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40 Series III Volume III- Serial 124 - Union Letters, Orders, Reports

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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-four:

For expenses of recruiting transportation of recruits, and compensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For bounties and premiums for recruits of the Regular Army, three hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars.

For bounties for recruits of the volunteer service, five million dollars.

For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, and all other necessary expenses, ten million seven hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of the Army, nine million five hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

For communication of officers" subsistence, one million six hundred and twenty thousand and forty-eight dollars.

For commutation of forage for officers" horses, one hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars.

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

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers's servants, seventy-six thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.

For pay of volunteers under acts of twenty-second and twenty- fifth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred and sixty-six million four hundred and ten thousand nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and six cents.

For subsistence and kind for regulars, volunteers, engineers, Indians, and hospital stewards, one hundred and forty million one hundred and thirty-two thousand saw hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty 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, the 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, sixty-seven million two hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars.

For the incidental expense 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, recorders, 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 clerk at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escort 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; authoritized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the Army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's Department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expense incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: The purchase of traveling forges, blacksmiths" and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps name; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movements and operations an army expressly assigned to any other department, nineteen million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.


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