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For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, twenty thousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.

For the quartermaster general’s department, three hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.

For arrearages in the quartermaster general’s department, forty-two thousand dollars.

For quartermaster general’s department, viz: barracks for two additional companies, and quarters for the graduates from West Point, ordered to join the infantry school of practice, and to complete store-houses and hospitals, engine and hose, fire buckets, barrack quarters, defences, &c. for four companies at Prairie du Chien: to complete quarters, barrakcs, hospital and store-houses at fort St. Philip: to complete the buildings and enclose the grounds with pickets, at the establishment near Savannah: for engine and hose complete for fortress Monroe, and for fire buckets, forty-four thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-four cents.

For fuel, stationery, transportation, &c.; repairs, and for improving barracks, erecting new buildings, procuring articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, and for the library and contingencies, for the military academy at West Point, excluding the items for quartermaster’s clerk, adjutant’s clerk, and quartermaster’s sergeant, thirty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents.

For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.

For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, ten thousand dollars.

For national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousand dollars.

For arsenals, fifty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.

For completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Maine, thirty thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to settle, adjust, and pay, in conformity with the provisions of the, regulating the pay of the militia, when called into actual service, the claims of the militia and Indians of the state of Illinois, and territory of Michigan, called out by competent authority, or received into service by any general or field officer of the United States, on the occasion of the recent Indian disturbances, and that the expenses of transportation, supplies, materials, ferriage, and work incident to the expedition, shall be settled, according to the justice of the claim, and with strict regard to the law and usage heretofore established for the settlement of such claims; and that the sum of forty thousand dollars be appropriated for the aforesaid objects, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-one cents, being part of an appropriation made by the, for the relief of Lieutenant Colonel William Lawrence and others, and which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated.