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One clerk at seven hundred dollars, and one Specific apclerk at five hundred dollars. propriations.

For wages to the persons employed in melting, coining, carpenters', mill-wrights' and smiths' work, including the sum of one thousand dollars, allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, and of six hundred dollars, allowed to an assistant engraver, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, pot-ash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For an allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the territory of Orleans, thirteen thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, expense of stationery, and other contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, including the sum of six hundred dollars for clerk hire in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, nine thousand six hundred dollars.

For expense of 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 Indiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.

For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges

Specific ap and secretary of the Michigan territory, six propriations. thousand six hundred dollars.

For expense of 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 Louisiana territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.

For expense of 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 Illinois territory, six thousand six hundred dollars.

For expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settle-. ment at the Treasury, two thousand dollars.

For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, the associate judges and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges for the district of Columbia; to the attorney general, and to the district judge of the territory of Orleans, including the sum of one thousand dollars for the payment of the additional salaries for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, allowed to the judges of the district of Columbia, by the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, sixty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation granted to the several Specific apmarshals for the districts of Maine, New propriations. Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, North Ca

rolina, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee and Orleans, two thousand two hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of ju rors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.

For the payment of a balance due for the salary of Robert H. Harrison, deceased, formerly a judge of the supreme court of the United States, the same having heretofore been carried to the surplus fund, five hundred and fifty-six dollars and sixteen cents.

For the payment of sundry pensions grant. ed by the late and present government, nine hundred and sixty dollars.

For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

For the maintenance and support of light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, ninety-three thousand one hundred dollars and sixty-seven

cents.

For defraying the expense of surveying the public land within the several territories of

Specific ap- the United States, forty-eight thousand six propriations. hundred and twenty dollars.

For surveying the coast of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund, forty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.

For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, seventy-three thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, one hundred thousand dollars.

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, fifteen thousand dollars.

For defraying the expenses of regulating, laying out, and making a road from Čumberland in the state of Maryland to Ohio, agreea bly to an act of Congress, passed the twentyninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, being so much of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, at the close of the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, and sixty cents.

For expenses of prosecuting claims and appeals in the courts of Great Britain, in relation to captures of American vessels, and defending causes elsewhere, four thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, four thousand dollars.

For defraying the expenses authorised by the eleventh section of the act of March the

second, eighteen hundred and eleven, entitled Specific ap"Anact for establishing trading houses with the propriations. Indian tribes," to be drawn annually by the President of the United States, for the payment of agents, assistant agents and clerks, including the sum of eleven thousand sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, which had accrued by said act, for the year eighteen hundred and eleven, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-six cents.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO. CLINTON,

Vice-President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 26, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

AN ACT to authorise the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President of the United States, to purchase of Winslow Lewis, his patent right to the new and improved method of lighting Light-Houses, 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 Secretary

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