Estimate of Appropriations

Tuesday, March 4.

The House again resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House on the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the sums necessary to be appropriated for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and after some time spent therein, the Chairman reported that the committee had again had the said report under consideration, and come to a resolution thereupon; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same was twice read, and agreed to by the House, as follows:

Resolved, That, for the support of the Military Establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, there be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding one million four hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and one cent; that is to say:

For the pay of the Legion of the United States, $303,684 00

For subsistence, 312,567 75

For forage, 31,632 00

For clothing, 112,000 00

For equipments for the cavalry, 7,314 05

For horses for the cavalry, 16,000 00

For bounty, 5,000 00

For the Hospital Department, 20,000 00

For the Ordnance Department, 6,715 32

For repairs and articles directed to be
made and purchased by the President of the United
States, 202,783 34

For defensive protection of the frontiers, 130,000 00

For the Indian Department, 50,000 00

For the Quartermaster's Department, 150,000 00

For contingencies of the War Department, 30,000 00

And for Invalid Pensions, 80,239 55

$1,457,936 01

Ordered, That a bill or bills be brought in, pursuant to the said resolution; and that Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Trumbull, and Mr. Gillespie, do prepare and bring in the same.