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sils and hospital furniture, four hundred and twenty-five thousand sixhundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents;

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-eight thousand dollars;

For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s department,consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundredand seventy-one thousand dollars;

For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairs andenlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses and hospitals at the seve-ral posts; the erection of temporary cantonments and gun-houses for theprotection of the cannon at the forts on the sea-board; for the purchaseof necessary tools and materials, and of the authorized furniture for thebarrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops wherethere are no public buildings for their accommodation; of storehousesfor the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies,and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments and militarypractice, one hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars;

For transportation of officers’ baggage when travelling on duty with-out troops, sixty-five thousand dollars;

For transportation of troops and supplies, viz : transportation of thearmy, including the baggage of troops; freight and ferriages; purchaseor hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purposeof transportation or for garrison use; drayage and cartage at the severalposts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department;expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts asfrom their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depotat Philadelphia to the stations of the troops, of subsistence from theplaces of purchase and delivery under contracts to such points as thecircumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores,and arms, from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and fron-tier posts, and of lead from the mines to the several arsenals, two hun-dred and eighty-seven thousand dollars;

For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s department, con-sisting of postage on public letters and packets, expenses of courts-mar-tial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judges advo-cate, members and witnesses ; extra pay to soldiers under act of Marchsecond, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from thefrontier posts; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-com-missioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation of clerksin the offices of quartermasters and assistant quartermasters at postswhere their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to tempo-rary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the performance ofother duties; expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dra-goons complete, including the purchase of horses, to supply the placeof those which may be lost and become unfit for service, and the erec-tion of the necessary stables, one hundred and twenty-one thousanddollars;

For contingencies of the army, seven thousand dollars;

For extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for contingent expenses ofthe recruiting service, forty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty-threedollars and twenty-seven cents;

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dol-lars ;

For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred and fifty thousanddollars;

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

For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, one hundred thousanddollars;

For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Medical andhospital depart-ment.

Quartermas-ter’s departm’t.

Barracks, &c.

Transportationof officers’ bag-gage.

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,&c.

Arsenals.