[PUBLIC-No. 85.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, 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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as follows: For expenses of the Commanding General's Office, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits from rendezvous to depot, one hundred and seven thousand three hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. And no money appropriated by this act shall be paid for recruiting the Army beyond the number of twenty-five thousand enlisted men, including Indian scouts and hospital-stewards; and thereafter there shall be no more than twenty-five thousand enlisted men in the Army at any one time, unless otherwise authorized by law.

For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General's Department at the headquarters of military divisions and departments, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army: Purchase, equip. ment, and repair of field electric telegraphs; signal equipments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including absolutely necessary meteorological instruments for use on target-ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of same, including the use of the Aqueduct Bridge for the suspension and permanent location thereon of the telegraph-wires forming the Signal Service lines between the office of the Chief Signal Officer and the post of Fort Myer, Virginia, five thousand five hundred dollars. And there shall not hereafter be expended out of appropriations made for the support of the Army any money for the support of the Signal Service or Corps, or for any purpose connected therewith, other than the pay of such commissioned officers as may be detailed by the Secretary of War for service therein, except such sums as may be specifically appropriated therefor.

PAY DEPARTMENT.-For pay of the Army: For one Lieutenant-General; three major-generals; fifteen brigadier generals; twenty-three aidsde-camp, in addition to pay in the line; one military secretary, in addition to pay in the line; sixty-seven colonels; eighty-nine lieutenantcolonels; two hundred and thirty-four majors; three hundred and sixteen captains (mounted); three hundred and one captains (not mounted); thirty-four chaplains; thirteen storekeepers; forty adjutants; forty regimental quartermasters; adjutant and quartermaster of Engineer Battalion, in addition to pay in the line; two hundred and thirteen first lieutenants (mounted); three hundred and fifty first lieutenants (not mounted); one hundred and forty-five second lieutenants (mounted); three hundred second lieutenants (not mounted); one hundred and sixty acting commissaries of subsistence, in addition to pay in the line; additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds in

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Washington; additional pay to officer in command of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, one thousand dollars; additional pay to officers of foot regiments while on duty which requires them to be mounted; additional pay to officers for length of service, to be paid 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 eightysix, in excess of the numbers for each class provided for in this act; enlisted men of all grades, not exceeding twenty-five thousand men; pay to enlisted men for length of service, payable with their current monthly pay; the allowances for travel, retained pay, clothing not drawn, and for interest on deposits payable to enlisted men on discharge; two retired ordnance-sergeants; for mileage of officers of the Army for travel, over shortest usually travelled routes, not to exceed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; for miscellaneous expenses, to wit: Hire of not exceeding seventy-five contract surgeons and one hundred and sixty hospital-matrons; extra-duty pay to enlisted men for service in hospitals, and for general-service clerks and messengers at Army, division, department, and district headquarters, and at the headquarters of the general recruiting service, also at recruiting depots and at West Point, New York; pay of forty-nine paymaster's clerks, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum, and fourteen veterinary surgeons; hire of paymasters' messengers, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars; eighty post quartermater-sergeants; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon courts-martial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry; for reimbursement of travelling expenses of paymasters' clerks actually paid by them; and for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without troops at places where there are no public quarters; in all, twelve million two hundred and five thousand dollars.

SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY.-For rations for twenty-five thousand enlisted men, one thousand civil employees, seventy-five contract surgeons, one hundred and sixty hospital-matrons, two hundred and seventy-five military convicts, seven hundred and fifty prisoners of war (including such Indian prisoners as are captured but whose subsistence is not otherwise appropriated for by Congress), and for additional halfrations for one hundred and twenty sergeants and corporals of ordnance, a total of not exceeding nine million nine hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred rations, estimated at twenty cents each; for difference between the cost of the ration and commutation thereof, at rates prescribed by the Secretary of War, for the following enlisted men, namely: Those detailed for clerical and messenger duty at headquarters of the Army, and at headquarters of divisions, departments, districts, and general recruiting service, and for various duties at military posts and stations, those travelling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry cooked or travel rations, and those ordered to participate in department, division, and Army rifle competition; for difference between the cost of the ration and the cost of cooked rations for enlisted men and recruits at recruiting stations; cost in excess of ordinary rations of hot coffee and canned food, or travel-rations, for troops travelling, when it is impracticable to cook rations; for subsistence of Indians visiting military posts and of Indians employed without pay as guides and scouts; in all, one million eight hundred 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-five. And not more than one hundred and five thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees in the Subsistence Department of the Army.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.-For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, and repair and maintenance of the same, for heating barracks and quarters; of ranges and stoves for cooking; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; 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, including its care and protection; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and 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, two million seven hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars.

For purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation added to the number actually on hand shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service.

For incidental expenses, to wit: For postage; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts; in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days; 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 military posts and on the frontiers, or when travelling under orders, and of noncommissioned 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 and other employees 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, six hundred and ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the appropriation for incidental expenses, or so much of the same as shall be necessary, shall be set aside for the payment of enlisted men on extra duty, at constant labor of not less than ten days; and such extra-duty pay hereafter shall be at the rate of fifty cents per

day for mechanics, artisans, school-teachers, and clerks at Army, divis ion, and department headquarters, and thirty-five cents per day for other clerks, teamsters, laborers, and other enlisted men on extra duty. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garri son 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 founderies 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 transportion of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; pay of enlisted men on extra duty driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters, and in opening roads, and building wharves; transportation of funds for the Pay and other disbursing Departments; the expenses of sailing public trans ports 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, two million nine hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the whole number of civilian employees, including agents, superintendents, mechanics, packers, teamsters, and train-masters, paid from appropriations for transportation of the Army, shall not at any one time hereafter exceed one thousand, nor shall any of said employees be graded for salary above fourth-class clerks of the Army Regulations; and the grade of sixth-class clerk in the Quartermaster's Department is hereby abolished

For the pay 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 centum of the full amount of the service be paid, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for said services.

For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, and for grounds for camp and summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations; for the construction of temporary buildings and stables and for repairing public buildings at established posts, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no expenditure exceeding five hundred dollars shall be made upon any building or military post without the approval of the Secretary of War for the same, upon detailed estimates of the Quartermaster's Department; and the erection, construction, and repairs of all buildings and other public structures in the Quartermaster's Department shall, so far as may be practicable, be made by contract, after due legal advertisement: And provided further, That not more than one million five hundred thousand dollars of the sums appropri

ated by this act shall be paid out for the services of civilian employees in the Quartermaster's Department, including those heretofore paid out of the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, Army transportation, clothing, and camp and garrison equipage; and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive as salary more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, unless the same shall be specially fixed by law.

For construction and repair of hospitals, as reported by the SurgeonGeneral of the Army, including the pay of enlisted men employed on extra duty in the same, one hundred thousand dollars.

For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army; for issue and for sales at cost-price, according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleansing when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries, one million two hundred and fifty 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 W Var, thirty thousand dollars.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.-For purchase of medical and hospital supplies, expenses of purveying depots, pay of employees, medical care and treatment of officers and enlisted men of the Army on duty at posts and stations for which no other provision is made, advertising, and other miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. And not over thirty-six thousand dollars of the money appropriated by this paragraph shall be applied to the payment of civilian employees in the Medical Department. For the Army Medical Museum, including ordinary repairs of the museum hall, preservation of specimens, and the preparation or purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars; for the, library of the Surgeon-General's Office, ten thousand dollars; in all, fifteen 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 their special duties of sappers, miners, and pontoniers, one thousand dollars.

For incidental expenses of the depot, remodeling ponton-trains, repairing instruments, purchasing fuel, forage, stationery, chemicals, professional books for library, extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed as artisans, and ordinary repairs and unforeseen expenses, three thousand dollars.

For repairing surveying and other instruments, accumulated in depot for want of means to repair, two thousand dollars.

ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.—For the current expenses of 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, tools, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small-arms, and other ordnance supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.

For manufacture of metallic ammunition for small-arms, one hundred thousand dollars.

For ammunition, tools, and material for target practice, thirty thousand dollars.