# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 29

Chap. XXIX.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Sums respectively appropriated for the military service, for 1827.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-seven, to wit:
Pay of the army.For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
Subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, on the thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, of thirty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.
Recruiting service.For the recruiting service, twenty-six thousand six hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses of same.For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
Purchasing department.For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, amounting to forty thousand dollars, two hundred and sixty-for thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.
Purchase of woollens.For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, twenty thousand dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Medicine, &c.For medical supplies for the posts on the Red river, the Arkansas, and the Upper Mississippi, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand dollars.
Quartermaster general’s department.For the quartermaster general’s department, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages in the quartermaster general’s department, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s supplies, &c.For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation and stationery for the military academy at West Point, seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-two cents.
Mathematical instruments, &c.For articles required for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogical departments, library, new buildings, and repairs and improvement of barrack parade, twenty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-three cents.
Contingencies.For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
Ordnance service.For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Defraying the expenses of militia officers.For defraying the expenses of the officers of the militia who were employed upon the military board which prepared the system of cavalry, artillery, and infantry exercise, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
Settlement of claims of the Georgia militia.For the settlement of claims of the militia of Georgia, for services rendered during the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, three, and four, agreeable to the estimates of Constant Freeman, and to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-six cents, which shall be considered as full satisfaction for said claims.
Arsenals.For arsenals, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars.
Arrearages prior to July 1, 1815.For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twenty thousand dollars.
Road from Canton to Zanesville, &c. Cumberland road.For constructing the road from Canton to Zanesville, in the state of Ohio, and for continuing and completing the survey of the Cumberland road from Zanesville to the seat of government of Missouri, one hundred and seventy 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 an equal footing with the original states.
Balance due John McClure.For paying a balance due to John McClure, as superintendent of the repairs of the Cumberland road, five hundred and ten dollars.
Completing works, &c., of Presque Isle.For completing the works and deepening the channel of entrance into the harbour of Presque Isle, to cover the expense of work done and to be done, which has not been contemplated by any appropriation heretofore made, two thousand dollars.
Expedition for the suppression of Indian aggressions. 1824, ch. 46.For defraying the expense of an expedition fitted out, consisting of the militia of Georgia, and the territory of Florida, for the suppression ​of aggressions committed by the Indians on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and sixty cents.
Examinations and surveys.For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys, authorized by act of thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, thirty thousand dollars.
Re-appropriations.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums, being balances of appropriations heretofore made, and transferred to the surplus fund, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated to the several objects hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
Road from Memphis to Little Rock.For opening a road from Memphis, in Tennessee, to Little Rock, in Arkansas territory, two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars eighteen cents.
Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, forty-four thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars fifty-five cents.
Treaty with the Choctaws.For carrying into effect the treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, dated October eleventh, eighteen hundred and twenty, twenty-five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars sixty-nine cents.
Rations to the Florida Indians.For rations to the Florida Indians, twenty-two thousand and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents.
Running the line of the land assigned them.For running the line of the land assigned to the Florida Indians, three hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-six cents.
Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury. Proviso. Proviso.Sec. 3. 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; 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 2, 1827.