said list, twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance, by the most usual route, from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, going and returning.
To take effect from Nov. 1, 1824.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from the first of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.
Approved, February 11, 1824.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. X.—An Act to remit the duties on books, maps, and charts, imported for the use of the library of Congress.
All duties upon books, &c. for the use of the library of Congress, to be remitted.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to remit all duties upon such books, maps, and charts, as have been during the present year, or hereafter may be, imported into the United States, by the authority of the joint library committee of Congress, for the use of the library of Congress.
Approved, February 11, 1824.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XI.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
Specific appropriations for the military service for 1825.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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-five, to wit:
For pay of the army, and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, nine hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of twenty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-five cents, two hundred and sixty thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents.
For forage for officers, thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
For the recruiting service in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of one thousand dollars, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of eight thousand five hundred dollars, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchasing department, two hundred and four thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.
For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, twenty thousand dollars.
For the expense of building a brick wall round the arsenal lot, on Schuylkill, and repairs of public buildings thereon, eight thousand dollars.
For medical and hospital department, in addition to amount on hand, on first of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, of thirteen thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars.
For quartermaster general’s department, two hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents.