Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-09-23
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed al The Cd Session of The 9Th Congress.
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the same nre, hereby appropriated, to be paid out
of any money IN the Treasury not otherwise APP
prOpriated tor the support OF the army for the
year one thousand eight hundred and fory-two;
No. |. For the puy Of the army, one million
four hundred and seventy seven thousand seven
hundred dollars.
No. g. For Communication of officers subsist.
ence, five hundred and twenty seven thousand
Two hundred and sixty -four dollars.
No. 3. For Communication of forage OF officers
horses, one bundred and sixteen thousand nine
hundred aud seventy zone dollars.
No. d. For communication Of clothing Of Off
GERS servants, thirty thousand two hundred and
forty dollars.
For communication of clothing not drawn in kind
by the troops, fifty thousand two hundred and for
ty dollars.
No 5. For expenses o recruiting, fifteen ;ho,-
sund seven hundred and nine dollars and thirty
six cents.
No. 6. For clothing Of the army, camp nnd gnr.
rison equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital fur
niure, three hundred and seventy four thousand
eight hundred and seveniy.sx dollars aud eighty
cents.
No.. For subsistence in kind, exclusive of
that of officers, seven hundred and sixty mine
thousand six hundred and sixiy-eight dollars.
No. 8. For the regular supplies furnished by
the Quartermasters department, consisting of fI-
ell, forage, straw, stationery and printing, three
hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.
No. Q. For barracks quarters, and slorehous-
es, embracing the repairs and engagements of
barracks, quarters, storehouses and hospitals the
erection OF temporary environments aud of gun
houses for the protection Of cannon tile pur-
chase Of tools and materials and Of furniture for
the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers,
of barracks for troops, where there no public
buildings for their accommodation, of slorehouses
for the safe keeping of subsistence, clothing, aud
other military supplies, and of grounds for sum-
mer canionments and encampmen,s for military
practice, one hundred aud thirty five thousand
dollars.
No. 10. For the incidental expenses OF tbs
QuarermasteT's department, consisting of postage
on public letters and packets, expenses of courts
martial and courts of inquiry, including the addi-
tonal compensation to Judge advocates, members,
and Witnesses extra pay TO soldiers under The act
of March second eighteen hundred and nineteen;
expenses of expresses aud of the interment of
non commissioned officers and soldiers /: hire of
lahorers compensation OF clerks in the offices Of
the quarermasters and assistant qia-terna.ters at
posts where their duties cannot be performed with
out such aid, and OF iempory agents in charge of
dismaDtled works and to such wagon and forage
masters as it may he necessary to employ under
the net of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and
thiriy-eight; expenditures necessary TO keep the
regiments Of Dungeons and the four companies of
light artillery complete, including the purchase Of
horses to supply the place oil those which may be
recon of stables one hundred and twenty-seven
thousand dollars.
No. IL. For transportation OF officers baggage
when ira, eng on duty without troops, sixty five
thousand dollars.
No. IL. For transportation Of troops and sup
plies, viz. transportation of the army and baggage,
freight and ferrages, purchase or hire of horses,
mules, oxen carts, wagons, anu boats, Tor pnrpos-
es of transportation or garrison use drayage and
carriage; hire Of teamsers; transportation of
lands for the pay department; expense OF trans-
port vessels, and of procuring water at such posts
as from their situation require it transportation
OF clothing from the depot ut Philadelphia TO the
stations Of the troops of subsistence from the
plnces 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 foundres and armories, TO
the arsenas, Notifications, and frontier posts, two
hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.
No. 49, For the contingencies of the army,
nine thousand dollars.
No. H. For the medical and hospital depart
ment, twenty eight thousand dollars.
For extending and rendering more complete he
meteorological observations conduared at the mil
i,ary posts of the United States, under the drec.
ton of the Surgeon General, three thousand dol
lars.
No. Is. For the curren, expenses of the ord
nance service, one hundred thousand dollars.
No. l6. For The armament Of ortiicnlons in
GLIDING compensation of special agent 10 attend
at the foundries employed in making cannon, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
No. IL. For ordnance and ordnance stores aud
supplies, one hundred thousand dollars
No. Is. For The manufacture OF arms at the
national nrmories, three hundred ana sixty thou
sand dollars; of which sum ten thousand dollars
may, AT the discretion OF the Secretary of War, be-
applied to the purchase of arms.
No. 10. For repairs and Improvements and
new machinery al Springfield armory, twenty
thousand dollars
machinery at Harper's Ferry armory, thirty thou
sand dollars
No. 81. For arsenals, one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars.
No. %. For purchase of saltpere and brm
| stone, forty thousand dollars.
For expense OF preparing drawings Of a uni
form system of artillery, one thousand three hun
died and fifty dollars.
No. D. For preventing md suppressing hosil
| tiles in Florida, to he expended under the direc
ton of the Secretary Of War; viz: for forage fol
| the horses Of the mounted volunteers and militia
and tor the horses, mules, and oxen in the service
| of the trains for freight transportation of nil
itary supplies of every descrp from the pla
ces of purchase 10 Florida for The purchase u
wagons, harness, boats, and lighters, and othe
vessels; Of horses, mules, and oxen 10 keep nj
the trains tools, leather, and other materials 10
repair; transportation within Florida including
the hire of steamboats, and other vessels, for ser
vice in the rivers aud on the coast, and the expen
SEES Of maintaining the several steamboats, an,
transport schooners connected with the operation
Of the army hire of mechanics, laborers, mule
drivers, Transfers and other assistants, includin
their subsistence; and for miscellaneous and con
lngent charges, including arrenrages. five hundre
thousand dollars: Provided, That no more tina
! one hundred and forty six thousand two hundre
v-six thraa nj
shall he applied TO the payment of arrearage,
and no such arrearage shall he paid unless the
are for services rendered or supplies furnished
pursuance OF law.
For military surveys for tho defence of the fror
tier inland and Atlantic, fifteen thousand dollars
For arrearages and for the preservation Of th
public properly at the several places of hnrbor an
RI river Improvement, fifteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. .4nd be il further enacted, That no Office
in any branch of the public service. or any oths