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Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, three hundred thousand dollars.

Repairs of navy yards.For repairs of navy yards, docks, and wharves, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Medals and swords.For completing medals and swords, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Pay and subsistence of marine corps.For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, one hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars.

Clothing.For clothing the same, two thousand and thirty dollars and ten cents.

Military stores.For military stores for the same, one thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses for the same, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars.

To be paid out of the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 16, 1819.


Statute II.


Feb. 20, 1819.
Chap. XXVII.—An Act to increase the salaries of certain officers of government.

6000 dolls. per annum to the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy, in lieu of former salaries.
P.M. General, 4000.
Chief Justice, 5000, and each judge of the Supreme Court, 4,500.
Assistants to P. M. G. 2,500 each.
From 1st Jan., 1819.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the salaries now allowed by law to the following officers, there shall be paid to them, quarterly, the following annual salaries respectively; that is to say: to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars: to the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars: to the Secretary of War, six thousand dollars: to the Secretary of the Navy, six thousand dollars: to the Attorney General, three thousand five hundred dollars: to the Postmaster General, four thousand dollars: to the Chief Justice of the United States, five thousand dollars: and to each of the judges of the supreme court of the United States, four thousand five hundred dollars: and to the assistant Postmaster General, and additional assistant Postmaster General, two thousand five hundred dollars each: to commence the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 20, 1819.


Statute II.


Feb. 20, 1819.
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act authorizing the President of the United States to purchase the lands reserved by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to certain chiefs, warriors, and other Indians, of the Creek nation.

The President may purchase any tract of land reserved, by act of March, 1817, to the Creeks.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 88.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to purchase for, and on behalf of, the United states any tract or tracts of land, reserved by the act of the third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to the chiefs, warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation, which they, or either of them, may be disposed to sell; and the amount of such purchase shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Lands acquired by virtue of this act to be offered for sale upon such days as the President may designate.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any tract or tracts of land, the title to which may be acquired by the United States, by virtue of this act, shall be offered at public sale, at the land offices of the district in which they may be situate, upon such day or days as the President shall, by proclamation, designate for that purpose, in the same manner, and on the same conditions and terms of credit, as is provided by law for the sale of public lands of the United States; and patents shall be granted therefor, as for other public lands and town lots sold by the United States.

Approved, February 20, 1819.