Chapter CLXXIII. making further appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen
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Chap. CLXXIII.— An Act making further appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.April 30, 1816. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for compensation to the commissioner appointed under an act entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy while in 1816, ch. 40. the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,” and the further sum of one thousand dollars for compensation to the clerk, authorized by the act aforesaid; for the expense incurred by the board of commissioners appointed under the act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory, seven hundred dollars; and for additional compensation to the commissioners aforesaid, and their secretary, four thousand dollars; and for expenses of engraving, printing, and preparing certificates issued, and to be issued, by the commissioners, three thousand dollars; for the expense for clerks employed by the board of navy commissioners, seven hundred and fifty dollars in addition to the former appropriation; for the payment of pensions, an additional sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for the payment of a clerk in the secretary’s office of the Mississippi territory, employed by the governor of that territory from the first of April to the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, two hundred dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 30, 1816. Resolution I: directing a copy of the documents printed by a resolve of Congress, of the 27th of December, 1813, to be transmitted to each of the judges of the Supreme Court. Resolution I 1816-02-06 3 Stat. 341 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public 341 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 1, 3, 4, 5. 1816. I. Resolution directing a copy of the documents printed by a resolve of Congress, of the 27th of December, 1813, to be transmitted to each of the judges of the Supreme Court.Feb. 6, 1816. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Documents to be transmitted to the judges of the Supreme Court. States of America, in Congress assembled, that of the two hundred copies of the documents ordered to be printed by a resolve of the Senate and House of Representatives of the twenty-seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized to take one copy for each of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be transmitted to said judges according to the provision of the act of Congress of the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.
Approved, February 6, 1816. Resolution III: requesting the President to present medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the frigate Constitution. Resolution III 1816-02-16 3 Stat. 341 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public III. Resolution requesting the President to present medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the frigate Constitution.Feb. 16, 1816.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Medals to Captain Stewart and the officers of the Constitution. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby requested to present to Captain Charles Stewart, of the frigate Constitution, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said frigate, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct and services of Captain Stewart, his officers and crew, in the capture of the British vessels of war, the Cyanne and the Levant, after a brave and skilful combat.
Approved, February 22, 1816. Resolution IV: requesting the President to present medals to Captain James Biddle, and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet. Resolution IV 1816-02-22 3 Stat. 341 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public IV. Resolution requesting the President to present medals to Captain James Biddle, and the officers of the sloop of war Hornet.February 22, 1816.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Medals to Captain Biddle, and the officers of the Hornet. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby requested, to present to Captain James Biddle, of the sloop of war Hornet, a gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices, and a silver medal, with suitable emblems and devices, to each commissioned officer of the said sloop of war, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct and services of Captain Biddle, his officers and crew, in capturing the British sloop of war, Penguin, after a brave and skilful combat.
Approved, February 22, 1816. Resolution V: for printing the laws relative to naturalization. Resolution V 1816-04-16 3 Stat. 341 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public V. Resolution for printing the laws relative to naturalization.April 16, 1816. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Four thousand copies of the laws relating to naturalization of the United States to be printed and distributed.
States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be authorized and directed to cause to be printed four thousand copies of the laws now in force on the subject of naturalization. And, of the copies which may be so provided, two shall be sent to each marshal of a judicial district of the United States, two to the clerk or prothonotary for each court of the United States, or of a particular state, which may, by law, admit persons to be naturalized, and two to each collector of the customs.
The remaining copies, after reserving such as the President of 342FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Resolutions 6, 7. 1816. the United States may deem proper for the use of the executive departments, shall be placed in the library of Congress. Approved, April 16, 1816. Resolution VI: requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military and naval in the services of the United States. Resolution VI 1816-04-27 3 Stat. 342 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public VI. Resolution requiring the Secretary of State to compile and print, once in every two years, a register of all officers and agents, civil, military and naval in the services of the United States.April 27, 1816. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Register of the officers and agents, civil, military and naval, to be compiled every two years by the Secretary of State. States of America, in Congress assembled, That once in two years, a register, containing correct lists of all the officers and agents, civil, military and naval, in the service of the United States, made up to the last day of September of each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, be compiled and printed under the direction of the Secretary for the department of state.
And to enable him to form such register, he, for his own department, and the heads of the other departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid, of all officers and agents, in their respective departments, including clerks, cadets and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the department of state. And the said lists shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet and midshipman, the state and county in which he was born and where employed. 2.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy subjoin to the list of the List of the ships and vessels of the United States. persons employed in his department, the names, force and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built. 3. Resolved, That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that on the first Monday in January in each year, when a new Congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the President, the Vice President, each head of a department, each member of the Senate and Distribution.
House of Representatives of the United States, one copy of such register; and to the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective Houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States at the seat of government, to be used like other books in that library, and that the residue of the said copies be disposed of in such manner as Congress shall from time to time direct. 4. Resolved, That for the information of the present Congress, such register as aforesaid be prepared and distributed as aforesaid, on the first day of its next session.
Approved, April 27, 1816. Resolution VII: authorizing the President of the United States to employ a skilful assistant in the corps of engineers. Resolution VII 1816-04-29 3 Stat. 342 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public VII. Resolution authorizing the President of the United States to employ a skilful assistant in the corps of engineers.April 29, 1816.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United An assistant in the corps of engineers to be employed. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ, in addition to the corps of engineers as now established, a skilful assistant, whose compensation shall be such as the President of the United States shall think proper, not exceeding the allowance to the chief officer of that corps.
Approved, April 29, 1816. Resolution VIII: relative to the more effectual collection of the public revenue. Resolution VIII 1816-04-30 3 Stat. 343 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-26 14 1 public 343 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Resolution 8. 1816. VIII. A Resolution relative to the more effectual collection of the public revenue.April 30, 1816.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Collection of the revenue. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, required and directed to adopt such measures as he may deem necessary to cause, as soon as may be, all duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money, accruing or becoming payable to the United States, to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States, or treasury notes, or notes of the bank of the United States as by law provided and declared, or in notes of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States, and that from and after the twentieth day of February next, no such duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money accruing or becoming payable to the United States as aforesaid, ought to be collected or received otherwise than in the legal currency of the United States, or treasury notes, or notes of the bank of the United States, or in notes of banks which are payable and paid on demand in the said legal currency of the United States.
Approved, April 30, 1816. 14 2 1817 ACTS OF THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the second day of December,* 1816, *and ended on the third day of March,* 1817. James Madison, President of the United States; John Galliard, President of the Senate, pro tempore; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives. (*a*)(*a*) The decease of the Honourable Elbridge Gerry made the office of Vice President of the Senate vacant during this session.
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