GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 77.
Washington, July 11, 1862.

The following act of Congress is published for the information of all concerned:

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty- three, and additional appropriations for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representations of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three:

For the recruiting service of the Army, namely: For the enlistment of recruits, for quarters, fuel, stationery, straw, bunks, compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, transportation from rendezvous to depots, and all other expenses until put in march to join regiments, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

For purchase of books of tactics and instructions for volunteers, fifty thousand dollars.

For pay of the Army, eight million nine hundred and five thousand three hundred and eitheen dollars.

For commutation of officers" subsistence, one million five hundred and seventy-four thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.

for commutation of forage for officers" horses, two hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars.

For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For payments is lieu of clothing for officers" servants, seventy- one thousand six hundred and thirty dollars.

For pay of volunteers under acts of twenty-second and twenty- fifth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred and twenty-six millions two hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars: Provided, That the President shall not be authorized to appoint more than forty major- generals, nor more than two hundred brigadier-generals. And all acts and parts of acts authorizing a greater number of major and brigadier generals than are above provided for are hereby repealed.

For subsistence in kind for regulars and volunteers, seventy- eight million three hundred and eighty-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents.

For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, store-houses, and offices, 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; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers" horses when serving in the field and at the outposts, 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 the printing of division and department orders and reports, thirty-six million nine hundred and twelve thousand dollars.

For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the Army on public service; expenses of courts- martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge-advocates, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals; in the construction of roads and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; 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 cannot be furnished; expense of the interment of officers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or at other posts and places when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks of the officers of the Quartermaster's Department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, authorize by the act of July