Chapter CLXXVI. making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CLXXVI.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.July 13, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury notArmy appropriation. otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven:
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensationRecruiting and pay of citizen surgeons. to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, three hundred thousand dollars. For pay of the army, ten millions seven hundred and twelve thousandPay. and fifty-two dollars. For commutation of officers’subsistence, one million six hundred andCommutation of subsistence and forage. fifty-one thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and five thousand two hundred dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’servants, one hundred andPayments in lieu of clothing. ninety-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For subsistence in kind for regulars and volunteers, five million threeSubsistence in kind. hundred and one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consistingQuartermasters’ 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 quartermaster’s departments; and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, four millions one hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-three cents.
For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consistingIncidental expenses quartermasters’ 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 pay to soldiers1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 136. employed under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the con-91THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 176. 1866.struction of roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen,1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576. 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 forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257. 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, one million dollars.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, seven hundred andCavalry and artillery horses. thirteen thousand one hundred dollars. For transportation of officers’ baggage, fifty thousand dollars.Officers’ baggage. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troopsTransportation. 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 variousPublic transports.Water.Obstructions in roads, rivers, and harbors. 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, five million dollars.
For hire of commutation quarters for officers on military duty; hireHire of quarters. 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, six hundred and twenty-four thousand and thirty-eight dollars. For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.Contingencies of the army. For the medical and hospital department, five hundred thousand dollars.Medical and hospital department.
For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at the national armory,National armory. one hundred thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new, and additionsArsenals. to present, buildings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, fifty thousand dollars. 92 For purchase of site and erection of magazine for storing gunpowder,Magazine for storing gunpowder. two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of land for enlarging the Watervliet arsenal, thirtyEnlarging Watervliet arsenal. thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of one hundred andFire-proof buildings at Schuylkill arsenal, Pa. forty-six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War in the erection of fire proof buildings at or near Schuylkill arsenal in the State of Pennsylvania, to be used as storehouses for government property at that post. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be andAppropriation for bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands. the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the fiscal year commencing July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, namely:
The salaries of assistant and sub-assistant commissioners, one hundredSalaries of commissioners and assistants. and forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of clerks, eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.Clerks. For stationery and printing, sixty-three thousand dollars.Stationery and printing. For quarters and fuel, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.Quarters and fuel. For clothing for distribution, one million one hundred and seventyClothing for distribution. thousand dollars.
For commissary stores, three million one hundred and six thousandCommissary stores. two hundred and fifty dollars. For medical department, five hundred thousand dollars.Medical department. For transportation, one million three hundred and twenty thousandTransportation. dollars. For school superintendents, twenty-one thousand dollars.School superintendents. For repairs and rent of school-houses and asylums, five hundredSchool-houses. thousand dollars. For telegraphing, eighteen thousand dollars.Telegraphing.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Quartermaster’s departmentAdvertisements for bids for contracts in quartermaster’s department, to state, &c.Preference to articles of American production.Pacific Coast. shall in all cases in obtaining supplies for the military service, state in advertisements for bids for contracts, that a preference shall be given to articles of domestic production and manufacture, conditions of price and quality being equal, and that such preference shall be given to articles of American production and manufacture, produced on the Pacific coast, to the extent of the consumption required by the public service there; and in advertising for army supplies the Quartermaster’s department shall require all articles which are to be used in the States and Territories of the Pacific coast to be delivered and inspected at points designated in those States and Territories; and the advertisements for such suppliesAdvertisements in San Francisco and Portland. shall be published in newspapers of the cities of San Francisco, in California, and Portland, in Oregon.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That section seventeen of an act entitledRepeal of 1862, ch. 200, § 17.Vol. xii. p. 596.and of Pub. Res. of April 4, 1862.Vol. xii. p. 617.Officers in military or naval service, in time of peace, not to be dismissed, except, &c. “An act to define the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the army,” approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and a resolution entitled “A resolution to authorize the President to assign the command of troops in the same field or department, to officers of the same grade without regard to seniority,” approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same are hereby repealed.
And no officer in the military or naval service shall in time of peace, be dismissed from service except upon and in pursuance of the sentence of a court-martial to that effect, or in commutation thereof. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the superintendent of theSuperintendent and officers of military academy may be selected and detailed from any arm of the service. United States Military Academy may hereafter be selected, and the officers on duty at that institution detailed from any arm of the service; and the supervision and charge of the Academy shall be in the War Department under such officer or officers, as the Secretary of War may assign to that duty. 93 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 176, 177, 178, 179. 1866. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That when it is necessary to employSoldiers employed as artificers or laborers in constant labor of not less than ten days in any case to have extra pay. soldiers as artificers or laborers in the construction of permanent military works, public roads, or other constant labor of not less than ten days’ duration in any case, they shall receive in addition to their regular pay, the following additional compensation therefor: enlisted men, working as artificers, and non-commissioned officers employed as overseers of such work, not exceeding one overseer for every twenty men, thirty-five centsTroops of engineer and ordnance department not to have extra pay. per day, and enlisted men employed as laborers twenty cents per day; but such working parties shall only be authorized on the written order of a commanding officer.
This allowance of extra pay is not to apply to the troops of the engineer and ordnance departments. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the allowance now made byAllowance to officers for travel increased. law to officers travelling under orders where transportation is not furnished in kind shall be increased to ten cents per mile. Approved, July 13, 1866.