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 hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, five hundred 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' servants, 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 reënlistments, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

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 prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the republic of Mexico, and for other purposes,'" approved 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 horses, 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 riflemen; 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 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 of courts-martial courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March

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sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, 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 and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks to the officers of the quartermaster's 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 regiments of dragoons, the eight companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen complete, including the purchase of traveling 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.

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 thousand dollars.

For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, storehouses, 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 storehouses, (houses,) for the safekeeping 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 traveling on duty without troops, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the 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 require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms (for) the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For subsistence in kind, in addition to one hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-four cents in the treasury, one million one hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents.

For medical and hospital departments, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, twenty thousand dollars.

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand 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.

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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 thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

For purchase of land at Springfield, Massachusetts, adjacent to new arsenal and public buildings, ten thousand dollars.

For purchase of land at Springfield, Massachusetts, to be flowed by raising dam at upper water shop, five thousand dollars.

For expenses of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, three thousand dollars.

For the two contemplated military stations on the line of communication with Oregon, thirty thousand dollars.

For arrearages of the military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, twenty thousand dollars.

For arrearages on account of the appropriations heretofore made for works of fortification at Mobile Point, fifty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents; at the Rigolets, Louisiana, eight hundred and fifty-two dollars; and at Fort Lafayette, New York, seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty-six cents — the same being the amounts expended by Lt. Col. De Russey, United States engineer, and admitted and allowed by the Comptroller of the Treasury, but not credited to Lt. Col. De Russey, owing to the want of appropriations for the aforesaid works.

Sec. 2. 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: Provided, That the President of the United States may, by transfer from other regiments, increase the number of privates, of not more than five regiments, to such number as he may think discreet, not exceeding one hundred privates to each of the companies of said five regiments.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any more commissioned (non-commissioned) officer, musician, or private in the regiment of mounted riflemen, who has been in service in Mexico, shall, on application, receive an honorable discharge from the service of the United States, and stand as if they had served out their respective terms: Provided, That any vacancy caused by such discharge shall be filled at the discretion of the President of the United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Captain John Caldwell the sum of six hundred and fifty-seven dollars, with interest thereon from the twenty-sixth of June, eighteen hundred and 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 Mexico; and that said sum be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, August 14, 1848.