Chapter 127. making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 127.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.Feb. 9, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Army appropriations. That the following sums be, and they 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-eight. for pay of officers of the line.Pay.
For pay of officers of the line, two million eight hundred and sixty-eightLine officers. thousand dollars. Additional pay for twenty-three aides-de-camp, one military secretary,Additional. and officers of foot-regiments when mounted by proper authority, additional to and payable with their current monthly pay, in all eight thousand dollars. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity. monthly pay, in all eight hundred and twelve thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. for pay of enlisted men.
For pay proper of the enlisted men of all grades, four million two hundredEnlisted men. and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and eight dollars. For service pay of enlisted men by reason of length of service, in additionService pay. to their monthly pay and payable therewith, three hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. 395 For general-service clerks and messengers, to the number and at theGeneral-service clerks and messengers. rate now fixed by law, one hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. for pay of the general staff.General staff.
Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of the officers in theAdjutant General’s Department; longevity. Adjutant-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, forty-nine thousand live hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of theInspector-General’s Department; longevity. officers in the Inspector-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided bylaw, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, six thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
The corps of Engineers: For pay of the officers in the Corps ofCorps of Engineer; longevity. Engineers, as now authorized and provided by law, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seventy-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; in all, three hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars. pay of staff officers.Staff officers. Ordnance Department:
For pay of the officers in the OrdnanceOrdnance Department; longevity. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, forty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-four thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of the. officers in theQuartermaster’s Department; longevity.
Quartermaster’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and ninety-six thousand one hundred dollars. Subsistence Department: For the pay of the officers in the SubsistenceSubsistence Department; longevity. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, seventy-nine thousand five hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and one thousand one hundred dollars.
Medical Department: For the pay of the officers in the MedicalMedical Department; longevity. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, four hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and eight thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, five hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Pay Department: For the pay of the officers in the Pay Department,Pay Department-longevity. as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For the pay of theJudge-Advocate-General’s Department; longevity. officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, twenty-seven thousand dollars; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seven thousand dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand dollars. 396 retired officers. For pay of officers on the retired-list, and for officers who may beOfficers on the retired list; longevity. placed thereon during the current year, nine hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-five cents; for additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, two hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ten cents; in all, one million one hundred and ninety thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents. retired enlisted men.
For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired-list, fifty-sixEnlisted men on retired list. thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars. miscellaneous. For pay of not exceeding sixty-five contract-surgeons, not exceedingContract-surgeons, etc. one hundred and sixty hospital-matrons, and not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, in all one hundred and two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-four cents. For pay of not exceeding forty-six paymaster’s clerks, at one thousandPaymasters’ clerks, etc. four hundred dollars each, not exceeding thirty paymasters’ messengers, and traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, in all, eighty-three *Proviso*.Maximum travelling allowance.thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the maximum sum to be allowed paymasters’ clerks when traveling on duty shall be four cents per mile, and, in addition thereto, when transportation cannot be furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, the cost of same actually paid by them, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car fare and transfers.
For expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, and compensationCourts-martial, etc. of witnesses attending the same, ten thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings, and soCharge of public buildings, Washington.Commutation of quarters. forth, in Washington, District of Columbia, five hundred dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without troops, at places where there are no public quarters, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and forAllowances, etc., enlisted men. interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, in all eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mileage to officers traveling on duty without troops, when authorizedMileage to officers.*Proviso*.Maximum allowance. by law, not to exceed eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in disbursing this amount the maximum sum to be allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per mile, distance to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes, and, in addition thereto, upon the officer’s certificate that it was not practicable to obtain Transportation from the Quartermaster’s Department, the. cost of the Transportation actually paid by the officer over said route or routes, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when any officer so traveling shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States arc entitled to be transported free of charge, he shall be allowed for himself only four cents per mile as a subsistence fund for every mile necessarily Total appropriation for pay.traveled over any such last-named railroad; making in all for pay of the Army twelve million six hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-nine cents.
All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence of the army. For the purchase of subsistence supplies; for issue as rations to troops,Subsistence supplies. civil employees when entitled thereto, contract-surgeons, hospital 397 matrons, military convicts at posts, prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), estimated for the fiscal year on the basis of nine million nine hundred and sixty eight thousand four hundred and fifty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issue of candles and salt and vinegar; for public animals; for issues to Indians visiting military posts and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts; for payments for cooked rations for recruiting parties or recruits; for hot coffee, baked beans, and canned beef for troops traveling when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for bake ovens at posts and in the field, and repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance-sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and Army rifle competitions, while traveling to and from places of contest, in all one million seven hundredAmount. and forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; and not more than one hundred and ten thousand dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employeesCivilian employees. of the Subsistence Department. quartermaster’s department.Quartermasters’ Department.Regular supplies.
Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and quarters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sales to officers; 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, including its care and protection; 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 division and Department orders and reports, two million six hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall*Proviso*.Printing. be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract, after due notice and competition, except in such case as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition.
