To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for back pay that may be due them on pay rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-five cents.

To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army for back pay that may be due them on pay rolls, final accounts, and Treasury certificates, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty-five thousand and ninety-five dollars and ninety-five

cents.

To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the volunteer service, or their heirs and assigns, for arrears of pay or balances that may be certified to be due to them by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five hundred and ninety-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty cents.

To pay claims of officers and enlisted men of the volunteer service, or their heirs and assigns, for arrears of bounty that may be certified to be due them by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and fortyseven dollars and twenty-three cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence stores of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and seventy

one cents.

For pay of superintendent of building occupied by Subsistence Department at number seventeen, Madison Place, Washington City, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence stores of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for clothing of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, two hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for clothing of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy two, one thousand doilars.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, eighty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and

six cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fortyeight thousand seven hundred and eight dollars and two cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for regular supplies of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, sixty-one thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and one cent. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for regular supplies of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventeen cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and eight

cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, three thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, seventy-seven thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-eight cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents.

For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and

For payment of amount certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for stoves furnished for the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, fifteen dollars

To settle the claims of volunteers for pay while serving in the Indian war of eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in Oregon and Washington Territories, as per certificate of the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, three thousand one hundred and ten dollars.

To settle the claims of volunteers for services rendered in the Indian war of eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six in Oregon and Washington Territories, as per certificate of the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, five thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-four cents.

To settle claims certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, twelve dollars and sixty-five

cents.

For contingencies of the Army certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and sixty dollars.

For payment of amount certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for subsistence of officers of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty cents.

For payment of amount certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for medical and hospital supplies, and incidental expenses of the medical department of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-two cents.

For payment of the amount certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, for current expenses at arsenals, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, thirty-four dollars and twelve cents.

For payment of amount certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, sixty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents.

For payment of amounts certified by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to be due for the support of freedmen and refugees, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years, forty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents.

And the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars "for the construction of depot buildings, including shops, offices, and commissary and quartermaster's store-rooms at San Antonio, Texas," made by act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is hereby continued and rendered available for the purpose originally intended.

SEC. 5. That whenever it may be necessary, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers of the Government for expenditures already made in pursuance of law, to use appropriations' carried to the surplus fund under section tive of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make the necessary entries on the books of the Department to effect such settlements: Provided, That such entries shall not involve the expenditure of any moneys from the Treasury.

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SEC. 9. That the Military Academy Band shall consist of one teacher of music, who shall be leader of the band, and may be a civilian, and of forty enlisted musicians of the band.

SEC. 10. That the teacher of music shall receive ninety dollars per month, one ration, and the allowance of fuel of a second lieutenant of the Army; and that of the enlisted musicians of the band, ten shall each be paid thirty-four dollars per month; and the remaining thirty shall each be paid thirty dollars per month; and that the enlisted musicians of the band shall have the benefits as to pay, arising from re-enlistments and length of service, applicable to other enlisted men of the Army.

Approved March 3, 1875.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

OFFICIAL:

F. D. TOWNSEND,

Adjutant General.