Public Acts pay in the line, receive a sum not less than te dollars, nor more than twenty dollars per mont to be regulated by the Secretary of War. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That there s be one commissary general of subsistence; that there shall be as many assistant commis as the service may require, not exceeding fift shall be taken from the subalterns of the li shall, in addition to their pay in the line a sum not less than ten, nor more thar dollars per month; and that the assistan masters, and assistant commissaries of s shall be subject to duties in both d under the orders of the Secretary of Vars SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, Th be one paymaster general, with the pensation, and fourteen paymasters and emoluments of regimental phe office of that there shall be one commissard, per act of and two military storekeepers, t hundred and the purchasing department. adred and fifty SEC. 10. And be it further enac ical department shall consist of and a draughtsral, eight surgeons, with the copriation for one mental surgeons, and forty-fi nineteen, and one with the compensation of pcwenty, in the office SEC. 11. And be it furtherhousand dollars. cers, non-commissioned of messenger in said cians, and privates, retai dollars. those specially provided rank, pay, and emolum like cases by existing superintendent and four authorized and continy of the War and Navy shall be subject to the pairs of engine, hose, and SEC. 12. And be it nine hundred dollars. sident of the United to the Postmaster General, the officers, non-co musicians, and pri to two Assistant Postmasters in the service of and dollars. ner as to form an on to the clerks in the General force authorized of twentieth April, one thounumerary office ed and eighteen, twenty-two thouficers, musiciar red dollars. from the servisation to the messengers in said SEC. 13. Adred and sixty dollars. shall be allogent expenses of said office, four officer, whers. of the Unitpensation of the Surveyor General, two months pollars. ments to pensation to the clerks in the office of time of or General, two thousand one hundred SEC. tem of mpensation to the surveyor south of Tenpiled thousand dollars. same compensation to the clerks in the office of ernmveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars. of the compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Stari, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars. compensation to the elerks in the office of rveyor, two thousand dollars. compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, A thousand dollars. or compensation to the clerks in the office of urveyor in Alabama, one thousand five hundollars. or compensation to the Commissioner of the dings, at Washington City, two thou sation to the officers and clerks in e thousand six hundred dollars. es of persons employed in the different of the Mint, nine thousand and fifty incidental and contingent expenses and recost of machinery, and for allowance of age, in the gold and silver coinage of the it, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary, of the Arkansas Territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For the 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 the 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, seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the Attorney General, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, eight hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, including compensation to the messenger, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the reporter of the decis ions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars. For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several Territories, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. For making good a deficiency in the fund for the relief and protection of sick and disabled seamen, fifty thousand dollars. For the support of lighthouses, and other establishments for the protection of navigation, one hundred and two thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For additional compensation allowed by the act of the twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to the clerks in the office of the Superintendent General of Indian trade, four hundred and fifty dollars. For bringing on the votes of President and Vice President, three thousand one hundred and ninetyfive dollars and fifty cents. seven hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of ships' registers, three thousand against the United States, not otherwise provided For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims Public Acts of Congress. od in due course of settlement balance of thirteen thousand nine hundred and sand dollars. three dollars and seventy-two cents. Ministers of the United For the Medical and Hospital department, is, St. Petersburg, and Mad-twenty-four thousand five hundred and five dolof their several Secretaries of lars, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine The salaries of the Chargé d'Affaires thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars Janeiro, and at Stockholm, fifty- and sixty-five cents. five hundred dollars. For the Quartermaster General's department, t to a Minister at Paris, nine thou-two hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars, in addition to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, to wit: contingent expenses of those missions, the contingent expenses of foreign inter- For the expenses of intercourse with the bary Powers, forty-two thousand dollars. For regular supplies, transportation, rents, and repairs, postage and courts martial, and continBar-gencies of the department, and pay of soldiers employed in the erection and repairs of barracks, surveys, roads, and other labor, three hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations and for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars. To complete the barracks at Baton Rouge, twenty thousand dollars; and for the transportation of ordnance, fifteen thousand dollars. For opening, under the direction of the Secretary of War, within the Indian country, a road For arrearages in the Quartermaster General's from a point at or near Turner Brashear's Stand, department, twenty thousand dollars. on the old Natchez road, to a point at or near For the Military Academy, seventeen thousand Columbus, on the military road, the sum of five and thirty-six dollars and twenty-two cents. thousand dollars, which, by an act of the twenty- For fortifications, two hundred and two thouseventh of March, one thousand eight hundred sand dollars, in addition to an unexpended baland eighteen, was appropriated for keeping in re-ance of one hundred thousand dollars, to be appair said old road from Natchez to Columbia, in Tennessee, and which remains unexpended. plied to the following fortifications, to wit: Fort Delaware, fifty-five thousand dollars, to complete the same. Fort Washington, twenty-two thousand dol SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not other-lars. wise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act making appropriations for the Military Service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to wit: For the pay of the army and subsistence of the officers, nine hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars eighty-six cents, in addition to an unexpended balance of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, of one hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-eight cents. For three months gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldiers, including travelling ances for the same, sixty thousand dollars. Fort Monroe, sixty-five thousand dollars. For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, an unexpended balance of twenty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and seven cents. For the fulfilment of existing contracts for cannon, shot, and shells, and for the purchase of one thousand sword belts, and of timber for gun carriages, fifty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid penallow-sioners of the United States, two hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and one thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-five cents. For subsistence, one hundred and four thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-seven cents, in addition to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated. For forage for officers, forty-one thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars. For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, thirty thousand dollars. For arrearages, prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to a former appropriation of For clothing, two hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, in addition to an unexpended | twenty thousand dollars. Public Acts of Congress. For the contingent expenses of the said office, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, eight thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the messengers in said office, seven hundred and ten dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the Commissioners of the Navy Board, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the secretary of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to three clerks and a draughtsman, as allowed by acts of appropriation for one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in the office of said Commissioners, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars. For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen, for the security of the War and Navy buildings, and for the repairs of engine, hose, and buckets, one thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars. For compensation to two Assistant Postmasters General, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the General Post Office, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the messengers in said office, six hundred and sixty dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, four thousand dollars. For compensation of the Surveyor General, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Surveyor General, two thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the surveyor in Alabama, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, at Washington City, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the officers and clerks in the Mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For wages of persons employed in the different operations of the Mint, nine thousand and fifty dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, and for allowance of wastage, in the gold and silver coinage of the Mint, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary, of the Arkansas Territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. For the 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 the 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, seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the Attorney General, per act of twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, eight hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, including compensation to the messenger, five hundred dollars." For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars. For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several Territories, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. For making good a deficiency in the fund for the relief and protection of sick and disabled seamen, fifty thousand dollars. For the support of lighthouses, and other establishments for the protection of navigation, one hundred and two thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For additional compensation allowed by the act of the twentieth April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to the clerks in the office of the Superintendent General of Indian trade, four hundred and fifty dollars. For bringing on the votes of President and Vice President, three thousand one hundred and ninetyfive dollars and fifty cents. For expenses of ships' registers, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided Public Acts of Congress. for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement balance of thirteen thousand nine hundred and at the Treasury, six thousand dollars. three dollars and seventy-two cents. For the Medical and Hospital department, For the salaries of the Ministers of the United States at London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Mad-twenty-four thousand five hundred and five dolrid, with the salaries of their several Secretaries of lars, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine Legation, and the salaries of the Chargé d'Affaires thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars at the Hague, Rio Janeiro, and at Stockholm, fifty- and sixty-five cents. seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the Quartermaster General's department, For an outfit to a Minister at Paris, nine thou-two hundred and two thousand eight hundred and sand dollars. For the contingent expenses of those missions, ten thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with the bary Powers, forty-two thousand dollars. sixty-eight dollars, in addition to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated, to wit: For regular supplies, transportation, rents, and repairs, postage and courts martial, and continBar-gencies of the department, and pay of soldiers employed in the erection and repairs of barracks, surveys, roads, and other labor, three hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations and for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars. To complete the barracks at Baton Rouge, twenty thousand dollars; and for the transportation of ordnance, fifteen thousand dollars. For opening, under the direction of the Secretary of War, within the Indian country, a road For arrearages in the Quartermaster General's from a point at or near Turner Brashear's Stand, department, twenty thousand dollars. on the old Natchez road, to a point at or near For the Military Academy, seventeen thousand Columbus, on the military road, the sum of five and thirty-six dollars and twenty-two cents. thousand dollars, which, by an act of the twenty- For fortifications, two hundred and two thouseventh of March, one thousand eight hundred sand dollars, in addition to an unexpended baland eighteen, was appropriated for keeping in re-ance of one hundred thousand dollars, to be appair said old road from Natchez to Columbia, in Tennessee, and which remains unexpended. plied to the