June 8, 1868. Army appropriation. Recruiting. Pay. Commutation of subsistence and forage. Payments in To facilitate the payment of soldiers' bounties, in accordance with provisions of acts of July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, for salaries of fifty clerks of class one, sixty thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the office of the paymaster-general for blank books, stationery, binding, and other contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for defraying the expense of hydration of the Senate chamber, three thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for stationery, ten thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for furniture and repairs, five thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for clerks to committees, pages, horses and carryalls, fifteen thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the contingent fund of the Pension Office, ten thousand dollars. APPROVED, June 8, 1868. CHAP. LII. — An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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-nine: For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, one hundred thousand dollars. For pay of the army, fifteen million dollars. For commutation of officers' subsistence, two million one hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars. For commutation of forage for officers' horses, twenty thousand dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, two hundred and lieu of clothing. fifty thousand dollars. Contingen cies. Medical, &c. department. Proviso. 1867, ch. 170. For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, two hun dred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars. For medical and hospital department, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That all sums that have accrued to the credit of the medical and hospital department from the sale of medical and hospital stores, or Vol. xiv. p. 485. from any other source, except appropriations made by act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, are hereby directed to be covered into the treasury at the close of the current fiscal year. For army medical museum, five thousand dollars. Medical museum and works. Commandinggeneral's office. Quartermasters' depart ment. For medical and other necessary works for the library of surgeongeneral's office, two thousand dollars. For expenses of commanding-general's office, five thousand dollars. For regular supplies of 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 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 quartermasters' department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters' departments, and for printing of division and deparr ment orders and reports, five million dollars. Incidental ex penses quartermasters' de partment. 1802, ch. 9, 21, 22. "Vol. ii. p. 136. 1819, ch. 45. Vol. iii. p. 488. 1854, ch. 247, Vol. x. p. 576. § 6. For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermasters' department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers 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 nineteen, and August four, 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, eighteen 1888, ch. 162, hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters and the ex- 'Vol. v. p. 257. penses 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, two million dollars. § 10. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army, for the Mileage. transportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, escort, or supplies, two hundred thousand dollars. tion. 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 founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferrages; 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 set eral posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and ther disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and ports. Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require Water. it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing Obstructions obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers to the extent which may and harbors. in roads, rivers, be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, five million dollars. Public trans Hire or com mutation of quarters, huts,. For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for the construc- &c. VOL. XV. PUB. -5 Heating and cooking stoves. Ordnance ser vice. tion of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, two million dollars. For heating and cooking stoves, twenty-five 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: No part to pay Provided, That no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any new cannon or small-arms. for new cannon or small-arms. Purchase of for For purchasing three acres of land adjoining Federal Square at land for Spring Springfield armory, three thousand dollars. field armory. Armories and arsenals. Rock Island. Watervliet. St. Louis. Benecia. Vancouver. Mount Ver non. Watertown. Allegheny. Fort Monroe. Frankford. Kennebec. New York. Pikesville. Preservation and repairs of works of defence. 1866, ch. 296. FOR REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF ARMORIES AND ARSENALS. For arsenal and armory at Rock Island, Illinois, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That eighty thousand dollars of said sum shall be devoted to the development of the water-power to carry out existing contracts. For Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, New York, twenty thousand dollars. For arsenal at St. Louis, Missouri, five thousand dollars. For Augusta arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, ten thousand dollars. For Baton Rouge arsenal, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For Benecia arsenal, Benecia, California, ten thousand dollars. For Vancouver arsenal, Vancouver, Washington Territory, five thousand dollars. For Mount Vernon arsenal, Mount Vernon, Alabama, five thousand dollars. For Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars. For Allegheny arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. For Fort Monroe arsenal, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, four thousand five hundred dollars. For Frankford arsenal, Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, eight hundred and eighty dollars. For Kennebec arsenal, Augusta, Maine, two thousand dollars. For Leavenworth arsenal, Leavenworth, Kansas, five thousand dollars. For New York arsenal, Governor's Island, New York, three thousand dollars. For Pikesville arsenal, Pikesville, Maryland, eight hundred dollars. For the preservation and necessary repairs of the fortifications and the works of defence, two hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the appropriation of sixty Appropriation thousand dollars for publishing the medical and surgical history of the for medical, &c. rebellion and the medical statistics of the provost marshal general's history of rebellion, how to be office, made in an act approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred applied. and sixty-six, thirty thousand dollars shall be devoted to the preparation and publication of five thousand copies of the medical statistics of the provost marshal general's bureau, and that the work shall be compiled and completed by assistant medical purveyor J. H. Baxter, under the immediate direction of the Secretary of War, and without the interference of any other officer. Vol. xiv. pp. 810, 311. Medical sta tistics of provost marshal general's bureau. How to be compiled. APPROVED, June 8, 1868. CHAP. LIII.- An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act for the Relief of the Inhabitants of Cities and Towns upon the public Lands," approved March two, eighteen hun dred and sixty-seven. any June 8, 1868. 1867, ch. 177. Vol. xiv. p. 541. do. