United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 26
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, magazines, arsenals and armories, the following sums, including the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars already appropriated by the first section of the act, entituled1812, ch. 16. “An act authorizing the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other quartermaster’s stores and small arms,” be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated; that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay of the army of the United States, eight hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
For forage, one hundred and four thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars.
For subsistence, six hundred and eighty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars and five cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand eight hundred and four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, seventy thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, one million one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, including two thousand dollars for such a number of additional military storekeepers as may be required, two hundred and ninety-six thousand and forty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the quartermaster general’s department, including camp equipage, fuel, tools, barracks, quarters, wagons and transportation, seven hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the dragoons and light artillery, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars.
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the clerks employed in the military agent’s offices, and in the office of the inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses of calling into actual service, in the years one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the militia of the Louisiana and Indiana territories, and state of Kentucky, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 21, 1812.