ment, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred and seventy dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the engineer department, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of said office, one thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the surgeon general, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, three hundred and seventyfour 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, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight thousand two hundred dollars. For expense of fuel, stationery, and other contingent expenses, in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars. For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to their secretary, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said commissioners, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For an addition to the allowance for clerk hire in said office, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, four hundred and ten dollars. 1818, ch. 87. Contingent expenses. Clerks. Contingent expenses. Clerks. Contingent expenses. Secretary of the Navy. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. Contingent expenses. Messenger. Commissioners of navy board. Secretary of navy board. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. Additional clerk hire, &c. Messenger. Contingencies. State, War, partments. For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars. For compensation to a superintendent, and two watchmen, and for other expenses incurred for the security of the State, War, and Navy and Navy DeDepartments, one thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, twenty-two thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the messengers in the general post-office, six hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation to the assistant postmaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the second assistant postmaster general, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of the general post-office, four thousand dollars. For compensation to 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 his office, and for contingent expenses, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in the state of Illinois and the Missouri territory, two thousand dollars. For compensation to his clerks, per act of third April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in the Alabama territory, two thousand dollars. Postmaster Assistant postmaster general. Second assistant. Contingent expenses. Surveyor ge neral. Surveyor south of Tennessee. His clerks, &c. Surveyor in His clerks. Commissioner of public build ings. Officers and clerks of the mint. Persons em ployed in the mint. Contingent expenses of the mint. Wasteage. Civil govern ment of Mis Contingent souri. expenses Missouri. of Civil government of Alaba ma. Contingent expenses. For compensation to his clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings at Washington, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For wages of the persons employed in the different operations of the mint, ten thousand and seventy-five dollars. For repairs, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses, of the mint, five thousand four hundred dollars. For allowance of wasteage in the gold and silver coinage of the mint, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Missouri territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Alabama territory, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars. For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fisty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Michiment of Michigan territory, six thousand six hundred dollars. Civil For the contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For the discharge of such claims against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand 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-five thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents. For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to his clerk, per act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, one thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars. For compensation to sundry district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eight thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, one thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, two thousand and ninety dollars. For the payment of balances due to certain collectors of the old internal revenue pursuant to the provisions of the act of thirteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, fifteen thousand dollars. For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, including the purchase and transportation of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs, and improvements, and contingent expenses, and including, also, balances of former appropriations for Savannah river, lake Erie and Little Gull Island, which were carried to the surplus fund the thirty-first of December last, seventyfour thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars twenty-seven cents. For the purchase or erection of custom-houses and public warehouses, one hundred thousand dollars. For claims due and becoming due, under existing contracts for constructing the United States' road from Cumberland to the Ohio river, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for completing the said road, the sum of two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: which several sums, hereby appropriated, together with the amount heretofore advanced by the United States for making said road, shall be repaid out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads to the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, by virtue of the several acts for the admission of the aforesaid states into the Union. For surveying the public lands of the United States, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Surveying public lands. New execu For expenses attending the occupancy of the new executive buildings, including fuel, furniture, and other incidental expenses, twenty-three tive buildings. thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents. For covering with slate the two executive buildings now occupied by the State, Treasury, War, and Navy, Departments, ten thousand dollars. Miscellaneous For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due claims, &c. course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars. Clerks in For additional compensation allowed to the clerks in the office of the superintendent of Indian trade, per act of twentieth April, eighteen office of superhundred and eighteen, four hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks 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, and other contingent expenses, in said office, nine hundred and thirty dollars. For allowance to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For salaries to the ministers of the United States to London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, and Madrid, with the salaries of their several secretaries of legation, and the salary of a chargé des affaires at the Hague and at Stockholm, and for the usual allowance of three months' salary to the minister at Stockholm, payable on his return home, sixtysix thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. intendent of In- commissary Messenger. Clerks. Contingent expenses. Salaries to ministers, &c. of the United States at foreign courts, &c. Outfit of min For outfit for a minister plenipotentiary at Rio Janeiro, and Madrid, and also for the chargé des affaires at London, the Hague, and Stock-ister to Rio Jaholm, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of the missions aforesaid, ten thousand dollars. For a deficiency in the appropriations of former years, for the payment of expenses on foreign intercourse, including