United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 50
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Chap. Ⅼ.—An Act making further appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Additional appropriations for 1796.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, there be further appropriated for and during the present year, the following sums, that is to say: In the Department of State, for the compensation of clerks, two hundred dollars: In the Department of the Treasury, for the compensation of clerks, four thousand dollars: In the Department of War, for the additional salary of the accountant, four hundred dollars; and for the additional compensation of clerks in the said department, seven hundred dollars; and in the mint of the United States, for the additional salary of a clerk, two hundred dollars.
Loan office clerks.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the compensation of clerks in the several loan offices; and for defraying the expenses of books and stationery for the said offices, during the present year, and during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, there be appropriated a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars.
Foreign intercourse.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be further appropriated towards defraying the extraordinary expenses which may be incurred during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, for foreign intercourse, a sum not exceeding twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, by the second section of the act of the present session, intituled Contingent expenses of government.
1796, ch. 41.“An act making further provision for the expenses attending the intercourse of the United States with foreign nations; and to continue in force the act, entitled “An act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations.”
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated for the contingent expenses of the government of the United States, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, subject to the disposition of the President of the United States, and for the payment of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, other than those on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, and which shall have been ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars; Out of what funds payable.and that the several appropriations herein before made, be, and the same are hereby directed to be paid out of the proceeds of the duties on imports and the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the duties on domestic distilled spirits and on stills, which shall accrue until the close of the present year.
Approved, June 1, 1796.