Chapter XIV. making additional appropriations for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen
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Chap. XIV.— An Act making additional appropriations for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. Dec. 15, 1814. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * That for defraying the expenses of the military establishment during the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law to that object, the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For the pay of the army, five hundred thousand dollars. For the subsistence of the army, one million of dollars. For the quartermaster’s department, five hundred thousand dollars. For the ordnance department, five hundred thousand dollars. For clothing, five hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the following sums be appropriated for the purposes herein recited, that is to say: For defraying the compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
For defraying the contingent expenses of the Senate of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated. For defraying the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 15, 1814.