The weekly independent. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss) 1848-1853, 1853-04-16

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! dlers; gun-houses for the protection oicannon
including the necessary tools and material
for the objects enumerated, ard for rent of
quarters snd offices for officers and barracks
and hospitals for troops, where there aresno
| public buildings for their accommodation;
lor storehonses for the safckeepng ol military
stores, and of grounds for summer canton-
ments and encampments, three hundred thou
sand dollars;
Foo erecting barracks and quarters at the
Republican Fork of rhe Kansas river, sixty
| i've thousand dollars;
For erecting barracks and quarters for
military post on Minnesota river, forty thou
sand dollars;
For mileage or allowance made to officers
for the transportation of themselves and bag
gage, hen travelling on duty without troops
onellnndred and twenty thousand dollars.
Fer transportation of the army, including
the baggage Of the troops, when moving Ell
thcr by land or water; of clothing camp and
garrison eqmpage and horses equipments
from the depot at Philadelphia TO the several
! posts and army depots, ofAubsistence from the
places ofpurchase, and from the places of de-
Livery, under contract, TO such places as the
circumstances oil tue service may require it to
| be SEN; OF ordnance, ordntbe stores aud small
arms, from the ioundries aud armories TO the
my depots; lreights, tools, and lerriages for
the purchase and hire of Loses, mules, oxen,
wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seago-
ing vessels and boats; for the transportation
| OF supplies, and for garrison purposes for
| drayage and carriage 'at the several posts; hire
| oi team5ters transportationof funds for the
| pay and other disbursing departments; the
expenses Of sailing public transports on the
various rivers, the Gulfof Mexico, and the
Atlantic and Pacifc and iosprocuring water
at such posts as from their situation require
it. be brought nom distance, one mill
ION five hundred thousand dellars-
For the purchase fhorses quired for the
first and second regiments Of Dragons, t,e
companies of light artillery the regiment of
mounted riilemen, and such companies of ia
1antry as may be mounted, sne bundled and
| eighty thousand dollars
For the medical aud hospital departme nts,
| titty two thousand do Ilars;
For cannon. gun carriages and prolectes
for searoast defence, two hundred thousand
dollars;
For ordnance, ordnance stoes, and supplies
one hundred thousand dollar;
For the current expenses Of the ordnance
| service, one hnndredthous,tIi dollars,
For the manufacture orarnjs at tue nation-
al annories, Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars;
To make good damages atHarper's Ferry.
cansed by the food Of nineteenth and TWEEN
| tiet Of Apr4l, eighteen hundpd and ilty two,
twenty tuuuspud dollars;
ForrcPairs aId improvements and new
machinery at Harper's Ferry, brty three thou
| sand i've hundred doIlals;
Forrep7lrs and Improvement andnew ma
| chinery at Springfield armory fofty six thou
sand and ninety four dollars; Pr0odrR. That
lromand alter ia first day ol July next, the
act Of Congress approved ugust twenty
Ihnd, eighteen hundred end brty two, be so
modified that the President mar, ifin his opin-
ION the public interest demands, it place over
any OF the arnories superintendent W ho
does not tbelong o the army; and IN order to
enable hm to decide to his satisfaction, is
hereby authorized 10 can=o tf's necessary and
proper inqnines to be instituted through the
medium o. a commission ol cIVluans anu
military men, With the view oi ascerIanmg
wHIch OF the TWO systems Is iAe most ecoho-
'hica' eilclent' and sale Tor the management
OF the pubic armofles, that formerly existing
uRaef lhc superintendent OF clVil officers or
lhat now eA'sthlg under me sepernlehuehIs
VI o"lcerS U 'he ordlahce oepaHmeht;
forarSenaIs, loriy one. thousand and seventy
one uol'arsi ahd that tine Secretary OF war be,
anu Is hefGoy' aUtiopIeu 10 apoiah shch OF
the 'USeht us OF the united states as IN hlS
Judgment may be useless or unnecessary
tol "le"loge5 to'uly Irst'elsnletn huHateN
anu M ni'eoA, PayaoIs thfoH8n the oIIcs o. the
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10 ali '"'A Peh'e1 oa'aHc1 OF seven lhou'ahu
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