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supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military practice, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

Quartermaster’s departm’t.No. 10. For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets, expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocated, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses and of the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of temporary agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the1838, ch. 162. act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to keep the regiments of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for the service, and the erection of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars.

Transportation of officers’ baggage.No. 11. For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty-five thousand dollars.

Transportation of troops and supplies.No. 12. For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery, under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, two hundred and forty-two thousand dollars.

Contingencies.No. 13. For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars.

Medical and hospital department.No. 14. For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

Metereological observations.For extending and rendering more complete the meteorological observations conducted at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General, three thousand dollars.

Ordnance service.No. 15. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars.

Fortifications.
Agent at foundries.
No. 16. For the armament of fortifications, including compensation of a special agent to attend at the foundries employed in making cannon, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Ordnance and stores.No. 17. For ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.

Manufacture and purchase of arms.No. 18. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; of which sum, ten thousand dollars may, at the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the purchase of arms.

Springfield armory.No. 19. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars.

Harper’s Ferry armory.No. 20. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry armory, thirty thousand dollars.

Arsenals.No. 21. For arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Saltpetre and brimstone.No. 22. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars.

Drawings.For expense of drawings of a uniform system of artillery, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

No. 23. For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida, to be