Chapter 423. making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 423.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes.June 13, 1890. *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 ninety-one: for pay of officers of the line.Pay.
Line officers.For pay of officers of the line, two million eight hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars. Additional.Additional pay for twenty-one aidsde-camp, and officers of foot regiments when mounted by proper authority, additional to and payable with their current monthly pay, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and six cents. Longevity.For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 423. 1890.149 for pay of enlisted men.Enlisted men. For pay proper 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.Service pay. For service pay of enlisted men by reason of length of service, in addition to their monthly pay and payable therewith, four hundred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine 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 inAdjutant-General’s Department. the 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 inInspector-General’s Department. the Inspector-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by 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 CorpsCorps of Engineers. of 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-two thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; In all. three hundred and twelve thousand two hundred and thirty 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 three hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars;
In all, one hundred and seventy-five thousand eight hundred and sixty 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-six thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand three 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 twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, one hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; 150FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 423. 1890. In all, five hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. 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:
Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; In all, one hundred and thirty-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department.Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For the pay of the officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law. twenty-seven thousand dollars; Longevity.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. retired officers.Retired list. Officers.For pay of officers on the retired list, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, nine hundred and ninety-one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay two hundred and ninety-five thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; Amount.In all, one million two hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-two cents. retired enlisted men.Enlisted men.
For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, one hundred and seven thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and four cents. miscellaneous. Contract surgeons, te.For pay and traveling expenses of not exceeding fifty contract surgeons, for pay of not exceeding one hundred and sixty hospital matrons, and not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons; in all ninety thousand dollars. Paymaster’s clerks and messengers.For pay of not exceeding thirty-eight paymasters’ clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each, not exceeding thirty paymasters’ messengers, and traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks; in all, eighty-two thousand and eighty-seven dollars and twenty cents: *Proviso*.Maximum traveling allowance.*Provided*, That the maximum sum to be allowed clerks of the Pay Department, including the expert accountant for the Inspector General’s Department herein provided for, and contract surgeons when traveling on duty shall be 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.
Courts-martial, etc.For compensation of reporters andwitnesses attending upon courts-martial and courts of inquiry, eight thousand four Hundred and seven dollars. Public buildings, Washington, D. C.For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings, and grounds, in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. Military prison.For additional pay to officer commanding military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, five hundred dollars. Military information from abroad.For the pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classification 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. 151 For pay of one expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department,Expert accountant. to be appointed 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 dollàrs. For allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, andAllowances, etc., enlisted men. for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, nine hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-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*Provisos*. 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 parlorcaR fare and transfers:
And *provided further*, That when any officer so travelingOn subsidized roads. shall travel in whole or in part on 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.
Suartermaster’s Department to officers traveling without troops shall 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 forty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine 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, 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 ten million two hundred and thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty 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 the field, and repairs thereof; for extra pay to enlisted men employedExtra-duty pay. 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 for commutation in lieu of rations to 152 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 from Amount.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 dollars Civilian employees.thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s 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 Quartermasters 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 *Provisos*.six hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That for the current fiscal year and thereafter there may be expended from the appropriat ion for regular supplies the amounts required for the Post bakeries, schools, kitchens, gardens, etc.necessary equipments of the bake-house to carry on post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper and equipments of 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:
Printing.*Provided furfher*, 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 Purchases.admit of the giving notice for competition: *Provided further*, That after advertisement 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.
Incidentalexpenses.Incidental Expenses: For postage; cost of telegrams, on official business 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 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 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 for 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 Vol. 5, p. 257.forage and wagon masters authorized by the act of July fifth, 153 eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, but no money hereby appropriated shall be used for the apprehensionLimitation as to deserters. or delivery of deserters who deserted prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-four: 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*, That two hundred and twenty-five thousand*Proviso*.Extra-duty pay. 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 payment shall be made at any greater 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 of hors. the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this*Proviso*.Limit. 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, includingTransportation. baggage of the troops, when moving either by land 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, and supplies, when ordered by proper authority, for military purposes only; freights, wharfage, tolls, and fernages; 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 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 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; for theCompensation of land-grant railroad. payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted 154 in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no ease shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of the service be paid: *Provided*, Proviso.Basis of computation.That such compensation shall be computed upon 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 tor all demands for such service; in all, two million six hundred thousand dollars.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, for offices, drill-halls, gymnasiums, and gun sheds, 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, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no *Provisos*.Expenditures over $300.expenditures 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 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;* Civilian employees.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 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 Maximum salaries.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 Alcoholic liquors, etc., in canteens, etc.men: *Provided*, That no alcoholic liquors, beer or wine, shall be sold or supplied to the enlisted men in any canteen, or post trader’s store, or in any room or building at any garrison or military post, in any State or territory in which the sale of alcoholic liquors, beer, or wine is prohibited by law.
