The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-03-06
ST. PAUL MINNESOTA TERRITORY THURSDAY MARCH s. 1851.

OF postage on letters and packets recel-
we'd and sent by officers on public SER
vice, expenses of courts-martiai and
courts of inquiry, including the addi-
ftional compensation to Judge advocates,
recorders, members, and witnesses,
while on that service, under the act Of
March the sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and two, extra pay TO soldiers employed
in the erection of barracks, quarters,
storehouses and hospital, the construc-
ton of rogds and other constant labor.
underthe direction ofthe guarterma ste RS
department, for periods not less than ten
days, under the act Of the second Of
March, eighteen hundred and nineteen,
expenses Of expresses to and from the
frontier posts md armies in the field, Of
escorts to paymasters, ether disbursing
officers and trains, where military es-
corts cannot be furnished, expense Of
the iIfterment fnoD-commissioned off,
GERS and soldiers, hire Of laborers in the
quarternaster' department; compensa-
ton to wagon and forage masters, au-
thorized by the act of the fifth of July,
eighteen hundred and thirty eight; for
the apprehension Of deserters, and the
expenses incident to their pursuit; the
various expenses necessary to keep the
first and second regiments Of dragons,
the four companies Of light artillery, and
the regiment of mounted rihemen COM
plete including the purchase oftrayeling
forges, blacksmith's. and shoeing tools,
horse and mule shoes, iron, hire Of ve-
terinary surgeons, medicines for horses
and mules, and hire Of guides, interpre-
ters and spies, four hundred and fifty
four thousand nine hundred and sixty
seven dollars.
For the purchase of horses required
for the first and second regiments Of
dragons, ihe eight companies of light
artillery, and the regiment of mounted
rifemen, one hundred and seventy thou
sand nine hundred and twelve dollars.
For constructing, repairing and enlar-
ging barracks, quarters, hospitals, store
houses, stables, wharves, and ways at
the several posts and depots, for tempo
rery cantonments, gun-houses for the
|protection of cannon, including the ne
cessary tools and materials for the OBJ
jects enumerated, and for the authorized
furniture Of fbarrack-rooms Of non-com-
missioned officers and soldiers, rent of
quarters for officers, barracks and hos
pitals for troops when there are no pub
lie buildings for their accommodation,
for storehouse forthe safe-keeping ofmil-
itary stores, and of grounds for summer
cantonements and encampments, four
hundred and sixty-five thousand one hun
dred and one dollars: Prorided, That
eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars
Of said suIn, shall be expended in the
erection Of guardhouse, powder mag
azine, repair and enlargement Of the
barracks, the construction OF culverts
and sinks, the grading of the drill and pa
rade grounds, and the construction OF a
stone wall on the Licking river side. for
the protection and preservation of the
public PROPERTY, at the military post at
Newport, in the State of Kentucky.
For mileage, or the allowance made
to officers for the transportation ofthem-
selves and baggage when travelling on
duty without troops, one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
To supply deficiency in the appropri-
alton for the expenses of the visitors 10
the Military Academy at West Point,
one thousand and nincty-four dollars and
eighty-three cents.
For purchasing, walling and ditching
a piece Of land near the city Of Mexico,
for Il cemetery or burial ground, for
such ofthe officers and soldiers Of our ar
my in our late war with Mexico, as fell in
battle, or died in and around said city,
and for the nterment of American citi-
zens who have died, or may die in said
city. to be expended under the direction
of the President of the United States, ten
thousand dollars.
For transportation Of the army, incl;,-
ding the baggage of the troops when
moving either by land Or water, of cloth
ing, campl and garrison equpage, and
horse equipments, from the depots at
Philadelphia and New York to the sew
eral posts and army depots; Of subsst-
ence, from the places of purchase and
from the places of delivery, under con-
tract, to such places as the circumstan-
ces Of the &c rvices may require it to be
sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and
small arms, from the boundaries and the
armories to the arsenals, Notifications,
frontier posts, and army depots; freigh,s,
tolls, and terriages; the purchase and
hire Of horses, wagons, mules, oxen,
carts, drays, ships 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 ofteamsters, transportation of funds
for the pay and other disbursirg depart
ments, the expenses Of sailing public
transports on the various rivers, the Gulf
Of Mexico, and in the Atlantic and Pa
cifc, 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
hundred thousand dollars.
For purchase Of ordnance, ordnance
stores, and supplies, one hundred lhou-