# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 54

Chap. LIV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Sums appropriated, for—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:
Members of Congress, &c.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, three hundred and sixty thousand and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, of the two Houses of Congress, forty-two thousand dollars.
Library of Congress.For the expense of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
The President.For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Vice President.For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Secretary of State.For compensation to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 82.For compensation to the clerks in the Department of State, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
Extra copying.For additional clerk hire, to cover expenses of extra copying, in the Department of State, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent and incidental expenses of the said department, including expenses of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second section of the fifteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, twenty-four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
Messengers.For compensation to the messengers in said office, including the messenger to the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury.For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the ​Treasury, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, ten thousand four hundred dollars.
Messengers.For compensation to the messengers in said office seven hundred and ten dollars.
1st Comptroller.For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first comptroller, per act of the twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
2d Comptroller.For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twelve thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
1st Auditor.For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the first auditor, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
2d Auditor.For compensation to the second auditor, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the second auditor, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, seventeen thousand two hundred dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
3d Auditor.For compensation to the third auditor, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the third auditor’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Messengers.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
4th Auditor.For compensation to the fourth auditor, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the fourth auditor’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteen thousand and fifty dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
5th Auditor.For compensation to the fifth auditor, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the fifth auditor’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Treasurer.For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the treasurer’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Additional clerk.For additional clerk hire, being for an arrearage of pay to an assistant to the chief clerk in said office, three hundred dollars.
Further clerk hire.For a further allowance for clerk hire, being for the salary of said assistant, for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, four hundred dollars.
Additional clerk to treasurer.For compensation to an additional clerk in said office, eight hundred dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Commissioner of general land office.For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
Clerks in land office. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioner, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Land office messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Commissioner of revenue.For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in said commissioner’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Register of Treasury.For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the register’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Messengers.For compensation to the messengers in said office, including the sum of ninety dollars for stamping ships’ registers, five hundred dollars.
Secretary to sinking fund.For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Transmitting passports, translating, &c. in the Treasury Department.For allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea-letters, for expense of translating foreign languages in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, for printing, fuel, and other contingent expenses, in the Treasury Department, and in the several offices therein, forty thousand and fifty dollars.
Security of the Treasury Department.For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed for the security of the treasury buildings, and for repairs of engines, hose, and fire buckets, one thousand one hundred dollars.
Secretary of War.For compensation to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensations to clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in said office, five thousand dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages of contingent expenses in said office, prior to the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, one thousand dollars.
Messengers.For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
Paymaster general.For compensation to the paymaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the paymaster general’s office, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, nine thousand two hundred dollars.
Arrearages.For arrearages to the clerks in said office, for the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, nine hundred and forty dollars and forty cents.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Contingent expenses.For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
Clerks.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the ordnance ​department, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred and seventy dollars.
Clerks.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the engineer department, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of said office, one thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
Clerks.For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the surgeon general, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of said office, three hundred and seventy-four dollars.
Secretary of the Navy.For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For expense of fuel, stationery, and other contingent expenses, in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Commissioners of navy board.For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Secretary of navy board.For compensation to their secretary, two thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioners, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Additional hire, &c.For an addition to the allowance for clerk hire in said office, four thousand dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Contingencies.For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars.
State, War, and Navy Departments.For compensation to the superintendent, and two watchmen, and for other expenses incurred for the security of the State, War, and Navy Departments, one thousand one hundred dollars.
Postmaster General.For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Messengers.For compensation to the messengers in the general post-office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
Assistant postmaster general.For compensation to the assistant postmaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Second assistant.For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of the general post-office, four thousand dollars.
Surveyor general.For compensation to the surveyor general, two thousand dollars.
Clerks.For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor general, two thousand one hundred dollars.
Surveyor south of Tennessee.For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.
His clerks, &c.For compensation to the clerks in his office, and for contingent expenses, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri.For compensation to the surveyor in the state of Illinois and the Missouri territory, two thousand dollars.
Clerks. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to his clerks, per act of third April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand dollars.
His clerks.For compensation to his clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Commissioner of public buildings.For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings at Washington, two thousand dollars.
Officers and clerks of the mint.For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
Persons employed in the mint.For wages of the persons employed in the different operations of the mint, ten thousand and seventy-five dollars.
Contingent expenses of the mint.For repairs, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses, of the mint, five thousand four hundred dollars.
Wasteage.For allowance of wasteage in the gold and silver coinage of the mint, three thousand dollars.
