United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 64
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Chap. LXIV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Appropriations for the army.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 for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:
Pay of army, &c.For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages in the pay department, fifteen thousand dollars.
Forage of officers.For forage of officers, forty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
Clothing for servants.For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.
Clothing of army, &c.For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to material and clothing on hand, amounting to thirty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.
Medical department.For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of eight thousand dollars.
Expenses of quartermaster’s department.For various expenses of the quartermaster’s department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, repairing officers’ quarters, barracks, store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gun-houses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses: for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labour,1819, ch. 45. under the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to quartermaster’s department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Transportation of baggage, &c.For transportation of officers’ baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Transportation of clothing, &c.For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars.
Expenses of visitors at West Point.For defraying the expenses of the board of visitors at West Point, and their travelling expenses, two thousand dollars.
Fuel, &c.For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation, and postage for the military academy, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Out-buildings at West Point.For re-constructing the out-building attached to West Point academy, and for improvements connected therewith, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Repairs of barracks, &c.For general repairs of barracks, academies, mess-house, officers and professors’ quarters, store-houses, wharf, carts, boats, fences, roads, paints, and other objects, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Fire-grates.For renewal and repairs of fire-grates, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Pay of clerk.For pay of adjutants and quartermasters’ clerk, nine hundred dollars.
Library.For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollars.
Apparatus.For philosophical apparatus, seven hundred and ninety dollars.
Models for engineering dep’t.For models for department of engineering, six hundred dollars.
Models for the drawing department, &c.For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
Expenses, &c. of academy.Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Armories.For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Fortifications.For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.For the current expenses of the ordnance service, seventy thousand dollars.
Arsenals.For arsenals, sixty thousand seven hundred dollars.
Arsenals in Florida.For an arsenal in Florida, twenty thousand dollars.
Recruiting service.For the recruiting service, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand [thousand] dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the third auditor’s office, five thousand dollars.
Close of accounts.
1821, ch. 35.To enable the second auditor to close the accounts, under the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, allowing three months’ gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundred dollars.
Claims of the militia called in 1831.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to settle, adjust, and pay the claims of the militia called out by competent authority, or received into the service of the United States by a general officer of the United States’ army, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and all charges and expenses incident to the service of said troops, agreeably to the provisions of the third sectionAct of March 21, 1828, ch. 21, sec. 3. of an act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, approved twenty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which provides for the payment of like expenses, and troops called out in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and that the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars be appropriated for the said object, to be paid out of any money in the treasury.
Approved, April 5, 1832.