“An act authorizing the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other quartermaster’s stores and small arms,” be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million one hundred and twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars.
For provisions, five hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
For medicines, instruments, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, forty thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For freight, store rent and all other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of navy yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising cannon, carronades, muskets, pistols and other small arms, cannon ball and shot of every description, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, and for making the same into powder, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore and forage for the staff, one hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty cents.
For clothing for the same, forty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty cents.
For military stores for the same, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick, belonging to the marine corps, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, twenty thousand dollars.
For the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased, being the amount of a former appropriation to that object, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy cents.
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, February 24, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXI.—An Act supplementary to “An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force,” passed on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Act of April 12, 1808, ch. 43.
Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 78.
Officers of light artillery to receive the same, when mounted, as light dragoons.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, in the opinion of the President of the United States, it is expedient to mount the light artillery, or any part thereof, horses and accoutrements shall be provided to equip the whole or such part as he may direct; and when the non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers and privates are so equipped, the officers shall be entitled to the same forage, as is now provided for the officers of the same grade in the regiment of light dragoons: Provided, the officers furnish their own horses and accoutrements, and actually keep in service the same number of horses to entitle them to the aforesaid allowance for forage or its equivalent in money.
