# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 61

Chap. LXI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Appropriations for pay of army, &c.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 appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, viz:
For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million three hundred and thirty-six thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
For forage of officers, fifty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-four thousand dollars.
For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand dollars, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.
For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to material and clothing on hand, amounting to twenty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars.
For medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For arrearages in the same department during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, three thousand dollars. ​Pay of army, &c.For various expenses of the quartermaster’s department, viz: for fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, repairing officers’ quarters, barracks, store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments, and gun-houses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses; for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labour, under theAct of March 2, 1819, ch. 45. act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to quartermaster’s department, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers’ baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.
For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, two thousand dollars.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, for the military academy, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharf, and boat, at West Point, four thousand dollars.
For pay of the adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerk, nine hundred dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars.
For philosophical apparatus, eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For models of the department of engineering, six hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, nine hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-nine thousand three hundred dollars.
For arsenals, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twelve thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, sixteen thousand and forty-four dollars, including an unexpended balance of eight thousand five hundred dollars on hand.
For the purchase of accoutrements and swords, sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of cannon, fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of arms for mounted rangers, two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars.
For the purchase of arms for South Carolina, six thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the third auditor’s office, five thousand dollars.
Pay of army, &c.For arrearages of pay of certain militia of the state of Missouri called out in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of the militia of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan, ordered into the service of the United States during the last year, six hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for the same purpose.
For completing barracks, quarters, and store-houses, at fort Crawford, eight thousand dollars.
For completing barracks, quarter, and store-houses, at fort Howard, ten thousand dollars.
For completing barracks, and erecting an hospital at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For making good a deficiency of appropriation for the erection of barracks at fort Severn, Annapolis, three hundred dollars.
For the construction of a wharf at fort Preble, Portland, including the purchase of a site, three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For repairing the wharf at fort Independence, Boston, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing the wharf at fort Washington, on the Potomac, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of ground adjoining fort Trumbull, New London, four hundred dollars.
For the erection of a store-house and stable on the public lot at Pittsburgh, five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the ground at Key West, on which the barracks and quarters are erected, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For the purchase of land at fort Gratiot, one thousand six hundred dollars.
To make good a deficiency of a former appropriation for the building of a wharf at fort McHenry, ninety dollars and forty cents.
For repairing and extending the levees, securing the works at fort Jackson, Mississippi, and for improving the store rooms and magazine, four thousand dollars.
Commission to paymasters.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized, at his discretion, out of the moneys appropriated by this, or any former act, for the payment of the militia ordered into the service of the United States, according to law during the last year, to allow and pay to the district paymasters of the army of the United States in making such payments, a commission on the sums respectively paid by them, not exceeding one per centum upon the amounts.
Approved, March 2, 1833.