Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

Thirtieth Congress,
thiFirst Session,

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22 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, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army,
for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine.
For the pay of the army, ( one million ^(^six hund-
red and thirty-four thousand three hundred and eighty-
two^)^, dollars.
For commutation of officers’ subsistence, five hund-
red and fifty-five thousand three hundred and fifty-
one dollars.
For commutation of forage for officers’ horses,
one hundred and four thousand two hundred and fifty-
six dollars.
For payment in lieu of clothing for officers’ ser-
vants, thirty-six thousand one hundred and seventy
dollars.
For expenses of recruiting, ^(^forty thousand five
hundred and sixty^)^ dollars.

For three months’ extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, on re-enlistment, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

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24 For three months extra pay to the officers non-
commissioned officers, musicians and privates engaged
in the military service of the United States in the
war with Mexico, under the act, entitled “An act
to amend the act, entitled, An Act supplemental
to an act, entitled, An Act providing for the prosecu-
tion of the existing war between the United States &
the Republic of Mexico, and for other purposes: ap-
proved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-
eight, three millions of dollars.
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 hor-
ses, mules and oxen of the quartermaster’s department
at the several military posts and stations, and with
the armies in the field, and for the horses of the first
and second regiments of dragoons, the eight companies
of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted rifle-
men; 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 department, and for
the printing of division and department orders and
army regulations, ^(^six hundred ^680.240^ thousand^)^ dollars.

For ^the^ incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers on public service; expenses

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of courts martial, and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, members and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks, quarters, store houses, and hospitals, the construction of roads, and other constant labor under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, for periods of not less than ten days, under the act of second March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers, and trains, where military escorts cannot be furnished; expense of the interment of non-commissioned officers & soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks to the officers of quartermasters department; compensation to wagon and forage masters, authorized by the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty eight; for the apprehension of deserters and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various expenditures necessary to keep the first and second rigiments of dragoons, the eight companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen complete, including the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith’s and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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4 For ^the^ purchase of horses required for the first and
second regiment of dragoons, the eight companies of light
artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen, one
hundred ^& 25^ thousand dollars.

For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, store houses, hospitals, stables, wharves, and ways at the several posts and army depots, for temporary cantonments, gun houses for the protection of cannon including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for the authorized furniture for barrack rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; rent of quarters for officers, barracks and hospitals for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, for store houses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments, three hundred thousand dollars.

For mileage, or the allowance made to officers for ^(^the transportation of themselves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, seventy five thousand dollars.

For transportation of the army, including the baggage of troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage and horse equipments, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may

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15 require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and
small arms for the founderies and armories to the arse-
nals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots, one
million ^(^five ^626, 409^ hundred thousand^)^ dollars.
For subsistence in kind, in addition to one hund-
red and eighty six thousand seven hundred and fourteen
dollars and forty-four cents in the treasury, one million
^(^one ^four hundred &c^ hundred and twenty seven thousand, four hund-
red and twenty-eight^)^ dollars and fifty six cents.
For medical and hospital departments, one hund-
red and ^(^twelve^)^ ^27^ thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, twenty thousand
dollars.
For armament of fortifications, one hundred thou-
sand dollars.

For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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

For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry armory, fifty-three thousand and ninety one dollars.

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at Springfield armory, eighty-one thousand dollars.

For arsenals, one hundred and thirty [~~...~~?]

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12 thousand three hundred and thirty eight dollars.
For purchase of land at Springfield, Massachu-
setts, adjacent to new arsenal and public build-
ings, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase of land at Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, to be flowed by raising dam at upper water-
shop, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of preparing drawings of a uni-
form system of artillery, three thousand dollars.
For the two contemplated military stations
on the line of communication with Oregon, thirty
thousand dollars.

Sec 2. ^9 Amend^t ^ And be it further enacted, ^(^That the act entitled, “An act to authorize an increase of the rank and file of the army of the United States,” approved May thirteen, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be and the same is hereby, repealed.^)^

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act approved March, second eighteen hundred and nineteen, entitled “an act to regulate the pay of the Army when employed on fatigue duty” shall be construed to include the enlisted men of Ordnance, when employed as clerks at Arsenals, and also the payments which have been made to such clerks to the extent authorized by that act, that is eighteen cents for each day actually so employed as clerks.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That hereafter it shall be lawful for the Major Generals to select their aids de camp from the captains and lieutenants of the army; and the Brigadier General shall select his aids de camp from the lieutenants of the army.

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08/07/1848
Passed the House of Representatives
August 7^th AD 1848
Attest
Tho. J Campbell
Clerk

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H R. . . . . . 618

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An Act
Making appropriations for the supp[ort] of the army for the year ending the thirt[ieth] of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

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08/09/1848
In Senate of the U. States
August 9 1848
Resolved, That this Bill pass.
with amendments.
Attest
Asbury Dickins.
Secretary.

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Finance

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Aug 9^th refd to Ways & Means

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(Senate in[?] & [?] to [?])

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10 [?] Union

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(com Atherton
Burton
Johnson [?])

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Report of Managers agreed to.