# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 22

Chap. XXII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven.
Specific appropriations.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 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, thirty-four 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 eleven, eight hundred dollars.
For repairing the roof and fitting up a room in the west side of the north wing of the capitol for the library of Congress, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
1806, ch. 41.For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, including the sum of one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fourteen thousand and thirty-eight dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing and distributing the laws of the third session of the eleventh Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, five thousand five hundred dollars.
1806, ch. 41.For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
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.
​Specific appropriations. 1806, ch. 41.For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, fourteen thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses of the comptroller’s office, five 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, 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 fifty-two dollars and two cents.
For compensation to the messenger of the register’s office, for stamping and arranging ship’s 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 eleven, 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 eleven, 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, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For 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 the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office, two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the purveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, and for expense of stationery,1806, ch. 41. store rent and fuel for said office, including the sum of five hundred dollars for compensation to clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, five thousand one hundred dollars.
​Specific appropriations.For compensation of additional clerks in the office of the superintendent of Indian trade, eight 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 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 if the office of the accountant of the navy, one thousand dollars.
1806, ch. 41.For compensation to the Postmaster-General, assistant Postmaster-General, clerks and persons employed in the Postmaster-General’s office, including the sum of two thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars for compensation to clerks in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, and the sum of eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars for deficiencies in the appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, nineteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For the expense of fuel, house rent for the messenger, candles, stationery, chests, &c. incident to the Postmaster-General’s 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 commissioners of loans, and for allowances to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expense of the several loan offices, fifteen 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, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For 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
Two clerks at five hundred dollars each.
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 dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, including a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, arising from the increase of the coinage for that and several antecedent years, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery, and other contingent expenses of said territory, including the sum of one thousand dollars for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
​Specific appropriations.For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, including the sum of one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents, for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, ten thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents.
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 Indiana 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 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 Louisiana 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.
1806, ch. 41.For additional compensation to the clerks in 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, entituled “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 and thirty-two cents.
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 for the district of Columbia; to the attorney-general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee and Orleans, 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, nine 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 eleven, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels bars and shoals, and certain ​Specific appropriations.contingent expenses, sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi, and at or near the Pitch of Cape Lookout, in North Carolina, being the amount of an additional appropriation carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For building a lighthouse on the south point of Cumberland Island, in Georgia, being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, four thousand dollars.
For erecting a lighthouse on the south point of Sapelo Island in Georgia, and for placing certain buoys and beacons on Dobay bar and Beach point, being the balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, six thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and six cents.
For erecting a lighthouse on Point Judith, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For erecting two lights on Lake Erie, viz: on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that purpose, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars.
For paying for the printing of new ship’s registers, including the cost of paper, the balance of a former appropriation of one thousand one hundred and forty dollars for this object having been heretofore carried to the surplus fund, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For discharging the expense of the third enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, and that of taking an account of their manufactures, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of government, the balance of former appropriations for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.
For compensation allowed George W. Erving as agent in receiving and paying awards of the board of commissioners, under the seventh article of the British treaty, estimated at two and a half per cent. on the amount of such awards as were actually received by him, twenty-two thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-seven cents.
1800, ch. 60.For payment of the claim of Patrick Donnon, late surveyor of the county of Hardy, in Virginia, being his compensation under the act of Congress, passed May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred, “to enlarge the powers of the surveyors of the revenue,” for valuing, recording and adding to the tax lists sundry tracts of land and dwelling houses omitted by the assessors, there not being a sufficient balance due for direct tax from Virginia for satisfying this claim, seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-five cents.
For payment of expenditures made by James Simmons, late collector of Charleston, from January first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to December thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and five, for the navy department, as admitted on settlement of his account ​Specific appropriations.at the treasury, nine thousand three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and three cents.
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.
1811, ch. 6.For the payment of a balance due the estate of the late Major-general Anthony Wayne, in conformity with the act passed at the present session, entituled “An act for the relief of the heirs of the late Major-general Wayne,” five thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-four cents.
1790, ch. 34.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 an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 20, 1811.