following fortifications, to wit: Fort Washington, twenty-two thousand dol SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not other-lars. wise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act making appropriations for the Military Service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated for the military service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to wit: For the pay of the army and subsistence of the officers, nine hundred and fifty-four thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars eighty-six cents, in addition to an unexpended balance of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, of one hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-eight cents. For three months gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldiers, including travelling ances for the same, sixty thousand dollars. Fort Monroe, sixty-five thousand dollars. For the contingencies of the army, forty thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of twenty thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, an unexpended balance of twenty-three thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and seven cents. For the fulfilment of existing contracts for cannon, shot, and shells, and for the purchase of one thousand sword belts, and of timber for gun carriages, fifty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the annual allowance to the invalid penallow-sioners of the United States, two hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred and one thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-five cents. For subsistence, one hundred and four thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-seven cents, in addition to the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars already appropriated. For forage for officers, forty-one thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars. For the half-pay pensions of widows and orphans, thirty thousand dollars. For arrearages, prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and seventeen, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to a former appropriation of For clothing, two hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, in addition to an unexpended | twenty thousand dollars. Public Acts of Congress. For arrearages in the Indian Department, one hundred and thirty thousand two hundred and five dollars and forty-four cents. For the current expenses of the Indian Department, one hundred thousand dollars. For the annual allowance to the Revolutionary pensioners of the United States, one million two hundred thousand dollars, being part of the unexpended balance of a former appropriation. For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Creek nation, on the eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and ratified by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the twenty-fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, fortyeight thousand five hundred dollars. one hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars. For clothing the same, thirty thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars, and thirty-one cents. For fuel for the same, six thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses of the same, fourteen thousand dollars. For completing the equipment of the vessels constructed in pursuance of the act authorizing the building of a certain number of small vessels of war, ten thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Navy to remove obstructions placed in the river Thames, in Connecticut, by the commander of the American ships during the late war, one hundred and fifty dollars. For carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, on the elev- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the seveenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and ral appropriations herein before made shall be paid twenty, sixty-five thousand dollars; and for pay-out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ment of one year's annuity to Mushulatubba, appropriated. a Choctaw chief, one hundred and fifty dollars. For completing the road in the State of Georgia, through the Creek nation, under the acts of the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and fourteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, one thousand dollars. For discharging arrearages incurred in building the arsenal at Augusta, in Georgia, forty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, herein before made, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1821. An Act to authorize the President of the United States to borrow a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars. Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, empowered to borrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars, at a rate of interest, payable quarter-yearly, not exceeding five per centum per annum, and reimbursable at the will of the Government, at any time after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five; to be applied, in addition to the moneys now in the Treasury, or which may be received therein from other sources, during the present year, to defray any of the public expenses An Act making appropriations for the support of the which are, or may be, authorized by law. The Navy of the United States for the year one thou-stock thereby created shall be transferable in the sand eight hundred and twenty-one. Approved, March 3, 1821. Be it enacted, &c., That, for defraying the expenses of the Navy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated: For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, nine hundred and eightythree thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents. For provisions, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and all expenses on account of the sick, thirty-two thousand dollars. For repairs of vessels, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For improvement of navy yards, docks, and wharves, pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks, and laborers, twenty-five thousand dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, twenty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, two hundred thousand dollars. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, same manner as is provided by law for the transfer of the public debt. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Bank of the United States to lend the said sum, or any part thereof; and it is hereby further declared, that it shall be deemed a good execution of the said power to borrow, for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to cause to be constituted certificates of stock, signed by the Register of the Treasury, or by a Commissioner of Loans, for the sum to be borrowed, or for any part thereof, bearing an interest of five per centum per annum, transferable and reimbursable as aforesaid, and to cause the said certificates of stock to be sold, provided that no stock be sold under par. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to employ an agent or agents for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions to the loan authorized by this act, or of selling any part of the stock to be created by virtue thereof. A commission of not exceeding one-eighth of one |