losses on drafts and the difference of exchange, twenty-five thousand dollars. neiro, Madrid, &c. Contingent expenses. Deficiency of former appropriation for foreign interFor the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States course, &c. and foreign nations, thirty thousand dollars. Contingent of forexpenses For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two eign inter thousand dollars. For the expenses, during the present year, for carrying into effect the fifth, sixth, and seventh, articles of the treaty of peace, concluded with his Britannic majesty on the 24th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners, agents, and surveyors, and their contingent expenses, forty thousand dollars. For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London and at Paris, four thousand dollars. For the relief of distressed American seamen in foreign countries, eighty thousand dollars. course. Intercourse with Barbary powers. Expenses under the articles of the treaty of Ghent, including, &c. Agents of claims at Paris and London. Distressed American sea For cost of paper, engraving, and printing certificates of registry, and men. Cost of certificates of registry, &c. 1813, ch. 50. Insurers of British ship Brio de Mar. J. Trumbull, for paintings. Ante, p. 400. Owners and the British ship Union. lists of crews for vessels of the United States, per provisions of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirteen, five thousand dollars. To indemnify the insurers of the British ship Brio de Mar, taken and burnt by the Peacock, after the period fixed by the treaty of Ghent for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies, fifteen thousand dollars. For the second payment to John Trumbull, for paintings agreeably to his contract with the Secretary of State, made in pursuance of a resolution of Congress, of the sixth of February, eighteen hundred and seventeen, six thousand dollars. To indemnify the owners and underwriters of the British ship Union, underwriters of Captain Robert Hall, taken and burnt by the American ship of war Peacock, after the period fixed by the treaty of Ghent, for the termination of hostilities between the United States and Great Britain and her dependencies, sixty-one thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars. To repay of New Bruns For enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to repay to John G. Brown, John G. Brown, of New Brunswick, the amount of a forfeiture remitted by Mr. Dallas, while Secretary of the Treasury, a sum not exceeding two hundred and twenty-eight dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. wick. Survey of certain parts of coast of North Carolina. For carrying into effect a resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina, passed December the twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the sum of five thousand dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, hereinbefore made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act "making provision for the debt of the United States," and out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1819. STATUTE II. March 3, 1819. CHAP. LX.-An Act extending the term of half-pay pensions to the widows and children of certain officers, seamen, and marines, who died in the public service. Act of March 4, 1814, ch. 20. Act of April 16, 1818, ch. 65. Act of April 9, 1824, ch. 34. Five years' ad ditional half pay to the wid ows and chil dren of officers, seamen, and marines, killed in battle, &c. or who died in service. STATUTE II. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases where provision has been made by law for five years, half pay to the widows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who were killed in battle, or died of wounds received in battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States, during the late war, the said provision shall be continued for the additional term of five years, to commence at the end of the first term of five years, in each case, respectively, making the provision equal to ten years half pay; which shall be paid in the manner, and out of the fund, heretofore designated by law; and the said pensions shall also cease for the reasons mentioned in the said law. APPROVED, March 3, 1819. March 3, 1819. CHAP. LXX.-An Act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United Laws of the United States not inapplica States within the state of Illinois. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the laws of the United ble, in force in States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect, within the state of Illinois as elsewhere within the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said state shall be one district, and be called the Illinois district. And a district court shall be Illinois. Illinois a dis trict. (a) See notes to the act of April 18, 1818, ch. 67. held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold, at the seat of government of the said state, two sessions annually, on the first Mondays in May and December; and he shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under an act, entitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States." He shall appoint a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records of the court, at the place of holding the same, and shall receive, for the services performed by him, the same fees to which the clerk of the Kentucky district is entitled for similar services. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the judge of the said district court, the annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to commence from the date of his appointment; to be paid quarter yearly, at the treasury of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed, in the said district, a person learned in the law, to act as attorney for the United States, who shall, in addition to his stated fees, be paid, by the United States, two hundred dollars, as a full compensation for all extra services. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a marshal be appointed for the said district, who shall perform the same duties, be subject to the same regulations and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are prescribed to marshals in other districts; and shall, moreover, be entitled to the sum of two hundred dollars annually, as a compensation for all extra services. APPROVED, March 3, 1819. CHAP.LXXI.-An Act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to authorize and March 3, 1819. empower the president and managers of the Washington Turnpike Company of the state of Maryland, when organized, to extend and make their turnpike road to or from Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, through the said district, to the line thereof." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the law of the state of Maryland, entitled "A supplement to an act, entitled an act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from the line of the district of Columbia, where it crosses the post-road leading from Georgetown to Fredericktown, through Montgomery and Frederick counties, to Fredericktown," passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, in full force within the District of Columbia. APPROVED, March 3, 1819. The law of Maryland in force in the District of Colum bia. CHAP.LXXII.-An Act to alter and establish certain post-roads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following post-roads be, and the same are hereby, discontinued, that is to say: From Brunswick, by Topsham, to Starbird's corner, in Bowdoin, in Maine. From Plymouth, by Carver and Plympton, to Middleborough, and from Medford to Reading, in Massachusetts. From Worthington to Urbana, in Ohio. From Hagerstown, in Maryland, to M'Connelstown, in Pennsylvania. STATUTE II. March 3, 1819. Post-roads discontinued. |