Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-05-04

and other sea-going vessels and boats for the
transportation OF supplies and for garrison
purposes; drayage and carriage at the several
posts, hire OF teamsters; transportation OF
funds for the pay and other disbursing depart
ments; the expense of sailing public trans
ports on the various rivers, the gulf of Mexi-
co, and in the Atlantic and Pacific; and of
procuring water at such posts as, from their
situation, require it, seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars:
For medical and hospital departments. fifty
two thousand dollars;
For armament of Notifications one hundred
thousand dollars;
For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores,
and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars;
For current expenses of the ordnance ser
vice, one hundred thousand dollars;
For manufacture of arms at the national ar
mories, three hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars;
For the purchase of Colts revolving pistols,
if the Secretary of War should deem it advisa-
bic and proper, fifty thousand dollars;
For repairs and improvements, and new
machinery at the Harper's Ferry armory, six
ty-two thousand six hundred and twenty dol
lars;
For repairs and improvements, and new
machinery at the Springfield armorY, eighty
two thousand five hundred dollars;
For arsenals, seventy-four thousand two
hundred and sixty-one dollars;
For purchase of lot of ground at Harper's
Ferry, Virginia, contiguous to the public bull
dings, two hundred dollars;
For purchase of land at Springfield armory,
to be flowed by raising the dam at the upper
shop, and of a lot on the northwest corner of
the armory grounds, nine thousand dollars;
For purchase of a site for magazine at St.
Louis arsenal, at suitable point without the
city, FIVE thousand dollars;
For surveys in reference to the military de-
fences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, ten
thousand dollars;
For the purchase of land adjoining the
Frankfort arsenal, Pennsylvania, twenty
thousand dollars;
For erecting suitable buildings and ma
chinery for the manufacture of percussion caps
at the same place, fifteen thousand dollars;
To defray the expense of compiling, arran-
ging, publishing, and supervising the publica-
ton of new edition of the Ordnance Manu-
al, of fifteen hundred copies, six thousand
dollars;
To defray the expenses of Typographical
Il of surveys of routes from the valley
of the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean, fifty
thousand dollars;
To provide for the payment for secret ser
vices rendered to the United States in the wal
with Mexico, and to be expended under the
direction of the President of the United States
fifty thousand dollars;
For carrying into effect the treaty of the
United States with the Stockbridge tribe OF In.
dams of the twenty fourth November, eigh-
teen hundred and forty eight, the sum of fifty.
two thousand eight hundred and four dollars
eighty five cents.
Sec. 2. And be 1T further enacted, That the
military storekeeper at Watertown arsenal
Massachusetts,, be allowed from the first day
of October, eighteen hundred and forty-two
the the same compensation as is authorized by
the act of the twenty third August, eighteen
hundred and forty two, to be paid to the store
keepers at the Washington, Pittsburg, and
Watervliet arsenals and that there be paid tc
military storekeeper, T. A. Weber, twenty
dollars per month, for and during the time he
has performed the duties of commissary and
assistant commissary Of subsistence at said ar.
senal.
SEC g. And be 1t further enacted, That any
non commissioned officer, musician, or private
in the company of sappers and miners, and
pontoniers, raised by the act of May ninth
eighteen hundred and forty eight, who served
in said company in the war with Mexico
shall, on application, be entitled to receive an
honorable discharge from the service of the
United States, and stand as if they had served
out their respective terms.
ROB'T c. WINTHROP,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
G. NJ DALLAS,
Vice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate
Approved March 3, 1919.
JAMES K. POLK.
[PUBL1c-No. SO IAN Act making appro
priations for certain Notifications of the
United States, for the year ending the thir
teth of June, one thousand eight hundret
and fifty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o
Representatives Of the United States of Amer
lea an Congress assembled, that the following