The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-03
BY AUTHORITY.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
Public 81


Public al
AN ACT making appropriations for the support Of The
army for the year ending the hrsth of June thou
sand eight hundred and ffty-seven
BE enacted BY As Ssats and House Of Representatives.
q The United SAFES Of America Congress assembled That
the following be- and the hereby appro-
prated out oany money in the treasury otherwise APP
proprated for the support OF the army for the year ending
seven; "#"
For expenses Of recruiting transportation OF recruits
three months extra pay 10 officers musi
clans and prvaes on reensment hundred thousand
For pay of the army three million two hundred and
seyentyhye thousand hundred and seventy dollars
For Communication Of officers subsistence six hundred
and sxyone thousand nine hundred and sixyeven dol
lars
For Communication Of forage for officers horses one hum
dred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and four
dollars
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers servants
thirty nine thousand four hundred and forty dollars
For subsistence in kind, one million nine hundred and
lars . ......
For clothing for the army camp and garrison equipage
six hundred and twenyou thousand eight hundred and
thirty-thr dollars and ffty-seyen cents.
For the regular supplies of the quartermasters depart
ment consisting Of fuel for the officers enlisted men, guard
hospitals sorehouses and offices forage In kind for the
horses mules and of the department at
the several posts and stations and with the armies in the
field for the horses OF the two regiments Of Dragons the
two regiments Of cavalry the regiment of mounted rHeen
the companies of light artillery and such companies of in
fantry be mounted for the authorized number OF
officers horses when serving in the field the outposs
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 and quarermas
tes departments and for the printing Of division and de-
parment orders army regulations and reports million
and ten thousand dollars. ..te.-
For the incidental expenses of the de-
parmen consisting Of postage letters and packages
ceyed and sent by officers of the army public service
expenses of coursmarta and Of inquiry including
the additional compensation Judge advocates recorders
members and witnesses while that service under the
Get of March sixteenth eighteen hundred and
pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quar-
termasters department in the erection of barracks quar-
ters storehouses and hospas the construction of roads
and other constant labor for periods of not less than
days under the acts of March second eighteen hundred
and nineteen ami August fourth eighteen hundred and
ffyour including those employed clerks division
and headquarters of expresses to and
from the frontier posts and armies in the field of
to paymasters other disbursng officers and trains when
military escorts be furnished expenses of the inter
ment Of noncommissoned officers and soldiers author
lied office furniture; hire of aborers in the quarermas
te department including hire of interpreters 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 fifth
eighteen hundred and thirty for the apprehension
Of desertes and the expenses incident TO their pursuit. the
following expenditures required for the two regiments of
dragons the two regiments of cavalry the regiment of
mounted rifemen and such companies Of infantry as NAV
be mounted vz the purchase Of travelling FORCES black
smhs and shoeng tools horse and mule shoes and nails
iron and steel for shoeng hire of veterinary surgeons
medicines horses and mules picket ropes and shooting
the horses Of those corps three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts
which necessary TO occupy during the year and
for repairing altering and enarging buildings the es
tabished posts including hire Communication Of quarters
for officers military duty hire of quarters for troops
of storehouses for the sakeeping of military stores and
Of
and temporary frontier stations five hundred thousand
dollars.
For mileage allowance made to officers of the army
for the transportation OF themselves and their baggage
when travelling duty without troops or escorts one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars
For transportation of the army including the baggage
Of the troops when moving either by land or water;
of clothing camp and garrison equipage from the depot
at Philadelphia the several posts and army depots
equipments and of subsistence from the places Of purchase
and from the places of delivery under contract such
places the circumstances Of the service may require to
be sent of ordnance ordnance stores and small arms,
from the foundries and armore TO the arsenals forca
lions frontier posts and army dcPots fregh wharfage
tolls and erriages for the purchase and hire of horses
mules and aud the purchase and repair OF wagons
carts drays ships and other seagoing vessels and boats
for the transportation Of supplies and for garrison pur
poses for drayage and carriage at the several posts hire
OF eanstes transportation Of funds for the pay and other
dsbursng departments the expense Of sailing public
transports the various rivers the Gulf Of Mexico and
the Atlantic aud Pacific and for procuring at such
posts from their situation require that il be brought
from distance and for clearing roads and removing OBJ
sructons from roads harbors and rivers the extent
winch may be required for the actual operations of the
troops the frontier million five hundred thousand
dollars.
For the purchase Of for the two regiments of dra
goons the regiments of cavalry the regiment mount
ed remen the companies Of light artillery, and such in
anry may be found necessary 10 mount the FROM
tier posts two hundred thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments seventy-fv
thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses OF the Aduant Generals de-
partmen at division and department headquarters four
hundred dollars
For compensation of the clerk and messenger In the
Office Of the commanding general two thousand dol
lara
For contingent expenses Of the Office Of the commanding
general, three hundred dollars.
For armament Of Notifications hundred and twenty
FIVE thousand dollars.
For ordnance ordnance stores and supplies including
horse equipments for the mounted regiments hundred
and three thousand dollars. q
For the expenses Of the ordnance service one
hundred thousand dollars.
For the manufacture Of at the national armories
two hundred and ffty-thousand dollara
To enable Thomas H. Barlow, Of Kentucky TO manufae-
ture Of his newly invented rife cannon for the pur
pose Of testing the feasibility Of their In the military
naval service of the country three thousand dollars be
paid TO said Barlow from time to time he progresses
with the manufacture Of the Propid,d That said
cannon shall not be less caber than twevepounder
And proridsd further That the said Barlow shall give
good and sufficient security TO the Secretary Of War for
the faithful expenditure Of the money hereby appropriated
in the construction Of said cannon.
For arsenals including the purchase Of sites for
arsenas Of deposit in Texas and New Mexico and for the
erection Of suitable magazines and other arsenal buildings
In Texas in California in Washington Oregon Tern.
tory, and in New Mexico two hundred and thirty thou