Appropriations.For the Rigolets, and Chief [Chef] Menteur, one hundred thousand dollars:
For collecting materials for, and progressing with, a fort on the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite Fort St. Philip, forty thousand dollars:
For repairing Fort Jackson, in the harbour of Savannah, eight thousand dollars:
For contingencies and repairs of fortifications, twenty-six thousand dollars:
For the purchase of small arms for arming the whole body of the militia, in addition to the annual appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three for arming the militia, twenty thousand dollars:
For completing the barracks and other public buildings, at Baton Rouge, twenty-nine thousand one hundred seventy-eight dollars seventy-seven cents.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXII.—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings.
Specific appropriations for the public buildings.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to wit:
For improving the grounds around the Capitol, one thousand dollars:
For making the necessary alteration in the Representatives’ Hall, for the accommodation of the eighteenth Congress, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars:
For finishing the south portico of the President’s house, the sum of nineteen thousand dollars.
For an allegorical ornament for a clock for the use of the Senate, two thousand dollars.
To be paid from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said several sums of money be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. LXIII.—An Act to authorize the Postmaster General to pay for certain repairs to the general post-office, and keep the engine house, the fire engine, and apparatus, in repair.
Postmaster General to pay certain balances.
Act of May 15, 1820, ch. 133.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized to pay, out of the moneys arising from the postages of letters and packets, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and fifty-two cents, being a balance due for repairs to the general post-office, and for procuring a fire engine, under the provisions of the act of the seventeenth [fifteenth] of May, eighteen hundred and twenty.
To pay for repairs from the contingent fund.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General shall be authorized, out of the contingent fund of said department, to defray such expenses as may be necessary for keeping in repair the engine house, the fire engine, and hose apparatus, belonging to said department.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXIV.—An Act to enable the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department to audit and settle the accounts of the surveyor of public lands in the states of Illinois and Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, for extra clerk hire in his office.
