United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 45
Chap. XLV.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Sums appropriated for—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, respectively, appropriated:
Pay of the army.For the pay of the army of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, one million thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to the sum of two hundred and twenty thousand dollars already appropriated, six hundred and two thousand and forty-eight dollars.
Bounties and premiums.For bounties and premiums for fifteen hundred recruits, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Other expenses for recruits.For quarters, fuel, straw, and all other expenses for recruits, until organized to join regiments and corps, thirty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Clothing.For clothing, three hundred thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, forty-two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars.
Quartermaster.For the quartermaster’s department, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars.
Forage.For forage for officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars, six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Fortifications.For fortifications, eight hundred thousand dollars.
Military academy at West Point.For the military academy at West Point, for fuel, maps, plans, books, and apparatus, and contingent expenses, eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars. For completing the buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-right dollars and fifty-seven cents.
Cannon and shot, &c.For cannon and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, and for the purchase of flints, and timber for travelling carriages, fifty-three thousand dollars.
National armories.For the national armories, in addition to the sum of fifty-six thousand dollars, already appropriated, three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.
Ordnance department.For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars.
Completion of arsenals.For the completion of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For completing the arsenal at Baton Rouge, twenty-five thousand dollars; and at Watertown, near Boston, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Balances due certain states.For balances due to certain states, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and fifty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages, in addition to fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, one hundred thousand dollars.
Invalid pensioners.For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of eighty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars twenty-nine cents, three hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-one cents.
Revolutionary pensioners.For the annual allowance to the revolutionary prisoners, under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eightee, two millions seven hundred and sixty-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
Widows and orphans.For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, one hundred thousand dollars.
Indian department.For the current expenses of the Indian Department during the present year, two hundred thousand dollars.
Indian boundary lines.For surveying and marking boundary lines of Indian cessions, fifteen thousand dollars.
Survey of water-courses.For making a survey of the water-courses tributary to, and west of the Mississippi, also those tributary to the same river and north-west of the Ohio, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Survey, maps, and charts of the Ohio and Mississippi.For making a survey, maps, and charts, of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from the rapids of the Ohio at Louisville, to the Balize, for the purpose of facilitating and ascertaining the most practicable mode of improving the navigation of those rivers, five thousand dollars.
Public road through the Creek nation.For completing the public road through the Creek nation, between the states of Georgia and Alabama, three thousand three hundred dollars.
Out of money in the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 14, 1820.