Chapter 41.
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Chap. 41.twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, nineteen thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars. For the expense of fuel, house rent for the messenger, candles, stationery, chests, &c. incident to the postmaster general’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional compensation to the clerks employed in the postmaster general’s office, not exceeding fifteen per centum in addition to the sum Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes,” one thousand four hundred and one dollars and seventy-five cents.
For .compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, including a sum of two thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore allowed by law, and for allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, seventeen thousand dollars. For compensation to the surveyor general, and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery and other contingencies, including the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for clerk hire in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, four thousand seven hundred dollars. 827 TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58. 1813. For compensation to the officers of the mint, viz:Specific appropriations. The director, two thousand dollars. The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars. The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars. The meker and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars. The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars. One clerk, at seven hundred dollars, and One clerk, at five hundred dollars. For wages to the persons employed in melting, coining, carpenters’, millwrights’, and smiths’ work, including the sum of one thousand dollars allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, five thousand three hundred and four dollars and sixty-two cents. For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, nine thousand dollars. For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Missouri territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on ac- count of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges of the District of Columbia, and. to the attorney-general, including the sum of nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-four cents, for the salary of the additional district judge of the state of New York, for the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and a further sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for the year eighteen hundred and twelve, for the compensation of the attorney-general, and of the district judge of Louisiana, sixty-five thousand four hundred and three dollars and eighty-four cents.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation granted to the several marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ken-828 TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58. 1813. tucky,Specific appropriations. Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Louisiana, two thousand two hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present government, eight hundred and sixty dollars. For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, ninety-eight thousand dollars. For expenses incident to the receiving the subscriptions to the loan of eleven millions of dollars, authorized by the act of the [fourteenth] of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, two thousand dollars in addition to the sum already for that purpose appropriated.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses including twenty-four thousand dollars for completing the fitting up of all the lighthouses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, ninety-nine thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout in North Carolina; being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
For building a lighthouse al Nawshawn island, near Tarpaulin Cove in Massachusetts, being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars. For erecting a beacon, and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah 1798, ch. 78.river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For erecting two lights on Lake Erie, viz. on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbor of Beverly in Massachusetts, being the balance of a former appropriation carried into the surplus fund, three hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-five cents. For rebuilding the Baldhead lighthouse in North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars.
For placing a buoy at the entrance of Barnstable harbor, one hundred dollars. For the support of sick and disabled seamen in addition to the funds already appropriated by law, twenty thousand dollars. For defraying the expense of surveying the public land within the several territories of the United States, sixty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For the payment of a claim for taking the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the sum appropriated for that object having been heretofore carried to the surplus fund, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twelve cents.
For the support and safe keeping of prisoners of war, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United 829 TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 60, 61. 1813. States to the seat of government one thousand nine hundred and elevenSpecific appropriations. dollars and fifty cents. For paying the bounties which may become payable to the owners of private armed vessels, in conformity with the ninth section of the act ofAct of June 26, 1812, ch. 107. the twenty-sixth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ten thousand dollars.
For making the road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, toAct of April 30, 1802, ch. 40. the state of Ohio, to be repaid out of the five per cent, fund reserved for that purpose, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For pensions to the widows or children of officers and soldiers killed in the campaign of one thousand eight hundred and eleven, on the Wabash, from the seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-seven cents.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, fifteen thousand dollars. For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of France and Denmark, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of-settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for theAct of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1813.