United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 4
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Chap. IV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Appropriation for support of the army.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 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 thirty-five—that is to say:
Pay.For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand and forty-five dollars.
Subsistence of officers.For subsistence of officers, three hundred and fourteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars.
Forage.For forage of officers, sixty thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars.
Clothing.For clothing for officers’ servants, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and ten dollasr.
Subsistence.For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of seventy-five thousand dollars, the sum of three hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred dollars.
Clothing, &c.For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, hospital furniture, &c. &c., one hundred and fifty-four thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
Medical department.For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Department of quartermaster.For various expenses in the quartermaster’s department, viz: fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, and printing; repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals at the various posts; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, including huts for the dragoons, and gun-houses at the Atlantic posts, and those on the Gulf of Mexico, with the necessary tools and materials; providing materials for the authorized furniture of the rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; rent of quarters, barracks and storehouses, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, including a farm at fort Monroe for military practice; postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an act of Congress of the second March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of escorts to paymasters, hire of labourers, compensation to extra clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, and in the offices of the quartermasters and assistants at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works and in the performance of other duties, coffins and other articles necessary at the internment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, and purchase of horses, and various other expenditures necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons complete, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars, the sum of three hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Transportation of baggage, &c.For the allowance made to the officers for the transportation of their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, and allowances to officers on topographical duty and superintending working parties, fifty three thousand dollars.
For transportation of clothing from the depôt at Philadelphia to the Transportation of clothing, &c.stations of the troops, of subsistence from the places of purchase and points of delivery, under contracts, to the posts where they are required to be used, of ordnance from the founderies and arsenals, to the frontier posts and the fortifications, and lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, transportation of the army, including officers, when removing with troops either by land or water, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, oxen, mules, carts, wagons and boats for transportation of troops and supplies, and for garrison purposes, drayage and cartage, at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay department, the expense of sailing a public transport between the several posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it, the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Armories.For the national armories, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Fortifications.For armament of new fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
Arsenals.For arsenals, ninety-four thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Ordnance.For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages prior to the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable thorugh the office of the third auditor, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-four cents, the sum of two thousand dollars.
For arrearages between the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, and the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, payable through the office of the second auditor, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Discharged soldiers.For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars.
Appropriation of unexpended balance.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the balance of thirty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-two cents, which now stands to the credit of “bounties and premiums,” on the books of the treasury, appropriated for the service of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and which is not wanted for that object, in consequence of the change made in the mode of enlisting, by the1833, ch. 68. act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, the sum of fifty-four dollars be, and the same is hereby directed to be transferred to the credit of “two months’ extra pay, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three;” and the sum of seventeen thousand six hundred and sixty dollars to the credit of “expenses of recruiting,” to be used for the recruiting service of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Approved, January 27, 1835.