United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 57
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Chap. LVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment and of the volunteer militia in the actual service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Specific appropriations for the military establishment.
Act of January 20, 1813, ch. 11.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States, including the volunteers and militia, in their actual service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, and armories, the following sums, including the sum of one million of dollars already appropriated by the first section of the act, entitled “An act making certain partial appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen,” be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, including the pay of the artificers and labourers in the quartermaster general’s and ordnance departments, and of the private servants kept by officers, and for the pay of the volunteers and militia in the actual service of the United States, five million one hundred and sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and three dollars.
For Specific appropriations.forage to officers, one hundred and nine thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars.
For the subsistence of the army, and volunteers and militia, two million nine hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars.
For clothing, two million fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For bounties and premiums, five hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
For camp and field equipage, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, two hundred thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, nine hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For fortifications, four hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars.
For arsenals, magazines, and armories, three hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred and eight dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, including fuel, straw, barrels, quarters, tools, and all the expenses incident to transportation, two million three hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies, three hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars.
For purchasing books, maps, and plans, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars.
For the salary of the clerks employed in the offices of the adjutant general, of the commissary general, and of the quartermaster general, eight thousand dollars.
For the purchase of books and apparatus for the military academy, twelve thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
For the repayment of the sum of five hundred and twenty-seven dollars, being a balance due the state of Maryland, of monies paid by that state to the United States, as the purchase money of public arms, which have not been fully supplied.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1813.