Chapter 59. Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven

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CHAP. 59.— An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.March 16, 1896. *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-seven: for pay of officers of the line.Pay.Line officers.

For pay of officers of the line, two million seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. For payLongevity. of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars. for pay of enlisted men. For payEnlisted men.*Proviso.*No pay to be retained. proper of enlisted men of all grades, four million two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter no pay shall be retained, but this provision shall not apply to deductions authorized on account of the Soldiers’ Home.

FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896.61 For pay of Hospital Corps, two hundred and six thousand two hundredHospital Corps. and eighty dollars. 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 fifty-one thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*Hospital stewards reduced to 100. That there shall be no appointments of hospital stewards until the number of hospital stewards shall be reduced below one hundred, and thereafter the number of such officers shall not exceed one hundred.

For clerks and messengers at the headquarters of the Army and atClerks and messengers at headquarters. the several department headquarters; at the recruiting 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 nine hundred dollars.

And said clerks and messengers shall be employed and apportionedApportionment. to the several headquarters, stations, and inspection districts by the Secretary of War. for pay of the general staff.General staff.Adjutant-General’s Department. Adjutant-General’s Department: For pay of officers in the Adjutant-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

In all, sixty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Inspector-General’s Department: For pay of officers in theInspector-General’s Department. Inspector-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, 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 ofCorps of Engineers. 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. Ordnance Department: For pay of officers in the OrdnanceOrdnance Department.

Department, as now authorized and provided by law, one hundred and twenty six thousand three hundred dollars; For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paidLongevity. with their current monthly pay, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars; In all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and ninety 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-one thousand five hundred dollars; 62FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896. ForLongevity. additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;

In all, ninety-two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Medical Department: Medical Department. For pay of officers in the Medical Department, as now authorized and provided by law, three hundred and ninety-one thousand nine hundred dollars; ForLongevity. additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars; In all, five hundred and nine thousand four hundred and seventy dollar’s.

Pay Department: Pay Department. For pay of officers in the Pay Department, as now authorized and provided by law, seventy-four thousand dollars; ForLongevity. additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars; In all, ninety-six thousand two hundred dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Department: Judge-Advocate General’s Department. For pay of officers in the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, as now authorized and provided by law, twenty-seven thousand dollars;

ForLongevity. additional pay to such officers for length of service to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight thousand one hundred dollars; In all, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars. Signal Corps: Signal Corps. For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, as now authorized and provided by law, twenty-three thousand two hundred dollars; ForLongevity. additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid 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: Record and Pension Office. For pay of officer of the Record and Pension Office, as now authorized and provided by law, three thousand five hundred dollars; ForLongevity. additional pay to such officer for length of service, to be paid with his current monthly pay, one thousand dollars; In all, tour thousand five hundred dollars. retired officers.Retired list.Officers. For pay of officers on the retired list, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the current year, one million one hundred thousand dollars;

ForLongevity. additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars; In all, one million four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. retired enlisted men. ForEnlisted men.*Proviso.*Clothing and subsistence allowance. pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, three hundred and eighty six thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents: *Provided,* That hereafter a monthly allowance of nine dollars and fifty cents be granted in lieu of the allowance for subsistence and clothing. miscellaneous.

ForHospital matrons. pay of not exceeding one hundred hospital matrons, twelve thousand dollars; ForVeterinary surgeons. pay of not exceeding fourteen veterinary surgeons, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896.63 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, sixty-nine thousand dollars.

For compensation of reporters and witnesses attending upon courts-martialCourts-martial, etc. and courts of inquiry, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty, withoutCommutation of quarters, officers. troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, two hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty-eight cents. For allowance for travel, retained and detained pay, clothing notAllowances, enlisted men. drawn, and for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge, seven hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no enlisted*Proviso.*Restriction of travel allowance.R.

S., sec. 1290, p. 223. men discharged by order of the Secretary of War for disability caused by his own misconduct shall be entitled to the travel allowances provided for in section twelve hundred and ninety of the Revised Statutes. For pay of a clerk attendant on the collection and classification ofMinistry information from abroad. military information from abroad, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department,Expert accountant. two thousand 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 dollars, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to the War Department andAllotment. 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 allowed and*Provisos.*Maximum allowance. paid to any officer of the Army shall he 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 ear or sleeping-car fare: *And provided further,* That when an officer so traveling shall travel in wholeOn bond-aided, etc., roads. 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 railroad: *And provided further,* That the transportationTransportation by Quartermaster’s Department. furnished by the 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.

For traveling expenses and commutation of quarters for civilianCivil physicians. physicians employed by the Surgeon General, five hundred dollars. Making in all, for pay and general expenses of the Army, thirteenAmount. million one hundred and three thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-three 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.Supplies.

Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops, civil employees, when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, general prisoners 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 on64FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896. the basis of nine million seven hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and thirty rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of candles; for toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations, to be issued under regulations as prescribed by the Secretary of War; of matches for lighting public tires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals; of issues to Indians visiting military posts, and to Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guidesPayments. 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 impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, three thousand cookbooks, 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’sExtra duty pay.

