Chapter 168. making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 168.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for other purposes.February 27, 1893. *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-four: for pay of officers of the line.Pay.
Line officers.For pay of officers of the line, two million seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Longevity.For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight hundred and twenty-two thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. for pay of enlisted men.Enlisted men. Pay.For pay proper of enlisted men of all grades, four million one hundred thousand dollars. And on and after the first day of July, Sergeants.Pay established.eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the pay per month of first sergeants shall be twenty-five dollars per month, sergeants eighteen dollars per month, and in both classes the increase of pay for length of service as now provided by law.
Hospital corps.Service pay.For pay of Hospital Corps, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For service pay of enlisted men by reason of length of service, in addition to their monthly pay, and payable therewith four hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. General service clerks and messengers.For general service clerks and messengers, to the number and at 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.Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars; in all sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Inspector-General’s Department.Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; 479 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 live bundled dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, seventy-seven thousand dollars; in all. three hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department,Staff officers.Ordnance Department. as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and thirty-two thousand seven hundred dollars;
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fourty-four thousand and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’sQuartermaster’s Department. Department as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and forty-two 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 dollars; in all, one hundred and ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the Subsistence 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 four hundred dollars; in all, one hundred thousand nine hundred dollars. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department. as now authorized and provided by law, four hundred and twenty-two 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 eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; in all, five hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, as nowPay Department. authorized and provided by law, eighty-six thousand live hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty-seven thousand dollars; in all one hundred and thirteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Limitation of number of majors.
That hereafter no appointments shall be made to the grade of major in the Pay Department of the Army until the number of majors in that Department is reduced below twenty-five, and thereafter the number of officers of that grade in the Pay Department shall be fixed at twenty-five: *And provided further*, That hereafter the Secretary of War is alsoPayment of enlisted men where no paymaster is on duty. authorized to arrange for the payment of the enlisted men serving at posts or places where no paymaster is on duty, by check or by currency, to be sent to them by mail or express, at the expense and risk of the United States.
Judge-Advocate General’s Department: For pay of the officers inJudge-Advocate-General’s Department. 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: For pay for the officers of the Signal Corps, as nowSignal Corps. authorized and provided by law, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars;
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand and eighty dollars: 480 Record and Pension Office.Record and Pension Office: For pay of officer of the Record an Pension Office, as now authorized and provided by law, three thousand five hundred dollars; Longevity.For additional pay to such officer for length of service, to be paid with his current monthly pay, one thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred 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, one million one hundred thousand dollars; Longevity.For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars; in all, one million four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. retired enlisted men.Enlisted men Pay.For pay of enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. miscellaneous.
Hospital matrons.For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve thousand dollars; Veterinary surgeons.For pay of not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars: in all, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. Paymasters’ clerks, messengers, etc.For pay of not exceeding thirty-five paymasters’ clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; not exceeding thirty paymasters’ messengers, and traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant of the Inspector-General’s Department, eighty-four thousand *Provisos*.Reduction in number.Maximum traveling allowance.two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter the number of paymasters’ clerks shall be reduced one for every paymaster reduced under the operations of this act: *Provided further*, That hereafter the maximum sum to be allowed paymasters’ clerks and the expert accountant of the Inspector-General’s Department, 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 the same actually paid by them, exclusive of parlor car or sleeping car fare and transfers.
Courts-martial, etc.For compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courts-martial and courts of inquiry, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. 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. Expert accountant.For expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. Commutation of quarters.For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, two hundred *Proviso*.Officers absent on field duty.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter officers temporarily absent on duty in the field shall not lose their right to quarters or commutation thereof at their permanent station while so temporarily absent.
Military information from abroad.For pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classification of military information from abroad, one thousand five hundred dollars; and hereafter 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. Allowances, etc., enlisted men.For allowance for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. 481 For additional pay to officer commanding the military prison at FortMilitary prison.
Leavenworth, Kansas, five hundred dollars. For mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops, whenMileage to officers. authorized by law, not to exceed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; to be allotted by the Secretary of War to the War DepartmentAllotment, etc.Limitation. and to the several military departments, and not more than three-fifths of said amount shall be expended during the first half of the fiscal year and not more than one-half of the remainder during each of the remaining quarters: *Provided*, That in disbursing this amount the*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. maximum sum to be allowed and paid to an officer shall be four cents per mile, distance to be computed over the shortest usually traveled routes, and in addition thereto the cost of the transportation actually paid by the officer over said route or routes, exclusive of parlor-car or sleeping-car fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when any officerOn subsidized roads. so traveling 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 the Quartermaster’sTransportation by Quartermaster’s Department.
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 said Department. For traveling expenses and commutation of quarters for civilianCivilian physicians. physicians employed by the Surgeon-General, one thousand dollars. Making in all, for pay and general expenses of the Army, thirteenAmount. million two hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents.
All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed andTo constitute one fund. accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. subsistence department.Subsistence Department. For the purchase of subsistence supplies for issue as rations to troops,Supplies. civil employees when entitled thereto, 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 seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty-five 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 issue 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, measures, weights, 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 inExtra-duty pay. 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, card, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; for the payment of the regulation allowancesCommutation of rations. for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to 482 carry rations or any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and army rifle competitions Amount.while traveling to and from places of contest; in all, one million seven hundred 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.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 offices, hospitals, and barracks and quarters; of ranges and stoves and appliances for cooking and serving food, of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for the equipments of bakehouses to carry on post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipments for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men of the Army; 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, members of the Hospital Corps, 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 Amount.*Provisos*.Printing.division and department orders and reports, two million five hundred and twenty-five 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 cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition:
Purchases.*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. incidental expenses. Incidental expenses.For postage; cost of telegrams on official 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 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 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 or 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, members of the Hospital Corps, and scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit, hire of of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicine for horses and mules, 483 pickets ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, sixAmount.*Proviso*.Extra-duty pay. hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That two hundred 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 payment shall beLimitation. 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 for IndianPurchase of horses. scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. *Provided*, That the number of horses purchased*Proviso*.Limit. under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service; and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract, after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department, and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War.
