578 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 267. 1854. enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars ; For mileage or allowance made to officers for the transportation of themselves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars ; For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops, 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 from 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, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vessels and boats, for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments ; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance, one million two hundred thousand dollars; For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For contingencies of the army, six thousand dollars; For the Medical and Hospital Department, fifty-one thousand two hundred and forty dollars; For contingent expenses of the Adjutant-General’s Department, as division and department headquarters, four hundred dollars ; For repair and preparation of the Ponton-Bridge train, to be stored and kept in readiness for the field, fifteen thousand dollars ; For armament of fortifications, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, seventy-five thousand dollars ; For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars ; Arms. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That so much of all laws heretofore gupcy;,,r€,,d- passed, which authorized the appointment of military officers to superin- ¤¤<>y<>f¤fm¤¤i•=S- tend the operations at the national armories, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a competent and well qualified civilian as Post, p. 638. superintendent at each of said armories ; For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars; Ammus, For arsenals, thirty-three thousand three hundred and ten dollars ; For the completion of magazine at Jefferson barracks, Missouri, twenty-five thousand dollars; Steamer on For an iron steamer to be used in the survey of the northern and L‘*k°s· north-western lakes, including Lake Superior, under the WVar Department, fifty thousand dollars; Surveys. For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty- five thousand dollars;
