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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Srzss. I. Ch. 173. 1848. 305 sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in 1802, oh. 9. the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, the construction of roads, and other constant labor, under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, for periods of not less than ten days, under the act of second March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses 1819, cb-4-*1 of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers, and trains, where military escorts cannot be furnished; expense of the interment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks to the officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation to wagon and forage masters, authorized by the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of desert- 1838, ch. 162. ers, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various expenditures necessary to keep the first and second regiments of dragoons, the eight companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen complete, including the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith’s and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regi- Horses fordrament of dragoons, the eight companies of light artillery, and the regi- §;’§H;,y”‘“d hgm ment of mounted riflemen, one hundred thousand dollars. ` For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, Constructing, storehouses, hospitals, stables, wharves, and ways, at the several posts {°P‘E*'l¤‘{;‘*‘;gc*;';‘ and army depots ; for temporary cantonments, gun-houses for the pro- ug"`! U ` tection of cannon, includin the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and hir the authorized furniture for barrack rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; rent of quarters for officers, barracks, and hospitals for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, for storehorses, [houses,] for the safekeeping of military stores, and of groimds for summer cantonments, three hundred thousand dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers for the transportation 5 Mimeé of ¤l`- of themselves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, °°”‘ seventy-five thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops, Transportation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; of subsistence fiom the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms [for] the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For subsistence in kind, in addition to one hundred and eighty-six _S¤b¤i¤te¤ce in thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-four cents in k‘“d‘ the treasury, one million one hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. For medical and hospital departments, one hundred and twelve Medical and thousand dollars. luifgétél d°pm` For contingencies of the army, twenty thousand dollars. Contingencies. For/armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. ,,m¢£*;:g*:l;‘ °l` For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hun- Om,,,,,md drcd and fifty thousand dollars. <>rd¤¤¤¢¤ mrc-- For current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thou- Expenses of sand dollars. g_;¤·g~¤¤¤¤~r·~ For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred iii,,,,,,,-,,,,,,,, D; and sixty thousand dollars. Mm- Vor.. IX. IPUB. — 39