Chapter 228. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 228.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.August 6, 1894. *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-five: for pay of officers of the line.Pay- For pay of officers of the line, two million seven hundred and fiftyLine officers. thousand dollars.
For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their currentLongevity. monthly pay, seven hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. for pay of enlisted men.Enlisted men. For pay proper of enlisted men of all grades, four million two hundredPay. thousand dollars. For pay of Hospital Corps, two hundred and fifteen 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 fifty thousand dollars. 234 for pay of the general staff.General staff.
Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’sAdjutant-General’s Department. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, fifty-two thousand five bundled dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars; in all, *Proviso*.Number of assistant adjutant-generals reducen.sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That there shall be no appointment of Assistant Adjutant General with the rank of major until the number of such officers in that grade shall be reduced below four and thereafter the number of such officers in that grade shall be Appointments to certain staff vacancies to be from line officers.fixed at four, and hereafter all appointments to till vacancies in the lowest grade in the Adjutant-General’s, the Inspector-General’s, the Quartermaster’s, and the Subsistence Department, respectively, shall be made from the next lowest grade in the line of the Army.
Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’sInspector-General’s Department. Department, as now authorized and provided bylaw, 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 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-six thousand one hundred dollars; in all. three hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred dollars. Pay Department: For pay of officers in Pay Department, as nowPay Department. authorized and provided by law, eighty-four thousand dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: For pay of the officers in theJudge-Advocate-General’s Department. 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 of the officers of the Signal Corps, as nowSignal Corps. authorized and provided by law, twenty-three thousand two hundred dollars;
For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, six thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and forty dollars: *Proviso*.Grade of brigadier-general to cease with present officer.Reorganization of commissioned force.Vol 26, p. 654.*Provided*, That whenever a vacancy in the grade of brigadier-general shall occur in the office of Chief Signal Officer, said vacancy shall not be filled, but said grade shall cease and determine, and thereafter the commissioned force of the Signal Corps shall consist of one colonel who shall be the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, and selected from the Corps, and one lieutenant-colonel, one major, and three captains (mounted) to be appointed from the Corps according to seniority, and three first lieutenants (mounted) to be appointed as now provided by law, who shall each receive the pay and allowances of like grades in the Army, and the officers of the Signal Corps shall retain the commissions held by them at the date of the next vacancy in the office of Chief Signal Officer, unless promoted in compliance with law.
Record and Pension Office: For pay of officer of the Record andRecord and Pension Office. Pension Office, as now authorized and provided by law, three thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officer for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with his current monthly pay, one thousand dollar; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. 235 Ordnance Department:Ordnance Department. For pay of officers in the Ordnance 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-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Quartermaster’s Department: For pay of officers in the Quarter master’sQuartermaster’s Department. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and forty-two thousand live hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars; in all. one hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred dollars.
Subsistence Department: For pay of officers in the SubsistenceSubsistence Department. Department, as now authorized and provided by law, seventy-seven 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, ninety-nine thousand three hundred dollars. Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department. as now authorized and provided by law, four hundred and eighteen 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 six thousand five hundred and thirty dollars; in all, five hundred and twenty-five thou sand two hundred and thirty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter no*Proviso*.Number of assistant surgeons reduced.*Post*, p. 403. appointments shall be made to the office of assistant surgeon until the number of assistant surgeons shall be reduced below one hundred and ten, and thereafter the number of officers in that grade in the Medical Department shall be fixed at ninety. 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 and seventy-five thousand dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one million four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Detail of retired officers to colleges not limited.*Ante*. p. 7. That nothing in the Act entitled “An Act to increase the number of officers of the Army to be detailed to colleges,” approved November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be so construed as to prevent, limit, or restrict the detail of retired officers of the Army[R.
S., sec. 1260, p. 219](/us/rs/t/s1260/p219).Vol. 21, p. 113. at institutions of learning under the provisions of section twelve hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, and the Act making appropriations for the support of the Army, and so forth, approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, nor to forbid the issue of ordnance and ordnanceOrdnance, etc.Vol. 25, p. 491.[R. S., sec. 1225, 216](/us/rs/t/s1225/216). stores, as provided in the Act approved September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section twelve hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, to the institutions at which retired officers may be so detailed; and said Act of November third, eighteen hundred and ninety three, and said Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty, shall not be construed to allow the full pay of theirPay not increased. rank to retired officers detailed under said section twelve hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, and said Act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty. retired enlisted men.
