said reservation, to preunder certain laws, may enter same. tue of the acts of the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, be and the same are hereby, declared to be public lands, and that settlers on said land, Settlers, but for who but for said reservation would have been enabled to enter entitled the same under the pre-emption laws of nineteenth June, one emption thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, twenty-second June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, first June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, or fourth September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter the same at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, at any time within one year after the date of this act, upon complying with the provisions of either of said acts under Preference to setwhich such person may claim; the settlers under the earlier law tlers under the earbeing entitled to the preference over those under a subsequent one: Provided, That this section is not to be regarded as extending the right of pre-emption to lands reserved for lead mines, emption. salt springs, school sections, or town lots: And provided further, Proviso: if DuThat should the said claim of Dubuque hereafter prove valid, buque claim prove valid, compensacompensation to the claimants shall be made by the United tion to be made. States in other public lands equal in quantity, subject to private entry. Approved, August 16th, 1842. liest law. Proviso: lands reserved from pre CHAP. 183.--AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the army, and of the military academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two. [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 hereby Appropriations for are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. No. 1. For the pay of the army, one million four hundred and seventy-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. the army. Pay. Subsistence of officers. Forage of officers' horses. No. 2. For commutation of officers' subsistence, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars. No. 3. For commutation of forage of officers' horses, one hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars. No. 4. For commutation of clothing of officers' servants, Clothing of offithirty thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For commutation of clothing not drawn in kind by the troops, fifty thousand two hundred and forty dollars. No. 5. For expenses of recruiting, fifteen thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents. cers' servants. Clothing not drawn by troops. Recruiting. No 6. For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equip Clothing, &c. age, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, three hundred and seventy-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty cents. Subsistence. Supplies by the Quartermaster's department. &c. Barracks, quar ex penses of the Quar ment. No. 7. For subsistence in kind, exclusive of that of officers, seven hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and sixtyeight dollars. No. 8. For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. No. 9. For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing ters, storehouses, the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials and of furniture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of storehouses for the safe keeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military practice, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Incidental No. 10. For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's termaster's depart department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets, expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses and of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of temporary agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to keep the regiments of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for the service, and the erection of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. Transportation No. 11. For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelof officers baggage. ling on duty without troops, sixty-five thousand dollars. plies. Transportation No. 12. For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transof troops and supportation of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery, under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, two hundred and forty-two thousand dollars. Contingencies, No. 13. For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars. No. 14. For the medical and hospital department, twenty- Medical and hoseight thousand dollars. pital department. Meteorological For extending and rendering more complete the meteorological observations conducted at the military posts of the United observations. States, under the direction of the Surgeon General, three thousand dollars. Ordnance ser No. 15. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, vicer one hundred thousand dollars. No. 16. For the armament of fortifications, including compensation of a special agent to attend at the foundries employed in making cannon, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No. 17. For ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. Armament of fortifications. Agent at foun dries. Ordnance and ordnance stores, &c. No. 18. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, Manufacture and three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; of which sum, ten purchase of arms. thousand dollars may, at the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the purchase of arms. ory. No. 19. For repairs and improvements and new machinery Springfield armat Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars. No. 20. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper's Ferry armory, thirty thousand dollars. No. 21. For arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dol lars. No. 22. