General orders. No. 215

ADJUTANT GENERAL "S OFFIC KE,

GENERAL | WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, June 22, 1864.

No. 215.

The following Act of Congress is published for the information of
all concerned :—
Pusiic.—No, 101.

AN ACT, making appropriations for the support of the army for
the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, 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-five :

For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and eom-
pensation to citizen surgeons for medical attendance, three hundred
thousand dollars.

For purchase of books of tactics and instructions for volunteers,
fifty thousand dollars.

For contigent expenses of the Adjutant General’s department at
the headquarters of the several military departments, five thousand
dollars.

For copying official reports of the armies of the United States,
for publication, five thousand dollars.

For bounties and premiums for the entisment [enlistment] of re-
eruits, for the regular army, three hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars.

For the pay of advance bounties to volunteers and drafted men,
five million dollars.

For pay of premiums, rent of buildings and grounds, transporta-
~ tion, subsistence, lodging, commutation of fuel and quarters, straw,
postage, stationery, advertising, medicines, and medical attendance,
and all other necessary expenses incidental to the collecting, drill-
ing, and organizing volunteers, and for the necessary expenses under
the enrolment act, five million dollars.

For pay of the army, nine million nine hundred and seventy-one
thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty cents.

For commutation of officers’ subsistence, one million seven hun-
dred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dol-
lars and fifty cents,

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For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and
four thousand six hundred dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, eighty: -two
thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one
hundred:and fifty thousand dollars.

For pay of volunteers, including the bounties authorized by law,
one hundred and seventy-seven million four hundred and. sixty-two
thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five
cents: Provided, That if any officer in the regular or volunteer
forces shall employ a soldier as a servant, such officer shall not be
entitled to any pay or allowances for a servant or servants, but shall
be subject to the deduction from his pay required by the third see-
tion of the act entitled ‘‘ An act to define the pay and emoluments
of certain officers of the army, and for other purposes,’’ approved
July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: And provided,
further, That.the second section of the act entitled “* An act giving
further compensation to the captains and subalterns of the army of
the United States in certain cases,’’ allowing ten-dollars additional
per month to any officer in actual command of a company, as com-
pensation for his duties and responsibilities with respect to the cloth-
ing, arms, and accoutrements of the company, shall be construed
to apply only to company officers in actual command as aforesaid.

For subsistence in kind for regulars, volunteers, and drafted men,
ninety-one million four hundred and twenty-five thousand four hun-
dred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, con-
sisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, store-
houses, and offices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and
oxen for 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, 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 out-
posts, including bedding for the animals ; of straw for soldiers’ bed-
ding, and of stationery, including blank books for the quartermas-
ter’s department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms
for the pay and quartermaster’s departments ; and for the printing
of division’ and department orders and reports, sixty million, dollars.

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' For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster'’s department,
consisting of postage on letters and packages 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 sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and two, extra pay to soldiers employed, under the
direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of bar-
racks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals ; in the construction of
roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten
days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and _nine-
teen, and August fouth [fourth,] eighteen hundred and fifty-four,
including those employed as clerks at division and department head-
quarters ; 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 other
posts and places when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of
non-commissioned 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 ;-compensa-
tion of forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July
fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of
deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the
following expenditures required for the several regiments of cav-
alry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry
as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of traveling forges, black-
smiths’ and shoeing tools, horses 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 movements and operations of an army not expressly assigned
to any other department, thirteen million dollars.

_ For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, twenty-one mil-
liom dollars.

For mileage, or the allowances made to officers of the army for
the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling

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on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, seven hundred thou-
sand dollars.

For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the
troops when moving, either by land or water; of clothing, camp
and garrison equipage, from the depots at 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 founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier
posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages ;
for 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 transporta-
tion 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 ; and for procuring water at such posts as, from
their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for
clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and
rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual.operations
of the troops in the field, forty million dollars.

For hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty ;
hire of quarters for troops; of storehouses for the safekeeping of
military stores; of grounds for summer cantonments ; for the con-
struction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing
public buildings at established posts, five million dollars.

