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FOBTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. GH. 226. 1876. 97 CHAP. 226.-An cot making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal July 24, 1876. year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other pur- ·—·—-——-—·—- poses. [ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Appropriations and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money i—n the Treas §°'““PP°’“°fA§“7 ury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army, for the J°;m,y;§,°'f87$? mg year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven as ' fo ows: ` For expenses of the Commanding General’s Office three thousand GC°m§“”d*“S dollars. O eneral s Office. For expenses of recruiting and transportation of recruits, ninety Recruiting. . thousand dollars. And no money appropriated by this act shall be No money paid paid for recruiting the Army beyond the number of twenty ive thou- for recruiting besand enlisted men, including Indian scouts and hospital stewards. N011d 2=>»000 ¤¤<>¤· Nothing, however, in this not shall be construed to prevent enlist- P<>8i»PP·13L?04· ments for the Signal Service, which shall hereafter be maintained as Emmmmm in now organized, and as provided by law with a force of enlisted men Signal Service ,,0, not exceeding four hundred after present terms of enlistment have interfered with. expired. For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department at the Aajumut - Geneliieadquarters of military divisions and departments, three thousand MVS Departmento ars. For expenses of the signal service of the Army, purchase, equipment, Signal Service. and repair of electic field telegraphs and signal equipments, ten thousand five hundred dollars. “ ‘ PAY DnrAnrrmnr.~Fcr pay of the commissioned and non-cemmis- Pay or Amy. sioned= oillcers, privates, military storekeepers, medical storekcepers · musicians and veterinary surgeons, artiiicers, farriers, saddlers, and wagoncrs, except as hereinafter enumerated, nine million nine hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy-four dollars and nity cents. For the pay proper of three hundred privates employed as Indian Indian scouts. scouts forty six thousand eight hundred dollars. 1’ost,p. 131. MIs0ELLANEOUs:—For the pay of contract surgeons one hundred C°““`”°* °¤’· and sixty one thousand six hundred and thirty seven dollars. g°°"“‘ For the pay of fifty-two paymasters’ clerks sixty two thousand four P ¤y ¤¤¤ ¤*¤1‘¤' hundred dollars.°1°’k“* For the pay of two hundred hospital stewards seventy two thousand Hospital stew- (IOHBJS. _ ards. For the pay of two hundred hospital matrous, twenty-four thousand Hospital me dollars. trons. For one hundred and forty eight commissary sergeants, sixty thou- Commissary seisand three hundred and eightyfour dollars. 3**1*:5;****- _ t For messengers to paymasters fifteen thousand dollars. payfsjsfgfl ° ° For extra duty pay to enlisted men, thirty thousand dollars. Exhpgrduty pay, For travel-pay and commutation of subsistence to discharged soldiers, Travel-pay, em., five hundred thousand dollars. '°° “°1‘1f°’“· For retained pay to discharged men, seven hundred and three thou- R°““*°°d PW- sand eight hundred and sixty dollars. I For pay to soldiers for clothing not drawn three hundred and sixty Clothing not thousand dollars dmW¤- For additional pay to enlisted men, three hundred and fifty-six thou- Ad€**i°¤°·1 PW sand five hundred and twenty dollars. t° °“h°°°d m"' For mileage of officers of the Army when travelling under orders two Mileage. hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For postage on letters and packages received and sent by omcers of Postage, telethe Army, on public service; cost of telegrams; compensation of oiti- ¤"”““»°*°· zen witnesses attending upon courts-martial, military commissions, courts of inquiry; travelling expenses of paymasterd clerks, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriations under the head of P,m,m,_ “Pay Department" in this act shall be accounted for by disbursing XIX·——-·7