THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 156. 1858. 333 For commutation of officex·s’ subsistence, nine hundred and ninety-eight U°¥¤¥P¤*¤*i°¤ thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents: Provided, °f s°b“st°”°°` That the superintendent of the military academy, while serving as such s§;';§:;‘glg2gt°’ by appointment of the President, shall have the local rank, the pay and of the Mgmoly allowances of ·a Colonel of Engineers: that the commandant of the corps A¢¤d¤¤¤y. Md of of cadets at the military academy while serving as such as by appoint- :l}°é°,‘;;lf,€S°aI}‘l?f,’; ment of the President, shall have the local rank, the pay and allowances shalt be iiistrucofa Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, and besides his other duties, shall 2*;*;,;*1} t*L”·g2;’;{2>1_ be charged with the duty of instructor in the tactics of the three arms at ,,,,,m,,o ,,,,,,,,0- said academy ; and that the senior assistant instructor in each of the arms teriu each erm ef of service, viz : of artillery, cavalry, and infantry, shall severally receive l'h° S°m°°‘ the pay and allowances of the assistant professor of mathematics. For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and twenty- cgmmutguqu four thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars. °ff°¤’·S¢· For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, fifty clothing_ thousand dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for 0Hicers’ servants, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For subsistence in kind, one million three hundred and eighty thousand _Subsi.stence in six hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-five cents. k‘“d· For clothing for the army, camp, and garrison equipage, one million Clothlng,&c. and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and two dollars and ninety-nine cents. For the regular supplies of the quartermastefs department, consisting Qumormosof fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and ter’¤ departmentoffices; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen, of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field ; for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, the two regi- Regular sup. ments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riiiemen, the companies of plieslight artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the Held and at the outposts, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers' bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certincates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments ; and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, one million seven hundred and forty-tive thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermastefs department, con- Inoidoom o;. sisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by the officers Pe¤SeS· of the army on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation of judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers em- 180,, 6h_ o ployed under the direction of the quartermastefs department, in the §§ 21, i erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the construe- V°l· “· P· 13** tion of roads, and on other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten _ days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, .\}(3“;h°h·‘fé8 and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those em- 1854; oh:;._i7,g{;_ ployed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of V¤l·X·P· 576- expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing omcers, and to trains, where military escorts cannot be furnished; expense of the interment of omcers killed in action, or who die when on duty in the field, or at the posts on the frontiers, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture ; hire of laborers in the quartermastefs department; compensation of forage and wagonmasters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of descr- 1838, ch. 162, ters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the following expendi-ig, v 25., tures required for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regimentsi p` `
