Chapter XXXV. making Appropriations for the Support of the Army and of Volunteers for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, and for other Purposes
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Chap. XXXV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army and of Volunteers for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, and for other Purposes.March 2, 1847. *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, for the support of the army and of volunteers, for the year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
ForArmy. pay of the army, three million three hundred and sixty-five thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars. ForCommutation of subsistence. commutation of officers’ subsistence, six hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and fortytwo dollars. ForForage. commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars. ForClothing for servants. payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, forty-two thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
ForPay of volunteers. pay of volunteers, including general and staff officers, two million eight hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. ForSubsistence in kind. subsistence in kind of the army, volunteers, and employees, two million two hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars. ForClothing of army, &c. clothing of the army, camp, and garrison equipage, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. ForRecruiting. expenses of recruiting, including bounties, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
ForThree months’ extra pay. three months’ extra pay to noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, twelve thousand dollars. ForRegular supplies of the Quartermaster’s department. 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 quarter-master’s department, at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the three regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen; 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 department, and the printing of department orders, army regulations and general regulations; three million seven hundred and ten thousand six hundred dollars.
ForIncidental expenses. the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, con-150TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 150.sisting 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,1802. ch. 9. while on that service, under the act of the sixteenth of March, one thousand eight 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, under1819, ch. 45. the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned 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 be necessary to employ under the act of the fifth1838, ch. 162. of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; various expenditures necessary to keep the three regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted rifle-men complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the places of those which may be lost and become unfit for service; also including the purchase of horses for the additional regiment of dragoons and the purchase of saddles, bridles, and other horse equipments for the same; shoeing horses, for the purchase of blacksmiths’ and other tools, iron and other materials, and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit; two million one hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred dollars.
ForRepairing and enlarging barracks, &c. repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts: for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may by occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of 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 non-com missioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons, light artillery, and mounted riflemen; 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 million one hundred and seven thousand two hundred dollars.
ForTransportation of officers’ baggage. transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, eighty thousand dollars. ForTransportation of troops and supplies, &c. transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the 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, five million two hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred dollars.
ForContingencies. contingencies of the army, fifty thousand dollars. ForMedical and hospital departments. the medical and hospital department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ForOrdnance. the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, threeTWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 35. 1847.151 hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars. ForOrdnance service. current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars. ForArmament of fortifications. armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
ForArms. manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. ForSpringfield armory. repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield armory, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. ForHarper’s Ferry armory. repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harper’s Terry armory, seventeen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. ForArsenals. arsenals, fifty-one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. ForDrawings of artillery. expenses of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, five thousand dollars.
ForSurveys. surveys with armies in the field, twenty-thousand dollars. ForDischarged soldiers. providing for the comfort of discharged soldiers who may be landed at New Orleans, or other places within the United States, so disabled by disease or by wounds received in the service as to be unable to proceed to their homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes, five hundred thousand dollars; said sum to be applied and expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.
ForLand and erection of barracks. the purchase of land, erection of barracks for soldiers, and quarters for officers and laundresses, and for brick wall to enclose the grounds, and grading and paving the river banks at Newport barracks, Kentucky, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars. ForContingencies of fortifications. contingencies of fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatDeficiencies. the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations made for the service of the present fiscal year, under the following heads, viz:
ForVolunteers, pay under resolution of Aug. 8, 1846, No. 20. pay of volunteers, under resolution of eighth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ForVolunteers, pay under act 13th May, 1846, ch. 16. pay of volunteers under act of thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. ForTravelling allowance. travelling allowance of volunteers, five hundred thousand dollars. ForTransportation and supplies. transportation and supplies, &c., in quartermaster’s department, four millions dollars.
ForPrivate physicians. services of private physicians, including the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, sixty-five thousand dollars. ForPay, &c., to officers of the ten regiments.1847, ch. 8. pay, including subsistence and other allowances to officers of the ten regiments of regular troops, authorized during the present session, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars. ForSubsistence in kind. subsistence in kind for such regiments, two hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-two cents.
ForPay of volunteers. pay of eleven regiments of volunteers recently called into service, one million three thousand one hundred and ten dollars. ForSubsistence. subsistence in kind, of said regiments of volunteers, two hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-five cents. ForRecruiting. expenses of recruiting, including bounties, two hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars. ForOrdnance, &c., ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, four hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
ForRepair, &c.,of roads, &c. the repair and construction of roads and bridges for the use of armies in the field, one hundred thousand dollars. ForFortifications at Oak Island. deficiency of former appropriations for fortifications at Oak Island, one thousand and thirty dollars and fifty-nine cents. 152TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 152. ForDeficiencies, &c., Cape Fear River. deficiency of former appropriations for the improvement of Cape Fear River, six hundred and one dollars and ninety-two cents.
ForDeficiency of appropriation for removing the great rail of Red River.1838, ch 59. deficiency of appropriation for removing the great raft of Red River, made by the act approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount advanced by Daniel T. Witlee and others, through the branch of the Real Estate Bank of Washington, Arkansas, to Henry M. Shreve, government agent for such removal, and expended by him for that purpose.
Approved, March 2, 1847.