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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.

, January 25, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively, appropriated towards the military service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and for the objects following; that is to say:

For the pensions of the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, of five hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars, two hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars.

For the invalid and half-pay pensioners, in addition to a balance of one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars of former appropriations, one hundred and sixty thousand and ninety-five dollars.

, February 12, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; that is to say:

For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation to one machinist in the patent office, per, seven hundred dollars.

For compensation to the messengers in the Department of State, including the messenger in the patent office, in full of all allowances, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expenses of printing and distributing the laws, and for extra copying of papers, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation in said department, by virtue of the, four thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the treasury, per, ten thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation to one clerk in said office, per, one thousand one