The Arkansas advocate., 1831-05-11

sand eight hundred and thirty-one.
 Be J enacted bp the Senate and HoaSe of Representations ej the Jfifed tStates of .fDe- riea n Congress assembled, That the fol- lowing sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, 10 be paid out of any nnap- propriated money in the Treasury for the service of the military establishment for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one viz:
 For pay of the Army and subsistence of the officers, one million one hundred S1 eight thousand six hundred and twelve dollars.
 For forage for officers, forty-eight thou sand six hundred and nineteen dollars.
 For clothing for the servants of officers, tWenty-tWo thousand two hundred and nine ty dollars.
 For subsistence, exclusive of that of of- fcers, in addition to an unexpended bal ance of seventy-five thousand dollars, two hundred and sixtysix thousand three hun dred dollars.
 For clothing for the Army camp equi- page, cooking utensils, and hospital fnrni- ture, in addition to materials and clothing on hand amounting to eighty-fve thousand dollars, one hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars.
 For the Medical and Hospital Depart NfSHts AtilH tAOuSdUu uOlldTS.
 For various expenses in tho Quarter masters Department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationary, blanks. repairing off cers' quarters, barracks, store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary canton ments and gun houses: for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage of let ters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of Judge advocates, members and witnesses; Tor extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labor, under he act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen for expenses Of expresses, escorts to paymas- tefs, and other contingencies of the Quar- termaster's Department, two hundred and WentY-six thousand eight hundred dol lars.
 For transportation of officers baggage, and allowance for travel, in lieu of trans portation, and for per diem allowance to of hcers on typographical duty ffty-seyen thousand dollars.
 For transportation of clothing, subsis- tenee. ordnance. and of lead from the mines. and for transportation of the Army, aud funds for pay of the Army, including ihe several contingencies ot items o' eX- penditure at the several stations and gaTsl- sons, usually estimated under the head oi transportation of the Army, ono hundred and three thousand dollars.
 Tor the completion of the barracks at Fort Winnebago, five thousand dollars, be- Ing the balance of an appropriation here sofore made for the erection of barracks at Green Bay, and not needed for that ser wee, which balance is hereby transferred and appropriated to the purpose above nam ed.
 For the payment of certain mounted volunteers of the Territory of Arkansas, #hilst in the service of the United States, III the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, the sum of five hundred and aigaty dollars and eighty-threc cents. For the payment of the claim of the siate of Missouri against the United States, TOT the services of hermilitia against the aaaians n the year one thousand eight .aadred and tweRty-nine, the sum of nine saoasand and eighfy-fve dollars and tifty- iour cents; Progiaed, That the Secretary eI sarsaaii, upon ftili investigations, ee satisfied that the United States are liable ss tue payment of the said militia, under