For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, threeEnlisted men. hundred and three thousand dollars. 236 miscellaneous. For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelveHospital matrons. thousand dollars; For pay of not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, thirteenVeterinary surgeons. thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars. For pay of not exceeding thirty-five paymasters’ clerks, at one thousandPaymasters’ clerks, messengers, etc. 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 thousand dollars.
For clerks and messengers at the headquarters of the Army and at theClerks and messengers at headquarters, etc. several department headquarters; at the recruiting headquarters and depots; at the Military Academy at West Point; at the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia; at the Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and at the Cavalry and Light Artillery School at Fort Riley, Kansas, not exceeding ninety clerks, atone thousand dollars each; twenty-five clerks at one thousand one hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, and forty-five messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one hundred and fifty-two thousand eight hundred dollars; and said Apportionment.Enlistment of general0service clerks, etc., repealed.Vol. 24, p. 167.clerks and messengers shall be employed and apportioned to the several headquarters and stations by the Secretary of War.
And the “Act for the enlistment and pay and to define the duties and liabilities of ‘general-service clerks’ and‘general-service messengers’ in the Army,” approved July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, is hereby repealed. For compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courts-martialCourts-martial. and courts of inquiry, five thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-five cents. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings andPublic buildings, etc., D.
C. grounds in Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars. For expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department, twoExpert accountant. 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 and sixty-five thousand dollars. For pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classification ofMilitary information from abroad. military information from abroad, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For allowance for travel, retained and detained pay, clothing notAllowances, etc, enlisted men. drawn, and for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand two hundred and nine *Proviso*.Disposition of detained pay.dollars and thirty-three cents: *Provided*, That hereafter sums known as detained pay, which have already been or may hereafter be withheld from the monthly pay of enlisted men of the Army in obedience to court-martial sentences, shall, when repaid, become a charge against the fund “pay of the Army” for the year in which said enlisted men have been or may be discharged.
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 forty thousand Allotment.dollars to be allotted by the Secretary of War to die War Department 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 *Provisos.*Maximum allowance.the remaining quarters: *Provided*, That hereafter the maximum sum to be allowed and paid to any officer of the Army 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 On subsidized roads.sleeping-car fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when any 237 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 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.
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 said Department, and the Secretary of War shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. And hereafter no portion of the appropriation for mileage to officersRestriction of mileage. traveling on duty without troops shall be expended for inspections or investigations, except such as are especially ordered by the Secretary of War, or such as are made by Army and department commanders in visiting their commands, and those made by Inspector-General’s Department in pursuance of law, army regulations or orders issued by the Secretary of War or the Commanding General of the Army; andDuty to be stated. all orders involving the payment of mileage shall state the special duty enjoined.
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 forty thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. All the money hereinbefore appropriated except the appropriationAccounting. “for mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops when authorized by law” shall be disbursed and 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 toSupplies. troops, 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 nine million eight hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and seventy-five rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized extra issue of candles; for matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; for 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 extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the subsistenceExtra-duty pay.
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 commutationCommutation of rations. in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, to enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in the department, division, and Army rifle competitions while 238 traveling to and from places of contest; for flour used for paste in targetAmount. practice; in all, one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Civilian employees.to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; and not more than one hundred thousand dollars thereof shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department; and Report.the Secretary of War shall cause to be investigated by the Inspection Department of the Army, or otherwise, and shall report to Congress at its next regular session, as to the number of civil employees of the Army, their distribution, the necessity for their employment, and Hie *Proviso*.Immediate purchases.cost attending the same: *Provided*, That one hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase and delivery in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of such subsistence supplies as may be required to be at posts at the beginning of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to remove to suchRemoval of Indian prisoners, etc.Mount Vernon Barracks, Ala. military reservation or reservations as he may select, the Indian prisoners of war now confined at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, and for the purposes of the erection of buildings, pure base of draft animals, stock, necessary farming tools, seeds, household utensils, and other articles needed for said Indians and generally for their support and civilization, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, in addition to the sums herein appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies: For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Regular 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 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, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank books, for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s Departments, and for printing division and DepartmentAmount. orders and reports, two million four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Printing.