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, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence suppliesCommutation of rations for the Army. For 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 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 placesAmount. of contest; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

MaintenanceApache Indian prisoners.Support, etc. and support of the Apache prisoners of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and for the purpose of the erection of buildings, purchase of stock, necessary farming tools, seeds, household utensils, and other necessary articles and expenses 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, seven thousand five hundred dollars. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.Regular supplies.

Regular supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same; for heating offices, hospitals, and barracks and quarters, 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, text-books, paper, and equipment’s for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and allForage, etc. for the enlisted men, including recruits; 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 Department ordersAmount.*Provisos.*Printing. and reports, two million two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing unless the sameFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896.65 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 the branches of the army service shall hereafter be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation and the interest of the Government considered, except that purchases maybe 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: 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, and for prison overseers at posts, designated by the War Department, for the confinement of general prisoners: for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts, or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, 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; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; 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, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expresslyAmount.*Proviso.*Extra duty pay. assigned to any other department, six hundred 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 for thePurchase of horses. Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the hospital corps in Held campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one hundred and thirty 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.

Transportation of the Army and its supplies: TransportationTransportation. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either66FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896. 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 equipment’s 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-duly pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as trainmasters, 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, andPayment to land grant railroads. for constructing roads and wharves; for the 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 such land grantMaximum.

Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of the full amount of service be paid, two million four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*Rates. 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 receive 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 foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service.

Barracks and quarters: Barracks and quarters. For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe keeping 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:*Proviso.*Civilian employees. *Provided,* That no more than one million dollars of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermasters Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, campFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896.67 and garrison equipage; that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unlessSalaries. 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 repair of hospitals: For construction andHospitals. repairs 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, seventy-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 the 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, and camp and garrison equipage: Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. For cloth, woolens, materials, 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; for a suit of citizens’ outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, one million and fifty 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.Supplies, etc. Medical and hospital department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including disinfectants for general post sanitation, expenses of medical supply depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made; for the proper care and treatment of cases in the Army suffering from contagious or epidemic diseases, and the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; advertising and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical 1 department, the amount to be expended for pay of civilian employees not to exceed forty thousand dollars, oneCivilian employees. hundred and forty thousand dollars; experimental cooking, five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and forty thousand five hundred dollars.

Army Medical Museum and Library: For Army Medical Museum,Medical Museum. preservation of specimens and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, ten thousand dollars;Library. In all, fifteen thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer DepartmentIncidental expenses. Engineer Depot at Willets Point, New York: For incidental expenses of 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 the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, black-smiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine rivers, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers, repairs of and for materials to repair public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, live thousand dollars; 68FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1896. ForMaterial. the purchase of material for use of United States Engineer School and for instruction of engineer troops at Willets Point in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land and submarine mines, pontoniers, torpedo drill, and signaling, and for purchase of and for forage for one team of draft horses required in pontoon, sapping, and mining instruction, one thousand dollars; ForInstruments. purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers, for use on public works and surveys, three thousand dollars;

Library of the United States Engineer School: Library. For purchase and binding of professional works of recent date, treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars; In all, nine thousand five hundred dollars. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.Current expenses. Ordnance service: For current expenses of the ordnance service 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, tolls, 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.

ForAmmunition for small arms. manufacture of metallic ammunition for small arms and ammunition for reloading cartridges, and tools for the same, including the cost of targets and material for target practice, ammunition for burials at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, and marksmen’s medals and insignia for all arms of the service, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. ForRepair of ordnance, etc. repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, eight thousand dollars.

ForOrdnance stores. purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to till requisitions of troops, one bundled and twenty-five thousand dollars. ForEquipments. infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipment, including horse equipment’s for cavalry and artillery, two hundred thousand dollars. ForPreserving, etc., ordnance stores. overhauling, cleaning, and preserving ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, five thousand dollars. ForMorning and evening gun. firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at the NationalVolunteer Soldiers’ Home.

Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and its several Branches, including material for cartridges, bags, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars. ForArtillery targets. targets for artillery practice and implements for mechanical maneuvers, six thousand dollars. Manufacture,Manufacture of arms, etc.*Provisos.*Magazine gun. repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, four hundred thousand 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 theCivilian clerks.

Secretary of War: *Provided further,* That not more than sixty thousand dollars of the money appropriated for the Ordnance Department in all its branches shall be applied to the payment of civilian clerks in said department. signal service.Signal Service.Expenses. For the expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signalFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 59, 60. 1896.69 equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use in target ranges; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies,Military telegraph. 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.Commanding General.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Commanding General, in his discretion, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several militaryHeadquarters, departments, etc. departments, and in inspection districts, 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 expenses 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, March 16, 1896. Chapter 60: To authorize the Saint Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, and for other purposes. 29 Stat. 69 1896-03-18 Chapter 60 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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