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For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

Second comp

troller's messen

ger.

and messenger.

For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand First auditor, dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the first auditor's and his clerks office, fifteen thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.

tor.

Second audi

Second audi

For compensation to the clerks employed in the second auditor's office, sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compen- tor's clerks and sation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

messenger.

and his clerks

For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand Third auditor, dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the third auditor's office, and messenger. twenty thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

and messenger.

For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thou- Fourth auditor, sand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the fourth and his clerks auditor's office, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

Fifth auditor,

and messenger.

For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the fifth auditor's and his clerks office, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, including a provision for his services in one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for which no appropriation was made, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars fifty cents.

For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the treasurer's office, five thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

Treasurer, and his clerks.

For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and Messenger. ten dollars.

For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of said commissioner, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to additional clerks employed in that office, during the last quarter of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

Commissioner of general land office, and his clerks, additional clerks, and mes

senger.

Commissioner of the revenue, and his clerks

For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said commissioner, nine thousand dollars. For compensation to the and messenger. messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

Register, his

senger.

For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of clerks and messaid register, seventeen thousand and twenty-eight dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars.

For stating and printing the public accounts for the years one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For stating

and printing public accounts.

guages, and

For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowed to the per- For translason employed in transmitting passports and sea-letters, for stationery, ting foreign lanprinting, fuel, and other contingent expenses in the said department, other contingent and in the several offices therein, thirty-three thousand six hundred expenses. and fifty dollars.

For compensation to a superintendent and two watchmen, employed Superintendent for the security of the treasury buildings, and for repairs of two fire and watchmen of engines, hose, and fire buckets, one thousand one hundred dollars.

the treasury.

Secretary of sinking fund,

Secretary of

War.

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Contingent expenses.

Commissioners of navy board.

Completing surveys of ports

and harbours.

The Creek Indians.

Printing, &c. of journal and

proceedings of the convention,

&c.

Digesting and printing laws, &c.

Secretary of the navy board.

For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty 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 governer, 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.

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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 thirty-six dollars.

For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and Agents at Paris for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.

For nine months' salary of the agent at Copenhagen, one thousand five hundred dollars.

and London. Agent at Copenhagen,

Relief of

men.

For the relief of distressed American seamen for the present year, and American seato 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.

For payment

of sums under
the act men-

tioned.
1816, ch. 149.
For discharg-
ing claims not
otherwise pro-
vided for, ad-
mitted at the
Treasury.

For customhouses and

warehouses. For discharg

ing the judgby Gould Hoyt against D. Gels

ment obtained

ton and P. Schenk, &c. For indemni

fying the own

ers of the British ship Venus, &c.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. XLVII.-An Act to extend the time for locating 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.

Be it 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.

Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31. Act of Feb.

9, 1821, ch. 11.

Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 39. Officers and

soldiers of the Virginia line bounty lands, allowed two years from the

entitled to

ratification of any treaty ex

tinguishing Indian titles, &c. to obtain warrants, &c.

And three

their surveys, &c.

The act au

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 years to return 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,

thorizing patents to issue veyed in virtue of Virginia re

for lands sur

solution warrants, revived,

&c. except, &c.

(a) An act authorizing patents to issue for lands located and surveyed under Virginia resolution warrants, March 3, 1807, ch. 31.

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