Clothing.For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ servants, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents.
Subsistence.For subsistence in kind, two hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty cents.
Clothing.For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy cents.
Extra pay.For three months’ extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Supplies of Quartermaster’s departm’t.For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen belonging to the quartermasters’ department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the regiment of dragoons, and the four companies of light artillery; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters’ departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses.For the incidental expenses of the quartermasters’ department, consisting of postage on letters and packages received by officers on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses while on that service, under theAct of March 16, 1802, ch. 9. act of sixteenth of March, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads and other constant labor, for a period of not less than ten days, under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermasters’ department at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid; and compensation to agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under theAct of July 5, 1838, ch. 162. act of fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; various expenditures necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost, and become unfit for service; shoeing horses; and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit, ninety thousand dollars.
Horses, &c. for 2d regiment of dragoons.
Act of April 4, 1844, ch. 11.For the purchase of horses, equipments and forage, and to pay [the] other expenses caused by the act entitled “An act to repeal so much of the act approved twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen, after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three,” one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
