Arkansas intelligencer., 1857-05-01

temporary frontier stations, six hundred thou
sand dollars.
For mileage or allowance made to officer
OF the army for the transportation of then,
selves and their baggage, when travelling OIL
duty without troops or escorts, one hundre,
aud twenty thousand dollars.
4 For transportation of the army, including
baggage Of the troops when moving either b,
and or water; Of clothing, camp and garrison
equipage from the depot at Philadelphia t,
the several posts and army depots; hors.
equipments and ofsubsistence from the place
OF purchase and from the places of deliver,
under contract to such places As the circum
stances OF the service may require it to bt
sent; OF ordinance, ordinance stores, and small
arms, from the founderies and armories to th,
arsenals, Publications, frontier posts, and army
| depots; freghts, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages
for the purchase and hire of horses, mules
and oxen, and the purchase and repair OF
wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing
vessels and boats for the transportation OF
supplies and for garrison purposes; for dray-
age and cartage at the several posts; hire OF
teamsters; transportation Of funds for the pay
and other dsbursing departments; the expense
of sailing public transports on the various
and Pacific; and for procuring water at such
posts as from their situation require that it be
brought from a distance; and for clearing
roads, and removing obstructions from roads,
hsrbors and rivers, to the extent which may
be required for the actual operations of the
troops on the frontier, one million eight hun
dred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the two re-
giments Of Dragons, the two regiments of
cavalry, the regiment OF mounted rflemen,
the companies of light artillery, and such in
fantry as 1t may be found necessary to mount
at the frontier posts, one hundred and ninety
thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, thirteen
thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments,
one hundred and five thousand dollars
For contingent expenses of the adjutant
generals department, at division and depart
ment headquarters, four hundred dollars
For compensation of the clerk and messen-
ger IN the office of the commanding general,
two thousand dollars
For contingent expenses of the office of the
commanding general, three hundred dollars.
For armament of Notifications, three hun
dred thousand dollars.
s95ss f te fad dsaHHate
regiments, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordinance
service, one hundred aud fifty thousand dol
lars.
For arsenals, including fifty thousand dol
lars for arsenal in California, one hundred and
thirty seven thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars
To enable the Secretary of War to pur
chase, not exceeding seven hundred and fifty
two thousand seven hundred and ffty-one
square feet Of ground adjacent to the Wash
ington Arsenal, and for the use thereof, at
price not exceeding ten cents per foot, and for
the purchase OF the improvements upon said
ground, and for the necessary drainage of a
part thereof, eighty thousand four hundred
and fifty dollars and ten cents.
For continuing the experiment of sinking
artesian wells upon the public lands, to he
expended under the direction Of the Secreta-
ry Of War, one hundred thousand dollars
For repairs and new machinery at Spring
field armory, Massachusetts, sixty eight thou
sand six hundred and eightv-five dollars.
For the erection and completion of the wa
ter shops at Springfield armory, seventy thou
sand nine hundred and eighty five dollars.
For repairs ami Improvements and new
machinery at uafper's Ferry, thirty four
thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
For finishing and furnishing the armory for
the militia for the District of Columbia, seven
thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
dollars.
For surveys for military defences, geograph
ical explorations, and reconnaissance for mil
itary purposes, seventy five thousand dollars.
For purchase and repairs Of instruments,
fifteen thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the northern
and northwestern lakes, including Lake Su-
perior, fifty thousand dollars.
For printing charts Of lake surveys, Eve
thousand dollars.
For machinery, tools, and fixtures required
for an arsenal of construction Sat Fayetteville,
North Carolina, including the cost of putting
the machinery in place, fifty thousand three
hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of the government bridge over
Mill creek, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, eight
hundred dollars.
For building the barracks at Carlisle, Penn
sylvania, which were destroyed by fire on the
twenty-second of January, eightee en- hundred
| and fifty seven, twenty FIVE thousand dollars.
For the purchase Of stores for the quarters
of officers and soldiers of the army, twenty
| thousand dollars.
| To enable the Secretary of War to settle
the accounts of the three officers of the army,
who were sent to Europe in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-fve to collect information
on military affairs, four thousand six hundred
and seven dollars and twenty-nine cents.
For the purpose of making further tests oi
gun metal for heavy cannon, twenty five thou
sand dollars.
For completing the Point Douglas and St
Louis river road, thirty-oce thousand fou,
hundred and twenty five dollars and fifty
cents. a