Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06

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which may be lost and become unfit for ser
vice: shoeing horses and the apprehension
of deserters; and the expenses incidental to
their pursuit, one hundred and fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For repairing and enlarging barracks, quar-
tiers, store-houses, and hospitals at the several
posts; for erecting temporary environments at
such posts as may be occupied during the year,
and gun-houses for the protection of the can
non at the several posts and military works,
including the necessary tools and materials
for the objects enumerated, and for the author
lied furniture Of the barrack-rooms of nom
commissioned officers and soldiers building
and repairing stables for dragons and light
artillery; for rent of quarters for officers, bar
racks for troops at posts where there are no
public buildings for their accommodation, and
OF store-houses for the safe-keeping Of subsis-
tence, clothing, &C., ard of grounds for sum-
mer environments and encampments for mill
tary purposes, one hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars.
For transportation of officers' baggage, when
travelling on duty without troops, fifty thou
sand dollars.
For transportation Of troops. and supplies Of
the army, including the baggage of troops
when moving either by land or water; freights
and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses,
mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the
transportation of supplies, and for garrison
purposes drayage and carriage at the several
posts hire Of teamsters; transportation of
funds for the Pay Department; the expense
of sailing public transports between the posts
on the Gulf Mexico, and Of procuring water at
such posts as from their situation require it;
Of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to
the stations OF the troops; of subsistence from
the places of purchase and from the places of
delivery, under contracts, to such places as
the circumstances of the service may require
it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores.
and small arms, from the foundries and armo-
ries to the arsenals, Notifications, and frontier
posts, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, six thousand
dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance
stores and supplies, one hundred thousand
dollars.
For current expenses of the ordnance SER
vice. one hundred thousand dollars.
For manufacture of arms at the national ar
mories, three hundred thousand dollars.
For repairs and Improvements, and new ma
chinery, at Springfield armory, one hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars.
And the sum of five thousand dollars, out
of the appropriation made for the said objects
by the act approved March third, eighteen
hundred and fory-fve, is declared 10 have
been intended for the purchase of the lots ad-
Joining the armory ground, as expressed in
| the estimates, to which purpose it has been
applied. And Of the sum allowed by the said
act to be applied to repairs at the national ar
mories such amount as in the judgment OF the
Secretary Of War may be necessary, not ex-
ceeding fifteen thousand dollars, may be APP
piled to the purchase of land from individuals
and from the town of Springfield. Massachu-
sets, and the assent of Congress is hereby
g iven to such purchase.
| For repairs and Improvements and new ma
chinery at Harper's Ferry armory, one hun
dred and twen;y-eight thousand three hundred
and sixty dollars.
For arsenals, one hundred and sixty-eight
thousand five hundred and ninety dol
lars. of which twelve thousand five hundred
dollars are authorized to be applied to the pur-
chase of site and building magazine for
| Washington arsenal.
For purchase of saltpetre and birthstone,
forty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of gunpowder, one hun
bred thousand dollars.
For expenses of preparing drawings Of a
uniform system of artillery, one thousand dol
lars.
For expenses of the mineral land service,
including those incurred since the first Janua-
sand dollars.
For surveys in reference to the military de-
fences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic,
twenty thousand dollars.
For military and geographical surveys west
of the Mississippi, thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the surveys of the northern
| and northwestern lakes, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
| following sums be, and the same are hereby,
| appropriated, to meet the expenditures which
may be incurred under the acts passed during
the present session to authorize an increase
Of the rank and file of the army, and to pro-
vide for raising a regiment of mounted nfle-
men," viz:
For pay, eight hundred and fourteen thou
sand i've hundred and twelve dollars.
For communication of officers subsistence,
twelve thousand seven hundred and seventy
five dollars.
For communication of forage for officers hor-
SEES, eight thousand one hundred and sixty
dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing to officers
servants, one thousand one hundred and ten
| dollars.
For subsistence in kind, four hundred and
eighty-seven thousand four hundred and forty
two dollars.
For expenses of recruiting, seventy -nne
thousand six hundred dollars.
For clothing, camp, garrison, and horse e.
quipage. two hundred and eighty-four thou
sand one hundred and seventy-hve dollars.
For the regular supplies of the quartermas
ter's department, consisting of fael. forage,
straw, &c., one hundred and thirteen thousand
dollars.
| For the Incidental expenses of the quarter
masters department, consisting of expenses
of courts martial and courts of inquiry, extra
pay to soldiers, purchase Of horses for dra-
goons, &C., nlnety-three thousand FIVE hun
bred dollars.
For transportation of troops and supplies
for the army, three hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department.
twenty thousand dollars.
Approved, August 8, 1916.
CHAP. 96.-AN ACT
Making appropriations for the support OF the
Military Academy for the year ending on
the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and