Specific appropriations.

sums heretofore appropriated by law, to those objects, the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, viz.:

For the quarter master's department, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the pay of the army and militia, five million six hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.

For the subsistence of the army and militia, two millions three hundred and ten thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars.

For forage, sixty thousand dollars.

For clothing, one hundred and eight thousand dollars.

For bounties and premiums, four hundred thousand dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, one hundred thousand dollars.

For fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the ordnance department, one hundred and 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, December 21, 1815.

Statute I.

Jan. 17, 1816.

Further time allowed to principal assessora for ascertaining transfers and changes of property.

Further time also allowed for notifyingcollectors to proceed to the collection, &c.

Change of times to be applicable to furniture tax, &c.

Chap. III.—An Act to enlarge the time for ascertaining the annual transfers and changes of property subject to the direct tax, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That instead of the month of January, heretofore prescribed by law to the principal assessors, for inquiring and ascertaining annually, what transfers and changes of property have been made and effected in their respective districts, subsequent to the next preceding valuation, assessment, and apportionment of the direct tax, the month of April, annually, shall be, and the same is hereby substituted and prescribed for that purpose. And instead of the month of May, heretofore prescribed by law, for annually notifying the collectors of the several collection districts, to proceed to the collection of the direct tax, the Secretary of the Treasury may substitute the month of June, annually, if such enlargement of the time be, in his opinion, proper and necessary.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the change of times, by this act prescribed and authorized in relation to the direct tax, shall also be allowed and applied in relation to the duties on household furniture, and gold and silver watches.

Approved, January 17, 1816.

Statute I. Feb. 1, 1816.

Repeal of postage imposed by the act of Dec. 23, 1814, ch. 16, sect. 2.

Chap. VII.—An Ae t to repeal so much of an act, passed on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, as imposes additional duties on postage.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtyfirst day of March next, so much of the act, entitled "An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by duties on sales at auction, and on licenses to retail wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise, and for increasing the rates of postage," passed the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, as imposes additional duties on postage, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 1, 1816.

Chap. IX.—-An act continuing in force certain acts, laying duties on bank notes, refined sugars, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act entitled, " An act laying duties on notes of banks, bankers, and certain companies; on notes, bonds, and obligations, discounted by banks, bankers, and certain companies; and on bills of exchange of certain descriptions," passed the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the act supplementary to said act, passed the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and the act, entitled "An act laying duties on sugar refined within the United States," passed the twenty-fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same are hereby continued in force; any thing in the said acts in any wise to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 1, 1816.

Statute I. Feb. 1, 1816.

[Obsolete.]

Duties on stamps of bank notes, and on refined sugar, continued.

Act of 1813, ch. 53.

Act of 1814, ch. 11.

Act of 1813, ch. 21.

Chap. X.—Jin Act to continue in force the act, entitled "An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any foreign port, or place, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the additional duties upon goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, and upon the tonnage of vessels, imposed by the act, entitled "An act for imposing additional duties upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from any foreign port or place, and for other purposes," passed on the first day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall continue to be laid, levied, and collected, in the mode therein prescribed, subject in all respects to the same regulations and provisions, and with the like fines, penalties, forfeitures, and remedies for breaches of the law, as are now provided by law, until the thirtieth day of June next, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth day of June next, there shall be laid, levied and collected, in the manner and under the regulations and allowances now prescribed by law, for the collection and drawback of duties on foreign goods, wares, and merchandise, an additional duty of forty-two per cent. on the duties which shall then exist on foreign goods, wares and merchandise, until a new tariff of duties shall be established by law.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to contravene any provision of any commercial treaty, or convention, concluded between the United States and any foreign power or state; nor so as to impair, or in any wise affect the provisions of the act, entitled " An act to repeal so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty on tonnage between foreign vessels, and vessels of the United States, and between goods imported into the United States in foreign vessels and in vessels of the United States," passed on the third day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.

Approved, February 5, 1816.

Statute I.

Feb. 5, 1816.
[Expired.]

Act of April 27,
1816, ch.107.
Additional
duties imposed
bj a former act
upon merchan-
dise, goods, &c.
to be continued
until June.
Act of July 1,
1812, ch. 112.

Additional duty of fortytwo per cent. after June 30, 1816.

This act not to be so construed, as to affect or contravene, any commercial treaty or stipulation with a foreign state.

Act of March 3, 1815, ch. 77.

Statute I. Feb. 9, 1816.

Act of 1813, ch. 35, continued.

Chap. XIV.—An Act to continue in force "An act entitled an act, laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the Fisheries."

He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries," passed on the twenty-ninth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same is hereby continued in force, any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Approved, February 9, 1816.

Statute I. Feb. 15, 1816.

No effect on the proceedings of the court of the northern district of New York shall take place by the terms of the court not having been held at Utica and Canandaigua.

Statute I.

Chap. XVI.—An Act concerning certain courts of the United States, in the Slate

of New York.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That no legal proceeding whatever in the courts of the United States for the northern district of New York, shall be discontinued, abated, impaired, or affected, by reason that the last terms of the district court for the said northern district, appointed to be held at Utica and Canandaigua were not held, but that every proceeding whatever shall be in the same state, and have the same force and effect as if the said terms had been duly held.

