Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-02-27

ed the House of Representatives on the 23d instant
makes the following appropriations:
For pay Of the army. .................S So $685. 462
For computation Of officers subsistence. .. 640,742
For Communication Of forage for officers horses l4s $40
For payments lieu Of clothing for officers servants 42sIO
For pay Of volunteers, including general and staff
officers. Observation-Disclosures. 2sl5595
For subsistence in kind, ofhe army and volunteers,
and employees ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,ail,ea
For clothing Of The army, camp and garrison equip
age. .......t. 974, 600
For expenses Of recroitng including bountes 10000
For three months extra pay to commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates. .......... $4,000
For regular supplies Of the quartermasters depart
ment consisting Of fuel, forage for horses, mules,
oxen, Of straw for soldiers bedding stationery,
printing, &c. ..................... s7lO.soo
For incidental expenses of the quarermaster's de-
partment, consisting Of postage, expenses Of
cours-maria, hire Of laborers, Sc, including
the purchase Of horses to supply the places Of
those which may be lost and become unfit for
vice, &c. ...... airs. 800
For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters
storehouses, and hospitals, at the several posts
&c,............ ..................... Ll07,2oo
For transportation of officers baggage, when ira
yelling on duty without troops. ......... $4,000
For transportation of troops and supplies of the
army, including the baggage of troops when
moving either by land or water, freights and fer
rases s...... Observation-Disclosures. 5,243, 800
For contingencies Of the army. ........... $4,000
For medical and hospital department ...... 100000
FOR purchase Of ordnance, ordnance Stores and
supplies. .............. 1915
For current expenses Of the ordnance service 100 900
For armament of Notifications ... $4,000
For manufacture of the national amores 800 600
For repairs and improvements and new machinery
al Springfield armory. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
For repairs and Improvements and new machinery
at HarPers Ferry armory Observation-Disclosures. 1880
For arsenals. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
For expenses OF preparing drawings of uniform
system OF artillery ..................... 5000
For surveys with armies in the field ...... 10000
For providing for the comfort OF discharged and dis
abled soldiers, and for forwarding destitute SOL
diefs to their homes Observation-Disclosures. 100000
The following appropriations made to sup
ply deficiencies in appropriations for the service of
the present fiscal year:
For pay of volunteers, under the resolution Of
eighth August eighteen hundred and forty-six Sl5O0OO
For pay OF volunteers under act of thirteenth Nav
eighteen hundred and forty six. ........ $4,000
For travelling allowance of volunteers 80. !. 500, 900
For transportation and supplies, &c. in quarter
masters department ................. 100000
For services of private physicians, including the
purchase Of medical and hospital supplies. 5000
For pay, including subsistence and other allow.
ances TO officers Of the ten regiments of regular
troops authorized during the present session s73
For Subsistence in hand for said regiments. 22l,57l
For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers, recent
ly called into service 3. ............. l,o03,llo
or subsistence in kind Of said regiments Of voun
teers. ............. ............. 2sa,4ls
For expenses in recruiting, including bountes 1852 1876
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies 49, 557
For repair and continuation Of roads and bridges
for the use of armies in the field. ....... 100000