Chapter CVI. making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five
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Chap. CVI.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following In addition to unexpended balances. sums in addition to unexpended balances of former appropriations be and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the support of the army for the fiscal year, commencing on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
For pay of the army, one million fifty-eight thousand five hundred Army. and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For commutation of officers” subsistence, two hundred and eighty-four Commutation of subsistence. thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents. For commutation of forage of officers’ horses, seventy thousand dollars: Commutation of forage. Proviso.*Provided,* That forage shall be allowed only for horses actually mustered. 697 For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ Clothing. servants, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For subsistence in kind, two hundred and twenty-six thousand three Subsistence. hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty cents. For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, one hundred Clothing. and forty thousand dollars. For expenses of recruiting, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and Recruiting. sixty-four dollars and seventy cents. For three months’ extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians Extra pay. and privates, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting Supplies of Quartermaster’s departm’t. of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers’’ horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen belonging to the quartermasters’ department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the regiment of dragoons, and the four companies of light artillery; 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 quartermasters’ departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the quartermasters’ department, consisting Incidental expenses. of postage on letters and packages received by officers on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses while on that service, under the act of sixteenth of March, eighteen Act of March 16, 1802, ch. 9. hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads and other constant labor, for a period of not less than ten days, under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermasters’ department at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid; and compensation to agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the act of fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; various expenditures Act of July 5, 1838, ch. 162. necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost, and become unfit for service; shoeing horses; and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit, ninety thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses, equipments and forage, and to pay [the] Horses, &c. for 2d regiment of dragoons. Act of April 4, 1844, ch. 11. other expenses caused by the act entitled “An act to repeal so much of the act approved twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen, after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three,” one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For barracks, quarters and store-houses, including repairing and enlarging Barracks, &c. barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may be occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated; and for the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons and light artillery; for rent of quarters for officers, barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, and of store-houses for the safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, &c.; and of grounds for summer can-698tonments and encampments for military purposes, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;
For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without Transportation of officers’ baggage. troops, thirty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the Transportation of troops and supplies. baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freights and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons and boats for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and carriage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; the expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts, as from their situation require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, 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, and frontier posts, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;
For medical and hospital department, twenty-seven [thousand] eight Medical department. hundred dollars; For continuing the meteorological observations at the military posts Meteorological observations. of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General for said fiscal year, two thousand dollars; For the contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars;Contingencies. For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontiers, inland Surveys. and Atlantic, ten thousand dollars;
For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty Surveys west of Mississippi. thousand dollars; For continuing the surveys of the Northern and Northwestern lakes, Surveys on lakes. twenty thousand dollars; For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, seventy-five Ordnance and stores. thousand dollars; For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;Fortifications. For current expense of ordnance service, ninety-five thousand dollars;Ordnance service.
For manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred thousand Manufacture of arms. dollars; For arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars;Arsenals. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars;Saltpetre and brimstone. For expense of preparing drawings of artillery, one thousand dollars;Drawings. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield Springfield armory. armory, twenty-five thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry Harper’s Ferry armory. armory, twelve thousand dollars;
For barracks, quarters, &c., at Fort Atkinson, to close outstanding Fort Atkinson. accounts, nine thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-eight cents; To settle the accounts of Major Charles Thomas and Captain Edward To settle accounts of C. Thomas and E. B. Alexander. B. Alexander, being a re-appropriation of part of two former appropriations for the erection of a fort on the Arkansas frontier, which has been carried to the surplus fund, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents;
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury Building at Newport, Ky. not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing the present buildings and erecting such others as may be necessary at the military post at Newport, Kentucky. Approved, June 17, 1844.