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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, passed on the eighteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “,” as prohibits the allowance of daily compensation to marshals, clerks, and attorneys, in the districts in said act mentioned, be, and the same hereby is, repealed; and that there, hereafter, be allowed to the marshals, clerks, and attorneys, for said districts, the same daily compensation as is allowed to the same officers in other districts.

, March 8, 1824.

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-four, to wit:

For pay of the army, and subsistence of officers, nine hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and five cents, including the sum of one hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars, for the pay and subsistence of the officers and cadets belonging to the military academy at West Point.

For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars, two hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars.

For forage for officers, thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars.

For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance of sixteen thousand dollars, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses for the recruiting service, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the purchasing department, in addition to the amount of clothing on hand, one hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents.

For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in advance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, twenty thousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, in addition to supplies on hand, and an unexpended balance, both amounting to twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars.

For the quartermaster general’s department, in addition to an unexpended balance of thirty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars.

For the purchase of Gridley’s farm, ten thousand dollars: Provided, said farm shall not be purchased unless the same shall be procured for said ten thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the army, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, forty-two thousand dollars.

For pensions to the revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one