Chapter 195. making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes
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Chap. 195.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes.July 16, 1892. *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-three.
For Pay of Officers of the Line.Pay. For pay of officers of the line, two million eight hundred thousandLine officers. dollars. For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current Longevity.monthly pay, eight hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For Pay of Enlisted Men.Enlisted men. For pay proper of the enlisted men of all grades, four million onePay. hundred thousand dollars. For pay of Hospital Corps, one hundred and ninety 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, four hundred and seventy-two thousand and twenty-five dollars. For general-service clerks and messengers, to the number and at theGeneral service clerk sand messengers. rate now fixed by law, one hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars. For Pay of the General Staff.General staff. Adjutant-General’sAdjutant-Generals department. Department:
For pay of the officers in the Adjutant-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; 175 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 officers in the InspectorInspector-General’s department. 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 Corps of Engineers,Corps 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-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;
In all, three hundred and fifteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of the officers in the Ordnance Department,Ordnance Department. as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; In all, one hundred and seventy-six thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of the 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 thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred dollars. Subsistence Department: For pay of the officers in the SubsistenceSubsistence Department.
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 pay of the officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department. as now authorized and provided by law, four hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars;
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, one hundred and seven thousand six hundred and ten dollars; In all, five hundred and twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. Pay Department: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, as nowPay Department. authorized and provided by law, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, thirty thousand two hundred arid fifty dollars;
In all, one hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That no appointments shall be made to the grade of*Provisos*. major in the Pay Department of the Army until the number of majorsLimit 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 the Secretary of War is alsoPayment to enlisted men by check, etc. 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. 176 Judge-Advocate General’s Department:
For the pay of the officers inJudge-Advocate the Judge-Advocate General’s Department, as now authorizedGeneral’s Department. 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. 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, five thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; In all, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. 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 one hundred and twenty-two thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-five cents; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid withLongevity. their current monthly pay, three hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and ninety cents;
In all, one million four hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents. retired enlisted men.Enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand six hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-nine cents. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For pay for medical services at posts where there are no medical officers,Medical services, etc. fifteen thousand dollars; for pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve thousand dollars; for pay of not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars; in all. forty thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay of not exceeding thirty eight paymasters’ clerks, at one thousandPaymasters’ clerks and messengers. 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*.two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the number Reduction in number.of paymasters’ clerks shall be reduced one for every Maximum traveling allowance.paymaster reduced under the operations of this act: *Provided further*, That the maximum sum to be allowed paymaster’s 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 same actually paid by them, exclusive of parlor car or sleeping-car fare and transfers.
For compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courtsCourts-martial, etc. martial and courts of inquiry, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds,Public buildings, etc., D. C. in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department, to beExpert accountant. appointed hereafter in case of vacancy by the Secretary of War, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty withoutCommutation of quarters. troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, one hundred *Provisos*.and seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That officers temporarily Temporary service.absent on duty in the field, shall not lose their right to quarters or com mutation thereof at their permanent station while so temporarily absent: 177 *And provided further*, That the accounting officers of the Treasury areCredits for commutation while on temporary service. hereby authorized to credit disbursing officers of the Army with the amount of any such stuns as may have been charged against them on account of payment of commutation of quarters to officers temporarily absent from their permanent station.
For pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classification ofInformation from abroad. 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 allowance for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and forAllowances, etc., to enlisted men. interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
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 fifty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in disbursing this amount the maximum sum to*Provisos*. 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 or sleeping-ear fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when any officer so traveling shall travel in whole or in part on any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any of the bond-aided Pacific, railroads, he shall be allowedOn subsidized roads. 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’s DepartmentTransportation by Quartermaster’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, thirteen million two hundred and ninety-nineTotal. thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated shall be disbursed and accountedTo constitute one fund. for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. The pay of officers of the Army may be withheld under section seventeenWithholding officers’ pay. R. S., sec. 1766, p. 314. hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes on account of an indebtedness to the United States admitted or shown by the judgment of a court, but not otherwise unless upon a special order issued according to the discretion of the Secretary of War. subsistence of the army.Subsistence.
