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supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments formilitary practice, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
No. 10. For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s depart-ment, consisting of postage on public letters and packets, expenses ofcourts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compen-sation to judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiersunder the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; ex-penses of expresses and of the interment of non-commissioned officersand soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation of clerks in the offices ofthe quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where theirduties cannot be performed without such aid, and of temporary agentsin charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage mastersas it may be necessary to employ under the act of the fifth of July,eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to keep theregiments of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery com-plete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of thosewhich may be lost and become unfit for the service, and the erection ofstables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars.
No. 11. For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling onduty without troops, sixty-five thousand dollars.
No. 12. For transportation of troops and supplies, viz : transporta-tion of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages, purchase or hireof horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of trans-portation or garrison use ; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; trans-portation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels,and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it;transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stationsof the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery,under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of the service mayrequire; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the found-ries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, twohundred and forty-two thousand dollars.
No. 13. For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars.
No. 14. For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thou-sand dollars.
For extending and rendering more complete the meteorological obser-vations conducted at the military posts of the United States , under thedirection of the Surgeon General, three thousand dollars.
No. 15. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hun-dred thousand dollars.
No. 16. For the armament of fortifications, including compensationof a special agent to attend at the foundries employed in making can-non, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
No. 17. For ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies, one hundredthousand dollars.
No. 18. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, threehundred and sixty thousand dollars; of which sum, ten thousand dollarsmay, at the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the pur-chase of arms.
No. 19. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Spring-field armory, twenty thousand dollars.
No. 20. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Har-per’s Ferry armory, thirty thousand dollars.
No. 21. For arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
No. 22. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dol-lars.
For expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery,one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
No. 23. For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida , to be
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1838, ch. 162.
Transportationof officers' bag-gage.
Transportationof troops andsupplies.
Contingencies.
Medical andhospital depart-ment.
Meteorological
observations.
Ordnance ser-vice.
Fortifications.
Agent at foun-dries.
Ordnance andstores.
Manufactureand purchase ofarms.