For double or extra rations to commanding officers of departments, posts, &c. · Note. The actual expenditure on account of double ra- For brevet compensation to such officers of the Army as are 22,800 For bounties for 1,900 recruits, at $12 per man, Subsistence Department. 13,300 39,900 For subsistence to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the Army, 284,900 Deduct probable amount in the Treasury, 31st December, 1826, Purchasing Department. For clothing for the Army, including clothing for officers' Deduct for materials on hand, Submitted. For the purchase of woollens during the year 1827, in advance for the year 1828, $20,000 Medical Department. For medicines, instruments, dressings, hospital stores, bedding, stationery, printing, furniture for dispensaries, medical books, vaccine matter, packing boxes, casks, citizen physicians, extra supplies from losses and contingencies, For medical supplies for the posts on the Red River, the Arkansas, and the Upper Mississippi, for the year 1828 Quartermaster's Department. ESTIMATE--Continued. For straw for soldiers' bedding, For transportation of the Army, including the purchase of horses, mules, oxen, boats, &c. For transportation of officers' baggage, or the allowance made to them when travelling on duty without troops, For transportation of water for Fortress Monroe and Fort Delaware, For rent of quarters, barracks, store-houses, &c. for officers, troops, For postage of public letters, packages, &c. at the several posts in the For Courts Martial and Courts of Inquiry, including the compensation For extra pay to soldiers employed on barracks, quarters, roads, &c. For contingencies, including the expense of expresses, hire of laborers, teamsters, printing blanks for the use of the Department at the several posts in the Union, and to pay temporary agents, clerks, &c. Quartermaster's For amount required for arrearages in the Quartermaster's Department, for 1826, SUBMITTED-By the Quartermaster General for permanent objects. To complete the barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospital, To erect new barracks and hospital at Michilimackinac, - 20,000 12,000 6,000 10,000 500 To purchase a house and a lot of land at Eastport, Maine, re- To purchase lots adjoining the barracks at St. Augustine, Flo- To complete the barracks at Savannah, To erect barracks at the mouth of the Suwannee River, Flo. 35,000 322,129 89 |