For defraying expenses incident to lands.
1816, ch. 149.To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act of the last session, entitled “An act for settling the compensation of the commissioner, clerk and translator of the board for land claims in the eastern and western district of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana,” forty thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.
For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several states and territories of the United States, one hundred and eighty thousand and eighty-eight dollars.
For bringing votes for President and Vice president.For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United States to the seat of government, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation,For objects of foreign intercourse. eighty-seven thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, seventy thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-seven 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 on the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners appointed under those articles, thirty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents.
For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London, Paris, Copenhagen, and the Hague, eight thousand dollars.
For the relief of distressed American seamen, for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, fifty thousand dollars.
On account of the paintings authorized by the resolution of Congress, eight thousand dollars.
For erecting custom-houses, &c.For purchasing or erecting, for the use of the United States, suitable buildings for custom-houses and public warehouses, in such principal district in each state where the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem it necessary for the safe and convenient collection of the revenue of the United States, 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, reserved by the act1790, ch. 34. “making provision for the debt of the United States,” and out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1817.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act repealing the act, entitled “An act for the safe keeping and accommodation of prisoners of war,” passed July the sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Act of July 6, 1812, ch. 128.
The act for the safe keeping of prisoners, &c. repealed.
An account to be rendered.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act for the safe keeping and accommodation of prisoners of war,” passed on the sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be, and the same hereby is, repealed; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to cause an account to be rendered of the fund appropriated by the act hereby repealed, and report the same to Congress at their next session.
