Chapter XLV. making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty
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Chap. XLV.— An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.April 14, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sums appropriated for— States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated: For the pay of the army of the United States, in addition to an unexpended Pay of the army. balance of one hundred thousand dollars, one million thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For subsistence, in addition to the sum of two hundred and twenty Subsistence. thousand dollars already appropriated, six hundred and two thousand and forty-eight dollars. For bounties and premiums for fifteen hundred recruits, twenty-one Bounties and premiums. thousand dollars. For quarters, fuel, straw, and all other expenses for recruits, until organized Other expenses for recruits. to join regiments and corps, thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For clothing, three hundred thousand dollars.Clothing.
For the medical and hospital department, forty-two thousand one Medical and hospital department. hundred and forty-five dollars. For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and fifty thousand Quartermaster. dollars. For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars.Contingencies. For forage for officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty Forage. thousand dollars, six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars. For fortifications, eight hundred thousand dollars.Fortifications.
For the military academy at West Point, for fuel, maps, plans, books, Military academy at West Point. and apparatus, and contingent expenses, eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars. For completing the buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars. For arrearages, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and Arrearages.563SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 46. 1820. eighteen, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents. For cannon and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, and for the purchase Cannon and shot, &c. of flints, and timber for travelling carriages, fifty-three thousand dollars.
For the national armories, in addition to the sum of fifty-six thousand National armories. dollars, already appropriated, three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred Ordnance department. thousand dollars. For the completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Completion of arsenals. Augusta, in Georgia, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For completing the arsenal at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars; and at Watertown, near Boston, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For balances due to certain states, in addition to an unexpended balance Balances due certain states. of one hundred and fifty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For arrearages, in addition to fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, Arrearages. one hundred thousand dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United Invalid pensioners. States, in addition to an unexpended balance of eighty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars twenty-nine cents, three hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-one cents.
For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the Revolutionary pensioners. act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two millions seven hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, one hundred thousand Widows and orphans. dollars. For the current expenses of the Indian Department during the present Indian department. year, two hundred thousand dollars. For surveying and marking boundary lines of Indian cessions, fifteen Indian boundary lines. thousand dollars.
For making a survey of the water-courses tributary to, and west of, Survey of water-courses. the Mississippi, also those tributary to the same river and north-west of the Ohio, four thousand five hundred dollars. For making a survey, maps, and charts, of the Ohio and Mississippi Survey, maps, and charts of the Ohio and Mississippi. rivers, from the rapids of the Ohio at Louisville, to the Balize, for the purpose of facilitating and ascertaining the most practicable mode of improving the navigation of those rivers, five thousand dollars.
For completing the public road through the Creek nation, between Public road through the Creek nation. the states of Georgia and Alabama, three thousand three hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations Out of money in the treasury. hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 14, 1820.