Approved, February 15, 1816.

Chap. XVIII.—An Act to repeal the duties on certain articles manufactured within the United Slates.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act entitled " An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on various goods, wares and merchandise manufactured within the United States," passed the eighteenth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and also the act, entitled "An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a duty on gold, silver, and plated ware, and jewelry, and paste work manufactured within the United States," passed on the twentyseventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, That for the recovery and receipt of such duties as have accrued, and remain outstanding; and for the recovery and distribution of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and the remission thereof, which have been incurred in relation to any duty which shall have heretofore accrued, the provisions of the aforesaid acts shall remain in full force and virtue.

Approved, February 22, 1816.

Statute I.

Feb. 28,1816. Chap. XXI.—An Act rewarding the officers and crew of the sloop of war Hornet, a for the capture and destruction of the British sloop of war Penguin.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to have distributed,

Captain Biddle and the officers and crew of the Hornet reward

as prize money, to Captain James Biddle, of the sloop of war Hornet,
his officers and crew, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the
capture and destruction of the British sloop of war Penguin; and that
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, out of any money in the trea-
sury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated
for the purpose aforesaid.
Approved, February 28, 1816.

ed for the destruction of the Penguin.

Statute I.

Chap. XXII.—An Act concerning the convention to regulate the commerce between March 1, 1816. the territories of ike United Stoies and his Britannic Majesty.

Be it enacted and declared by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America,in Congress assembled, That so much of any act as imposes a higher duty of tonnage, or of impost on vessels and articles imported in vessels of Great Britain, than on vessels and articles imported in vessels of the United States, contrary to the provisions of the convention between the United States and his Britannic majesty, the ratifications whereof were mutually exchanged the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be, from and after the date of the ratification of the said convention, and during the continuance thereof, deemed and taken to be of no force or effect.

Approved, March 1, 1816.

Act imposing higher duties on articles imported in British vessels no longer in force.

Statute I.

Chap. XXIV.—An Act to reduce the amount of direct lax upon the United States March 5, 1816. and the District of Columbia, for tlte year one thousand eight hundred and six-" teens <*nd to repeal in part the act entitled "An act to provide additional revenue for defraying the expenses qf government, and maintaining the public credit,by

'al

laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same,-" and also the act entitled "An act to provide additional revenue for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit by laying a direct tax upon the District of Columbia."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled " An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same," passed on the ninth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, as lays a direct tax of six millions of dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and for succeeding years, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a direct tax of three millions of dollars be, and the same is hereby laid upon the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and apportioned to the states respectively in the manner, and according to the sums prescribed by the first section of an act, entitled " An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States," and all the provisions of the act, entitled "An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States, and to provide for assessing and collecting the same," passed on the ninth of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, except so far as the same have been varied by subsequent acts, and excepting the first section of the said act, shall be held to apply to the assessment and collection of the direct tax of three millions of dollars, hereby laid upon the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled "An act to provide additional revenue for defraying the expenses of go

vemment and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the District of Columbia," passed the twenty-seventh of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, as lays a direct tax of nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars, and forty cents, upon the said district for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and for succeeding years, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a direct tax of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars, and twenty cents be, and the same is hereby laid upon the District of Columbia, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and all the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax Hpon the District of Columbia," passed on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, except so far as the same have been varied by subsequent acts, shall be held to apply to the assessment and collection of the direct tax which is herein before laid upon the said district.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the Secretary of the Treasury shall be duly advised of the assumption by any state of the payment of its quota of the said direct tax, he shall give directions to the assessors of such state to suspend the. further execution of their respective offices in relation to this act: provided, that if any state, so assuming the payment of its quota of said direct tax, shall fail to pay the same at the time fixed upon for such payment, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the assessors of said state to proceed in the execution of their respective duties, in relation to this act.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if either the states of Ohio or Louisiana shall pay its quota of the direct tax according to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government, and maintaining the public credit, by laying a direct tax upon the United States and to provide for assessing and collecting the same," the legislature thereof shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to collect of all the purchasers of public lands under any law of the United States a just and equal proportion of the quota of said states respectively, the compact between the United States and the said states to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 5, 1816.

Statute I.

March 5, 1816. Chap. XXV.—An Act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian Volunteers.

Donations to citizens of the United States inhabitants of Canada at the commencement of hostilities who suffered by taking a part on the side of the United States in the war.

Act of April 26,1816, ch.76.

Act of March 3,1817,ch.106.

1821, ch. 44.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all such persons as had been citizens of the United States anterior to the late war, and were at its commencement inhabitants of the province of Canada, and who, during the said war, joined the armies of the United States, as volunteers, and were slain, died in service, or continued therein, till honourably discharged, shall be entitled to the following quantities of land respectively, viz: Each colonel nine hundred and sixty acres; each major to eight hundred acres; each captain six hundred and forty acres; each subaltern officer to four hundred and eighty acres; each non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, to three hundred and twenty acres; and the bounties aforesaid shall extend to the medical and other staff, who shall rank according to their pay. And it shall be lawful for the said persons to locate their claims in quarter sections, upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, within the Indiana Territory, which shall have been surveyed prior to such location, with the exception of salt springs, and lead mines therein, and of the quantities of land