Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1824-06-08

IuliChpSHutu DdldnCe Oh former appFO'
priaions, estimated to amount to nine.
teen thousand dollars.
For ships houses, 10 repay the amount
taken from the Gradual Increase, seven.
ty-elght thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
For pay and subsistence of the marine
corps, one hundred and seventy-two
Thousand and ninety-four dollars.
For clothing for the same, twenty
eight thousand seven hundred and sixty
FIVE dollars.
For fuel for the non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and prlvates, six
thousand dollars.
For military stores, including stock
ing arms, armorer's pay, armorer,s
tools, knapsacks, tents, camp equipage,
accoutrements, and ordnance stores,
five thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and
instruments for the officers and marines
of the marine corps. stationed on shore,
two thousand three hundred and sky
nine dollars and seventy-one cents.
For contingent expenses, that is to say j:
fuel for commissioned officers, transport
tation, stationery, bed sacks, straw, extra
rations TO officers, and postage on pub
lie letters, nine thousand dollars.
For repairing barracks at the different
stations, and for building new barracks
at Portsmouth, ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. .fnd be il 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 ap-
proprlated by this act, shall be paid to
any person, for his compensation, who is
IN az ears to the United States, until
stcn t.erson shall have accounted for,
and P' id into the Treasury all sums for
whicRhe may be liable: Provided, fur
her, That nothing in this section con-
tanned shall extend to balances arising
solely from the depreciation of Treasu-
ry 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 Account
ing Officer, if demanded by the party,
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 to be
commenced against such delinquent and
his sureties.
Washington, April %, 1924
Approved, JAMES MUNRUs.
AN ACT making appropriations for certain
Fortificatons Of the United States, for the
year one thousand eight hundred and t@en-
ty-tour.
Be n enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
Of .fmerica in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are,
hereby, appropriated, to wit: For iortl-
ficatlons, 10 each specially, as follows:
For Fort Jackson, at Piaquemine
Turn, on the river Mississippi, one hun
dred and ten thousand dollars.
For the Fort at Chef Men,eur, one
hundred thousand dollars.
For the Fort at Mobile Point, one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For Fort Monroe, ninety-ive thousand
dollars.
For Fort Calhoun, ninety thousand
dollars.
For typographical reconnaissance, re-
pairs and contingencies, twenty-six thou.
sand dollars.
For the purchase of "a site, and col
Letting materials for the projected work
at New Utrecht Point, one OF the work
intended to defend the Narrows, in New.
York harbor, fifty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of site, and col
lecting materials for the projected work
at Brenton's Point, Narraganset Bay
Rhode Island, fifty thousand dollars.
Washington, April %, 1924.
Approved JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT to procure the necessar, Surveys
Plans, and Estimates, upon the subject o
Roads and Canals.
Be ii enacted by the Senate and Hous.
Of REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States
ofAmerica in Congress assembled, Tha
the President OF the United States is
hereby authorized to cause the neces.
sary surveys, plans, and estimates, to BIZ
made Of the routes of such Roads ant
Canals as he NAV deem of dational i'm
portance, in commercial or military
point OF view, or necessary Tor the trans
portation Of the public mail; designat
ing, in the case of each Canal, wha
parts may be made capable OF sloop ma
vigation; the surveys, plans, and esti'
mates, for each, when completed, to bs
laid before Congress.
| Gee Ind be IL further enacted. Iha