Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-05-01
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AN ACT making appropriations for the sup
| port of the army for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
titty-eight.
| BE IL enacted 6y the .Saadte and House of
Representatives of the United States Of Ame-
rica IN Congress assembled, That the follow
| ing sums be and the sam, are hereby appro-
| priated, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, 70. the support of the
army for the year ending the thirtieth Of
June, eighteen hundred aid ffty-eight.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation
| of recruits, three months extra pay to non-
commissioned officers, muIicians, and privates
on re-enlistment, one hunlred and ten thou
sand dollars.
For pay of the army three million five
hundred and fifty Thousand and two hundred
dollars.
For commutation of ohicers' subsistence,
nine hundred and ninety mine thousand two
hundred and one dollars
For pay of officers of the Military Acade-
my, one thousand six aundred and eighty
dollars.
For commutation of subsistence of officers
of Military Academy, one thousand twenty
two dollars.
For Communication of forage for officers
horses, one hundred and tweuty-three thou
sand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn, fifty thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu Of clothing for officers
servants, thirty nine thousand eight hundred
and sixty dollars.
hundred and eighty nine thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For clothing for the army, camp and gar
rison equipage, eight hundred and ninety five
thousand six hundred and seven dollars and
seventy three cents, and that hereafter all the
accounts and vouchers of the discussing Off
GERS of the Quartermaster's department of the
army shall be audited and settled by the
Third Auditor of the Treasury.
For the regular supplies of the Quarter
masters department, consisting of fuel for the
officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, store
houses, and offices; forage in kind for the
horses, mules, and oxen of the QGartermaster's
department at the several posts and stations,
and with the armies in the field; for the hor-
ses of the two regiments of Dragons, the two
regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted
rltlemen, the companies of light artillery, and
such companies of infantry as may be mount
ed, and for the authorized number Of officers
horses when serving in the field and outposts;
of straw for soldiers bedding, and of statione-
ry, including company and other blank books
for the army, certificates for discharged sol
ders, blank forms for the pay and quarter
masters departments; and for the printing Of
division and department orders, armyNrJgula-
tlons and reports, one million two hundred
Thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses Of the Quar-
tersmasters department, consisting of postage
on letters and packages received and sent by
officers of the army on public service; exper-
ses of courts martial aud courts Of inquiry,
including the additional compensation to Judge
advocates. recorders, members, and witnesses,
while on that service, under the act Of March
sixteen, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay
to soldiers employed under the direction of
the Quartermaster's department, in the cree
ton Of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and
hospitals; the construction of roads and other
constant labor, for periods of not less than ten
| days, under the acts of March second, eigh
teen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth,
eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including
those employed as clerks at division and de-
| partment headquarters; expenses of expresses
| TO and from the frontier posts and armies in
| the field; of escorts to paymasters, other dis
bursing officers and trains, when military es-
corts cannot be furnished; expenses of the
interment of non commissioned officers and
soldiers; authorized officer 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 quartermaster's department;
compensation Of forage and wagon masters,
authorized by the act Of July fifth, eighteen
hundred and thirty y-eight; for the apprehen-
sion of deserters, and the expenses incident to
their pursuit; the following expenditures re-
quired for the two regiments Of dragons, the
two regiments of cavalry, the regiment OF
mounted rif1emen, and such companies of in
fantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase
Of travelling forges, blacksmiths' and shoeing
tools, horse and mules shoes and nails, iron
and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary sur.
geons, medicines for horses and mules, picked
ropes, and shoeing the horses Of those corps
four hundred and forty thousand dollars.
| For constructing barracks and other build
ings at posts which it may be necessary !,
occupy during the year; and for repairing
altering, and charging buildings at the estab
! hshsd posts, including bire OF eemputatien Q