Barracks, Fort Myer, Va.For barracks, stables, and outhouses for two additional companies of cavalry at Fort Myer, Virginia, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars. Hospitals.Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs of hospitals, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including hereafter the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, one hundred thousand dollars. Quarters for hospital stewards, etc.For construction of quarters for hospital stewards, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, twelve *Proviso*.Designation of posts.thousand 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 Limit of cost.construction of quarters at any one post shall in no case exceed eight hundred dollars, except where a post is situated at a city of more than fifty thousand inhabitants the cost of construction of such quarters mav be not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars.
Shooting ranges, etc.For shelter, shooting-galleries, ranges, repairs and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. At Fort Sheridan.At Fort McPherson.For rifle range at Fort Sheridan, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of land for target ranges at Fort McPherson, Georgia, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material. and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for 155 altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including hand instruments, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That out of the money*Proviso*. hereby appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the Military prison at Fort Leavenworth aMilitary prison. sum in excess of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for byContingent expenses. other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, seventeen thousand six hundred 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 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, advertising, and other miscellaneousHot Springs, Ark.AmountCivilian employees. expenses of the Medical Department; in all. two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; and not over forty-five thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department.
Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservation 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 Department. Engineer depot at Willets Point. New York: Incidental expensesIncidental expenses. of the depot, including fuel, chemicals, stationery, extra-duty pay to soldiers 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, repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery and unforeseen expenses, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation*Proviso*.Engineer museum.Vol. 25, p. 832. of eight thousand dollars for an engineer museum at Willets Point, in act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for one year.
For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops at Willets Point in their special duties of sappers and miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontoneers, torpedo drill and signaling, one thousand five hundred dollars, For purchase and repairs of instruments to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers, for use on public works and surveys, two thousand five hundred dollars. Library of the Engineer School of Application: Purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering, five hundred dollars.
In all, for Engineer Department, nine thousand five hundred dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service requiredCurrent expenses. 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 156 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.
Ammunition for small-arms.For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition 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. Repair of certain ordnance, etc.For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, five thousand dollars. Ordnance stores.For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred thousand dollars.
Equipments.For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred thousand dollars. Preserving certain ordnance stores.For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores oil hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. Morning and evening gun.For firing the morning and evening gun at military posts, prescribed by general orders numbered seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Targets and implements.For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, five thousand dollars. Manufacture, etc., of arms.*Provisos*.For manufacture, repair, and issue of arms at the national armories, 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 Civilian clerks.civilian clerks in said Department: *Provided further*, That hereafter the cost of the Ordnance Department of all ordnance and Arms for militia.Vol. 24, p. 401.ordnance-stores issued to the States, Territories, and District of Columbia, under the act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall be credited to the appropriation for “manufacture of arms at national armories,” and used to procure like ordnance stores, and that said appropriation shall shall be available until exhausted,, not exceeding two years. recruiting service.Recruiting service.
Expenses.For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, one hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars; To defray expenses of sending recruiting parties to small towns and rural districts, twenty-five thousand dollars; In all one hundred and thirty-eight thousand six hundred and ’ ninety-six dollars, which shall be disbursed and accounted for as expenses of recruiting, and shall constitute one fund. signal service.Signal service.
Expenses.For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: purchase, 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, ten thousand dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. Commanding-General’s office.For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding-General, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Adjutant-General’s Department.For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 423-426. 1890.157 “being for the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, stationery, binding, maps, books of reference, and police utensils, two thousand dollars. For binding reports and orders, and purchasing books of referenceInspector General’s Department. and maps for the Inspector-General’s Department, five hundred dollars.
Approved, June 13, 1890.