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For the purchase of five thousand sets of accoutrements for the artillery and infantry regiments, fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For the recruiting service, in addition to twenty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars unexpended of a former appropriation, six thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to six thousand and forty-three dollars unexpended of a former appropriation, fourteen thousand dollars.

For arrearages prior to the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the third auditor, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, three thousand dollars.

To enable the second auditor to close the accounts under the, allowing three months’ gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, one thousand dollars.

For the payment of the general and staff officers and six companies of Missouri militia, ordered into service by the governor of that state, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For paying any balance which may be due for militia services, in the territory of Michigan, in the late war against Black Hawk and his followers, two thousand dollars.

For the payment of Captain McGeorge’s company of Indiana militia, for services performed in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, Provided, the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that the said company is entitled thereto, the sum of seven hundred dollars.

For finishing gun-racks, and making window shutters to the new arsenal, rebuilding middle water shop, one hundred and ten by fifty feet, and for building a house for steam engine, including a store-room for iron, fifty-two by forty-six feet, at the national armory, Springfield, Massachusetts, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.

For additional machinery and fixtures at the same armory, viz: three water-wheels for grinding musket barrels, six water-wheels and twenty-two forges required in the middle water shop, blast machinery for eleven double forges, and for the purchase of new and improved labour saving machinery, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.

For slating roof and rebuilding water-wheel of upper work-shop, renewing and repairing fences on the public ground, and for painting public buildings at the same armory, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairing dam, (and removing obstructions in way of,) supplying the water to the rifle factory on the Shenandoah river, at the national armory, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, two thousand dollars.

For the completion of the machinery in the three shops for turning, boring, and stocking muskets; the completion of the canal, furnishing the water power; erecting an annealing shop and proof house; erecting two shops and tempering springs and polishing barrels; erecting two engine houses, and making addition to stocking shops; and for erecting a carpenter’s and machine shop, at the same armory, thirty-six thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-six cents.

For the payment of the taxes assessed by the state of Pennsylvania on the United States arsenal on the Schuylkill river, five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-nine cents.

For the purchase of three acres of land on the Alabama river, and building a warehouse and dock at the Mount Vernon arsenal, in the state of Alabama, one thousand eight hundred dollars and fifty cents.

, May 14, 1834.