Chapter LVIII. *making appropriation for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.* March 3, 1813. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Specific appropriations for the civil lists, &c
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Chap. LVIII.— An Act *making appropriation for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.* March 3, 1813. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Specific appropriations for the civil lists, &c. That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices, for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense cf intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say;
For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and 824 TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58. 1813. Specific appropriations.House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, one hundred and ninety- six thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars. For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, fifty-two thousand dollars. For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks, and persons employed in that department, including a deficiency of one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, in last year’s appropriation, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For compensation to a clerk on old records in the said department, for the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to a messenger to the patent office, two hundred dollars. For additional compensation to the clerks in the said department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.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 and seventy-two dollars and fifty-four cents. For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing the laws of the second session of the twelfth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, including the sum of six thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars, to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for this object in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, thirteen thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including a deficiency of ten dollars in last year’s appropriation, thirteen thousand three hundred and nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of two thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars for compensation to his clerks, in additionAct of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars. For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the auditor’s office, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the treasurer, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars, for compensation to Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41.his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents. 825 TWELFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 58. 1813. For expenses of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingentSpecific appropriations. expenses of the treasurer’s office, one thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioner of the general land-office, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of five hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-four cents for extra services of clerks, and for the service of a messenger during the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ten thousand nine hundred and ninety- five dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses of the commissioner’s office, including four hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty cents, to defray those expenses in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, seven hundred and twenty- four dollars and twenty cents. For the expense of vellum, and printing land patents, including the sum of fifteen hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents for defraying the expense incurred for that object, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, four thousand three hundred and six dollars and twenty-five cents.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars and two cents. For additional compensation to the clerks in the treasury department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks,Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes,” six thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and nine cents.
For compensation to the messenger of the register’s office, for stamping and arranging ships’ registers, ninety dollars. For expense of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses in the register’s office, including books for the public stocks, and for the arrangement of the marine records, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel and other contingent and incidental expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars. For the purchase of books, maps, and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent, employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury department, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, including the expense of two watchmen, the repairs of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental and contingent expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars. For defraying the expense of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteenAct of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. thousand two hundred and ten dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of five thousand dollars for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteen thousandAct of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. nine hundred and ten dollars. For additional compensation to the clerks in the war department, not 826 TWELFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 58. 1813. Specific appropriations.