of false swearing in taking the oath, at the rendition of his accounts as required by the fifth section of this act to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the intention to deceive and defraud the Government of the United States, shall be deemed to be guilty of perjury, and liable to the same prosecution and penalty inflicted for like offences, to be tried and adjudged in any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, and it shall be the duty of theSec. Treasury may direct the Dist. Attorney to prosecute the offender. Secretary of the Treasury, whenever in his opinion the said offence has been perpetrated as aforesaid, to direct the District Attorney of the United States for the district within which the same has occurred to prosecute the offender;
Laws inconsistent with the 5th, 6th, 7th sections of this act, repealed.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent with the provisions of the fifth, sixth, and seventh sections of this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1841.
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Chap. XXXVI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the following sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one;
Pay.For the pay of the army, one million one hundred and seventy-two thousand and twenty-eight dollars;
Subsistence of officers.For subsistence of officers, five hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars;
Forage of officers’ horses.For forage of officers’ horses, one hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars;
Payments in lieu of clothing.For payments in lieu of clothing not drawn in kind, eighty thousand and thirty dollars;
Subsistence.For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, six hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars;
Clothing, &c.For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, five hundred and five thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars;
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dollars;
Quartermaster’s departm’t.For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars;
Barracks, &c.For barracks, quarters, and store-houses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments, and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials, and of furniture for the barrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments, and encampments for military practice, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
Transportation of officers’ baggage.For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty-five thousand dollars;
Transportation of troops and supplies.For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army and baggage; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation, or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the