The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-08-22
support of the army for the year one
thousand eight hundred and forty.


of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby appropriated, to be paid ont OF any
in the Treasury not otherwise aP'
for the support of the army
during the year one thousand eight num-
dred and forty, viz: 49,.
For the pay of the army one million one
hundred and seventy two thousand and
twenty eight dollars;
For subsistence of officers, five hundred
and fourteen thousand four hundred and
eighty nine dollars;
For forage of officers horses, one hum
dred and fourteen thousand FIVE hundred
and seventy one dollars;
For payments in lieu Of clothing not
drawn in kind eighty thousand and thirty
dollars;
For subsistence, exclusive Of that OF
officers, five hundred and fifteen thousand
four hundred and ninety.two dollars;
For clothing Of the army, camp and
garrison equipage, cooking utensils and
hospital furniture, four hundred and twen-
ty-6ve thousand, six hundred and thirty.
five dollars and sixty-seven cents;
For the medical and hospital depart
ment, thirty.eight thousand dollars;
For the regular supplies furnished by
the Quartermaster's department, consis.
ting of Iuel, forage, straw, stationery,
and printing, two hundred and seventy
one thousand dollars;
For barracks, quarters, and storehouses,
embracing the repairs and enlargement OF
quarters, storehouses, and hos.
pitals at the several posts; the erection OF
temporary cantonments and gun-houses
for the protection Of the cannon at the
forts on the sea-board; for the purchase OF
necessary tools and materials, and Of the
furniture for the barrack rooms;
rent of quarters for officers; Of barracks
for troops where there are no public bull.
dings for their accommodation; of store
houses for the safekeeping Of subsistence,
clothing, and other military supplies, and
Of grounds for summer cantonments, en-
and military practice, one
hundred and seventy-three thousand dol
lars;
For transportation of officers baggage
when travelling on duty without troops,
sixty-fve thousand dollars;
For transportation of troops and sup
plies, viz. transportation of the Army,
including the baggage Of troops; freight
and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses,
mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats
for the purpose of transportation or for
garrison use; drayage and carriage at the
several posts; hire Of teamsters; transpor-
talion Of funds for the pay department;
expense Of transport vessels, and of pro.
curing water at such posts as from their
require il; transportation of
from the depot at Philadelphia
to the stations of the troops, of subsis-
tence from the places of purchase and de-
livery under contracts to such points as
the circumstances of the service may re-
quire; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and
arms, from the foundries and arsenals to
the fortiications and frontier posts, and
Of lead from the mines to the several ar
senals, two hundred and eighty-seven
thousand dollars;
For the incidental expenses of the
Qusrtermaster's Department, consisting of
postage on public letters and packets, ex-
penses of courts martial and courts of in.
quiry, and judges.advocate, members and
witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under act
of March second, eighteen hundred and
nineteen, expenses of expresses from the
frontier posts; of the necessary articles
for the interment of on.commissioned
officers and soldiers; hire of laborers,
compensation of clerks in the Offices of
quartermasters and assistant quartermas-
ters at posts where their duties cannot be
performed without such aid, and to tenn.
porary agents in charge of dismantled
works, and in the performance of other
duties; expenditures necessary to keep the
two regiments Of dragons complete, in
cluding the purchase Of horses, to supply
The place of those which may be lost and
become unfit for service, and the erection
of the necessary stables, one hundred
and twenty one thousand dollars;
For contingencies of the army, seven
thousand dollars;
For extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers,
and for contingent expenses of the recrui.
ting service, forty seven thousand one
hundred and sixty three dollars and twen-
ty seven cents;
For the national armories, three hun
dred and sixty thousand dollars;
For the armament Of the Notifications,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For the current expenses of the ord
nance service, one hundred thousand dol.