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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 93. 1839.

How to be ex-pended.

1836, ch. 43.1836, ch. 254.

Forage.

Freight, &c.

Purchase ofwagons, &c.

Transporta-

tion.

Hire of mecha-nics, &.c.

Transportationof militia or vo-lunteers.Miscellaneous.

Accoutre-ments, &c.

Pay of militiaand volunteers.

Treaty withthe Serninoles.

Vessels tocruise along thecoast of Florida .

Paying valueof horses andequipage ofTennessee andother volunt’rs.

Value, how tobe ascertained.

All acts since1812, authoriz-ing payment forhorses, revivedand extendedfor two years.

hundred and seventy-four dollars, be, and the same are hereby, appro-priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,to defray the expenses which have been, or may be, incurred, in pre-venting or suppressing the hostilities of any Indians, in the year eighteenhundred and thirty-nine; to be expended under the direction of theSecretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nine-teenth of March and the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the acts therein referred to:

For forage for the horses of the second dragoons, mounted volunteersand militia officers entitled to forage in kind, and for horses, mules, andoxen, in the service of trains, three hundred and ninety-two thousandeight hundred and thirty-one dollars ;

For freight or transportation of military supplies of every descriptionfrom the places of purchase to Florida , two hundred and fifty-four thou-sand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars;

For the purchase of wagons, harness, boats and lighters, horses tokeep up the trains, tools, leather and other materials for repairs, ninety-two thousand dollars;

For the transportation of supplies from the principal depots to theseveral posts, as well as troops, when they move by water, includinghire of steamboats and other vessels for the service in the rivers and onthe coasts, and the expenses of maintaining and sailing the severalsteamers and transport schooners connected with the operations of thearmy, three hundred thousand dollars;

For the hire of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters, andother assistants, including their subsistence, and for soldiers on extraduty, conformably to law, one hundred thousand dollars;

For the transportation of the militia or volunteers while marching toand from the scene of operations, thirty thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous expenses of all kinds, not embraced under the fore-going heads, and which, from their contingent character, cannot bespecified, four hundred thousand dollars;

For accoutrements and arms for infantry and cavalry, includingmilitia infantry and cavalry, ammunition for men and field artillery, andrepairs of arms, and for contingencies, seventy-one thousand dollars;

For the pay of such militia and volunteers as may have been or maybe called into the service of the United States , in addition to the unex-pended balance of the appropriation for the payment of four thousandvolunteers, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, one hundredand fourteen thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars;

ForAhe purpose of holding a treaty with the Seminole Indians, fivethousand dollars;

For the purchase and maintaining in active service three vessels oflight draught of water, to cruise along the coast of Florida , for theprotection of the lives and property of the citizens, fifty thousand dol-lars ;

For paying the value of the horses and equipage of the Tennessee and other volunteers who have at any time been in the service of theUnited States in the Territory of Florida, and which were turned overto the Government, by the order of the commanding general or othercommanding officer, said value to be ascertained by the appraisementof said value when the volunteers entered the service, fifty-two thousanddollars. And the provisions of acts approved and in force at variousperiods since eighteen hundred and twelve, authorizing payment forhorses lost in the service of the United States by rangers, militia, andvolunteers, are hereby revived and extended for two years from and afterthe passage of this act, and under the action of the Third Auditor,shall be deemed to embrace all cases not already satisfied, of horses lostto their owners in service as aforesaid, in battle or otherwise, when care