United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 18
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Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen.
Sums appropriated for theBe 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, one million of dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to two thousand dollars already appropriated, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars.
Forage.For forage for officers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Clothing.For clothing, four hundred thousand dollars.
Bounties, &c.For bounties and premiums, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s department.For the quartermaster’s department, five hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages, arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for the quartermaster’s department, during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Extra pay for construction, &c. of military roads.For extra pay to non-commissioned officers and soldiers employed in the construction and repairs of military roads, ten thousand dollars.
Contingencies of the army.For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation to pay outstanding claims, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and sevel dollars.
Fortifications.For fortifications, five hundred 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; six thousand five hundred dollars.
Ordnance department.For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars.
Armories.For the armories at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Arsenals, &c.For the erection and completions of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, fifty thousand dollars; for erecting a powder magazine at Frankford, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars; for completing the arsenal and other works at Watertown, near Boston, twenty thousand dollars; for completing the arsenal and other works at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars; for a levee round the arsenal at Watervliet, New York, six thousand dollars; for building a powder magazine at Baton Rouge, twenty thousand dollars.
Cannon, powder, &c.For cannon, powder, and shot, to fulfil existing contracts, for mounting cannon, and for purchase of lead, one hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred dollars.
Payment of retained bounty per diem, travelling allowance, &c.To provide for the payment of the retained bounty, and the per diem travelling allowance of pay and subsistence to soldiers discharged from the army, in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Maps, &c. for the War Department.For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the War Department, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Maps, &c. for the academy at West Point.For fuel, maps, plans, books, erection of quarters, and other buildings, and for contingent expenses of the academy at West Point, thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Marking, &c. Indian boundary lines.For marking and running the boundary line of the several cessions of land made by the Indians, fifteen thousand dollars.
Payment of half pay pensions to widows and orphans.For the payment of the half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, two hundred thousand dollars.
Invalid pensioners.For the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
Revolutionary pensioners.
1818, ch. 19.For the annual allowance to the revolutionary pensioners, under the law of March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one million seven hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Arrearages for paying revolutionary pensions in 1818.For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for paying the revolutionary pensions in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred dollars and eighty-five cents.
Indian department.For the Indian department, including arrearages incurred by holding Indian treaties, two hundred and forty thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars, including twenty thousand dollars to defray an expense incurred under the Chickasaw treaty lately concluded; and including also, the further sum of seven thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars, being the aggregate amount of certain sums stipulated to be paid within sixty days, to certain individuals named in the above-mentioned treaty.
Annuity to Creek nation.For annuity to the Creek nation, under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and two, three thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, Febryary 15, 1819.