United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 26
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act making additional appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Additional appropriations for military service for the year 1828.
May 24, 1828, ch. 123.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, respectively appropriated for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in addition to the several sums appropriated by the act of the twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:
Pay, &c., of officers and the military academy.For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, seven hundred and ninety-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
For subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of twenty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For forage for officers.For forage for officers, thirty thousand and ninety-six dollars.
For clothing for servants of officers, &c.
Supernumerary lieutenants.For clothing for servants of officers of the army, and of the military academy, and twenty supernumerary second lieutenants, graduates of the military academy, fourteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For the recruiting service.For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to the unexpended balance in the treasury on the thirty-first of December last, of three thousand dollars, twelve thousand and forty-seven dollars.
For the purchasing department.For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, amounting to eighty thousand dollars, viz: For clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, sixty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For the purchase of woollens.For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, twenty thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, in addition to the probable amount on hand on the thirty-first of December last, of eight thousand dollars, eleven thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s department.For the quartermaster’s department, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Military road to Mars Hill.For completing the military road from the mouth of Matanawcook river to Mars Hill, in the state of Maine, forty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars.
Military road, Pensacola and Tallahassee.For repairing the military road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, three thousand dollars.
Military road, St. Augustine and Tallahassee.For repairing the same road between St. Augustine and Tallahassee, three thousand dollars.
Fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., for military academy at West Point.For fuel, transportation, stationery, &c., repairs, and for improving buildings, procuring articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, and for the library and contingencies for the military academy at West Point, twenty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
Board of visiters.For deficit of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, for the expenses of the board of visiters, one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eleven cents.
For expenses of the board of visiters in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingencies of army.For the contingencies of the army, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
National armories.For national armories, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Armament of fortifications.For armament of fortifications, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.For the current expenses of the ordnance service, fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Arsenals.For arsenals, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages between the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Transfers to surplus fund re-appropriated:The following sums, transferred to the surplus fund, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, are hereby re-appropriated:
Provincetown harbour.
1826, ch. 78.For the preservation of the point of land forming Provincetown harbour, appropriated by act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Mobile harbour.
1826, ch. 78.For removing obstructions in the harbour of Mobile, appropriated by act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-two cents.
Newcastle.
1826, ch. 78.For piers at Newcastle, appropriated by act of the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, seventeen thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Creek treaty.
1826, ch. 148.Creek treaty, appropriated by act of the twenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, sixty thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-five cents.
Quapaws.
1825, ch. 16.For the purchase of provisions for the Quapaws, by act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, two thousand dollars.
Indian treaties.
1826, ch. 110.And for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, per act of twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, eleven thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.
Pay of company of Illinois militia.
1828, ch. 21.
1828, ch. 21.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That eight hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-five cents be appropriated to pay a company of Illinois militia, commanded by Captain Achilles Morgan, called into service on the northwestern frontier, in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; to be settled by the Secretary of War, agreeably to third section of an act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; approved twenty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Appropriations to be paid out of the treasury.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1829.