Persons who purchase a quarter section or more of land in Alabama, and who have paid one fourth, &c., shall be competent to hold any office of honour or profit in that territory, &c.who have or may hereafter purchase, from the United States, one quarter section or more of land in the Alabama territory, and shall have paid one fourth part thereon, as the law in such cases requires, and shall have obtained a certificate of the proper land office to that effect, shall be competent to hold any office of honour or profit in the said territory, any thing in the ordinance or former laws of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, April 9, 1818.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XLV.—An Act making appropriation for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Sums appropriated for the support of government.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:
Compensation of members of Congress, &c.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, two hundred thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of Congress.For the expenses of fire wood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses, of the two houses of Congress, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Library and librarian of Congress.For the expenses of the library of Congress, including the librarian’s allowance, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
President.For compensation to the President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Vice President.For compensation to the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Rent, &c., of a house occupied by the President.For rent and repairs of a house occupied by the President of the United States, eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Secretary of State.For compensation to the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
Clerks in the Department of State.For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger in said department, and for the patent office, six hundred and sixty dollars.
Contingent expenses of Department of State.For the contingent and incidental expenses of the said department, including the expenses of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the first session of the fifteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, and to provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, nineteen thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars.
Secretary of the Treasury.For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.
Clerks.For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Messenger.For compensation to the messenger and assistant messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven hundred and ten dollars.
First comptroller.For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
First comptroller’s clerks, and messenger.For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the first comptroller of the treasury, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.
Second comptroller.For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Second comptroller’s clerks.For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the second comptroller of the treasury, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.