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troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery under contracts to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and arms from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the mines to the several arsenals, two hundred and forty-two 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 compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the ; expenses of expresses, and of the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of 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 the service, and the erection of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars;

For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars;

For extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars;

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, eighty-five thousand dollars;

For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;

For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, eighty thousand dollars;

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

For arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars;

For the purchase of a site and rebuilding the arsenal at Charleston, South Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars;

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the Harper’s Ferry armory, thirty-eight thousand dollars;

For the expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, three thousand six hundred dollars;

For the purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, twenty thousand dollars;

For continuing the barracks, quarters, &c., at Fort Smith, fifty thousand dollars;

For barracks, quarters, &c., at Turkey river, fifteen thousand dollars;

For continuing the military road on the western frontier, five thousand dollars;

For continuing the barracks, quarters, &c., at Sackett’s Harbor, one thousand dollars;

For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the and the  eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the acts therein referred to, viz: For forage; for freight or transportation of military supplies of every description from the places of purchase to Florida; for the purchase of wagons and harness, of boats and lighters, and other vessels, of horses, mules, and oxen to keep up the trains, of tools, leather, and other materials for repairs; for transportation within Florida, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels for service in the rivers, and on the coasts; and the expenses of maintaining the several steamboats and transport