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the inhabitants of Inhabitants of town located on the public land of the United States may avail themselves, enter public towns, &c. may if the town authorities elect so to do, of the provisions of the act of March lands occupied two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act for the relief of as town sites at minimum price, the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands:" Provided, &c. if authoriThis act shall not prevent the issuance of patents to persons who have ties so elect to made, or may make, entries and elect to proceed under existing laws: Patents to isAnd provided further, That no title under said act of March two, eighteen sue to those hundred and sixty-seven, shall be acquired to any valid mining claim or making entries under existing possession held under the existing laws of Congress: Provided also, That laws. in addition to the minimum price of the lands included in any town site No title given entered under the provisions of this act and "An act for the relief of the to valid mining inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands," approved March Costs of surtwo, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, there shall be paid by the parties vey, &c. to be paid. availing themselves of the provisions of said acts all costs of surveying and platting any such town site, and expenses incident thereto, incurred by the United States, before any patent shall issue therefor. APPROVED, June 8, 1868. CHAP. LIV. — An Act to extend the Time for completing the military Road authorized by an Act entitled "An Act granting Lands to the States of Michigan and Wisconsin to aid in the Construction of a military Road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Kewenaw County, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin." claim. June 8, 1868. 1863, ch. 104. Vol. xii. p. 797. road, &c. ex Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asssembled, That the time for completing Time of comthe military road, and for the sales of lands, authorized by an act entitled pleting military "An act granting lands to the States of Michigan and Wisconsin to aid tended. in the construction of a military road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Kewenaw county, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be, and the same is hereby, extended to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy. APPROVED, June 8, 1868. CHAP. LV. — An Act to further provide for giving Effect to the various Grants of public June 8, 1868. Lands to the State of Nevada. Selection of lands by Ne- vada under rail Pre-emption Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Nevada is authorized to select the alternate even-numbered sections within the limits of any railroad grant in said State, in satisfaction, in whole or in part, of the several grants made in the following acts of Congress, to wit: the act organizing the Territory of Nevada, passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; the act admitting the State of Nevada into the Union, passed March twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour; and the act concerning certain lands granted to Nevada, passed July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six: Provided, That this privilege and homestead. shall not extend to lands upon which there may be rightful claims under Land taken the pre-emption and homestead laws: And provided, That if lands be at minimum selected, the minimum price of which is two dollars and fifty cents per per acre to equal acre, each acre so selected shall be taken by the State in satisfaction of two acres at $1.25 per acre. two acres, the minimum price of which is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And provided further, That the lands granted in the eighth and Certain selecninth sections of the said act admitting Nevada into the Union shall be tions when to be selected within four years from the passage of this act, and the period for the selection of said lands is hereby so extended. price of $2.50 made. Agricultural college lands. 1862, ch. 130. Vol. xii. p. 503. 1866, ch. 209. Vol. xiv. p. 208. Land district created. Location of office. Boundaries and locations of land office may be changed. Selection of agricultural college lands by California. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands known and designated for the establishment of an agricultural college by the act of July second, cighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the acts amendatory thereto, shall be selected in the same manner and of the same character of lands as may be selected in satisfaction of any other grants referred to in the first section of this act. But this act shall not authorize the selection of lands valuable for mines of gold, silver, quicksilver, or copper. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the county of Esmeralda, in the State of Nevada, and the counties of Mono and Inyo, in the State of California, are hereby created a land district; and the land office for such district shall be located at Aurora, in Esmeralda county; and the President shall be authorized hereafter, from time to time, as circumstances may require, to adjust the boundaries of any and all of the land districts in said State, and change the location of the land office from time to time, when the same shall be expedient. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the lands granted to the State of California for the establishment of an agricultural college by the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and acts amendatory thereto, may be selected by said State from any lands within said State subject to pre-emption and sale: Provided, that this privilege shall not extend to lands upon which there may be rightful claims under the preemption and homestead laws, nor to mineral lands: And provided further, Limitation up- That if lands be selected as aforesaid, the minimum price of which is two dollars and fifty cents per acre, each acre so selected shall be taken by the State in satisfaction of two acres, the minimum price of which is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And provided further, That such selections shall be made in every other respect subject to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations contained in the acts hereby modified. APPROVED, June 8, 1868. on such selec tion. June 17, 1868. CHAP. LXI. — An Act making Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year end ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. Navy appropriation. Pay of officers and seamen. Preservation of vessels, materials, stores, repairs, &c. Bureau of yards and docks. Navy yard at Portsmouth; Boston. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine : For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers, and seamen, eight million dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For preservation of wood and iron vessels and ships in ordinary, and for those that are on the stocks; vessels for the naval academy; for purchase of material and stores of all kinds; labor in navy yards; tools, transportation of material, repair of vessels, and maintenance of the navy afloat, three million dollars. Bureau of Yards and Docks. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz. For freight and transportation; for printing, advertising, and stationery; for books, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines; for machinery of every description; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and driving teams; for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen's tools; for telegrams and postage of letters on public service; for furniture for government offices and houses; for candles, oil, and gas; for cleaning and clearing up yards; for flags, awnings, and packing boxes; for rent of landings; for tolls and ferriages; for coal and other fuel; for water tax and for rent of stores, eight hundred thousand dollars. Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For the necessary repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. Navy Yard at Boston. For repairs of buildings, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred thousand dollars. |