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of false swearing in taking the oath, at the rendition of his accounts asrequired by the fifth section of this act to be prescribed by the Secre-tary of the Treasury, with the intention to deceive and defraud the Go-vernment of the United States , shall be deemed to be guilty of perjury,and liable to the same prosecution and penalty inflicted for like offences,to be tried and adjudged in any court of the United States having juris-diction thereof, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Trea-sury, whenever in his opinion the said offence has been perpetrated asaforesaid, to direct the District Attorney of the United States for thedistrict within which the same has occurred to prosecute the offender;

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws,inconsistent with the provisions of the fifth, sixth, and seventh sectionsof this act, are hereby repealed.

Approved, March 3, 1841.

by the 5th sec-tion of this act,to be deemedperjury.

Sec. Treasurymay direct theDist. Attorneyto prosecute theoffender.

Laws incon-sistent with the5th, 6th and 7thsections of thisact, repealed.

Chap. XXXVI. — An Act making appropriations for the support of the army forthe year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.

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 hereby are, appropriated to be paid out of anymoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support ofthe army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one;

For the pay of the army, one million one hundred and seventy-twothousand and twenty-eight dollars;

For subsistence of officers, five hundred and fourteen thousand fourhundred and eighty-nine dollars;

For forage of officers’ horses, one hundred and fourteen thousand fivehundred and seventy-one dollars;

For payments in lieu of clothing not drawn in kind, eighty thousandand thirty dollars;

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, six hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars;

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking uten-sils, and hospital furniture, five hundred and five thousand seven hun-dred and thirty-seven dollars;

For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dol-lars ;

For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s Depart-ment, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, twohundred and sixty-one thousand dollars;

For barracks, quarters, and store-houses, embracing the repairs andenlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals; the erec-tion of temporary cantonments, and of gun-houses for the protection ofcannon; the purchase of tools and materials, and of furniture for thebarrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops wherethere are no public buildings for their accommodation, of store-housesfor the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing and other military supplies,and of grounds for summer cantonments, and encampments for militarypractice, one hundred and sixty 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 and baggage; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses,mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation, orgarrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation offunds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of pro-curing water at such posts as from their situation require it; transporta-tion of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the

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Appropria-

tions.

Pay.

Subsistence ofofficers.

Forage of offi-cers’ horses.

Payments inlieu of clothing.

Subsistence.

Clothing, &.c.

Medical andhospital depart-ment.

Quartermas-ter’s departm’t.

Barracks, &c.

Transportationof officers’ bag-gage.

Transportationof troops andsupplies.