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Improvementson the westernrivers.
Appropriationfor the militaryacademy.
Pay.
Subsistence.
Forage of offi-cers’ horses.
Clothing of of-ficers’ servants.
Current andordinary ex-penses.
Proviso.
Library.
Barracks.
Statute III.March 1, 1843.
[Obsolete.]Act of Sept. 4,1841, ch. 16.Bills of theBank of Alaba-ma receivablefor lands, to theamount of thetwo per cent,fund unpaid.
TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.III. Ch.53 . 1843.
of the United States , under the direction of the Surgeon General forsaid fiscal year, two thousand dollars.
For the continuation of improvements on the Missouri , Mississippi,Ohio and Arkansas rivers, for said half year, fifty thousand dollars; andfor said fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, andthe same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in thetreasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the militaryacademy for the half calendar year and for the fiscal year aforesaid.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, for said halfcalendar year, thirty thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars; andfor the said fiscal year, sixty thousand four hundred and sixty-four dol-lars : Provided, That hereafter in all cases of appointments of cadets tothe West Point Academy, the individual selected shall be an actual resi-dent of the congressional district of the State or Territory, or Districtof Columbia , from which the appointment purports to be made: Andprovided further, That the number of cadets by appointments hereafterto be made, shall be limited to the number of the representatives anddelegates in Congress, and one for the District of Columbia , and thateach congressional and territorial district and District of Columbia ,shall be entitled to have one cadet at said academy : Provided, Thatnothing in this section shall prevent the appointment of an additionalnumber of cadets not exceeding ten to be appointed at large, withoutbeing confined to a selection by congressional districts.
For commutation of subsistence, for said half calendar year, nineteenthousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty cents; andfor the said fiscal year, forty thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, for said half calendaryear, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; and for saidfiscal year, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars.
For commutation of clothing for officers’ servants, for said half calen-dar year, two hundred and ten dollars, and for said fiscal year, fourhundred and twenty dollars.
For the various current and ordinary expenses of the academy, otherthan pay and subsistence, for said half calendar year, eleven thousandeight hundred and five dollars and ten cents; and for said fiscal year,twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-one dollars and twentycents: Provided, That hereafter there shall not be a board of visitersappointed to visit the West Point Academy unless otherwise ordered byCongress .
For increase and expense of library, for said half calendar year, sixhundred and fifty dollars; and for said fiscal year, one thousand threehundred dollars.
For construction of barracks for cadets for said fiscal year, thirtythousand dollars.
Approved, March 1, 1843.
Chap. LIII. —in 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 fourthday of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the registersand receivers of public moneys at the different land offices in the Stateof Alabama be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, undersuch regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to takeand receive from the actual settlers on the public lands in said State, inpayment for their houses and improvements, entered by virtue of any ofthe pre-emption laws now in force, the bills of the Bank of the State of