army for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six:
Pay.For pay of the army, one million three hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars;
Commutation of subsistence.For commutation of officers’ subsistence, four hundred and sixty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars;
Commutation of forage.
Proviso.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, sixty-four thousand dollars: Provided, That general and field officers shall not be entitled, in time of peace, to draw forage, or money in lieu thereof, for more than three horses each, to be owned and actually kept in service; officers of the regiments of dragoons below the rank of field officers, for two horses each; and all other officers now entitled to forage, for one horse each, to be owned and actually kept in service;
Pay for clothing.For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers’ servants, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars;
Subsistence.For subsistence in kind, three hundred and six thousand and ninety-seven dollars and fifty dollars [cents];
Clothing, &c.For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars;
Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eight [cents];
Extra pay.For three months extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, twelve thousand nine hundred and six 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 quartermaster’s department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the two regiments 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 quartermaster’s departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars;
Incidental expenses.For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received by officers on public service; expenses of courts martials and courts of inquiry, including additional compensation to judge advocates, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of sixteenth of March, eighteen hundred and two;1802, ch. 9. extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads, and other labor, for a period of not less than ten days, under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen;Act of March 2, 1819, ch. 45. expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermaster’s 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 the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight;Act of July 5, 1838, ch. 162. various expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments 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;
Barracks, &c.For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may be occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated; and
