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1837.

Officers

at New Or

lotte and Dah

lonega.

That the officers of the branch mint at New Orleans shall be of one superintendent, one treasurer, one assayer, one melter and branch mints refiner, and one coiner; and that the officers of the branch mints Ieans, Char at Charlotte and Dahlonega, severally, shall be one superintendent, who shall also perform the duties of treasurer; one assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter and refiner; and one coiner; and the annual salaries of the said officers shall be as follows: for the branch at New Orleans, to the superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, the assayer, the melter and refiner, and the coiner, each, two thousand dollars; for the branches at Charlotte and at Dahlonega, to the superintendent, two thousand dollars; and to the assayer and the coiner, each, fifteen hundred dollars.

Their salaries.

Part of act 3d March, 1835, repealed.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much of the act entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 13th, 1837.

CHAP. 15. An ACT to suspend certain provisoes of "An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Certain provisoes That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, suspended until the close of the next session of Congress.

of act of 14th of July, 1832, suspended.

To have the

Approved, March 1st, 1837.

CHAP. 16. An ACT to extend the jurisdiction of the District Court of the United
States for the district of Arkansas.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, same jurisdic- That the district court of the United States for the district of tion and power Arkansas shall have the same jurisdiction and power in all resdistrict courts, pects whatever that was given to the several district courts of

as the several

U. S.

the United States by an act of Congress approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and two entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," or by any subsequent acts of Congress, concerning crimes, offences or misdemeanors, which may be committed against the laws of the United States, in any town, settlement, or territory belonging to any Indian tribe in amity with the United States, of which any other district court of the United States may have jurisdiction.

Approved, March 1st, 1837.

CHAP. 17. An ACT making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and for other purposes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven; that is to say;

1837.

For the pay of the army, one million ninety thousand one Pay of army. hundred and thirteen dollars:

For the subsistence of officers, three hundred, and thirty-two Subsistence of thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars:

officers.

cers' horses..

For forage of officers' horses, seventy thousand nine hundred Forage for offi and eighty-seven dollars:

For clothing for officers' servants, twenty six thousand five Clothing for offi hundred and fifty dollars:

cers' servants.

of clothing.

clusive of that

of officers, and

Fer payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty Payments in lieu thousand dollars: For subsistence exclusive of that of officers, nine hundred Subsistence, exand thirteen thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, including the sum of three hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars, for the subsistence of the volunteers and militia called out for preventing or suppressing Indian hostilities:

including that of volunteers

and militia.

and garrison e

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cook- Clothing, camp ing utensils, and hospital furniture, two hundred and six thou- quipage, &c. sand nine hundred and forty dollars:

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-eight thousand Medical and hos five hundred dollars:

pital departm't.

ed by Quarter.

For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster's Supplies furnishDepartment, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and master's Dep't printing, two hundred and eight thousand dollars:

ters, &c.

For barracks, quarters, store-houses, embracing the repairs Barracks, quar and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gunhouses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard, the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; of storehouses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, ninety-five thousand dollars:

of officers' bag.

For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of Transportation their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, the sum gage. of fifty thousand dollars:

For the transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose

Transportation supplies, &c.

of troops and

1837. of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of sailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars:

Incidental expenses Qr. Mr's. Dept.

For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Departof the ment, consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an act of Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of the necessary articles for the interment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the performance of other duties; purchase of horses to mount the second regiment of dragoons, and expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for service, and the erection of additional stables, one hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars:

Contingencies of

army.

Extra pay to reenlisted soldiers, &c.

Arrearages prior to 1st July, 1815.

National armories.

Armament of fortifications.

Current expen

For coutingencies of the army, three thousand dollars:

For two months' extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars:

For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, one thousand dollars:

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars:

For the armanent of the fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars:

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hunses of ordnance dred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and seventy-five

service.

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dollars:

For arsenals, three hundred and seventy-three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars:

For the purchase of percussion cannon locks, fifteen thousand dollars:

For the manufacture of elevating machines for barbette and casemate carriages, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dol

lars:

For the manufacture of sponges for field and battery cannon, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars:

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Sponges for san

non.

