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 fifty: —

For the pay of the army, one million six hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, five hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred dollars, including the additional rations for commissioned officers commanding "arsenals" or "armories," being

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separate and fixed or permanent "posts" of the army of the United States.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and four thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, thirty-six thousand two hundred dollars.

For expenses of recruiting, thirty-eight thousand and fifty-two dollars.

For three months' extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, on reënlistment, ten thousand 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 four 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, five 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 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, 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 in 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 regiment of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen complete, including the purchase of traveling forges, blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen, one hundred thousand dollars.

For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, hospitals, storehouses, 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 for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, three hundred thousand dollars.

For mileage, or the allowance made to officers for the transportation

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of themselves and baggage, when traveling on duty without troops, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the 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 depots at Philadelphia and New York 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, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, wagons, mules, oxen, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing vessels 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 and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Atlantic and Pacific; and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For medical and hospital departments, fifty-two thousand dollars.

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.

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

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

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

For the purchase of Colt's revolving pistols, if the Secretary of War should deem it advisable and proper, fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs and improvements, and new machinery at the Harper's Ferry armory, sixty-two thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.

For repairs and improvements, and new machinery at the Springfield armory, eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For arsenals, seventy-four thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars.

For purchase of a lot of ground at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, contiguous to the public buildings, two hundred dollars.

For purchase of land at Springfield armory, to be flowed by raising the dam at the upper shop, and of a lot on the north-west corner of armory grounds, nine thousand dollars.

For purchase of a site for magazine at St. Louis arsenal, at a suitable point without the city, five thousand dollars.

For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, ten thousand dollars.

For the purchase of land adjoining Frankford arsenal, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars.

For erecting suitable buildings and machinery for the manufacture of percussion caps at the same place, fifteen thousand dollars.

To defray the expense of compiling, arranging, publishing, and supervising the publication of a new edition of the Ordnance Manual, of fifteen hundred copies, six thousand dollars.

To defray the expenses of Topographical [—————] of surveys of routes from the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, fifty thousand dollars.

To provide for the payment for secret services rendered to the United States in the war with Mexico, and to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.

For carrying into effect the treaty of the United States with the Stockbridge tribe of Indians of the twenty-four November, eighteen

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hundred and forty-eight, the sum of fifty-two thousand eight hundred and four dollars eighty-five cents.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the military storekeeper at Watertown arsenal, Massachusetts, be allowed, from the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the the same compensation as is authorized by the act of the twenty-third August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, to be paid to the storekeepers at the Washington, Pittsburg, and Watervliet arsenals; and that there be paid to military storekeeper T. A. Webber twenty dollars per month, for and during the time he has performed the duties of commissary and assistant commissary of subsistence at said arsenal.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, in the company of sappers and miners, and pontoniers, raised by the act of May ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, who served in said company in the war with Mexico, shall, on application, be entitled to receive an honorable discharge from the service of the United States, and stand as if they had served out their respective terms.

Approved, March 3, 1849.