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620 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33. ]B51. houses for the protection of cannon, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for rent of quarters and oflices for onieers, and barracks and hospitals for troops; where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, for storehouses for the safe keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, four hundred thousand dollars. Mileage of out- For mileage or allowance made to officers for transportation of them- °°"· selves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. ·_pm¤spmm0n For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops 0f Mm? aud when moving, either by land or water, of clothing, camp and garrison °t°r°°‘ 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 and ordnance stores, and small arms from the founderies 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 dray· age and Cattagc at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments, the expense 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 it to be brought from a distance, one million dollars. Medical and For the medical and hospital departments, sixty thousand three hunfnfgfl d°P°“‘ dred and seventy-five dollars. 0,d,m,c,,_ For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars. Arms. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Harper’s Ferry. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harper’s Ferry armory, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. sprihgriehi. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Springtield armory, forty-seven thousand dollars. Expenses or For paying the expenses of suits at law to which the superintendent

d t S; of Springfield armory has been subjected in establishing the title of the

Sp,,,,g,;€ld_ United States to public land at that armory, and in defending suits Prvvisc- against him in his public capacity, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be paid until the accounts shall have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War. Arseuals. For arsenals, one hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars. Magazine, at For the erection of two magazines for powder on the public lands S*·L°¤iS =¤S¤¤°l· reserved for military purposes, at Jefferson barracks, below St. Louis arsenal, and including the sum of five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the purchase of a magazine site at this arsenal, which may be applied to the erection of the two magazines, twenty thousand dollars. Surveys of Surveys.-For continuing the surveys of the northern and northlakes western lakes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighthouse on Lightlwr¢ses.—For completing the lighthouse on Carysfort Reef, C“"YSf°’* R°°f· coast of Florida, seventeen thousand dollars. Inghthouse at For completing the foundation and construction of the lighthouse m“°“8°· at the end of North Pier, at Chicago, Illinois, four thousand four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-nine cents.