# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/2nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 3

Chap. III.—An Act making Appropriations for the Support of Government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Specific appropriations for 1792. That for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and the support of the civil list of the United States, including the incidental and contingent expenses of the several departments and offices thereof, there shall be appropriated a sum of moneyCivil list. not exceeding three hundred and twenty-nine thousand, six hundred and fifty-three dollars, and fifty-six cents; that is to say:
Compensations to the President and Vice President, judges and attorney-general; District judges;For the compensations granted by law to the President of the United States, the Vice President, Chief Justice, Associate Judges, and Attorney General, fifty-three thousand dollars.
For the like compensations to the District Judges, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Members of Senate and H. of representatives, officers and attendants;For the like compensations to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the officers and attendants of the two Houses, estimated on a session of six months continuance, and including the travelling expenses of the members, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty dollars.
Secretary and officers of the treasury, clerks and attendants, and loan officers.For the like compensations to the Secretary and officers of the several departments of the Treasury of the United States, including clerks and attendants, and the salaries of the respective loan officers, sixty thousand three hundred dollars.
Compensations to Secretary of State and officers.For the like compensations to the Secretary and officers of the department of State, six thousand three hundred dollars.
​Secretary of War and officers,For the like compensations to the Secretary and officers of the department of War, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
Board of commissioners, clerks, &c.For the like compensations to the members of the Board of Commissioners, for the settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual states, including clerks and attendants, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars.
Governors, judges and other officers of W. Territory.For the like compensations to the Governors, Judges and other officers of the Western Territory of the United States, including contingencies, eleven thousand dollars.
B. Steuben.For the payment of the annual grant to Baron Steuben, pursuant to an act of Congress, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Pensions.For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars, and seventy-three cents.
Incidental expenses of civil list, &c. and the two Houses of Congress, &c.For defraying all other incidental and contingent expenses of the civil list establishment, including firewood, stationary, together with the printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, rent and office expenses of the three several departments, namely, Treasury, State, War, and of the General Board of Commissioners, twenty-one thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars, and eighty-three cents.
To the door-keepers.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the compensation to the door-keepers of the two houses, for services which have been heretofore rendered or may be rendered in the recess of Congress for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and certified by the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Representatives, in manner required by law, for like services during sessions, shall be discharged out of the money herein before appropriated for the contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress.
For liquidated claims, deficiencies in civil list, payment of officers, &c. of courts, and ten cutters.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for discharging certain liquidated claims upon the United States, for making good deficiencies in former appropriations for the support of the civil list establishment, and for aiding the fund appropriated for the payment of certain officers of the courts, jurors and witnesses, and for the establishment of ten cutters, there shall be appropriated a sum of money not exceeding one hundred and ninety-seven thousand, one hundred and nineteen dollars, and forty-nine cents; that is to say:
Balance due his Christian Majesty.For discharging a balance due on a liquidated claim of his most Christian Majesty against the United States, for supplies during the late war, nine thousand and twenty dollars, and sixty-eight cents.
Claim of O. Pollock.For payment of the principal and interest on a liquidated claim of Oliver Pollock, late commercial agent of the United States, at New Orleans, for supplies of clothing, arms, and military stores, during the late war, one hundred and eight thousand, six hundred and five dollars, and two cents: Provided, That the said monies be not paid to the said Oliver Pollock, without the consent of the agents of the court of Spain.
Deficiencies of civil list.For making good deficiencies in the last appropriations for the compensations to sundry officers of the civil list establishment, five thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars.
For sundry expenses.For defraying sundry authorized expenses to the commissioners of loans in the several states, twenty-one thousand dollars.
For defraying a balance of certain liquidated and contingent expenses in the treasury department, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For defraying the additional expense of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For making good a deficiency in former appropriations, to discharge the expenses to clerks, jurors and witnesses in the courts of the United States, five thousand dollars.
​For the maintenance and repair of light houses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, sixteen thousand dollars.
For the expense of keeping prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For the expense of clerks and books in arranging the public securities, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of hydrometers for the use of the officers in the execution of the laws of revenue, one thousand dollars.
For the farther expense of building and equipping ten cutters, two thousand dollars.
For military establishment for 1792.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the support of the military establishment of the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, the payment of the annual allowances to the invalid pensioners of the United States, for defraying all expenses incident to the Indian department, and for defraying the expenses incurred in the defensive protection of the frontiers against the Indians, during the years one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, by virtue of the authority vested in the President of the United States, by the acts relative to the military establishment, passed the twenty-ninth of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and the thirtieth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and for which no appropriations have been made, there shall be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred and thirty-two thousand, four hundred and forty-nine dollars, seventy-six cents, and two thirds of a cent; that is to say:
For the pay of the troops, one hundred and two thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars.
For subsistence, one hundred and nineteen thousand, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars, and ninety-seven cents.
For clothing, forty-eight thousand dollars.
For forage, four thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For the hospital department, six thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, fifty thousand dollars.
For the ordnance department, seven thousand two hundred and four dollars and sixty-four cents.
For the contingent expenses of the war department, including maps, hire of expresses, allowances to officers for extra expenses, printing, loss of stores of all kinds, advertising and apprehending deserters, twenty thousand dollars.
Compensation to sundry officers, &c.For the discharge of certain sums due for pay and subsistence of sundry officers of the late army, and for pay of the late Maryland line, for which no appropriations have been made, ten thousand four hundred and ninety dollars, and thirty-six cents.
To invalid pensioners.For the payment of the annual allowances to invalid pensioners, eighty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars, sixty cents and two thirds of a cent.
Indian department.For defraying all expenses incident to the Indian department, authorized by law, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars, and seventy-one cents.
Frontiers.For defraying the expenses incurred in the defensive protection of the frontiers, as before recited, thirty-seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and forty-eight cents.
The funds for the several appropriations. 1790, ch. 34.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit: first, out of the sum of six hundred thousand dollars which by the act, intituled “An act making provision for the debt of the United States,” is reserved, yearly, for the support of the government of the United States, and their common defence; and secondly, out of such surplus as shall have accrued to the end of the present year, upon ​the revenues heretofore established, over and above the sums necessary for the payment of interest on the public debt during the same year, and for satisfying other prior appropriations.
Approved, December 23, 1791.