For heating and cooking stoves, one hundred thousand dollars.

For constructing and extending the telegraph, for military purposes,
and for expenses in operating the same, two hundred and seventy-
five thousand dollars.

For supplies, transportation, and care of prisoners of war, nine
hundred thousand dollars.

For purchasing, constructing, and maintenance of steam rams,
two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and for
expenses of offices and arsenals, fifty-eight million dollars.

For contingencies of the army, four hundred thousand dollars. -

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‘For medicines, instruments, and dressings, two million seven
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For hospital stores, bedding; and so forth, three million five hun-
dred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For hospital furniture and field- equipments, six hundred and
eighteen thousand dollars.

For books, stationery, and printing, one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars. : . 3

For ice, fruits, and other comforts, three hundred thousand dol-
lars.

For hospital clothing, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
_ For citizen nurses, two hundred and ten thousand dollars,

For care of sick soldiers in private hospitals. thirty-one thousand
two hundred dollars.

For artificial limbs for esha and seamen, forty-five thousand
dollars.

For citizen physicians, and medicines furnished by them, four
hundred and five thousand dollars,

For hire of clerks and laborers in purv sig Gnpats; seventy-five
thousand dollars.

For examining and recording meteorological observations taken
at the military posts of the United States army, seven hundred and
fifty dollars.

For army medical museum, five thousand dollars.

_ For contingent expenses of the medical department, forty-seven
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

For laboratory for testing and re-arranging medicines and hospital
supplies, five thousand dollars.

For washing and washing machines for hospitals where matrons
cannot be employed, fifteen thousand dollars.

For expenses of the commanding general's office, ten thousand
dollars.

For the secret service, one hundred thousand dollars.

For armament of fortifications, two million dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, five hundred
thousand dollars.

For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including the pur-
chase and manufacture of arms, accoutrements, and horse equip-
ments, for volunteers and regulars, twenty million dollars.

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For the manufacture of arms at the national armory, ada milion
five hundred thousand dollars.

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at the notional
armory, one hundred thousand dollars, .

For the purchase of gunpowder and lead, two million dollars.

For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new and ad-
ditions to present buildings, and machinery, tools, and fixtures, two
million dollars.

For the signal service of the army, one hundred thousand Acar:

For compensation of two clerks in the igen office, two thousand
eight hundred dollars.

Src. 2. And be it further enacted, Thatall persons of color-who
have been or may be mustered into the military-service of the United
States shall receive the same uniform, clothing, arms, equipments,
camp equipage, rations, medical and hospital attendance, pay and
emoluments, other than bounty, as other soldiers of the regular or
volunteer forces of the United States of like arm of the service, from
and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four:
and that every person of color who shall hereafter be mustered into
the service shall receive such sums in bounty as the President-shall
order in the different States and parts of the United States, not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all persons enlisted and
mustered into service as volunteers under the call, dated October
seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for three hundred thou-
_ sand volunteers, who were at the time of enlistment actually enroled
and subject to draft in the State in which they volunteered, shall re-
ceive from the United States the same amount of bounty without
regard to color.

Src. 4. And be it further enacted, That all persons of color who
were free on the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, and who have been enlisted and mustered into the, mili-
tary service of the United States, shall, from the time of their en-
listment, be entitled to receive the pay, bounty, and clothing allowed
to such persons by the laws existing at the time of their enlistment.
And the Attorney General of the United States is hereby author-
ized to determine any question of law arising under this provision.
And if the Attorney General aforesaid shall determine that any of such
enlisted persons. are entitled to receive any pay, bounty, or cloth-

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ing, in addition to what they have already received, the Secretary of
War shall make all necessary regulations to enable the pay depart-
ment to make payment in accordance with such determination.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all enlistments hereafter
made in the regular army of the United States, during the continu-
ance of the present rebellion, may be for the term of three years.

Approved June 15, 1864.

By orpDER OF THE SECRETARY OF War:
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Assistant Adjutant General,