Chapter XXI. to provide for the employment of an additional naval force
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Chap. XXI.— An Act to provide for the employment of an additional naval force. April 5, 1826. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Sums respectively appropriated for the navy, for 1826. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for that object, that is to say:
Pay and subsistence of petty officers and seamen, &c.For pay and subsistence of petty officers, and for pay of seamen, other than those at navy yards, shore stations, and in ordinary, sixty-six thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars. Provisions.For provisions, forty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Medicines, &c.For medicines and hospital stores, four thousand dollars. Repairs, &c. of vessels.For repairs, and wear and tear of vessels, ninety thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. To be paid from the treasury.Proviso. *And be it further enacted, *That the several appropriations hereby made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided, however,* That no money appropriated, 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 for which he may be liable: *Provided, further,*Proviso.
That nothing in this section contained shall extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation 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 withheld in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, to report forthwith, to the agent of the Treasury Department, 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.
Approved, April 5, 1826.