The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-14
BY AUTHORITY.
Act. Noso the Second Session Of
tho ThiEtlcth Congress

[PusLIc--No. 81
AN ACT making appropriations for the support Of the
army for me ending the hirtieh OF june one thou
sand eight hundred and ty.
enacted the Senate and House of Of
INC Unitsd States of Ameriea IN Co"gess assembled, That
The following be, and the hereby appropri
sed any money in the treasury otherwise APP
propaed for the support Of the army for the year ending
he hineth of June, thousand eight hundred and yi
For pay of the army, million six hundred and thirty
five thousand five hundred and eightywo dollars;
For Communication of officers subsistence five hundred
and sxone thousand eight hundred dollars including the
additional raons Tor commissioned officers commanding
maneni posts" OF the army OF the United States;
For Communication OF forage for officers horses, hun
dd and four thousand hundred and thrtysx dol
For payments in lien Of clothing for officers servants,
For expenses OF recruiting thryeght thousand and n
ty-iwo dollars;
For three months pay AFOREMENTIONED off,
GERS musicians and rrvaes, ON re-eniistment ten thou
sand dollars;
For the regular supplies of the depart
men consisting OF fuel forage in kind for the authorized
number officers horses, and for the horses, mules and
OF The quartemasters department, the several military
posts and stations, and with the armies in the field anu for
the the first and second regiments OF Dragons the
four companies OF light artillery and the OF mount
ed hemen of straw for soldiers beding and of station
cry including company and other blank books Tor the
army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for
pay and quartz deparen and for the print
of division and department orders and army regua-
tons, five hundred thousand dollars;
For the Incidental expenses OF the quarermasters de-
parment consisting Of postage on letters and packets re-
ceived and sen, by officers on public service expenses
courts martial and of inquiry including the addi-
,ional compensation judge advocates, recorders MEM
ber and Witnesses while that service, under the act OF
March sixteenth eighteen hundred and two extra pay to
soehouses and hospitals the construction of roads, and
other constant labor nnder the direction OF the quarter
"nss bs pet OF second Msrsh ephesn hundred
nineteen expenses OF expresses and from the frontier
posts ana armies IN Tue helu, Of Escorts 10
cannot he furnshed expense OF the lnierment OF nom
compensation OF clerks 10 the
officers OF the quarermaers department; compensation
fifth Of July eighteen hundred and thirty eight for APP
phension of desere and the expenses incident to their
rs, and second regiment dragons. the four companies
OF light Itery and the regiment OF mounted feinen
smiths hoeing TOOLS horse and mule Shoes ron hire
veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules two
hundred and seventy-hve thousand dollars
For the purchase of horses required for the first and
second regiments of Dragons the four companies OF light
artillery, and the regiment of mounted rifemen one hun
For constructing repairing, and enargug barracks. quar-
the several posts and army depos; temporary
gun-houses for the protection Of cannon including
the tools and materials for the objects enumera
ted ard for the authorized furniture for barack OF
noncommissoned officers and soldiers OF quarters for
no public buildings for their accommodation; for store
houses for the sackeepng military and of grounds
For mileage or the allowance made officers for the
duty without troops seventy-fve thousand dollars;
For the transportation of tho army including the bag
Of cothng camp and garrison eqnpage, nd horse equip
ment from the depo.s Philadelphia and New FORK to
the places OF purchase and from the places of delivery
der contract such places the circumstances Of the
stores and small arms from the fohndries and TO
the aenas Notifications frontier posts. and army dePoss
fegh. tolls, and lerriages the purchase and hire OF
horses wagons. mules. oxen, carts draYs ships, and other
going vessels and boats, for the an.portaon OF sup
plies and for garrison purposes drayage and carriage at the
several posts hire OF ,eamstcrs transportation OF funds Tor
the pay and other discussing departments; the expense Of
ic tran
Mexico and in the Atlantic and Pacific and of procuring
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For medical and hospital departments, hytwo thousand
dollars;
For armament, Of Qualifications one hundred thousand
dollars;
For purchase of ordnance ordnance ores aud supplies
one hundred thousand dollars;
For of the ordnance service one hun
dTed thousand dollars;
For manufacture OF arms nj the national armores three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
retary OF War should deem advisable and proper nifty
For repairs and improvements and new machinery al,
the aper Ferry armory sixytwo thousand six hundred
For repairs and improvements and new machinery at
dollars; ;'S'''N A''''' ''S'' '''''N '''' '''''
For arsenal., seventy four thousand two hundred and
For purchase OF lot of ground Harper's Ferry vr-
Rna contiguous 10 the public buildings, two hundred do-
For purchase of land Springfield armory, be flowed
by raising the dam at the upper Shop and Of lot on the
corner OF the armoy grounds nine thousand dol
lars;
For purchase of site for magazine ST. Louis arsenal,
alta suitable point without the city, i've thousand dollars
For surveys in reference to the military detences OF the
foniier inland and Atlantic, ten thousand dollars;
For the purchase of land adjoining the Frankord arsenal
Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars;
For erecting suitable buildings and machinery for the
manufacture OF percussion caps at the same place, fifteen
thonsand dollars
To deay The expense of compiling, arranging, publish
ing and supervising the publication OF edition OF the
Ordnance Manual OF fifteen hundred copies, six thousand
dollars;
Todefray the expenses Of phical Il of sur
OF from the valley OF the Mississippi TO the Pa
chic ocean, fifty thousand dollars;
TO provide for the payment for services rendered to
the United States in the with Mexico, and to be ex
pended 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 Stockbrdge tribe of Indians of the twenty fourth
November eighteen hundred and forty-eigh, The OF
ntytwo thousand eight hundred and four dollars eighty
five cents.
SEC. g. And be il further enacted, That the military
storekceper Waertown arsenal, Massachusetts, be al
lowed from the first day Of October eighteen hundred and
iory-two the the compensation as is authorized by
The act OF the twenty third August, eighteen hundred and
loytwo be paid the s,orckecp the Washington,
Psburg, and Waervet arsenals and there be paid
month"; for and during the time he has performed the duties
OF commissay and assistant commissary OF subsistence al
said arsenal
SKc. Ind be IL further enacted, That any non
nsoncd officer, musician private in the company OF
appers and and pontonicrs raised by the
May NINTH eighteen hundred and forty eight who served
cation be receive honorable discharge
e service of the United Sates and stand II they had
served out their respective terms.
APPROVED March 3, le49.
[PuBLc-No 33
AN ACT making appropriations for certain Notifications
OF the United States, the year ending the hirtieh
June, one thousand eight hundred and nifty