The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-08

AN ACT making appropriations Tor me supPo pr
the army for the year ending the thIue'h y
June, one thousand eight hundred ana hily-'wo
Be il enacted By the Senate and House OF RePre
ssatafipes of The United States d -imerica IN Con
,,r,ss asss0bled That the following sums be, ano
The same are hereby appropriated out oil any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated Tor ths
support OF the army, ior the year enuih9 ths snlr
tieh OF June, one thousahu siB h' "unu'cu anu my
two: 49,
For pay Of the army, two millions ninety 81,
thousand six hundred and seventy dollars ProUi
died. That all promotions in the Staff Department
Corps, shall be made as IN other corps OF thu
army.
For Communication of officers subsistence, five
hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred ano
thirty nine dollars.
For Communication of forage for officers horses, one
hundred and three thousand seven hundred and
seventy six dollars.
For payments in lieu Of clothing for officers Ger.
wants, thirty five thousand seven hundred and
twenty dollars.
For expenses of recruiting. fifty four thousand
and forty eight dollars
For three months extra pay to non commissioned
officers musicians, and privates, ten thousand dol
lars
For subsistence in kind, one million seventy siz
thousand fifteen dollars and fifteen cents.
For clothing for the army, camp, and garrison
equipage, &C., two hundred and forty two thou.
sand five hundred and thirty eight dollars and
sixty five cents.
For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster'I
the authorized number ofofcers horses and for the
horses, mules, and oxen Of the Quartermasters De-
partment ut the several military posts and stations
and the armies in the field, and for the horses Of the
first and second regiments of Dragons, the eight
companies Of light artillery the regiment of mount
ed rifemen, and the mounted infantry, OF straw
for soldiers bedding, and Of stationery, including
company and other blank books for the army, GER
ticates for discharged soldiers blank forms for the
Pay and Quartermaster's Departments, and for the
printing Of division and department orders and
army regulations, six hundred and thirty thousand
dollars.
ter's Department, consisting of postage on letters
and packets received and sent by officers OF the
army on public service, expenses Of courts mar
tial and courts of inquiry. including the additional
compensation to judge advocates, recorders, mem
beers, and witnesses, while on that service, under
the act Of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
two. extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection
of barracks, quarters storehouscs, and hospitals,
the construction of roads and other constant labor
under the direction Of the Quartermaster's Depart
ment for periods Of not less than ten days, under
the act of the second OF March, one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen, expenses of expresses to
and from the frontier posts and armies in the field,
of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers.
and trains, where military escorts cannot be fur
nished, expense of the interment of non commits
Stoned officers and soldiers, hire Of laborers in the
Quartermaster's Department, including hire off
terpreters, spies, and guides for the army, COM
pensation of clerks TO officers of the Quartermas-
ter's Department, compensation of forage and
wagon masters, authorized by the act Of July, one
thousand eight hundred and irty-eight, for the
apprehension of deserters and the expenses incident
to their pursuit, the various expenditures required
for the first and second regiments Of dragons, the
eight companies of light artillery the regiment OF
mounted rifemen, and the mounted infantry, in
GLIDING the purchase Of travelling forges, black
smiths and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes,
iron, hire OF veterinary surgeons and medicines for
horses and mules, two hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars.
For the purchase Of horses required for the first
and second regiments Of dragons, the eight COM
panies of light artillery, the regiment OF mounted
rihemcn, and the mounted infantry, sixty thousand
dollars.
For constructing. repairing, and charging bar
racks, quarters, hospitals, storehouses, stables,
wharves, and why's at the several posts and army
depots, for temporary cantonments, and the author
lied furniture Tor the barracks, rooms OF non COM
missioned officers and soldiers gun houses for the
protection OF cannon including the necessary tools
and materials for the objects enumerated, and for
rent Of quarters and offices for officers, and bar
racks and hospitals for troops, where there no
public buildings for their accommodation, for
storehouses for the safe keeping OF military stores,
and OF grounds for summer environments and en-
campmsnts, four hundred thousand dollars.
For mileage allowance made to officers for
transportation OF themselves and baggage, when
travelling on duty, without troops, one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars.
For transportation OF the army, including the
baggage of the troops when moving, either by land
or water, Of clothing, camp and garrison equpage,
and horse equipments from the depot at Philadel-
phia to the several posts and army depots; OF sub
sistence from the places OF purchase and from the
places of delivery under contract to such places
the circumstances of the service may require 1t to
be sent; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and
small arms from the foundries and armories to the
arsenals fortifcations frontier posts, and army de-
pots, freghts, tolls, and ferrages for the purchase
and hire of horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts,
drays, ships, and other going vessels and boats
for the transportation of supplies and for garrison
purposes, for drayage and carriage at the several
posts hire of Transfers transportation of funds for
the pay and other disbursing departments, the ex-
pense Of calling public transports on the various
rivers, the Gull OF Mexico, and the Atlantic and
Pacific, and for procuring water at such pos's as
from their situation require it to be brought from
distance, one million dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, sixty
thousand three hundred and seventy five dollars.
For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores
and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of ordnance service,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the national ar :
mories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For repairs and Improvements, and new machine
ry at Harper's Ferry armory, twenty three thou
sand one hundred dollars
For repairs and Improvements, and new machine
~ at Springfield armory, forty seven thousand dol
lars.
the superintendent OF Springfield armory has been
subjected in establishing the title of the United
States to public land at that armory, and in de-
tending suits against him in his public capacity,
five thousand dollars: Prorided That no part there
of shall be paid until the accounts shall have been
submitted to and approved by the Secretary of
War
For arsenals, one hundred and seventeen thou
sand five hundred and eighty six dollars
For the erection OF two magazines for powder on
the public lands, reserved for military purposes,
jefferson barracks, below st. Louis arsenal and in
GLIDING the sum of five thousand dollars heretofore
appropriated for the purchase of magazine site at
this arsenal, which may be applied to the erection
Of the two magazines, twenty thousand dollars.
SURVEYS.
For continuing the surveys Of the northern and
northwe stern lakes, twenty five thousand dollars
LIGHTHOUSES.
For completing the lighthouse on Carysfort reef,
coast of Florida, seventeen thousand dollars.
For completing the foundation and construction
of the lighthouse the end of North pier. at Chi.
cago, Illinois, four thousand four hundred and
ninety eight dollars and thirty nine cents.
For the thorough trial. and for maintaining OF
light on Brandywine shoal, Delaware bay, from DC
tober the first, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty to March thirty fret tho usand eight hum
drcd and hity-one, six months, one thousand one
hundred and forty four dollars and twenty four