# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/6th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 27

Chap. XXVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and one.
Specific appropriations.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the support of government, and to discharge certain claims and expenses hereafter enumerated, the following sums be and are hereby appropriated, that is to say:
For the compensation granted by law to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For the like compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, one hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, including the payment of certain articles of furniture purchased for the accommodation of Congress, and not provided for by former appropriations, seventeen thousand dollars.
​Specific appropriations.For the compensation granted by law to the Judges of the United States, the Attorney-General, the district attorneys, and marshals, eighty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of courts, jurors, and witnesses, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand three hundred and nine dollars, eighty-one cents.
For expenses of stationery, printing, translating foreign languages, allowance to persons employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars, eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in 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 dollars, ninety-three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Auditor’s office, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks and other persons employed in his office, six thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars, ninety-eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Treasurer’s office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, clerks, and other persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars, six cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Commissioner of the Revenue, nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks, and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars, one cent.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Register’s office, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Superintendent of Stamps, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for making good a deficiency in former appropriations for the stamp-office, five thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars, twenty-four cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the stamp-office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For firewood and candles for the offices of the treasury, including the stamp-office, and other contingencies, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and one, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For making good the deficiency of former appropriations, for the expense of removing the books and records of the treasury from Philadelphia to Trenton, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, two thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, seventy-sixty cents.
For the expense of new office furniture for the treasury, at the city of Washington, two thousand dollars.
For flooring the treasury, and incidental expenses for securing the ​Specific appropriations.buildings and records of the treasury, three hundred and fifty-nine dollars, eighty-three cents.
For paying two watchmen for the treasury, six hundred dollars.
For the expense of two buildings for messengers of the treasury, and sinking two wells for the treasury, five thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars.
For compensation to the several loan-officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan-officers, in lieu of clerk hire, twelve thousand one hundred dollars.
For defraying the authorized expenses of the several loan-offices, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks, and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the office of state, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the director of the mint, officers, clerks, and other persons, employed in the mint establishment, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.
For repairs, and all other contingent expenses in the mint establishment, six thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
For the compensation of two additional clerks employed by the Secretary at War in copying papers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to replace those lately burnt in the war-office, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For such additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of the treasury, of state, war, of the navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding for each department, respectively, fifteen per cent. in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intituled1799, ch. 40. “An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, as the secretaries of the said departments and the Postmaster-General, may respectively think reasonable for the present year, to be distributed as the said secretaries and the Postmaster-General, respectively, shall think proper, to the clerks in their departments, respectively, eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For an additional allowance to the chief clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, for his services in the year one thousand eight hundred, the sum of three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses attending the office of Secretary of War, and to make good the deficiency of former appropriations, five 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 accountant’s office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks, and persons employed in his office, and for contingent expenses of the same, four thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, clerks, and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expense in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy department, clerks, and persons employed in his office; and to make good a deficiency in the appropriation of the last year, eleven thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars, forty-one cents.
​Specific appropriations.For the contingent expenses in the accountant’s office, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster-General, Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the general post-office, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the contingent expense in the general post-office, two thousand one hundred and twelve dollars, fifty cents.
For compensation to the Surveyor-General, the contingent expenses in his office, and the expense of executing surveys of the public land northwest of the river Ohio, twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For salaries to the governor, secretary, and judges of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and the contingent expenses of that government, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries to the governor, secretary, and judges of the Mississippi territory, and the contingent expenses of that government, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries to the governor, secretary, and judges of the Indiana territory, and the contingent expenses of that government, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States unprovided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.
For satisfying the grants to Isaac Van Wart, John Paulding, David Williams, Joseph De Bealeau, Joseph Traversie, James M’Kensie, Joseph Brussels, Elizabeth Bergen, and the children of Major Alexander Trueman, and Colonel John Harding, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three dollars, thirty-three cents.
For the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations during the present year, and making good the deficiency of the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred, for the expense of the mission to France, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between the United States, and the King of Great Britain, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars.
For a deficiency of former appropriations for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and the King of Spain, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For fulfilling the engagements of the United States with the Mediterranean powers, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars.
For prosecuting the claims of American citizens for property captured by the belligerent powers, sixty-four thousand dollars.
For the relief of American seamen, thirty thousand dollars.
For defraying the further expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States, forty thousand dollars.
For the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and other improvements in navigation, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars, seventy cents.
For discharging the expense of the second enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the sum of sixty thousand dollars.
For discharging such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted at the treasury, which, according to the usage thereof, require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For the expense of returning the votes for President and Vice-President of the United States, one thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars, fifty cents.
For repairing the building occupied by the treasury department, the sum of two thousand dollars.
​For satisfying the claim of Clement Biddle, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars, sixty-three cents.
For erecting a lighthouse at old Point Comfort, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1801.