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 re-enlistment, ten thousand dollars;

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officer’s 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 enquiry, 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 and soldiers, hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department; compensation of clerks to the officers of the quarter-master’s department; compensation to wagon and forage

masters, authorized by the act of the fifth 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 travelling 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, store-houses, 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 and encampments, 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 the transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water; of clothing,

camp and garrison equippage, 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 founderies 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 sea-going 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, ^27^ ^(^three^)^ ^two^ hundred and sixty 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 northwest corner of the armory grounds, nine thousand dollars;

For purchase of a site for magazine at St. Louis arsenal, ^14^ 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.

In Senate of the United States,
March 1. 1849

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 1850,” do pass with the following

Amendments:

^1^ Page 4 line 27 Strike out the word “three” ^N^o 1^ and insert “two”
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Disagreed^ After line 27 insert:
^x 2^ “For the purchase of Colts’ revolving^N^o 2^ ^done ^pistols ^(^and Jenk’s carbine,^)^ if the Secretary ^x^ of War should deem it advisable and proper, ^(^one hundred^)^ ^fifty^ thousand dollars.”

At the end of the bill insert:
^3^ For the purchase of land adjoining Frankford arsenal, Pennsylvania, twenty ^#^ ^3 Agreed^ thousand dollars. ^No 3^

^4^ For erecting suitable buildings and ^agreed^ machinery for the manufacture of percussion ^#^ caps, at the same place, fifteen thousand dollars.

^5^ For the reimbursement of the State of ^agreed^ Illinois of money paid by said State to Col. ^ S ^ ^out ^William Martin for services rendered in

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organizing and providing for the first and second regiments of Illinois volunteers, including his personal services, the hire of two servants, office rent, and all other expenses, five hundred and three dollars.

^6^ Page l line 10 & 11 Strike out five hundred and fifty ^N^o 6^ five thousand seven hundred and sixteen ^#^ dollars” and insert in lieu thereof “five hundred and sixty one thousand ^agreed^ eight hundred ^dollars, including the additional rations for commissioned officers commanding “arsenals” or “armories,” being “separate and fixed or permanent “posts” of the army of the United States.”^

At End of1 of the Bill
^7 ^ To defray the expense of compiling ^#^ arranging, publishing, and supervising ^agreed^ the publication of a new edition of the ordnance manual of fifteen hundred copies six thousand dollars
^8^ ^1^ To defray the expense of Topographical ^X Disagreed^ surveys of routes from the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean fifty thousand dollars
^9^ To provide for the payment for ^X Disagreed^ 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.

^10^ “For carrying into effect the Treaty of the United ^Agreed with amendment.^ States with the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, of the twenty fourth November eighteen hundred and forty eight, the sum of ^(^fifty ^55,500^ two thousand eight hundred^)^ ⋄10^th Amendment: Strike out “fifty-two thousand eight hundred” and in lieu thereof insert “fifty-five thousand five hundred.”⋄ and four dollars eighty five cents.”

Add the following sections:

“Sec. And be it further enacted, That ^N^o 11^ ^11 Disagreed^ the military storekeeper at Watertown arsenal, mass-achusetts, be allowed from the first day ^Disagreed^ of October, eighteen hundred and forty two, the same compensation as is authorized by the ^X^ 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 J. 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.

^12^ Sec. And be it further enacted That any ^agreed^ non commissioned officer, musician or private, in the company of sappers, 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 dis-charge from the service of the United States, and stand as if they had served out their respective terms

In the House of Representatives.
March. 2^d 1849

Resolved, That this House do agree to the 3, 4, 6, 7 & 12^th amendments of the Senate to House Bill (No 695) making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the 30^th June 1850.

Resolved That this House do concur in the 10^th amendment of the Senate to said bill with an amendment. Strike out “Fifty-two thousand eight hundred” and insert in lieu thereof “Fifty-five thousand five hundred.”

Resolved, That his House do disagree to the 1, 2, 5, 8, 9 & 11^th amendments of the Senate to the said bill.

In Senate of the United States
March 3, 1849.

Resolved, That the Senate disagree to the amendment of the House of Representatives to their 10^th amendment to the bill (H. R. 695.) they insist upon their amendments to said bill, disagreed to by the House; and ask a conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on said amendments.

Ordered, That Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, Mr. Badger, and Mr. Rusk be the managers of the said conference of the part of the Senate.

In the House of Representatives
March 3^d 1849

Resolved, That the House concur ^agree^ to the Committee of conference ^on bill N^o 695,^ asked by the Senate on the disagreeing votes of the two House, and Ordered That Mr. Stephens Mr. Bart and Mr Wilson be the managers of said conference on the part of the House.

In the House of Representatives
March 3^d 1849.

The Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Bill (HR. 695) making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending 31^st June 1850, have met and after full and free conference have agreed to recommend to the respective House as follows

That the Senate recede from the 1^st & 5^th amendments,

That the House recede from ^their disagreement to^ the 2^d amendment ^of the Senate^, with an amendment, strik[e] out “and Jenks Carbine”, and the words “one hundred” and insert fifty.

That the House recede from their ^disagreement to the^ 8, 9 & 11 amendments of the Senate to [the] above bill. Resolve That this House recede from their amendment to the 10^th amendment of the Senate to the above

^and [for?]^ Resolved That this House concur in the report of the committee of conference.

The Com. ^of conference^ to whom was ^referred^ House bill 695, report that

It is proposed that the senate recede from the first amendment viz to strike out the word [Three?] in 27 line 4^th page.

2^nd amendment it is agreed to strike out “Jenks Carbine” in line 27 4^th page, and strike out the words one hundred & insert fifty.

5^th Amendment, Senate recede from

8^th amendment of Senate the House recede & concur in the Senate’s amendment.

9^th amendment House recede & concur in the Senates amendment.

10^th amendment the House recede from,

11^th amendment House recede & concur in the Senates amendment.

In Senate of the United States
March 3^d 1849

Resolved, That the Senate concur in the report of the committee of conference on this Bill