them respectively. And the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President, shall finally decide on the validity of such claim.
The agent to transmit to the register of the land office, the names of claimants and numbers of quarter sections, &c.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the agent shall transmit, without delay, to the register of the land office for the district in which the lands may be, a statement of the names of the claimants, and the numbers of the quarter sections which have been reserved for each claimant; and the register of the land office shall not offer any such quarter section for sale, unless specially directed otherwise by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Three dollars per day to the agent in addition to salary, &c.
The agent may employ a surveyor.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the agent of the United States shall be allowed, in addition to his salary, the sum of three dollars per day, whilst occupied in performing the duties assigned to him by this act; and he shall be authorized to employ a surveyor, in those cases where it may be necessary, for the purpose of ascertaining the quarter sections of land to be allotted to each claimant.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the expenses which shall be incurred in carrying into effect this act, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
Chap. XCI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Appropriations for defraying the expenses of the navy for 1817.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated, that is to say:
For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of seamen, one million ninety-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For provisions, four hundred and ninety-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For medicine, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of sick, including those of the marine corps, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs of vessels, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For ordnance, ammunition, and military stores, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, twenty thousand dollars.
For navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses, including freight, transportation, and recruiting expenses, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses in procuring gold and silver medals and swords, on conformity with sundry resolutions of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay and subsistence of marine corps, one hundred and eight seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars.
For clothing for the same, thirty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For military stores for the same, one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses for the same, fourteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.