missioned officers, musicians, and privates so employed shall be allowed fifteen cents, and an extra gill of whiskey or spirits, each, per day, while so employed.

[Approved, March 2, 1819.]

CHAPTER 60.-Approved, March 3, 1819.-Vol. 3, p. 502.

An Act extending the term of half-pay pensions to the widows and children of certain officers, seamen, and marines who died in the public service.2

[Five years' additional half pay to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, killed in battle, &c., or who died in service.]

CHAPTER 81.-Approved, March 3, 1819.—Vol. 3, p. 514.

An Act regulating the payments to invalid pensioners.3

[In applications for payments of pensions, the affidavit of two credible surgeons, &c., stating the continuance and rate of disability, &c., to accompany the application for payment falling due after the 4th of March, 1820, and every two years thereafter, &c., the applicant to be paid at the rate, &c. Proviso: affidavit not necessary in case of total disability, &c. Proviso: this act not to extend to invalids of the revolutionary army pensioned by act 18 March, 1818, chap. 19.]

CHAPTER 88.-Approved, March 3, 1819.—Vol. 3, p. 520.

An Act authorizing the sale of certain military sites.

That the secretary of war be, and is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be sold such military sites, belonging to the United States, as may have been found, or become, useless for military purposes.* And the secretary of war is hereby authorized, on the payment of the consideration agreed for, into the treasury of the United States, to make, execute, and deliver all needful instruments conveying and transferring the same in fee; and the jurisdiction, which had been specially ceded, for military purposes, to the United States, by a state, over such site or sites, shall thereafter cease.

1 Pay increased to 25 and 40 cents east, and 35 and 50 cents west, of the Rocky Mountains, 4 Aug. 1854, chap. 247; and see sec. 4, chap. 22, 19 May, 1846, for money instead of liquor.

2 Act of 4 March, 1814, chap. 20.

1824, chap. 34.

Act of 16 April, 1818, chap. 65. Act of 9 April,

3 This act is superseded by sec. 2, chap. 88, 3 March, 1859.

4 Extended to all military sites, or to such parts thereof, as are or may become useless for military purposes, by act 3 March, 1857, sec. 4; but this was again repealed by sec. 6, chap. 156, 12 June, 1858.

CHAPTER 99.-Approved, March 3, 1819.-Vol. 3, p. 526.

An Act concerning invalid pensions.

3. Revolutionary soldiers adopting the act of 1818, chap. 19, not entitled under this or future acts. 4. Persons placed on the pension list without report.

SEC. 3. That any pension granted by this act, or any other act hereafter to be passed, to any officer, soldier, or marine, who served in the revolutionary war, shall cease and be discon-. tinued in case the individual to whom the same may be granted hath availed himself, or shall hereafter avail himself, of the provisions of an act passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war."

SEC. 4. That all persons entitled to pensions, in conformity with the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for persons disabled by known wounds during the revolu tionary war," passed April the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and six, and also the fourth section of an act entitled "An act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the twenty-fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, may be placed on the pension list by the secretary of war, without reporting the same to Congress.

CHAPTER 52.-Approved, May 1, 1820.-Vol. 3, p. 567.

An Act in addition to the several Acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war, and navy departments.

1. Unexpended appropriations carried to surplus fund. Balances after object effected, to be repaid to the treasury, &c. 2. Secretary of war and navy to lay before Congress statements of appropriations, &c. To estimate the probable demands, and the balance to be deducted, &c. Accounts annually rendered. Moneys in the treasury, as agent of war and navy, for two years, &c., to be

1 The previous sections relate to individual pensioners.

2 Chap. 19, ante.

3 This section (4) not to be affected by the 4 Feb. 1822, chap. 6, sec. 1, or by the 24 May, 1828, chap. 109, sec. 1, continuing this act six years.

4 Chap. 25, ante.

5 Chap. 58, ante.

carried to surplus fund. Unless a longer time is assigned. 4. Appropriations for one year not to be transferred to another branch of expenditure in a different year, under act of 3 March, 1809. 5. The President may transfer appropriations to certain other expenditure in the war. And navy department. 6. No contracts except under law, or appropriation. Except. 7. No land bought except under law. 8. Secretary of treasury to state appropriations for the

year, &c.

