The Arkansas banner., 1847-04-07
Public-No. 2l,
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AN ACT Making appropriations for the support of the
 army and Of volunteers for the year end- ing the ihirtie,h June, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, and for
 other purposes.
 l B. u enacied by the Senate and House of Representatives. of tke' Unitrd States of America in CongTess asscmhlsd, That the I following sums he, and ihe sSiseare hereby sppropriased, for the support of the army and of volunteers, for the year ending the thirtieth June. one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
 For pay of the army, three million three hundred and sixty-6ve thousand four hun- dred and sixly-iwc dollars.
 For communiion of officers subsistence, six hundred and forty thousand seven hun- dred and forty-two dollars.
 I For commusa,ion of forage for officers horses, one hundred and forty-eight ahous- and six hundred and forty dollars.
 For paymrnis in lisa-ef clnshing for off cers' servants. forty-.wo thousand eigh, hun dred and ten dollars.
 l For pay of volunteers, indnding general and siaH officers, two million eight hundred aud fifteen thousand five hnnGred and ninety iI five dollars.
 l For subsistence m kind of the army, vol uuteers and employees, two million Two hundred and eleven thousand six hundred ! and twenty-six dollars.
 For clothing of the army. camp, and gar rison equipage, nine hundred and seventy four thousand dollars.
 ! For expenses of recruiting, including bounties, one hundred anu ten thousand doI- lars.
 For three montbs' exin pay 10 nen-com- missioned officers, musicians, and pfivates, twelve thousand dollars.
 For the regular supplies of the quarter masters department consisting of fuel, forage 1 in kind for the authorized number of officers horses, and for the hotses, mules, and oxen belonging to the quariermaster's department, at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the three regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artil- lery, and the regiment of mounted rihemen |; of straw for soldiers bedding. aud of sta- iionery, including company and other blank books. for the army; certificates for dis charged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quar,ermaster's department, and the printing of department orders, army regula- ! tions and general regulations, three million seven hundred and ten thousand six hundred dollars.
 For the incidental expenses of the quarter masters department. consisting of postage on letters and packets received by officers on public service; expenses of courls-martal and courts ofinqary, including the addition al compensation to judge advocates, mem- bers, and witnesses, while on the service, under the act of the sixteenth of March, one thousand eigh, hundred and two; extra pay 10 soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for perinds of not less than ten days, under the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts To pay masters; of the necessary articles for the in. terment of non- n-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation to clerks to the officers of the quarermas;er's department. al posts where their duties car- not he performed without such aid; and com pensation to agents in charge Of Gismantled works, and 10 such wagon and forage mas ters as Il may be necessary to employ under the act of the fifth of July. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eigbt; various ex- pendiiures necessary 10 keep the three regi- ments ot dragons, the forr companies of light artillery. and the regimen, of mounted riilemen complete. including the purchase of horses to supply the places of those which may be lost and become unf, for service; also including the purchase of horses for the additional regiment of drsgoons, and the purchase of saddles, brides. and other horse equipments for the same; she cling horses, for I the purchase of blacksmi,h's and other tools, iron and other materials. and the spprehen- sion of deserters, and the expenses incidental io their pursuit, TWO million one hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred dollars.
 For repairing and eniarging barracks, 1 quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several pos.s; for erecting temporary canton ments at such posts as may be occupied dn- 1, ring the year, and gun-houses for the pro- teclion of cannon a, the several posts and military works. including the necessary tools and materials for tIie objects enumera- ted, and for the authorized furniture of the harrack rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons, light artillery, and mounted riAemen; for rent of quarters for officers. barracks for troops at posts when there are no public buildings for tueir accommodation, and Of storehouses for the safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, &e., and of grounds for summer can.onments and encampments for military purposes, one million one hun dred and seven thousand two hundred dol lars
 I For transportation of officers baggage, !. when travelling on duty without troops, eighty thousand dollars.
 l For transportation of troops and supplies { of the army, including ihe baggage of troops | Il. A.. L..