# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 52

Chap. LII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.
Appropriations.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 hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year, commencing on the first day of January, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four:
Pay.For pay of the army for said half calendar year, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents; and for said fiscal year, one million three hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.
Subsistence of officers.For computation of officers’ subsistence for said half calendar year, one hundred and forty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty cents;
Forage of officers’ horses.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses for said half calendar year, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-six cents; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and one thousand and thirty-five dollars.
Clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ servants.For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ servants, for said half calendar year, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars; and for said fiscal year, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence in kind for said fiscal year, four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents.
Clothing, &c.For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, for said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.
Supplies in Quartermaster’s departm’t.For regular supplies in the quartermaster’s department for said half calendar year, thirty thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
Barracks, &c.For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairs and enlargement or 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, for said half calendar year, forty-five thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and five thousand dollars.
Fort Severn.For arrearages for the completing quarters and barracks at Fort Severn, Maryland, nine thousand and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents.
Quartermaster’s departm’t.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 advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to solders under the1819, ch. 45. 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 theAct of July 5, 1838, 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, for said fiscal year, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Transportation of officers’ baggage.For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, for said fiscal year, fifty thousand dollars.
Transportation of troops and supplies.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 situations 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, for said fiscal year, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.For the current expenses of ordnance service for the said fiscal year, eighty thousand dollars.
Fortifications, &c.For armaments of fortifications, including compensation of a competent person to superintend the manufacture of cannon, for the said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.
Ordnance and stores.For ordnance and ordnance stores, for the said fiscal year, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Manufacture of arms.For manufacture of arms at national armories, for the said fiscal year, three hundred thousand dollars.
Springfield armory.For repairs, improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield armory, for the said fiscal year, twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Harper’s Ferry armory.For repairs, improvements, and new machinery, at Harper’s Ferry armory, for the said fiscal year, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Arsenals.For arsenals for the said fiscal year, ninety thousand dollars.
Saltpetre and brimstone.For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone for the said fiscal year, forty thousand dollars.
Arsenal at Charleston.For completing the principal buildings of the arsenal at Charleston, South Carolina, for the said fiscal year, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Drawings.For expenses of preparing drawings of artillery for the said fiscal year, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Surveys.For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, for the said fiscal year, including a survey of the direct communication from Albemarle Sound to the Atlantic ocean, with a view to re-open a ship channel, fifteen thousand dollars.
For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, for the said half calendar year, five thousand dollars; and for the said fiscal year, fifteen thousand dollars.
For continuation of the surveys of the Northern and Northwestern lakes of the United States for the said fiscal year, thirty thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For medical and hospital department, for said half calendar year, nine thousand five hundred dollars; and for the said fiscal year, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Metereological observations.For continuing meteorological observations at the military posts ​of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General for said fiscal year, two thousand dollars.
Improvements on the western rivers.For the continuation of improvements on the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio and Arkansas rivers, for said half year, fifty thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.
Appropriation for the military academy.Sec. 2. 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 half calendar year and for the fiscal year aforesaid.
Pay.For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, for said half calendar year, thirty thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars; and for the said fiscal year, sixty thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars:Provisoes relative to the appointment of cadets. Provided, That hereafter in all cases of appointments of cadets to the West Point Academy, the individual selected shall be an actual resident of the congressional district of the State or Territory, or District of Columbia, from which the appointment purports to be made: And provided further, That the number of cadets by appointments hereafter to be made, shall be limited to the number of the representatives and delegates in Congress, and one for the District of Columbia, and that each congressional and territorial district and District of Columbia, shall be entitled to have one cadet at said academy: Provided, That nothing in this section shall prevent the appointment of an additional number of cadets not exceeding ten to be appointed at large, without being confined to a selection by congressional districts.
Subsistence.For commutation of subsistence, for said half calendar year, nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty cents; and for the said fiscal year, forty thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
Forage of officers’ horses.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, for said half calendar year, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; and for said fiscal year, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Clothing of officers’ servants.For commutation of clothing for officers’ servants, for said half calendar year, two hundred and ten dollars, and for said fiscal year, four hundred and twenty dollars.
Current and ordinary expenses.For the various current and ordinary expenses of the academy, other than pay and subsistence, for said half calendar year, eleven thousand eight hundred and five dollars and ten cents; and for said fiscal year, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty cents:Proviso. 1846, ch. 96, § 2. Provided, That hereafter there shall not be a board of visiters appointed to visit the West Point Academy unless otherwise ordered by Congress.
Library.For increase and expenses of library, for said half calendar year, six hundred and fifty dollars; and for said fiscal year, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Barracks.For construction of barracks for cadets for said fiscal year, thirty thousand dollars.
Approved, March 1, 1843.