ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at thefirst session, which was begun and held in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the sixth day of December, 1819, and ended on the fifteenth day of May, 1820. JAMES MONROE, President; DANIE, D. TOMPKINS, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; JAMES BARBOUR, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the fourteenth of December, 1819; JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-eighth of January, 1820; HENRY CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAP. I.--An Act authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of Dec. 14, 1819. postage. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Members, States of America, in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, retary, and the delegates from territories, the secretary of the Senate, and the clerk cl e rk of H ouse of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to any document transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States, or the territories thereof, any documents which have been, or may be, printed by order of either House, during the present Congress. APPROVED, December 14, 1819. STATUTE I. CHAP. II.--.n let making a partialappropriation for the military service of the Jan. 14, 1820. United Statesfor the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriations. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated to the objects herein specified, to wit: For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hundred and For subsist- twenty thousand dollars. ence. For the national armories, fifty-six thousand dollars. For armories. For arrearages, on the settlement of outstanding claims, fifty thousand For arreara- dollars. ge SEC. 2. And be it .frther enacted, That the said sums be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPRovED, January 14, 1820. 539 540 SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CH. 3, 5,9. 1820. STATUTE I. Jan. 14, 1820. CHAP. III.--iAn et in addition to the ".ct making appropriationsfor the support of the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen." Act of Feb. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 16,1819,ch.25. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums, in addition to those appropriated by the act to which this is a supplement, Appropriations. be, and the same are hereby, appropriated: For pay and subsistence of For pay and subsistence of the officers and pay of the seamen, two officers, and hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred dollars. pay of seamen. For provisions, forty-one thousand four hundred dollars. sisns.sio provi- For medicines, hospital stores, and expenses on account of the sick, Formedicines, including those of the marine corps, eight thousand eight hundred and hospital stores, fifty dollars. For repairsreirof of For repairs of vessels, one hundred and one thousand two hundred vessels. dollars. For contin- For contingent expenses, eleven thousand dollars. gentFor expenses. salaries For the salaries of two agents, and a surveyor, appointed under the of agents. authority of the act of Congress of the first March, one thousand eight 1817, ch. 22. hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber fbr naval purposes," and contingent expenses for carrying the same into effect, seven thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 14, 1820. STATUTE I. Jan. 14,1820. CHAP. V.-S-.n tcletsupplementary to the act, entitled ".An act to regulate and fix the compensation of the clerks in the different offices," passed the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Act of April Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativesof the United 20A,1818,ch87.Additional States of America, in Congress assembled, That the authority given clerks in the in the eighth section of the above-recited act, to the Secretary of the office of the Treasury, to employ nine additional clerks in the office of the third third auditor, auditor, and three additional clerks and in the office in the office of the second comp- of the second troller of the Treasury, be, and the same is hereby, continued until the comptroller. thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and no longer; and that the sum necessary to carry into effect the provi- Appropriations. sions of this act, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, and shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, January 14, 1820. STATUTE I. Feb. 10, 1820. CHAP. IX.-An .et to alter the terms of the court of the western district of Virginia. (a) The sessions Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United of the court to be held. States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sessions of the court for the judicial district of Virginia, west of the Alleghany mountain, instead of the times heretofore appointed, shall hereafter be holden, an- At Wythe. nually, as follows: At Wythe Courthouse on the first Mondays of May Lewisburg. and October; at Lewisburg, on the second Mondays of May and Octo- Clarksburg. her; and at Clarksburg, on the fourth Mondays of May and October; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Process to be SEc. 2. And be it firther enacted, That all process which may have (a)See notes to act of Feb. 4, 1819, ch. 12. SIXTEENTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CH. 10, 11. 1820. 541 issued, or may hereafter issue, returnable to the next succeeding terms, returnable ac- as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to cordingly. those terms to which they are severally changed by this act. APPROVED, February 10, 1820. STATUTE I. CHAP. X.-An Jct making appropriationsto supply the deficiency in the appro- Feb. 10, priations heretofore made for the completion of the repairsof the north and south 1820. wings of the Capitol,for finishing the President'shouse, and the erection of two new executive offices. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropria- States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of tions for supply- supplying the deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for com- ing deficiencies pleting the repairs of the of former ap- north and south wings of the Capitol, for fin- propriations. ishing the President's house, and the erection of two new executive offices, the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, ap- propriated, that is to say: For completing the repairs of the north and south wings of the Capi- North and tol, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. south wings of For finishing the Capitol. President's house, the sum of thirteen thousand one President's hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-six cents. house. For erecting two new executive offices, the sum of eleven thousand Two new and fifteen dollars and seventy-one cents. executive offi- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said several sums be paid ces. out of any moneys in the treasury Out of moneys not otherwise appropriated. in the treasury. APPROVED, February 10, 1820. STATUTE I. CHAP. XI.-SJn Jct to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign Feb. 10, 1820. commerce of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativesof the United The register States of America, in Congress assembled, That the register of the treasury to Ptepareasutr shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, annually pre- tistical accounts pare statistical accounts of the commerce of the United States with of the com- foreign countries, for each preceding year; which accounts shall be laid e'tce of the before United States. Congress, by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday To be laid in December in every year, or as soon after as possible. before Congress. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such accounts shall compre- Of goods, &c. exported. hend and state all goods, wares, and merchandise, exported from the Ofgoods, &c. United States to other countries; all goods, wares, and merchandise, im- imported. ported into the United States from other countries; and all navigation Ofall naviga- employed in the foreign trade of the United States; which facts shall be inforeigntrade. stated according to the principles, and in the manner, hereby directed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the kinds, quantities, and Principles values, of all articles exported, and the kinds, quantities, and values, of and manner of all articles imported, shall be distinctly stated in such accounts; except ports and im- in cases in which it may appear to the Secretary of the Treasury that ports. separate statements of the species, quantities, or values, of any particular articles, would swell the annual statements without utility; and, in such cases, the kinds and total values of such articles shall be stated together, or in such classes as the Secretary of the Treasury may think fit. SEc. 4. And be it further enacted, That the exports shall be so stated Exports, &c as to show the exports to each foreign country, and their values; and to and from that the imports shall be so stated, as to show the imports from each each country, foreign country, and their values.