306 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. S1-zss. I. Ch. 175. 1848. Rupaim, am., For repairs, improvements, amt new machinery at Harpefs Ferry ¤* H“P°'”' F'"' armory, fifty-tbree thousand and mnety-one dollar;. gh Sprmgicm Fm· repairs, improvements, and new machmery at Springfield armory, eighty-one thousand dollars. Amnals. For arsenals, one hundred and thirty thousand three hundred and · thirty-eight dollars. Pumhm er For purchase of land at Springfield, Massachusetts, adjacent to new Md ¤¤ $P*i¤€· arsenal and public buildings, ten thousand dollars. md' For purchase of land at Springfield, Massachusetts, to be flowed by raising dam at upper water shop, five thousand dollars.
Artillery draw- For expenses of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery,
mg" three thousand dollars.
Miiimry sm- For the two contemplated military stations on the line of communi-
3;;*: '°““’ t° cation with Oregon, thirty thousand dollars. Surveys. For an-earages of the military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty thousand dollars. Arrenyages for For arrearages on account of the appropriations heretofore made for f°"mi°“°‘°“S· works of fortification at Mobile Point, Bfiy-nine dollars and ninety. two cents; at the Rigolets, Louisiana, eight hundred and fifty-two dollars; and at Fort Lafayette, N ew York, seven hundred and twenty- six dollars and forty-six cents —— the same being the amounts expended by Lt. C0}. De Russey, United States engineer, and admitted and allowed by the Comptroller of the Treasury, but not credited to Lt. C0]. De Russey, owing to the want of appropriations for the aforesaid works.
Repeal cfactto 2. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An Act
$;'f)§‘fl;a;“r*jn’;,‘?d to authorize an increase of the rank and tile of the army of the United ]816 m 173 States," approved May thirteen, eighteen hundred and forty-six, bc, pmvisq, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That the President of the United States may, by transfer from other regiments, increase the number of privetes, of not more than Eve regiments, to such number as he may think discreet, not exceeding one hundred privates to each of the companies of said five regiments.
Nomcommis- Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any more commissioned
§;‘;“°d 0,°m°‘Qf;; [non-commissioned] officer, musician, or private in the regiment of mcgnted riflemen mounted riflemen, who has been in service in Mexico, shall, on appli-
kgezgd if cation, receive an honorable discharge from the service of the United
,,6,,,, an h0¥,,,m; States, and stand as if they had served out their respective terms: Probie discharge- vided, That any vacancy caused by such discharge shall be filled atihé P’°'iS°- discretion of the President of the United States. C¤1¤*·¤*¤ CM- Sec. 4. And be itfmzhgr enacted, Tha: me Secretary of the Treqsgfgénigd am?-;; Ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Captain blankets for Ohio John Caldwell the sum of six hundred and rlity-seven dollars, with inv°‘"“°°°"‘ tC1'GSf thereon from the twenty-sixth of June, eighteen hundred Bild forty-seven, being the amount expended by him in the purchase of blankets and clothing for the second regiment of Ohio volunteers, while acting as assistant quartermaster for that regiment, in Mexwvi and that said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August I4, 1848. Aug. 14, 1848. C¤.u·. CLXXV. —- An Act to cstablish pertain Post Routes. C i Be it enacted by the Sesnate and Haus; ty' Representatives Qfflw mums Qstabgsi United Sidlcs of America m Congress assembled, That the followmg ed,viz.; post roads be, and the same are hereby, established in the States and Territories, as hereafter expressed, viz. : in
