Chapter XXIX. making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven
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Chap. XXIX.— An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven. March 2, 1827. [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 military service, for 1827. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty- seven, to wit:
Pay of the army.For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, on the thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, of thirty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. Forage for officers.For forage for officers, forty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1827. 215 For the recruiting service, twenty-six thousand six hundred dollars.Recruiting service. For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirteen thousandContingent expenses of same. three hundred dollars. For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand,Purchasing department. amounting to forty thousand dollars, two hundred and sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the purchase of woollens during the year one thousand eight hundredPurchase of woollens. and twenty-seven, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, twenty thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital department, twenty-five thousand fiveMedical and hospital department. hundred dollars. For medical supplies for the posts on the Red river, the Arkansas,Medicine, &c. and the Upper Mississippi, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and eighty-sevenQuartermaster general’s department. thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents. For arrearages in the quartermaster general’s department, thirty-fiveArrearages. thousand dollars. For quartermaster’s supplies, transportation and stationery for theQuartermaster’s supplies, &c. military academy at West Point, seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-two cents. For articles required for the mathematical, drawing, chemical, and mineralogicalMathematical instruments, &c. departments, library, new buildings, and repairs and improvement of barrack parade, twenty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-three cents.
For the contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars.Contingencies. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, sixty-five thousandOrdnance service. dollars. For national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.Armories. For defraying the expenses of the officers of the militia who were employedDefraying the expenses of militia officers. upon the military board which prepared the system of cavalry, artillery, and infantry exercise, one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For the settlement of the claims of the militia of Georgia, for services renderedSettlement of the claims of the Georgia militia. during the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, three, and four, agreeable to the estimates of Constant Freeman, and to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-six cents, which shall be considered as full satisfaction for said claims. For arsenals, forty-four thousand four hundred dollars.Arsenals.
For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundredArrearages prior to July 1, 1815. and fifteen, twenty thousand dollars. For constructing the road from Canton to Zanesville, in the state ofRoad from Canton to Zanesville, &c. Ohio, and for continuing and completing the survey of the Cumberland road from Zanesville to the seat of government of Missouri, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars, which shall be replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress,Cumberland road. by the several acts, passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states.
For paying a balance due to John McClure, as superintendent of theBalance due John McClure. repairs of the Cumberland road, five hundred and ten dollars. For completing the works and deepening the channel of entranceCompleting works, &c., of Presque Isle. into the harbour of Presque Isle, to cover the expense of work done and to be done, which has not been contemplated by any appropriation heretofore made, two thousand dollars. For defraying the expense of an expedition fitted out, consisting ofExpedition for the suppres- the militia of Georgia, and the territory of Florida, for the suppression 216 NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 30. 1827. sion of Indian aggressions.1824, ch. 46.of aggressions committed by the Indians on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida, thirty-nine thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and sixty cents. For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys, authorized by act of thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, thirty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Examinations and surveys.Re-appropriations. *And be it further enacted, *That the following sums, being balances of appropriations heretofore made, and transferred to the surplus fund, be, and the same are hereby, re-appropriated to the several objects hereinafter mentioned, to wit:
Road from Memphis to Little Rock.For opening a road from Memphis, in Tennessee, to Little Rock, in Arkansas territory, two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars eighteen cents. Navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, forty-four thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars fifty-nine cents. Treaty with the Choctaws.For carrying into effect the treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, dated October eleventh, eighteen hundred and twenty, twenty-five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars sixty-nine cents.
Rations to the Florida Indians.For rations to the Florida Indians, twenty-two thousand and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents. Running the line of the land assigned them.For running the line of the land assigned to the Florida Indians, three hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-six cents. Sec. 3. Sums appropriated to be paid from the treasury.Proviso. *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 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 Proviso.treasury all sums for which he may be liable: *Provided, also,* That nothing in this section shall be construed to 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 salary, or pay 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; 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, March 2, 1827.