For the rifle factory at the Harper's Ferry armory, eight Rifle factory at thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars:

Harper's Ferry.

racks at Baton

For completing the barracks at Baton Rouge, being an amount Completing barexpended out of the general appropriation for the Quartermas- Rouge. ter's Department, and to enable the accounting officers to close the accounts, twenty-three thousand, nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and five cents:

For completing the wharf at Fort Monroe, Virginia, five Wharf at Fort hundred dollars:

Monroe.

bankment

tilt-hammer

of

For constructing a river wall, making embankment to the River wall; em same, arching, stone-walling, repairing the embankment of the new canal and for completing the tilt-hammer shop at Harper's Ferry, fifty three-thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars:

new canal; and shop at Harper's Ferry.

For a magazine at the arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Magazine at Ba five thousand dollars:

ton Rouge.

of

land, &c. at the

Vernon,

For the purchase of land, building a brick warehouse, and Purchase wharf, and making a turnpike road to the river at the arsenal Arsenal at Mt. at Mount Vernon, Alabama, in addition to former appropriations for these objects, six thousand, six hundred dollars:

at

Frankford, Pa.

For enlarging the site at the arsenal at Frankford, Pennsyl- Arsenal vania, one thousand dollars:

shop, &c., at

For a blacksmith's shop, a reservoir, a gun-carriage house at Blacksmith's Watertown, Massachusetts, twenty-three thousand, one hundred Watertown, Ms. dollars:

flasks.

For the purchase of ten thousand copper rifle flasks, seventeen Conner thousand dollars.

rifle

paid on the re

of

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the following Money to be sums of money be paid, out of any money in the Treasury not quisition of the otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of the Secretary of Secretary War, and, so far as shall be necessary, the same shall be ex pended for the following purposes, to wit:

Tennessee vol

For the pay, travelling, clothing for six months, and other Pay, &c., of legal expenses of the Tennessee volunteers, mustered into the unteers. service of the United States under the requisition of General Gaines, under date of April eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the proclamation of Governor Cannon of twenty-eighth of the same month, and approved by the Secretary of War, on the ninth of May by direction of the President of the United States one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That Proviso. such of said volunteers as volunteered under the proclamation of Governor Cannon of the sixth of June or twentieth of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, and were mustered into the service of the United States, and are entitled to clothing under the act of May twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall not be paid for clothing out of the aforesaid appropriation:

of Tennessee vol

For pay, travelling, clothing, and other legal expenses of the Pay &c., Tennessee volunteers, mustered into the service of the United unes. States, under the order of the Secretary of War of May twenty

1837. fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and Governor Cannon's proclamation of June sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, ninety-five thousand dollars:

of

Pay, &c., Tennessee volunteers.

Liabilities incurred by Gov. Cannon.

Pay due Execu

tive staff of Governor

nessee.

For pay, travelling, clothing, and other legal expenses of the Tennessee volunteers, mustered into the service of the United Ştates under General Gaines's requisition, under date of June twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and Governor Cannon's proclantation of July twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, thirty five thousand three hundred and ten dollars:

For the liabilities incurred by Governor Cannon in raising money; so far as said money has been properly expended in the service of the United States, on account of the aforesaid volunteers, thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars:

For pay due the Executive staff of the Governor of Tennessee, of Ten-while actually engaged in obtaining, organizing, mustering, or marching volunteers, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to the places of their rendezvous, or making returns of said volunteers, three thousand dollars.

pay, &c. to vol

litia of Ken

and Mississippi,

&c.

One month's SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary unteers and mi- at War, be and he hereby is directed to cause to be paid to the tucky, Tennes. Volunteers and militia of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and see, Alabama, Mississippi, including the companies in Mississippi, mustered into the service, who were duly called into service, and whose service was accepted by the Executives of the States respectively, during the summer of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, under requisitions from the Secretary at War or from generals commanding the troops of the United States, and who were discharged before marching, the amount of one month's pay, with all the allowances to which they would have been entitled if they had been in actual service during the period of one month; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Pay to the Rifle
Rangers, Coo-

pendence Blues &c.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That eleven thousand sada volun six hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for paying the teers, and Inde Rifle Rangers, Coosada volunteers, and the Independence Blues, under the command of Major Holt, and for the payment of Major Holt and battalion staff or so much of said sum as may be necessary for those purposes be appropriated and paid on the presentation of the rolls of said companies and battalion staff to the Paymaster General, with evidence of the time they were in the service against the Creek Indians in the months of May and June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.

Arming

and

equinping mi. lita U. S.

Paying claims of
Connecticut for

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for arming and equipping the militia of the United States, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for that purpose.

SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That for paying the services of her claims of the State of Connecticut for the services of her militia militia during during the late war, to be audited and settled by the proper aclate war. counting officers of the Treasury, under the superintendence of the Secretary of War, in the following cases; first where the

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