum of seven millions of dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the first day Commutation of officers’ subsistence.of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and during the continuance of the present rebellion, the commutation price of officers’ subsistence shall be fifty cents per ration: *Provided,* That said increase shall not apply to Proviso.the commutation price of the rations of any officer above the rank of brevet brigadier-general, or of any officer entitled to commutation for fuel or quarters.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That all officers of volunteers now Certain officers of volunteers to have three months’ pay when mustered out of service.in commission, below the rank of brigadier-general, who shall continue in the military service to the close of the war, shall be entitled to receive, upon being mustered out of said service, three months’ pay proper. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That commissioned officers of the Officers in the field may buy rations on credit, &c.army, serving in the field, shall hereafter be permitted to purchase rations for their own use, on credit, from any commissary of subsistence, at cost prices, and the amount due for rations so purchased shall be reported monthly to the paymaster-general, to be deducted from the payment next following such purchase.
And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to issue such orders and regulations as he may deem best calculated to insure the proper observance hereof. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of War is Tobacco for enlisted men ut cost prices.hereby authorized and directed to cause tobacco to be furnished to the enlisted meu of the army at cost prices, exclusive of the cost of transpor tation, in such quantities as they may require, not exceeding sixteen ounces per month, and the amount due therefor shall be deducted from their pay in the same manner as at present provided for the settlement of clothing accounts.
Sec. 7.*And be it further enacted,* That, in addition to the amount here-Additional appropriation for pay of army. 498 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 82, 83. 1865.inbefore appropriated for the pay of the army, the sum of thirty-six mill ions of dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1865.