Chapter CXVIII. in addition to the act, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” and for other purposes
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Chap. CXVIII.— An Act in addition to the act, entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” and for other purposes.May 15, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Act of April 11, 1820, ch. 38. Sums appropriated— United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, that is to say: For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and For compensation of members of Congress.
House of Representatives, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that object, twenty-three thousand three hundred and forty dollars. For rebuilding the public wharf, and repairing the public warehouses, For public wharf, &c. on Staten Island. on Staten Island, fifteen thousand dollars. For graduating the Capitol square, putting the grounds in order, and For graduating Capitol square, planting trees, &c. planting trees within the same, two thousand dollars. 602SIXTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 119, 121, 122. 1820. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the arrearages of the Department Arrearages. of War, from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, be paid out of the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated for arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; any thing in the act entitled “An act in addition Act of May 1, 1820, ch. 50. to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,” passed the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, May 15, 1820.