GENERAL ORDERS, No. 99. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 18, 1882. The following extracts of an act of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned : AN ACT making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for prior years, and for those certified as due by the accounting officers of the Treasury in accordance with section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, heretofore paid from permanent appropriations, 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 objects hereinafter stated, namely: To adjust an account for postage on official mail-matter furnished by the Post-Office Department for the use of the War Department and its bureaus, the appropriation to involve the payment of no money from the Treasury, being for the service of the year eighteen hundred and seventyeight, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty cents. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. QUARTERMASTEr's DepartmenT.-Transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, of clothing, 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 place of purchase and from the place of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of 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 re quired 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 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 for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, four hundred thousand dollars; and for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, five hundred thousand dollars. For the payment of 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: And provided further, That any such land-grant roads as shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury their written acceptance of this provision shall hereafter be paid for like services as herein provided: and all accounts of such railroads for services heretofore rendered shall be audited and paid as herein provided upon application of such roads and their acceptance of such sum in full of all claims for such services. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to twenty agents of the Quartermaster's Department, employed by Major J. J. Dana, quartermaster, United States Army, the amounts deducted from their salary during the last quarter of said fiscal year, not to exceed four thousand seven hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. For support of military prison at Fort Leavenworth : For purchase of subsistence stores for issue to prisoners, three thou sand dollars, and for repair of prison buildings, two thousand dollars, being for the service of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two. For the payment to Demott Bishop (carpenter), N. Mayer (blacksmith), Joseph Valentine (engineer), John T. Carroll (stonemason), and Charles Schmidt (quarryman) employed in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for balance of pay due for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars. For the payment of extra-duty pay to enlisted men engaged in the construction, maintenance, and repair of military telegraph lines from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, inclusive, nine thousand dollars. For amount required for payment of Montana volunteers for services in the war with the Nez Perce Indians in eighteen hundred and seventyseven, as reported by Colonel John Gibbon, of the Seventh Infantry, six thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars. For amount required to pay for supplies lost in the service of the United States in the war with the Nez Perce Indians, as reported by Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, of the Eighteenth Infantry, commanding the district of Montana, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For amount required to effect a transfer in the settlement of the accounts of Charles H. Whittelsey, deceased, late a captain in the Thirteenth United States Infantry (sixteen dollars), involving no expenditure of money, he being a creditor to the amount of sixteen dollars under the appropriation for "Magazine for storing gunpowder, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years," and a debtor to the same amount under the appropriation for "Ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years," as per certificate of the Second Comptroller numbered nine hundred and thirty-seven, July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay to two and three year volunteers who served in the war of the rebellion, which may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, up to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for bounty to volunteer soldiers who served in the war of the rebellion, and their widows and legal heirs, which may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, up to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For payment of arrears of pay to officers and soldiers of the United States Army, which may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, up to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for additional bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department up to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eighty thousand dollars. To construct a passenger-elevator in the Providence Hospital building in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, three thousand five hundred dollars. To pay John H. Morgan, as acting sergeant-at-arms of the committee of the Senate required to investigate the Cheyenne Indian raid of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twenty day's service, one hundred and twenty dollars. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, and of all persons who have become insance [insane] since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane from the District of Columbia, twenty thousand seven hundred and ninety two dollars and fifty one cents: Provided, That one fourth of the amount herein appropriated shall be paid from the revenues of said District. To pay General M. C. Meigs for expenses incurred for drawings and advertising under the provision of the sundry civil act for eighteen hundred and eighty-two relating to a new pension-office building, three hundred and six dollars and nineteen cents. WAR DEPARTMENT CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE SECOND AUDITOR AND SECOND COMPTROLLER. For pay of volunteers (Mexican war) for eighteen hundred and seventyone and prior years, two hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirtythree cents. |