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars. Harper's Ferry armory. Arsenals. Saltpetre and brimstone. Drawings. For preventing hosulities in Flo and suppressing rida. For expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. No. 23. For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, viz: for forage for the horses of the mounted volunteers and militia, and for the horses, mules, and oxen, in the service of the trains; for freight or transportation of military supplies of every description, from the places of purchase to Florida; for the purchase of wagons, harness, boats, and lighters, and other vessels; of horses, mules, and oxen, to keep up the trains; tools, leather, and other materials for repairs; transportation within Florida, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels, for service in the rivers and on the coast, and the expenses of maintaining the several steamboats and transport schooners connected with the operations of the army; hire of mechanics, laborers, mule drivers, teamsters, and other assistants, including their subsistence; and for miscellaneous and contingent charges, including arrearages, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than one hundred and forty-six thousand two to the payment of hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-three cents shall be arrearages. applied to the payment of arrearages; and no such arrearages shall be paid, unless they are for services rendered or supplies furnished in pursuance of law. Proviso relative For military surveys for the defence of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, fifteen thousand dollars. Military surveys. Arrearages and preservation of For arrearages and for the preservation of the public property at the several places of harbor and river improvement, fifteen public property. thousand dollars. Relative to extra allowances. Appropriations for the military SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments, is or are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation, in any form whatever, for the disbursement of public money, or or any other service or duty whatsoever, unless the same shall be authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly set forth that is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or com pensation. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums academy. 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 military academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, viz: Pay. Subsistence. Forage of officers' horses. Clothing of offi cers' servants. Board of visiters. No. 1. For pay of officers, instructers, cadets, and musicians, sixty thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars. No. 2. For commutation of subsistence of officers and cadets, forty thousand and seventy-seven dollars. No. 3. For commutation of forage of officers' horses, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars. No. 4. For commutation of clothing of officers' servants, four hundred and twenty dollars. No. 5. For defraying expenses of the board of visiters, and for the other various current and ordinary expenses of the acaddinary expenses. emy, other than pay and subsistence, twenty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars. Current and or Library. Improvements on No. 6. For increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars. For building and repairing the necessary boats, and for carthe western rivers. rying on the improvements on the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers, one hundred thousand dollars, under the Preservation and direction of the Secretary of War; and, for the preservation repairs of works and repairs of public works heretofore constructed for the imof harbors. provement of harbors, thirty thousand dollars. for improvement Approved, August 23d, 1842. Guard to be established. CHAP. 184.-AN ACT to establish an auxiliary watch for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established an auxiliary guard or watch for the protection of public and private property against incendiaries, and for the enforcement of the police regulations To consist of a of the city of Washington, consisting of a captain, to be appointcaptain and fifteen ed by the Mayor of the said city, at an annual salary of one others-their pay. thousand dollars; and fifteen other persons, to be employed by the captain, five of whom shall receive a compensation of thirtyfive dollars per month, and the remaining ten, a compensation of thirty dollars per month. ed by the Presi SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said auxiliary Place of rendezguard shall occupy, as a rendezvous, such building or part of a vous to be directbuilding belonging to the United States, or furnished by the dent. corporation of Washington, as shall be directed by the President of the United States, and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by a board to consist of the Rules to be premayor of the city of Washington, the attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, and the attorney of the corporation of the said city of Washington, with the approbation of the President of the United States. scribed, how. ated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the compensa- 7,000 approprition of said auxiliary guard, and for the purchase of the necessary and proper implements to distinguish them in the discharge of their duties, the sum of seven thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 23d, 1842. CHAP. 185.-AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for the payment of horses, or other preperty, lost or destroyed in the military service of the United States," approved the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. 1837, amended so tain other claims loss of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the above recited act be so amended, as to em- Act 18th January, brace the claims of any field, or staff, or other officer, mounted as to embrace cermilitiaman, volunteer, ranger, or cavalry, who has or shall sus- for the tain damage, without any fault or negligence on his part, while horses, &c. in the military service of the United States, by the loss of a horse, destroyed or abandoned by order of the commanding general or other commanding officer, or by the loss of a horse by being shot, or otherwise lost or destroyed by unavoidable accident, without any fault or negligence of the owner, and when he was in the line of his duty, and for the loss of necessary equipage, in consequeence of the loss of his horse, as aforesaid, shall be allowed and paid the value thereof at the time of entering the service. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in auditing and settling the claims provided for in this, and in the act which this is intended to amend, an appeal may be taken and prosecuted from the decision of the Auditor rejecting the claim, to the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, under the direction of the Secretary, whose decision shall be conclusive. An appeal may he taken to the sowhen cond Comptroller U. 8., may be paid when. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may Horses, &c., be lawful to make compensation for horses, bridles, saddles, and turned over to the equipments, turned over to the service of the United States, un- for under act 14th der the act approved October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and October, 1837, thirty-seven, whenever it shall be made to appear that the person to whom they were ordered to be delivered was acting as an officer, although there may be no returns in the Department |