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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 183. 1842.
Settlers, &c.may enter saidlands.
1834, ch.54.1838, ch. 11S.
1840, ch. 32.
1841, ch. 16.
Preference tosetters underthe earliest law.Proviso.
Proviso.
Statute II.Aug. 23, 1842.[Obsolete.]
Appropriationsfor the army.
Pay.
Subsistence ofofficers.
Forage of offi-cers’ horses.
Clothing of of-ficers’ servants.
Clothing notdrawn bytroops.
Recruiting.
Clothing, See.
Subsistence.
Supplies byQuartermas-ter’s departm’t.
Barracks, &.c.
county of Dubuque , in the Territory of Iowa, heretofore reserved forthe Dubuque claim, so called, which have not been sold by the UnitedStates, by virtue of the acts of the fourth day of July, one thousandeight hundred and thirty-six, and the third day of March, one thousandeight hundred and thirty-seven, be, and the same are hereby, declared tobe public lands, and that settlers on said land, who but for said reserva-tion would have been enabled to enter the same under the pre-emptionlaws of nineteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four,twenty-second June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, firstJune, one thousand eight hundred and forty, or fourth September, onethousand eight hundred and forty-one, be, and they are hereby, author-ized to enter the same at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, atany time within one year after the date of this act, upon complying withthe provisions of either of said acts under which such person may claim;the settlers under the earlier law being entitled to the preference overthose undeV a subsequent one: Provided, That this section is not to beregarded as extending the right of pre-emption to lands reserved for leadmines, salt springs, school sections, or town lots : And provided fur-ther, That should the said claim of Dubuque hereafter prove valid, com-pensation to the claimants shall be made by the United States in otherpublic lands equal in quantity, subject to private entry.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
Chap. CLXXX1II .—Jin Act making appropriations for the support of the army,
and of the military academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two.
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sumsbe, and the same hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneyin the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the armyfor the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
No. 1. For the pay of the army, one million four hundred and seventy-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
No. 2. For commutation of officers’ subsistence, five hundred andtwenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars.
No. 3. For commutation of forage of officers’ horses, one hundredand sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars.
No. 4. For commutation of clothing of officers’ servants, thirty thou-sand two hundred and forty dollars.
For commutation of clothing not drawn in kind by the troops, fiftythousand two hundred and forty dollars.
No. 5. For expenses of recruiting, fifteen thousand seven hundredand nine dollars and thirty-six cents.
No. 6. For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cook-ing utensils, and hospital furniture, three hundred and seventy-fourthousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty cents.
No. 7. For subsistence in kind, exclusive of that of officers, sevenhundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
No. 8. For tlie regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s de-partment, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, threehundred and sixteen thousand dollars.
No. 9. For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairsand enlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; theerection of temporary cantonments and of gun-houses for the protectionof cannon; the purchase of tools and materials and of furniture for thebarrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops,where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military