Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-02-17

September
eight hundred and , be, and the same Is hereby repeal
APPROVED August 4, 1854
CHAP CCXLIX-An Act to extend the Right of Pre-emp-
Unsurveyed Lands in Minnesota and tor other
purposes.
Be enacted BIZ tile Senate and House of Representatives.
fte Umited Of America IN C0ngress ossen6e That
the provisions OF the presumption act Of fourth September
hundred and the acts amenditory
thereof shall be extended the lands Minnesota Terri
nsion is claimed on unsurveyed the settler shall
e his decaraOry statement within three months ite tue
survey has been made returned and make proof and
payment before day appointed by the Presidents pre-
clamation for the commencement Of the sale vi The lands
including the tract claimed ProgdeA AO'ceee,, That IT.
when said lands suryed it is found that two or more
persons have settled upon the 9uarter secton each
Shall be permitted to enter his us near as may
be- by legal subdivisions
APPROVED, August I. 1854
CHAP. CCLXVII-An Act making Appropriations for the
support OF the Army for the year ending The thrtieih OF
June, one thousand eight hundred and It;y-hVe
Be it euacteE By tile senate anil A6xe of Rep,esentGres
the following sums be- and the same are hereby aTopra-
ted cut of any money the treasury otherwise appr
Prlate for the support of the army for the year ending the
For pay OF the million eight hundred and 'hi
ty-line thnueand and seventy-one dollars
For Communication OF officers subs six hundred and
twentyfour thousand three hundred and 'nry-x do!arS
For Communication Of forage for officers horses, one hun
dred and foar Thousand egt hundred and thirty dol
lars
For payment in lieu Of clothing for officers servants,
tn rty-six thousand three hundred and tty uo!iars
For expenses OF recruiting 4ty-hYc thousand TWO hun
For three monthss extra pay for nor-conliSsoned
fcer musicians, and rvates On re-cnlstie ten thou
For subsistence in kind, million and wcny-eght
Thousand four hundred and nincty-sev dollars
For clothing Tor the army, camp and garrison cqupage
four hundred and eighty thousand hundred and nifty
nine dollars and thirty-eight
For the gular supplies Ct the QuarteEIn"ser Depart
me consisting OF tue forage in kind r the hJrses
and oxen d: tbs Quartersci Department. at the several
for he horses of the first and second regiments of dagoOs
the companies of light artillery the regiment OF mounted
Comm StTI
ed and also for the authorized uilcers horses,
when serving the field and the Outpos; of straw for
soldiers bedding and Of stationery, including company and
other blank books for the certificates Tor discharged
soldiers blank forms for Pay Quartermasters
partments and for the printing of division and department.
orders army regulations and reports nine hundred and
For the incidental expenses of the Quarermasters De-
partent consisting Of postage on letters and packets
celved and by officers OF the army public service;
of coursartial and of inquiry including
the additional compensation juge-advocate recorders
members aud Witnesses while on that service under the
act Of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the Quar-
termaster Department. IN the erection OF barracks quar-
ter stoehuuse and hospitas the construction Of roads
and other Constant labor for periods of not less than
days. under the OF March second egateen hundred
nineteen, including those employed clerks division
from the frontier posts and armies the field; Of
to other nisbursng officers and trains when
military escorts cannot be Furnished; expenses the in
lied iice furniture hire Of IL, the
Department, including hire Interpreters SPIES guides
for the army compensation of Clerk TO officers Of The Quar-
cnlnasters horned b. 4ct of july eighteen hundred
and for the apprehension deser;cs
expenses incident their pursuit; the various Expenditures
required for the first aud second dragouns,
companies Of light artillery, the regiment of rife
and such Companies OF infantry may be mounted
VIZ horse equipments, the purchase of travelling frge,
backsmhs and shooting tools horse and mule shoes,
and steel Tor soen hare OF veterinary surgeons purchase
of med clnes for horses and mules shoeng
ted corps and repairing droguon and rifle equipments
hundred and seventy thousand three hundred
eight dollars and thirty-two
For constructing barracks and other buildings posts
which it may be necessary to occupy during the year and
for repairing altering, and en!agng buildings The
tabiisned posts including hire quarters
for officers hare OF quarters for troops OF storeEouses for
the safe keeping of military stores and OF grounds for
mer cantonments for encampmenS and temporary frontier
stations, hundred and enty Thousand dollars
For mileage or allowance made to officers fm the trans
p0rlation Ut themselves and baggage when travelling
dollars
the troops, when moving either by land water; cloth
ing camp and g1rrs1o1 equipage and hose-equments,
my depots of subsistence from the places Of purchase
As The circumstances Of the service NAV reonr ia b
sent of ordnance ordnance stores and sms arms from
the and arsenals ortifcaons
frontier posts, and depots freights tolls
ages for the purchase and hire of horses mules oxe
gons CARTS days ships and other seagong vessels and
boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison
purposes for dyage and carriage the posts hire
OF eamster OF funds for the and other
dsbursng departments; the expenses OF sling public
transports the various rivers the Gulf of Mexico
the Atlantic and Pacihc and for procuring water such
posts from their situation require that be brought from
a distance million two hundred thousand dollars
For the purchase OF horses required for the first and
cond regiments of Dragons the companies light arte-
fifty thousand dollars
For contingencies of the army, six thousand dolays
For the Medical and Hospital department, iftyone thou
sand two hundred and forty dollars
For contingent expenses of the Adutant Generals De-
partmen division and department headquarters,
hundred dollars
repair and preparations of the ontonBrdge train
stored and Kept read ness for the field
sand dollars
For armament Of Notifications hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars
For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies sevenyve
thousand dollars
For the expenses Of the orance service hun
dred thousand dollars
For the manufacture of the national ar1nories
two hundred and thousand dollars ProedeL That so
heretofore passed. which
appointment military officers to superInend the opera
The national armores be- and the is hereby
repealed and from and after the of this shall
be the of the President of the United Staes by and
with the advice the Senate appoint
petent well qualified civilian superintendent each
of said armories
For repairs and improv and new machinery altar
pers Ferry, thrty-ive thousand one hundred dollars
For arsena thrtyree th usand three hundred and ten
dollars
For the completion of magazine at Jefferson barracks
Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars
For to be used in the survey the north
and north western lakes including Lake Superior,
For military and geographical of the Mis-
sisspp twenty-five thousand dollars
For continuing the of the northern northwest
ern lakes including Lake Superior fifty Thousand dollars
For repairs of instruments of the Typographical
engineers. five thousand dollars
For printing and distributing charts of lake surveys one
thousand five hundred dollars