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CHAP. 81.— An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.May 4, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Support of the Army, 1881.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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, as follows:
For expenses of the commanding general’s office, two thousand fiveCommanding general’s office.Recruiting. hundred dollars. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, seventy-five thousand dollars. And no money appropriated by this act shall be paid for recruiting the Army beyond the number of twenty-five thousand enlisted men, including Indian scouts and hospital-stewards; and thereafter there shall be no more than twenty-five thousand enlisted men in the Army at any one time, unless otherwise authorized by law.
Nothing, however, in this act shall be construed to prevent enlistments for the Signal Service, which shall hereafter be maintained, as now organized and as provided by law, with a force of enlisted men not exceeding four hundred and fifty. For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department atAdjutant-General’s Department. the headquarters of military divisions and departments, three thousand dollars. For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, purchase, equipment,Signal Service. and repair of electric field-telegraphs and signal equipments and stores, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
PAY DEPARTMENT. For Pay of the Army: One general, one lieutenant-general, threePay of the Army.Officers. major-generals, fifteen brigadier-generals, seventy colonels, eighty-five lieutenant-colonels, two hundred and forty-three majors, three hundred and twelve captains, mounted, three hundred and six captains, not mounted, thirty-four chaplains, twenty-one storekeepers, forty adjutants, forty regimental quartermasters, two hundred and two first lieutenants, mounted, three hundred and sixty first lieutenants, not mounted, one hundred and forty-six second lieutenants, mounted, three hundred and five second lieutenants, not mounted; including the additional pay to thirty-five aides-de-camp, to the adjutant and quartermaster of the Engineer Battalion, to one hundred and eighty acting assistant commissaries of subsistence, in, addition to pay in line, to officers of foot regiments while on duty which requires them to be mounted, to the officer in charge of public buildings and Men.grounds in Washington, and to the examiner of State claims in the office of the Secretary of War; four hundred retired officers; enlisted men of all grades not exceeding twenty-five thousand men; four hundred and fifty enlisted men of the Signal Corps; the allowances for travel, retained pay, and clothing not drawn, payable to enlisted men on discharge; and one retired ordnance sergeant, eleven million five hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and one dollars and fifty-five cents.
For mileage of officers of the Army for travel on duty under orders,Mileage. two hundred thousand dollars. 111 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 81. 1880. For miscellaneous expenses, to wit: Hire of one hundred and twenty-fiveMiscellaneous. contract surgeons and two hundred hospital-matrons; extra-duty pay to enlisted men for service in hospitals; pay of fifty-four paymasters’ clerics and fourteen veterinary surgeons; hire of paymasters’ messengers, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon military courts and commissions; travel expenses of paymasters’ clerks; commutation of quarters for officers on duty without troops at places where there are no public quarters; and for the payment of any such officers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act, five hundred and fifty-one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents.
Subsistence Department. For subsistence of twenty-five thousandSubsistence. enlisted men, one hundred and twenty additional half-rations for sergeants and corporals of ordnance, enlisted men of the Signal Service, women to companies (laundresses), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five civilian employees, one hundred and twenty-five contract-surgeons, two bundled hospital-matrons, one hundred and ten military convicts, and five hundred prisoners of war (Indians), in Rations.all ten million seven hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty rations, at twenty cents each; for difference between cost of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, and for enlisted men and recruits at recruiting stations, and for cost of hot coffee and cooked rations for troops traveling on cars; fur subsistence stores for Indians visiting military posts, and Indians employed without pay as scouts, and guides, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which amount three hundred thousand dollars shall be available*Proviso*. from and after the passage of this act for the purchase of stores necessary to be transported to distant posts in advance of the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty: *Provided*, That to the cost of all stores and other articles sold to officersR.
S. 1149,Amended. and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section one thousand one hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges, save that subsistence supplies may be sold to companies, detachments, and hospitals at cost prices, not including cost of transportation, upon the certificate of an officer commanding a company or detachment, or in charge of a hospital, that the supplies are necessary for the exclusive use of such company, detachment, or hospital.
