The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-05-02

rpUBLIC-NO. 33.l

y AL Ill dOulllOn 10 y an act 10 regulate
and fix the compensation Of the Clerks
in the different Offices passed April,
one thousand eight hundred and cigh-
teen.
Be II enacted By he Senate and House Of
Representatives Of he Ehitcd SiGteS Qt.i
mericd IN Congress assembled, That the Sc
cTetary Of State be authorized to employ,
in the State Department, one additional
Clerk, whose compensation shall not eX-
ceed sixteen hundred dollars two addi.
tional Clerks, whose compensation shall
not exceed one thousand dollars each ano
one additional Clerk for the Patent Office,
whose compensation shall not exceed eight
hundred dollars.
SEo. .. .4ad be II FURTHER enacted, That
The Secretary Of the Treasury be, and he
Is, authorized TO employ, in the Treasury
Department, one additional Clerk, whose
compensation snail not exceed fourteen
hundred dollars; IN the Office 0f the Fourth
Auditor, two additional Clerks, whose com
pensution shall not exceed one thousand
dollars each.
Secs .lnd be a. Further enacted, Tha'
the Secretary OF the Navy be, and he here
by is, authorized to employ one additional
Clerk whose compensation shall not exceed
one thousand dollars,
Sec. /. .lai be II further enacted, Tha'
the Secretary Of the Navy be, and he hcrc.
by is, authorized to employ one additions
Clerk, whose compensation shall not cN
ceed one thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. find be il 6Hthn enacted, That
the Secretary ofthe War department be,
and he hereby is, authorized To employ one
additional Clerk for the office OF the Chlci
Engineer one additional Clerk for the of
fec Of the At]utant General; and one ad-
d.l:unal Clerk for the office ofthe Commls-
sary General Of Subsistence the cOmpcn
qation To each not exceeding eight hun
drcd dollars.
Sec. 6. .lnd be Il further cn0cied, That
the Postmaster General be, and he hereby
is, authorized to employ fi', additional
Clerks, whose compensation shall not eX-
coed one thousand dollars each ; and ono
additional Clerk, whose CO upensaton shall
not exceed one thousand iour hundred dol.
Jars.
Sec. z. That the Secretary ofthe Treas.
ury be authorized to allow -four Clerks III
the office Of the Register OF the Treasury,
and one Clerk in the Office OF the Navy
Commissioners, one Clerk in the Fifth Au-
dtor's office, and one clerk in the First
Comptroller's office, who now receive eight
hundred dollars each, the sum OF one thou
sand dollars each year.
Sec. s. ind be 10 further enacted, That
the sum Of one thousand dollars. as com
pensation for one Clerk in the Bureau Of
Indian Affairs, be applied under tho d'rec-
ton of the Secretary OF War, under the act
Of eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Sec. 9. .4nd be hGuther enacted, That,
from and ftor the thirty y-first OF Marcel,
eightee hundred dtweuty -seven,so much
of the second section of the act TO tx the
compensation Of the Clerks III tho differ
ent Offices, passed on the twentieth OF A
pril, eighteen hundred and eighteen, az re.
lates to the clerks authorized to be en-
Soyed in the Office Of the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, be repealed,
and that there be employed, from and after
that period, in said office, one clerk, whose
compensation shall not exceed seventeen
hundred dollars; ten Clerks, whose compcn-
sta on shall not exceed eleven hundred and
fifty dollars and six Clerks, whose com
pensation shall not exceed one thousand
dollars: and that there be two hundred and
fifty dollars allowed as contingency for
keeping the account Of three per csot.
fund, appropriated to the use Of certain
States.
Sec 10. ind be II further enacted, That
the sum of ii ighteen thousand four hundred
dollars be, and hereby Is, appropriated, out
of any money in the Treasury, not other
wise Appropriated, as compensation to the
several Clerks authorized by this act, and
for the additional compensation provided
therein.
JOHN w. TAYLOR,
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives.
&c. CALHOUN,
Vice President Of the United stateS
and President of'hs Senate.