Incidental expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams on official businessIncidental expenses. received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermaster’s at military posts; for expense 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 398 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 military posts and on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of Vol. 5, p. 257.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 scoots as maybe mounted, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movement and operations of the Army, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six-hundred and seventy-five thousand *Proviso*.dollars: *Provided*, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty at constant labor of not less than ten days-; but no such Extraduty pay.payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by la w for the class of persons employed and the work done.
For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the IndianPurchase of horses. scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Limitation.number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service; and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, including Transportation.baggage of the troops, when 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, 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 draught and pack animals, 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; extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of the funds of 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 the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for clearing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may be required for the actual operation of troops in the field, in all two million *Proviso*.Limit of draught, animals.eight hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in the purchase for the Army of draught animals until the number on hand shall be reduced to five thousand, 399 and thereafter shall only be expended for the purchase of a number sufficient to keep the supply to not exceeding five thousand.
Arrears of Army transportation on certain land-grant railroads: ForArrears of transportation on certain land-grant railroads. the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds, to be adjusted by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts, but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of the service be paid, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That such compensation shall*Proviso*.Rates. be computed upon the basis of the tariff rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such services.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses Barracks and quarters.for the safe keeping of military stores, for offices, and for the hire of buildings and of grounds for summer cantonments and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no expenditures*Provisos*.Expenditures exceeding 8500. exceeding live hundred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post, or grounds about the same, without the approval of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates by the Quartermaster’s Department; and the erection, construction, and repair of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster’s Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: *And provided further*, That no more than oneWork to be by contract.Civilian employees. million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage; and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salaryMaximum salary. more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same shall be specially fixed by law; and no part of any of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men.
For shelter and shooting-galleries and ranges, and repairs thereofShooting ranges, etc., ten thousand dollars. Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairsConstruct ion and repairs of hospitals. of hospitals, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, one hundred thousand dollars. Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas: For one hydraulicArmy and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. passenger elevator for central hospital building, two thousand dollars; and for finishing in hard-oil the inside woodwork of all buildings, painting verandas, and for painting exterior brickwork of all buildings, five thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For construction and repair of quarters for hospital-stewards, includingQuarters for hospital-stewards.*Proviso*.Posts to be designated by Secretary cf War, etc. the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, nine thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the posts at which such quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary of War, and the quarters shall be built by contract, after legal advertisement, whenever the same is practicable; but the cost of construction of quarters at any one post shall in no case exceed eight hundred dollars.
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost-price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That out*Proviso*. of the money herebj’ appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the Military Prison at Fort LeavenworthLimit of expense at Military Prison. a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 400 medical department.Medical Department.
Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical andSupplies, etc. hospital supplies, expenses of medical purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, for the proper care and treatment of cases in the Army suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses, including disinfectants for general post sanitation and the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in all two hundred thousand dollars; and not over thirty-six thousand Civilian employees.dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department.
Army and Navy Hospital, at Hot Springs, Arkansas: For service atArmy and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. the Army and Navy Hospital, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, ten thousand dollars. Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservationArmy Medical Museum.Library. of specimens, and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General’s office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars, engineer department.Engineer partment.
Engineer depot at Willet’s Point, New York: Incidental expenses ofIncidental expenses. the depot, fuel, chemicals, stationery, extra-duty pay for soldiers employed in wheelwright’s work, engine-driving, draughting, printing, photographing, and lithographing engineer documents, repairs of public buildings, and unforeseen expenses, three thousand dollars; For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops atMaterials for instructing engineer troops. Willet’s Point in their special duties of sappers, miners, and pontoneers, one thousand dollars;
For repairs of instruments for general use of the Corps of EngineersRepairs of instruments, etc., and for the purchase of small instruments to fill requisitions, two thousand dollars; Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase of professionalLibrary. works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, five hundred dollars; in all, six thousand live hundred dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.Current expenses. Ordnance service: For current expenses of 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, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of small-arms, and ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars.
For manufacture of metallic ammunitionAmmunition for small-arms, etc. for small-arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target-practice, one hundred thousand dollars. For repairing ordnance and ordnance stores in the bands of troops,Repairing ordnance and ordnance stores.Ordnance stores. and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horseEquipments. equipments for cavalry and artillery, seventy-five thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at the National Armory, four, hundred Manufacture of arms.*Proviso*.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its Civilian clerks.branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department. 401 recruiting service.Recruiting service.
For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvousExpenses. to depot, one hundred thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service. For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase,Expenses. equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs; signal equipments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of same, in all three thousand dollars. signal service.Contingent expenses.
For contingent, expenses of the office of the Lieutenant-General, oneLientenantgeneral’s Office. thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s DepartmentAdjutant-General’s Department.Not elsewhere provided for. at the headquarters of military divisions and departments, two thousand dollars. For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars.
Approved, February 9, 1887.