ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth day of December, 1819, and ended on the fifteenth day of May, 1820.
James Monroe, President; Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; James Barbour, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the fourteenth of December, 1819; John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-eighth of January, 1820; Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
Chapter I.—An Act authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage.
Members, delegates, secretary, and clerk of House may transmit any document.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the delegates from territories, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States, or the territories thereof, any documents which have been, or may be, printed by order of either House, during the present Congress.
Approved, December 14, 1819.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. II.—An Act making a partial appropriation for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Appropriations.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 are hereby, appropriated to the objects herein specified, to wit:
For subsistence.For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For armories.For the national armories, fifty-six thousand dollars.
For arrearages.For arrearages, on the settlement of outstanding claims, fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 14, 1820.