THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. On. 169. 1855. 637 purchase of horse equipments, as saddles, bridles, saddle-blankets, nosebags, iron combs, currycombs, and spurs, and straps ; of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, shoeing horses of mounted corps, and repairing clragoon and rifle equipments, three hundred and seventy·1‘;ive thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts, which it may Barracks, &o. be necessary to occupy during the year, and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments ; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, four hundred and ninety thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For mileage to officers of the army, for transportation of themselves Mileage. and baggage when travelling on duty, without troops or escorts, one hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops Transportation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison 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, ordnance stores and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wbarfage, tolls, and ferriages ; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships and other sea-going vessels and boats for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage 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 that it be brought from a distance, and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, one million two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses for thejfirst and second regiments of dragoons, Home the companies of light artillery, the mounted riflemen, and such infantry as the commanding officers at the frontier posts may find it necessary to mount, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, six thousand dollars. Contingencies. For the medical and hospital departments, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the adjutant-general’s department, at division and department head·quarters, four hundred dollars. For armament of fortifications, one hundred and twenty-five thousand Fortiscations. 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 and Arms. fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry, Armories and thirty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars. _ ”S°°m' For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, fifty-four thousand dollars. For new machinery at Harpers Ferry armory, twenty thousand dollars.
