Specific appropriations.For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, three thousand dollars.
For quartermasters and barrack-masters’ stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorers and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of navy-yards, comprising docks and other improvements, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For ordnance and small arms, sixty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 7, 1811.
Statute ⅠⅠⅠ.
Chap. XII.—An Act making compensation to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for services rendered the United States in the war with Tripoli.
A land warrant to be granted to Leitensdorfer.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby directed to issue a land warrant to John Eugene Leitensdorfer for three hundred and twenty acres; which said warrant may, at the option of the holder or possessor, be located with any register or registers of the land-offices on any public lands of the United States, lying on the west side of the Mississippi, then and there offered for sale, or may be received at the rate of two dollars per acre in payment of any such public lands.
His account to be settled by the officers of the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby directed to settle the account of John Eugene Leitensdorfer, and to allow him the pay of a captain, from the fifteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five, being the time he served as adjutant and inspector of the forces of the United States, in Egypt and on the coast of Africa.
Approved, February 13, 1811.
Statute ⅠⅠⅠ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. XIV.—An Act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana.[1]
1811, ch. 46, sec. 14.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following allowances and compensations shall be made to the several officers appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana; which allowances and compensations shall be in full for all their services, including those rendered since their salaries respectively ceased, that is to say: To each of the commissioners, and to each of the clerks of the boards, fifty cents for each claim, duly filed according to law, which remained undecided on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and nine, and on which a decision has been made subsequent to that day, or shall hereafter be made, whether such decision be in favour or against the claim: which allowance of fifty cents shall be paid at the treasury of the United States, from time to time, and on receipt of the transcripts of the decisions and of the reports of claims not finally confirmed, as the same may be trans-
- ↑ See notes to the act of March 2, 1805, chap. 26, vol. ii. 324, for a reference to the acts which have been passed relative to lands and land titles in Louisiana.
