# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 183

Chap. CLXXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army, and of the military academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations for the army. That the following sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Pay.No. 1. For the pay of the army, one million four hundred and seventy-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
Subsistence of officers.No. 2. For compensation of officers’ subsistence, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars.
Forage of officers’ horses.No. 3. For commutation of forage of officers’ horses, one hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars.
Clothing of officers’ servants.No. 4. For commutation of clothing of officers’ servants, thirty thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Clothing not drawn by troops.For commutation of clothing not drawn in kind by the troops, fifty thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Recruiting.No. 5. For expenses of recruiting, fifteen thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
Clothing, &c.No. 6. For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, three hundred and seventy-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty cents.
Subsistence.No. 7. For subsistence in kind, exclusive of that of officers, seven hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
Supplies by Quartermaster’s departm’t.No. 8. For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.
Barracks, &c.No. 9. For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials and of furniture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military ​supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military practice, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s departm’t.No. 10. For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets, expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocated, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses and of the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of temporary agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the1838, ch. 162. act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to keep the regiments of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for the service, and the erection of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Transportation of officers’ baggage.No. 11. For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Transportation of troops and supplies.No. 12. For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery, under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, two hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.
Contingencies.No. 13. For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.No. 14. For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Metereological observations.For extending and rendering more complete the meteorological observations conducted at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General, three thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.No. 15. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars.
Fortifications. Agent at foundries.No. 16. For the armament of fortifications, including compensation of a special agent to attend at the foundries employed in making cannon, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Ordnance and stores.No. 17. For ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.
Manufacture and purchase of arms.No. 18. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; of which sum, ten thousand dollars may, at the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the purchase of arms.
Springfield armory.No. 19. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars.
Harper’s Ferry armory.No. 20. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry armory, thirty thousand dollars.
Arsenals.No. 21. For arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Saltpetre and brimstone.No. 22. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars.
Drawings.For expense of drawings of a uniform system of artillery, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
No. 23. For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida, to be ​Preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida.expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, viz: for forage for the horses of the mounted volunteers and militia, and for the horses, mules, and oxen, in the service of the trains; for freight or transportation of military supplies of every description, from the places of purchase to Florida; for the purchase of wagons, harness, boats, and lighters, and other vessels; of horses, mules, and oxen, to keep up the trains; tools, leather, and other materials for repairs; transportation within Florida, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels, for service in the rivers and on the coast, and the expenses of maintaining the several steamboats and transport schooners connected with the operations of the army; hire of mechanics, laborers, mule drivers, teamsters, and other assistants, including their subsistence; and for miscellaneous and contingent charges, including arrearages, five hundred thousand dollars:Proviso. Provided, That no more than one hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-three cents shall be applied to the payment of arrearages; and no such arrearages shall be paid, unless they are for services rendered or supplies furnished in pursuance of law.
Military surveys.For military surveys for the defence of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, fifteen thousand dollars.
Arrearages and preservation of public property.For arrearages and for the preservation of the public property at the several places of harbor and river improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.
Relative to extra allowances.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments, is or are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation, in any form whatever, for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatsoever, unless the same shall be authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly set forth that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation.
Appropriations for the military academy.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the military academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, viz:
No. 1. For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, sixty thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars.
Subsistence.No. 2. For commutation of subsistence of officers and cadets, forty thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
Forage of officers’ horses.No. 3. For commutation of forage of officers’ horses, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Clothing of officers’ servants.No. 4. For commutation of clothing of officers’ servants, four hundred and twenty dollars.
Board of visiters. Current and ordinary expenses.No. 5. For defraying expenses of the board of visiters, and for the other various current and ordinary expenses of the academy, other than pay and subsistence, twenty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Library.No. 6. For increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars.
Improvements on western rivers; repairs of public works.For building and repairing the necessary boats, and for carrying on the improvements on the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers, one hundred thousand dollars, under the direction of the Secretary of War; and for the preservation and repairs of public works heretofore constructed for the improvement of harbors, thirty thousand dollars.
Approved, August 23, 1842.