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Navy Department. To supply a deficiency for provisions for the marine corps for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, forty-two thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency for provisions for the marine corps for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, fifty-six thousand dollars.

Navy Depart

ment. Marine corps.

Miscellaneous.
Pensions.

Miscellaneous. To carry out the provisions of section fourteen of an act relating to pensions, approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred 1868, ch.264, §14. and sixty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.

Ante, p. 237.
Soldiers'

Boise City,

Idaho.

For collecting, preparing, and printing the proceedings at the decoration of the soldiers', graves, under resolution of June twenty-second, graves. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, two thousand dollars. For supplying deficiency in compensation of register and receiver in Land office in land office in Boise City, Idaho Territory, office rent, and purchase of furniture, six thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars. For necessary repairs and furniture for the office of the register of deeds of the District of Columbia, three hundred and fifty dollars. For a sufficient amount to pay the regular salary of the present minister resident at Portugal, and the exchange thereon, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, so long as the same was withheld from him.

Office of register of deeds in

the District of Columbia.

Pay of salary withheld from minister resident at Portugal.

Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians.

pended.

For the relief of the two bands of Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians, on the reservations at Lake Traverse and Devil's Lake, Dakota Territory, to be expended under the direction of the Reverend H. B. Whip- How to be exple in the purchase of tools, food, seeds, cattle, agricultural implements, and other articles necessary for Indians, and for the construction of houses, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That the said Whipple shall make a full, detailed, and accurate statement to the commissioner of expenditures to Indian affairs (who shall trausmit the same to Congress) of the manner in which the amount hereby appropriated has been expended.

For compensation of H. B. Whipple for his services as above, fifteen hundred dollars.

For this amount expended and to be expended for the relief of the Kaw Indians in Kansas, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Statement of

be made.

Kaw Indians.

Expenses of treaty with

For defraying the actual expenses incurred in negotiating the treaty made with the Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Weeminucke, Yampa, bands of Ute Grand River, and Uintah bands of Ute Indians, on the second of March, Indians. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and in procuring the consent of the Post, p. 619. said Indians to the Senate amendment thereto, nine thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-seven cents.

Survey of line

and of land
granted to the
Seminoles.
Vol. xiv. p. 787.
Vol. xiv. p. 756.

Creek country,

For additional appropriation required to complete survey of a line dividing the dividing the Creek country, under third and fifth article[s] of treaty with the Creek nation of Indians, concluded June fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for surveying exterior boundary of a grant of land to the Seminole nation of Indians, under the third article of the treaty with that nation, concluded March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five thousand dollars.

Branch mint

To supply a deficiency for the payment of machinery for the branch mint at Carson City, and balance of freight on the same from Philadel- at Carson City. phia to Carson City, thirty-one thousand dollars.

For fitting up machinery in said mint, and putting it in working order, eleven thousand dollars, or as much thereof as is necessary for that purpose. APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

CHAP. CXXIV. An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the March 8, 1869. Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes.

priation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Army appr States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and

Army.

Recruiting.

Pay. Commutation of subsistence

and forage.

Payments in lieu of clothing.

Subsistence.

Contingencies.
Medical, &c.

department.
Museum.

Artificial

limbs.

Medical

works.

Commandinggeneral's office. Quartermas ters' department.

Incidental ex

ment.

1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.

Vol. ii. p. 136.

1819, ch. 45.

6.

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 seventy :

For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, fifty thousand dollars.

For pay of the army, eleven million dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, twenty thousand dollars. For payment in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, two hundred thousand dollars.

For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, two hundred thousand dollars.

For subsistence in kind for regular troops and employees, four million five hundred thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.

For medical and hospital department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For army medical museum, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of artificial limbs for officers, soldiers, and sailors, forty thousand dollars.

For medical and other necessary works for the library of surgeon-general's office, two thousand dollars.

For expenses of commanding-general's office, five thousand dollars. For expenses of the signal service of the army, five thousand dollars. For regular supplies to the quartermasters' department, to wit: For the regular supplies of the quartermasters' department, consisting of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermasters' 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 inounted, 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 quartermasters' department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters' departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, five million dollars.

For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermasters' departpenses, quarter- ment, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by masters' departofficers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses while on that service, under the act of March sixteen, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermasters' department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March two, eighteen hundred and Vol. iii. p. 488. 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; expenses 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 posts and other places, when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermasters' department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the quartermasters' department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteca

1854, ch. 247, § Vol. x. p. 576.

1838, ch.162, §10. Vol. v. p. 257.

hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters and the expenses 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 travelling 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 named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of an army, not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars.

For the purchase of horses for cavalry and artillery, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Quartermasters' depart

ment.

Horses.

Mileage.

tion.

For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including baggage of the troops when Transportamoving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, from the depots of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and New York to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; and of 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 horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels, and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for ports. procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, six and one-half million and rivers. dollars.

Public trans

Water.

Obstructions, roads, harbors,

mutation of quarters, huts,

For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire Hire or comof quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, one million dollars.

&c.

Heating and cook stoves. Ordnance service.

For heating and cook stoves, fifteen thousand dollars. For 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; of public animals, forage, and vehicles; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, including those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pur- or small-arms. chase any new cannon or small-arms.

