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thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners, agents, and surveyors, and their contingent expenses, sixteen thousand dollars.

For the corporation of the city of Washington, to re-imburse the said corporation a just portion of the expense of making streets, and other improvements, adjoining the public property, five thousand dollars.

For carrying into execution the convention recently ratified, relating to the slaves carried away in contravention to the first article of the treaty of Ghent, twenty thousand dollars.

For surveying and marking the boundary line between the state of Missouri and territory of Arkansas, the sum of three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Sec. 2. Andbe it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Providedthowever, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person, for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable : Provided further, That nothing in this section contained shall extend to balances, arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person, to be expended in the public service, or to the appropriation for compensation to the Vice President of the United States; but in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, to report, forthwith, to the agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due: and it shall be the duty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.

Approved, March 3, 1823.

Corporation of the city of

Washington.

Convention of St. Petersburg.

Boundary line of Mis

Proviso.

rroviso.

Chap. XXXII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of tlte navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the navy for the year one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated:

For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred and three dollars and twelve cents, including the sum of twenty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars for six ninths' pay for the petty officers, able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, required for a frigate of forty-four guns.

For provisions, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, twenty thousand dollars.

For the repairs of vessels, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the improvement of navy yards, docks and wharves, eighty-two thousand dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, including small arms, manufacture of powder, &c. twenty thousand dollars.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, store-keepers, inspectors of timber, clerks of the yards, and artificers, forty-four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, including the sum of four thousand one

Statute II. March 3, 1823.

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hundred dollars, to cover a deficiency in the appropriation of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two.

For labourers and teams employed in loading and unloading vessels, piling, docking, and removing timbers, stores, &c.and fuel for the engine, thirty thousand dollars, including the sum of ten thousand dollars to cover a deficiency in the appropriation of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two.

For contingent expenses, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For erecting and completing houses over ships in ordinary, for their preservation from the weather, eighty thousand dollars.

For the construction of a dock and wharves, in connection with the inclined plane erected at the navy yard in Washington, fifty thousand dollars.

For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and seventysix thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars.

For clothing for the same, twenty-nine thousand dollars.

For fuel for the non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, six thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

For contingent expenses for the same, that is to say, fuel for the commissioned officers, bed sacks, repairing barracks, transportation, and travelling expenses to officers, postage of letters, armorers, and armorers' tools, and stationery with extra rations to officers, fourteen thousand dollars.

To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the act entitled "An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade," fifty thousand dollars.

For shot, shells, and military stores, being the amount of the unexpected [unexpended] balance of appropriations for previous years, four thousand and thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents.

For military stores of the marine corps, being the amount of the unexpended balance of appropriations for previous years, ten thousand five hundred dollars and thirty-five cents.

Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That no money appropriated by this act, shall be paid to any person, for his compensation, who is in arrears to the United States, until such person shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be liable: Provided, further, That nothing in this section contained, shall extend to balances arising solely from the depreciation of treasury notes, received by such person to be expended in the public service; but in all cases where the pay or salary of any person is withheld, in pursuance of this act,it shall be the duty of the accounting officer, if demanded by the party, his agent or attorney, to report forthwith to th^agent of the Treasury Department, the balance due: and it shall be the^uty of the said agent, within sixty days thereafter, to order suit to be commenced against such delinquent and his sureties.

Approved, March 3, 1823.

Statute II. March 3,1S23.

Post-routes Discontinued.

Massachusetts.

Chap. XXXIII.—-An Act to discontinue certain post-roads and to establish

others.

Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Untied States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following post-routes be discontinued, to wit:

In Massachusetts.—From Monson to Palmer.

From Brimfield to Stnrbridge.

In Rhode Island.—From Providence to Chepachet, in Glocester.

In Pennsylvania.—From Greersburg, in Beaver county, through Mount Jackson, New Castle, and Mercer, to Franklin.

Jn North Carolina.—So much of the route from Warrenton, North Carolina, to Edonton, [Edenton,] as lies between Halifax and Murfreesborough.

The route from Tarborough to Scotland Neck, and from Stantonsburg to Fayetteville.

In Kentucky.—From Bowling Green to Corydon, in Indiana.

In Tennessee.—From Lebanon to Mount Richardson.

In Ohio.—From Chillicothe, through Wilmington, in Clinton county, and Lebanon, in Warren county, to Cincinnati.

In the Floridas.—From Pensacola to St. Marks, thence to Vollutia Dexter's, on St. John's river, and thence to St. Augustine.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following mail-routes shall be, and the same are hereby, established, to wit:

In Maine.—From Scowhegan Bridge, in Canaan, Somersett county, passing through Madison and Solon, to Solon post-office.

