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CHAP. 284.— An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes.February 24, 1891. *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 he, 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 ninety-two: for pay of officers of the line.Pay.
For pay of officers of the line, two million eight hundred and fifty-sevenLine officers. thousand dollars. Additional pay for twenty-one aids-de-camp, and officers of foot-regimentsAdditional. when mounted by proper authority, additional to and payable with their current monthly pay, nine thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity. monthly pay eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 284. 1891.771 for pay of enlisted men.Enlisted men. For pay propels of the enlisted men of all grades, four million onePay. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of Hospital Corps, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Hospital corps. For service pay of enlisted men by reason of length of service inService pay. addition to their monthly pay and payable therewith, five hundred and eight thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars. For general-service clerks and messengers, to the number and atGeneral service clerks and messengers. the 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. Adjutant General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars; In all, sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Inspector-General's Department: For pay of the officers in the Inspector-General's Department, as now authorized and provided byInspector-General's Department. law, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars:
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. 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 Engineers. 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 paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, seventy-five thousand seven hundred and forty dollars;
In all, three hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and forty-dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of the officers in the OrdnanceStaff officers. Ordnance Department. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; In all, one hundred and seventy-four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of the officers in theQuartermaster’s Department. Quartermaster’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fifty-two thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars. Subsistence Department: For the pay of the officers in theSubsistence Department.
Subsistence 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 paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty-one thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and one thousand three hundred dollars. Medical Department: For the pay of the officers in the MedicalMedical Department. Department as now authorized and provided by law, four hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred dollars;
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, one hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars: In all, five hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. 772 Pay Department:Pay Department. For the pay of the officers in the Pay Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and four thousand dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, thirty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
In all, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Judge-Advocate-General's Department: For the pay of theJudge-Advocate-General’s Department. 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 paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, seven thousand dollars; In all, thirty-four thousand dollars. signal corps.Signal Corps.
For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, as now authorized andOfficers. provided by law, twenty-two thousand four hundred dollars. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, six thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of the enlisted men in the Signal Service, as now authorizedEnlisted men. and provided by law, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. For additional pay for length of service to such enlisted men, toLongevity. be paid with their current monthly pay, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on dutyCommutation of quarters. without troops at stations where there are no public quarters, four thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars. For mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troopsMileage to officers. when authorized by law, with the same limitations provided in this act for payment of mileage to other officers of the Army, six hundred dollars. For allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, andAllowances, etc., to enlisted men. interest on deposits payable to enlisted men on discharge, five thousand dollars.
In all, sixty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars.Amount. retired officers.Retired list. For pay of officers on the retired list, and for officers who may beOfficers. placed thereon during the current year, one million twelve thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents. For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, two hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars;
In all. one million three hundred and six thousand five hundredAmount. and three dollars and sixty-eight cents. Retired Enlisted Men.Enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, one hundred and thirty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty Seven cents. Miscellaneous For pay and traveling expenses of not exceeding fifty contractContract surgeons, etc. surgeons, for pay of not exceeding one hundred and sixty hospital matrons, and not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, as now provided by law, in all, ninety thousand dollars. 773 For pay of not exceeding thirty-eight paymasters’ clerks, at onePaymasters’ clerks, messengers, etc. thousand' four hundred dollars each, not exceeding thirty paymasters’ messengers, and traveling expenses of expert accountant of Inspector General’s Department and paymasters’ clerks; in all, eighty-one thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-one cents: *Provided*, That the maximum sum to be allowed clerks of the Pay*Proviso*.
Department, the expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department, and contract surgeons when traveling on duty shall beMaximum traveling allowance. four cents per mile, and. in addition thereto, when transportation can not be furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, the cost of same actually paid by them, exclusive of parlor car fare and transfers. For compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courts-martial.Courts-martial, etc. and courts of inquiry, eight thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-three cents.
For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andPublic buildings, Washington, D. C. grounds, in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For additional pay to officer commanding military prison at FortMilitary prison. Leavenworth, Kansas, five hundred dollars. For the pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classificationMilitary information from abroad. of military information from abroad, one thousand five hundred dollars; and the officers detailed to obtain the same shall be entitled to mileage and transportation and also commutation of quarters while on this duty, as provided when on other duty.
