Chapter XXXVI. making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one
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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. March 3, 1841.[Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the followingAppropriations. sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one;
For the pay of the army, one million one hundred and seventy-twoPay. thousand and twenty-eight dollars; For subsistence of officers, five hundred and fourteen thousand fourSubsistence of officers. hundred and eighty-nine dollars; For forage of officers’ horses, one hundred and fourteen thousand fiveForage of officers’ horses. hundred and seventy-one dollars; For payments in lieu of clothing not drawn in kind, eighty thousandPayments in lieu of clothing. and thirty dollars; For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, six hundred and forty-eightSubsistence. thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars;
For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils,Clothing, &c. and hospital furniture, five hundred and five thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars; For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dollars;Medical and hospital department. For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department,Quartermaster’s departm’t. consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars;
For barracks, quarters, and store-houses, embracing the repairs andBarracks, &c. enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments, and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials, and of furniture for the barrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops 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, and encampments for military practice, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty withoutTransportation of officers’ baggage. troops, sixty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of theTransportation of troops and supplies. army and baggage; freight and-ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation, or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the434 troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery under contracts to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and arms from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the mines to the several arsenals, two hundred and forty-two 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 compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March 1819, ch. 45.second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses, and of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of 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 the service, and the erection of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars;
Contingencies.For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars; Extra pay, and recruiting.For extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars; Ordnance service.For the current expenses of the ordnance service, eighty-five thousand dollars; Armament of fortifications.For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars; Ordnance,&c.For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, eighty thousand dollars;
National armories.For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; Arsenals.For arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; For the purchase of a site and rebuilding the arsenal at Charleston, South Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars; Springfield armory.For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars; Harper’s ferry armory.For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the Harper’s Ferry armory, thirty-eight thousand dollars;
Drawings, &c.For the expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, three thousand six hundred dollars; Saltpetre and brimstone.For the purchase of saltpetre and brimstone,, twenty thousand dollars; Barracks, &c. at Fort Smith.For continuing the barracks, quarters, &c., at Fort Smith, fifty thousand dollars; Turkey river.For barracks, quarters, &c., at Turkey river, fifteen thousand dollars; Military road.For continuing the military road on the western frontier, five thousand dollars;
Barracks, &c. at Sackett’s Harbor.For continuing the barracks, quarters, &c., at Sackett’s Harbor, one thousand dollars; Preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida.1836, ch. 44.1836, ch. 254.For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March and the second of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the acts therein referred to, viz: For forage; for freight or transportation of military supplies of every description from the places of purchase to Florida; for the purchase of wagons and harness, of boats and lighters, and other vessels, of horses, mules, and oxen to keep up the trains, of tools, leather, and other materials for repairs; for transportation within Florida, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels for service in the rivers, and on the coasts; and the expenses of maintaining the several steamboats and transport schoon-TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 37. 1841.435ers, connected with the operations of the army; for hire of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters and other assistants, including their subsistence; for miscellaneous and contingent charges, and for arrearages in eighteen hundred and forty, one million sixty-one thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars; for removing the raft of Red river underFor removing Red river raft. the direction of the Secretary of War seventy-five thousand dollars; Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War be,Settlement of the account of the corporate authorities of Mobile. and he is hereby, directed to cause to be audited the account of the corporate authorities of the city of Mobile, for advances of money and expenses incurrred in equipping, mounting, and sending to the place of rendezvous, two full companies of mounted men, under a call from the Governor of Alabama, at the beginning of the hostilities of the Creek Indians, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and the amount or balance found due, is hereby directed to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as soon as the Secretary of War shall approve the same.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That for the purpose of designating and marking the boundary line between the State of Michigan and Territory of Wisconsin, agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the second section of the act entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union, upon the conditions therein expressed,” there be, and is hereby appropriated, the sum of six thousandSurvey of the country betw’n the Menomonie and Montreal rivers.Act of June 15, 1836, ch. 99. dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the survey and examination of the country situated between the mouths of the Menomonie and Montreal rivers, who is hereby directed to cause to be made a plat or plan of such survey and examination, which shall be returned to Congress with all convenient despatch.
Approved, March 3, 1841.