Specific appropriations for the support of government for 1797.public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing a lighthouse on the island of Seguin, two thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
For completing the payment due for building the lighthouse on Baldhead, North Carolina, one thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fourteen cents.
For completing a lighthouse on Montock-point, two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For the balance carried to the “Surplus Fund,” of an appropriation for building a lighthouse on Montock-point, thirteen thousand dollars.
For extra clerkship, necessary for a part of the present year in the loan office, for consolidating the accounts of assumed and original debt. agreeable to the thirteenth section of the 1795, ch. 45.act passed the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the payment of the representatives of Samuel Patterson, late commissioner of the loan office for the state of Delaware, two hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For the payment of a balance due to James O’Hara, late agent for the quartermaster’s department, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-one cents.
For the payment of a balance due to Timothy Pickering, as commissioner appointed to hold the Indian treaties at Konondaigua and Oneida, three thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and twelve cents.
For compensation to persons employed in bringing votes to the seat of government, for electors of the President and Vice President of the United States, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For making good certain deficiencies arising from the balance of monies of various appropriations, being carried to the credit of the “Surplus Fund,” in pursuance of the sixteenth section of the 1795, ch. 45.act passed the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, viz:
For payment of the clerks employed by the commissioners of loans, for the states of Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina, for the quarter ending the thirtieth of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy cents.
For the payment of a balance due to Timothy Pickering, Beverly Randolph, and Benjamin Lincoln, commissioners appointed to negotiate and treat with the Indians, northwest of the river Ohio, on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, three thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-six cents.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four 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, reserved by the act Ante, p. 138.“making provision for the debt of the United States;” together with so much as may be necessary, of the proceeds of the duties on imports, and the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the duties on domestic distilled spirits and stills, which shall accrue until the close of the present year.
Approved, March 3, 1797.