Horses for dragoons and light artillery. repairing, racks, &c. and 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 sur. geons, 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; Constructing, For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quar. enlarging bar- ters, 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 neces sary 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; Mileage of offi cers. Transportation. and Medical hospital depart ments. Armament of fortifications. Ordnance and 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 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 sea-going vessels and boats, for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the sev eral 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 situations, 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 ordnance stores. hundred thousand dollars; Expenses of For current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred ordnance dept. thousand dollars; Manufacture of arms. For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; of Purchase Colt's revolving For the purchase of Colt's revolving pistols, if the Secretary of War should deem it advisable and proper, fifty thousand dol- pistols. lars; at Harper's Fer For repairs and improvements, and new machinery at the Renier's Re: Harper's Ferry armory, sixty-two thousand six hundred and ry and Springtwenty 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 sixtyone dollars; For purchase of a lot of ground at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, contiguous to the public buildings, two hundred dollars; field arsenals. Purchase of ground at Harper's Ferry and For purchase of land at Springfield armory, to be flowed by at Springfield. 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, 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; Site for magazine at St. Louis. Surveys. Purchase of For the purchase of land adjoining the Frankford arsenal, land at Frank Pennsylvania, twenty thousand dollars; ford, Pa. ,I Erection of buildings at same For erecting suitable buildings and machinery for the manufacture of percussion caps at the same place, fifteen thousand place. dollars; publishing Ord To defray the expense of compiling, arranging, publishing, Compiling and and supervising the publication of a new edition of the Ordnance Manual. nance Manual, of fifteen hundred copies, six thousand dollars; To defray the expenses of Topographical [- -] of sur map of surveys veys of routes from the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific of routes ocean, fifty thousand dollars; Topographical from valley of the Mis- To provide for the payment for secret services rendered to the United States in the war with Mexico, and to be expended in Mexico, 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-fourth November, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the sum of fifty-two thousand eight hundred and four dollars eighty-five cents. Carrying into Stockbridge In effect treaty with dians. Increase of pay to military store SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the military storekeeper at Watertown arsenal, Massachusetts, be allowed from keeper at Waterthe first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the town, Mass. 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 keeper, T. A. commissary of subsistence at said arsenal. of Allowance to military Webber. sioned store officers, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any non-commis- Non-commissioned officer, musician, or private in the company sappers musicians, and and miners, and pontoniers, raised by the act of May ninth, privates of the eighteen hundred and forty-eight, who served in said company and pontoniers, sappers, miners, Mexico, to be en who served in in the war with Mexico, shall, on- application, be entitled-totitled to an hono- receive an honorable discharge from the service of the United rable discharge. Stales, and stand as if they had served out their respective terms. Approved March 3, 1849. CHAP. 102.-AN ACT making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. [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 they are hereby,. appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the preservation, repairs, and construction of certain fortifications, for the year ending the thir tieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. For defensive works and barracks near Detroit, twenty thou sand dollars; For fortifications at outlet of lake Champlain, twenty thou sand dollars; For defensive works and barracks at narrows of Penobscot river, Maine, twenty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Scammel, Portland harbor, Maine, five thousand dollars; For repairs of fortifications on Governor's island, Boston harbor, ten thousand dollars; For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, thirty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Independence, Boston harbor, ten thousand dollars; For Fort Adams, Newport harbor, Rhode Island, and permanent quarters and barracks thereat, forty thousand dollars; For building Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars; For Fort Schuyler, Long Island sound, ten thousand dol lars; For repairs of Fort Wood, and sea-wall of Bedlow's island, fifteen thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Hamilton, New York, ten thousand dollars; For Fort Richmond, on Staten island, thirty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Lafayette; five thous nd dollars; For Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch island, fifty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Madison, five thousand dollars; For fort on Soller's Point flats, Baltimore harbor, forty thousand dollars; For Fort Monroe, Hampton roads, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars; For preservation of site of Fort Caswell, North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars; For preservation of site at Fort Macon, North Carolina, five Fort Macon. thousand dollars; For dike to Drunken Dick shoal, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, ten thousand dollars; For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, twentyfive thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Jackson, Savannah river, fifteen thousand dollars; Drunken Dick shoal. Fort Sumter, Fort Jackson, Savannah. For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola harbor, Florida, and barracks Fort Barrancas. thereat, thirty-five thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Morgan, Mobile point, Alabama, fifteen thousand dollars; Fort Morgan. Fort Jackson, For repairs of Fort Jackson, Mississippi river, fifteen thou- Mississippi river. sand dollars; For repairs of Fort St. Philip, Mississippi river, thirty thou- Fort St. Philip. sand dollars; For repairs of Fort Pike, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars; For repairs of Ford Wood, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars; For fortifications on Florida reef, Key West, seventy-five thousand dollars; For fortifications on Florida reef, Garden Key, fifty thousand dollars; Fort Pike. Fort Wood. Garden Key. Augustine." Sea-wall, St. of examination of For repairs of sea-wall, St. Augustine, five thousand dollars; For contingent expenses of engineer officers engaged in an Contingencies examination of the coast of the United States on the Pacific coast of Pacific. ocean, in reference to the defence of the same, six thousand dollars. Approved March 3, 1849. CHAP. 103.-AN ACT making appropriations for the naval service for the, Pay of officers and seamen. For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, two million. four hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of superintendents, naval constructers, and all the Superintend❜ts, civil establishments at the several navy yards and stations, seventy-three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars; constructers, &c. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and Provisions. seamen, including engineers and marines, attached to vessels for sea-service, six hundred and eighty-six thousand two hun dred dollars; cessaries, &c. For surgeon's necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt Surgeon's neof the navy, including marine corps, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; Repair. Construction of For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, including fuel for steamers, and the purchase of hemp, one million four hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars; For the construction at the national observatory of a magnetic magnetic clock. clock, under the superintendence of Dr. Locke, and to pay him for the free use by the United States of his invention of said clock, and of all improvements that he may make thereto, ten thousand dollars; Surveys on coast of Gulf of Mexico. Surveys Florida. on For paying the unsatisfied demands upon the fund for continuing the survey of the coast on the Gulf of Mexico, from Apalachicola bay to the Mississippi, four thousand and seventy dollars, to be taken out of the balance of the fund appropriated for that purpose by act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund; For the survey of the reefs, shoals, keys, and coasts of South coast of South Florida by the Superintendent of the "Coast Survey," and for which the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to provide the requisite officers, vessels, and crews to said "Coast Survey," the sum of thirty thousand dollars; ordnance stores. Ordnance and For ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms, including incidental expenses, two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars ; Books, charts, &c. Proviso. maps, Miscellaneous expenses. For nautical books, maps, charts, instruments, and all other expenses of the hydrographical office, fifty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, That a competent officer of the Navy, not below the grade of lieutenant, be charged with the duty of preparing the Nautical Almanac for publication, and that the Secretary of the Navy may, when in his opinion, the interests of navigation would be promoted thereby, cause any nautical works that may, from time to time, be published by the hydrographical office, to be sold at cost, and the proceeds arising therefrom to be placed in the treasury of the United States; For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: freight and transportation; printing and stationery; advertising in newspapers; books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery; repair of and attending on steam engines in yards; purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen's tools; postage of public letters; furniture for Government houses; fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations; cleaning and clearing up yards; watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of stores and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers; funeral expenses; store and office rent; stationery and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiums/ and other expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending courts martial and courts of in |