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224 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Szss.II. Ch. 55. 1838. S'""" n' , , ndetnmlci riatinm rrr the su art u the arm April 6. 1838- can LV _-J year om: lhigwlirqlrzg/Lt hwuiicd and tki?5_y·e£_é`gtz, y fm. me

 Be iz muted by the Senate and House of Representativesof the United

States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eiglxtg that is to say: Pay of the For the pay of the army, one million and ninety-one thousand one army. hundred and ninety-three dollars. Subs;,mm of For the subsistence of officers, three hundred and forty-seven thou cillcers. sand seven hundred and fortymine dollars. HFor¤g: for on For foregedii officers' horses, seventy thousand nine hundred and °°*`°’ °"°s· eight ·seven dollars.

 Eéneloitlaing for 0m(3&1'S’ servants, twenty-six thousand five hundred

· an dollars. Pnymemeiu For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thou- ¤·=¤ ¤f¤l¤¤¤*¤g· me dollars. S¤b¤i¤¤¤¤¢¢· For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, seven hundred and g}“£§§°;2f‘h°t thirty thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and lilly cents. Clo¢hing,eamp For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking gggigzglwggc utergjls, and hospital furniture, four hundred and thirteen thousand twe ' ° hun red an ninety-nine ol ars. Mediculand For the medical and hospital department, thirty-nine thousand two b¤¤Pl¢¤| d¢P¢· hundred dollars. $uppliu fur- For the regular supplies furnished by the Q,uartermaster’s department, '“"hFd by QL consisting of fuel, forave, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundred Ml" S dBm` and three thousand dolfars. B¤”°°k¤· For barracks, quarters, store-houses, embracing the repairs and §0°’3;;:°§c°f"°' enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses, end hospitals, at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard; the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture l`or the bztrrack rooms; rent. of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there ure no public buildings for their accommodation; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, ccc., and for grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, ninety-five thousand dollars. Tmnsportation For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of their °f°§°°°° I"? baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, Fifty thousand dollars. qganspoyqnygon For the transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of of nropps and the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land “°”h°°* G"' or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartnge at the several posts; hire of tenmsters, transportation of Funds for the Pay department; expense of sailing u public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico; und of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortilioaiions and frontier posts, end•of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of one hundred and _ ninety-five thousand dollars. {mama! eb _ For the incidental expenses of the Quurtermastefs department, con- ,,,,,3,,, of Q,_ sxstxng of postage on public letters and peekets; expenses of courts girls dept. martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge