Chapter XCV. *making appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * 68 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS
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Chap. XCV.— An Act *making appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * 68 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 95 1846. That the following Appropriation.sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army for the year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven:
Pay.For pay of the army, one million three hundred and twenty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars. Officers’ subsistence.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, four hundred and sixty-five thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars. Forage.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, including arrears since commencement of hostilities, one hundred and thirty-one thousand six hundred and three dollars. Clothing to officers’ servants.For payments in lieu of clothing to officers’ servants, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars.
Subsistence in kind.For subsistence in kind, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty-seven cents. Clothing and equipage.For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, two hundred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand and twenty-two dollars. Extra pay.For three months’ extra pay to noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, sixteen thousand dollars. Regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department.For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen, belonging to the quartermaster’s department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the two regiments 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 quartermaster’s departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s department.For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters and packets 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 the sixteenth of 1802, ch. 9.March, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the 1819, ch. 45.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 interment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermaster’s 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 1838, ch. 162.be necessary to employ, under the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; various expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments 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;—one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Repairing and enlarging barracks, &c.For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 95. 1840.69such 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 of the barrack-rooms of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; budding 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 safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &.C., and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military purposes;—one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on dutyTransportation of officers’ baggage. without troops, fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including theTransportation of troops and supplies, &c. 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 cartage 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;—two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, six thousand dollars.Contingencies. For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, oneOrdnance, and ordnance stores. hundred thousand dollars. For current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousandCurrent expenses. dollars. For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundredManufacture of arms. thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at SpringfieldRepairs, &c, at Springfield. armory, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
And the sum of five thousand dollars, out of the appropriation made$5,000, out of appropriation of act of 1815, ch. 65, declared to be for purchase of lots adjoining armory g round, &c. for the said objects by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five, is declared to have been intended for the purchase of the lots adjoining the armory ground, as expressed in the estimates, to which purpose it has been applied. And of the sum allowed by the said act to be applied to repairs at the national armories, such amount as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, maybe applied to the purchase of land from individuals and from the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, and the assent of Congress is hereby given to such purchase.
For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harper’sRepairs, &c., at Harper’s Ferry. Ferry armory, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-one dollars. For arsenals, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundredArsenals. and ninety-three dollars, of which twelve thousand five hundred dollars are authorized to be applied to the purchase of a site and buildingArsenal at Washington. a magazine for Washington arsenal. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars.Saltpetre and brimstone.
For the purchase of gunpowder, one hundred thousand dollars.Gunpowder. For expenses of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery,Artillery drawings. one thousand dollars. For expenses of the mineral land service, including those incurred 70TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 96. 1846.since the first January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, thirty thousand dollars.Mineral land service. Surveys.For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, twenty thousand dollars.
For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the surveys of the northern and north-western lakes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Appropriation for increase of rank and tile of the army. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to meet the expenditures which may be incurred under the acts passed during the present 1846, ch. 17.session “to authorize an increase of the rank and file of the army, and to provide for raising a regiment of mounted riflemen,” viz.:
Pay.For pay, eight hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars. Officers’ subsistence.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, twelve thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Forage for officers’ horses.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. Payments in lieu of clothing.For payment in lieu of clothing to officers’ servants, one thousand one hundred and ten dollars. Subsistence.For subsistence in kind, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars.
Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting, seventy-nine thousand six hundred dollars. Clothing, equipage, &c.For clothing, camp, garrison, and horse equipage, two hundred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. Regular supplies of quartermaster’s departmentFor the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, &.C., one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. Incidental expenses of quartermaster’s department.For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, extra pay to soldiers, purchase of horses for dragoons, &.C., ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Transportation and supplies.For transportation of troops and supplies for the army, three hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. Medical and hospital departmentFor the medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars. Approved, August 8, 1846.