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one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, one
thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the President of the Uni
ted States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Vice President of the
United States, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State,
five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks employed in the Department of State, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

board goods, wares, and merchandise, taken in one State, to be delivered in another State: Provided, That it shall not be paid on any ship or vessel having a license to trade between the different districts of the United States, or to carry on the bank or whale fisheries, more than once a year: And provided, also, That, if the owner of any such vessel, or his agent, shall prove, to the satisfaction of the collector, that three-fourths at least of the crew thereof are American citizens, or persons not the subjects of any foreign Prince or State, the duty to be paid in such case shall For compensation to the messenger in said Debe only at the rate of six cents per ton; but noth-partment, and for the Patent Office, six hundred ing in this section shall be construed to repeal or affect any exemption from tonnage duty given by the eighth section of the act, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of certain districts," and therein to amend an act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes."

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, after the thirtieth day of September next, there shall be paid upon every ship or vessel of the United States, which shall be entered in the United States, from any foreign port or place, unless the officers and at least two-thirds of the crew thereof shall be proved citizens of the United States, or persons not the subjects of any foreign Prince or State, to the satisfaction of the collector, fifty cents per ton: And provided, also, That this section shall not extend to ships or vessels of the United States which are now on foreign voyages, or which may depart from the United States prior to the first day of May next, until after their return to some port of the United States.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the several bounties and remissions, or abatements of duty, allowed by this act, in the case of vessels having a certain proportion of seamen who are American citizens, or persons not the subjects of any foreign Power, shall be allowed only in the case of vessels having such proportion of American seamen during their whole voyage, unless in case of sickness, death, or desertion, or where the whole or part of the crew shall have been taken prisoners in the voyage.

Approved, March 1, 1817.

and sixty dollars.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said Department, including the expense of printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the fourteenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, twentythree thousand seven hundred and two dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars.

For compensation to the messenger and as sistant messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven hundred and ten dollars.

For expense of translating foreign languages, allowed to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the said Comptroller, fifteen thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars.

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

For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses in the Comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Auditor of the Trea sury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks employed in the Auditor's office, sixteen thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.

For compensation to the messenger in said of

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Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and they are hereby, respectively appropriated, that is to say:

For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, four hundred and twenty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, forty-two thousand dollars.

For the expenses of the Library of Congress, including the Librarian's allowance, for the year

For expense of stationery, printing, and con tingent expenses in said office, dollars.

six hundred

For compensation to the Treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks employed in the office of the Treasurer, five thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For compensation to the messenger of said of fice, four hundred and ten dollars.

tingent expenses in said office, eight hundred For expense of stationery, printing, and condollars.

For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in

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the office of the said Commissioner, eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

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

For expense of stationery, printing, and contingent expenses of said office, including vellum for land patents, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Commissioners of the Revenue, three thousand dollars.

office of said Accountant, sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-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, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the additional Accountant of the War Department, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks employed in the thou-office of the said additional Accountant, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.

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For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and hundred dollars allowed to an assistant engraver, other contingent expenses in said office, two thou-five thousand dollars. sand 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 repairs, cost of iron and machinery, rents, and other contingent expenses of the Mint, three thousand dollars.

For allowance of 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 the said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For comprnsation 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 Assistant Postmaster General, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and For compensation to the second Assistant Post-Secretary of the Michigan Territory, six thoumaster General, one thousand six hundred dollars. sand 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 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 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 Com-sixty-one thousand dollars. missioners of Loans, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand seven hundred 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,

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 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

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 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 safekeeping 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

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improvements, and contingent expenses, seventy- For compensation to the clerk in said commisthree thousand four hundred and ninety-three sioner's office, one thousand dollars. dollars and thirty-three cents. For defraying the expense of publishing certain For an appropriation, injaddition to the appro-notices by the commissioner, two thousand five priation for building a light-house at the mouth hundred dollars. of the Mississippi, and for repairing the blockhouse at the Balize for a temporary light-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the Baldhead light-house, 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 harbor of Bristol, in Rhode Island, one thousand 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 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, 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 commission-five ers 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 harbor of Beverly, in Massachusetts, three hundred and fifty 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, sev-* enty thousand dollars.

For placing buoys, as deemed necessary, at the entrance of the harbor of Edgartown, in Massachusetts, one thousand four hundred and forty-bary 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 on 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 the expenses of intercourse with the BarPowers, 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 thirtythree 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 set-resolution of Congress, eight thousand dollars.

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

For purchasing or erecting, for the use of the United States, suitable buildings for custom

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