fraying the expense of any treaty or treaties which may be held with the Indians south of the river Ohio: Provided, that the compensation to be allowed to any commissioner appointed, or who may be appointed, for negotiating such treaty or treaties, shall not exceed, exclusive of travelling expenses, the rate of eight dollars per day, during the actual service of such commissioner.
How the several appropriations of this act are to be paid.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged, first, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the same objects respectively, and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 1, 1802.
Statute Ⅰ.
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Chap. XLVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and two.
Specific appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of clerks in the several loan offices, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants, for the support of the mint establishment, for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims and expenses, the following sums, including therein the sum of one hundred thousand dollars already1802, ch. 15. appropriated, by an act, intituled “An act making a partial appropriation for the support of government during the year one thousand eight hundred and two,” be, and are hereby appropriated, that is to say:
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of five months continuance, one hundred and sixty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, seventeen thousand dollars.
For extraordinary contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, by resolutions of the house during the present session, including also the expenses of the library of the two houses of Congress, and for printing one thousand copies of the census of the United States, seven thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of new furniture, provided for the House of Representatives, one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-five cents.
For the compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery and printing, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and
