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Transportationof troops andsupplies.

Quartermas-ter’s depart-ment.

Act of March2, 1819, ch. 45.

Contingencies.Extra pay.

National ar-mories.

Armament offortifications.

Ordnance ser-vice.

Ordnance, 5lc.

Arsenals.

Springfield ar-mory.

Allegany andWatertown ar-senals.

Drawing, &c.

Arrearages.

Surveying,&c.military road.

Appropriationsfor fortifications.

TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess.III. Ch.94. 1839.

For the transportation of troops, and supplies, viz : transportation ofthe army including the baggage of troops, when moving either by landor water; freight and ferriages ; purchase or hire of horses, mules,oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or forthe use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire' ofteamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense ofsailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico , andof procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; thetransportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stationsof the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and thepoints of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstancesof the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundriesand arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from thewestern mines to the several arsenals, the sum of two hundred and fivethousand dollars;

For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, con-sisting of postage on public letters and packets ; expenses of courtsmartial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judgeadvocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an actof Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen;expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of the necessary articlesfor the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire oflaborers; compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters andassistant quartermasters at posts where their duties cannot be performedwithout such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantledworks, and in the performance of other duties; expenditures necessaryto keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchaseof horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and becomeunfit for service, and the erection of additional stables, one hundred andtwo thousand dollars;

For contingencies of the army, seven thousand dollars;

For two months’ extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contin-gent expenses of the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundredand twenty-seven dollars;

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars;

For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thou-sand dollars;

For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred and twentythousand dollars;

For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For new machinery at the Springfield armory, twenty thousand dol-lars ;

Forthepurchaseoflandat the Allegany and Watertown arsenals, threethousand five hundred dollars;

For the expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artil-lery, and for other supplies in the Ordnance Department, three thou-sand eight hundred dollars;

For arrearages prior to the 1st of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen,per act of the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, payablethrough the Third Auditor’s Office, three thousand dollars;

For surveying and opening of the western frontier military road,being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, andthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasurynot otherwise appropriated, for the preservation, repairs, and construc-tion of certain fortifications and incidental expenses for the year eigh-teen hundred and thirty-nine, viz :