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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1856. 149 summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, five hundred thousand dollars. For mileage or allowance made to omcers of the army; for the trans- Mileage of odiportation of themselves and their baggage when travelling on duty with- WYS- out troops or escorts, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops 'rpauspoitation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to.the several posts and army depots ; horse equipments and of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance Stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages ; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vessels and boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes ; for drayage and cartage at the several posts ; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses for the two regiments of dragoons, the two HOrgg5_ regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such infantry as it may be found necessary to mount at the frontier posts, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, twelve thousand dollars. Contingencies. For the medical and hospital departments, seventy-five thousand Medical and d01g2H_ hospital depart- For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department, at di- miiiilisgciiuuwm vision and department head-quarters, four hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the commanding general, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the •ice of the commanding general, three hundred dollars. For armament of fortifications, one hundred and twenty-five thousand Fgmscattom, dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, including horse equip- ordnm;ce,&,q. ments for the mounted regiments, two hundred and three thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordinance service, one hundred thousand dollars. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred _Arms at armoand fifty thousand dollars. “°’· To enable ’1`homas H. Barlow, of Kentucky, to manufacture one of his Rifle cimnonof newly-invented rifle cannon, for the purpose of testing the feasibility of Tl‘°s·H·B“"l°"· their use in the military or naval service of the country, three thousand dollars, to be paid to said Barlow from time to time, as he progresses with the manufacture of the same: Provided, That said cannon shall not be of less calibre than a twelve-pounder: And provided further, That the said Barlow shall give good and sufficient security to the Secretary of War, for the faithful expenditure of the money hereby appropriated in the construction of said cannon. For arsenals, including the purchase of sites for new arsenals of deposit Arsenals. in Texas and New Mexico, and for the erection of suitable magazines and other arsenal buildings in Texas, in Calithrnia, in Washington or