Quartermaster’s Department.—For the regular supplies of theQuartermaster’s regular supplies.Items. Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves for heating and cooking; of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, 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, mounted men of the Signal Service, 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, three million six hundred thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dispatches;Incidental expenses.Items. 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 other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters and Signal-Service sergeants; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the 112 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 81. 1880. 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 when traveling on orders, and of Noncommissioned 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’s1838, ch. 162,Stat., 16, 257.
Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering 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 and scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit: hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars.
For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the IndianHorses and other items. scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, two hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops,Transportation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing and 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, 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 seagoing 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 expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, 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 for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, four million dollars.
For hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safekeeping ofRent and repairs. military stores, of offices, and of grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the Surgeon-GeneralHospitals. of the Army, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of clothing and camp and garrison equipage,Clothing. and for preserving and repacking the stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeffersonville, and other depots of the Quartermaster’s Department, one million dollars. For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other Contingent expenses not otherwise provided for.estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars.
Medical Department.—For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, medical care and treatmentMedical and hospital supplies. of officers and soldiers on detached duty, expenses of purveying-depots, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred thousand dollars. 113 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 81. 1880. For the Army Medical Museum, and for medical and other works forArmy Medical Museum.Engineer department. the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, ten thousand dollars.
Engineer Department.—For engineer depot at Willets Point, New York, namely: For purchase of engineering materials to continue the present course of instruction of the engineer battalion in field engineering, one thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the depot, remodeling pontontrains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, extra-duty pay to soldiers engaged in special skilled labor, such as wheelwright work, printing, photographing and lithographing engineer documents, and ordinary repairs, four thousand dollars.
Ordnance Department.—For the ordnance service, required to defrayOrdnance service.Items. the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of 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 compensation of workmen in the armory and museum building connected with the Ordnance Office and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms, eighty thousandMetallic ammunition.Preserving new stores.Mounting and dismounting guns. dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on Repairs of stores, &c.hand at the arsenals, twenty thousand dollars. For mounting and dismounting guns and removing the armament fromPurchase and manufacture of stores.Cavalry equipments. forts being modified or repaired, including heavy carriages returned to arsenals for alteration and repairs, and other necessary expenses of the same character, and for repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the Powder depot, magazines.hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, and for extra-duty pay for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, thirty thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisitions*Proviso*.Purchase of additional land for site. of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of clothing-bags, haversacks, canteens, and greatcoat straps, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops sixty-five thousand dollars. For powder depot: For grading grounds, erecting magazines, andManufacture of arms at national armories.Retired Army officers detailed as officials upon application by corporations of learning. other necessary buildings, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, expend a sum not exceeding eighteen thousand five hundred dollars of this amount in the purchase of additional land adjoining the present site.
For manufacture of arms at national armories, three hundred thousand dollar’s.Additional pay for services. That upon the application of any college, university, or institution of learning incorporated under the laws of any State within the United States, having capacity at the same time to educate not less than one hundred and fifty male students, the President may detail an officer of the Army onTesting machine. the retired list to act as president, superintendent, or professor thereof; and such officer may receive from the institution to which he may be detailed the difference between his retired and full pay, and shall not receive any additional pay or allowance from the United States.
United States Testing-Machine.—For caring for, preserving,*General restriction of use of Army at elections*. using, and operating the United States testing-machine at the Watertown arsenal, five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That no money appropriated in this act is appropriated or*Proviso*. shall be paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or compensation of any portion of the Army of the United States to be used as a police force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State: *Provided*, That nothing in this provision shall be construed to prevent the use of troops to protect against domestic violence in each 114 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 81, 83, 84, 85. 1880. of the States on application of the legislature thereof or of the executive when the legislature cannot be convened Approved, May 4, 1880. Chapter 83: appropriating money to provide for the public printing. Chapter 83 21 Stat. 114 1880-05-07 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-27 46 2 public
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