United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 66

2564421United States Statutes at Large, Volume 2 — Public Acts of the Twelfth Congress, 1st Session, LXVIUnited States Congress


April 24, 1812.
Chap. LXVI.—An Act to continue in force for a limited time, an act entituled “An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers of government therein mentioned.”

Act of Feb. 20, 1804, ch. 12.
Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 103.
Act of Feb. 20, 1819, ch. 15.
Act of 1804 continued for three years.
Additional appropriation of $7,752 50.
1812, ch. 33.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act passed on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and four, entituled “An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers of government therein mentioned,” shall be and continue in force for the term of three years, and to the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for paying the salaries of the secretaries of state, treasury, war and navy, the comptroller, auditor and register of the treasury, the treasurer of the United States, the accountants of the war and navy departments, the postmaster-general and the first assistant postmaster-general, in addition to the sums already appropriated by the “Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve,” there be appropriated the further sum of seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, April 24, 1812.