Chapter XCIV. making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine
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Chap. XCIV.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. March 3, 1839.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums 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 during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, that is to say:
For the pay of the army, one million five hundred and thirty-fourPay. thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars; For the subsistence of officers, four hundred and seventy thousandSubsistence of officers. seven hundred and fifty-four dollars; For forage of officers’ horses, one hundred and eleven thousand oneForage for officers’ horses. hundred and fifteen dollars; For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, and to officers,Payments in lieu of clothing. in lieu of clothing for their servants, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars;
For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, one million one hundredSubsistence. and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars; For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cookingClothing, &c. utensils, and hospital furniture, four hundred and seventy-three thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars; For the medical and hospital department, twenty-four thousand fourMedical and hospital department. hundred dollars; For the regular supplies furnished by the quartermaster’s department,Supplies by Q.
Master’s dep’t. consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For barracks, quarters, store houses, embracing the repairs and enlargementBarracks, &c. of barracks, quarters, store houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun houses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard; the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; of store houses for the safe keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, one hundred thousand dollars;
For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of theirTransportation of officers’ baggage. baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty thousand dollars; 360 Transportation of troops and supplies.For the transportation of troops, and supplies, viz: transportation of the army including the baggage of troops, when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of sailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of two hundred and five thousand dollars;
Quartermaster’s department.For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an act Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 45.of Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters and assistant quartermasters at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the performance of other duties; expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for service, and the erection of additional stables, one hundred and two thousand dollars;
Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, seven thousand dollars; Extra pay.For two months’ extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars; National armories.Armament of fortifications.For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars; For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars;
Ordnance service.Ordnance, &c.For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; Arsenals.For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Springfield armory.For new machinery at the Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars; Allegany and Watertown arsenals.For the purchase of land at the Allegany and Watertown arsenals, three thousand five hundred dollars; Drawing, &c.For the expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, and for other supplies in the Ordnance Department, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
Arrearages.For arrearages prior to the 1st of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, per act of the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, payable through the Third Auditor’s Office, three thousand dollars; Surveying, &c. military road.For surveying and opening of the western frontier military road, being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents. Sec. 2. Appropriations for fortifications.*And be it further enacted*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the preservation, repairs, and construction of certain fortifications and incidental expenses for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, viz; 361 For preservation of Castle island, and repairs of Fort Independence,Castle island and Fort Independence. at Boston, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For Fort Warren, at Boston, forty thousand dollars;Fort Warren. For Fort Adams, at Newport, ten thousand dollars;Fort Adams. For the fort at New London harbor, five thousand dollars;New London harbor. For Fort Schuyler, at New York, ten thousand dollars;Fort Schuyler. For repairs of Castle William and Fort Columbus, and officers’Castle William, &c. at New York. quarters, at New York, two thousand dollars; For Fort Delaware, ten thousand dollars. *Provided*, That no partFt. Delaware. of this appropriation shall be applied till the title of the said fortification shall be decided to be in the United States.
For Fort Monroe, ten thousand dollars;Fort Monroe. For Fort Calhoun, fifteen thousand dollars;Fort Calhoun. For Fort Caswell, five thousand dollars;Fort Caswell. For fortification in Charleston, South Carolina, and for the preservationFortification at Charleston, Fort Moultrie. of the site of Fort Moultrie, ten thousand dollars. For Fort Pulaski, at Savannah, fifteen thousand dollars.Fort Pulaski. For Fort Marion and sea-wall at St. Augustine, ten thousand dollars.Fort Marion.
For fort on Foster’s Bank, Pensacola, five thousand dollars.Fort on Foster’s bank. For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars.Contingencies. For incidental expenses attending the repairs of fortifications, and forIncidental expenses, &c. the purchase of additional land in the neighbourhood, fifty thousand dollars; For the fort at Grande Terre, being the amount of a former appropriationFt. at Grande Terre. carried to the surplus fund, fifteen thousand dollars; For the preservation and repair of Fort Niagara, thirty thousand dollars;Fort Niagara.
For repairing and rebuilding the old fort at Oswego, including theFort at Oswego. construction of the necessary barracks, twenty thousand dollars; For barracks and other buildings at Sackett’s Harbor, ten thousandSackett’s Harbor. dollars; For barracks and other buildings at Plattsburg, twenty thousand dollars;Plattsburg. For the construction of barracks, quarters, store-houses, hospitals andWestern frontier. stable, and the necessary defences of the posts it may be deemed proper to establish for the better protection of the Western frontier, eighty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the following sums be, andMilitary Academy. the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, viz: For pay of officers, cadets, and musicians, fifty-nine thousand twoPay. hundred and twenty-eight dollars; For subsistence of officers and cadets, forty thousand and four dollars;Subsistence.
For forage of officers’ horses, three thousand nine hundred and thirty-sixForage of officers horses. dollars; For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and ninety dollars;Clothing of officers’ servants. For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point,Board of visiters. two thousand dollars; For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation, and postage,Fuel, &c. twelve thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-five cents; For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads,Repairs, &c. wharves, boats, and fences, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents;
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks, nine hundred andAdjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks. fifty dollars; For increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dollars;Library. 362 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 95. 1839. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents; Engineering.For the department of engineering, three hundred dollars; Philosophy.For the department of philosophy, twelve hundred dollars;
Mathematics.For the department of mathematics, ninety-seven dollars and fifty-four cents; Chemistry.For the department of chemistry, eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents; Drawing.For the department of drawing, two hundred and eighty-five dollars; Tactics.For the department of tactics, three hundred and sixty dollars; Artillery.For the department of artillery, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; Reservoir.For a reservoir, three thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars;
Fire engines, &c.For two fire-engines, with hose complete, one thousand nine hundred dollars; Completion of buildings.For the completion of the buildings, for the library and the engineering, philosophical, and chemical departments, in addition to the appropriation of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, sixteen thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents. Sec. 4. Payment for horses of Missouri volunteers.*And be it further enacted*, That payment shall be made, under the directions of the Third Auditor, to the Missouri volunteers, whose horses were lost, or cast away at sea, or which perished or died in consequence of suffering at sea, in the voyage from New Orleans to Tampa Bay, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; and that the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to make said payments.
In cases of erroneous valuation, payment to be suspended.And when it shall appear that erroneous valuations have been made of such property with a view to defraud the Government, the Secretary of War shall suspend payment therefor until a satisfactory investigation can be made, and it shall be made to appear that such valuation was made in good faith. Approved, March 3, 1839.