Freight and

from places of

1839. For freight or transportation of military supplies of every description from the places of purchase to Florida, two hundred transportation and fifty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars; purchase to Flo- For the purchase of wagons, harness, boats and lighters, of horses to keep up the trains, tools, leather and other materials for wagons, harness, repairs, ninety-two thousand dollars;

rida.

Purchase

boats, &c.

from the princi

steamboats, &c.

Transportation For the transportation of supplies from the principal depots pal depots to the to the several posts, as well as troops, when they move by wa posts, hire of ter, including hire of steamboats and other vessels for the service in the rivers and on the coasts, and the expenses of maintaining and sailing the several steamers and transport schooners connected with the operations of the army, three hundred thousand dollars;

me

Hire of chanics, laborers, &c.

Transportation of militia or volunteers.

Miscellaneous.

Accoutrements, arms, ammunition, &c.

Pay of militia and volunteers.

Holding a trea

For the hire of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters, and other assistants, including their subsistence, and for soldiers on extra duty, conformably to law, one hundred thousand dol lars;

For the transportation of the militia or volunteers while marching to and from the scene of operations, thirty thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenses of all kinds, not embraced under the foregoing heads, and which, from their contingent character, cannot be specified, four hundred thousand dollars;

For accoutrements and arms for infantry and cavalry, including militia infantry and cavalry, ammunition for men and field artillery, and repairs of arms, and for contingencies, seventy-one thousand dollars;

For the pay of such militia and volunteers as may have been or may be called into the service of the United States, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the payment of four thousand volunteers for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, one hundred and fourteen thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars;

For the purpose of holding a treaty with the Seminole Indians, ty with the Semi-five thousand dollars.

noles.

Vessels to cruise

of Florida.

For the purchase and maintaining in active service three vesalong the coast sels of light draught of water, to cruise along the coast of Florida, for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens, fifty thousand dollars;

Paying value of horses and

teers, turned

vernment by order of a commanding officer.

be ascertained.

For paying the value of the horses and equipage of the Tenequipage, of Ten. nessee and other volunteers who have at any time been in the and other volun- service of the United States in the Territory of Florida, and over to the Go which were turned over to the Government, by the order of the commanding general or other commanding officer, said value to Value, how to be ascertained by the appraisement of said value when the the All acts in force Volunteers entered the service, fifty two thousand dollars. And since 1812, au the provisions of acts approved and in force at various periods. ment for horses, since eighteen hundred and twelve, authorizing payment for extended for two horses lost in the service of the United States by rangers, militia, and volunteers, are hereby revived and extended for two years from and after the passage of this act, and under the acTo embrace all tion of the Third Auditor, shall be deemed to embrace all cases dy not already satisfied, of horses lost to their owners in service as

thorizing the pay.

revived

years.

and

cases not already

satisfied,

their owners in

be made when

aforesaid, in battle or otherwise, when care and diligence be ren- 1839. dered manifest on the part of the owner; and if the death or horses lost to loss of rangers horses shall have occurred for want of forage, it service as aforebe at places where acting in obedience to the orders of com- said, &c. manding officers, forage could not have been procured by proper vigilance on the part of the owner: No payment however No payment to shall be made for horses or other property lost or destroyed, the loss was oc when the loss or destruction shall have been occasioned by the casioned by the fault or neglect of the owner, or where by the terms of the con- of the owner, or tract, the risk was upon the owner of the property: and no greater sum of money than the fifty-two thousand dollars appropriated by this section, shall be drawn from the Treasury by reason of its provisions.

fault or neglect

where by the con

tract the risk was

upon the owner.

propriated by this

to the payment

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no part of the money No money apappropriated by this act shall be applied to the payment of any act to be applied volunteers, except for arrearages, or for any expenses growing of volunteers, exout of the employment of any volunteers for the year eighteen cept for arrear hundred and thirty-eight. Approved, March 3d, 1839.

ages, or &c.

CHAP. 94. An ACT making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

[SEC. 1.] 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 during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, that is to say:

For the pay of the army, one million five hundred and thirtyfour thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars;

For the subsistence of officers, four hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars;

For forage of officers' horses, one hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars;

For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, and to officers, in lieu of clothing for their servants, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars;

Pay.

Subsistence of

officers.

Forage for offi

cers' horses.

Payments in

lieu of clothing.

clusive of that of

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, one million one Subsistence ex hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and thirtyone dollars;

F For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cook-
ing utensils, and hospital furniture, four hundred and seventy-
three thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars;
For the medical and hospital department, twenty-four thou-
sand four hundred dollars;

Clothing, camp equipage, &c.

and garrison

Medica and

hospital dept.

Supplies fur

termaster's dept.

For the regular supplies furnished by the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and Dished by quar printing, two hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred dollars;

For barracks, quarters, store houses, embracing the repairs Barracks, quarand enlargement of barracks, quarters, store houses, and hos-ters, store houses,

&c.

1839.

