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hundred and thirty-three, estimated for by the pay department, forty-five thousand dollars.

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

For various expenses in the quartermaster’s department, viz: fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks and printing; repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals at the various posts in the Union; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, including huts for the dragoons; materials for the authorized furniture of the rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, rent of quarters, barracks, and store-houses; postage on public letters; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, and the construction of roads and other constant labour, under an ; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of escorts to paymasters, hire of labourers, and the internment of deceased non-commissioned officers and soldiers; compensation to extra clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, and in the offices of the quartermasters and assistants at the several posts, and compensation to temporary agents; also, for the horses and equipments which may be required to keep the establishment of the regiment of dragoons complete, three hundred and forty-four thousand dollars.

For transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and the points of delivery under contract, to the posts where they are required to be used; of ordnance from the founderies and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and lead from the western mines to the fortifications and frontier posts, and lead from the western mines to the several arsenals; for transportation of the army, including officers when removing with troops either by land or water; freights and ferriages: the purchase or hire of horses, oxen, mules, carts, wagons, and boats, for transportation of troops and supplies, and for garrison purposes: drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay department, and the expenses of sailing a public transport between the several posts on the Gulf of Mexico, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

For the allowance to officers for the transportation of their baggage when travelling on duty without troops, and for the per diem to officers on topographical duty, fifty-three thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.

For carrying on the works in the city of Savannah, Georgia, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For continuing the repairs and alterations of the barracks and quarters at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars.

For erecting officers’ quarters at Fort Severn, Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars.

For carrying on the works at Green Bay, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.

For temporary repairs of the barracks at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of land adjoining Fort Sullivan, Eastport, Maine, three thousand three hundred dollars.

For national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.

For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the arsenal at St. Louis, in addition to the sum embraced in the general appropriation for arsenals, eight thousand five hundred dollars.