Chapter LXI. *making Appropriations for the Support of Volunteers and other Troops authorized to be employed in the Prosecution of the War with Mexico, during the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.* July 20, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
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Chap. LXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Support of Volunteers and other Troops authorized to be employed in the Prosecution of the War with Mexico, during the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.* July 20, 1846. *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, for the support of volunteers and other troops authorizedAppropriation. to be employed in the prosecution of the war with Mexico, during the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
For the regular army, viz.:Regular army. For pay of officers and men, provided for by the act of eighteenthPay.Ante, p. 17.Subsistence.Forage.Clothing. June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, forty-five thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars; for subsistence, of said officers, three thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars; for forage for said officers’ horses, three thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars; for clothing for said officers’ servants, three hundred and sixty dollars; for recruiting the rifle regiment, nine thousand one hundred and eightyRecruiting rifle regiment.Clothing and camp equipage.Forage. dollars; for clothing and camp equipage for same, twenty-nine thou-sand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars; for forage for same, fifty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars.
For volunteers (including officers, &c., authorized by acts passed theVolunteers. present session) and their operations, and those of the regular army, in the field, viz.: For pay of officers, two hundred and twelve thousand and ninety-sixPay of officers.Subsistence.Forage.Clothing.Pay. dollars; for subsistence of officers, &.C., one hundred and fifty-two thou-sand seven hundred and sixteen dollars; for forage for officers’ horses, fifty-three thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars; for clothing of officers’ servants, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars; for pay, &c. &c., of volunteers, authorized by the act of thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and forty-six, three million four hundred and ninety-sevenSubsistence in kind.Camp equipage, &c.Medical and hospital supplies.Ordnance, &c.Supplies, transportation, &c. thousand dollars; for subsistence in kind, one million fifty-four thousand and five hundred dollars; for camp equipage, &.C., one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; for medical and hospital supplies, forty-five thousand five hundred dollars; for ordnance, arms, &.C., three hundred and forty-four thousand dollars; for supplies, transportation, &c., of the quartermaster’s department, six million three hundred and nine thousand and twenty-seven dollars.
Approved, July 20, 1846.