Transportation

pitals, at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun houses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard; the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; of store houses for the safe keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, one hundred thousand dollars;

For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of of officers' bag their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty thousand dollars;

gage.

Transportation

plies.

For the transportation of troops, and supplies, viz: transportaof troope and suption of the army including the baggage of troops, when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of sailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifcations and frontier posts, and of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of two hundred and five thousand dollars;

Incidental expenses of quarter

For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's depart master's dept. ment, consisting of 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 of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters and assistant quartermasters at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the perforinance of other duties; expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for service, and the erection of additional stables, one hundred and two thousand dollars;

Contingencies.

For contingencies of the army, seven thousand dollars; Extra pay to re- For two months' extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirty thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars;

enlisted soldiers,

&c.

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars;

1839.

National armo

For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand ries. dollars;

Armament of fortifications.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred Ordnance ser. thousand dollars;

vice.

nance stores, &c.

For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred Ordnance, ordand twenty thousand dollars;

Arsenals.

For arsenals, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For new machinery at the Springfield armory, twenty thou-Springfield arsand dollars;

mory.

For purchase of land at the Allegany and Watertown arse- Allegany and nals, three thousand five hundred dollars;

Watertown arse

nals.

For the expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system Drawing, &c. of artillery, and for other supplies in the Ordnance Department, three thousand eight hundred dollars;

or to 1st July

For arrearages prior to the 1st of July, eighteen hundred and Arrearages prififteen, per act of the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, 1815. payable through the Third Auditor's Office, three thousand dollars; For surveying and opening of the western frontier military Surveying and road, being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus ern frontier milifund, fifty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars tary road. and sixty-seven cents.

opening the west

for fortifications.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the following sums be, Appropriations and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the preservation, repairs, and construction of certain fortifications and incidental expenses for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, viz:

For preservation of Castle island, and repairs of Fort Inde- Castle island pendence, at Boston, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For Fort Warren, at Boston, forty thousand dollars;
For Fort Adams, at Newport, ten thousand dollars.

For the fort at New London harbor, five thousand dollars,
For Fort Schuyler, at New York, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs of Castle Williams and Fort Columbus, and offi-
cers' quarters, at New York, two thousand dollars.

For Fort Delaware, ten thousand dollars. Provided, That no
part of this appropriation shall be applied till the title of the said
fortification shall be decided to be in the United States.
For Fort Monroe, ten thousand dollars.
For Fort Calhoun, fifteen thousand dollars.
For Fort Caswell, five thousand dollars.

and Fort Indie-
pendence.

Fort Warren.
Fort Adams.

Fort at New
London har bor.
Fort Schyler.

Castle

wi liams, Ft. Columbus, and of

at N. Y.

ficers' quarters Ft. Delaware.

For fortification in Charleston, South Carolina, and for the Fortification preservation of the site of Fort Moultrie, ten thousand dollars. For Fort Pulaski, at Savannah, fifteen thousand dollars.

Charleston, Ft. Moultrie.

Ft. Pulaski.

For Fort Marion and sea-wall at St. Augustine, ten thousand Ft. dollars.

Marion

and sea-wall at St. Augustine.

Ft. on Foster's bank. Contingencies.

For fort on Foster's Bank, Pensacola, five thousand dollars. For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars. For incidental expenses attending the repairs of fortifications, Incidental ex and for the purchase of additional land in the neighborhood, fifty thousand dollars;

penses, &c.

1839.

For the fort at Grande Terre, being the amount of a former Ft. at Grande appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifteen thousand dollars; For the preservation and repair of Fort Niagara, thirty thou sand dollars;

Terre.

Ft. Niagara.

For repairing and rebuilding the old fort at Oswego including the construction of the necessary barracks, twenty thousand dollars;

For barracks and other buildings at Sackett's Harbor, ten thousand dollars;

For barracks and other buildings at Plattsburg, twenty thou sand dollars;

For the construction of barracks, quarters store houses, hospi tals and stable, and the necessary defences of the posts it may be deemed proper to establish for the better protection of the Western frontier, eighty thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, 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 sup port of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eigh hundred and thirty-nine, viz:

For pay of officers, cadets, and musicians, fifty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars;

For subsistence of officers and cadets, forty thousand and four dollars:

For forage of officers' horses, three thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars;

For clothing of officers' servants, three hundred and ninety dollars;

For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at Wes Point, two thousand dollars;

For fuel, forage, stationary, printing, transportation, and postage, twelve thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-five cents;

For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds roads, wharves, boats, and fences, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents;

For pay of adjutant's and quartermaster's clerks, nine hudred and fifty dollars;

For increase and expenses of the library, one thousand dol lars;

For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, seven hur dred and thirty one dollars and fifty cents;

For the department of engineering, three hundred dollars; For the department of philosophy, twelve hundred dollars; For the department of mathematics, ninety-seven dollars and fifty-four cents;

For the department of chemistry, eight hundred and twentyseven dollars and fifty cents;

For the department of drawing, two hundred and eighty-five dollars;

For the department of tactics, three hundred and sixty dol lars;