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THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 110. 1852. 107 the pay and other disbursing departments ; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require that it be brought from a distance, one million Eve hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments Horsesof dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted ritlemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital departments, fifty-one thousand six hun- Medical and dred and seventy dollars. H°:tP‘*“ltS Ds For armament of fortifications, dfty thousand dollars. paA,n·;;lmgnt8_ For ordnance stores and supplies, as follows: for procurement of side Ondnnncg ,,0,8,, arms and accoutrements for artillery, infantry, cavalry, and riflemen;smd supplies. materials for and preparation of siege and field ammunition; wages of mechanics engaged in making carriages, implements, equipments, harness, &c.; and for purchase of miscellaneous supplies of ordnance stores for issue to the army, sixty-five thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thou- _Ordnauce sersand dollars. “°*’· For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred Arms. and fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harpe1·’s Ferry, Harpers Ferry. twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield Springfield. armory, thirty-two thousand nve hundred dollars. For arsenals, sixty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-ive dollars. Arsenal;. For continuing the topographical and hydrographical survey of the Survey of Delta of the Mississippi, with such investigations as may lead to determine Um Mississippi the most practicable plan for securing it from inundation, fifty thousand D°:’;t P 582 dollars. ’ ‘ ' For payment to Priscilla D. Twiggs of the amount of the pay and al- lhdsctlla. D. lowances which would have accrued to her son, George D. Twiggs, had he TW‘g8‘· been regularly in service as a second lieutenant of infantry, from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, the date on which he left the United States, to the twelfth of August in the same year when he fell in battle at the National Bridge, Mexico, two hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-three cents. Light-Euses. — For completing the light-house at Sand Key, Florida, Light-houses. forty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-one Saud KW- cents. For completing the light-house at Chicago, Illinois, six thousand three Chicago. hundred dollars. For arrearages prior to July first, eighteen hundred and fifteen, pay- M,,,nmg,,s_ able through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May 1820. ch- 52- first, eighteen hundred and twenty, in addition to an nnexpended balance of two thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fourteen cents, remaining in the treasury on the thirteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts au- Tfeiisfsfs <>Y thorizing the President of the United States, or the secretary of the pro- ?£l;€g%€;2;2ipt per department, under his direction, to transfer any portion of the moneys in certainpsses. appropriated for a particular branch of expenditure in that department, 0£§g"°ag;‘;E‘€Q: to be applied to another branch of expenditure in the same department, be applied wax, be, and are hereby, so far as relates to the Department of War, psrisss incurred repealed ; and no portions of the moneys appropriated by this act shall xgé? July 1* be applied to the payment of any expenses incurred prior to the first day 1 3 H 4 of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. But nothing herein 85 ’° ‘ MA ' contained shall be so construed as to prevent the President from au-