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legal representatives, comprised in the list of actual settlers reported to the commissioner of the general land office, by the register of the land district of St. Helena, in the state of Louisiana, under the authority of the act of Congress, entitled “,” approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, or who did actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in said district on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, not rightfully claimed by any other person, by virtue of any written evidence of claim, legally derived from either the French, British, or Spanish government, or granted as a donation by virtue of any act of Congress heretofore passed, shall be entitled to a right of preference, on becoming the purchaser, from the United States, of such tract of land, at the same price for which other public lands are sold at private sale: Provided, That such tract of land shall not contain more than one quarter section, to be located by sectional lines; and that the same shall be entered with the register of the land office in said district, within two years, or before, if the same shall be offered at public sale.

, March 19, 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 military service of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to wit:

For pay to the army and subsistence of officers, including the military academy, one million and fifty-six thousand three hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.

For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, of sixty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars.

For forage for officers, forty thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

For clothing for servants of officers of the army, and of the military academy, and twenty supernumerary second lieutenants, graduates of the military academy, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.

For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance in the treasury on thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, of thirteen thousand six hundred dollars, twenty-two thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand three hundred dollars, in the treasury on the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars.

For arrearages of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, being the difference between the amount appropriated by Congress for the pay and subsistence of the captains and subalterns, and that allowed by the, thirty-eight thousand and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents.

For the purchasing department, in addition to materials on hand, amounting to forty thousand dollars, viz: for clothing for the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-nine cents.