# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 26

Chap. XXVI.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
Specific appropriations for the military service for 1823.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-three, to wit:
For the pay of the army, and subsistence of the officers, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
For subsistence, two hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred dollars.
For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the medical and hospital department, fifteen thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For the purchasing department, one hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation, mathematical instruments, books, and stationery, for the military academy, twelve thousand dollars.
For the pensions to the invalids, to the commutation pensioners, and to the widows and orphans, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the current expenses of the ordnance, forty-eight thousand dollars.
For arsenals, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
For arrearages in the War Department, prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the payment of the balance of the expenses of the militia court martial in the state of New York, of which brigadier general Gerard Steddiford was president, including the sum of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars eighty-nine cents, to make up the deficiency in the sum appropriated last year for the payment of brigadier general Beckman, M. Van Bueren [Buren,] a member of said court, one thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For the annuity to the Creek Indians, under the treaty of the eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, with that tribe, five thousand dollars.
For the employment of teams, and for extra pay and rations to soldiers to be employed for the completion of the military road from Plattsburg to Sackett’s Harbour, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to Captain Terry Runnels, due him for the transportation of baggage in the late Seminole war, forty-eight dollars.
To be paid from the Treasury. 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:Proviso. Provided, further, That nothing in this section contained shall 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 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 the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.
Approved, March 3, 1823.