Chapter CCXXIX. *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four*
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CHAP. CCXXIX.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Army appropriation for year That the following sums he, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury544 ending June 30, 1874.not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four:
Commanding general’s office.For expenses of the commanding general’s office, five thousand dollars. Recruiting, &c.For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. Adjutant-general’s department.For contingent expenses of the adjutant-general’s department, at the headquarters of military divisions and departments, five thousand dollars. Signal-service.For the expenses of the signal-service of the army, purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs and signal equipments, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Pay of army and allowances to officers.For pay of the army and for allowances to officers of the army for transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, and for compensation of witnesses while on court-martial service; for travelling expenses of paymasters’ clerks; for payment of postage on letters and packages, and cost of telegrams received and sent by officers of the army on public business, twelve million three hundred thousand dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence of regular troops, engineers, and Indian scouts, two million five hundred thousand dollars. Quartermaster’s department.For regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, to wit: For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of stoves for heating and cooking, of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, store-houses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses mules, and oxen of 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 and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, 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 printing of division and department orders and reports, four million five hundred thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses of quarter-master’s department.For incidental expenses, viz: For postage and telegrams or dispatches; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, store-houses, arid hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of 3819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488. 1854, ch. 247. § 6.Vol. x. p. 576.not less than ten days, under the acts 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 post 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 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 expense 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 and scouts as may be mounted, namely: 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 three hundred thousand dollars. 545 For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for IndianHorses for cavalry, artillery, and Indian scouts. scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, three hundred and fifty 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 and Jeffersonville to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse- equipments 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, ordnances stores, and small-arms from the foundaries 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, transpostation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers,Public transports.Water. the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; 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,Clearing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers. harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, four million five hundred thousand dollars.
For hire of quarters for officers on military duty, hire of quarters forHire, &c., of quarters, huts, repairs, &c. troops, of store-houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, offices, and of grounds for camps and for summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, and for establishing two new posts between the Missouri river and Fort Ellis, one million seven hundred thousand dollars.
For construction and repairs of hospitals, one hundred thousandHospitals. dollars. For purchase and manufacture of clothing, camp and garrison equipage,Clothing and camp equipage. and for preserving and repacking stock of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and materials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and other depots, one million five hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and eight dollars and eighty-one cents: *Provided*, That when the new uniformWhen new uniform is distributed, clothing of the old style to be sold at a fiction, &c. is distributed to the. troops, the clothing of the old style no longer to be issued, incapable of alteration, shall be sold by the Secretary of War at public auction after due public notice by advertisement; and the gross proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the treasury.
For establishing and maintaining national military cemeteries, twoNational military cemeteries.Headstones to be of what material, design, and weight.1867. ch. 61. Vol. xiv. p. 3991872, ch. 368.*Ante*, p. 345.Contract for supplying, how to be awarded. hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the head-stones required by an act entitled “An act to establish and protect national cemeteries,” approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the act amendatory thereof, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall be of durable stone, and of such design and weight as shall keep them in place when set; and the contract for supplying the same shall be awarded by the Secretary of War, after sixty days’ advertisement in ten newspapers of general circulation, to some responsible person or persons whose samples and bids shall in the greatest measure, combine the elements of durability, decency, and cheapness; and the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated for said purpose out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the SecretarySecretary of War to determine size, model &c. of War shall first determine for the various cemeteries the size and model for such headstones, and the standards of quality and color of the stone to be used, and bids shall be made and decided with reference thereto; and contracts may be made for separate quantities of such headstones; and546 the contracts made under this act shall provide for furnishing and setting all the said headstones, and shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the sum hereby appropriated.
Army contingencies.For army contingencies, namely: such expenses as are not provided for by other estimates, embracing all branches of the military service, one hundred thousand dollars. Medical and hospital supplies, &c.For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of private physicians employed in emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, expenses of purveying-depots, of medical examining boards, and incidental expenses of the Chief medical purveyor to supervise their purchase, &c.medical department, two hundred thousand dollars; and the chief medical purveyor of the army shall have, under the direction of the surgeon general, supervision of the purchase and distribution of all hospital and medical supplies.
Army medical museum.For the army medical museum and medical and other necessary works for the library of the surgeon-general’s office, ten thousand dollars. Engineer depot at Willett’s point.For engineer depot at Willett’s point, New York, viz: Remodelling portions of bridge equipage, and for current expenses of the depot, purchase of engineering material for use in instruction of engineer battalion, and purchase and repair of instruments for general service of the corps of engineers, nine thousand dollars.
Trials with torpedoes.For trials with torpedoes for harbor and land defence, and to instruct the engineer troops in their practical construction and application, ten 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.
Metallic ammunition.For manufacturing metallic ammunition for small-arms, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Ordnance stores in arsenals.For overhauling, preserving, and cleaning new ordnance stores on hand in the arsenals, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sea-coast cannon.For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisition of troops, and for sea-coast cannon, and for carriages for the same, two hundred thousand dollars. For alterations of the carriages now in use in sea-coast forts, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gatling guns.To enable the Secretary of War to provide Gatling guns, of light calibre, for the use of the army, sixty thousand dollars. Projectiles for heavy guns.Exchange of powder.For the purchase of projectiles for heavy guns, fifty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to ex-change the unserviceable and unsuitable powder on hand for new powder.
Clothing and equipage.For preservation of clothing and equipage from moth and mildew, two hundred thousand dollars, which shall be available for immediate use. Equipments.For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, and great-coat straps, sixty thousand dollars. Tests of Gatling guns of large calibre, and of systems of heavy rifled, ordnance.For experiments and tests of two Gatling guns of large calibre for flank defence of fortifications, five thousand dollars, and of the systems of heavy rifled ordnance recommended for trial by the Board convened under act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and, in the discretion of the Secretary, of any other systems for utilizing or improving the cast-iron guns now in the service, fifty thousand dollars in addition to any unexpended balance of appropriations made for the present fiscal year.
Manufacture arms.For manufacture of arms at the national armory, one hundred thousand dollars. FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 230. 1873. 547 For improved machinery and instruments for testing American iron andMachinery, &c., for testing American iron and steel. steel, twenty-five thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1873.