The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-09

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veys with armies in the field fifty thousand dollars.
For purchase and repairs Of instruments ten thousand
dollars
For printing charts Of lake surveys, ten thousand dol
lars
For continuing the survey Of the northern aud north
western lakes including Lake Superior seventy hye thou
sand dollars.
For defraying the expenses Of the recovery and the
restoration 10 their homes Of the children surviving
the massacre by Indians of the emgrant trains nom
Arkansas in the fall Of eighteen hundred and htyseyen
ten thousand dollars.
For the payment to the State of Minnesota for
penses incurred by Captain james Stakeys company of
Minnesota volunteers called out by the governor of the
Territory OF Minnesota in eighteen hundred ana hlty-
protect the settlers OF the valley of Sunrise river
against the Chippewa Indians two thousand six hundred
and thirty nine dollars so much thereof as may be
necessary.
For the removal Of the Court oree band of the Chip
pewa Indians the Red Cedar and Menomonee rivers,
in Wisconsin, and providing permanent home for them
among the Chippewas of Lake Superior or the Upper
Mississippi, ten thousand dollars
For repairs and improvements and new machinery at
Springfield armory, Massachusetts, fifty three thousand
nine hundred and ten dollars.
For repairs aud improvements and new machinery at
Harper's Ferry armory, fifty five thousand dollars.
For printing revised edition of the system OF nstruc-
ta FOR field artillery horse and foot to be stereoyped
with engraved plates, ready for the press and for
procuring for distribution TO the militia OF the United
States books of tactical instruction. ten thousand dollars
For the construction of military road from Fort Ben
she g. And be further enacted That the Secretary of
the War be- and he is hereby authorized to repay to
the State of Texas out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated advanced by that State
for the payment of companies OF mounted volunteers
called into service by General Persilor Smith on the
first OF November, eighteen hundred and hity-four for
three months Propad That there shall be no greater
pay or allowances to these companies than was given to
similar troops in the service of the United States.
SIC g. And be further enacted That for the purpose Of
executing resolution approved May fourteenth eighteen
hundred and thirtysx entitled IN resolution TO author
lie the Secretary of War TO receive additional evidence
in sunpot of the claims of Massachusetts, and other States
OF the United States for disbursement services and
forth during the late war, the Secretary of the Treas
uy be- and he hereby authorized and directed to pay
to Massachusetts, out OF any moneys in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and
twenty seven thousand hundred and seyentysx dol
lars and fotyeight cents reported under said resolution
10 be due TO said State by r. Poinset late Secretary of
War, 10 a report dated the twenty third of December
eighteen hundred and thirty made to the House
Representatives the twenty of December eighteen
hundred and thrtyseven Prooded, That in lieu of pay
ment in money the Secretary Of the Treasury, may, at
his discretion issue said State United States stock bear
ing interest of five per centum per annum and re-
deeabe at the end of ten years. sooner at the pleas
ure of the President.
sgn A. And be further enacted That the second sec.
ton of the act of third March eighteen hundred and fifty
one entitled San act to found military asylum for the
relief and support invalid and disabled soldiers of the
army Of the United States be amended as to reduce
the aumber of commissioners authorized by that section
to three and to consist Of the Commssary General of
Subsistence the Surgeon General and the Adutant GEN
erai amy two of whom shall be quorum for the trans
action Of busness) whose duty II shall be to examine and
audit the accounts the qatery yearly and to
visit and inspect the military asylum at least once in every
month
SIC s. And be itjter enacted That the benefits Of the
said act be- and they hereby, extended to in
clude the invalid and disabled soldiers whether regulars
or volunteers of the Of eighteen hundred and twelve
and Of all subsequent and that much of the act
of the third March, eighteen hundred and fifty one
inconsistent herewith be, and Sac is hereby re-
pealed
SIC G. 4ndJe further enacted That all pensioners
account Of wounds disability incurred in the military
service shall transfer and surrender their pensions to the
institution for and during the time they may remain
therein and voluntarily continue to receive its benefits
SIC I. And be Jurticf enacted That the deductions
OF twenty five cents per month from the pay of the
commissioned officers, musicians, artfcers and prvaes
ia the army shall be reduced from and after the thrteth
of June next to twelve anda half cents per month and
that the title of the act be- and the same is hereby,
changed from the HMitary Asylum to that of ''Sol-
diers Home = and propidd, further That all persons
now in or that may hereafter be admitted into the in
stitution shall be- and hereby made subject to the
rules and articles of and will be governed thereby in
the same manner as soldiers in the army.
SIC. s. Ind be further enacted, That the following
sums be- and they hereby, appropriated, out of any
money the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the
following Notifications
For fort at Hog Island ledge forty thousand dollars
For Fort Knox, Penobscot bay, twenty thousand dol
lars
For Fort Schuyler, East river New York. twenty thou-
sand dollars
For Fort Richmond, Staten Island, fifteen thousand
dollars
For Fort Carroll Sellers Point fifty thousand dol
lars
For Fort Montgomery, Lake ChampIain, ten thousand
dollars.
For Fort Delaware Delaware river, seventy five thou
sand dollars
For Fort Calhoun Hampton Roads, Virginia, seventy
five thousand dollars
For Fort Sumpter, Charleston South Carolina twenty
five thousand dollars.
For Fort Clinch Florida, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Point, California, fifty thousand dollars.
For Fort Alcatraz, California, thirty thousand dol
lars.
For Fort Jefferson Tortugas Florida ninety five thou
sand dollars
For Fort Taylor Key West, seventy thousand dollars
For continuing tie construction of the works at Fr"'
Gaines, thirty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses OF Notifications "nd repairs
thirty thousand dollars
Approved March, 1859.
AN ACT making appropriations for sundy civil expenses
of the government for the year ending the thirteth oil
1pne - huedrSf a aad SxtY ~ ~ Ne
United States Of Aaica Ia Congress assembled That the
ate the objects hereafter expressed for the fiscal
year ending the thireth June, eighteen hundred and
SIXTY viz
SURVEY OF THE COAST
For continuing the survey Of the Atlantic and Gulf
coast of the United States 6ncuding compensation to
superintendent and assistants and excluding pay and