That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such eases as the emergency will not admit Purchases.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, In open market.except that purchases may be made in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War. incidental expenses.
For postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sentIncidental expenses. by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty 239 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 Quarter master’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 no greater sum than Rewards for deserters limited.ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such service and expenses; 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, the authorized number of officers’ horses, 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 movements and operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, six hundredAmount.*Proviso*.Extra-duty pay. 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 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 horses. the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit. That the number of horses purchased 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 anti 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 240 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 constructingPayment to land-grant railroads. roads and wharves; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such laud-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Maximum.Amount.Provisos.Basis.Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grunt acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of service be paid; in all, two million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, 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 for all demands for such service:Land-grant roads, not bond aided, to resolve 50 per cent. *Provided further*, 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 charge 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 fore,going 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: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehousesBarracks and quarters. 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 *Proviso*.Civilian employees.posts, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than one million one 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, camp and garrison Salaries, etc.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.
Construction and repairs of hospitals: For construction and repairsHospitals, 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, forty-five 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 same, seven thousand dollars.
For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small arms target practice,Shooting ranges, etc. repairs, and expenses incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary 241 shall be used in the construction of a permanent rifle range at FortFort Snelling, Minn. Snelling, Minnesota. To enable the Secretary of War to purchase land for a rifle range at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.Sacketts Harbor, near Madison barracks, New York, at such sum and price as he may deem reasonable, not to exceed eight thousand five hundred dollars, eight thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million two hundred 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 andSupplies, etc. 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 ArmyHot Springs, Ark. and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; and not over forty thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees of the Medical Department.
And theCivilian employees. Secretary of War is hereby authorized, after due advertisement, to sell, under such conditions as he may prescribe, such unserviceableSale of unserviceable stores. medical and hospital stores, or other property exclusive of liquors, at the medical supply depots fit New York, Saint Louis, and San Francisco. or in the custody of the Medical Department, as the Secretary of War may deem proper, the proceeds of such sales, after deducting expenses thereof, to be paid into the United States Treasury.
For the purchase of needful material to be used in the art of teachingCookery teaching. cookery to the enlisted men in the two companies 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, eight thousand dollars; in all, thirteen 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 the purchase of materials for the instruction of engineer troopsMaterials. at Willets Point in their special duties as sappers and miners, for land and submarine mines, and pontoneers, torpedo drill, and signaling, three thousand five hundred dollars. 242 For purchase and repair of instruments to he 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 United States Engineer School: Purchase and bindingBooks. of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, live hundred dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Ordnance service,: For current expenses of the ordnance serviceCurrent expenses. required to defray the current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, one hundred thousand dollars.
For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunitionAmmunition for small arms, etc. for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, and marksmen’s medals, and insignia for all the arms of the service, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For repairing anti 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 the purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdnance stores. of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, anti artillery equipments, including horseEquipments. equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on hand atPreserving, etc., ordnance stores. 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 mechanicalTargets, etc. maneuvers, six thousand dollars. Manufacture of arms at the National armories, four hundred thousandManufacture of arms, etc.Proviso.Magazine gun. dollars: *Provided*, That 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 War: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.
Purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies maybe madeOpen-market purchases. by the Ordnance Department in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed two hundred dollars, but every such purchase shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of War. For purchase of machine guns, improved musket caliber, of AmericanMachine guns. manufacture, fifteen thousand dollars. recruiting service.Recruiting service.
For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvousExpenses. to depots and military posts, 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 243 of accepted applicants from their homes to places of enlistment, when authorized by the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars. signal service.Signal Service.
For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: purchase,Expenses. equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments, and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; maintenance andMilitary telegraph. repair of military telegraph lines (excluding the military telegraph line, Fort Ringgold, Texas, to Fort McIntosh, Texas), including salaries of 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, seventeen thousand dollars.
For constructing and operating a military telegraph line between ElTelegraph, El Paso to New Fort Bliss, Tex. Paso. Texas, and New Fort Bliss, Texas, nine hundred and sixty dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expen ses. 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, 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, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military department commanders.
For contingent expense of the military information division, AdjutantMilitary information. General’s Office, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, three thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Approved, August 6, 1894.