For pay of one expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department,Expert accountant. to be appointed in case of vacancy, by the Secretary of War, two thousand five hundred dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on dutyCommutation of quarters. without troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, andAllowances, etc.,em listed men. for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and four dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops,Mileage to officers. when authorized by law, one hundred and fifty 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, distanceMaximum allowance. to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes, and, in addition thereto, the cost of the transportation actually paid by the officer over said route or routes, exclusive of parlor-car fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when any officer so travelingOn subsidized roads. shall travel in whole or in parton any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any of the bond-aided Pacific railroads, he shall be allowed for himself only four cents per mile as a subsistence fund for every mile necessarily traveled over any such railroads: *And provided further*, That the transportation furnished by theTransportation by Quartermaster's Department.
Quartermasters Department to officers traveling without troops rail be limited to transportation in kind, not including sleeping or parlor car accommodations, over free roads, over bond-aided Pacific railroads, and by conveyance belonging to the said Department; Making in all, for pay and general expenses of the Army, thirteenAmount. million two hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and nineteen cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed andTotal pay accounts. 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 toSubsistence supplies. troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, contract surgeons, 774 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 oasis of ten million one hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred and six rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army: for authorized extra issue of candles, 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 Extra-duty pay.the field, and repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods '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 tor 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 can not 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 Amount.from places of contest; in all, one million seven hundred 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 Civilian employees.dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster's Department.
Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. 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; for the equipment of bake-houses to carry on post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipments for the post schools; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls; and for garden utensils and agricultural implements for post gardens, each and all for use of the enlisted men of the Army; of forage in kind, including its protection, 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 division and department orders and reports, two *Provisos*.million six hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars; *Provided*, Printing.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 775 giving notice for competition: *Provided further*, That after advertisementPurchases. all the supplies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army shall be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation considered.
Incidental expenses: For postage: cost of telegrams on officialIncidental expenses. business received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty 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 expense of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the held, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains, where military escorts can not 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, 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; purchase of medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ 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 dollars: *Provided*,Extra-duty pay. hat 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 in the Quartermaster’s Department, but no such payments shall be made at any greaterLimitation. rate per day than is fixed by law for the class of persons employed at the work done therein.
For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and forPurchase ot horses. the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this*Proviso*. appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mountedLimit. 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 laud or water; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees: of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery 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; for transportation of signal officers or parties and their equipments, instruments, stores, 776 and supplies when ordered by proper authority for military purposes only; 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; lire of teamsters and other employees; 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 Army, the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring and introduction of water at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for the disposal of sewage and drainage; for the transportation of discharged military prisoners to their places of enlistment;Compensation of certain land-grant railroads. for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court Maximum.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: *Provisos*.*Provided further*, That such compensation shall be computed upon Basis of computation. etc.
Acceptance. Compensation of certain other land-grant roads.the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid m bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also, subject to sucïi regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroad, shall only be paid out of the Basis of computation, etc.moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem Maximum rate, CO per cent.just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed sixty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and Acceptance.the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all Amount.demands for such service; in all, two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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 Amount.established posts, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand *Provisos*.dollars: *Provided*, That no expenditures exceeding five hundred dollars shall Expenditures over $500.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:
Repairs etc., Jefferson Barracks, Mo.*Provided further*, That not less than fifty thousand dollars of said sums shall be used to begin the repair and reconstruction of Civilian employees.Jefferson Barracks, Missouri: *And provided further*, That no more than one million three hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in 777 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 receiveMaximum salaries. 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 the purchase by the Secretary of War of buildings erected atPurchase of buildings at Army posts. permanent Army posts by private parties under proper authority, and which may be suitable and actually necessary for the Army service, and at prices to be fixed by the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars.
Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairsHospitals. of hospitals at military posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, except quarters for the officers, seventy-five thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of quarters for hospital stewards,Quarters for hospital' stewards, etc. including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the posts at which such*Proviso*. quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the SecretaryDesignation of posts. 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 eightLimit of cost. hundred dollars, except where a post is situated at a city of more than fifty thousand inhabitants the cost of construction of such quarters may be not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars.
For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges, repairs and expenses incidentShooting ranges, etc. thereto, five thousand 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 seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That out of the money hereby appropriated*Proviso*. for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of oneMilitary prison. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by otherContingent expenses. estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars. In lieu of the land authorized to be purchased by act approvedPurchase, etc., of land. Madison Barracks. N. Y. Vol. 25, p. 831. March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, that the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to acquire for the United States through donation, purchase, or condemnation such additional land or other land for the Military Post at Madison Barracks, New York, as he may deem necessary, the cost of the same not to exceedLimit of cost. ten thousand dollars. medical department.Medical Department.
Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medicalSupplies, etc. and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general sanitation, expenses of medical purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army and Signal Corps 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, and the supply of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas,Hot Springs, Ark. 778 advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department;Amount. in all, two hundred thousand dollars; and not over forty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall Civilian employees.be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department.
Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservationMedical Museum. of specimens and the preparation or purchase of new Library.specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General's Office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depot at Willets Point, New York: Incidental expensesIncidental expenses. of the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, extra duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods of not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draughtsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine-drivers, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, five thousand dollars.
For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops at Willets Point in their special duties of sappers, miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontoneers, torpedo drill and signaling, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repairs of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers, and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, two thousand dollars. Library of the Engineer School of Application:
Purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars. For fireproof building to replace engineer depot store house destroyedNew building, etc. by fire May tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for storing intrenching tools, bridge equipage, pontoon material, and general stores, sixteen thousand dollars. In all, twenty-seven thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.
Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance serviceCurrent expenses. 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 ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of Chief of Ordnance, eighty 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, and marksmen's medals and insignia, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in theRepair of certain ordnance, etc. hands of troops and tor issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdnance stores. of troops, one hundred thousand dollars.
For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horseEquipments. equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores onPreserving new ordnance stores. hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. 779 For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, prescribedMorning and evening gun. by General Orders Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For targets for artillery practice, five thousand dollars.Targets. For manufacture, repair, and issue of arms at the national armories,Manufacture, etc., of arms. *Proviso*. four hundred thousand 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 civilianCivilian clerks. clerks in said department. The Secretary of War shall report toSecretary of War to report on civilians employed in Departments of the Army.
Congress at the beginning of its next regular session the names of all civilian employees and the amounts paid to each during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, who are paid from appropriations for Subsistence, Quartermaster’s, Department, Medical Department, Engineers Department, and Ordnance Department of the Army. For four mountain guns, carriages, limbers, accessories, and ammunition Mountain guns, etc.therefor, sixteen thousand dollars. For the purchase of machine guns, musket caliber, of AmericanMachine guns. manufacture, twenty thousand dollars.
For two sets of officers’ quarters at Springfield Arsenal, Massachusetts,Officers’ quarters, Springfield Arsenal, Mass. twenty thousand dollars. recruiting service.Recruiting service. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits fromExpenses. rendezvous to depot, including sending of recruiting parties to small towns, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars of this amount may be used for payment of a clerk to the officer disbursing this appropriation. 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, seven thousand five hundred dollars. military telegraph lines.Military telegraph lines. For the maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, includingMaintenance, etc. rent of offices, fuel, salaries of civilian employees, lights, stoves and fixtures, supplies, and general repairs, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriations made by the two preceding*Proviso*. paragraphs shall be disbursed by a bonded officer, to be designatedDisbursements by bonded officer. from time to time by the Secretary of War. contingent expenses.Con fin gent expenses.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding-General,Commanding-General's office. one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several militaryAt headquarters of military divisions and departments. divisions and departments, being for the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, binding, maps, hooks of reference, including one copy of some standard work on military law and courts-martial for each of the one hundred and eight military posts, and police utensils, three thousand dollars, to be allottedAllotment. by the Secretary of War.
Approved, February 24, 1891.