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of Major Holt, and for the payment of Major Holt and battalion staffor so much of said sum as may be necessary for those purposes beappropriated and paid on the presentation of the rolls of said compa-nies and battalion staff to the Paymaster General, with evidence of thetime they were in the service against the Creek Indians in the monthsof May and June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That one hundred thousand dol-lars be and the same is hereby appropriated for arming and equippingthe militia of the United States , in addition to the appropriations here-tofore made for that purpose.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That for paying the claims ofthe State of Connecticut for the services of her militia during the latewar, to be audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of theTreasury, under the superintendence of the Secretary of War, in thefollowing cases; first where the militia of the said State were calledout to repel actual invasion, or under a well founded apprehension ofinvasion; provided their numbers were not in undue proportion to theexigency; secondly, where they were called out by the authority of theState and afterwards recognised by the Federal Government; andthirdly, where they were called out by, and served under the requisitionof the President of the United States , or of any officer thereof, the sumof one hundred thousand dollars, if so much be necessary for that pur-pose, be and the same is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That to pay all the claims ofNorth Carolina for the services of her militia during the late war withGreat Britain , in the cases enumerated in the act approved the thirty-first May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled “ An act to authorizethe payment of the claims of the State of Massachusetts for certainservices of her militia during the late war,” and also the claims of saidState, for disbursements in the purchase of munitions or other supplieson account of the war, and expended therein, the sum of thirty thou-sand dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated.
Appp.oved, March 1, 1837.
Chap. XVIII .—Jin Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of theUnited States , for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money inthe Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the MilitaryAcademy for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven;to wit:
For pay of the officers, cadets and musicians, fifty-six thousand andtwelve dollars;
For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hun-dred and sixty-six dollars;
For forage of officers’ horses, one thousand one hundred and fifty-twodollars;
For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and thirty dollars;
For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point,two thousand and seven dollars and eighty-four cents;
For fuel, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, eight thou-sand dollars;
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads,wharves, boats and fences, ten thousand one hundred and seventy-eightdollars and twenty-five cents;
For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks, nine hundred andfifty dollars;
teers, and Inde-pendenceBlues, &c.
Statute II.March 2, 1837.[Obsolete.]
Pay of officers,cadets and mu-sicians.
Subsistenceof officers andcadets.
Forage of offi-cers’ horses.
Clothing ofofficers’ ser-vants.
Board of visit-ers..
Fuel, station-ery, &c.
Repairs andimprovements,&c.
Pay of adju-tant’s and quarterm aster’sclerks.