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ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS

of the

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of October, 1807, and ended on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1808.

Thomas Jefferson, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 18th of April, 1808; J. B. Varnum, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE Ⅰ.

Nov. 24, 1807.
[Obsolete.]

Chapter I.An Act making further appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.

Specific appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated; that is to say:

For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, seventy-four thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents.

For provisions, thirty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents.

For repairs of vessels, one hundred and forty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-one cents.

For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For clothing for the same, ten thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-two cents.

For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty cents.

For ordnance and military stores, three hundred and ten thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents.

For timber for the navy, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

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

Approved, November 24, 1807.

Statute Ⅰ.



Dec. 5, 1807.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. II.An Act allowing an additional compensation to the Secretaries of the Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana and Michigan Territories.

Additional compensation allowed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the secretaries of the Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana and Michigan territories, appointed