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ment, four thousand Eve hundred dollars.
For constructing. repairing and eniarging bar
~harves and ways, at the several posts and army
depots, for temporary cantonments, and the au'
thorIzed furniture for barracks ooms OF non-com
missioned officers and soldiers, gun-houses Tor the
protection Of cannon. including the necessary tools
and materials for the objects enumerated, and Tor
rent OF quarters and offices for officers and bar
racks, and hospitals for troops, where there are no
public buildings for their accommodation; ior
torehouses for the safe keeping of military stores,
| and Of grounds for GUNNER environments ana en-
campments, Jour hundred thousand dollars.
For mileage or allowance made to ofhcers Tor tue
| transportation of themselves and baggage when
| travelling on duty without troops, one hundred
| and twenty thousand dollars.
I For TRANSPORTATION OF the army, including the
baggage Of the troops when moving either by land
\ or Water; OF clothing, camp, and garrison equip
age, and horse equipments, from the depot at phllr
4 adelphia to the several posts and army depols,
| Of Subsistence from the place. Of purchase and
from the places Of delivery, under CONTRACT. to
such places AZ the circumstances of the service
may require 1t 10 be sent; Of ordnance, ordnance
stprea, and small arms from the fonndrles and ar
mofes to the arsenais, frontier posts,
the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen,
wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other going
vessels and boats for the Of supplies
| and for garrison purposes; for drayagc and cart
poraton Of funds for the pay and other disbursing
departments; the expense of sailing public trans
ports on the various rivers, the Gull Of Mesien.
and the Atlantic aud Pacific. and for procuring
water at such posts as from their situation require
that 1t be brought from distance, million five
hundred thousand dollars. ..rg. t,l.a-.
For the purchase of horses required for the frst
and second regiments of dragoons, the companies
men, and such companies Of infantry as may be
mounted, one hundred and seventy Thousand dol
| lars. -.g,r ......t L.-gtE.a 81, tt
] tttnt,sa II drod nd AZ
for armament OF fortihcations, nifty thousand
| dollars. .,., 49,. u, ..,..'s. .'.
For ordnance stores and supplies, follows: for
procurement OF side arms and accoutrements for
artillery. infantry, cavalry. and remen; materias
for and preparation Of siege nd field ammunition,
wages Of mechanics engaged in making carriages,
implements, equipments, harness. &c, and for
purchase Of miscellaneous supplies ~ ordnance
stores for issue to the army, sixty five thousand
dolare. ~
For the curreht expenses Of the ordnance service,
one hNndred thousand dollars. .
For the manufacture of arms at the national
armories, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements, and new ma
chinery at Harper's Ferry, twenty eight Thousand
nine hundred and fifty dollars
For repairs and improvements, and new ma
chnery at springfield nrmony. thrty-two thousan nd
For arsenals, sixty six thousand mine hundred
| and eighty live dollars,
| For continuing the Typographical and hydro
graphical survey OF the Delta Of tho Mississippi,
with such Investigations a. may lead to determine
the most practicable plan for securing it from in
/ untation, Fifty thousand dollars. -. T. .
For payment to Priscilla D. Twiggs of the
amount of the pay and allowances which would
have accrued to her son, George d. Twiggs, had he
bee regularly in service as second lieutenant of
infantry T. ON the first day Of juno, eighteen hun
d.ed and forty seven, the date which he left the
United States, to the twelfth of August in the me
year when he fell in battle at the National Bridge,
Mexico, two hundred and thirty dollars and thir.
tythree cents. 49,. ' ". t.st...|s
:, ur LIGHT. HOUSES. a..,
For completing the light. house at Sand Key,
Florida, forty four thousand one hundred and
s~snty seven dollars and eighty. one cents.
For completing the light. house at Chicago, ILL
nois, six thousand three hundred dollars. u" .'
For arresrases prior 10 July first, eighteen hun
dred and Hfteen, payable through the Office Of the
Third Auditor, under an act approved May first,
eighteen hundred and twenty, in addition to nm
unexpended balance OF two thousand nine hundred
and sixty nine dollars and fourteen cents, remain
ing in the treasury on the thirteenth Of October,
eighteen hundred aud fifty one, seven thousand
five hundred dollars Z. ~ "t.FaF.l
SEC. Z And be IL further enucied, That all acts
or parts of acts authorizing the President of the
United States, or the Secretary Of the proper De
partment under his direction, to transfer any
portion of the moneys appropriated for particu-
| lar branch OF expenditure in that Department to
be applied to another branch Of expenditure in the
same Department, be, and arc hereby, so far as
| ates to the Department of War, repealed; and no
portion OF the moneys appropriated by this act
sha be applied to the paynient of any expenses in
Cured prior to the first day Of July, one thousand
contained shall be 80 construed to prevent the
President from authorizing appropriations for the
subsistence of the army, for forage. for the medi
cal and hospital departments, and for the quarter.
master department., to be applied 10 any other Of
; the aforementioned branches of expenditure in
the same department. and appropriations made for
specific object for one fiscal year shall not be
transferred to any other object after the expiration
Sec. g. And be ii further enacted, That TO much
OF the act making appropriations tor the support
OF the army for the year ending the thirtieth of
June, eighteen hundred and Atty one, approved
| the twenty eighth Of September, eighteen hundred
and fifty, as provides extra pay to the commission
ed officers aud enlisted men Of the United States
| aerving in Oregon Or California, be and the same
ia hereby continued in force for year from the
first day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty
two, and that the provision Of the Last mentioned
act be, and is hereby, extended to New Mexico
during the current year, provided for by this sec
ton, and that three hundred thousand dollars be,
and is hereby, appropriated for that purpose: Pro
tided, further, Tina, said officers and men shall re
ceive only one half of the Increased amount over
the regular pay allowed by law.
SEC. 1. And be il fur her enacted, That all the un
expended balances remaining Of sums appropriated
for Notifications, and now liable to revert to the
surplus fund, are hereby reappropra,ed.
masters clerks shall be entitled to receive one "a.
ton per day when on duty at their stations, to be
committed at the price now authorized when trav-
cling on duty 80 -'.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That for the
pay and equipment as mounted ri1emen, finding
their own horses and forage, of the volunteers
serving under the command Of Captain John e.
Fremont, in California, during the year eighteen
hundred aud forty-six, as appears by the muster
rolls on file in the War Department, and for the
subsistence and supplies Consumed by said volun
teers in said service hundred and sixty eight
thousand dollars is hereby appropriated of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriat
ed; and the Secretary O War is authorized and
empowered to appoint three competent and disin
terested officers OF the army examine and report
to Cons ress upon all such claims may be pre-.
sented for funds advanced aud subsistence and
supplies Of all kinds furnished taken for the use
Of said command whilst thus engaged in the pub
lie service; and for the expenses OF said board of
officers, the sum Of two thousand dollars il hereby
appropri ted. s..:.."
SEC. Z. And be il further enacted, That the second
section of an act entitled IAN act to provide for
the settlement Of the accounts of public officers
and othcrs who may have received none va arising
from military contributions. otherwise, in Next
Co." approved March third, eighteen hundred and
forty nine, shall be 60 construed to extend to
officers and other persons who were engaged in the
collection of military contributions collectors in
any part Of Mexico or California during the war