# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 45

Chap. XLV.—An Act making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
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 expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for surveying the coast of the United States; for making the Cumberland Road; for ascertaining the titles to lands in Louisiana, for providing certificates of registry and lists of crews; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations. Senate and House of Representatives.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers, and attendants, five hundred and ninety-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, and the deduction to be made on account of the absence of members or delegates for any part of the present session, shall be in the proportion which the days of their absence respectively bear to the whole number of the days of the session.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, forty-seven thousand dollars.
Library of Congress. For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, eight hundred dollars.
President of the United States.For compensation to the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rent and repairs of the tenement occupied by the President of the United States since August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
Compensation to officers of the departments.For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said department and in the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, including the expense of printing and distributing ten thousand dour hundred copies of the laws of the first session of the fourteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations.For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven hundred and ten 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 one hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of issuing treasury notes, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts, for the years one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, two thousand dour hundred dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, thirteen thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and five cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the auditor’s office, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, ten thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-five cents, and the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of the auditor, four thousand dollars.
For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the auditor’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the treasurer’s office, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, four thousand two hundred and forty dollars and four cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the treasurer’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For expenses of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the treasurer’s office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office four hundred and ten dollars.
For stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the General Land Office, including vellum for land patents, three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For arrears in compensation due to the chief clerk in the office of the said commissioner, three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.
Specific appropriations.For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of Commissioner of the Revenue, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For stationery, printing, and contingent expenses, including the paper, printing and stamping of licenses, in the office of said commissioner, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the register of the treasury, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of the register of the treasury, eight hundred dollars.
For expense of stationery, including books for the public stocks, printing the public accounts, and other contingent expenses of the register’s office, two thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, including rent of the buildings now occupied by the department, expense or removing the records during the late war, transporting the same to the building preparing for them, cost of furniture for the offices, cases for the fire proof, and compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen employed for the security of the treasury buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.
For purchase of books, maps, and charts for the treasury department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For cost of vellum for patents for military bounty lands, printing them, and record books and wheels for military bounty lottery, in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to two clerks to be employed in the said office, to write and record the patents, seventeen hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of War, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the war department, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fourteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation for additional clerks to be employed in the office ​Specific appropriations.of the accountant of the war department, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the paymaster’s office, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For additional compensation of fifteen per cent. to the clerks employed in said office, on the sum hereinbefore appropriated, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the paymaster, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the superintendent general of military supplies, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the superintendent general of military supplies, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, seven thousand dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expenses of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the superintendent general of military supplies, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said commissary, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses in the said office of commissary general of purchases, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the adjutant and inspector general’s office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the navy, being the sum appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks to be employed in the office of said accountant, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of said accountant, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Specific appropriations.For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation of the clerks employed in the office of the navy board, including the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the service of the preceding year, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the messenger, including the sum of three hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents for the service of the preceding year, seven hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents.
For the contingent expenses of the navy board, including the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for the service of the preceding year, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Postmaster General, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the assistant postmaster general one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks employed in the General Post-office, being the amount appropriated for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to additional clerks, four thousand two hundred and five dollars.
For deficiency in appropriation for clerk hire for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars.
For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the General Post-office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the several commissioners of loans, and for allowance to certain commissioners of loans in lieu of clerk hire, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of sundry commissioners of loans, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan officers, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand one hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee, and his clerks, and for the contingent expenses of his office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For wages to persons employed in the different operations of the mint, including the sum of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of furnaces, cost of iron and machinery, rents and other contingent expenses of the mint, two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of copper to coin into cents, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For 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 Mississippi territory, nine thousand dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Specific appropriations.For 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 stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the expenses incurred by printing the laws of said territory, one thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
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 associate judges of the District of Columbia, sixty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For the compensation of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and or jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties and forfeitures, 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 government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For making the road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio, three hundred thousand dollars, to be repaid out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads to the state of Ohio, by virtue of the seventh section of an act, passed on the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, entitled1802, ch. 40. “An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes.”
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacon, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars.
To replace the amount heretofore appropriated for defraying the expense of surveying the coasts of the United tates, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For defraying the expense of ascertaining and adjusting land titles in Louisiana, five thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States, including the expense of surveys ​Specific appropriations.of private claims in Louisiana; for ascertaining the boundaries of the state of Ohio; of surveying the township lines in the Creek purchase, and of the salaries of two principal deputies in the state of Louisiana, one hundred and sixty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of printing certificates of registry and other documents for vessels, five thousand seven hundred and fifty 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.
For the salaries, allowances and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, fifty thousand dollars.
For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into effect the fourth, sixth and seventh articles of the treaty of peace concluded with his Britannic Majesty at Ghent, on the twenty-fourth December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners appointed under those articles, twenty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For the salaries of the agents of claims on account of captures at London, Paris, and Copenhagen, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.
For replacing the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated and carried to the surplus fund in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, for objects in relation to the intercourse with the Barbary states, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For making good a deficiency in the appropriation of the last year fo the intercourse with foreign nations, arising from the difference in the exchange in transmitting the money to Europe, and in the drafts of ministers and agents there upon bankers, and to meet similar expenses the present year, fifty thousand dollars.
To replace the sum of two thousand dollars, being part of an appropriation five thousand dollars, appropriated by an act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to discharge claims on account of depredations committed by the Osage Indians, and since carried to the surplus fund, two thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For relief of distressed American seamen for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, fifty 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 Aug. 4, 1790, ch. 39. 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, April 16, 1816.