That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause to be carried to the account of the surplus fund, any moneys appropriated for the department of war, or of the navy, which may remain unexpended in the treasury, or in the hands of the treasurer, as agent for those departments, whenever he shall be informed, by the secretaries of those departments, that the object for which the appropriation was made has been effected. And it shall be the duty of the secretaries of war and navy departments to cause any balance of moneys drawn out of the treasury, which shall remain unexpended after the object for which the appropriation was made shall be effected, to be repaid to the treasury of the United States; and such moneys, when so repaid, shall be carried to the surplus fund.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the secretaries of the war and navy departments to lay before Congress, on the first day of February of each year, a statement of the appropriations of the preceding year for their departments respectively, showing the amount appropriated under each specific head of appropriation, the amount expended under each, and the balance remaining unexpended, either in the treasury, or in the treasurer's hands, as agent of the war or navy departments, on the thirty-first December preceding; and it shall be further the duty of the secretaries aforesaid to estimate the probable demands which may remain on each appropriation, and the balance shall be deducted from the estimates of their departments, respectively, for the service of the current year; and accounts shall also be annually rendered, in manner and form as aforesaid, exhibiting the sums expended out of the estimates aforesaid, and the balance, if any, which may remain on hand, together with such information, connected with the same, as shall be deemed proper. And whenever any moneys, appropriated to the departments of war, or of the navy, shall remain unexpended in the hands of the treasurer, as agent of either of those departments, for more than two years after the expira

tion of the calendar year in which the act of appropriation shall have been passed, or to which it refers, it shall be the duty of the secretary of such department to inform the secretary of the treasury of the fact; and the secretary of the treasury shall thereupon cause such moneys to be carried to the account of the surplus fund: Provided, That when an act making an appropriation shall assign a longer duration for the completion of its object, no transfer of any unexpended balance to the account of the surplus fund shall be made until the expiration of the time fixed in such act.

SEC. 3. [Expenditures for services before 1815.]

SEC. 4. That nothing contained in the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and nine, entitled "An act1 further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war, and navy departments," shall be so construed as to allow any appropriation whatever for the service of one year to be transferred to another branch of expenditure in a different year; nor shall any appropriations be deemed subject to be transferred, under the provisions of the abovementioned act, after they shall have been placed in the hands of the treasurer, as agent of the war or navy departments.

SEC. 5. That the above-mentioned act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, shall be, and the same is hereby, so amended, that the President shall be authorized to direct a portion of the moneys appropriated for any one of the following branches of expenditure in the military department, viz. for the subsistence of the army, for forage, for the medical and hospital department, for the quartermaster's department, to be applied to any other of the above-mentioned branches of expenditure in the same department: and that no transfers of appropriation, from or to other branches of expenditure, shall

be hereafter made.2

SEC. 6. That no contract shall hereafter be made by the secretary of state, or of the treasury, or of the department of war, or of the navy, except under a law authorizing the same, or under an appropriation adequate to its fulfilment; and excepting, also, contracts for the subsistence and clothing of the army

1 Chap. 28, ante; and see the 3 March, 1817, chap. 96, ante.

2 See chap. 96, 3 March, 1817, and sec. 2, chap. 110, 31 Aug. 1852.

or navy, and contracts by the quartermaster's department, which may be made by the secretaries of those departments.

SEC. 7. That no2 land shall be purchased on account of the United States, except under a law authorizing such purchase. SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to annex to the annual estimates of the appropriations required for the public service, a statement of the appropriations for the service of the year which may have been made by former acts; and, also, a statement of the sums remaining in the treasury, or in the hands of the treasurer, as agent of the war and navy departments, from the appropriations of former years, estimating the amount of those sums which will not be required to defray expenses incurred in a previous year, and showing the whole amount which will be subject to the disposition of the executive government in the year to which the estimates apply.

[Approved, May 1, 1820.]

March 3, 1809, chap. 28. March 3, 1817, chap. 45. Accounts.

CHAPTER 53.-Approved, May 1, 1820.—Vol. 3, p. 569.

An Act in addition to an Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.3

Schedules of their estate and Under oath. A certified copy of, secretary of war. Unless insane.

income to be exhibited by pensioners. and opinion of the court, sent to the

SEC. 2. Schedule, &c. to be filed. Swearing falsely.

SEC. 3. The secretary of war may strike from the pension list persons not indigent. Who restored.

By chap.75, May 8, 1820, vol. 3, p. 570, apothecary and assistant apothecaries-general to give bonds with security, &c.

1 See sec. 3, chap. 205, 23 June, 1860.

2 Unless taken by way of security for a debt due to the United States. 12 How. 99-107, Neilson vs. Lagow.

And a conveyance of land to trustees to sell and pay off a debt due to the United States by the grantor is not a purchase within the act by the United States. 12 How. 99-106, Neilson vs. Lagow.

3 Chap. 19.

4 The offices of apothecary and assistant apothecary-general are superseded by act of 2 March, 1821.