Army transportation: For transportation of the Army, 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 subsistence stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft 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 funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the, Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water and introducing same to buildings 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 constructing roads and wharves; for the paymentPayment to land-grant railroads. of army transportation lawfully due such land grant grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted 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 centumMaximum. of the full amount of service be paid; in all, two million six hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, that such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation*Provisos*.Basis. performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, that in expendingOnly 50 per cent to be paid. the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid in 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 other 484 Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States tor transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only 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 just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty 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 the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters; For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, for offices, and for the hire of buildings and 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 *Provisos*.Limit.posts, seven hundred thousand dollars; *Provided*, That hereafter no 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 Civilian employees.contract, after due legal advertisement: *And provided further*, That no more than one million two 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 Maximum salaries.camp and garrison equipage; 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 the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel and for quarters to officers or enlisted men.
Hospitals.Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs of of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, 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, fifty thousand dollars. Quarters for hospital stewards.For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Designation of posts.That hereafter the posts at which such quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary of War, and such quarters shall be built by contract, after legal advertisement, whenever the same is practicable.
Shooting ranges, etc.For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, eight thousand dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material, and for the manufacture of clothing tor the Army: for issure 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 *Proviso*.Military prison.necessaries, one million two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter out of the money hereby appropriated for clothing and equipage of the Army there shall not be expended at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth a sum in excess of one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. 485 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. medical departmentMedical Department.
Medical and Hospital Department; For the purchase of medicalSupplies, etc. and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post 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 and epidemic diseases, and the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arknansas, advertising, and otherHot Springs, Ark. miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: and not over forty thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the paymentCivilian employees.*Proviso*.R.
S., see. 3709. p. 733.Purchase of medicines, etc. of civilian employees of the Medical Department: *Provided*, That hereafter so much of section thirty-seven hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, as requires advertisment before purchase shall not apply to the purchase of medicines and medical supplies. For the purchase of needful material to be used in the art of teachingHospital corps cooking school. cookery to the enlisted men in the two compnies of the Hospital Corps, five hundred dollars.
Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum, preservationMedical Museum. of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General’sLibrary. Office, seven thousand dollars. In all, twelve thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer depot at Willets Point, New York: Incidental expenses ofIncidental expenses. the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods 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, draftsmen, 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, four thousand dollars.
For purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troops atMaterial. Willets Point in their special duties as sappers and miners, for laud and submarine mines, and pontoneers, torpedo drill, and signaling, thirty-five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of theInstruments. Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, three thousand dollars. Library of the Engineer School of Application:
Purchase and bindingBooks. of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars; In all, eleven 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 486 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 the Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars.
Ammunition for small arms, etc.For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartriges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, and marksmen’s medals, and insignia for all the arms of the service, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Repair of 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 and fifteen thousand dollars. Equipments.For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Preserving new ordnance stores.For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on 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 six hundred dollars.
Targets.For targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, six thousand dollars. Manufacture, etc., of arms.*Provisos*.Magazine rifles.No expenditure for, until test of American inventions.Board of officers to test.For manfacture of arms at the national armories, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expend for the manufacture of magazine rifles of foreign invention until such magazine rifles of American invention as may be presented for tests to the War Department within the next thirty days shall have been tested by a board of officers to be selected by the Secretary of War, which board shall report to the board of Ordnance and Fortification, Manufacture on approval.on or before July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
If the decision of said board of officers shall be in favor of any American invention and shall also receive the approval of the board of Ordnance and Fortification and the Secretary of War, then this appropriation, Manufacture of arm selected.or such part thereof as the Secretary may direct, shall be expended in the manufacture of such American arm: *Provided further*, That if no such American invention shall be recommended by said board or receive the approval of the Secretary of War this appropriation shall be applicable to the manufacture of the magazine arm recommended for trial by the board recently in session and approved by the Secretary of Civilian clerks.War: *Provided further*, 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, including sending of recruiting parties to small towns, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars for the payment of a clerk to the officer disbursing the appropriation; Also, including the actual and necessary cost of transportation of accepted applicants from their homes to places of enlistment, when authorized by the Secretary of War; in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
And hereafter, in time of peace, no recruit shall be enlisted in Qualifications of recruits.the Army for the first time who is over thirty years of age, and no private shall be reenlisted who has served ten years or more, or who is over thirty-five years of age, except such as have already served as enlisted men for twenty years or upwards. 487 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 (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, including salaries of civilian employees,Military telegraph lines. supplies and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise twenty-two thousand dollars.
For construction, maintenance, and repair of a military telegraphTelegraph, Fort Ringgold to Fort Mc. line from Fort Ringgold, Texas, to Fort McIntosh, Texas, seventeen thousand dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General, inCommanding General’s office. his discretion, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several militaryHeadquarters of military departments. departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet and desk furniture, binding, maps, books of reference and police utensils, three thousand dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War.
Approved, February 27, 1893.