Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XV.—An Act authorizing the distribution of a sum of money among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, and the officers and crew of the Brig Syren.
Appropriation as prize money among the representatives of Commodore Preble, Capt. Stewart, officers, and crew, of the Syren, &c.; their proportion of the appraised value of the brig Transfer, captured by the Syren, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated; which sum shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy, as prize money, among the representatives of Commodore Edward Preble, deceased, and Captain Charles Stewart, the officers and crew of the brig of war Syren, or to the representatives of such as may be dead, on account of their proportion of the sum of five thousand dollars, the appraised value of the brig Transfer, captured by the said brig Syren, for a breach of the blockade of the port of Tripoli, in the year eighteen hundred and four, during the war carried on by the United States against that power; the said brig Transfer having been taken into the service of the United States by Commodore Edward Preble, commander of the blockading squadron; which brig was regularly condemned, as a good prize, by a sentence of a court of admiralty.
Approved, February 4, 1819.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen.
Sums appropriated for theBe 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:
Pay of the army.For the pay of the army of the United States, one million of dollars.
Subsistence.For subsistence, in addition to two thousand dollars already appropriated, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars.
Forage.For forage for officers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Clothing.For clothing, four hundred thousand dollars.
Bounties, &c.For bounties and premiums, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Medical and hospital department.For the medical and hospital department, fifty thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s department.For the quartermaster’s department, five hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages, arising from a deficiency in the appropriation for the quartermaster’s department, during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Extra pay for construction, &c. of military roads.For extra pay to non-commissioned officers and soldiers employed in the construction and repairs of military roads, ten thousand dollars.
Contingencies of the army.For contingencies of the army, sixty thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages arising from a deficiency in the appropriation to pay outstanding claims, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and sevel dollars.
Fortifications.For fortifications, five hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of water courses.For making a survey of the water courses tributary to, and west of, the Mississippi; also those tributary to the same river, and north-west of the Ohio; six thousand five hundred dollars.
Ordnance department.For the current expenses of the ordnance department, one hundred thousand dollars.
Armories.For the armories at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Arsenals, &c.For the erection and completions of arsenals, to wit: for completing the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, fifty thousand dollars; for erecting a powder magazine at Frankford, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dol-
