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and encampments for military purposes, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;

For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freights and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons and boats for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; the expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts, as from their situation require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;

For medical and hospital department, twenty-seven [thousand] [sic] eight hundred dollars;

For continuing meteorological observations at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General for said fiscal year, two thousand dollars;

For the contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars;

For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontiers, inland and Atlantic, ten thousand dollars;

For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty thousand dollars;

For continuing the surveys of the Northern and Northwestern lakes, twenty thousand dollars;

For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, seventy-five thousand dollars;

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;

For current expense of ordnance service, ninety-five thousand dollars;

For manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred thousand dollars;

For arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars;

For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars;

For expense of preparing drawings of artillery, one thousand dollars;

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

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry armory, twelve thousand dollars;

For barracks, quarters, &c., at Fort Atkinson, to close outstanding accounts, nine thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty cents;

To settle the accounts of Major Charles Thomas and Captain Edward B. Alexander, being a re-appropriation of part of two former appropriations for the erection of a fort on the Arkansas frontier, which has been carried to the surplus fund, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents;

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and hereby is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of repairing the present buildings and erecting such others as may be necessary at the military post at Newport, Kentucky.

, June 17, 1844.