of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General for said fiscal year, two thousand dollars.
Improvements on the western rivers.For the continuation of improvements on the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio and Arkansas rivers, for said half year, fifty thousand dollars; and for said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.
Appropriation for the military academy.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the military academy for the half calendar year and for the fiscal year aforesaid.
Pay.For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, for said half calendar year, thirty thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars; and for the said fiscal year, sixty thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars:Provisoes relative to the appointment of cadets. Provided, That hereafter in all cases of appointments of cadets to the West Point Academy, the individual selected shall be an actual resident of the congressional district of the State or Territory, or District of Columbia, from which the appointment purports to be made: And provided further, That the number of cadets by appointments hereafter to be made, shall be limited to the number of the representatives and delegates in Congress, and one for the District of Columbia, and that each congressional and territorial district and District of Columbia, shall be entitled to have one cadet at said academy: Provided, That nothing in this section shall prevent the appointment of an additional number of cadets not exceeding ten to be appointed at large, without being confined to a selection by congressional districts.
Subsistence.For commutation of subsistence, for said half calendar year, nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty cents; and for the said fiscal year, forty thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
Forage of officers’ horses.For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, for said half calendar year, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; and for said fiscal year, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Clothing of officers’ servants.For commutation of clothing for officers’ servants, for said half calendar year, two hundred and ten dollars, and for said fiscal year, four hundred and twenty dollars.
Current and ordinary expenses.For the various current and ordinary expenses of the academy, other than pay and subsistence, for said half calendar year, eleven thousand eight hundred and five dollars and ten cents; and for said fiscal year, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty cents:Proviso.
1846, ch. 96, § 2. Provided, That hereafter there shall not be a board of visiters appointed to visit the West Point Academy unless otherwise ordered by Congress.
Library.For increase and expenses of library, for said half calendar year, six hundred and fifty dollars; and for said fiscal year, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Barracks.For construction of barracks for cadets for said fiscal year, thirty thousand dollars.
Approved, March 1, 1843.
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Chap. LIII.—An Act regulating the mode of paying over to the State of Alabama the two per cent. fund relinquished to said State by the act approved on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Bills of the Bank of Alabama receivable for lands, to the amount of the two per cent. fund unpaid.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the registers and receivers of public moneys at the different land offices in the State of Alabama be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to take and receive from the actual settlers on the public lands in said State, in payment for their houses and improvements, entered by virtue of any of the pre-emption laws now in force, the bills of the Bank of the State of
