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CHAP. 574.— An act making appropriations for the support of the Amy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.June 30, 1886. *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 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-seven: pay of officers of the linePay.
For one Lieutenant-General, three major-generals, six brigadier-generals,Line officers. forty colonels, forty lieutenant-colonels, seventy majors, one hundred and thirty captains (mounted), three hundred captains (not mounted), thirty-four chaplains, forty adjutants, forty regimental quartermasters, one hundred and forty first lieutenants (mounted), three hundred and fifty first lieutenants (not mounted), one hundred and thirty-five second lieutenants (mounted), three hundred second lieutenants (not mounted), in all, two million eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars.
Additional pay: For twenty-three aids-de-camp, one military secretary,Additional. and officers of foot regiments when mounted by proper authority, in addition to and payable with their current monthly pay, in all, eight thousand dollars. For pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity. monthly pay, in all, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty cents. enlisted men. For pay proper of the enlisted men of all grades, four million twoEnlisted men. hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For pay of one hundred and twenty-five men enlisted as general ServiceGeneral service. clerks at Army, Division, Department, and District headquarters, at the headquarters of the general recruiting service, at recruiting depots,*Post*, p. 107. and at West Point, New York, as follows: ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twenty-five clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; and ninety clerks, at one thousand dollars each; said sums to be in full for all pay, commutations, and allowances; in all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of forty-five men enlisted as general service messengers, atGeneral service messengers *Post*, p. 167. Service pay. the rate of sixty dollars per month each, in full for all pay, commutations, and allowances, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars. Service pay to enlisted men: For pay to enlisted men by reason of length of service, in addition to their monthly pay, and payable therewith, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars. pay of the general staff.General staff.
Adjutant-General’s Department.—For one brigadier-general,Adjutant General’s Department. two colonels, four lieutenant-colonels, and ten majors, in all, forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Additional pay: For pay of the officers in the Adjutant-General’s DepartmentLongevity. for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars. Inspector-General’s Department.—For one brigadier-general,Inspector General’s Department two colonels, two lieutenant-colonels, and two majors, in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. 94 Additional pay:
For pay of the officers in the Inspector-General’sLongevity. Department for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, six thousand dollars. Pay of the Corps of Engineers.—For one brigadier-general,Corps of Engineers. six colonels, twelve lieutenant-colonels, twenty-four majors, thirty captains (mounted), twenty-six first lieutenants (mounted), ten second lieutenants (mounted), and for additional pay to adjutant and quartermaster, in all, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Additional pay: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers forLongevity. length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. pay of staff officers.Staff officers. Ordnance Department.—For one brigadier-general, three colonels,Ordnance Department. four lieutenant-colonels, ten majors, twenty-six captains (mounted), five storekeepers, and ten first lieutenants (mounted), one hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Additional pay: For pay of the officers of the Ordnance DepartmentLongevity. for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, forty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars. Quartermaster’s Department.—For one brigadier-general, fourQuartermaster’s Department. colonels, eight lieutenant-colonels, fourteen majors, thirty captains (mounted), and five storekeepers, one hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Additional pay: For pay of the officers in the Quartermaster’s DepartmentLongevity. for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
Subsistence Department.—For one brigadier-general, two colonels,Subsistence Department. three lieutenant-colonels, eight majors, twelve captains (mounted), and additional pay for one hundred and forty acting commissaries, seventy-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Additional pay: For pay of the officers of the Subsistence DepartmentLongevity. for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Medical Department.—For one brigadier-general, six colonels,Medical Department. ten lieutenant-colonels, fifty majors, ninety-five captains (mounted), three storekeepers, and thirty first lieutenants (mounted), four hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Additional pay: For pay of the officers in the Medical DepartmentLongevity. for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and sixteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Pay Department.—For one brigadier-general, two colonels, threePay Department. lieutenant-colonels, and forty-three majors, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars. Additional pay: For pay of the officers in the Pay Department forLongevity. length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Judge-Advocate-General’s Department.—For one brigadier-general,Judge-Advocate-General's Department. one colonel, three lieutenant-colonels, three majors, and for additional pay for acting judge-advocates, in all, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Additional pay: For pay of the officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’sLongevity. Department for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seven thousand dollars. retired officers. For pay of officers on the retired-list, and for officers who may hereafterOfficers on retired list. be placed thereon, nine hundred and two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty-eight cents. 95 Additional pay:
For pay of officers on the retired-list for length ofLongevity. service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, two hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. retired-list of enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired-list, thirty-sixEnlisted men on retired list. thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. miscellaneous. For pay of sixty-five contract surgeons, one hundred and sixty hospital Contract surgeons, etc.matrons, and fourteen veterinary surgeons, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars.
