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For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ servants, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents.

For subsistence in kind, two hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty cents.

For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

For expenses of recruiting, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy cents.

For three months’ extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen belonging to the quartermasters’ department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the regiment of dragoons, and the four companies of light artillery; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters’ departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

For the incidental expenses of the quartermasters’ department, consisting of postage on letters and packages received by officers on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses while on that service, under the ; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads and other constant labor, for a period of not less than ten days, under the ; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermasters’ department at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid; and compensation to agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the ; various expenditures necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost, and become unfit for service; shoeing horses; and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit, ninety thousand dollars.

For the purchase of horses, equipments and forage, and to pay [the] [sic] other expenses caused by the act entitled “,” one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For barracks, quarters and store-houses, including repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may be occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated; and for the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons and light artillery; for rent of quarters for officers, barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, and of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c.; and of grounds for summer