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and diligence be rendered manifest on the part of the owner; and if thedeath or loss of rangers’ horses shall have occurred for want of forage,it be at places where, acting in obedience to the orders of commandingofficers, forage could not have been procured by proper vigilance on thepart of the owner : No payment however shall be made for horses orother property lost or destroyed, when the loss or destruction shall havebeen occasioned by the fault or neglect of the owner, or where by theterms of the contract, the risk was upon the owner of the property :and no greater sum of money than the fifty-two thousand dollars appro-priated by this section, shall be drawn from the Treasury by reason ofits provisions.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no part of the money ap-propriated by this act shall be applied to the payment of any volunteers,except for arrearages, or for any expenses growing out of the employ-ment of any volunteers for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eio-ht.

Approved, March 3, 1839.

Chap. XCIV. —An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for theyear one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of anymoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support ofthe army during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,that is to say :

For the pay of the army, one million five hundred and thirty-fourthousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars;

For the subsistence of officers, four hundred and seventy thousandseven hundred and fifty-four dollars;

For forage of officers’ horses, one hundred and eleven thousand onehundred and fifteen dollars;

For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, and to offi-cers, in lieu of clothing for their servants, fifty-nine thousand four hun-dred dollars;

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, one million one hundredand twenty-two thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars;

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cookingutensils, and hospital furniture, four hundred and seventy-three thou-sand four hundred and thirty-five dollars;

For the medical and hospital department, twenty-four thousand fourhundred dollars;

For the regular supplies furnished by the quartermaster’s department,consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundredand forty-five thousand five hundred dollars;

For barracks, quarters, store houses, embracing the repairs and en-largement of barracks, quarters, store houses, and hospitals, at the seve-ral posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shallbe occupied during the year, and of gun houses for the protection ofthe cannon at the forts on the seaboard; the purchase of the necessarytools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furni-ture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers ; of barracksfor troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accom-modation ; of store houses for the safe keeping of subsistence, clothing,and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments,encampments, and military practice, one hundred thousand dollars;

For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of theirbaggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty thousand dol-lars;

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No money ap-propriated bythis act to beapplied, &.c.

Statute III.March 3,1839.[Obsolete.]

Pay.

Subsistence ofofficers.

Forage for offi-cers’ horses.

Payments inlieu of clothing.

Subsistence.

Clothing, &.c.

Medical andhospital depart-ment.

Supplies by Q.Mas er’s dep’t.

Barracks, &.c.

Transportationof officers’ bag-gage.