Thirtieth Congress,
thiFirst Session,

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

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

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 [...?]

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.

In Senate of the United States,
August 9^th 1848.

Resolved, That the Bill from the House of Representatives entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending the 30^th of June, 1849,” do pass. with the following

^1^ Page 1. Lines 9, 10 and 11. Strike out “six hundred ^Disagreed—^ and thirty four thousand three hundred and eighty two,” and insert:nine hundred and sixty two thousand six hundred and six

^2^" " Page 2 Lines 21 and 22. Strike out “forty thousand ^Disagreed^ five hundred and sixty,” and insert:seventy eight thousand.

^3^ Page 2 Line 24. Strike out “six hundred thousand,” ^Disagreed.^ and insert: six hundred and eighty thousand two hundred and forty.

^4^ Page 4. Line 4. After “hundred,” insert:and^Disagreed^twenty-five.

^5^ Page 5. Line 4. Strike out “five hundred^Disagreed^ thousand,” and insert six hundred and twenty-six thousand four hundred and nine.

^6^ Page 5. Lines 8. and 9. Strike out “one hundred ^Disagreed^ and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty eight,” and insert four hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred and ninety-nine.

^7^ " " Line 11. Strike out “twelve” and insert ^Disagreed.^ twenty-seven.

^8^ " " After line 15, insert: Provided, That ^Disagreed.^the professors and assistant professors of the military academy, shall be entitled to receive the commutation of forage for the number of horses allowed to the rank to which their pay and allowances are assimilated, under the law of the 29^th April, 1812.

In Senate of the United States,
August 9, 1848

Resolved, That the Bill from the House of Representatives entitled “An Act making appropriations for support of the army for the year ending the 30^th of June 1849” do pass with the following

Page 6. after line 12, insert:

^9^ For arrearages of the military and ^Disagreed^ Geographical surveys west of the mississippi^√^ twenty thousand dollars.

^10^ For arrearages on account of the ^√^ ^agreed to^ 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 La Fayette New York seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and forty six cents, the same being the amounts expended by Lt. Col. DeRussy United States Engineers and admitted and allowed by the comptroller of the Treasury but not credited to Lt. Col. DeRussy owing to the want of appropriations for the aforesaid works

^11^ For payment of the expenses of ^Disagreed^ the late military operations in California under the orders of Commodore Stockton, and of Brevet, afterwards Lt. Col. Fremont, and also to defray the expenses of the civil government established in California by commodore Stockton, so far as as-certained, and the amount evidenced by any written instrument signed by commodore Stockton or Lt. Col. Fremont while in command in California, or by muster rolls, or proper dis-charges, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; and the men and non-commissioned officers of the battalion shall be paid as mounted riflemen, and in full of all claim for lost horses, for any cause whatever, and in full of all claims for forage, as well as for pay, clothing, and use and risk of horses, shall be paid as follows: First sergeant, thirty five dollars and twenty-five cents per month; other sergeants and corporals, thirty two dollars and twenty five cents per month; musicians, twenty seven dollars and twenty five cents per month; privates, twenty seven dollars and twenty-five cents per month.

Sec. 2. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof as follows:

^12^ That so much of the act ^Disagreed To:^ of the thirteenth of may eighteen hundred and forty six entitled “an act to authorize an increase of the rank and file of the army of the United States” as authorizes the President of the United States to increase the number of privates in any company beyond sixty four be applicable only to the Regiments to be employed in Oregon and California

Add the following new sections at the end of the bill:

^13^ Sec. 5 And be it further enacted That ^agreed to^ any 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 filed at the discretion of the President of the United States.

^14^ Sec. 6 And be it further enacted, ^agreed to^ 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 quarter master for that regiment, in mexico; and that said sum be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated

^15^ Sec. 7 And be it further enacted That, ^Disagreed^ from and after the passage of this act, the United ^ agreed= ^ States marine corps shall be and ^out^ remain as the same was organized and increased by the first, second, and third sections of the act, approved march, two, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, except that the number of privates in the said corps shall not exceed fifteen hundred; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

In the House of Representatives
August 11^th 1848.

Resolved, That this House do concur in the amendments, numbered 10, 13, & 14 of the Senate to House Bill (N^o 618) “making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending 30^th June. 1849.”

Resolved, That this House do disagree to the amendments numbered 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11. 12. & 15 of the Senate to the above mentioned bill.

In Senate of the U. States
August 11. 1848.

Resolved, That the Senate insist upon their amendments to the said Bill (H.R. 618.) disagreed to by the House of Representatives, and ask a conference upon the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on said amendments.

Ordered, That Mr. Atherton, Mr. Benton and Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, be the managers of the said conference on the part of the Senate.

In the House of Representatives
August 12^th 1848.

Resolved, That this do insist upon their disagreement to the amendments of the Senate to the above mentioned bill; and do agree to the committee of conference asked for by the Senate; and

Ordered That Mr. Toombs, Mr Boyd, and Mr Hall of New York be the managers of the conference on the part of the House.

The Committee of Conference on the part of the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the House Bill 618 entitled an act making appropriations for the support of the army for the Year ending the 30^th of June 1849” Report

that they have met the confences on the part of the House of Representatives and after a full & free conference on the subject of the disagreeing votes have agreed to recommend & do recommend to the respective Houses as follows:

1^st That the Senate recede from their first eight amendments to the said Bill.

2^d That the House recede from their disagreement to the 9^th amendment of the Senate

3^d that the Senate recede from their 11^th & 15^th amendments to said Bill

4^th That the Senate recede from their 12^th amendment [...?], being an amendment to the second section of the Bill, and agree to the said second section with the following amendment:

Insert at the close thereof the following words

Provided That the President of the United States may increase

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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 men privates to each of the companies of said five Regiments . . .

and

That the House do agree to the said amendmentsof the Senate to the said second Section.

In Senate of the U. States
August 12. 1848

Resolved, That the Senate concur in the foregoing report, and that the Bill be amended accordingly.