The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-05

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eess' horses, including arrears since
commencement Of hostilities
For payments in lieu Of clothing TO
ofiicers's servants
For subsistence in kind
For clothing for the army, camp and
garrison equipage
For expenses Of recruiting
For three months extra ray To non
commissioned officers, musicians,
and pnyates
For the regular supplies Of the quar-
termaster's department, consisting
Of fuel, forage in kind for the su-
thorized number Of officers horses
and for the horses, mules, and OK
en- belonging TO the qusrtermaster's
department at the several military
posts and stations, and fer the
horses Of the two regiments Of
Dragons, and the four companies
Of light artillery, Of straw for sol.
diers' bedding; and Of stationery,
including company and other blank
books for the army, certificates for
discharged soldiers, blank forms
for the pay and quartermasters' de-
partments, and the printing Of de-
patment orders, army regulations,
and general regulations
For the incidental expenses Of the
quartermaster's department, con-
sistnig Of postage on letters and
packets received by officers on pub
lie service; expenses Of courts mar
tial and courts Of inquiry, includ-
ing the additional compensation to
judge advocates, members, and wit
nesses, while on that service, un-
der the act Of the sixteenth Of
March, eighteen hundred and two;
extra pay to soldiers employed in
the erection Of barracks and quar-
tiers, the construction Of roads, and
other constant labor, for period Of
not less than ten days, under the
act Of second Of March, eighteen
hundred and nineteen; expenses Of
expresses from the frontier posts;
Of escorts to paymasters; Of the
necessary articles for the interment
Of non-commissioned officers and
soldiers; hire Of laborers; compen-
sation to clerks to the officers OF the
quartermaster's department, at
posts where their duties cannot be
performed without such aid; ard
compensation to agents in charge
of dismantled works, and to such
wagon and forage masters as it
may be necessary TO employ under
the act of the ffth of July, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-eight; va
rious expenditures necessary to
keep the two regiments of dra-
goons and the four companies Of
light artillery complete, including
the purchase Of horses to supply
the place of those which may be
lost and become unfit for service
shoeing horses; and the apprehen-
sion of deserters; and the expenses
incidental to their pursuit -
For repairing and enlarging barracks,
quarters, store-houses, and hospi-
tails at the several posts; for erect
ing temporary cantonments at such
posts as may be occupied during
the year, and gun-houses for the
protection of the cannon at the sew
eral posts and military works, in
GLIDING the necessary tools and
materials for the objects enumera-
ted, and for the authorized furni-
ture for 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 ut posts where
there are no public buildings for
their accommodation, and Of store
houses for the safekeeping Of sub
sistence, clothing, &C., and Of
grounds for summer cantonments
and encampments for military pur-
poses
For transportation of officers bag
gage, when travelling on duty with
out troops
For transportation OF troops and sup
plies of the army, including the
baggage of troops when moving
either by land or water; frieghts
and ferriages; the purchase or hire
of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wag-
ons, and boats, for the Transports
ton 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 Of Mexico, and Of pro-
curing water at such posts as from
their situation, require il; of cloth
ing from the depot at Philadelphia
to the stations of the troops; of
subsistence from the places Of pur-
chase, and from the places Of de-
livery, 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 armories to the arsenals, forth
fications, and frontier posts
For contingencies Of the army
For the purchase Of ordnance, ord
nance stores, and supplies
For current expenses Of the ordnance
service
For manufacture Of arms at the ma
tional armories
For repairs and improvements, and
new machinery, at Springfield ar
mory
For repairs and improvements, and
new machinery, at Harper's Ferry
armory
For arsenals
For purchase of saltpetre and brim-
stone
For the purchase Of gunpowder
For expenses Of preparing drawings
of a uniform system Of artillery
For expenses Of the mineral land ser
vice, including those incurred since
the first January, eighteen hun
bred and forty-six
For surveys in reference to the mill
tary defence Of the frontier, inland
and Atlantic
For military and geographical sur
veys west Of the Mississippi
For continuing the surveys Of the
northern and northwestern lakes
To meet the expenditures which
may be incurred under the acts
passed during the present session
ITO authorize an increase Of the
rank and file Of the army, and TO
provide for raising regiment Of
mounted riAemen, viz;