# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 33

Chap. XXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Sums appropriated for the expenditure of the civil list, &c. for the year 1817. For Congress.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 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 House of Representatives, their officers, and attendants, four hundred and twenty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, forty-two thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the library of congress, including the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For President and Vice President.For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
For the Department of State.For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said department, and for the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, including the expense of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the fourteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and two dollars.
For the Treasury Department.For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars.
For expense of translating foreign languages, allowed 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 one hundred dollars.
Comptroller.For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said comptroller, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in the said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and contingent expenses in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
Auditor.For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the auditor’s office, sixteen thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and contingent expenses in said office, six hundred dollars.
Treasurer.For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the treasurer, five thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger of said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in said office, eight hundred dollars.
Commissioner of general land office.For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said commissioner, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and contingent expenses of said office, including vellum for land patents, five thousand dollars.
Commissioner of the revenue.For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said commissioner, nine thousand dollars.
For stationery, printing, and contingent expenses, including the paper, printing, and stamping of licenses, in said office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
Register.For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For an additional sum which was allowed him for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said register, seventeen thousand and twenty-eight dollars.
For compensation to the messenger of said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of stationery, including books for the public stocks, printing the public accounts, and other contingent expenses of the register’s office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, five thousand dollars.
To make good the deficiency in the sum appropriated last year for the general expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, and ​which, from a re-occupancy of the public buildings, required an expenditure for repairs, furniture, and other contingent expenses thereunto incidental, six thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed for the security of the treasury buildings; and for the expenses of rebuilding two fire engine houses; for repairs of two engines and hose; and for an additional number of buckets, and to keep the same in repair, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the War Department.For compensation to the Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars.
Accountant.For compensation to the accountant of the War Department, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said accountant, sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of said additional accountant, including a sum of seven hundred dollars for which no appropriation was made for contingent expenses of last year, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
Paymaster.For compensation to the paymaster general of the army, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For an additional compensation allowed him for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, three hundred and forty-six dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the paymaster general of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
Superintendent general of military supplies.For compensation to the superintendent general of military supplies, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said superintendent, seven thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, including a deficiency of two hundred dollars for the contingent expenses of the last year, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Commissary general of purchases.For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of said commissary, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
Adjutant and inspector general.For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the adjutant and inspector general, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Ordnance.For compensation to the clerks employed in the ordnance office, one thousand dollars.
For the Navy Department.For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said secretary, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense, of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Accountant.For compensation to the accountant of the Navy Department, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the Navy Department, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, and other contingent expenses in said office, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Commissioners of the navy board.For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation of the clerks employed in the office of the navy board, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For the general post office.For compensation to the Postmaster General, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the assistant postmaster general, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the general post office, nineteen thousand three hundred and five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses in said office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For the Commissioners of loans.For compensation to the several commissioners of loans, and allowance to certain commissioners of loans, in lieu of clerk hire, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of sundry commissioners of loans, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the salary of the late commissioner of loans of South Carolina, from the first of April to the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, being the amount carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, three hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents.
For the surveyor general.For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee, and for ​for contingent expenses of his office, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the commissioner of the public buildings.For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.For the mint.
For wages to persons employed in the different operations of the mint, including the sum of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, five thousand dollars.
For repairs, costs of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses of the mint, three thousand dollars.
For allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of copper to coin into cents, fifteen thousand dollars.
For territorial officers.For compensation to the governor, judes and secretary of the Mississippi territory, nine thousand dollars.
For 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 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, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For 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 and fifty dollars.
For demands admitted at the treasury.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 due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For the judiciary.For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the district of Columbia, sixty-one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty 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, penalties and forfeitures, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
Pensions.For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For payment of the annual allowance to the pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.
Light-houses, &c.For an appropriation in addition to the appropriation for building a light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi, and for repairing the block-house at the Balize for a temporary light-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the Bald Head light-house, in North Carolina, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, one thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the light-house at Nantucket, recently destroyed by fire, seven thousand five hundred dollars; beacon-lights on Sandy hook, one thousand two hundred dollars; erection of a beacon and placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Bristol, in Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
For a light on Tybee, and for erecting six beacons, and placing four buoys on such sites, and at such points, as the commissioners of pilotage, residing at Savannah, shall fix on, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For an additional appropriation for building a light-house at Tarpaulin cove, three thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars.
For the following objects, being the balances of former appropriations, carried to the surplus fund, viz:
For erecting light-houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of cape Lookout, in North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on the south point of Cumberland island, in Georgia, ten thousand dollars.
For erecting a light-house on the south point of Sapelo Island, in Georgia, fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbour of Beverly, in Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For placing buoys, as deemed necessary, at the entrance of the harbour of Edgartown, in Massachusetts, one thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents.
For erecting two light-houses on Lake Erie, viz: On or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, seventeen thousand dollars.
For building a light-house on Petite Manan, six thousand dollars.
For fitting up light-houses heretofore authorized to be erected, with the apparatus for lighting the same, five thousand dollars.
For fitting up the light-houses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, agreeably to his contract of the 26th day of March, 1812, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, six thousand dollars.
For erecting a beacon on a point of land near New Inlet, in North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the commissioner for settling claims, &c.For compensation to the commissioner for settling claims for property lost, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in said commissioner’s office, one thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of publishing certain notices by the commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing various forms for the said commissioner, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.
For office furniture, stationery, wood, and other contingencies, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the hire of an additional clerk, from the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, at nine hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For the hire of a messenger, from the first of July to the first of February following, one hundred and twenty dollars.
For defraying expenses incident to lands. 1816, ch. 149.To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act of the last session, entitled “An act for settling the compensation of the commissioner, clerk and translator of the board for land claims in the eastern and western district of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana,” forty thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several states and territories of the United States, one hundred and eighty thousand and eighty-eight dollars.
For bringing votes for President and Vice president.For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United States to the seat of government, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation,For objects of foreign intercourse. eighty-seven thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, seventy thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into effect the fourth, sixth, and seventh articles of the treaty of peace, concluded with his Britannic majesty on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners appointed under those articles, thirty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents.
For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London, Paris, Copenhagen, and the Hague, eight thousand dollars.
For the relief of distressed American seamen, for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, fifty thousand dollars.
On account of the paintings authorized by the resolution of Congress, eight thousand dollars.
For erecting custom-houses, &c.For purchasing or erecting, for the use of the United States, suitable buildings for custom-houses and public warehouses, in such principal district in each state where the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem it necessary for the safe and convenient collection of the revenue of the United States, fifty 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 the act1790, ch. 34. “making provision for the debt of the United States,” and out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.