TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 61. 1833.
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For various expenses of the quartermaster’s department, viz: for fuel,forage, straw, stationery, blanks, repairing officers’ quarters, barracks,store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments, andgun-houses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land ; for postageof letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, includingcompensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses ; for extra payto soldiers employed on extra labour, under the act of March second,one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ; and for expenses of expresses,escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to quartermaster’s depart-ment, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers’ baggage, and allowance for travel in lieuof transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographi-cal duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.
For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead fromthe mines, and for transportation of the army and funds for pay of thearmy,including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at theseveral stations and garrisons usually estimated under the head of trans-portation of the army, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, twothousand dollars.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, forthe military academy, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads,wharf, and boat, at West Point, four thousand dollars.
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerk, nine hundred dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars.
For philosophical apparatus, eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For models of department of engineering, six hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for themathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the departmentof chemistry, nine hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thou-sand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-nine thousandthree hundred dollars.
For arsenals, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundred and fifty-twodollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twelve thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, sixteen thousandand forty-four dollars, including an unexpended balance of eight thou-sand five hundred dollars on hand.
For the purchase of accoutrements and swords, sixteen thousand sevenhundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of cannon, fourteen thousand seven hundred andfifty dollars.
For payment of arms for mounted rangers, two thousand five hundredand ninety-eight dollars.
For the purchase of arms for South Carolina , six thousand one hun-dred and thirty-one dollars.
For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hun-dred and fifteen, payable through the third auditor’s office, five thousanddollars.
To enable the second auditor to close the accounts, under the act ofthird March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, allowing threemonths’ gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundreddollars.
Pay of army.&c.
Act of March2, 1819, ch. 45.
1821, ch. 35.