From the town of Harmony, in the county of Somersett, through Ripley, Parkman, Sangerville, Guilford, Foxcraft, and Dover, to Sebee, in the county of Penobscott.

From Belfast to Frankfort, through Swanville and Monroe, in lieu of the present route, whichas hereby repealed.

In Massachusetts.—From Springfield through Wilbraham, Monson, Brimfield, Sturbridge, and Southbridge, to Thompson, in Connecticut, and thence through Chepachet, to Providence, in Rhode Island.

In Connecticut.—From Spencer's corner, in Northeast, Dutchess county, New York, by the meeting house, in Salisbury, to the post-office in North Canaan.

In Neie Hampshire.—From Hancock, through Stoddart, to Marlow.

From Crawford's, in Nash and Sawyer's location, to Littleton postoffice.

In Vermont.—From Poultney to Whitehall, in New York.

In New York.—From Almond, by Alfred, to Independence in Allegany county.

From Wayne, Steuben county, to Trumansburgh, in Tompkins county.

From Buffaloe, in Erie, to Olean, in the county of Cataragus, passing through the towns of Hamburg, Boston, Concord, and Ellicottsville.

From Elliott's, by Royalton, to Hartland post-office.

From the village of Greene, in Chenango county, to Cincinnati^, in Courtland county, passing through the Big Flats, in the town of Smithfield, and Livermore's tavern, in Germantown.

From Morgansville, at the mouth of the Tonnewonta creek, in Niagara county, to Lockport.

From Potsdam, on the turnpike, by Canton, to Ogdenburgh on the mail-route from Plattsburgh, by Malone, to Ogdcnsburgh.

From Albany to Ranslaerville, [Renssclaerville,] through the towns of Bethlehem and Burn, to intersect the post-road from Albany to Susquehanna, by the way of the Delaware turnpike, to Milfordville.

In Pennsylvania.—From the city of Lancaster, along the White Horse [House] road, to where it intersects the state road leading from WestChester to M'Call's Ferry.

From Kimberton to the Yellow Springs.

From Greersburgh, in Beaver county, through Mount Jackson and NewCastle, to Harlemburg.

From Warren, in the county of Warren, to Olean, in New York; to pass by the mouth of Great Valley and Kinkum Creeks.

Post-roads established.

Rhode Island.

Pennsylvania.

North Carolina.

Kentucky.

Tennessee.

Ohio.

Florida.

Mail-routes

established.

Maine.

Massachusetts.

Connecticut.

New Hampshire.

Vermont.
New York.

Pennsylvania. Post-roads

established.

New Jersey.
Virginia.

North Carolina.

South Carolina.

Georgia.

Tennessee.

Kentucky.

From Mercer, in the county of Mercer, to Franklin, in the county of Venango.

From the South Branch of Towanda creek, in Bradford county, by way of the Susquehanna and Tioga turnpike, to Elmira, in the state of New York.

From Allentown, Lehigh county, through Heidelburgh township, to Mauchchunk, in Northampton county.

In New Jersey.—From Flagtown to Somerville.

From Trenton, by Allentown and Crosswick, to Bordentown.

In Virginia.—From Fredericksburg, by Danielsburg, Orange Springs, and River Bank, to Orange Courthouse.

That the route from Lombardy Grove, in Mecklenburg county, do pass by Hakinton and Langley's old store, to St . Tammany, in said county.

That the route from Richmond to King and Queen Courthouse, do pass through Walkerton and Stevensville.

From Giles' Courthouse, by Charles Dingess's, Samuel Park's and Shoemate's, the Falls of Guyandotte, to Barbersville in Cabell county.

From Boon's, in Montgomery, to Grayson Courthouse.

From Hull's store, in Pendleton, to the Courthouse of Pocahontas.

From New London, to Calland's store, in Pittsylvania, to pass through Leesville, in Campbell county.

From Richmond, along the road called Le Pr%dt's, by Powhatan Courthouse, to Farmsville, instead of the route now established.

From Richmond, by Chesterfield Courthouse, Mechanics' Inn, Colesville, Wilkinsonville, Genits Bridge, Tunstilville, Cassell's store, Amelia Courthouse, Paineville, and James Town, to Farmville, instead of the route now established.

In North Carolina.—From Baltimore, Maryland, by water, to Norfolk, in Virginia, from thence, passing through Murfreesborough, Halifax, and direct to Tarborough; and from thence, through Stantonsburgh, and Waynesborough, to Fayetteville, in North Carolina.

That the route from Fayetteville to Wadesborough, be so altered as to pass from Rockingham, by Snudsborough, to Wadesborough, and return by Beard's store, Allenton, Steel's mills, and Morris's Store to Fayetteville.

