The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-15

thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and
poses.
For pay OF the army..................-
For pay, supplies, and travelling expenses
of six companies of Texas volunteers,
called into service by the governor OF
Texas, and mustered into the service of
the United States. ........................
For Communication Of officers subsistence.
For Communication of forage for officers
horses. ...........................
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers
servants.
For expenses Of recruiting, transportation
of recruits, three months extra pay to
non-commissioned officers, musicians, and
privatcs on re-enlistmcnt..........
For subsistence in kind .........................
For clothing for the army, camp and gar
rison equipage.. ..................,.......-
For the regular supplies Of the quarter
masters department, consisting Of fuel,
forage ia kind for the horses, mules, and
oxen of the quartermaster's department,
at the several military posts and sta
tions and with the armies In the field;
for the horses of the first and second reg
iments of dragons, the companies OF
light artillery, the regiment OF mounted
rifiemen, and such companies Of infantry
as may be mounted; and also for the au-
thorized number Of officers horses, when
serving in the field, and ut the outposts
Of straw for soldiers bedding, and of
stationery, including company and other
blank-books for the army, certificates for
discharged soldiers, blank forms for the
pay and quartermaster's departments, and
for the printing Of division and depart
ment orders, army regulations, and re-
ports...-..................
For the incidental expenses of the quarter
masters department, consisting of post
age on letters and packets received and
sent by officers of the army on public
service expenses OF courts-martial and
courts of inquiry, including the addition
81 compensation to judge advocates, re-
corders, members, and witnesses, while
on that service, under the act of March
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two;
extra pay to soldiers employed, under the
direction of the quartermasters depart
ment, in the erection of barracks, quar-
ters, storehouses, and hospitals the con-
struction of roads and other constant la
Dor, for periods OF not less than ten days,
under the act of March second, eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and August four,
eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including
those employed as clerks at division and
department headquarters; expenses of ex-
presses to and from the frontier posts and
armies in the field; ofescorts to paymas-
tiers, other disbursing officers, and trains,
when military escorts cannot be furnish
ed expenses of the interment of non
commissioned officers and soldiers; au-
thorized Office furniture; hire of laborers
in the quartermasters department, in
Guiding hire of interpreters, spies, and
guides for the army; compensation of
clerk to officers of the quartermaster's de-
partment; compensation Of forage and
wagonmasters, authorized b, the act Of
July fifth, eighteen hundred aud thirty
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 companies of light artillery, the regi-
ment Of mounted ritiemen, and such COM
panies of infantry as may be mounted,
viz: for the purchase of horse equip
ments, as saddles, brides, saddle blankets
nose bags, iron combs, c,irrycombs, spurs
and straps; Of travelling FORCES, black
smiths and shooting tools, horse and
hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase Of
medicines for horses and mules, shoeing
horses Of mounted corps, and repairing
dragoon and rifle equipments. ..............
For constructing barracks and other build
to occupy during the year, and for re-
pairing, altering, and enlarging buildings
ut the established posts, including hire or
tat <sf
military duty hire Of quarters for troops,
of storehouses for the safekeeping of mill
tary stores, and Of grounds for summer
environments; for encampments and tenn
porary frontier stations. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
For mileage 10 officers Of the army, for
transportation of themselves and bag
gage when travelling on duty without
troops or escort.
or transportation of the army, including
the baggage of the troops, when moving
either by land or water; of clothing,
camp and garrison equipage, and horse
equipments, from the depot ut Philadel-
phia to the several posts and army de-
pots; OF subsistence from the places of
purchase, and from the places of delivery,
under contract, 70 such places a. the cir
cumstances Of the service may require il
to be sent; Of ordnance, ordnance stores,
and small arms from the foundries and
armories to the arscnals, Notifications,
frontier posts, and army depots; freights,
wharfage, tolls, and terriages, for the pur-
chase and hire of horses mules, and oxen.
and the purchase and repair OF wagons
carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going
vessels and boats, for the transportation OF
supplies, and for garrison purposes; for
drayagc aud carriage At the several posts;
hire Of teamstcrs; transportation Of
funds for the pay and other discussing
departments; the expense OF sailing pub
lie transports on the various rivers, the
Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pa
ciic; and for procuring water at such
posts as from their situation require that
il be brought from distance, and for
clearing roads and removing obstruc-
tions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to
the extent which may be required for the
actual opcrntious OF the troops ON the
tronuer..
or the purchase Of horses for the first and