Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-03-30
(BY AUTHORIrY.)
Law of the United States.
AN ACT

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Making appropriations for the support OF govern.
mcnt for the year one thousand eight hundred
and twelve. as
Be it enacted BY the Senate and House of
Representatives IF the United States off
mc'iea 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 severalloan officers and
their clerks, and for books and stationary
for the same; for the payment of annuities
and grants; for the support of the mint es-
Enlistment; for the expense of intercourse
with foreign nations for the support oflight
houses, beacons, buoys and public piers for
defrayiHg the expenses of surveying the
public lands; and for satisfying certain mis-
cellaneous claims, the following sums be,
and the same are hereby respectively APP
propriated, that is TO say:
For compensation granted by law to the
members Of the Senate and the House of
Representatives, their officers and atten-
dants, estimated fora session of four months
and a half continuance, two hundred and one
Thousand four hundred and twenty-five doll
lars (:
For the expense of fire wood, stationary,
printing and all other contingent expenses
of the two Houses of Congress-, fifty thou
sanddollars:
For all contingent expenses of the libra
ry OF Congress, and the librarians allow
ance for the year eight hundred and twelve,
eight hundred dollars
For compensation to the President and
Vice-President of the United States, thirty
thousand dollars: ~
For compensation to the Secretary of
State, clerks and persons employed in that
department, including the sum of one thou
| sand four hundred and seventy-eight dol
lars in addition to the sum allowed for the
compensation of his clerks by the act of the
twenty-irst of April, one thousand eight
.hundrcdan six, twelpcthousahd nine hun
dred and thirteen dollars Bros
For compensation to a clerk on old re
cords inthe said department; for the year
eighteen hundred and eleven, and the year
eighteen hundred and twelve, fifteen hun
dred and seventy -four dollags:
For additional Compensation to the clerks
| IN the said Department. not exceeding fif-
| teen per centum, IN addition to the sum al
lowed by the act, entitled =" An act to rcgu-
late and Tx the compensation of clerks, and
to authorize the laying out certain public
roads, and for other purposes" one thou
SAND seventy-two dollars and fifty cents:
VI the lllCluental ana contingent exDen-
ses Of the said department, one thousand
| three hundred and fifty dollars:
For printing and distributing the laws of
| the first session of the twelfth Congress-.
and printing the laws in newspapers, five
| thousand five hundred dollars:
For printing and binding five hundred
| copies oftie census of one thousand eight
hundred and ten, four thousand six hundred
| dollars:
For compensation to the Secretary ofthc
Treasury, clerks and persons employed in
his office, including the SUN of one thousand
seven hundred and hfty 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, and the further sum
of seven hundred and fifty dollars 20 make
| good deficiency in the appropriation of the
year one thousand eight hundred and eleven,
seventeen thousand and seyenty-four dollars
and cighty-one cents:
For expense of translating foreign Ian
slages, allowance to the person employed
in transmitting passports and sea-letters
aud for stationary and printing in the efFicc
of the Secretary ofthe Treasury, one thou
sand dollars