Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-14
BY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNIFIED STATES,
Passed during the Second Session Of tbs Thirty sesoa
Congress
PUBLIC AcT-No. 81,


Congress
PUBLIC AcT-No. 81
AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the
army for the year ending the thirteth Of June,
Be ii enacted by The Senate and House of Represena-
tires ofthe United States Of america in Congress ossem-
bled. That the following sums be, and the same are
hereby appropriated out of any money in the tres.
suy otherwise appropriated for the support of the
army for the year ending the threh of june one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty four
For pay of the army, one million eight hundred and
fourteen thousand hundred and fifty nine dollars;
Poyded That the airy of the military storekeepers of
the ordnance department in Oregon Caor1 and New
Mexico shall hereafter be thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars per annum;
For the remountng of the four companies of light ar
lery authorized by the act of March third eighteen hun
cred and forty eighteen thousand five hundred
dolars Proptdcd, That the same be expended at the
discretion and by direction othe President of the United
States
For the defence ofsan Francisco California, Eve hun
dred thousand dollars.
For continuing the deences at the following forts viz
FLORIDA.
Fort Jefferson at Garden Keys or Tortugas Islands,
one hundred thousand dollars;
Fort Taylor, Key West, seventy hive thousand dol
GEORGIA.
Fort Pulaski, including barracks and quarters. twenty
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Fort Sumter Charleston harbor hundred and ten
MARYLAND.
Fort Carroll Sellers Point, Baltimore harbor, fifty thou
sand dollars
DELAWARE.
Fort Delaware Pea Patch Island. Delaware river one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Fort Knox, Penobscot river, fifty five thousand dol
MASSACHUSETTS.
Fort Warren, Boston larbor, forty five thousand dol
Fort Wiathrnp, Governors Island Boston, TWEEN
ty nine thousand five hundred and seventy three dol
lars.
For Communication of officers subsistence six hundred
and fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty seven dol
lars;
For communication of forage for officers horses one
hundred and four thousand nine hundred twenty eight
dollars;
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers SER
wants, thirty six thousand three hundred and twenty
dollars;
For expenses ofrecruitiug forty three thousand two
thousand dollars
For three mouths pay for non commissioned Of
fcers, musicians, and prvates enlistment ten thou
sand dollars
For subsistence in kind one million and twenty eight
thousand four hundred and ninety dollars
For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equi
age, and horse equipments three hundred and fifty
hund ed hundred and forty three dollars and ty six
cents;
For the regular supplies of the quartermasters de-
partment, consisting OF fuel. forage in kind for the
horses mules and oxen of the quartermasters depart
ment, at the several military posts and stations and
with the armies in the field; for the horses OF the first
and second regiments of dragons, the companies of
light artillery the regiment of mounted riemen and
such companies of infantry may be mounted and also
for the authorized number of officers horses when ser
wing In the field and at the ootosts of straw for soldiers
bedding. and ostationery including company and other
blank books for the army certificates for discharged
soldiers blank forms for the nay and quarermasters de-
parments and for the printing Of division and depart
mont orders army regulations. and reports one million
and fifty thousand dollars;
For the incidental expenses ofthe quarermasters de-
parplen consisting of postage letters and packets
ceived and sent by officers of the army public service
expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry nclu
ding the additional! compensation to judge advocates,
recorders members and Witnesses while that service
under of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred
two pay soldiers employed under the direction
OF the qusrtermasters department in the erection of
barracks quarters storehouses and hospitals the con-
ructon of roads and other constant labor for periods of
notices. than ten days. under The act of March second
eighteen hundred and nineteen expenses of EXPIRE
and from the frontier posts and armies in the field of
pay masters, other discussing officers and
trains. when military escorts cannot be furnished
the nterment OF commissioned Ulcers and
soldiers; authorized office furniture hire of aborers in
the department Including hire of inter
prefers spies and guides for the army compensation of
clerks to officers OF the quartermasters department;
compensation of forage and wagon masters authorized
by the Of july eighteen hundred and thirty egh; for
the apprehension deserters and the expenses Incident
to their pursuit. the various expenditures required for
the first and second regiments of drage the compa
MES oil light arti sry, the regiments Of Dragons the
giment of mounted rhemen and such companies of in
fantry may be mounted, including the purchase of
travelling FORCES, backsmith's and shooing tools horse
and Shoes iron, hire of veterinary surgeons, and
medicines for horses and mules three hundred thousand
dollars.
For constructing, repairing and enlargng barracks.
quarters hospitals storehouses, stables, wharves and
ways at the several posts and army depots for Temporal
y canonments and the author sed furniture for barrack
rooms of noa-commssiOned officers and soldiers; gun
houses for the protection of ncludng the
sary tools and materials for the objects enumerated and
for rent of quarters and Offices for officers aud barracks
and hospitals for troops where there public build
ng for their accommod tom for storehousss for the safe
keeping of military stores, and of grounds
mer environments and encampments. three hundred
thousand dollars
For ereccg barracks and quarters Mt the Republican
Fork of the Kansas river. eixty five Thousand dollars
For erecting barracks quarters for military post
on Minnesota river, forty thousand dollars
For mileage allowance made to officers for the trans
portaton of thems Ives and baggage when travelling
duty without troops, hundred and twenty Thousand
dollars;
For transportation of the army incnlins the baggage
of the troops when moving either by land water of
clothing, camp and garrison equpage and horse equip
ments from the depot at Philadelphia to the several
posts and army depots of from the places
purchase and from the places of delivery under
to such places the circumstances OF the service may
require it to be of ordnance ordnance and
small arms, from the foundries and armores to the
arsenals Notifications, frontier posts and army depots;
freghts tolls and errages for the purchase and hire Of
horses mules wagons carts days. Ships and other
seagong and boats for the transportation of
plies and for garrison purposes for drayage and carriage
the several posts hire of teamsters; transportation OF
funds for the pay and other discussing departments the
expense Of sailing pub ctransports the various rivers
the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific; and
for procuring such posts from their situation
require that it be brought from distance, million five
hundred thousand dollars.
the purchase of horses required for the first and
second regmentso of dragons, the companies of light
artillery, the regiment of mounted rihemen and such
companies ofnfantry may be mounted, one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars;
For the medical and hospital departments, fifty two
thousand dollars;
For cannon gun carriages and proeces for seacoast
defence two hundred thousand dollars;
For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, hun
dred thousand dollars;
For the expenses ofthe ordnance service one
hundred thousand do lars;
For the manufacture farms at the matte nal armorles
two hundred and fifty thousand do lars;