United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 65
Chap. LXV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
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 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 for the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons and light artillery; for rent of quarters for officers, barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, and of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c.; and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military purposes, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars;
Transportation.For transportation of officers’ baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, forty thousand dollars;
For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freights and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons and boats for the transportation of 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 public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;
Medical and hospital department.For medical and hospital department, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars;
Contingencies.For the contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars;
Metereological observations.For continuing the metereological observations at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the surgeon general, the sum of two thousand dollars;
Ordnance and ordnance stores.For purchase of ordnance, and ordnance stores, and supplies, eighty thousand dollars;
For current expenses of ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars;
Manufacture of arms.For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; of which the sum of one hundred thousand dollars may be used for repairs, provided it can be used for that purpose, without injury to the public service.
Arsenals.For arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars;
Saltpetre and brimstone.For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars;
Springfield armory.For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars;
Harper’s Ferry armory.For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry armory, eighteen thousand dollars;
Fortifications.For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars;
Surveys.For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and maritime, twenty thousand dollars;
For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, thirty thousand dollars;
For continuing the surveys of the northern and northwestern lakes, twenty thousand dollars;
Accounts of Lt. Col. H. Whiting.To settle the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel H. Whiting, being a re-appropriation of part of former appropriations for a road from Fort Howard to Fort Crawford, and for barracks at Fort Brady, which has been carried to the surplus fund, eight hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-two cents.
Approved, March 3, 1845.