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foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars:

For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an ; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of the necessary articles for the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the performance of other duties; purchase of horses to mount the second regiment of dragoons, and expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for service, and the erection of additional stables, one hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars:

For contingencies of the army, three thousand dollars:

For two months’ extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars:

For arrearages for the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, one thousand dollars:

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars:

For the armament of the fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars:

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars:

For arsenals, three hundred and seventy-three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars:

For the purchase of percussion cannon locks, fifteen thousand dollars:

For the manufacture of elevating machines for barbette and casemate carriages, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:

For the manufacture of sponges for field and battery cannon, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars:

For the rifle factory at the Harper’s Ferry armory, eight thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars:

For completing the barracks at Baton Rouge, being an amount expended out of the general appropriation for the Quartermaster’s Department, and to enable the accounting officers to close the accounts, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and five cents:

For completing the wharf at Fort Monroe, Virginia, five hundred dollars.

For constructing a river wall, making the embankment to the same, arching, stone-walling, repairing the embankment of the new canal, and for completing the tilt-hammer shop at Harper’s Ferry, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars:

For a magazine at the arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, five thousand dollars:

For the purchase of land, building a brick warehouse, and wharf, and making a turnpike road to the river at the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Alabama, in addition to former appropriations for these objects, six thousand six hundred dollars:

For enlarging the site at the arsenal at Frankford, Pennsylvania, one thousand dollars: