# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 29

Chap. XXIX.—An Act making appropriations for the support of Government during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Objects of appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list, in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; 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 expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for the defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library, and librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, 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, thirteen thousand dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the ninth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For special messengers charged with despatches, two thousand dollars.
​Specific appropriations.For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven 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, the clerks and persons in his office, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
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 expense of stationery and printing in the register’s office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing of the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery, store rent, and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars.
​Specific appropriations.compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, to the assistant Postmaster-General, and clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses for prosecution, portmanteaus, mail locks, and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the Postmaster-General, out of the funds of the office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and for an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor-general, and for that of the clerks employed by him, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
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 melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk at seven hundred dollars.
And two clerks at five hundred dollars.
For the wages of persons employed in the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter’s, millwright’s, and smith’s work, including the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, costs of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of executive officers of the said territory, and for express hire, and compensation of an Indian interpreter, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Louisiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
​Specific appropriations.expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war, and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intituled1806, ch. 41. “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads; and for other purposes,” thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia; to the attorney-general, and to the judge of the district of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six 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 likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late 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 seven, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and eight, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, eighty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and eight cents.
For erecting a lighthouse on St. Simon’s island, in Georgia, the former appropriation of seven thousand dollars for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, nineteen thousand dollars.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Look-out, in North Carolina, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for those objects, the balance of a former appropriation for those objects, of twenty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-six cents, having been carried to the surplus fund, fifty-five thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on Whitehead, at the entrance of Penobscot bay, the former appropriation for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, two thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents.
For the erection of beacons in the harbor of New York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses incurred in surveying the coast of North Carolina, between Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensating the commissioners in the aforesaid service for the loss of their effects incident to the service, on board the revenue cutters ​Specific appropriations.wrecked at Ocracock; the amount of which loss the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized to liquidate and allow upon satisfactory proof being exhibited to them of such loss, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For carrying on the surveys of public lands in the state of Ohio, and in the several territories, seventy-three thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at London, Paris, and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six 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, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations heretofore made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States,1790, ch. 34. and out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1807.