American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-04-04
by aUTIORTTY.--

AN ACT making appropriations for the support Of the
Navy of the United States, for the year ono thousand
eight hundred and twenty-hree.
Be Il enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
Of the United States Of America Congress assembled That
tor deayng the expenses of the Navy, for the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty three the following
sums bc and the hereby respectively appropri-
ted
For the pay andsubsstence fhe officers and nav ofth
seamen, nine hundred and Twenty-Five thousand five
hundred and three dollars and twelve cents including
the sum OF twenty six thousand eight hundred and eighty
SIX dollars for SIX months pay for The petty officers able
smen and boys, required for gate of forty four gus.
lars
For medicines hospital stores and all expenses on ac.
count ofthe sick twenty thousand dollars.
For The repairs Of vessels, three hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
For the improvement Of the navy yards, docks. and
wharves, eighty-two thousand dollars
For ordnance and ordnance stores, including small
arms, manufacture Of powder, &c. twenty thousand dol
lars
For pay of superintendent naval constructors, store
Keepers inspectors OF TIMBER clerks of the yards, and
lhcers fortyour thousand six hundred and fly dolas
Including the of four thousand one hundred dollars TO
covera deciency the appropriation Of the year eighteen
hundred and twenty-five
For aborers and teams employed in loading and unload.
ing vessels plnS, docking and removing mbers, stores,
&c and fuel for the engine thirty thousand dollars inclu.
ding the sum of ten thousand dollars deficiency
IN the appropriation OF the year eighteen hundred and
twenty-five.
For contingent expenses, hundred and twenty thou
For erecting and completing houses over ships in orina-
~ for their from the weather. eighty thousand
dollars.
Forthe construction of dock and wharves in connection
with the inclined plane erected the Navy Yard in Wash
lngton, fifty thousand dollars
For pay and subsistence of the marine CORPS one hum
dred and sevenyx thousand four hundred and seventy
four dollars.
For clothing forthe same, tweny-nne thousand dollars
For fuel for the commissioned officers musicians
and pvates, X-thousand eight hundred and fy-seyen
dollars and fifty cents.
For contingent expenses for the same that to saw fuel
commissioned officers bedsacks repairing barracks
transportation, and travelling expenses officers postage
of letters, aorers, and armorcrs tools and stationery
with extra ratlons to officers, fourteen thousand dollars
To enable the President of the United carry in.
to effect the act entitled An ac in addition the
prohibiting the slave trade" fifty thousand dollars,
For shot, Shells and military stores, being the amount Of
the unexpected [unexpcned balance of appropriations for
previous years, four thousand and tr yfve dollars d
ninety five cents.
For military of the marine corrs being the amount
of the unexpended balance of appropriations for previous
years, ten thousand five hundred dollars and thirtyhye
cents.
Sec. O. And be further enacted That the several sures
thereby appropriated Shall be paid out OF the
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated Provided fo7eeuer
hat no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid
any person, Tor his compensation who is in the
u Sates until such person shall have accounted for and
pad INTO the treasury, all tor which he be liable.
Provided, further That nothing in this section contained
shall extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation
Treasury notes. received by such person be expended
IN the public service but in all where the pay or
salary OF any person withheld, pursuance of this act
shall be the duty of the accounting officer if demanded by
the party his agent attorney, report forthwith to the
Agent Of Treasury Department, the balance due and
shall be the duty of the sand Agent within sixty days
thereafter to order suit be commenced against such de.
inquent and his sureties
Approved-L8lGES MONROE.
Washington, March 3, 1898