Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-05-10

contingent expenses, sixteen thousand dol
i lars.
For the Corporation of the City of Washing
ton, to reimburse the said corporation Just
portion OF the expense of making streets, and
other improvements, adjoining the public
property, five thousand dollars
For carrA ing into execution the convention
recently ratified, relating to the slaves carried
away in conirayention To the first article of
the treaty OF Client, twenty thousand dollars.
For surveying and making the boundary
line between the state of Missouri and terrific
ry OF Aarkansas, the sum of three thousand
deilars, to be expended under the direction of
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Sec. 2. Ind 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 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 70,
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 Treasu-
Try notes, received by such person, 10 be
lexpended in the public service, or to the
appropriation for compensation to the
Vice President of the Unlted States !;
but in all cases where the pay or salary
of any person is withheld, in pursuance
of this act, it shall be the duty ofthe &C
counting officer, if demanded by the par
| ~, his agent, or attorney, to report forth
with to the Agent Of the Treasury De-
partment, the balance due; and it shall
be the duty of the said Agent, within
sixty days thereafter, to order suit 10 be
commenced against such delinquent and
! his sureties.
| Washington, March 3, 1928.
Approved; JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT making appropriations for the mill
tary service of the United States for the
year one thousand eight hundred and TWEEN
| ty-three.
BE il enacted by the Senate and Hou8e
Of REPRESENTATIVES of The United States
Of merica 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 eightv.eiglt
thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and
lseventy-Hve cents.
For subsistence t,uo bu,JroJ o,J saxan+,,
six thousand one.hundred dollars
Forfofage for officers, thirty-fve 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 hun
dred and thrty-six thousand three hundred
and fifty-oue dollars:
For the Quarermaster Generals depart
ment, two hundred and ninety thousand
one hundred and forty eight dollars:
For the contingencies of the army, ten thou
sand dollars
For Quarerfnaster's supplies, transporti,-
ton, mathematical Instruments books and sta
tionary, for the Military Academy, twelve thou
sand dollars
For the pensions to the inyalids, to the COM
| mutation pensioners, and to the widows and
orphans, three hundred and thirty five thou.
sand dollars. "
For pensions to the Revolutionary pension
ers OF the United States, ore million five hum
dred and thirty-eght thousand eight hun
dred and fifteen dollars
For the national armories, three hundred
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, thrty-fve thousand
| dollars
For the payment of the balance of the ex-
penses 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 III the sum appropriated last
year for the payment of Brigatlier General
Beekman, M. Van Buren,, member of said
court, one thousand six hundred and twenty-sx
dollars and eighty-nine cents:
For the annuity to the Greek Indians Under
the treaty of the eighth of January, one ,oou-
sand eight hundred and twenty zone, with that
tribe, five thousand dollars:
For the employment of teams, and for extra
pay and ratons to soldiers to be employed for
the completion ofthe military road from P latts-
burgh to Sackett's Harbor, three thousand
five hundred dollars
| For compensation to Captain Terry Rum
nels, due him for the transportation of bag
gage in the late Seminole war, forty EIGHT dol
| lars. Ias
Sec. 2. And Be il further enacted, Tha,
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