The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-13

= equipage
For Expenses of recruiting, including bount;es :
or Three months extra pay to non -commi ssion.
;, ed officers, musicians, and pnvates .
For the regular supplies of tue quartermastor',
department., consisting of fuel, forage in kind
for the authorized number OF officers horses.
and Tor the horses, IN ules, and oxen belong
ing tn the 9uarermas,er's department, nj the
several military posts and stations, and for
the horses otthe three regiments of dragons.
the four companies of light artillery, and the
regiment OF mounted rihemcn; Of straw for
soldiers bedding: and OF stationery, inclu-
ding company and other blank books, for the
army; Certificates for discharged soldiers,
blank forms for the pay and Quartermn.ter' )
department, and the printing of department
orders army regulations and general regula-
tons
For the incidental expenses of the quartermas.
ter's department, consisting OF postage on let
tiers aud packets received by officers on pub
lie service; expenses of courts-martial and
courts OF inquiry, including the additioaal
compensation to judge advocates, members,
the act of the sixteenth OF March. one shcu.
sand eight hundred and two extra paw 10 sol.
diers employed in the erection Of barracks
and quarters, the construction of roads, and
other constant labor. for periods of not less
than ten days, under the act OF the second Of
March, one thousand eight hundred and nine.
teen; expenses Of expresses from the frontier
posts; OF escorts to paymasfers; of the neces-
sary articles for the internent ofnon-commis-
stoned officers and soldiers; hire of laborcrs;
compensation TO clerks to the officers of the
quariermaster's department, at posts where
their duties cannot be performed without such
aid; and compensation to agenfxin charge Of
dismantlcd works, and to such wagon and
forage masters as it may be necessary to en-
poy under the act of the fifth of July, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty -eight; va
rlous expenditures necessary 70 keen the
three regiments of dragons, the four compa-
MES Of light artillery, and the regiment of
mounted rifiemen complete, including the
purchase of horses to supply the places OF
those which may be lost and become unfit
for service also including the purchase of
horses for the additional regiment of dragons,
and the purchase of saddles, brides, and
other horse equipments for the same shoe
ing horses, for the purchase of blacksmith 5
and other tools, iron and other materials, and
the apprehension of deserters, and the ex-
penses incidental TO their pursuit -sS :
For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters,
storehou SOS, 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 can
non at the several posts and military works,
including the necessary tools and materials
for the objects enumerated, and for the nu-
thorized furniture of the borrack rooms of
non-comm issioned officers and soldiers build
ing and repairing sta bles for dragons, light
artillery, and mounted rifiemen; for rent of
quarters for officers, barracks for troops at
posts where there are no public buildings for
their accommodation, and of storehouses for
the safelseeping OF subsistence, clothing, &C.,
and of grounds for summer cantonments and
encatnpnents Tor military purposes :.
For transportation OF officers baggage, when
travelling on duty without troops
For transportation of troops and supplies of the
army, including the baggage of troops lwhen
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 garri-
son purposes; drayage and carriage at tho
several posts, hire OF teainstefs, transporta-
ton of funds for the pay department; the ex-
pense of sailing public transports between tho
posts on the Gull of Mexico, and Of procuring
water at such posts as, from their situation,
require it; of clothing from the depot at PHIL
adephia to the stations of the troops; OF sub.
sistence from the places Of purchase, and
from the places of delivery, under contracts,
to such places the circumstances OF the SER
vice may require il to be sent; of ordnance,
ordnance stores, and small arms from the
foundries and armories, to the arsenals, forth
fications, and frontier posts -5
For contingencies of the army
For the medical and hosp tai department
For The purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores,
For current expenses of the ordnance service
For -rnament OF notifications
For manufacture Of arms at the national arm
cries
For repairs and Improvements, and new ma
chinery, at Springfield armory
Foe repairs and Improvements, and new ma
chincfy, at Harper's Ferry arInory
For arsenals
fun system of artillery
Fo. surveys with armies in the field
For providing for the comfort of discharged SOL
diers who may be landed at New Orleans, or
other places within the United States, 80 disu-
ht.I M nv rfaC v.1in
service to be unable to proceed to their
homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers
to their homes
For the purchase of land, erection Of barracks
laundresses, and for brick wall to enclose tho
grounds, and grading, and paving the river
banks at Newport barracks, Kentucky
For contingencies Of Notifications
To supply deficiencies in appropriations
made for the service of the present fiscal
year, under the following heads, Wis
For pay ofvounteers under re solution of eighth
August, eighteen hundred and forly-six
For pay of vo unteers under act OF thirteenth
MAY, eighteen hundred and forty-six
For travelling allowance OF volunteers
For transportation and supplies, &C., in quar-
termaster's department "A
For services of private physicians, including
the purchase ofmedical and hospital supplies
ance to officers of the ten regiments of regu-
lar troops, authorized during the present ses-
sion
For subsistence in kind for such regiments
For pay OF eleven regiments of volunteers re-
Gently called into service -
For subsistence in kind of said regiments OF vol
For expenses of recruiting, including bounties-
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies
For the repair and construction of roads and
bridges for the of armies in the field
For deficiency of former appropriations for forti-
fcations at Oak Island
For deficiency of former appropriations for the
For deficiency ofappropriation for removing the
great raft OF Red river, made by the act aP..
proved April twentieth, eighteen hundred
and thirty-eight, being the amount advanced
by Daniel T. Witlee, and others, through the
branch of the Real Estate Bank of Washing-
ton, Arkansas, to Henry M. Shrevc. govern.
men, agent f,r such removal, and expended
8
IN act making approximations for the rarol en-
gear ending the thirfieh June, ose fhousa~d Sl
and forty eight ,t-
For pay of commission, warrant, as~s petty
officers and s.alnen, including Sc engineer
corps of the navy - !
For pay Of thirteen additiotss' assistant sur
geons, whose appoinsmert "a hereby author
For pyrotechnist for the service of the navy
For provisions for commission, warrant, ana
petty officers and seamcn, including engl-
neefs and marines attached to vessels tor sea
service
And thete shall be allowed, instead Of the sum
now allowed by law, three cents per day IN
lieu of the spirit rations in the navy TO DO
paid monthly to such persons as may elect 70
receive the same who shall actually draw