Chapter 83. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 83.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.February 12, 1895. *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-six:

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895.655 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. For pay proper of enlisted men of all grades, four million one hundredEnlisted men. and seventy thousand dollars. For pay of Hospital Corps, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.Hospital Corps.

For service pay of enlisted men, including Hospital Corps, by reasonService pay. of length of service, in addition to their monthly pay, and payable therewith, four hundred and forty thousand dollars. And so much ofRetained pay abolished.Vol. 26, p. 157. the Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as provides that four dollars per month shall be retained from the pay of enlisted men is hereby repealed. For clerks and messengers at the Headquarters of the Army and atClerks and messengers at headquarters, etc. the several department headquarters; at the recruiting headquarters and rendezvous; 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, at one 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 sixty-one thousand tune hundred dollars; and said clerks and messengers shall be employed and apportioned to theApportionment. several headquarters and stations by the Secretary of War. for pay of the general staff.General staff.

Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’s Adjutant-General’s Department.Department, as now authorized and provided by law, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For additional pay to sued officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, sixty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Inspector-General’s Inspector-General’s Department.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, seven thousand and fifty dollars; in all, thirty thousand five hundred and fifty 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-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

Pay Department: For pay of officers in the 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-five thousand two hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and nine thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided*, That there shall be no appointment of major in the Pay*Proviso*.Majors reduced to 20. Department until the number of officers in that grade shall be reduced below twenty, and thereafter the number of such officers in that grade shall be fixed at twenty. 656FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. 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, eight thousand one hundred dollars; in all, thirty-five thou sand one hundred dollars. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department,Ordnance Department. as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars;

For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-six thousand two hundred and seventy 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 thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, forty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-two thousand six hundred and fifty 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-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred thousand seven hundred and fifty *Proviso*.Number of captains reduced to eight.dollars: *Provided*, That there shall be no appointment of commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain until the number of such officers in that grade shall be reduced below eight, and thereafter the number of such officers in that grade shall be fixed at eight.

Medical Department: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,Medical Department. as now authorized and provided by law, three hundred and eighty-eight 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 sixteen thousand four hundred and ninety dollars: in all five hundred and four thousand seven hundred and ninety 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 nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, thirty thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. 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 dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred 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 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. retired enlisted men. For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, threeUnlisted men. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895.657 miscellaneous. For pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve thousandHospital matrons, veterinary surgeons. dollars; for pay of not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, thirteen 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 compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courts-martialCourts-martial, etc. and courts of inquiry, six thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars and nine cents. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and groundsPublic buildings, etc. D. C. 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, officers. troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, one hundred and seventy-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 ninety thousand dollars. That upon the transfer and conveyance to the United States of a goodSpokane, Wash.Military post to be established. and sufficient title to not less than one thousand acres of land without cost to the United States, situated at or near the city of Spokane, in the county of Spokane, in the State of Washington, and on or near a railroad, and constituting an eligible and suitable site for an army post, if approved and accepted by the Secretary of War for that purpose, then and thereupon the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to establish and locate on said land a United States army post of such character and capacity as the Secretary of War shall direct and approve.

For mileage to officers when traveling on duty without troops, whenMileage to officers. authorized by law, not to exceed one hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to the War DepartmentAllotment. 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 hereafter the maximum sum to be*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. 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 sleeping-car fare and transfers: *And provided further*, That when any officer soOn bond-aided, etc., roads. 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, and the Secretary of War shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. 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 thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars and nine cents. 658FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. 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.

Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: ForSupplies. issue, as rations to 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 seventy-one thousand and twenty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues 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 issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts.

For payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is Army cook book.impracticable to cook their rations; for a new edition of the Manual for Army Cooks; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Extra-duty pay.Quartermaster’s Department); for extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of 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 Commutation of rations.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 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 department and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, for Hour used for paste in target practice, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary Amount.of War; in all, one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

And not more than one hundred thousand dollars thereof shall be applied Civilian employees.Exceptional supplies.to the payment of civilian employees of the Subsistence Department. And hereafter exceptional articles of subsistence stores for officers and enlisted men, which are to be paid for by them, regardless of condition upon arrival at posts, may, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, be obtained by open purchase without advertising. Maintenance and support of the Apache Indian prisoners of war,Apache Indian prisoners.Support, etc. removed from Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, to military reservations in compliance with the provisions of the Army Act, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for the purposes of the erection of buildings, purchase of draft animals, stock, necessary farming tools, seeds, household utensils, and all other necessary articles absolutely needed for their support and civilization, in addition to the sums herein appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.

Regular supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department,Regular supplies. consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same; for heating offices, hospitals, and barracks and FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895.659 quarters, including recruiting stations; of ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipments for the post schools and libraries; for the table ware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for theForage, etc. 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 Department, and for printing department orders and reports, two million three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*,Amount.

That hereafter no part of the appropriations for the (Quartermaster’s*Provisos*.Printing. Department 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: *Provided further*, That after advertisement all the suppliesPurchases. for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army and of all branches of the Army service shall, hereafter, be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality, cost of transportation, and the interests of the Government considered, except that purchases may be made in open market, in the manner common among businessIn open market. 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: Postage; cost of telegrams on official businessIncidental expenses. 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 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, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such services 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 medicines 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 hundred thousandAmount. dollars: *Provided*, That two hundred thousand dollars of the appropriation*Proviso*.Extra-duty pay. for incidental expenses, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra, duty 660FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. 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 for thePurchase of horses. 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 *Proviso*.Limit.incident thereto, eighty thousand dollars: *Provided*, 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. transportation of the army and its supplies.

Transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops whenTransportation. moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses of recruiting;” 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 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 the 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 to land-grant railroads.payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant-railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under Maximum.such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of Amount.the full amount of service be paid, two million four hundred and fifty *Provisos*.Rates.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 Land-grant roads not bond-aided to receive 50 per cent.all demands for such service: *Provided farther*, 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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895.661 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 troops, storehousesBarracks and quarters. for the safekeeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, 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 posts, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and one hundred thousand dollars of which sum shall beColumbus barracks. immediately available for improvements, barracks, officers’ quarters, and other buildings at Columbus barracks: *Provided*, That no more*Proviso*.Civilian employees. than one million 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 equipage; that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more that one hundredSalaries, etc. 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, ten thousand dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, material,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sale at cost price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million one hundred 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 Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, advertising, and other miscellaneousHot Springs, Ark. 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 civilianCivilian employees. employees of the Medical Department. 662FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895. 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, Library.five thousand dollars; for the library of the Surgeon-General’s 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 pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling, five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of instruments tube issued to officers ofInstruments. the Corps of Engineers, and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, two thousand dollars. 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. 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 and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in theRepair of ordnance, etc. hands of troops, and for issue at the arsenals and depots, ten thousand dollars.

For the purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdnance stores.Vol. 24, p. 401. of troops, and for issue to the militia under the Act of February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horseEquipments. equipments for cavalry and artillery, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on hand at thePreserving, etc., ordnance stores. 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 mechanicalArtillery targets. maneuvers, six thousand dollars. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 83. 1895.663 Manufacture of arms at the National armories, four hundred thousandManufacture of arms, etc.*Provisos*.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: *Provided further*, That not more than sixty thousand dollars of theCivilian clerks. money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said department. 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. supplies and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, eighteen thousand dollars. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General, inCommanding General. 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, Adjutant-General’sMilitary information. 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, February 12, 1895. Chapter 84: To authorize the appointment of cadets to the Naval Academy. Chapter 84 28 Stat. 663 1895-02-12 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

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