Secretary of sinking fund. Secretary of Clerks. Contingent expenses. Paymaster general. Cierks. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Commissary general of purchases. Clerks. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Clerks. Clerks in the ordnance office. Secretary of the Navy. Clerks. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Commissioners of navy board. Completing surveys of porta and harbours. The Creek Indians. Printing, &c. of journal and proceedings of the convention, &c. Digesting and printing laws, Ice. Secretory of the navy board. For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and filly dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the paymaster general of the army, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the paymaster general of the army, ten thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the commissary general of purchases, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the commissary general of purchases, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, office rent, and other contingent expenses, in said office, nine hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the adjutant and inspector general, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation to clerks employed in the ordnance office, one thousand dollars. » For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For completing the surveys of certain ports and harbours, for the purpose of selecting two stations for the establishment of arsenal ports, twenty-five thousand dollars. For discharging the sum to be paid to the Creek nation of Indians, during the present year, pursuant to the treaty with them of the twentysecond January, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of printing done pursuant to the resolution directing the publication and distribution of the journal and proceedings of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of digesting and printing certain laws and regulations relative to the navigation and trade of the United States in foreign countries, pursuant to a resolution of the Senate of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the secretary of the navy board, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the navy board, three thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars. For the contingent expenses of the navy board, two thousand dollars. For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, and for other expenses incurred for the security of the buildings occupied by the State, War, and Navy, Departments, two thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the Postmaster General, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the Assistant Postmaster General, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the second Assistant Postmaster General, one thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to clerks employed in the general post-office, nineteen thousand three hundred and five dollars. For compensation to the messenger and his assistants in said office, six hundred and sixty dollars. For the contingent expenses of the general post-office, three thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, his clerks, and for the contingent expenses of his office, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in the Illinois and Missouri territories, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in the northern part of the Alabama territory, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For wages of persons employed in the different operations of the mint, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs, costs of iron, and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses of the mint, three thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For allowance for wasteage in the gold and silver coin, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses, of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Missouri territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses, of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Alabama territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges, of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, sixty-three thousand dollars. Clerks. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Superintendent and watchmen of State, War, and Navy Departments. Postmaster general, . Assistant postmaster general. Second assistant postmaster general. Cierks in the general postoffice. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Surveyor general and clerks. Surveyor south of Tennessee and clerks, &c. Surveyor in Illinois and Missouri. Surveyor in northern part of Alabama. Commissioner of public buildings. Officers and clerks of the mint. Persons employed in the mint. Contingent expenses of the mint. Wasteage. Governor, &c. of Illinois. Contingent expenses in Illinois. Governor, &c. of Missouri. Contingent expenses. Governor, &c. of Michigan. Contingent expenses. Governor, &c of Alabama. Contingent expenses. Judges. Attorney general. District attorneys and marshals. Reporter of decisions of Supreme Court. Sundry pensions. Annual allowance to pen Support of lighthouses, &c. Claims of inhabitants of West Florida. Commissioner of claims. Clerk of commissioner of claims. Contingent expenses. Additional clerks. Hire of a messenger. Surveying public lands. Salaries of public ministers, Sic. Outfits, &c. Contingent expenses. Deficiency in foreign intercourse fund. Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse. Intercourse with Barbary powers. For carrying into effect the treaty of Ghent. For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, three thousand dollars. For compensation of sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the years eighteen hundred and seventeen and eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, sixteen hundred and forty dollars. For the payment of the annual allowance to the pensioners of the United States to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars, and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, sixty thousand two hundred and thirtysix dollars. For discharging the claims of the inhabitants of the late province of West Florida, for advances made for the use of the United States prior to, and since the taking possession of the said territory, as liquidated by the Department of State, including principal and interest, forty-one thousand three hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy cents. For compensation to the commissioner for settling claims for property lost, five hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerk employed in the office of said commissioner, two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and other contingent expenses in said office, including a deficiency in the appropriation of last year, six hundred and sixty-five dollars. For the salary of additional clerks, from the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, to ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, fourteen hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For the hire of a messenger for the same period, four hundred and eighty-four dollars. For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands, within the several states and territories of the United States, one hundred and sixty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For salaries of the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, Stockholm, Madrid, and the Hague, and their several'secretaries of legation, seventy-seven thousand dollars. For outfits of ministers of the United States at London and St. Petersburg, eighteen thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the missions aforesaid, ten thousand dollars. To provide for a deficiency in the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, eighty thousand dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two thousand dollars. For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into effect the fourth, fifth, 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, agents, and surveyors, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, seventy-four thousand eight hundred and thirtv-six dollars. For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For nine months' salary of the agent at Copenhagen, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the relief of distressed American seamen for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act of the twenty-ninth April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, 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," six thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars. For the discharge of such claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars. For the purchase or erection of custom-houses and public warehouses, two hundred thousand dollars. For discharging the judgment obtained by Gould Hoyt against David Gelston and Peter Schenk, in an action of trespass for seizing the ship American Eagle under instructions from the Treasury Department, a sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. To indemnify the owners of the British ship Venus, taken by the Peacock after the conclusion of the peace with Great Britain, a sum not exceeding seven thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Approved, April 9, 1818. Agcnti at Pari* and London. Agent at Copenhagen. Relief of American seamen. For payment of sums under tbo act men. tioncd. 1816, ch."149. For discharging claims not otherwise provided for, admitted at the Treasury. For customhouses and warehouses. For discharging the judgment obtained by Gould Hoyt against D. Gelston and P. Schenk, &c. For indemnifying the owners of the British ship Venus, &c. Statute I. Chap. XLVII.—An Act to extend the tipie for beating Virginia military land April 11, 1818. warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office; and for designating the western boundary line of the Virginia military tract. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 'United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs, and assigns, entitled to bounty lands, within the Virginia military tract, between the Little Miami and the Sciota rivers, shall be allowed a further term of two years, from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing the Indian title to lands within the said boundaries not heretofore extinguished, to obtain warrants and complete their locations; and a further term of three years, from the ratification of .any treaty extinguishing the Indian title to lands within the said boundaries not heretofore extinguished, as aforesaid, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the general land office; any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act, entitled "An act authorizing patents to issue for lands located and surveyed by virtue of certain Virginia resolution warrants," (a) passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, shall be revived and in force, with all its restrictions, except that the respective times allowed for making locations and returning surveys thereon, shall be limited to the terms prescribed by the first section of this act for the location and return of surveys on other warrants, and that the surveys shall be returned to the general land office: Provided, That no locations, as aforesaid, in virtue of this, or the preceding, section of this act, shall be made on tracts of lands for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent which may, nevertheless, (a) An act authorizing patenti to issue for lands located and surveyed under Virginia resolution war rants, March 3, 1807, ch. 31. Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31. Act of Feb. 9, 1S21, ch. 11. Act of March 1, 1S23, ch. 3!). Officers and soldiers of the Virginia lino entitled to bounty lands, allowed two years from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing Indian titles, &c. to obtain warrants, &c. And threo years to return their surveys, &c. The act authorizing patents to issue for lands surveyed in virtue of Virginia resolution warrants, revived, &c. except, &c. Proviso: no location on tracts for which patents had previously issued or which had been surveyed, &c. Proviso: no locations or surveys within that part of the military tract, &c. The line designated by the act of the 23d of March, 1804, ch. 33, to romain the westerly boundary line of the Virginia tract, until otherwise directed by law. The line run by Charles Roberts, to be considered the westerly boundary. be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be considered null and void: Provided also, That no locations or surveys shall be made within that part of the said military tract to which the Indian title remained heretofore unextinguished, until after six months shall have elapsed from the date of a proclamation of the President of the United States, declaring a treaty or treaties to have been concluded and ratified, providing for the extinguishment of the Indian title to such lands; nor shall any patent be granted for any location, survey, or entry, that has been, or shall be, made prior to the expiration of six months from and after the ratification of such treaty. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from the source of the littie Miami river to.the Indian boundary line established by the treaty of Grenvitle, in one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, the line designated as the westerly boundary line of the Virginia tract, by an act of Congress, passed on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled "An act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia north-west of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands," shall be considered and held to be such until otherwise directed by law: And from the aforesaid Indian boundary line to the source of the Sciota river, the line run by Charles Roberts, in one thousand eight hundred and twelve, in pursuance of instructions from the commissioners appointed on the part of the United States, to establish the western boundary of the said military tract, shall be considered and held to be the westerly boundary line thereof; and that no patent shall be granted on any location and survey that has or may be made west of the aforesaid respective lines. Approved, April 11, 1818. Statute I. April 11, 1818. The Secretary of the Treasury, from time to .time, to pay 3 per cent. of the net proceeds of public lands in Indiana, to persons authorized by the legislature of that state to receive it. The sums to be applied to making public roads, &c. Act of April 19,1816, ch. 57. An annual account of the application of the money to be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c. Chap. XLIX.—Jin Act to provide for paying to the state of Indiana three per cent. of the net proceeds arising from the sales if the United States lands within the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Indiana, which, since the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may be authorized by the legislature of the said state to receive the same; which sums,thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals within the said state, in conformity to the provision on the subject, contained in the act, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Indiana territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original states," and to no other purpose whatever; and an annual accouut of the application, of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct; and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum that may then be due, or which may thereafter become due, until a return shall be made, as herein required. Approved, April 11,1818. |