Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-05-24
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AN ACT making appropriations for the sup.
port OF the Navy of the United States, for
the year one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-three.
BE ii enacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives ofthc United States
ofyAmerica in Congress assembled. That
tor deiraying the expenses of the Navy,
for the year one thousand eight hundred
and twenty three, the following sums be,
aud the same are hereby, respectively,
appropriated
For the pay and subsistence of the officers,
and pay Of the seamen, nine hundred and TWEEN
ty-niRe Thousand FIVE huntirSd AMI tbss IL
lars aud twelve cents, includi1g tie sum of
twenty-siX thousand eight hundre and eighty
SIX dollars for SIX months pay for The petty Of
icers, able seamen and boys, required for
frigate of forty-four guns.
For provisions two hundred and twenty
thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all ex-
penses on account OF the sick, twenty thousand
dollars.
For the pepairs of vessels, three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For the improvement of navy yards, docks,
and wharves, eighty-tWo thousand dollars.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including
small arms, manufacture OF powder, SC. TWEEN
ty thousand dollars
For pay of superintendent, naval construc-
tors store keepers, inspectors Of timber, clerks
of the yards and artilicers. forty-four thousand
six hundred and fifty dollars, including the
sum of four thousand one hundred dollars, to
cover deficiency in the appropriation OF the
year eighteen hundred and twenty-five.
For laborers and teams employed in loading
and unloading vessels pliing, docking, and re-
moving timbers, stores, &c. and fuel for the en-
Gine, thirty thousand dollars, including the sum
often thousand dollars TO covera deficiency III
the appropriation OF the year eighteen hundred
and twenty-five.
For contingent expenses, two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars
For erecting and completing houses over
ships in ordinary, for their preservation from
the weather, eighty thousand dollars.
Fer the construction Of dock and wharves,
in connection with the inclined plane erected at
the Navy Yard in Washington, fifty thousand
dollars.
Forp pay and subsistence ofthe marine corps,
one hundred and seventy-six thousand four
hundred and seventy-four dollars.
For CLOTHING for s.,r,v, twenty nine
Thousand dollars.
For fuel for the non-commssioned officers,
musicians and prvates, SIX thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses for the same, that
is to say, fuel for the commissioned officers,
bed sacks, repairing barracks transportation,
and travelling expenses to officers, postage OF
letters, arnorers and armorer's tools, and sta
tionary, with extra rations to officers, fourteen
thousand dollars.
To enable the President of the United
States to carry into effect the act, entitled
San act in addition to The act prohibiting the
slave trade" fifty thousand dollars.
For shot, shells, and military stores, being
the amount of the unexpected [unexpendedl
balance of appropriations for the previous
years, four thousand and thirty-fiye dollars
and ninety-fve cents.
For military stores Of the marine corps,
being the amount of the mexpended balance
oi appropriations Tor previous Years, ,i,,,u-
sand five hundred dollars and thirty five cents.
Sec. Q. md be it further enacted, That
the several sums hereby appropriated,
shall be paid out oil any IN oney in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated !:
Provided, ho7vever, That no money APP
propriated 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, fur
ther, That nothing in this section con-
tanned, shall extend to balances arising
solely from the depreciation of Treasury
notes, received by such person to be ex-
pended in the public service; but in all
cases where the pay or salary of any per-
son 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 du-
" of the said Agent, within sixty days
thereafter, to order suit to be commenced
against such delinquent and his sureties.
Washington, March 8, 1923.
Approved: JAMES MONROE.