The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-14


funds for the ray and other disbursing depart
mentsi the expense of sailing public transports
the various rivers, the Gulf Of Mexico and the At
Iantic and Paeifc and for procuring water at such
posts as from their situation require That it be
brought from substance; and for clearing roads and
removing oostrucfiens therein to the extent which
may be required for fhes actual operations Of the
tro9ps on the frontier, two miliaa three hundreO
: md sixty thousand dollars.
For the purchase Of horses for the two regiments
: OF Dragons the two regiments of cavalry and the
regiment OF mounted rifemen, one hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars.
For contingencies OF the army TWENTY-FIVE thou.
sand dohars.
For the medical and hospital departments. sew
enty-six tnonsand two hundred and twenty-five
dollars and Fifty cents.
For contingent expenses Of the ad utant generals
department at department headquarters, fye hun
For compensation of the clerk and messenger in
dollars.
FOrcOntingent expenses of the Office of the com
handing general, three hundred dollars. t5
. sand dollars.
For the current expenses Of the ordnance service,
one hundred and fifty six Thousand dollars.
For ordnance, ordnance stores and Supplies, in :
Guiding horse equipments for the mounted regi-
: ments two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For horses and horse medicines for the batteries
of light artillery, thirty thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of arms the national
orrepairs and improvements and new machine
| ~ at Springfield afnory, Massachusetts,, CT which
twelve thousand dollars may be applied to the pur-
chase of land on the north side Of the new water
shops, sixty-three thousand six hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve dollars.
For repairs and improvements and machine
~ Of Harper's Ferry armory, sixty five thousand
| i've hundred dollars.
For the Allegheny arsenal, six thousand three
hundred and fifty eight dollars.
For the Benieis arsenal, fifty thousand dollars.
For the Charleston arsenal, fifteen thousand dol
For Fort Monroe arsenal. twenty three thousand
four hundred and fifty dollars.
For New York arsenal, and thousand one hun
/ 5red dollars.
For North Carolina ARSENAL, repairs and gas FIX
| lures, i've Thousand i've hundred dollars
For ST. Louis arsenal, three Thousand seven hun
dred and fifty dollars.
For Texas arsenal, forty-three thousand dollars.
For Washington arsenaiptEo thousand Eve hun
dred dollars.
For watertown arsenal, two thousand Eve hun
For Watervieit arsenal, eleven thousand dollars.
For contingencies of arsenals, twenty thousand
dollars.
Fer surveys for military defences, geographical
explorations and reconnoisances for military pur-
poses, and surveys with the armies in the fsld fifty
thousand dollars. sess
For purchase and repairs of instruments, ten
thousand dollars.
For printing charts for Lake surveys, ten thou |
sand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the northern and
northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, sew
enty thousand dollars.
For the manufacture or purchase of apparatus |
and equipments for field signals, TIVE Thousand dol
lars. And that there be added to the staff of the
army one signal o1hcer with the rank, pay and al
lowances of major Of cavalry, who shall have
charge under the direction of the Secretary of War;
OF all signal duty and of all books papers and ap
paratus connected Herewith.
For surveys and selections of sites, and for plans
pnSA mr. me- he l.
leyot the BED river of the NORTH between the forty
sixth and forty ninth degrees of north latitude;
and at or near Fort Cobb in the Indian Territory.
i've thousand dollars snd that report thereon be
made TO the next session Of Congress.
For reconstructing the stables at Carlisle bar
racks, eight thousand and fifty dollars.
To enable the Third Auditor OF the Treasury to
settle the suspended accounts of officers tor dis
bursements through the quartermaster eeneral's I
department for supplies furnished and stores trans
ported Tor the three companies of volunteers called
into the service of the United States in Their Ter
ntory OF Kansas, in eighteen hundred and fty-six,
by authority of the War Department, the sum of
i've thousand dollars, or 50 much thereof may be
necessary.
To enable the Secretary Of the Interior to restore
to their relatives in Wisconsin four orphan children
OF Edward Miftmure, whose parents and brothers
and sisters were massacred on about the thirty
mrs day Of Auguss, eighteen hundred and fifty nine
about one hundred miles north of Salt Lake City,
by party of Indians, { or Mormons disguised as
such, and who escaped the massacre and found re-
fuge ut Camp Floyd, fifteen hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. Asd be e further enacted, That there be
added to the medical corps of the army four sur
geons and four assistant surgeons, to be appointed
in accordance with the existing laws.
SEC. ). Aud ke Il further eHacted, That the fol-
lowing sums be, and they hereby, appropriated,
out of any money in the treasury otherwise ap-
propiated, for the following Qualifications:
Fort Montgomery, Lake Champlain, New York,
ten tsousand dollars.
. Fort RnOx PenobscOt Bay, Maine, twenty thou
md n i
Fort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland harbor,
Maine, thirty thousand dollars. I
Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor, Massachusetts,, j
ten thousand dollars.
Fort at the entrance of New Bedford harb or Mas
twenty five thousand dollars.
Fort Adams. Newport harbor, Rhode Island, fEe
thousand dollars.
Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York fifteen | +
thousand dollars.
Fort on the site of Fort Tompkins Staten Island, I
New York, twenty five thousand dollars. c
Additional batteries at Fort Hamilton, at the Q
Narrows, New York, fifty thousand dollars. /
Fort Carroll, Baltimore harbor, Maryland, fifty Il
thousand dollars. G
Fort Delaware, Delaware river, fifty thousand U
Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia, five Q
thousand dollars. =
Artesian we'll at Fort Monroe, six thousand dol Q
Repairing government bridge over Mil Creek, 9
hear Fort Monroe, i've hundred dollars. u
Fort Calhoun, Hampton Roads, Virginia, fifty
E00uSan1 /
Repairs of Fort Moultrie, Gharisston- harbor,
South Carolina, eight thousand Ave hundred del
ars.
Fort Ciinch, Amelia Island, Florida, thirty thou
sand dollars :
Fort Taylor. Key West, Florida, seventy thoSsand
ioffars.
Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, sewnty five
Thousand dollars. - - 4 Q
Fort AeRee, and preservation of site, Pensacola n
Florida, ten thousand dollars. II
Fort Gaines, DAaphin Island, Mobile Bay, Ala D
oama, twenty thousand dollars.
Fortihcations Ship Island coast of Mississpui Ii
twenty thousand dollars.
Fort jackson, on Mississippi river, fifteen thou ii
and dollars.
Fort Philip, on Mississippi river, ten thousand
dollars. IL
Forti6cations for defence Of entrance into Gal
rest0n harbor, twenty thousand dollars
Forfat Fort Point San Francisco, including OUT z
works. fifty thousand dollars. n
Forfat Alcatruz kIand, San Francisco Bay CAL FL
fornia, twenty-f five thousand dollars. to
Contingent expenses of fortifcations, preserva-
ION OF sites, protection Of titles and repair Of sud
len damage, thirty thousand dollars.
SIG. T. And be 1t tartker enacted, That the allow
nee of sugar and coffee to the non-eommissioned n
ulcers musicians and prfvates of the army, liked
" the seventeenth section of the act of the fifth of
uy, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall :
ereafter be pounds of coffee and fifteen pounds b
{ sugar for every one hundred Tations. n
SIC. s. And be e further enacted, That the Sec u
etary Of War be, and he is hereby, authorized 70
-
therwss Appropriated, to pay 70 the STATE OF Iowa
ach sums OF moncy as were paid by that State to 81
roeps called ont by the Governor Of Iowa in efgh-
zen hundred and ifty-seven, eighteen hundred and
fty-eight, and eighteen hundyed and fifty nine.
rotect the frontier from Indian incursions: Pro-
ided, The Secretary shall be Satisfied that there
necessity for calling out these troops that the
mOsRts have been actually paid by the State; that
o greater pay OF allowances be given THAI were y
eceived by officers and soldiers OF equal grade oh
hat period in the United States army and that the
mount so to be paid shall not exceed the sum of n
ishteen Thousand nine hundred and eighty EIGHT
oilars and eghty-fvur centss Provided, further m
hat compensation shall only be allowed for the N
'eriod during which said troops were actively ON
'oyed in military service. =
Sec 8. 4ad be it further enacted, That the pro-
isio1s Of the second section Of the net of the third
i March, eighteen hundred and ffty-nins, chapter
sgnty-three, be extended to include all the ~
moneys advanced By the State of Texas payment "
u volunteers called out in defence of frontier hi
u that State since the of February,
eighteen hundred and fifty five: Provided The See
-etary Of War shall be satisfied that there was me- -
,essiIy tor calling these troops that they we're
'aled out by competent authority, and that the
amount so claimed was actually paid by the said
state. And that the amount hereby provided for n
shall notexceed the sum of hundred aud twenty
three thousand five hundred and fortyfour dollars Of
and ntty-oue cents Prortded, further, That COM r;
pensati0n shall only be allowed tor the period dur
ing which said troops were actively employed in
military SERVED. -
SEC 7. 4nd be 1t jrtte+ eaocted That the twelfth
section Of the act OF third March, eighteen hundred
and dfty seven, be extended to embrace the I
pay proper and allowances of the militia of New '
Mexico therein named Proridcd, 4 hey shall
ceive no greater pay and allowances than were :
given to officers and soldiers of equal grade at that
period in the United States service, and that the
amount hereby appropriated shall not exceed the