Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-02

WHOLE No. 1873.

thousand dollars
For expenses of recruiting, including boun-
ties, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For three months extra pay TO non commits.
soned officers, musicians, and privates, twelve
thousand dollars.
For the regular supplies of the quartermas-
ters department, consisting of fuel, fortge in
kind for the authorized number OF officers, hor-
SEES, and Tor the horses, mules, and oxen be.
longing to the quartermasters department, al
the seveIa! military posts and stat ems, and
for the horses of the three regiments of dra-
gcons, the four companies OF light artillery.
and the regiment OF rflemen; of straw Tor SOL
diers' bedding; and of stationery, including
company and other blank books, for the ar
my; certificates for discharged soldiers, blank
forms Tor the pay and quar.ermaster's depart.
ment and the printing of department orders, ar
my regulations aaa general regulations, three
million seven hundred AMI ten thousand six
hunired dollars
For the incidental expenses of the quarter
masters department, consisting Of postage OF
letters and packets received by officers on pub.
nc service; expenses of courts-martial and
courts OF inquiry, including the addit onal com.
pensahon 10 Ju !ge advocates, members, and
witnesses, While on that service, under the act
OF the sixteenth of March, one thousand eight
hundred ana two; extra pay TO soldiers en-
p.oyed IN the erection of barracks and quar-
tiers, the construction of roads, and other con-
slant labor, for periods of rot less than ten
days, under the act of the second of March,
one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ex-
penses OF expresses from the frontier posts ;
OF esq orts to paymasterS; of the necessary ar
tcieS tor the nterment of non-c comm ss:oned
officers and soldiers hire of llabofers; COM
pensaton 10 clerks to the officers of the quar-
termasters department, at posts where their
duties cannot be performed without such aid ::
and compensation 10 agents in charge of dis
mantled works, and to such wagon and forage
masters as It may be necessary to employ un-
Ter the act of the fifth of July, one thousand
eight hundre, and thirty eight; various ex-
pen iItur necessary 10 keep the three regl-
ments OF dragons, the four companies OF light
artillery, AMI the regiment of mounted rif1emen
complete, lnclu ling the purchase of horses TO
supply the PAGES of those which may be lost
and become unfit for service also including
the purchase of horses for the additional regi-
ment OF dragons, and the purchase of saddles.
brides, and other horse equipments of the
same; shoeing horses, for the purchase of
blacksmlth's and other tools, iron and other
materials, and the apprehension of deserters,
and the expenses incidental to their pursuit,
two mill on one hundred and seventy-three
thousand three hundred dollars
For repairing and charging barracks, quar-
tiers, store-houses, and hospitals, at the seve:
raj posts; for erecting temporary environments
at such posts may be occupied during the
year, and gun-houses for the protection of
cannon at the several posts and military works,
including the necessary tools and materials for
the objects enumerated, and for the authorized
furniture of the barrack rooms of non-commis-
stoned officers and soldiers; building and re-
pairing stables for dragons, light artillery,
and mounted rifemen for rent of quarters for
officers, barracks for troops at posts where
there are no public buildings for their accom-
notation, and of store-houses for the safe
keeping OF subsistence, clothing, &C., and Of
grounds tor summer cantonments and encamp-
ments for military purposes, one million one
hundred AMI seven thousand two hundred
dollars.
For repairs and improvements, and new ma
chinery, at the Springfield armory, eighteen
thousand five hundred dollars.
!. For repairs and Improvements, and new ma
chinery, at Harpers Ferry armory, seventeen
thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For arsenaIs, ffty-one thousand four hun
drel and eighty dollars.
For expenses of preparing drawings of a
uniform system OF artillery, five thousand dol
lars.
For surveys with armies in the field, twenty
thousand dollars
| For providing for the comfort of discharged
soldiers who may be landed at New Orleans
or other places within the United States, SO
| disabled by disease or by wounds received in
the service as to be unable 10 proceed 10 their
homes, AMI for forwarding destitute soldiers
| to theiI homes, five hun irel thousand dollars
said SUI to be applied and expended under
the direction of the Secretary of War.
For the purchase of land, erection of bar
racks for soldiers, AMI quarters for officers
an launlresses, AMI for brick wall to enclose
the groun Is, and grazing. AMI paving the river
banks at Newport barracks, Kentucky, TWEEN.
ty-four thousand FIVE hundrel dollars.
For contingencies of Notifications, two hun.
lrel THOUSAND do lars
SEC. 2. And be at further enacted, That tie
following sums be, and the same are hereby
appropriated, to supply deficiency in appro
priations ma lie for the service of the present
fiscal year, I'm Ter the following heals, viz:
For pay of volunteers, under reso ution Of
eighth August, eighteen hundred AMI forty six
one hun ire / and fifty thousand dol ars.
For pay of vo unteers, unler act OF thir
| teenth May, eighteen hun Ire! AMI forty six
one hun Ire | ana forty-three thousand dollars
For travelling allowance of volunteers, fv,
hundred thousand dollars
For transportation AMI supplies, &c, il
qulrtermasters department, four millions dol
lars.
For services of private physicians, inclu
ling the purchase OF medical AMI hospital sup
plies, s,xty-fve THOUSAND dollars.
For pay, lncluting subsistence AMI othe
allowance TO officers of the ten regiments o
sess on, three hunlrel AMI eishty-seven thou
san nine hun lred AMI seventy-three DO ars
For subsistence in kind for such regiments
two hundred AMI twenty-one thousand nv
hun !rel and seyenty-one dollars and htty-twt
cents
For pay OF eleven reg iments Of volunteer
recently ca lel Into service, one million tAre
.nousan one hunIre an fen dollars.
For subsistence in kind of said regiments @
volunteers. two hundred and eighty -thre
THOUSAND four hun!rei and eighteen dollar
aal eighty five cents.
For expenses of recruiting. including boun
ties, two hun!r AMI sixty-two thousan
eight hunlreI and ninety-ive dollars.
For orinlnce, ordnance stores and supPhes
four hun ited and fiity-two thousand hVe nun
drel AM fifty seven dollars.
For the repair AMI construction OF roads ant
bridges for the use of a-mies IN the held, on
hundred thousand dollars.
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