For compensation to the messenger in said office, three hundred and sixty dollars.

For contingent expenses in the office of said commissary, 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 the 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 said secretary, 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 accountant of the Navy Department, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the accountant of the Navy Department, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars.

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

For expense of fuel, stationery, and other contingent expenses in said office, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred 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 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 the 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 contingent expenses in said office, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to the several commissioners of loans, and allowance to certain commissioners of loans, in lieu of clerk hire, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the clerks of sundry commissioners of loans, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.

For the salary of the late commissioner of loans of South Carolina, from the first of April to the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, being the amount carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, three hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-two cents.

For compensation to the surveyor general and his clerks, four thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor of lands south of Tennessee, and for

Adjutant and inspector general.

Ordnance.

For the Navy Department.

Accountant.

Commissioners of the navy board.

For the general post office.

For the Com* missioners of loans.

For the surveyor general.

For the commissioner of the public buildmgs.

For the mint.

For territorial officers.

For demands admitted, at the treasury.

For the judiciary.

Pensions.

Light-houses, fcc.

the contingent expenses of his office, three thousand seven 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 to persons employed in the different operations of the mint, including the sum of six hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, five thousand dollars.

For repairs, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent .expenses of the mint, three thousand dollars.

For allowance for wastage in the gold and silver coinage, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of copper to coin into cents, fifteen thousand dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, nine thousand 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 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 governor, 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 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 settlement 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 associate judges of the district of Columbia, sixty-one thousand dollars.

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, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties and forfeitures, 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 sundry pensions granted by the late government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.

For the payment of the annual allowance to the pensioners of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the maintenance and support of light-houses, 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, seventy-three thousand four hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

For an appropriation in addition to the appropriation for building a lighthouse at the mouth of the Mississippi, and for repairing the block-house at the Balize for a temporary light-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the Bald Head lighthouse, in North Carolina, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, one thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the light-house at Nantucket, recently destroyed by fire, seven thousand five hundred dollars; beacon-lights on Sandy Hook,one thousand two hundred dollars; erection of a beacon and placing buoys at the entrance of the harbour of Bristol, in Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.

For a light on the beacon on Tybee, and for erecting six beacons, and placing four buoys on such sites, and at such points, as the commissioners of pilotage, residing at Savannah, shall fix on, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For an additional appropriation for building a light-house at Tarpaulin cove, three thousand seven hundred and forty-six dollars.

For the following objects, being the balances of former appropriations, carried to the surplus fund, viz:

For erecting light-houses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of cape Lookout, in North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.

For building a light-house on the south point of Cumberland island, in Georgia, ten thousand dollars.

For erecting a light-house on the south point of Sapelo Island, in Georgia, fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars.

For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of the harbour of Beverly, in Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For placing buoys, as deemed necessary, at the entrance of the harbour of Edgartown, in Massachusetts, one thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-three cents.

For erecting two light-houses on Lake Erie, viz: On or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle, seventeen thousand dollars.

For building a light-house oif Petite Manan, six thousand dollars.

For fitting up light-houses heretofore authorized to be erected, with the apparatus for lighting the same, five thousand dollars.

For fitting up the light-houses with Winslow Lewis's improvements, agreeably to his contract of the 26th day of March, 1812, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, six thousand dollars.

For erecting a beacon on a point of land near New Inlet, in North Carolina, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to the commissioner for settling claims for property lost, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerk in said commissioner's office, one thousand dollars.

For defraying the expense of publishing certain notices by the commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For defraying the expense of printing various forms for the said commissioner, two hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.

For office furniture, stationery, wood, and other contingencies, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For the hire of an additional clerk, from the eighteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to the first of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, at nine hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty dollars.

For the hire of a messenger, from the first of July- to the first of February following, one hundred and twenty dollars.

For defraying the expenses of printing certificates of registry and other documents for vessels, five thousand dollars.

To provide for the payment of the sums directed to be paid by an act of the last session, 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," forty thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.

For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several states and territories of the United States, one hundred and eighty thousand and eighty-eight dollars.

For bringing the votes for President and Vice President of the United States to the seat of government, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation, eighty-seven thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, seventy thousand dollars.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-seven thousand dollars.

For the expenses necessary during the present year for carrying into effect the fourth, 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 appointed under those articles, thirty-four thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents.

For the salaries of the agents for claims on account of spoliations, and for seamen at London, Paris, Copenhagen, and the Hague, eight thousand dollars.

For the relief of distressed American seamen, for the present year, and to make good a deficiency in the preceding year, fifty thousand dollars.

On account of the paintings authorized by the resolution of Congress, eight thousand dollars.

For purchasing or erecting, for the use of the United States, suitable buildings for custom-houses and public warehouses, in such principal district in each state where the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem it necessary for the safe and convenient collection of the revenue of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.

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 the act "making provision for the debt of the United States," and out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3,1817.

Statute II.

March 3, 1817. Chap. XXXIV.—An Act repealing the act, entitled "An act for the safe keeping robs 1 te 1 am* accommodation rf prisoners of war," passed July the sixth, one thousand

eight hundred and twelve.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of July 6, States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled "An act 'The act for the *or tne sa^e keeping and accommodation of prisoners of war," passed on safe keeping of the sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be, and prisoners, &c. the same hereby is, repealed; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hererePena^cd- by required to cause an account to be rendered of the fund appropriated

be rendered. by the act hereby repealed, and report the same to Congress at their next session.

Approved, March 3, 1817.

Chap. XXXV.—An Act making provision for the support of the military establishment for the year one thousand eighi hundred and seventeen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, for defraying the expenses of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen; for the Indian department; for fortifications; for the ordnance department; for armories; for arsenals and magazines; for the expenses of the public buildings at West Point; and for the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments, for the military academy at said place, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:

For the pay of the army of the United States, one million four hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars.

For subsistence, including the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, already appropriated to that object by an act of this session, one million one hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars.

For forage for officers, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and twentyfour dollars.

For bounties and premiums, thirty-two thousand dollars.

For clothing, six hundred and seventy thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars.

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

For the ordnance department, one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

For fulfilling contracts already entered into for cannon and shot, sixty thousand dollars.

For completing arsenals already commenced, including that at Pittsburg, and not including that at Frank lord, one hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchasing materials for carriages for cannon and caissons, thirtynine thousand dollars.

For fulfilling a contract for saltpetre with John P. Boyd, a sum not exceeding forty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

For armories, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

For the quartermaster's department, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For fortifications, eight hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the Indian department, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war office, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of maps, plans, books, instruments, fuel and stationery, for the military academy; repairing buildings at West Point, and for, transportation and two boats, sixteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sums herein appropriated be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1817.

Statute II.

March 3, 1817.

[Obsolete.]

Sums appropriated for specific objects, connected with the military establishment, for 1817.

Chap. XXXVI.—Jin Act authorizing the payment of a sum of money to the state of Georgia, under the articles af agreement and cession between the United States and that state.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That there shall be paid

Statute II.

March 3, 1817.

[Obsolete.]

A sum to be

paid to the state