carpenter shop, and storehouse, and for the purpose of carrying this section into effect, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, Superintendand he hereby is directed to appoint some suitable naval officer or engi- ency of construction of dry neer to receive and superintend the construction of the floating dry dock docks in Caliin California.

fornia.

Marine barracks

§ 2.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the percentage added by law Additional pay to the pay of the clerks employed in the Executive and Legislative De- of clerks in partments of Washington be, and is hereby allowed to the clerks em- Navy-yard and ployed at the navy-yard and marine barracks in the city of Washington. at Washington. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That Robert Armstrong, the public, 1852, ch. 108, printer, be and is hereby directed to execute without delay the public Public printing printing ordered by either house of Congress since his election as public for sixty days printer, and that all paper used by the public printer for the space of from August 31, sixty days from this date shall be furnished by him at cost, and shall be of the quality and description specified in the law passed at this session of Congress.

APPROVED, August 31, 1852.

1852.

CHAP. CX-An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army, for the Year August 31, 1852. ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

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 fiftythree.

For pay of the army, one million three hundred and fifty-three thou- Pay. sand two hundred and six dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, five hundred and seventy-six thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars.

Commutation of officers' subsistence, and of

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and five forage of, and thousand five hundred and four dollars.

servants' cloth

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

For expenses of recruiting, thirty-two thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.

Recruiting.

For three months' extra pay for non-commissioned officers, musicians,

and privates, on reënlistment, ten thousand dollars.

Extra pay.

Subsistence in

Appropriation

For subsistence in kind, one million and forty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars: Provided, That the Commissary Depart- kind. ment may use, in advance of the regular appropriation for the fiscal year in advance for ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, 1853-54. two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars of said sum for said fis

cal year.

For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and horse Clothing, equiequipments, two hundred and three thousand one hundred and eighty page, and horse dollars and eighty-three cents. equipments.

For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, consist- Quartermaster's ing of fuel, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quar- Department. termaster's Department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and also for the authorized number of officers' horses when serving in VOL. X. PUB. - 14

1802, ch. 9.

the field and at the outposts; 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 Departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations and reports, one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army 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 under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten 1819, ch. 45. days, under the act of March second, 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, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including hire of interpreters; spies and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's Department; compensation of forage and wagon1836, ch. 162. masters, authorized by the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various expenditures required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, including the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith's and shoeing tools, horses' and mule shoes, iron, hire of veterinary surgeons and medicines for horses and mules, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Coast survey.

Barracks, quarters, and hospitals, &c.

Mileage of officers.

Transportation.

For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on the coast survey, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartermaster's Department, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, hospitals, storehouses, stables, wharves, and ways, at the several posts and army depots, for temporary cantonments, and the authorized furniture for barrack-rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, gun-houses for the protection of cannon, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for rent of quarters and offices for officers and 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, four hundred thousand dollars.

For mileage or allowance made to officers for the transportation of themselves and baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For 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 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 require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and smallarms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vessels and boats, for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for 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 the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require that it be brought from a distance, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments Horses. of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital departments, fifty-one thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.

Medical and Hospital Departments. Armaments.

For armament of fortifications, fifty thousand dollars. For ordnance stores and supplies, as follows: for procurement of side Ordnance stores arms and accoutrements for artillery, infantry, cavalry, and riflemen; and supplies. materials for and preparation of siege and field ammunition; wages of mechanics engaged in making carriages, implements, equipments, harness, &c.; and for purchase of miscellaneous supplies of ordnance stores for issue to the army, sixty-five thousand dollars.

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

For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harper's Ferry, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

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

Ordnance ser

vice.

Arms.

Harper's Ferry.

Springfield.

Arsenals.

Survey of

For arsenals, sixty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars. For continuing the topographical and hydrographical survey of the Delta of the Mississippi, with such investigations as may lead to determine the Mississippi the most practicable plan for securing it from inundation, fifty thousand dollars.

Delta

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Priscilla D.

For payment to Priscilla D. Twiggs of the amount of the pay and allowances which would have accrued to her son, George D. Twiggs, had he Twiggs. been regularly in service as a second lieutenant of infantry, from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, the date on which he left the United States, to the twelfth of August in the same year when he fell in battle at the National Bridge, Mexico, two hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-three cents.

Light-Houses. For completing the light-house at Sand Key, Florida, forty-four thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-one

cents.

For completing the light-house at Chicago, Illinois, six thousand three hundred dollars.

Light-houses.
Sand Key.

Chicago.

Arrearages.

For arrearages prior to July first, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May 1820, ch. 52. first, eighteen hundred and twenty, in addition to an unexpended balance of two thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fourteen cents, remaining in the treasury on the thirteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts au- Transfers of thorizing the President of the United States, or the secretary of the pro- forbidden except appropriations per department, under his direction, to transfer any portion of the moneys in certain cases. appropriated for a particular branch of expenditure in that department, Appropriations to be applied to another branch of expenditure in the same department, be applied to exbe, and are hereby, so far as relates to the Department of War, penses incurred before July 1, repealed; and no portions of the moneys appropriated by this act shall 1852. be applied to the payment of any expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. But nothing herein 1853, ch. 96, § 4. contained shall be so construed as to prevent the President from au

Mexico.

1850, ch. 78.

1855, ch. 169, §§

5, & 6.

