Nebraska advertiser., 1857-04-30
by AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
[PubIio al

Public 35.1
AN ACT making appropriations for the sup
port Of the army for the year ending the
thirsieth of June, eighteen hundred and
tifty-eight.
BE it enacted by tie Senate and House of
Representatives. of The United States Of america
in Congress assembled, That the following
sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriat-
ed, out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, for the support of the army
for the year ending the thirtieth of june,
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of
recruits, three months extra pay to non-com-
missioned officers, musicians, and privates on
re-enlistment, one hundred and ten thousand
dollars.
For pay of the army, three million Eve
hundred and fifty thousand and two dollars.
For commutation of officers subsistence
nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand two
hundred and one dollars.
For pay of officers of the Military Academy,
one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For Communication of subsistence of officers
of Military Academy, one thousand and
twenty two dollars.
For. conmutation Of forage for officers
horses, one hundred and twenty-three thousand
nine hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For payments to discharged soldiers fol
clothing not drawn, fifty thousand dollars.
For payments in lieu Of clothing for officers
servants, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred
and sixty dollars. ~
! For subsistence in kind, one million nine
hundred aud eighty-nine thousand eight hun
dred and thirty-four dollars
For clothing for the army, camp, and garri-
son equipage, eight hundred and ninety five
thousand six hundred and seven dollars and
ssYenty-three cents, and that hereafter all the
accounts and vouchers of the discussing officers
of the Quartermasters' department of the army
shall be audited and settled by the Third Au-
ditor 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 Quartermaster's
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
iiAemen, 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 at the
outposts; of straw for soldiers bedding, and O.
stationary, including company and other blank
books for the army, certificates for discharged
soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quarter
masters departments; and for the printing o
division and department orders, army regula.
tons, and reports one million two hundred
Thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the quarter
masters department, consisting of postage OF
letters and packages received and sent BY
officers of the army on public service; expense
of courts martial and courts Of inquiry, in
cluding the additional compensation to judg,
advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses
while on that service, under the act of Marel
sixteen, eighteen hundred and two; extra pa,
to soldiers employed under the direction o
the quartermasters department. in the erection
of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hOspi
tails; the construction of roads and other con
stant labor, for periods Of not less than ten day
under the acts of March second, eighteen hun
dred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteel
hundred and fifty-four, including those EN-
ploved as clerks at division and department
headquarters; expenses of expresses to ant
from the frontier posts and armies in the field
of escorts to paymasters, other disbursln
officers and trains, when military escorts can
not be furnished; expenses of the intermen
of non-commissioned officers and soldiers
authorized office furniture; hire of laborers i
the quartemasters department, including hir
of interpreters SPIES and guides, for the army
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termaster's department.; compensation of fol
age and wagonmasteis, authorized by the aC
of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty
4 eight; for the apprehension of deserters, an
the expenses incident to their pursuit; the fol
: lowing expenditures required for the two rcgi
/; ments of dragons, the two regiments {
cavalry, the regiment of mounted rihemeI
and such companies of infantry as may b
mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forge
blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mul
shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hiI
of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horse
and mules, picked ropes and shoeing the horse
of those corps, four hundred and forty thousan
dollars.
For constructing barracks and other built
!, ings at posts which it may be necessary to OF
cupy during the year; and for repairing, alte
= ing, and enlarging buildings at the establishe
posts, including hire or Communication of qua
ters for officers on military duty; hire of qua
ters for troops, of storehouses for the safe keel
ing of military stores, and of grounds f
summer. cantonments for encampments an
/. temporary frontier stations, six hundred thou
sand dollars.
} For mileage or allowance made to officers,
! the army for the transportation of themselv
and their baggage, when travelling on dut
without troops or escorts, one hundred an
twenty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, includir
baggage of the troops when moving either |
J. land OF water; of clothing, camp and garrisC
equipage from the depot at Philadelphia
i the several posts and army depots; nor
= equipments and of subsistence from the plac
of purchase and from the places of delivel
under contract, to such places as the circum
tances of the service may require it to be ser
of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arm
from the foundres and armones, to the ars
nails, Notifications, frontier posts. and army 4
\ pots freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriage.
? for the purchase and hire of horses, mules al
5, oxen, and the purchase and repair of Wagon
carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vesse
and boats for the trans spOrtation Of supplies a
for garrison pnrposss; for drayage and carta
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