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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 labourers; 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; 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, ninety-two thousand dollars.

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

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

For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may suffice to complete the arsenals already commenced, and those on the western frontier.

For the manufacture of elevating machines for barbette and casemate carriages, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase and manufacture of light field artillery, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars.

For the purchase of gunpowder and grape shot, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For arrearages payable trough the office of the Second Auditor, twelve hundred dollars.

For arrearages payable through the office of the Third Auditor, three thousand dollars.

For taxes on the Passyunk arsenal, near Philadelphia, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-seven and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, fourteen hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars.

For paying the balance due the heirs of William Meldrum, one of the commissioners for surveying and marking the road from La Plaisance Bay to Chicago, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents.

For paying Adam Eckfeldt, for fine gold and other expenses incurred by him in preparing nine medals ordered by Congress for various distinguished officers, one thousand and eight dollars and eighty-six cents.

, April 6, 1838.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all money which has been, or may hereafter be, transmitted to the agents for paying pensions, which may have remained, or may hereafter remain, in the hands of said agents unclaimed by any pensioner or pensioners for the term of eight months after the same may have or may become due and payable, shall be transferred to the Treasury of the United States; and that all pensions unclaimed as aforesaid, shall be thereafter payable only at the Treasury of the United States, and out of any money not otherwise appropriated.