GENERAL ORDERS, No. 65. HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 9, 1884. The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, 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 huudred and ten thousand dollars. 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 twentyfive 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, equipment, and repair of field-electric telegraphs; signal equipments and stores; binocular glasses, telescopes, and other necessary instruments; telephone apparatus, and maintenance of same, five thousand dollars. PAY DEPARTMENT.-For pay of the Army: For one LieutenantGeneral; three major-generals; fifteen brigadier-generals; twenty-three aids-de-camp, in addition to pay in the line; one military secretary, in addition to pay in the line; sixty-six colonels; eighty-five lieutenant-colonels; two hundred and forty-one majors; three hundred and eleven captains (mounted); three hundred and one captains (not mounted); thirty-four chaplains; fourteen storekeepers; forty adjutants; forty regimental quar to pay in the line; two hundred and eighteen 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 eighty acting commissaries of subsistence, in addition to pay in line; additional pay to officer in charge of public building and grounds in 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; 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-five, in excess of the number for each class provided for in this act; enlisted men of all grades, not exceeding twenty-five thousand men; 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; for mileage of officers of the Army for travel, over shortest usually traveled routes, not to exceed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; for mis cellaneous 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; pay of fifty 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; post-quartermaster sergeants; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army; compensation of citizen clerks and witnesses attending upon courtsmartial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry; for reimbursement of traveling 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 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter any paymaster of the rank of major who has served twenty years in the United States Army as a commissioned officer may, upon his own application or by direction of the President, be placed upon the retired-list of the Army, until the Pay Department shall be reduced to thirty-five members, as follows: One Paymaster-General, with the rank of brigadiergeneral; two assistant paymasters-general, with the rank of colonel; three deputy paymasters-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and twenty-nine paymasters, with the rank of major; and no more appoint ments of paymasters shall be made in the Pay Department until the number shall be reduced below twenty-nine majors, and thereafter the number of officers in the Pay Department shall not exceed thirty-five: Provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed to change the present relative rank of any officer now in the pay corps: And provided further, That section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, relating to the detail of officers of the Army to act as presidents, superintendents, and professors of colleges and universities, be so amended as to read "but the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed forty at any time," instead of thirty, as now provided by act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, amendatory of said section. SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY.-For rations for twenty-five thousand enlisted men, one thousand five hundred and five civil employees, seventyfive contract surgeons, one hundred and sixty hospital-matrons, two hundred military convicts, one thousand prisoners of war (including such Indian prisoners as are captured but whose subsistence is not otherwise appropriated for by Congress), and for additional half-rations for one hundred and twenty sergeants and corporals of ordnance, a total of not exceeding ten million two hundred and twenty thousand 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 traveling 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-ration, for troops traveling, 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 nine 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: Provided, That hereafter all sales of subsistence supplies to officers and enlisted men shall be made at cost price only; and the cost price of each article shall be understood, in all received by the officer making the sale prior to the first day of the month in which the sale is made. 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 for heating and 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; 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 Department, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, two million nine hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter all purchases of regular and miscellaneous supplies for the Army furnished by the Quartermaster's Department and by the Commissary Department for immediate use shall be made by the officers of such Department, under direction of the Secretary of War, at the places nearest the points where they are needed, the conditions of cost and quality being equal: Provided also, That all purchases of said supplies, except in cases of emergency, which must be at once reported to the Secretary of War for his approval, shall be made by contract after public notice of not less than ten days for small amounts for immediate use, and of not less than from thirty to sixty days whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, the circumstances of the case and condition of the service shall warrant such extension of time. The award in every case shall be made to the lowest responsible bidder for the best and most suitable article, the right being reserved to reject any and all bids. The Quartermaster-General and the Commissary General of Subsistence shall report promptly all purchases of supplies made by his Department, with their cost-price and place of delivery, to the Secretary of War, for transmission to Congress annually: Provided further, That in time of peace the number of draught and pack animals in the Quartermaster's Department of the Army shall not exceed six thousand, and that all transportation of stores by private parties for the Army shall be done by contract, after due legal advertisement, except in |