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 often million one hundred and three thousand five hundred and sixty-five 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, 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); 178 for bake ovens at posts and in the field and repairs thereof; for extra payExtra-duty 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 Commutation of rations.the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted num traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places Amount.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 dollars thereof shall be applied to Civilian employees.the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department, Ration.and hereafter no enlisted man shall be entitled to receive *Proviso*.more than one ration daily: *Provided*, That Clothing, ordnance sergeants.sergeants of ordnance shall receive the same allowance of clothing as other sergeants in like staff Departments. 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 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 sales to officers; for the equipments of bake houses to carry on post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text books, 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 Quartermasters Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, Amount.and for printing division and department orders *Provisos*.and reports, two million five hundred and seventy-five thousand Printing.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 ease as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice for competition: *Provided further*, That after advertisement all the supplies for the use of the various departments and Purchases.posts of the Army shall be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation considered: *And provided further*, That hereafter no money appropriated for the support of Post gardens and exchanges.the Army shall be expended for post gar dens or exchanges, but this proviso shall not be construed to prohibit the use by post exchanges of public buildings or public transportation when, in the opinion of the Quartermaster-General, not required for other purposes. inicdental 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 179 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 noncommissioned 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 veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicine for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movement and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That two hundred thousand dollars of the*Proviso*. appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extraExtra-duty pay. 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 rateLimitation. 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 thePurchase of horses. Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps as may be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the number of horses*Proviso*. Limit. purchased under the 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 sup plies 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; 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 the funds of the Army, the expenses of sailing public transports 180 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 payment of army transportation lawfully due such Payment to land-grant roads.land-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 Amount.than fifty per centum of the full amount of service be paid; in all, two *Provisos*.million seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That such Basis.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 for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, Adjustment of rates by Secretary of War.That in expending 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 government services, and also, subject to such 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 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 No payment to Union Pacific and Central Pacific Companies.service: *Provided further*, That no money herein appropriated shall be used in payment of the transportation of troops and supplies of the Army over any of the non-bonded lines owned by the Union Pacific Railway Company or by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, but this provision shall not withhold payment from lines leased and operated but not owned by said companies.
Barracks and quarters; For barracks and quarters for troops, storehousesBarracks and quarters. for the safe keeping 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*.posts, seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no expenditures Limit.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 Contracts.Department shall, as far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: *And provided further*, That no more than one million two hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropriated by this Civilian employees.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; that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than Maximum salaries.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.
Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairs ofHospitals. hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including 181 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. For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military postsQuarters for hospital stewards. already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
That the posts at which such quarters shall be constructed shall be designated by the Secretary of War, and such quarters shall be builtDesignation of posts. by contract, after legal advertisement, whenever the same is practicable. For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges, repairs, and expenses incidentShooting ranges,etc. thereto, eight thousand dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materialClothing. camp and garrison equipage., and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost price, according to the Army regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million two hundred 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 a sum inMilitary prison. excess of one 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. medical department.Medical Department. Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post sanitation,Supplies. 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 general hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, advertising, and otherHot Springs. miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, one hundred and seventy 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: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.
R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733. Purchase of medicines, etc. so much of section thirty-seven hundred and nine, Revised Statutes, as requires advertisement before purchase shall not apply to the purchase of medicines and medical supplies. Medical Museum and Library; For Army Medical Museum, preservationMedical Museum. of specimens, and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office,Library. 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 of sappers and miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontooneers, torpedo drill, and signaling, thirty-five hundred dollars. 182 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, two 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. The purchase of pontoon material required to complete one division of reserve and one divisionPontoon material. of advance-guard equipage, five thousand dollars. In all, fifteen thousand 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 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 the Chief of Ordnance, eighty thousand dollars.
For manufacture of metallic ammunitionAmmunition for small arms. etc. for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, and marksmen’s medals, and insignia for all the arms of the service, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in theRepair of ordnance, etc. hands of troops and for 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 horse equipmentsEquipments. for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores onPreserving new ordnance stores. hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. 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.
For targets for artillery practice and implements for Targets. maneuvers, five thousand dollars. For purchase of machine guns, improved musket caliber, of AmericanMachine guns. manufacture, twenty thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at the national armories, four hundredManufacture of arms. *Provisos*. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if the Secretary of War shall, upon New system of rifles.the report of the small arms board now in session, adopt a new rifle or system for rilles for the military service, or for trial with a view to such adoption, then this appropriation shall be available for the procurement Open market purchases.of such arms: *Provided further*, That purchases may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the purchase does not exceed two hundred dollars:Civilian clerks. *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.
For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruitsExpenses. from rendezvous to depot, including sending of recruiting parties to small towns, and not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars for payment of a clerk to the officer disbursing the appropriation, in all, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 183 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 meterological instruments for use on target ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of the same; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, including Military telegraph lines.salaries of the civilian employees, 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;
In all, twenty-two thousand dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General,Commanding-General’s office. in 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, July 16, 1892.