# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 17

Chap. XVII.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Specific appropriation for the year 1826.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 are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, to wit:
Army, &c. and military academy.For pay of the army, and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, nine hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
Subsistence.For subsistence, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand one hundred dollars.
Forage for officers.For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Recruiting service.For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance, on the thirty first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of six thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars, twelve thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance on thirty-first day of December, one thousand ​eight hundred and twenty-five, of seven thousand dollars, two thousand four hundred and fifty-seven dollars.
Purchasing department.For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, of sixty thousand dollars, two hundred and two thousand two hundred and fifty-one dollars and nineteen cents.
Extra clothing, &c.For one thousand complete suits of extra clothing to be put in depot, and for one additional pair of shoes to be allowed for each enlisted soldier per annum, fifty-one thousand five hundred and two dollars and forty-five cents.
Purchase of woollens.For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, twenty thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
Quartermaster general’s department.For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and eighty-four thousand seven hundred and six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Quartermaster’s supplies, &c.For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation, stationery, outstanding debts, repairs, chairs for examinations, grates, and lightning rods, for the military academy at West Point, fifteen thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-four cents.
Mathematical instruments, &c.For articles required for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, additions to the library, paving, barracks, parade, conduit for supplying water, and for new quarters, as recommended by the board of visiters for the military academy at West Point, nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
Contingencies.For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Armories.For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Arsenals.For arsenals, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand dollars.
Arrearages from July 1, 1815.For arrearages from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, three thousand dollars.
Building an arsenal, &c.For building an arsenal at Vergennes, Vermont, fifteen thousand dollars.
Repair of Plymouth beach.For completing the repair of Plymouth beach, thirteen thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety cents.
Continuation of the Cumberland road.For the continuation of the Cumberland road, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, which shall be replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out, and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on equal footing with the original States.
Repairs on the Cumberland road.For repairs made on the Cumberland road during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, seven hundred and forty-nine dollars.
Harbour of Presque isle.For completing the works for deeming the channel of entrance into the harbour of Presque Isle, seven thousand dollars.
Surveys, &c., of roads and canals.For the defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations, surveys, preparatory to, and in aid of, the formation of roads and canals, fifty thousand dollars.
Armament of new fortifications.For the armament of new fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.
To be paid from the treasury. Proviso. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, 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, 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, also, ​That nothing in this section shall be construed to extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but in all cases where the salary or pay 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 the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, March 25, 1826.