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Chap. XVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, that is to say;
Pay of army.For the pay of the army, one million ninety thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars:
Subsistence of officers.For the subsistence of officers, three hundred and thirty-two thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars:
Forage for officers’ horses.For forage of officers’ horses, seventy thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars:
Clothing for officers’ servants.For clothing for officers’ servants, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Payments in lieu of clothing.For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars:
Subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, and including that of volunteers and militia.For subsistence exclusive of that of officers, nine hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, including the sum of three hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars, for the subsistence of the volunteers and militia called out for preventing or suppressing Indian hostilities:
Clothing, camp and garrison equipage, &c.For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, two hundred and six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars:
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars:
Supplies furnished by Quartermaster’s Department.For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundred and eight thousand dollars:
Barracks, quarters, &c.For barracks, quarters, store-houses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard, the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, ninety-five thousand dollars:
Transportation of officers’ baggage.For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
Transportation of troops and supplies, &c.For the transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of sailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the