Civil government of Missouri.For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Missouri territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses of Missouri.For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Civil government of Alabama.For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Alabama territory, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Civil government of Michigan.For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Claims not otherwise provided for, admitted at the Treasury.For the discharge of such claims 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.
Chief justice, associate judges, &c.For compensation 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, seventy-five thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Attorney General.For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerk. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to his clerk, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars.
District attorneys and marshals.For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
Reporter of decisions of supreme court.For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, one thousand dollars.
Pensions, by late and present governments.For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, two thousand and ninety dollars.
Collectors of old internal revenue. 1815, ch. 42.For the payment of balances due to certain collectors of the old internal revenue pursuant to the provisions of the act of thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand dollars.
Lighthouses, beacons, buoys, &c.For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, and including, also, balances of former appropriations for Savannah river, lake Erie and Little Gull Island, which were carried to the surplus fund the thirty-first of December last, seventy-four thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars twenty-seven cents.
Custom-houses.For the purchase or erection of custom-houses and public warehouses, one hundred thousand dollars.
Cumberland road.For claims due and becoming due, under existing contracts for constructing the United States’ road from Cumberland to the Ohio river, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for completing the said road, the sum of ​two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: which terms several sums, hereby appropriated, together with the amount heretofore advanced by the United States for making said road, shall be repaid out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads to the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, by virtue of the several acts for the admission of the aforesaid states into the Union.
Surveying public lands.For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
New executive buildings.For expenses attending the occupancy of the new executive buildings, including fuel, furniture, and other incidental expenses, twenty-three thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For covering with slate the two executive buildings now occupied by the State, Treasury, War, and Navy, Departments, ten thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous claims, &c.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, six thousand dollars.
Clerks in office of superintendent of Indian trade. 1818, ch. 87. Clerks of commissary general of purchases.For additional compensation allowed to the clerks in the office of the superintendent of Indian trade, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of purchases, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.
Clerks.For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in said office, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
Contingent expenses.For allowance to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Salaries to ministers, &c. of the United States at foreign courts, &c.For salaries to the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, and Madrid, with the salaries of their several secretaries of legation, and the salary of a chargé des affaires at the Hague and at Stockholm, and for the usual allowance of three months’ salary to the minister at Stockholm, payable on his return home, sixty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Outfit of minister to Rio Janeiro, Madrid, &c.For outfit a minister plenipotentiary at Rio Janeiro, and Madrid, and also for the chargé des affaires at London, the Hague, and Stockholm, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of the missions aforesaid, ten thousand dollars.
Deficiency of former appropriation for foreign intercourse, &c. Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.For a deficiency in the appropriations of former years, for the payment of expenses of foreign intercourse, including losses on drafts and the difference of exchange, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, thirty thousand dollars.
Intercourse with Barbary powers.For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two thousand dollars.
For the expenses, during the present year, for carrying into effect the fifth, sixth, and seventh, articles of the treaty of peace, concluded with his Britannic majesty on the 24th of December,Expenses under the articles of the treaty of Ghent, including, &c. one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners, agents, and surveyors, and their contingent expenses, forty thousand dollars.
Agents of claims at Paris and London.For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London and at Paris, four thousand dollars.
Distressed American seamen.For the relief of distressed American seamen in foreign countries, eighty thousand dollars.
For cost of paper, engraving, and printing certificates of registry, and ​Cost of certificates of registry, &c. 1813, ch. 50.lists of crews for vessels of the United States, per provisions of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirteen, five thousand dollars.
Insurers of British ship Brio de Mar.To indemnify the insurers of the British ship Brio de Mar, taken and burnt by the Peacock, after the period fixed by the treaty of Ghent for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies, fifteen thousand dollars.
J. Trumbull, for paintings. Ante, p. 400.For the second payment to John Trumbull, for paintings agreeably to his contract with the Secretary of State, made in pursuance of a resolution of Congress, of the sixth of February, eighteen hundred and seventeen, six thousand dollars.
Owners and underwriters of the British ship Union.To indemnify the owners and underwriters of the British ship Union, Captain Robert Hall, taken and burnt by the American ship of war Peacock, after the period fixed by the treaty of Ghent, for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies, sixty-one thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars.
To repay John G. Brown, of New Brunswick.For enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to repay to John G. Brown, of New Brunswick, the amount of a forfeiture remitted by Mr. Dallas, while Secretary of the Treasury, a sum not exceeding two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
Survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina.For carrying into effect a resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina, passed December the twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the sum of five thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
These appropriations to be paid out of the fund reserved, &c. Act of Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 34.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, hereinbefore made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act “making provision for the debt of the United States,” and out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1819.