Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-08
department orders, army regulations, and reports,

For the purchase of horses for the two regiments or dragons, the two regiments of cavalry the reg- ment of mounted rifemen, the companies of hght artillery, and such infantry as it may be found ne cessary to mount at the frontier posts 252 900 dol lars.
 For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's oepartment consisting of postage letters and packages received and sent by officers of the ar my on public service; expenses of court martial and courts of enqmry, including the additional compen- saton to judge advocates. recorders members and witnesses, While on that service, under the act of March 18th, 1902; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermaster,s danart ment, Ill the erection of barracks, quarters store houses, and hospltals the construction of roads and other constant abor for periods of not less than ten dys, under the acts of March 2d, 1919, and August 4th, loo4, Including those employed as clerks nj division and department headauarters: expenses of or expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies Ill the field; of escorts to paymasters other olsDurslng officers, and ra-s when military escorts eahho' DC furnished; eXpenSes of the nterment of oh-cominssloned officers and soldiers authorized ollte furniture hire of laborers in the ouartermas Ter department. including hlre of interpreters spcs ana guides for the army; compensation of clerk to oileefs oi the quartermaster department compen- satlon of forage and wagon masters. authorized by the act of July 5th lS3S for the apprehension of de- serters and the expenses incident to their pursuit. tpe following expenditures required for the two re- glents of dragons, the two regiments of cavalry the regiment or mounted riiemen, and such compa-
 
 of travellng torges black smiths and shoeinc tools horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeihg, mre of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes and shoang the horses of those corps, l9U 900 dollars
 For constructing barracks and other buldngs at posts winch 1t may be necessary to occupy during the year. and for repairing, altering, and enlarying buildings at the established posts including hire or cohnutaton of quarters for officers on military du- W hre ol quarters for troops of storehouses for the Sdlc keeping Of military and nI u,,1S f,r summer cantonments; for encampments and tenn porary frontier stations, So,o00 dollars.
 TOT transportatlUL of the army including the bag gage ot the troops when moving either by land or water; or clothing, camp, and garrison eouipage rom the depot at hade pha the vera posts and army depots;hor pmens and ofsubsstence from the places ot Purchace and from the places of delivery under contractsuch places the crcu istnces of te sefNlce may require It to be sent of ordnance ordinance stores, and small arms, from the toundrie, and ar
 hoiles, to the arsenaiS 0rtfcations frontier posts ana army dePots; 1reghts, wharfage, tolls and fer flage Tor the purchase and hire of horses mules and oAeii' ana the purchase and repair of Wugons, carts, dlay shlls, and other going vessels and boats Tor tHe transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and carriage at the severa! posts; hlre oi teanster~; transportation of funds for the pay ana other dlSDuyslng departments; the eXpens. "I S;iIihg puDc trans ports on the varions rivers the Hut oi Mexico, and the Atlantic and P.ciiic and Tor procuring water at sch posts as from their siiu- tlon require that 1t be brought from Il distance and Tor clearing roads ana removing obsttuc ions from ro"dH, ilarbors and rivers to the extent which may be required from the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, 400 O0U dollars
 Fol subsiaIance ln kind, l,ZZO. 900 dollars. For surveys for military detcnces geogrnhica ex- por"'los and reconnOissanccs for military purposes o CVJ uUiIars.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 For contingent expenses of the northeast execu- uVe building, VIZ: for fuel, light, and repairs VUU dollars.
 For the erection of stables and conservatory at the ilcsdcns House, to replace those about 10 be taken 1p"n to make room for tile extension of the Treasury building 390j dollars
 For surveJ ing the public lands and private land canns Ill California. including office eN peuses incl dent |" the survey Of ca!m> and t1 be aisbursed at te rates prescribed by ia for the different kinds ot work, beng the amount of surveying liabilities n- cured Dy the surveyor general during the fiscal year eh pg "Otf June, 1851 and above that author lled under the appropra lion of 5h.UU0 dollars for that pcriol 320.Oop dollars.
 For payment to clerks temporarily employed in thj IoSt Olhce Department, on account of the eA- traordary aborS connected with the lettings of new contracts for the term commencing on the lst .Juiy
 o1a, and the increase of business in the ins pectOn ,aud depreciation office of said department 2ls o9 dollars
 For lighting the Presidents house and capto the public grounds around them and around the cxecu- uVe olhces, and Pennsylvania avenue, and Bridge ani High streets in Georgetown, 5,oJodollurS. For compensation Of the surveyor general of Utah territory, from the lNt day ot January, lS5G to 3Uth Jane, loj7, I590 dollars
 For purchase of the '' Masonic Temple" in the city of Boston for the accommodation of the United States courts upon the terms agreed on by the Srcre- tary ot the Interior and the ropfie5ors thereof in addition to the sum of loo 900 dollars appropriated bl the act of 3d March, 1851 for the erection of building for said purpose, 5000 dollars. SEC. ;. Ind be 4 tNtb1r eBdcted T hat the snp of l'45sLI3 dollars be- and the same fS hereby appro- piiate to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Office Department for the year ending the 30th of June. 1853.
 SEC. 3. 14d be 3 fa2iht1 caacted, That the ac- counting officers of the treasury be authorized and directed to allow credit to tho Clerk oi the House of Representatives for such payments out of its conu- gem fund d. have been. or may be- made under al low nces authorized by the House of Representatives during the last Congress Pror1ed. T'hu, said al- lowanccs shall have been duly approved by the com mlttcc on accounts: -fHa be H fufler proriJed That the said allowances be Iaid out of any money in the treasury not o'hcrH i~e appropriAtel. SEC. I. -4nd be ll futf8er eaactrd That whenever hereafter contracts shall be made by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy by virtue of Inc sixth >e'tlon of the act approved the first of May ls2o entitled " An actin addition to the several art- for the e>tabishmc mt and regulation of the Treasury War, and Navy Departments" he shall. if Congress be in session at the time, promptly report to both
 Houses thereof the ns for making Su, contract stating fully all the facts and circumstances whi l. in his judgment rendered such contract necessary il Congress be not in session at the time of making such e ntract he shall at the commencement of their | next session make such report to both Houses and no such contracts shall be made hereafter except in case, of pressing exigcncy.