# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 58

Chap. LVIII.—An Act making appropriation for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Specific appropriations for the civil lists, &c.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 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 of 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 ​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, entitledAct of April 21, 1806, 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,” 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 addition to the sum allowedAct of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. 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 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, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five cents.
​Specific appropriations.expenses of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent 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, entitledAct of April 21, 1806, 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,” 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 theAct of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. act of April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteen 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 theAct of April 21, 1806, ch. 41. act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fifteen thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the war department, not ​Specific appropriation. Chap. 41.exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entitled “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes,” two thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, nine thousand and ninety dollars.
For compensation to a messenger for the paymaster’s office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, five hundred dollars.
To Doyle Sweeny, for compensation for his services as clerk in the office of the purveyor of public supplies, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars’ clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by theChap. 41. act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, eleven thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For expenses of stationery, fuel, printing, and other contingent expenses in the said office, two thousand dollars.
For 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, one thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks in the navy department, not exceeding fifteen per centum in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entitledAct of April 21, 1806, 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,” one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the postmaster general, assistant postmasters general, clerks and persons employed in the postmaster general’s office, including the sum of three thousand five hundred and twelve dollars for compensation to clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by theChap. 41. act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, nineteen thousand five hundred and sixty-seven dollars.
For the expense of fuel, house rent for the messenger, candles, stationery, chests, &c. incident to the postmaster general’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks employed in the postmaster general’s office, not exceeding fifteen per centum in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entitledAct of April 21, 1806, 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,” one thousand four hundred and one dollars and seventy-five cents.
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, including a sum of two thousand dollars in addition to the amount heretofore allowed by law, and for allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, seventeen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general, and his clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, and for stationery and other contingencies, including the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for clerk hire in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, four thousand seven hundred dollars.
​Specific appropriations.compensation to the officers of the mint, viz:
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
One clerk, at five hundred dollars.
For wages to the persons employed in melting, coining, carpenters’, millwrights’, and smiths’ work, including the sum of one thousand dollars allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, five thousand three hundred and four dollars and sixty-two cents.
For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Mississippi territory, nine thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three thousand and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expenses of 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 dollars.
For expense of 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, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For expense of 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 expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of 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 due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges of the District of Columbia, and to the attorney-general, including the sum of nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-four cents, for the salary of the additional district judge of the state of New York, for the year eighteen hundred and twelve, and a further sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to make good a deficiency in the appropriation for the year eighteen hundred and twelve, for the compensation of the attorney-general, and of the district judge of Louisiana, sixty-five thousand four hundred and three dollars and eighty-four cents.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation granted to the several marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, ​Specific appropriations.Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Louisiana, two thousand two 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 for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present 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 thirteen, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For expenses incident to the receiving the subscriptions to the loan of eleven millions of dollars, authorized by the act of the [fourteenth] of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, two thousand dollars in addition to the sum already for that purpose appropriated.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses including twenty-four thousand dollars for completing the fitting up of all the lighthouses with Winslow Lewis’s improvements, ninety-nine thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifteen cents.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout in North Carolina; being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.
For building a lighthouse at Nawshawn island, near Tarpaulin Cove in Massachusetts, being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For erecting a beacon, and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the1798, ch. 78. act of the sixteenth of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For erecting two lights on Lake Erie, viz. on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars.
For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbor of Beverly in Massachusetts, being the balance of a former appropriation carried into the surplus fund, three hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-five cents.
For rebuilding the Baldhead lighthouse in North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars.
For placing a buoy at the entrance of Barnstable harbor, one hundred dollars.
For the support of sick and disabled seamen in addition to the funds already appropriated by law, twenty thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public land within the several territories of the United States, sixty-one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of a claim for taking the second census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the sum appropriated for that object having been heretofore carried to the surplus fund, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twelve cents.
For the support and safe keeping or prisoners of war, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United ​Specific appropriations.States to the seat of government one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.
For paying the bounties which may become payable to the owners of private armed vessels, in conformity with the ninth section ofAct of June 26, 1812, ch. 107. the act of the twenty-sixth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ten thousand dollars.
Act of April 30, 1802, ch. 40.For making the road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, to be repaid out of the five per cent. fund reserved for that purpose, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For pensions to the widows or children of officers and soldiers killed in the campaign of one thousand eight hundred and eleven, on the Wabash, from the seventh of November, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, five thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-seven cents.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, fifteen thousand dollars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of France and Denmark, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four 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, four 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,Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1813.