Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-04-29

ards and public proper; tor assistance
rendered to public vessels in distress
Tor incidei tai labor at Navy Yards not
applicable to any other appropriation
for Goals and other fuel for FORCES, toun-
dries, steam engines, and for candles,
oil, and fuel for vessels in commission.
and in ordinary; and including the ex-
pense OF breaking up the stations on the
Lakes, and at New-Orleans and Barra-
taria, and for transporting the articles
from thence, and for no other object or
purpose whatever, two hundred and for
ty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses for objects
arising during the year one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-six, and not
hereinbefore enumerated, FIVE thousand
dollars.
For the pay and subsistence of the
officers, non-commssioned officers, mu-
sicIans, privates. and washerwomen
OF the Marine Corps, one hundred and
seventy-six thousand one hundred and
| fifty eight dollars ten cents.
For clothing for the same, twenty-eight
thousand seven hundred and Sky five
dollars.
For fuel for the same, six thousand
dollars.
For contingencies, that is 10 say: for
travelling expenses for officers, and
transportation for men, freight of stores
from one station TO another, toll, forage,
wharfage, and carriage, expenses oil re-
cruiting, per diem allowance for attend
ing Courts Martial, and Courts Of Inqui-
ry, compensation to Judge Advocates,
house rent and chamber money, where
here are no quarters assigned, lnciden-
ial labor in the Quarter Masters De-
partment, expenses of burying deceased
persons belonging to the corps, printing
and stationary, postage on public letters,
forage, per diem allowance to officers on
extra duty, expense of pursuing deserters,
keeping in repair the barracks at the dit
ferent stations, straw for the men, bar
rack furniture, spades, axes, shovels,
picks, and carpenters tools, and Tor DO
other purpose whatever, thirteen thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars.
For sundry expenses arising in the
La CbN ySoiS NV tuCutiOD-
ed. FIVE hundred dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and
| instruments for the officers and marines
stationed on shore, two thousand three
hundred and sixty nine dollars and Sc
venty-cne cents.
For barracks, nine thousand dollars.
For the agency on the coast Of Africa,
| for tha nd
persons of color, delivered from on board
vessels seized in the prosecution of the
slave trade, by commanders of the Unit
ed States armed vessels, thirty-two
thousand dollars.
Sec. Q. 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 APP
propriated for this act shall be paid to
no any] person for his compensation,
who is in arrears to the United States,
until such person shall. have accounted
ed for, and paid into the Treasury, all
sums for which he may be liable: Pro
vided, also, That nothing in this section
contained, shall be construed to extend
to balances arising solely fspr.i the de-
probation 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 With
held, in pursuance of this act, it shall be
the duty Of the accounting officer, if de-
nanded by the party, his agent, or at,or-
ney, to report forthwith to the Agent OF
the Treasury Department, the balance
due; and it shall be the duty of said
Agent, within sixty days thereafter, to
order suit to be commenced against such
delinquent and his sureties. Est
JOHN w. TAYLOR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN C. CALHOUN,
ice-President of the United States, and
Presidents of the Senate. y
| unprecedented IA, 1926.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
PuBLIc-No. -.
AN ACT making appropriations for the sup
| port of government for the year one thou.
sand eight hundred and twenty-sx.
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Rehresentatives Of the United States
Of .dmericd in Congress assembled, That
The following sums be, and the same
are hereby, respectively, appropriated,
far the service ofthe year one thousand,
eight hundred and twenty-six: that is to
say:
For compensation to the Senators and
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