For quarter-masters' and barrack masters' Specific ap stores, officers' travelling expenses, armorers' propriations and carpenters' bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting men, musical instruments, bounty to music and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, twenty thousand dollars:

For the relief of the legal representatives of David Valenzin, deceased, being the amount of a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and sixty five dollars and seventy

cents.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives,

GEO: CLINTON,

Vice-President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 24, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON,

CHAPTER XXXI.

AN ACT supplementary to "An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force," passed on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when

Officers of

light artillery same, when mounted, as

to receive the

light dragoons.

Proviso.

Saddler and farrier to be provided for each company of artille

ry, when mounted.

ever, in the opinion of the President of the
United States, it is expedient to mount the
light artillery, or any part thereof, horses and
accoutrements shall be provided to equip the
whole or such part as he may direct; and when
the non-commissioned officers, musicians, ar-
tificers and privates are so equipped, the offi
cers shall be entitled to the same forage, as is
now provided for the officers of the same grade
in the regiment of light dragoons: Provided,
The officers furnish their own horses and ac-
coutrements, and actually keep in service the
same number of horses to entitle them to the
aforesaid allowance for forage or its equivalent
in money.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
whenever the said light artillery are ordered to
be mounted, there shall be provided one sad-
dler and one farrier to each company, who shall
be entitled to the same pay and emoluments as
are now provided for saddlers and farriers in
the regiment of light dragoons.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEO: CLINTON,

Vice-President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 24, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

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CHAPTER XXXII.

AN ACT for the relief of Thomas O'Bannon.

Thomas

may with

draw his en try and lo

cate it els

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That Thomas O'Bannon be permitted to withdraw his entry O'Bannon in the land office of Madison county, Mississippi territory, from the south east quarter of section two, township two, range one, west; and the money paid by him on the said entry, shall be placed to his credit on any purchase he shall or may have made of public land in the same district: Provided, It shall satisfactorily Proviso. appear to the register of the said office, that the range two, west, has been, by error of the surveyor, marked range one.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

GEO: CLINTON,

Vice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.

February 24, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

where.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year,

Specific apincluding the contingent expenses of the seve propriations. ral departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan-officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defray. ing the expenses of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say:

For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the expense of fire-wood, stationery, printing and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, fifty thousand dollars.

For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the Librarian's allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve, eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to the President and VicePresident of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, including the sum of one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars, in addition to the sum allowed for the compensation of his clerks by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, twelv thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars.

propriations.

For compensation to a clerk on old records in the said department, for the year eighteen Specific aphundred and eleven, and the year eighteen hundred and twelve, fifteen hundred and seventyfour dollars.

For additional compensation to the clerks in the said department, not exceeding fifteen per centum, in addition to the sum allowed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorise the laying out certain public roads, and for other purposes," one thousand seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For printing and distributing the laws of the first session of the twelfth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, five thousand five hundred dollars.

For printing and binding five hundred copics of the census of one thousand eight hundred and ten, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, and the further sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars to make good a defi ciency in the appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, seventeen thousand and seventy-four dollars and eighty

one cents.

For expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in