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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 cantonments and encampments for military purposes, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;

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

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

For the contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars;

For continuing the metereological observations at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the surgeon general, the sum of two thousand dollars;

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

For current expenses of ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars;

For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; of which the sum of one hundred thousand dollars may be used for repairs, provided it can be used for that purpose, without injury to the public service.

For arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars;

For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars;

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars;

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

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;

For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and maritime, twenty thousand dollars;

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

For continuing the surveys of the northern and northwestern lakes, twenty thousand dollars;

To settle the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel H. Whiting, being a re-appropriation of part of former appropriations for a road from Fort Howard to Fort Crawford, and for barracks at Fort Brady, which has been carried to the surplus fund, eight hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-two cents.

, March 3, 1845.