United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 6

by United States Congress

March 14, 1794

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Chap. Ⅵ.—An Act making Appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.

Specific appropriations for support of government for 1794.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenditure of the civil list of the United States, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, together with the incidental and contingent expenses of the several departments and offices thereof; and for making good deficiences for the support of the civil list establishment; for aiding the fund appropriated for the payment of certain officers of the courts, jurors and witnesses; for the support of lighthouses, and for other purposes, there be appropriated a sum of money not exceeding five hundred and twenty-one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents; That is to say:

For the compensations granted by law to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars:

For the like compensations to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of six months continuance, one hundred and eighty-five thousand, eight hundred and ninety dollars:

For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing-work, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, ten thousand dollars:

For the compensations granted by law, to the chief justice, associate judges, district judges, and attorney general, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars:

For defraying the expense of clerks of courts, jurors and witnesses, in aid of the fund arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, twelve thousand dollars:

For defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, four thousand dollars:

For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand eight hundred dollars:

For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of State, including the expense which will attend the publication of the laws of the first session of the third Congress, and for printing an edition of the same, to be distributed, according to law, two thousand and sixty-one dollars, and sixty-seven cents:

Specific appropriations for support of government for 1794.For making good a deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, for extra-services of clerks in the office of the Secretary of State, in preparing documents for Congress, and for an index to the laws of the second Congress, eight hundred dollars:

For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars:

For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred dollars:

For compensation to the Comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand two hundred dollars:

For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the Comptroller’s office, eight hundred dollars:

For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, four thousand one hundred dollars:

For expense of firewood, stationery, printing and other contingencies in the Treasurer’s office, four hundred dollars:

For compensation to the Auditor of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars:

For expense of stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the Auditor’s office, five hundred dollars:

For compensation to the Commissioner of the Revenue, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:

For the expenses of stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the Commissioner, three hundred dollars:

For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, fifteen thousand dollars:

For the expenses of stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the Register’s office, (including books for the public stocks) two thousand dollars:

For the payment of rent for the several houses employed in the treasury department, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-six cents:

For wood and candles in the several offices of the treasury department (except the Treasurer’s office) one thousand two hundred dollars:

For compensations to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:

For defraying the expenses of the several loan officers, for stationery and clerk-hire, between the first day of March, and the thirty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three inclusive, the sum of seventeen thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-five cents:

For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, seven thousand and fifty dollars:

For expenses of firewood, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, eight hundred dollars.

For making good a deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, for contingent expenses in this office, two hundred and five dollars and seventy-six cents:

For compensation to the Accountant to the war department, and clerks in his office, four thousand seven hundred dollars:

For contingent expenses in the office of the Accountant to the war department, four hundred dollars:

For compensations to the following officers of the mint;—the Director, two thousand dollars;—the Assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars;—the Chief Coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars;—the Engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars;—the Treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars;—three Clerks, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars: Specific appropriations for support of government for 1794.For defraying the expenses of workmen, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, three thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars:

For the several expenses of the mint, including the pay of a Refiner, when employed, for gold, silver and copper, and for the completion of the melting furnaces, two thousand seven hundred dollars:

For replacing a sum of money advanced at the Bank of the United States, for the purpose of an importation of copper, to be coined at the mint, ten thousand dollars:

For defraying the expense of copper, purchased in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars:

For the purchase of copper, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars:

For compensations to the governors, secretaries and judges of the territory northwest, and the territory south of the river Ohio, ten thousand three hundred dollars:

For expenses of stationery, office rent, printing patents for lands, and other contingent expenses in both the said territories, seven hundred dollars:

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, two thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents:

For payment of the annual allowance granted by Congress to Baron Steuben, two thousand five hundred dollars:

For the annual allowance to the widow and orphan children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan children of Major Alexander Truman, by the act of Congress of the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three,1793, ch 14.seven hundred and fifty dollars:

For arrearages of pension due to the widow and orphan children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan children of Major Alexander Truman, to the thirty first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, six hundred and seventy-five dollars:

For the annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer, son of the late Major-general Mercer, four hundred dollars:

For the maintenance and repair of lighthouses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, twenty thousand dollars:

To make good a deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for the maintenance and repair of lighthouses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, four thousand dollars:

For the purchase of hydrometers, for the use of the officers of the customs, and inspectors of the revenue, one thousand five hundred dollars:

For a balance stated by the Auditor of the Treasury, to be due to the estate of the late Major-general Greene, pursuant to the act of Congress, 1792, ch. 26. of the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, to indemnify the said estate for a certain bond entered into by him, during the late war, in which is included interest due on the bonds from their dates, to the twelfth of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, thirty-three thousand, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars, and sixty-seven cents:

For defraying the expense incident to the stating and printing the public accounts, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, eight hundred dollars:

For the payment of such demands, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been duly allowed by the officers of the treasury, five thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit:

First. The sum of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act making provision for the debt of the United States:

Secondly. The surplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereupon1790, ch. 34. to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.

Approved, March 14, 1794.

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