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thorizing appropriations for the subsistence of the army, for forage, for the medical and hospital departments, and for the quarter-master's department, to be applied to any other of the above-mentioned branches of expenditure in the same department, and appropriations made for a specific object for one fiscal year, shall not be transferred to any other object, after the expiration of that year.

Extra pay of SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act making the army in Oreappropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirgon, and California, and New tieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, approved the twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, as provides extra pay to the commissioned officers and enlisted men of the United States serving in Oregon or California, be and the same is hereby continued in force for one year from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and that the provision of the last-mentioned act be, and is hereby extended to New Mexico during the current year, provided for by this section, and that three hundred thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for that purpose: Provided further, That said officers and men shall receive only one half of the increased amount over the regular pay allowed by law.

Proviso.

Fortifications.

Ration for pay

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the unexpended balances remaining of sums appropriated for fortifications, and now liable to revert to the surplus fund, are hereby reappropriated.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That paymasters' clerks shall master's clerks. be entitled to receive one ration per day when on duty at their stations, to be commuted at the price now authorized when travelling on duty.

Pay and equipment of Fremont's mounted riflemen.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That for the pay and equipment as mounted riflemen, finding their own horses and forage, of the volunteers serving under the command of Captain John C. Frémont, in California during the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, as appears by the muster-rolls on file in the War Department, and for the subsistence and Settlement of supplies consumed by said volunteers in said service, one hundred and claims for sup- sixty-eight thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in plies therefor. the Treasury not otherwise approprated; and the Secretary of War is 1855, ch. 169,§ 2. authorized and empowered to appoint three competent and disinterested officers of the army to examine and report to Congress upon all such claims as may be presented for funds advanced and subsistence and supplies of all kinds furnished or taken for the use of said command whilst thus engaged in the public service; and for the expenses of said board of officers the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.

Settlement of

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the second section of an accounts of mili- act entitled "An act to provide for the settlement of the accounts of tary contributions in Mexico. public officers and others who may have received moneys arising from 1849, ch. 126. military contributions or otherwise in Mexico," approved March third,

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Pay of friendly Seminole

riors.

eighteen hundred and forty-nine, shall be so construed as to extend to officers and other persons who were engaged in the collection of military contributions as collectors in any part of Mexico or California, during the war with Mexico.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be diwar- rected to pay to each of the survivors, or to the heirs of those who have died, of the Seminole warriors who were mustered into the service of the United States at Fort Brooke, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, an amount equal to three months' pay and allowances of a private soldier in the army of the United States: Provided, That the amount so paid shall not exceed three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars: And provided, also, That such amount paid shall be in Such payment full of all claims of said friendly Seminoles during the Florida war, for compensation and for indemnity on account of losses sustained.

Proviso.

to be in full.

Carolina.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated as Refunding adaforesaid, to refund to the State of North Carolina the amount of money vances by North advanced and transportation furnished to volunteers from that State during the late war with Mexico, the sum of nine thousand three hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty-three cents.

gan.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated as Refunding adaforesaid, for refunding to the State of Michigan the amount advanced vances by Michiby said State, in organizing, subsisting, and transporting volunteers, previous to their being mustered into the service of the United States, during the late war with Mexico, twenty thousand dollars; which said sum, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay and cancel the claim of said State as presented and now on file in the office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the governor or other proper officer of the said State of Michigan: Provided, That the same principles be applied in the settlement of the claims of the State of Alabama, and all other States, for claims of Alamoneys advanced in raising, subsisting, and transporting troops for the States. Mexican war.

Proviso as to

bama and other

1842, ch. 39.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That in the adjustment of the ac- Claims of Maine. counts of the State of Maine, under the act of the thirteenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to include and allow all claims which have been heretofore presented under said act: Provided, It shall be satisfactorily shown that said claims have been actually allowed and paid by the State.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War allow and pay to the State of Virginia, all sums that may have been advanced by that State to the officers and men of her regiment of volunteers engaged to serve for and during the war then existing between the United States and Mexico, for pay for their services from the day of their enrolment until they were mustered into the service of the United States: Provided, The same has not been paid heretofore by the United States to any of the officers or men for said service.

Proviso as to

amount.

Refunding advances by Virginia.

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Proviso as to amount.

to the Florida

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, Claims of South and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the State of South Carolina relating Carolina, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, war of 1836. such sums of money as were paid by said State, in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and eighteen hundred and forty, for services, losses, and damages sustained by her volunteers in the Florida war of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, while in the service of the United States, and on their return from said service, as were ascertained and allowed by a board of commissioners appointed for that purpose by an act of the Legislature of said State in eighteen hundred and thirty-seven: Provided, however, That no interest shall be allowed upon the moneys paid to the State of South Carolina under the provisions of this act.

No interest to be allowed.

Claims of

1842, ch. 127.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That in the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia under the provisions of the act of the Georgia. eleventh August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, providing for the settlement of the claims of Georgia for the services of her militia, which have heretofore been suspended or disallowed, the accounting officers of the Treasury Department allow and pay, upon proof that the State has allowed and paid the same, all accounts for forage, subsistence, hospital stores, medical services, and transportation, which have not been heretofore allowed by the United States. That for the pay of mounted infantry, the pay of cavalry be allowed; the same to be paid out of the fund appropriated by the act of eleventh August, eighteen hundred and forty-two.