THIRTYSECCND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98. 1853. 217 For the Medical and Hospital Departments, fifty-two thousand dollars ; Medml and For cannon, gun-carriages, and projectiles for sea—coast defence, two 23531 dem"` hundred thousand dollars; For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred thousand Ordnance. dollars ; For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars; For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred Arms. and fifty thousand dollars ; To make good damages at Harper’s Ferry, caused by the flood of A*`m°’l“· nineteenth and twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, twenty thousand dollars ; For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield Ar- Supenntendenee mory, forty-six thousand and ninety-four dollars : Provided, That, from °f "m°“°S‘ and after the first day of July next, the act of Congress approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, be so modified that the President may, if in his opinion the public interest demands it, place over any of the armories a superintendent who does not belong to the army; and in order to enable him to decide to his satisfaction, he is hereby authorized to cause the necessary and proper inquiries to be instituted, through the medium of a commission of civilians and military men, with a view of ascertaining which of the two systems is the more economical, etiicient, and safe for the management of the public armories, that formerly existing under the superintendence of civil officers, or that now existing under the superintendence of officers of the ordnance department; For arsenals, forty-one thousand and seventy-one dollars; and that the Arsenals may Secretary of War be and is hereby authorized to abolish such of the be ab°hSh°d‘ arsenals of the United States as in his judgment may be useless or unnecessary ; For arrearages prior to July iirst, eighteen hundred and fifteen, pay- Arrearages. able through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May 1820. ch- 52- first, eighteen hundred and twenty, in addition to an unexpended balance of seven thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars remaining in the Treasury on the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, three thousand five hundred dollars; For arrearages of pay, subsistence, and clothing due to Captain Richard C£:‘§€;§%?§ McRae’s company of Virginia volunteers, which served in the war with cO,gp,,,,y_ Great Britain in eighteen hundred and twelve and thirteen, the sum of ten thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-one cents; to be paid out to the officers and soldiers of said company, or their legal representatives, under the order of the Secretary of War, upon the production of such proof as satisfies him as to the identity of said officers and soldiers, and that they have not been paid; For bridges, and establishing communications between Fort Leaven- Bridges, &e., worth and the Republican Fork of the Kansas River, eleven thousand ““ im l ‘°“· seven hundred and twenty-five dollars ; For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house Onieers on lightduty, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartenmaster h°“s“ d“°Y· Department, four thousand and fifty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents ; For fuel and quarters and for mileage or transportation for officers and E¤¤Pl<>5’¤€S iii enlisted men of the army serving on the coast survey in cases no longer mm SUNW' provided for by the Quarter-master Department, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the annual coast survey report shall be submitted to of*:£;‘;“glu;$g°“ . . ·= y- Congress during the month of December in each year, and shall be accompanied by a general chart of the whole coasts of the United States, on as large a scale as convenient and practicable, showing, as near as practicable, the configuration of the coasts, and showing, by lines, the v01.. x. Pun. —— 28