From Salisbury to Lincolnton and Wilksborough, now established, do return to Salisbury by Sherrell's Ford, Lincoln county, and Mrs. Stewart's, in IredeH county.

In South Carolina.—From Cheraw to Coburn's store, in North Carolina.

From Spartansburg Courthouse to York, by Hancockville, Gandy's store, Hopewell, and Thompson's tan-yard.

In Georgia.—From Monticello to Covington, Newton county, then to Henry Courthouse, then to Monroe Courthouse, and thence to Monticello.

In Tennessee.—From Columbia, by Waynesborough, in Wayne county, . Hardinsville, in Hardin county, Perry Courthouse, in Perry county, Lexington, in Henderson county, Carroll Courthouse, in Carroll county, and the town of Jackson, in Madison county, to Memphis, in /Shelby county.

From Athens, formerly Mount Pleasant, in the county of McMin, by the way of Columbus, to the Spring place, on the Georgia road, in the Cherokee nation.

In Kentucky. From Flemingsburg to Owingsville, to go alternately by its present route and by Poplar plains, Alexander's mills, on Licking, and thence to Owingsville, instead of the route by Anderson's mills, on said river.

From Burksville to Knoxville, in Tennessee.

From Prestonsburg, in Floyd county, to the Courthouse in Pike county.

From Perry Courthouse to Mount Pleasant, in Harlan county.

From Bowling Green to Louisville, by Woodsonville, Monfordsville, Elizabeth, and the mouth of Salt river; and that the present route from Louisville to Woodsonville be discontinued, as soon as the route now established is carried into operation.

From Hopkinsville to Eddyville, to go and return by Cadiz instead of by the Rookey Ridge [Rocky Ridge.]

In Ohio.—That the route heretofore established from Dayton direct to Troy, shall be so changed as to go by Union, in Montgomery county, and Milton, in Miami county, and then to Troy.

That the route from Williamsburg, the seat of justice of Clermont county, to Lebanon, in Warren county, shall be so altered as to pass through the towns of Goshen, Hopkinsville, and Deerfield.

From Lancaster, through Circleville, in Pickaway county, Washington, in Fayette county, Wilmington, in Clinton county, and Lebanon, in Warren county, to Cincinnati.

From Lebanon, in Warren county, to Hamilton, in Butler county, be continued from Indianapolis, in Indiana, to Anderson's town, by way of William Conner's, once in two weeks.

£» Illinois.—From Green Courthouse, by George CadwelFs, in Morgan county, to Springfield, in Sangamo county; and from Palestine to the seat of justice in Clark county, to the seat of justice in Edgar county; and from the seat of justice in Sangamo, to Stephen Stilman's, in Fancy Grove.

From Shawneetown to Hamilton Courthouse.

From Harrisonville, by Converse's mill, Columbia, and Cahokia, to St . Louis, in lieu of the present route from Harrisonville to St. Louis, which is hereby discontinued.

From Carrolton, by the mouth of Apple creek, Ross' settlement in Pike county, in Illinois, to Louisianaville, in Missouri, and from Coles' Grove, in Pike county, to Carrolton; and the route from Alton to Louisianaville is hereby discontinued.

In Alabama.—From Claiborne, by the Tensaw, to Blakely.

From Tuscaloosa to Columbus, by Pickins' Courthouse, in lieu of the present route, which is hereby discontinued.

From Greensborough, by Erie, through what is called the Forks of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers, by the Garden spot, to the Courthouse of Pickens' county.

From Cahaba to Greensborough.

From St. Steven's, by the way of .Fort Stoddart, to Mobile.

From Fort Dale, by Emmett's store, in Butler county, to Cahaba.

From Hartford, in the state of Georgia, by Early Courthouse, Attawa's store, in Henry county, Alabama, Pike and Covington Courthouses, to Sparta, and that the route heretofore established, from Fort Hawkins, by Fort Ganes [Gaines] to Conicu Courthouse, to be discontinued.

In Missouri.—From St. Louis, to Boonville, by Winchester, Ninian Hamilton's, in the western parts of St. Louis county; Newport, the seat of justice from [for] Franklin county; Gasgonade, the seat of justice of Gasgonade county, the city of JefFerson, the seat of government of the state; and Marion, the seat of justice from [for] Cole county.

In Michigan Territory.—From Detroit, by Pontiac, to the Military post at Saganaw.

In the Floridas.—From Pensacola, Preolata, on the river St. John's, to St. Augustine, the most convenient and practicable route in the discretion of the Postmaster General.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all waters on which steamboats regularly pass from port to port, shall be considered and established

Post-roads

established.

Ohio.

Illinois.

Alabama.

Missouri.

Michigan.
Florida.

Steamboat routes conaid

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