United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 173
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Chap. CLXXIII.—An Act making further appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for compensation to the commissioner appointed under an act entitled “An act to authorize the payment for property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy while in the military service of the United States, and for other purposes,”1816, ch. 40. and the further sum of one thousand dollars for compensation to the clerk, authorized by the act aforesaid; for the expense incurred by the board of commissioners appointed under the act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory, seven hundred dollars; and for additional compensation to the commissioners aforesaid, and their secretary, four thousand dollars; and for expenses of engraving, printing, and preparing certificates issued, and to be issued, by the commissioners, three thousand dollars; for the expense for clerks employed by the board of navy commissioners, seven hundred and fifty dollars in addition to the former appropriation; for the payment of pensions, and additional sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for the payment of a clerk in the secretary’s office of the Mississippi territory, employed by the governor of that territory from the first of april to the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, two hundred dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 30, 1816.