68 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 95 1846. Aug, 9, rem. Cmp. XCV.—An Het makigzg_.8ppropriat§vns for the Supper: of me mmyfa, ·-——····"*' the Year ending an tlicthirtzetlz, June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives efthe United States of America in Congress assembled, '1`hat the following Appropriation. sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army for the year ending on the thirtreth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven: _ b Pay. For pay of the army, one mrlhon three hundred and twenty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars. Officers' sub- For commutation of officers’ subsistence, four hundred and sixty- °lS'·°”°°· five thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars. Forage. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, including arrears since commencement of hostilities, one hundred and thirty-one thousand sie; hundred and three dollars. Cij>¤hi¤sf<> Om- For payments in lieu of clothing to oiHcers’ servants, twenty-eight; wss S°wams‘ thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars. _$¤h¤l$t°¤°° i¤ For subsistence in kind, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand one kmd' hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty-seven cents. Clothing und For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, two hun- °q‘“P°g°’ dred and thirty-one thousand dollars. Recruiting For expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand and twenty-two dollars. Extra pay. For three inonths’ extra pay to non-commissioned officers, n1usicians, and privates, sixteen thousand dollars. mgmt- Sup. For the regular supplies of the qua.rtermaster’s department, con- {>;:;a;Qllj;<1¤3; sisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers' I,m.tm6nt_ horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen, belonging to the quartermaster’s department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, and the four companies of light artillery; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermastefs departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, two hundred and five thousand dollars. 1,,,,,;,,,,,,,,1 cX_ For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, pauses or Ehe consisting of postage on letters and packets received by officers on 3:;;$;l“;*:°'“ public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge-advocates, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of the sixteenth of lm] Cb_Q_ March, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the 1819, ch.45. act of second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the interment of nomcommissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermaster’s department, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid; and compensation to agents in charge of dismantled works, and to such wagon and forage masters as it may 1838,4;};,162, be necessary to employ, under the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight ; various expenditures necessary to keep the two 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 service, shoeing horses, and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their _ _ pursuit;-one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. cn,?,?]?;""!,?:: For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store·houses, and racks, gm hospitals, at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at
