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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year, commencing on the first day of January, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four:

For pay of the army for said half calendar year, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents; and for said fiscal year, one million three hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.

For computation of officers’ subsistence for said half calendar year, one hundred and forty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty cents;

For commutation of forage for officers’ horses for said half calendar year, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-six cents; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and one thousand and thirty-five dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ servants, for said half calendar year, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars; and for said fiscal year, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-dollars.

For subsistence in kind for said fiscal year, four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents.

For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, for said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.

For regular supplies in the quartermaster’s department for said half calendar year, thirty thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairs and enlargement or barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials and of furniture for the barrack rooms, rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military practice, for said half calendar year, forty-five thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred and five thousand dollars.

For arrearages for the completing quarters and barracks at Fort Severn, Maryland, nine thousand and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents.

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 additional compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to solders under the ; expenses of