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Eighteenth congress, sess. i. Ch. 43. i824.
Persons com-missioned underact of Jan. 6.1800, to havefull power, &c.to issue a cita-tion directed totile creditor,agent, or attor-ney, &c.
The creditor,&c., if Jivingwithin h0 miles,to give fifteendays’ previousnotice.
Supreme Court of the United States , or by any district judge of theUnited States , to administer the oath prescribed by the act, entitled“An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt,” passed on thesixth day of January, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred, shall,and may have full power and authority to issue a citation, directed tothe creditor, his agent or attorney, if either lives within one hundredmiles of the place of imprisonment, requiring him to appear at thetime and place therein mentioned, if he see fit, to show cause why thesaid oath or affirmation should not be so administered.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if the creditor, his agent,or attorney, lives within fifty miles of the place of imprisonment, onlyfifteen days’ previous notice by citation shall be required.
Approved, April 22, 1824.
Pay of officersand seamen.
Provisions.
Medicines.
Subsistenceof officers atnavy yards dr c.
Contingent
expenses.
Chap. XLIII.— Jin Act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the
United States , for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defrayingthe expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-four, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respec-tively, appropriated :
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen,eight hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred and forty-two dol-lars and twenty-five cents.
For provisions, in addition to the sum of twenty-five thousand onehundred and twenty-eight dollars, and seventy-five cents, the balanceof appropriation for provisions unexpended and provisions on hand,three hundred thousand dollars.
For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of thesick, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For pay, subsistence, and allowances, of every description, to allcommissioned and warrant officers, employed at the several navy yardsand store stations, also of naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors,master workmen, clerks of the yards, of the check, and of command-ers, and porters attached to the navy yards and store stations, twohundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollarsand twenty-six cents.
For contingent expenses accruing in the present year ; that is to say :for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and fuel, to navyagents; premiums, and other expenses of recruiting ; freight of pro-visions, stores, and materials, from one station to another, and from theUnited States to distant stations in other countries where our ships areemployed ; allowances to officers at the several navy yards and stations,for house rent, fuel, and candles; travelling expenses for officers, andtransportation for seamen ; freight of timber, wharfage, and dockage forvessels where there are no public yards; expenses, and a per diem al-lowance, attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; compensationto judge advocates ; cabin furniture for vessels in commission ; inciden-tal labour at navy yards, which is not applicable to any other appropria-tion ; pilotage of public vessels in the United States , and in foreign coun-tries ; printing naval registers, blank pay-rolls, receipt rolls, steward’s re-turns, seamen’s allotment tickets, the proceedings of courts martial;storage of provisions, and stores in foreign ports, and in theUnited Stateswhere public stores are not provided ; coals for blacksmiths and anchor-makers, and fuel for steam-engines ; purchase and maintenance of oxen,carts, large timber wheels, and workmen’s tools ; chamber money to offi-