150 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 35. 1847. sisting of postage on letters and packets received byofficers on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and wit- 1802. eh. 9. nesses, while on that service, under the act of the sixteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under 1819, ch. 45. the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermaster’s department, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid ; and compensation to agents in charge of dismantled works, and to such wagon and forage-masters as it may be necessary to employ under the act of the 1838,¤h.162. fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; various expenditures necessary to keep the three regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the places of those which muy be lost and become unfit for service; also including the purchase of horses for the additional regiment of dragoons and the purchase of saddles, bridles, and other horse equipments for the same ; shoeing horses, for the purchase of blacksmiths’ and other tools, iron and other materials, and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit; two million one hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred dollars. Repairing and For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and f:;;;g‘§,='i b"' hospitals, at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at 'such posts as may by occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for the authorized furniture of the barrack-rooms of non-com missioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons, light artillery, and mounted riiiemen; 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 safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, &.c., and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military purposes, one million one hundred and seven thousand two hundred dollars. °,.T:;‘:g;€”;?gf _For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty gage_ without troops, eighty thousand dollars. Transportation For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including
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’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 foundrie and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, five million two hundred and forty-three _ thousand three hundred dollars. §I°¥;¤¤S¤¤¤i<=; For contingencies of the army, fifty thousand dollars. b°spf¤;°“i,€P;r“,_ Fo! the medical and hospital department, one hundred and ml)' m,,,t._ thousand dollars. Ordnance. For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, three
