Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-16
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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY
THIRD CONGRESS 49, -.
OF THE 49,.
UNITED STATES,

CHAP. CCLXVII-.4n .4ct making .fppropria-
3 tions for the Support of the .Artny for the gear
4 ending the thirtieth Of June, one thousand eight
hundred aud ffty,tire.
Be 1t enacted bV the Senate and House of Repre-
sentattres of the United States of .4nerica in Com
gress assembled, That the following sums be, and
the same are hereby, appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropria-
ted, for the support of the army for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight
hundred and ifty-fve:
For pay of the army, one million eight hun
dred and thirty-nine thousand and seventy one
dollars;
For commutation of officers subsistence, six
hundred and twenty-four thousand three hundred
and thirty-six dollars
For Communication of forage for officers horses
one hundred and four thousand eight hundred
and thirty-two dollars;
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers
servants, thirty-six thousand three hundred and
fifty dollars;
For expenses of<ecruiting, ffty-ive thousand
two hundred dollars;
For three months extra pay for non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians, and priVates, on re-
enlistment, ten thousand dollars:
For subsistence in kind, one million and twen-
ty-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-seven
dollars;
For clothing for the army, camp and garrison.
equipage, four hundred and eighty thousand
three hundred and fifty nine dollars and thirty
eight-cents;
For the regular supplies of the Quartermas-
ter's Department, consisting OF fuel, forage lii
kind for the horses. mules, and oxen of the
Quartermaster's Department, at the several
military posts and stations, and with the armies
in the field for the horses OF the first and Sec
ond regiments of Dragons, the companies OF
light artillery, the regiment of mounted ritemen,
and such companies OF infantry as may be mount
ed, and also for the authorized number of ofli-
GERS horses, when serving Ill the field, and at
the outpoSts; of straw fof soldiers bedding, and
Of stationery, including company and other
blank books for the army, certificates for dis
charged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and
Quartermaster's Departments, and for the print
Ing of division and department orders, army reg
ulations, and reports, nine hundred and fifty
thousand dollars;
For the Incidental expenses of the Quarter
masters Department, consisting of postage on
letters add packets received and sent by officers
of the army on public service; expenses of courts
martial and courts of inquiry, including the ad-
ditional compensation to Judge-advocates, re-
corders, members, and witnesses, while on that
service, under the act of March sixteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and two extra pay to soldiers EN-
pIoyed, under the direction of the QuartermaS
ter's Department, in the erection OF barracks.
quarters, stosthouses, and hospitals; the
struction OF oads and other constant LABOR, for
periods of not less than ten DAYS, under the act
of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen,
including those employed as clerks at division
presses to and from the frontier posts and armies
in the field; Of escorts to paymasters, other dis
bursting officers, and trains, when military
corts cannot be furnished: expenses of the inter
90 ment of non-conmissiOHed officers and soldiers;
authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in
the Quartermaster's Department, including hire
of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army;
compensation of clerk to officers of the Quarter
masters Department.; compensation of forage
and wagonmasters, authorized by the act Of Ju-
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apprehension of diserters, and the expenses in
cident to their pursuit; the various expenditures
required for the first and second regiments of
dragons, the companies OF light artillery, the
regiment of mounted rifemen, and such COM
panies Of infantry as may be mounted, viz: horse
equipments, the purchase of travelling forges,
blacksmiths' and sho eing tools, horse and mule
shoes, iron and steel for shoeng, hire of yeteri-
nary surgeons, purchase OF medicines for horses
and mules, shoelnS horses OF mounted corps and
repairing dragoon and rifle equipments, three
hundred and seVenty-five thousand thee hundred
and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents;
For constructing barracks and other buildings
at posts, which it may be necessary to occupy
during the year, and for repairing, altering, and
enlarging buildings at the established posts, in
cluding hire or Communication Of qnarters for Off
GERS hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses
q for the safe keeping of military stores, and of
grounds for summer cantonments; for encamD-
ments and temporary frontier stations six hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars;
For mileage or allowance made to officers for
the transportation of themselves and baggage,
when travelling on duty without troops, one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars; -. ~.
For transportation of the army, including the
baggage of the troops, when moving eithef by
land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison
equipage, and horse-equipments, from the de nol
at Philadelphia to the several posts and army
depots; of subsistence from the places of pur-
chase, and from the places Of delivery, under
contract, to such places as the circumstances of
the service may require it TO be sent; ;of ordnance
ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foun-
dries and arnories to the arsenals, Notifications
frontier posts, and army depots; freights, tolls,
and ferrfages; for the purchase and hire of hor-
-ses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, drays. ships,
and other sea-going vessels and boats, for the
transportation of supplies, and for garrison pur-
poses; for drayage and carriage at the several
posts; hire OF teansters; transportation of funds
for thepay and other discussing departments
the expenses of sailing public transports on the
various rivers the Gulf of Mexico, and the At
slansic and Pacific; and for procuring water at
such posts as from their siteatioh require that
1t be brought from a distance, one million two
hpndred thousand doliars; :; f5.,---.1
For the purchase Of horses required for the
first and second regiments OF dragons, the com
panles OF flghfs artillery and the regiment of
mounted rjdemen, eae hundred and fifty thousand
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