Public Law 46–79

An Act

making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

PAY DEPARTMENT. For Pay of the Army: For one General, one Lieutenant-General, three major-generals, sixteen brigadier-generals, thirty-nine aids-de- camp, in addition to pay in the line, sixty-eight colonels, eighty-five lieutenant-colonels, two hundred and forty-three majors, three hundred and twelve captains, mounted, three hundred and six captains, not mounted, thirty-four chaplains, twenty-one storekeepers, forty adjutants, forty regimental quartermasters, adjutant and quartermaster of Engineer Battalion, in addition to pay in the Une, two hundred and two first lieutenants, mounted, three hundred and sixty first lieutenants, not mounted, one hundred and forty-eight second lieutenants, mounted, three hundred and five second lieutenants, not mounted; to one hundred and eighty acting assistant commissaries of subsistence, in addition to pay in Une, to officers of foot regiments while on duty which requires them to be mounted, to the officer in charge of pubUc buildings and grounds in Washington, and to the examiner of State claims in the office of the Secretary of War; additional pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, and the actual time of service in the Army or Navy, or both, shall be allowed all officers in computing their pay; pay to enlisted men for length of service, payable with their current monthly pay; retired officers; for the payment of any such officers as may be in service, either upon the active or retired list, during the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- two, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act; enlisted men of all grades, not exceeding twenty-five thousand men; five hundred enlisted men of the Signal Corps; the allowances for travel, retained pay, and clothing not drawn, payable to enlisted men on discharge; two retired ordnance- sergeants; and for interest on deposits of enlisted men, eleven million five hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and one dollars and fifty-five cents. For mileage of officers of the Army for travel on duty under orders, two hundred thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, to wit: Hire of one hundred and twenty- five contract surgeons and two hundred hospital-matrons; extra-duty FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 79. 1881. pay to enlisted men for service in hospitals; pay of fifty-four paymasters’ clerks and fourteen veterinary surgeons; hire of paymaster's’ messengers, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon military courts and commissions; travel expenses of paymasters’ clerks; and for commutation of quarters for officers on duty without troops at places where there are no public quarters, five hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents: Provided, That the allowance for commutation of quarters to the Lieutenant-General of the Army shall be one hundred dollars per month. Subsistence Department.—For subsistence of twenty-five thousand enlisted men, one hundred and twenty additional half-rations for sergeants and corporals of ordnance, enlisted men of the Signal Service, women to companies (laundresses), two thousand and sixty-five civilian employees, one hundred and twenty-five contract-surgeons, two hundred hospital-matrons, seventy-five military convicts, and five hundred prisoners of war (Indians), in all ten million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and twenty rations, at twenty cents each; for difference between cost of rations and commutation thereof for detailed men, and for enlisted men and recruits at recruiting stations, and for cost of hot coffee and cooked rations for troops traveling on cars; for manual for Army cooks; for subsistence stores for Indians visiting military posts, and indians employed without pay as scouts and guides, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which amount three hundred thousand dollars shall be available from and after the passage of this act for the purchase of stores necessary to be transported to distant posts in advance of the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one: Provided, That to the cost of all stores and other articles sold to officers and men, except tobacco, as provided for in section eleven hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, ten per centum shall be added to cover wastage, transportation, and other incidental charges, save that subsistence supplies may be sold to companies, detachments, and hospitals at cost prices, not including cost of transportation, upon the certificate of an officer commanding a company or detachment, or in charge of a hospital, that the supplies are necessary for the exclusive use of such company, detachment, or hospital: And provided further, That the cost price of each article shall be understood in all cases of sales to be the invoice price of the last lot of that article received by the officer by whom the sale is made. Quartermaster’s Department.—For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of stoves for heating and cooking; of fuel and lights for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, 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, mounted men of the signal Service, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, aud 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 of division and department orders and reports, three million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That there shall be no discrimination in the issue of forage against officers serving east of the Mississippi River, provided they are required by law to be mounted, and actually keep and own their animals. For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage and telegrams or dispatches; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s 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, including those employed as FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 79. 1881. clerks at division and department headquarters and Signal Service sergeants; 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 inaction, or who die when on duty in the field, or at posts on the frontiers, or when traveling on orders, and of noncom- missioned 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 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, securing, and delivering 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 and scouts as may be mounted, and for the trains, to wit, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicine for horses and mules, picket-ropes, and for shoeing the horses and mules; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the Army not expressly assigned to any other department, one million dollars. For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, two hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments 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 boundaries 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 seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for dray- age and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, four million one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. For the payment for Army transportation lawfully due such land- grant railroads as have not received aid in government bonds, to be adjusted by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts, but in no case shall more than fifty per cent of the full amount of the service be paid until a final judicial decision shall be had in respect of each case in dispute, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That such payment shall be accepted as in full of all demands for said services. For hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, of offices, and of grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for the construction of temporary huts and stables; and for repairing public buildings at established posts, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the Surgeon- General of the Army, seventy-five thousand dollars. FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 79. 1881. For purchase and manufacture of clothing and camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving and repacking the stock of clothing and camp and garrison equipage and materials on hand at the Philadelphia, Jeffersonville, and other depots of the Quartermaster’s Department, one million one hundred thousand dollars. For all contingent expenses of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars. Medical Department.—For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, medical care and treatment of officers and soldiers on detached duty, expenses of purveying depots, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred thousand dollars. For the Army Medical Museum, and for medical and other works for the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, ten thousand dollars. Engineer Department.—For engineer depot at Willets Point, New York, namely: For purchase of engineering materials to continue the present course of instruction of the Engineer Battalion in field engineering, one thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the depot, remodeling ponton-trains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, extra- duty pay to soldiers engaged in special skilled labor, such as wheelwright work, printing, photographing and lithographing engineer documents, and ordinary repairs, four thousand dollars. Ordnance Department.—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 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 compensation of workmen in the armory and museum building connected with the Ordnance Office, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms, eighty thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance stores on hand at the arsenals, twenty thousand dollars. For mounting and dismounting guns and removing the armament from forts being modified or repaired, including heavy carriages returned to arsenals for alteration and repairs, and other necessary expenses of the same character, and for repairing ordnance stores in the hands of troops and for issue at the arsenals and depots, and for extra-duty pay for enlisted men detailed for ordnance service, thirty thousand dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores, to fill requisitions of troops, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, consisting of clothing-bags, haversacks, canteens, and greatcoat straps, and repairing horse equipments for cavalry troops, sixty-five thousand, dollars. For powder-depot: For grading grounds, erecting magazines, and other necessary buildings, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at national armories, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That not more than fifty thousand dollars of this amount may be expended by the Secretary of War in the manufacture or purchase of magazine guns, to be selected by a board of officers to be appointed by the Secretary of War. United States Testing Machine.—For caring for, preserving, using, and operating the United States testing machine at the Water-town Arsenal, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the tests of iron and steel, and other materials, for industrial purposes shall be continued during the next fiscal year, and report thereof shall be made to Congress.

FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 79, 80. 1881.

Approved, February 24, 1881.