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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58. 1831.
Suppress slavetrade.
Balances.
Captain Wil-liam B. Finch.
Benjamin Pen-dleton.
Monument atnavy yard.
Marine bar-racks.
Statute II.March 2,1831.[Obsolete.]
For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade,including the support in the United States , and for a term not exceedingsix months after their arrival in Africa , of all persons removed from theUnited States under the said acts, ten thousand dollars.
The said several sums to be respectively applied to the several objectsof appropriation above mentioned, in addition to the unexpended balancesof appropriation for similar objects in the year one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty.
For the support of certain Africans brought into the port of NewOrleans in the Spanish schooner Fenix, and now in the charge of themarshal of the eastern district of Louisiana , six thousand dollars, to beapplied to their support under the direction of the Secretary of theNavy , at a rate not exceeding twenty cents per day.
To enable the President of the United States to allow compensationto Captain William B. Finch, for extra services and expenses in com-mand of the sloop of war Vincennes, in the years one thousand eighthundred and twenty-nine and one thousand eight hundred and thirty,five thousand dollars; the accounts for such services and expenses to besettled under the direction of the President.
For compensation to Captain Benjamin Pendleton for moneys paid byhim for cancelling the charter-party, and outfit and demurrage of thebrig Seraph, of Stonington , for his pay as a lieutenant of the navy, andfor moneys paid by him to the ship keeper of the said vessel, four thou-sand seven hundred and sixty-three dollars.
For re-building and removing the monument erected in the navy yardatWashington,by the officers of the American navy, to the memory of thosewho fell in battle in the Tripolitan war, a sum not exceeding twenty-onehundred dollars, to be expended under the orders of the Secretary of theNavy .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum heretofore appro-priated for the erection of marine barracks at Philadelphia , and whichhas passed to the surplus fund, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriatedto the said object.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
Chap. LVIII .—An Act making appropriations for carrying on certain roadsand works of internal improvement, and for providing for surveys.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated to the several objects respectivelyherein named, to be applied during the year one thousand eight hundredand thirty-one, the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated, viz :
For continuing the road from Detroit towards Chicago, Michigan , tenthousand dollars.
For continuing the road from Detroit to fort Gratiot, Michigan , eightthousand dollars.
For continuing the road from Detroit to Saganaw bay, eight thousanddollars.
For arrearage due to T. S. Knapp, fourteen dollars and seventy-fivecents.
For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations andsurveys under the act of the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-four, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For improving the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to beexpended under the existing laws, fifty thousand dollars.
That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and thesame is hereby appropriated to the improvement of the navigation of the