No part to pay for new cannon

Armories and

Rock Island.

For Repairs and Improvements of Armories and Arsenals. For arsenal and armory at Rock Island, Illinois, one million dollars: Pro- arsenals. vided, That one half of this amount shall be applied to the construction One half for of the bridge connecting Rock Island with the cities of Rock Island and bridge. Davenport.

For Augusta arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, one thousand dollars.

Augusta.

For erecting a brick armory and smith shop at the arsenal at Colum- Columbus. bus, Ohio, fifteen thousand dollars.

Arsenals.

Denecia.
Watertown.

Taconey

For grading and draining public grounds at said arsenal, five thousand dollars.

For Benecia arsenal, Benecia, California. five thousand dollars. For Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars.

For paving and curbing Taconey Street, opposite Frankford arsena!, Street, opposite Pennsylvania, one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty cents.

Frankford arse

nal.

Fort Monroe.

For Fort Monroe arsenal, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, one thousand dollars.

Leavenworth. For Leavenworth arsenal, Leavenworth, Kansas, five thousand dol

Pikesville.
Contingencies.

Preservation, &c. of works of

defence.

Military defences.

Exploring expedition and survey of line of 40th parallel. Provisos.

Road from Du

lars.

For Pikesville arsenal, Pikesville, Maryland, five hundred dollars.
For contingencies of arsenals, ten thousand dollars.

For the preservation and necessary repairs of the fortifications and other works of defence, two hundred thousand dollars.

For surveys for military defences, two hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to have prepared and published the report of the results of the exploring expedition and survey of the line of the fortieth parallel: Provided, That the cost of the same shall be defrayed out of existing appropriations in the War Department. And provided further, That the letter-press work shall be done at the public printing office.

For the purpose of cutting out a road from Du Luth to the Bois-fort Luth to Bois-fort Indian reservation, in Minnesota, there is hereby appropriated the sum . of ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

Indian reserva

tion.

No new commissions, &c. until infantry

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be no new commissions, no promotions, and no enlistments in any infantry regiment until regiments are re- the total number of infantry regiments is reduced to twenty-five; and duced to twenty- the Secretary of War is hereby directed to consolidate the infantry regiInfantry regi- ments as rapidly as the requirements of the public service and the reducments to be con- tion of the number of officers will permit.

five.

solidated. Number of brigadier-generais limited to eight.

Enlistments to

be for five years.

All bauds to be discharged except that at

military acade1860, ch. 299, §7.

my.

Vol. xiv. p. 333.

Chief musician to be enlisted in each regiment, -duties, pay, &c.

No new appointments and promotions in

certain depart

ments, until, &c.

See Vol. xvi.

p. 54.

Brevet rank

not to entitle to

precedence, &c. except, &c. nor

to additional pay, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no appointments of brigadiergenerals shall be made until the number is reduced to less than eight; and thereafter there shall be but eight brigadier-generals in the army.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the term of enlistment shall be five years.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That of the fifteen bands now in the service, organized under the provisions of section seven of an act entitled "An act to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixtysix, all, except the band at the military academy, shall be honorably discharged without delay, and shall receive full pay and allowance to the date of such discharge: Provided, That there shall be enlisted in each regiment a chief musician, who shall be instructor of music, with a salary of sixty dollars a month and the allowances of a quartermastersergeant.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That until otherwise directed by law there shall be no new appointments and no promotions in the adjutant-general's department, in the inspector-general's department, in the pay department, in the quartermasters' department, in the commissary department, in the ordnance department, in the engineer department, and in the medical department.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That brevet rank shall not entitle an officer to precedence or command except by special assignment of the President, but such assignment shall not entitle any officer to additional pay or allowances.

APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

CHAP. CXXV. An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Ex- March 3, 1869. penses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

Consular and

States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and diplomatic exthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury ation. penses approprinot otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy,

namely:

missioners.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of Envoys, minthe United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Aus- isters, and comtria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Ecuador, New Granada, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Uruguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. For additional salary of minister resident to the Argentine Republic, appointed Additional also to the Republic of Uruguay, at the rate of three thousand seven hun- salary of minisdred and fifty dollars a year, such salary to commence October thirteenth, the Argentine eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and to continue while acting as minister Republic and to to Uruguay.

For salaries of secretaries of legation, as follows:

ter resident to

Uruguay.

Secretaries of

At London and Paris, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dol- legation and as

lars each.

At Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Vienna, Rio Janeiro, and Mexico, eighteen hundred dollars each.

sistants.

For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, two thousand dollars each.

Interpreters.

For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars.

For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars.

For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifty thousand dol

lars.

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Beirut, three thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, per acts of February eighteenth, [twenty-eighth,] eighteen hundred and three, and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eleven, fifty thousand dollars.

For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United States from shipwreck, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of blank-books, stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including loss by exchange, and for office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, eighty thousand dollars; and there shall be allowed out of the fees of the office one thousand dollars per annum, and no more, for rent of the consul's offices at Paris.

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Rent of consul's offices at Paris.

Consuls-gen

For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred thou- eral, consuls, &c. sand dollars, namely:

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