Chapter XXXV. making provision for the support of the military establishment for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen
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Chap. XXXV.— An Act making provision for the support of the military establishment for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sums appropriated for specific objects, connected with the military establishment, for 1817. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That, for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; for the Indian department; for fortifications; for the ordnance department; for armories; for arsenals and magazines; for the expenses of the public buildings at West Point; and for the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the military academy at said place, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, one million four hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars. For subsistence, including the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, already appropriated to that object by an act of this session, one million one hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars. For forage for officers, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars. For bounties and premiums, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For clothing, six hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars. For the medical and hospital department, one hundred thousand dollars. For the ordnance department, one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For fulfilling contracts already entered into for cannon and shot, sixty thousand dollars. For completing arsenals already commenced, including that at Pittsburg, and not including that at Frankford, one hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchasing materials for carriages for cannon and caissons, thirty-nine thousand dollars. For fulfilling a contract for saltpetre with John P. Boyd, a sum not exceeding forty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For armories, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars. For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For fortifications, eight hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war office, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase of maps, plans, books, instruments, fuel and stationery, for the military academy; repairing buildings at West Point, and for transportation and two boats, sixteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sums herein appropriated be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.