Chapter XXXI. making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty
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Chap. XXXI.— An Act making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty. March 11, 1830. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Sums appropriated for the military service of 1830. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the service of the military establishment, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, viz:
Pay of the army, &c.For pay of the army and subsistence of the officers, one million and sixty-three thousand nine hundred and nine dollars. Forage.For forage for officers, forty-six thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars. Clothing for servants.For clothing for the servants of officers, twenty thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. Subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance of forty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Clothing army, camp equipage, &c.For clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to materials and clothing on hand, amounting to eighty thousand dollars, one hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars. Medical department.For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Quartermaster department.For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and seven thousand dollars. Military academy.For fuel, stationery, transportation, printing, postage, and forage for the military academy, nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Repairs, &c. of hospital.For repairs and improvements of the buildings and grounds about the hospital at West Point, four thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Expenses board visiters.For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, fifteen hundred dollars. Clerks and assistants.For hire of quartermasters and adjutant’s clerks, and assistants to librarian and professors of chemistry, one thousand and ninety-two dollars. TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 32. 1830. 375 For the increase of the library, subscription to military and scientificPurchase of books. journals, and binding books, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For philosophical apparatus, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-sixPhilosophical apparatus. dollars. For models and modeller, and books on architecture, for departmentModels, &c. of engineering, one thousand dollars. For repairing mathematical instruments, and for models for drawingRepairing mathematical instruments, &c. department, two hundred and fifty dollars. For apparatus pertaining to the chemical and mineralogical department,Chemical apparatus, &c. materia chemica and contingencies, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-four cents.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars.Miscellaneous items. For incidental expenses, four hundred dollars.Incidental expenses. For arrearages of clerk hire for one thousand eight hundred andArrearages. twenty-eight, two hundred and seventy dollars. For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.Contingencies. For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.Armories. For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.Armament.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, fifty-six thousandOrdnance service. dollars. For arsenals, ninety thousand two hundred dollars.Arsenals. For the recruiting service, five thousand two hundred and ninety-twoRecruiting service. dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of seventeen thousand and ninety-three dollars. For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, nine thousand sevenContingent expenses of recruiting service. hundred and six dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand and eighty-five dollars.
For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundredArrearages, &c. and fifteen, five thousand dollars. For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundredArrearages, &c. and fifteen, and the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, one thousand dollars. Approved, March 11, 1830.