# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 21

Chap. XXI.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Appropriation for military service for the year 1828.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, respectively appropriated for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:
Pay, &c., of officers and the military academy.For pay to the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, one million and fifty-six thousand three hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.
For subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, of sixty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars.
For forage officers.For forage for officers, forty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For clothing for servants of officers, &c.For clothing for servants of officers of the army, and of the military academy, and twenty supernumerary second lieutenants, graduates of the military academy, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For the recruiting service.For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury on thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, of thirteen thousand six hundred dollars, twenty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service.For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand three hundred dollars, in the treasury on the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
For arrearages of the year 1827. 1827, ch. 29.For arrearages of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, being the difference between the amount appropriated by Congress for the pay and subsistence of the captains and subalterns, and that allowed by the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, thirty-eight thousand and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents.
For the purchasing department.For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, amounting to forty thousand dollars, viz: for clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-nine cents. ​For the purchase of woolens for the year 1828.For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, twenty thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Quartermaster general’s department.For the quartermaster general’s department, three hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.
Arrearages in the same.For arrearages in the quartermaster general’s department, forty-two thousand dollars.
For quartermaster general’s department, viz: barracks for two additional companies and quarters for the graduates from West Point.For quartermaster general’s department, viz: barracks for two additional companies, and quarters for the graduates from West Point, ordered to join the infantry school of practice, and to complete store-houses and hospitals, engine and hose, fire buckets, barrack quarters, defences, &c. for four companies at Prairie du Chien: to complete quarters, barrakcs, hospital and store-houses at fort St. Philip: to complete the buildings and enclose the grounds with pickets, at the establishment near Savannah: for engine and hose complete for fortress Monroe, and for fire buckets, forty-four thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-four cents.
Fuel, stationery, transportation, &c., repairs, and for improving barracks, &c.For fuel, stationery, transportation, &c.; repairs, and for improving barracks, erecting new buildings, procuring articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, and for the library and contingencies, for the military academy at West Point, excluding the items for quartermaster’s clerk, adjutant’s clerk, and quartermaster’s sergeant, thirty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Board of visiters.For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, ten thousand dollars.
National armories.For national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Ordnance department.For current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Arsenals.For arsenals, fifty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.
Arsenal at Augusta, Maine.For completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Maine, thirty thousand dollars.
To be paid from treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Secretary of War authorized and required to establish, &c., the pay of the militia, &c., called into actual service in Illinois and Michigan under act of Jan. 2, 1795, ch. 9. Appropriation.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to settle, adjust, and pay, in conformity with the provisions of the act of the second of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, regulating the pay of the militia, when called into actual service, the claims of the militia and Indians of the state of Illinois, and territory of Michigan, called out by competent authority, or received into service by any general or field officer of the United States, on the occasion of the recent Indian disturbances, and that the expenses of transportation, supplies, materials, ferriage, and work incident to the expedition, shall be settled, according to the justice of the claim, and with strict regard to the law and usage heretofore established for the settlement of such claims; and that the sum of forty thousand dollars be appropriated for the aforesaid objects, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Part of appropriation for the relief of Colonel Wm. Lawrence, &c., carried to the surplus fund, re-appropriated. 1816, ch. 23. Unexpended balances of appropriations reappropriatied.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-one cents, being part of an appropriation made by the act of fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for the relief of Lieutenant Colonel William Lawrence and others, and which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated. ​Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the unexpended balances of appropriations for the following objects be, and the same are hereby, reappropriated, to wit:
For balances due certain states, &c.For balances due certain states on account of militia in the service of the United States during the late war, sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy cents.
Road from Little Rock, &c.For a road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, five thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents.
Extinguishing the Creek title.For extinguishing the Creek title to lands in Georgia, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents.
Claims against the Osages.For claims against the Osages, by citizens of the United States, eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.
Approved, March 19, 1828.