Appropriations for the military establishment and the Indian annuities.expenses of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and one, the pay and subsistence of the officers and men, bounties and premiums, the clothing, hospital, ordnance, quartermaster’s and Indian departments, the defensive protection of the frontiers, the contingent expenses of the war department, for the fabrication of cannon and arms, and purchase of ammunition, and for the payment of military pensions, the sum of two millions, ninety-three thousand and one dollars, be, and is hereby appropriated; that is to say,
For the pay of the army of the United States, four hundred and eighty thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For the subsistence of the army, three hundred and six thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars.
For forage, the sum of seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For horses to replace those which may die, or become unfit for service, the sum of five thousand dollars.
For clothing, the sum of one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.
For bounties and premiums, the sum of forty-two thousand dollars.
For the hospital department, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
For the quartermaster’s department, the sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
For paying annuities to the following nations of Indians, in pursuance of treaties: to the Six Nations, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Creeks, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; and for presents to the Choctaws, two thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of the transportation of annuities to the Indian tribes, ten thousand dollars.
For promoting civilization among the Indian tribes, and pay of temporary agents, and rations to Indians at the different military posts, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars.
For the defensive protection of the frontiers of the United States, including the erection and repairs of forts and fortifications, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
For loss of stores, allowances to officers on being ordered to distant commands, and for special purposes; advertising and apprehending deserters, printing, purchasing maps, and other contingencies, the sum of thirty thousand dollars.
For the annual allowance to the invalids of the United States, for their pensions, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and two, the sum of ninety-three thousand dollars.
For the fortification of ports and harbors within the United States, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. For the fabrication of cannon and small arms, and the purchase of ammunition, being the balance of appropriations unexpended which have been carried to the surplus fund, four hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the foregoing appropriations shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1801.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Repealed.]
Chap. XIX.—An Act to amend the act intituled “An act to establish a general Stamp Office.”
Mode of obtaining a stamp to an instrument not stamped.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any person or persons shall pay to a collector of the revenue, the duty
