# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/7th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 46

Chap. XLVI.—An Act making appropriations for the Military Establishment of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the several expenses of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and two, for the Indian department, for arsenals and armories, and for the erection of fortifications, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay of the army of the United States, the sum of two hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars, including therein the sum of sixty thousand dollars appropriated by an act of the present session.
For the subsistence of the army, the sum of two hundred and one thousand and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents.
For forage, three thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For clothing, sixty-six thousand six hundred and thirty dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, ten thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, two thousand dollars.
For all expenses of transportation, tents, tools, and the contingent expenses of the war department, sixty-four thousand dollars.
For the pay, subsistence, and clothing of the corps of engineers, seven thousand and ten dollars and eighty cents.
For the Indian department, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses incident to the arsenals, magazines, and armories of the United States, sixty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For erecting and completing fortifications and barracks, seventy thousand five hundred dollars.
For running certain boundary lines between the Indian and white inhabitants of the United States, and for ascertaining the lines of sundry reserved tracts of land in the Indiana and Northwestern territories, five thousand dollars.
1802, ch. 9.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for defraying all expenses which will arise in consequence of discharging the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, who are, or shall be, supernumerary by the act of the present session, intituled “An act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States,” and for carrying the said act into complete operation, the following sums be, and they hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, to be discharged, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For subsistence, eighteen thousand dollars.
For clothing, twelve thousand dollars.
For forage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the medical department, two thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, forty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For allowance to officers and soldiers who are to be discharged, thirty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, nine thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, including any unexpended balance of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, appropriated by the act approved on the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, intituled1800, ch. 62. Limitation of the compensation to be allowed to a commissioner for holding treaties with Indians, south of the Ohio. “An act to appropriate a certain sum of money to defray the expense of holding a treaty or treaties with the Indians,” be, and the same hereby is appropriated for ​defraying the expense of any treaty or treaties which may be held with the Indians south of the river Ohio: Provided, that the compensation to be allowed to any commissioner appointed, or who may be appointed, for negotiating such treaty or treaties, shall not exceed, exclusive of travelling expenses, the rate of eight dollars per day, during the actual service of such commissioner.
How the several appropriations of this act are to be paid.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the same objects respectively, and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 1, 1802.