For pay of forty-six paymaster’s clerks, at one thousand four hundredPay master’s clerks, etc. dollars each per annum, thirty paymaster’s messengers, and traveling expenses of paymaster’s clerks actually paid by them, in all, eighty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, and compensationCourts martial, etc. of witnesses Attending the same, fifteen thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings, and soCharge of public buildings, Washington.
Military prison, Leaven worth, Kans. Commutation of quarters. forth, in Washington. District of Columbia, five hundred dollars. For additional pay to the officer commanding Military Prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, one thousand 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. interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, in all, eight hundred thousand dollars.
For mileage to officers, when authorized by law, not to exceed oneMileage. *Proviso*. Maximum allowance, hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in disbursing this allowance the maximum sum to be allowed and paid shall be four cents per mile, distance to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes, and, in addition thereto, the cost of transportation actually paid, exclusive of sleeping or parlor car fare; making in all for pay of the Army, twelve million five hundred and forty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-one 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 rationsSubsistence sup plies. to troops, civil employés when entitled thereto, contract surgeons, hospital 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 seventy-one thousand eight hundred 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 and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef and baked beans 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 96 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 lien 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 department, division, and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest; in all, one million seven hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Civilian employees.Secretary of War; and not more than one hundred and five thousand dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employés of the Subsistence Department. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sSupplies. 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*Proviso*.
Printing. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall 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 quartermasters at military posts; for 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 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 Vol 5, p. 257.to the officers of the Quartermaster’s 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, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such 97 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 dollars’ *Provided*, That two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the appropriation*Proviso*.
Extra-duty pay. 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 payment shall be made at any greater rate per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed and the work done. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for thePurchase of horses. Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased*Proviso*. under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shallLimitation. 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, includingTransportation. baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage from the depots at 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 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 obstruction 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 eight hundred thousand dollars.
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, eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That such compensation*Proviso*.
Rates. shall 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, storehousesBarracks and quarters. for the safekeeping 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*.
Approval of Secretary of War to work costing more than $500. exceeding five 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 98 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 one Civilian employees.million five 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 equip age;Limitation of salary. and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as 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 thereof,Shooting ranges, etc. ten thousand dollars. Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairsHospitals, construction and repairs of. of hospitals, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, one hundred thousand dollars. For construction of quarters for hospital-stewards, including theQuarters for hospital stewards. extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twelve thousand *Proviso*.
Posts to be designated by secretary of War, etc.five 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 two hundred-and fifty thousand dollars. medical department.Medical Department.
Supplies, etc. Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and 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, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses, including disinfectants, of the Medical Department, two hundred thousand dollars; and Civilian employees.not over thirty-six thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees in the Medical Department.
Medical Museum and library: For Army Medical Museum, preservationArmy Medical Museum. of specimens, and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, Library.five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, ten thousand dollars; in ail, fifteen thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Incidental expenses. Engineer depot at Willet’s Point, New York: Incidental expenses of 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 instruction of 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 Engineers,Repairs of instruments. and for the purchase of small instruments to fill requisitions, two thousand dollars. Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase of profes-Library. 99 sional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, five hundred dollars.
For construction of a new building to contain the officers’ mess, theBuilding. library, and draughting-rooms of the School of Application, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the cost of the building complete for use*Proviso*. Cost. and occupation shall not exceed ten thousand 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 arid office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, ninety thousand dollars.
For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms, and ammunitionAmmunition for small-arms, etc. for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target-practice, one hundred thousand dollars. For mounting and dismounting guns, and removing the armamentMounting and dismounting guns, etc. from 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 bands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots,Extra-duty pay. and for extra-duty pay for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdnance stores. of troops, seventy-five thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, sixty-five thousandEquipments. dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores onPreserving ordnance stores. hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at national armories, four hundred thousandManufacture of arms. *Proviso*. Civilian clerks. dollars: *Provided*, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department, in all its branches, shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said Department. recruiting service.Recruiting Service.
Expenses. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous 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, three thousand dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Lieutenant-General, oneLieutenant-General's office. thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department at theAdjutant-General’s Department. headquarters of military divisions and departments, two thousand dollars. For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by otherNot elsewhere, provided for. 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, June 30, 1886.