Supreme Court of the United States, or by any district judge of the United States, to administer the oath prescribed by the act, entitled “An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” passed on the sixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred, shall, and may have full power and authority to issue a citation, directed to the creditor, his agent or attorney, if either lives within one hundred miles of the place of imprisonment, requiring him to appear at the time and place therein mentioned, if he see fit, to show cause why the said oath or affirmation should not be so administered.
The creditor, &c., if living within 50 miles, to give fifteen days’ previous notice.Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That, if the creditor, his agent, or attorney, lives within fifty miles of the place of imprisonment, only fifteen days’ previous notice by citation shall be required.
Approved, April 22, 1824.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Special appropriation for the Navy.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 twenty-four, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated:
Pay of officers and seamen.For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, eight hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-five cents.
Provisions.For provisions, in addition to the sum of twenty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars, and seventy-five cents, the balance of appropriation for provisions unexpended and provisions on hand, three hundred thousand dollars.
Medicines.For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Subsistence of officers at navy yards, &c.For pay, subsistence, and allowances, of every description, to all commissioned and warrant officers, employed at the several navy yards and store stations, also of naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors, master workmen, clerks of the yards, of the check, and of commanders, and porters attached to the navy yards and store stations, two hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-six cents.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses accruing in the present year; that is to say: for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; premiums, and other expenses of recruiting; freight of provisions, stores, and materials, from one station to another, and from the United States to distant stations in other countries where our ships are employed; allowances to officers at the several navy yards and stations, for house rent, fuel, and candles; travelling expenses for officers, and transportation for seamen; freight of timber, wharfage, and dockage for vessels where there are no public yards; expenses, and a per diem allowance, attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; compensation to judge advocates; cabin furniture for vessels in commission; incidental labour at navy yards, which is not applicable to any other appropriation; pilotage of public vessels in the United States, and in foreign countries; printing naval registers, blank pay-rolls, receipt rolls, steward’s returns, seamen’s allotment tickets, the proceedings of courts martial; storage of provisions, and stores in foreign ports, and in the United States where public stores are not provided; coals for blacksmiths and anchormakers, and fuel for steam-engines; purchase and maintenance of oxen, carts, large timber wheels, and workmen’s tools; chamber money to offi-