Chapter XXIX. making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven
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Chap. XXIX.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. Aug. 30, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums beAppropriations. and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the array for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven:— For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, three months’Recruiting, &c. extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates on reënlistment, one hundred thousand dollars.
For pay of the army, three million two hundred and seventy-five thousandPay, &c. one hundred and seventy dollars. 148 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1856. For commutation of officers’ subsistence, six hundred and sixty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses one hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and four dollars. For payment in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence in kind, one million nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars. For clothing for the army, camp, and garrison equipage, six hundred Clothing, &c.and twenty-four thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents. Quarter master’s Department.For the regular supplies of the Quarter-master’s Department, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, 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 dragoons, the two regiments of -cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments; and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, one million and ten thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the Quarter-master’s Department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, 1802, ch. 9, §§21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 136.members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the Quarter-master’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals; the construction of roads and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten 1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii, p. 488, 1854, ch. 247, §6.Vol. x. p. 576.days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and" nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department head-quarters, expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to. paymasters, other disbursing officers and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quarter-master’s Department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the 1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257.act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the following expenditures required for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and shoeing the horses of those corps, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Barracks and masters.For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it may be necessary to occupy during the year; and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the establish(*lish*)ed posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, and of grounds forTHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1856. 149 summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, five hundred thousand dollars.
For mileage or allowance made to officers of the army; for the transportationMileage of officers. of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty without troops or escorts, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For transportation of the array, including the baggage of the troopsTransportation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; horse equipments and of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery .under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, 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 sea-going vessels and boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic 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, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the two regiments of dragoons, the twoHorses. regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such infantry as it may be found necessary to mount at the frontier posts, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, twelve thousand dollars.Contingencies. For the medical and hospital departments, seventy-five thousandMedical and hospital departments. dollars. For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department, at divisionMiscellaneous. and department head-quarters, four hundred dollars.
For compensation of the clerk and messenger 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 fortifications, one hundred and twenty-five thousandFortifications. dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equipmentsOrdnance, &c. for the mounted regiments, two hundred and three thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundredArms at armories. and filly thousand dollars. To enable Thomas H. Barlow, of Kentucky, to manufacture one of hisRifle cannon of Thos. H. Barlow. newly-invented rifle cannon, for the purpose of testing the feasibility of their use in the military or naval service of the country, three thousand dollars, to be paid to said Barlow from time to time, as he progresses with the manufacture of the same: Provided. That said cannon shall not be of less calibre than a twelve-pounder:
And provided further, That the said Barlow shall give good and sufficient security to the Secretary of War, for the faithful expenditure of the money hereby appropriated in the construction of said cannon. For arsenals, including the purchase of sites for new arsenals of depositArsenals. in Texas and New Mexico, and for the erection of suitable magazines and other arsenal buildings in Texas, in California, in Washington or150THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 30. 1856. Oregon Territory, and in New Mexico, two hundred and thirty thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
Armories.For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-two dollars. For repairs and new machinery at Springfield armory, Massachusetts, thirty-eight thousand dollars. For the completion, including water wheels and shafting of the new water shops, grading grounds, and construction of bridge at Springfield Armory, Massachusetts, sixty thousand dollars. Surveys.For surveys for military defences, geographical explorations, and reconnaissances, for military purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For purchase and repairs of instruments, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Northern and Northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars. For printing charts of lake surveys, five thousand dollars. Post-office extension.Arrearages in office of third auditor.For the Post-Office extension, three hundred thousand dollars. For arrearages prior to July first, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in addition to the balance undrawn in the treasury, two thousand dollars.
Florida volunteers.For pay, furnishing and maintaining with quarter-master’s stores and supplies, and subsistence of mounted and foot companies of Florida volunteers called into the service of the United States, two hundred and forty thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents. Approved, August 30, 1856.