Repairing and enlarging bar

racks, &c.

other materials, and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit, two million one hundred and seventy-three thousand three hundred dollars.

For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may be occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for the authorized furniture of the barrack rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons, light artillery, and mounted riflemen; for rent of quarters for officers, barracks for troops at posts where there are no public building for their accommodation, and of storehouses for the safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military purposes, one million one hundred and seven thousand two hundred dollars.

Transportation For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on of officers' bag- duty without troops, eighty thousand dollars.

gage.

Transportation

of troops and

supplies, &c.

Contingencies.
Medical and

For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water, freights and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, .carts, wagons, and boats; for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transpor tation of funds for the pay department; the expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, 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, and frontier posts, five million two hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred dollars.

For contingencies of the army, fifty thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital department, one hundred and Hospitaldepart- fifty thousand dollars.

ments.

Ordnance.

Ordnance ser

vice.

Armament of fortifications.

Arms.

For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, three hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars.

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

For araament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.

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

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Repairs, &c. Springfield armory, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper's Ferry armory, seventeen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.

For arsenals, fifty-one thousand four hundred and eighty Arsenals. dollars.

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

For surveys with armies in the field, twenty thousand dol- Surveys. lars.

For providing for the comfort of discharged soldiers who Discharged sol. may be landed at New Orleans, or other places within the diers, United States, so disabled by disease or by wounds received in the service as to be unable to proceed to their homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes, five hundred thousand dollars; said sum to be applied and expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

tion of barracks,

For the purchase of land, erection of barracks for soldiers, Land and erecand quarters for officers, and laundresses, and for brick wall to enclose the grounds, and grading and paving the river banks, at Newport barracks, Kentucky, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingencies of fortifications, two hundred thousand Contingencies dollars. of fortifications. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following Deficiencies. sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations made for the service of the present fiscal year, under the following heads, viz:

underresolution

For pay of volunteers, under resolution of eighth August, Volunteers, pay eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

of Aug. 8, 1846. For pay of volunteers under act of thirteenth May, eigh- Volunteers, pay teen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-three under act 13th thousand dollars.

May, 1846. For travelling allowance of volunteers, five hundred thou- Travelling alsand dollars.

lowance.

For transportation and supplies, &c., in quartermaster's Transportation and supplies. department, four millions dollars. For services of private physicians, including the purchase Private physiof medical and hospital supplies, sixty-five thousand dollars.

cians.

For pay, including subsistence and other allowances to Pay, &c. to offiofficers of the ten regiments of regular troops, authorized cers of the ten regiments. during the present session, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars.

For subsistence in kind for such regiments, two hundred Subsistence. and twenty-one thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-two cents.

regiments of vo-;

Pay of eleven For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers recently called. into service, one million three thousand one hundred and ten dollars.

lunteers.

Subsistence.

Recruiting.

Ordnance, &c.

Repair, &c. of roads, &c.

Deficiencies,

For subsistence in kind of said regiments of volunteers, two hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-five cents.

For expenses of recruiting, including bounties, two hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.

For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, four hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars.

For the repair and construction of roads and bridges for the use of armies in the field, one hundred thousand dollars. For deficiency of former appropriations for fortifications at Oak Island, one thousand and thirty dollars and fifty-nine

cents.

For deficiency of former appropriations for the improve&c., Cape Fear ment of Cape Fear river, six hundred and one dollars and ninety-two cents.

river.

Deficiency of For deficiency of appropriation for removing the great raft appropria'n for of Red river, made by the act approved April twentieth, removing the great raft of Red eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, seven thousand one hun

river.

dred and fifty dollars, being the amount advanced by Daniel T. Witlee, and others, through the branch of the Real Estate Bank of Washington, Arkansas, to Henry M. Shreve, Government agent for such removal, and expended by him for that purpose.

Approved, March 2, 1847.

Pay.

Subsistence.

Forage.

Clothing.

CHAP. 36.-AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

[SEC. 1.] 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 Military Academy for the year ending on the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight:

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars. For commutation of subsistence, five thousand four hundred and two dollars.

For forage for officers' horses, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

For clothing of officers' servants, four hundred and twenty dollars.

For repairs and improvements; fuel and apparatus; for- Incidental and age for public horses and oxen; stationery, printing, and contingent exother incidental and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars.

For barracks for cadets, fifteen thousand dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1847.

penses.

Barracks.

CHAP. 37.—AN ACT inaking appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

of the Post Of

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same Appropriations are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office from revenues Department, for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen fice Dept. hundred and forty-eight, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, namely:

For transportation of the mails within the United States, Transportation. two million four hundred and forty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars.

For transportation by steam-ships between New York and Transportation Bremen, according to the contract with Edward Mills, au- by steam-ships. thorized by the "act to provide for the transportation of the mail between the United States and foreign countries," approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand six hundred and nine dollars.

For compensation to postmasters, one million and forty- Postmasters. two thousand dollars. Provided, That it shall not be lawful Proviso. for the Postmaster General to make any allowance or compensation to any Deputy Postmaster, in addition to his commissions, except the special allowance made by law to the postmasters at New Orleans and the city of Washington, and excepting, also, the allowance to which postmasters are entitled by law, from the income from boxes: And provided, further, That each Deputy Postmaster, whose compensation for the last preceding year did not exceed two hundred dollars, may send through the mail all letters written by himself, and receive through the mail all written communications addressed to himself on his private business which shall not exceed in weight one half ounce, free of postage.

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, seventeen thousand Letters. dollars.

For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand dollars.

Paper.

For office furniture, (for the offices of postmasters,) three Furniture. thousand dollars.

Advertising.
Mail bags.
Blanks.
Locks.

Depredations &

Proviso.

For advertising, thirty thousand dollars.
For mail bags, twenty thousand dollars.
For blanks, seventeen thousand dollars.

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, four thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, thirteen thouspecial agents. sand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ, when the service may require it, the assistant postmasters general as special agents, and to make them compensation and allowance therefor, not to exceed the amount expended by said agents as necessary travelling expenses while so employed.

Clerks.

Miscellaneous.

Any deficiency

the Treasury.

For clerks for offices, (in the offices of postmasters,) two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous, fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the reof revenue to be venues of the department referred to in the first section of supplied from this aet, shall prove insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any deficiency that may thus arise, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Salary of asst. messengers.

Howland & As.

pinwall to be pd. $5,000 with interest, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the assistant messengers of the Post Office Department shall be entitled to an annual salary of four hundred and fifty dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Howland and Aspinwall, of the city of New York, the sum of five thousand dollars, with interest from the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of a draft drawn by James Reeside, on the Post Office Department, dated the eighteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, payable on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to the order of the said Reeside, and accepted by the Treasurer of the Post Office Department, and by the said Reeside endorsed to the order of H. H. Williams, of Baltimore, and by the said Williams endorsed in blank, and which draft is the property of the said Howland and Aspinwall.

Approved, March 2, 1847.

CHAP. 38.-AN ACT further to extend the charter of the Union Bank of
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asAct to extend sembled, That the act entitled "An act to extend the charter the charter of of the Union Bank of Georgetown, in the District of Columther extended. bia," approved the twenty-fifth day of May, in the year

said bank fur