Chapter LII. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other Purposes.*June 8, 1868. *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. LII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other Purposes.*June 8, 1868. *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-nine:
Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, one hundred thousand dollars. Pay.For pay of the army, fifteen million dollars. Commutation of subsistence and forage.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, two million one hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, twenty thousand dollars. Payments in lien of clothing.For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, two hundred thousand dollars. Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars. Medical, &c. department.For medical and hospital department, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all sums that have accrued to the credit of the medical Proviso. 1867, ch. 170.and hospital department from the sale of medical and hospital stores, or Vol. xiv. p. 485.from any other source, except appropriations made by act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, are hereby directed to be covered into the treasury at the close of the current fiscal year.
Medical museum and works.For army medical museum, five thousand dollars. 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 regular supplies of the quartermasters’ department, to wit: Quartermasters’ department.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.
FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 52. 1868.65 For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermasters’ department,Incidental expenses 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 that service, under the act of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.
Vol. ii. p. 136. 1819. ch. 45. 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 forVol. iii. p. 488. 1854, ch. 247, §6. periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March two, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August four, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,Vol. x. p. 576. 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 clerks to officers of the quartermasters’ department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen1838, ch. 162, § 10. hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters and the expensesVol. v. p. 257 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, two million 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, escort, or supplies, two 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 founderies 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 transportsPublic transports. on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation requireWater. it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removingObstructions in roads, rivers, and harbors. 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 or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty;Hire or commutation of quarters, huts, &c. hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construc66tion of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, two million dollars. vol. xv. Pub. — 5 Heating and cooking stoves.For heating and cooking stoves, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.For the ordnance service, required to defray the current expenses at 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 pay for any new cannon or small-arms. Purchase of land for Springfield armory.For purchasing three acres of land adjoining Federal Square at Springfield armory, three thousand dollars. Armories and arsenals.for repairs and improvements of armories and arsenals. Rock Island.For arsenal and armory at Rock Island, Illinois, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars: Proviso.*Provided,* That eighty thousand dollars of said sum shall be devoted to the development of the water-power to carry out existing contracts.
Watervliet.For Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, New York, twenty thousand dollars. St. Louis.For arsenal at St. Louis, Missouri, five thousand dollars. Augusta.For Augusta arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, ten thousand dollars. Baton Rouge.For Baton Rouge arsenal, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Benecia.For Benecia arsenal, Benecia, California, ten thousand dollars. Vancouver.For Vancouver arsenal, Vancouver, Washington Territory, five thousand dollars. Mount Vernon.For Mount Vernon arsenal, Mount Vernon, Alabama, five thousand dollars.
Watertown.For Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars. Allegheny.For Allegheny arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. For Monroe.For Fort Monroe arsenal, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, four thousand five hundred dollars. Frankford.For Frankford arsenal, Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, eight hundred and eighty dollars. Kennebec.For Kennebec arsenal, Augusta, Maine, two thousand dollars. Leavenworth.For Leavenworth arsenal, Leavenworth, Kansas, five thousand dollars.
New York.For New York arsenal, Governor’s Island, New York, three thousand dollars. Pikesville.For Pikesville arsenal, Pikesville, Maryland, eight hundred dollars. Preservation and repairs of works of defense.For the preservation and necessary repairs of the fortifications and the works of defense, two hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That of the appropriation of sixty Appropriation for medical, &c. history of rebellion, now to be applied.thousand dollars for publishing the medical and surgical history of the rebellion and the medical statistics of the provost marshal general’s office, made in an act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty thousand dollars shall be devoted to the preparation 1866, ch. 206.
Vol. xiv. pp. 310 311.and publication of five thousand copies of the medical statistics of the provost marshal general’s bureau, and that the work shall be compiled Medical statistics of provost marshal general’s bureau.and completed by assistant medical purveyor J. H. Baxter, under the immediate direction of the Secretary of War, and without the interference How to be compiled.of any other officer. Approved, June 8, 1868.