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TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 41. 1834.

Pay of&c.

March 2,ch. 45 .

arm y> hundred and thirty-three, estimated for by the pay department, forty-fivethousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-six thousand five hun-dred dollars.

For various expenses in the quartermaster’s department, viz : fuel,forage, straw, stationery, blanks and printing; repairing and enlargingbarracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals at the various posts in theUnion; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occu-pied during the year, including huts for the dragoons; materials for theauthorized furniture of the rooms of non-commissioned officers andsoldiers, rent of quarters, barracks, and store-houses; postage on publicletters; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including thecompensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses ; extra pay tosoldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, and theconstruc-, 1819 , tion of roads and other constant labour, under an act of Congress of thesecond March, eighteen hundred and nineteen ; expensesof expresses fromthe frontier posts, of escorts to paymasters, hire of labourers, and the inter-ment of deceased non-commissioned officers arid soldiers; compensationto extra clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, and in theoffices of the quartermasters and assistants at the several posts, and com-pensation to temporary agents; also, for the horses and equipmentswhich may be required to keep the establishment of the regiment ofdragoons complete, three hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.

For transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to theStations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase andthe points of delivery under contract, to the posts where they are requiredto be used; of ordnance from the founderies and arsenals to the fortifica-tions and frontier posts, and lead from the western mines to the severalarsenals; for transportation of the army, including officers when remov-ing with troops either by land or water; freights and ferriages: the pur-chase or hire of horses, oxen, mules, carts, wagons, and boats, fortransportation of troops and supplies, and for garrison purposes: drayageand cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of fundsfor the pay department, and the expenses of sailing a public transportbetween the several posts on the Gulf of Mexico , one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

For the allowance to officers for the transportation of their baggagewhen travelling on duty without troops, and for the per diem to officerson topographical duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.

For carrying on the works in the city of Savannah, Georgia, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For continuing the repairs and alterations of the barracks and quartersat Baton Rouge, Louisiana , ten thousand dollars.

For erecting officers’ quarters at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Maryland ,five thousand dollars.

For carrying on the works at Green Bay, Michigan , ten thousanddollars.

For temporary repairs of the barracks at Fort Gibson, Arkansas , fivethousand dollars.

For the purchase of land adjoining Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine ,three thousand three hundred dollars.

For 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-eight thousandfour hundred dollars.

For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the arsenal at St. Louis , in addition to the sum embraced in thegeneral appropriation for arsenals, eight thousand five hundred dollars.