# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 50

Chap. L.—An Act in addition to “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices,” passed April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 87. Secretary of State authorized to employ additional clerks.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be authorized to employ, in the State Department, one additional clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed sixteen hundred dollars; two additional clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each; and one additional clerk for the patent office, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury to employ an additional clerk.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to employ, in the Treasury Department, one additional clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed fourteen hundred dollars; in the office of the fourth auditor, two additional clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each.
Secretary of the Navy to employ an additional clerk.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to employ one additional clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars.
Secretary of War, to employ additional clerks, for certain departments.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the War Department be, and he hereby is, authorized to employ one additional clerk for the office of the chief engineer; one additional clerk for the office of the adjutant general; and one additional clerk for the office of the commissary general of subsistence; the compensation to each not exceeding eight hundred dollars.
Postmaster General to employ five additional clerks.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General be, and [he] hereby is, authorized to employ five additional clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars each; and one additional clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand four hundred dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury to allow four clerks in the office of the register of the treasury, &c.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to allow four clerks in the office of the register of the treasury, and one clerk in the office of the navy commissioners, one clerk in the fifth auditor’s office, and one clerk in the first comptroller’s office, who now receive eight hundred dollars each, the sum of one thousand dollars each a year.
Clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand dollars, as compensation for one clerk in the bureau of Indian affairs, be applied under the direction of the Secretary of War, under the act of eighteen hundred and eighteen.
After the 31st March, 1827, a portion of the section of the act of 20th April, 1818, ch. 87, repealed.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, so much of the second section of the act to fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices, passed on the twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, as relates to the clerks authorized to be employed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office, be repealed, and that there be employed, from and after that period, in said office, one clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed seventeen hundred dollars; ten clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed eleven hundred and fifty dollars; and six clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars; and that there be two hundred and fifty dollars allowed as a ​contingency for keeping the account of three per cent. fund, appropriated to the use of certain states.
Sum of 18,400 dollars, appropriated.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as compensation to the several clerks authorized by this act, and for the additional compensation provided therein.
Approved, March 2, 1827.