Chapter CXXIV. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXXIV.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*. March 3, 1869. *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, and316FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 124. 1869. Army.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 seventy:
Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, fifty thousand dollars. Pay.For pay of the army, eleven million dollars. Commutation of subsistence and forage.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, twenty thousand dollars. Payments in lieu of clothing.For payment in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, two hundred thousand dollars. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, two hundred thousand dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence in kind for regular troops and employees, four million five hundred thousand dollars. Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. Medical, &c. department.For medical and hospital department, two hundred thousand dollars. Museum.For army medical museum, five thousand dollars. Artificial limbs.For the purchase of artificial limbs for officers, soldiers, and sailors, forty thousand dollars. Medical works.For medical and other necessary works for the library of surgeon-general’s office, two thousand dollars.
Commanding-general’s office.For expenses of commanding-general’s office, five thousand dollars. For expenses of the signal service of the army, five thousand dollars. Quartermasters’ department.For regular supplies to the quartermasters’ department, to wit: For the regular supplies of the quartermasters’ department, consisting of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermasters’ 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 quartermasters’ department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters’ departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, five million dollars.
Incidental expenses, quartermasters’ department.For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermasters’ department, consisting of postage on letters and packets 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 1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 136.that service, under the act of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermasters’ department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not 1819, ch. 45.
Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, §6. Vol. x. p. 576.less than ten days, under the acts of March two, 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 posts and other places, when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermasters’ department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of 1838, ch. l62, § 10.Vol.
V. p. 257.clerks to officers of the quartermasters’ department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen317 hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters and the expensesQuartermasters’ department. 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, 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; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of an army, not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars.
For the purchase of horses for cavalry and artillery, two hundred andHorses. fifty thousand dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for theMileage. transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops whenTransportation. moving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, from the depots of 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 the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; 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 thePublic transports. various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it to beWater. brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be requiredObstructions, roads, harbors, and rivers. for the actual operations of the troops in the field, six and one-half million dollars.
For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hireHire or commutation of quarters, huts, &c. of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, one million dollars. For heating and cook stoves, fifteen thousand dollars.Heating and cook stoves. For the ordnance service, required to defray the current expenses atOrdnance service. the arsenals of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, two hundred thousand dollars:
No part to pay for new cannon or small-arms.*Provided*, That no money appropriated by this act shall be used to purchase any new cannon or small-arms. *For Repairs and Improvements of Armories and Arsenals*.— Armories and arsenals.Rock Island.One half for bridge. For arsenal and armory at Rock Island, Illinois, one million dollars: *Provided*, That one half of this amount shall be applied to the construction of the bridge connecting Rock Island with the cities of Rock Island and Davenport.
For Augusta arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, one thousand dollars.Augusta. For erecting a brick armory and smith shop at the arsenal at Columbus,Columbus. Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars. 318 Arsenals.For grading and draining public grounds at said arsenal, five thousand dollars. Benecia.For Benecia arsenal, Benecia, California, five thousand dollars. Watertown.For Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Taconey Street, opposite Frankford arsenal.For paving and curbing Taconey Street, opposite Frankford arsenal, Pennsylvania, one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty cents.
Fort Monroe.For Fort Monroe arsenal, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, one thousand dollars. Leavenworth.For Leavenworth arsenal, Leavenworth, Kansas, five thousand dollars. Pikesville.For Pikesville arsenal, Pikesville, Maryland, five hundred dollars. Contingencies.For contingencies of arsenals, ten thousand dollars. Preservation, &c. of works of defence.For the preservation and necessary repairs of the fortifications and other works of defence, two hundred thousand dollars. Military defences.For surveys for military defences, two hundred thousand dollars.
Exploring expedition and survey of line of 40th parallel.Provisos.And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to have prepared and published the report of the results of the exploring expedition and survey of the line of the fortieth parallel: *Provided*, That the cost of the same shall be defrayed out of existing appropriations in the War Department. *And provided further*, That the letter-press work shall be done at the public printing office. Road from Du Luth to Bois-fort Indian reservation.For the purpose of cutting out a road from Du Luth to the Bois-fort Indian reservation, in Minnesota, there is hereby appropriated the sura of ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 2. No new commissions, &c. until infantry regiments are reduced to twenty-five.Infantry regiments to be consolidated.*And be it further enacted*, That there shall be no new commissions, no promotions, and no enlistments in any infantry regiment until the total number of infantry regiments is reduced to twenty-five; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to consolidate the infantry regiments as rapidly as the requirements of the public service and the reduction of the number of officers will permit.
Sec. 3. Number of brigadier-generals limited to eight.*And be it further enacted*, That no appointments of brigadier-generals shall be made until the number is reduced to less than eight; and thereafter there shall be but eight brigadier-generals in the army. Sec. 4. Enlistments to be for five years.*And be it further enacted*, That hereafter the term of enlistment shall be five years. Sec. 5. All bands to be discharged except that at military academy. 1866, ch. 299, § 7. Vol. xiv. p. 383.*And be it further enacted*, That of the fifteen hands now in the service, organized under the provisions of section seven of an act entitled “An act to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States,” approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, all, except the baud at the military academy, shall be honorably discharged without delay, and shall receive full pay and allowance to the Chief musician to be enlisted in each regiment,—duties, pay, &c.date of such discharge: *Provided*, That there shall be enlisted in each regiment a chief musician, who shall be instructor of music, with a salary of sixty dollars a month and the allowances of a quartermaster-sergeant.
Sec. 6. No new appointments and promotions in certain departments, until, &c.See Vol. xvi. p. 64.*And be it further enacted*, That until otherwise directed by law there shall be no new appointments and no promotions in the adjutant-general’s department, in the inspector-general’s department, in the pay department, in the quartermasters’ department, in the commissary department, in the ordnance department, in the engineer department, and in the medical department. Sec. 7. Brevet rank not to entitle to precedence, &c. except. &c. nor to additional pay, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That brevet rank shall not entitle an officer to precedence or command except by special assignment of the President, but such assignment shall not entitle any officer to additional pay or allowances.
Approved, March 3, 1869.