Southern shield., 1850-11-16
Y VOII. XI.

l States, ten thousand dollars.
 For the transportation of the army, in cluding the baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison eqnipage, and horse equipments, from the depots at PhadeI- phia and New York, to the several posts and army depots; of subsistence, from the places of purchase and from the places ot delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may re- quire it 10 be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the founderes and the armories to the arsenals, tortltica- lions, frontier posts, and army depots; treights, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and lire of horses, wagons, mules, oxen, carts, drays, ships and other sea-going yes sels and boats for the transportation of sup plies, and for garrison purposes, drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments, the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Atlantic and Pacific, and of procuring water at such post as, from their situations, require it, one million seven hundred and ffty-two thousand and forty two dollars.
 For medical and hospital departments, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
 For armament of Notifications, one hun dred thousand dollars.
 For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.
 For current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars, Pro- 0ided, That the principal assistant in the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department shall receive compensation not less than that of the person employed at the founde- ries, under the fifth section of the act ap- proved twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and forty two, from and after the date thereof.
 For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
 For repairs and improvements, and new machinery at the Harper's Ferry armory, fifty thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
 For repairs and improvements, and new machinery at the Springfield armory, fifty six thousand six hundred dollars.
 For arsenals, one hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and eightysix dol lars; and that sixteen thousand dollars off the sum hereby appropriated shall be ap- piled to the completion of the arsenal at| Fayetteville, North Carolina, according to the intent of the law authorizing its con- structon.
 For purchase of lot of ground at Spring field, Massachusetts, adjoining the armoryi grounds on the hill, and near the new ar senaI, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
 For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Allan tic, fifteen thousand dollars.
 For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty thousand dollars.
 For continuing the surveys of the north and northwestern lakes, twenty-five thouS- and dollars.
 For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, un- der the act of the lst of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the trea- surv of one thousand six hundred and tWen- tv-seven dollars and eighteen cents; paya- ble through the Third Auditors office, lWol thousand dollars.
 For compensation to draughtsman, em ployed in the bureau of Typographical En- gineers, on map O. the western territoryl of the United States and of the northern part of Mexico, which was made under or der of the Senate of the United States, one thousand and sixty dollars.
 SEC 2. .4nd De n fiuther enacted, That the sum of six hundred and eight thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and nine ty-eight cents, being the uneXpended bal ance, now in the treasury of the appropna- ton made by Congress on the fourteenth ot August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, on account of the "army subsistence" for the fiscal year ending the thrtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine. be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated for the army subsistence for the fiscal year endingI the thirteth of June, eighteen hundred and tifty-one.
 SEC. 3. find De H fu,lher enacted, That the moneys which may be received by the proper officers of the army for the sales ol subsistence, military stores, and other supp plies, be, and they are hereby, exempted from the operation of the act of the third off March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act requiring all moneys. re- ceived from the customs and all other| sources, to be paid into the treasury with out abatement or reduction.'
 SEC 4. find De H further enacted, That the military storekeeper at Little Rock ar senal, Arkansas, be allowed from the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty 1yo to the tIyentv-fifth day of October