# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 49

Chap. XLIX.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and for other purposes.
Sums appropriated for the support of the navy for the year 1822.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
Pay and subsistence of officers and pay of seamen, &c.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, in addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already appropriated, the sum of eight hundred and sixty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Provisions in addition, &c.For the provisions, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand dollars already appropriated, and to an unexpended balance of thirty thousand dollars, the sum of two hundred and sixty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
Medicines, &c.For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Improvement of navy-yards, &c.For improvements of navy yards, docks, and wharves, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Pay of superintendents, &c.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors of timber, clerks of the yards, and artificers, thirty-six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Labourers and teams, &c.For labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, piling, docking and removing timbers, stores, et cetera, and fuel for the engine, twenty thousand dollars.
Ordnance, &c.For ordnance and ordnance stores, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand dollars already appropriated, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Pay, &c. of marine corps.For the pay and subsistence of the marine corps, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty-two thousand dollars, one hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars.
Clothing marine corps.For clothing the same, in addition to an unexpended balance of six thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, the sum of twenty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars.
Fuel for marine corps.For fuel for nine hundred and thirty-eight non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, six thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Military stores for marine corps.For military stores for the same, the unexpended balance of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, being eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and fifteen cents.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses for the same; that is to say: fuel for commissioned officers, bed sacks, repairing barracks, transportation, and travelling expenses to officers, postage of letters, armorers, and armorers’ tools, and stationery, with extra rations to officers commanding posts, fourteen thousand dollars.
To make good a deficit in the contingent expenses.To make good a deficit in the contingent expenses of the marine corps, which accrued prior to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, the sum of nine thousand one hundred and nine dollars and twenty-two cents.
Out of money in the treasury. Proviso. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any person for his compensation or perquisites, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for and paid into the treasury all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, further, That nothing in this section contained shall extend to balances arising solely from the deprecia [depreciation] of treasury notes received by such personWhere pay is withheld, the accounting officer, on demand, to report to the agent of the treasury, &c. to be expended in the public service. But in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, to report forthwith to the agent of the Treasury Department the balance due, and it shall be the duty of said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such defaulter.
Approved, May 4, 1822.