ACTS

PASSED

AT THE FIRST SESSION

OF

THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

ACTS OF THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

TASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY
OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THÉ
SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND
NINETEEN.

James Monroe, President. Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice-President, and President of the Senate. James Barbour, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the fourteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and nineteeen. John Gaillard, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the twenty-eighth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

CHAP. 1. An act authorizing the transmission of certain Documents free of

Postage.

gates, Secretary,

transmit any Do

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 1819-20. sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Members of Congress, the Delegates from Territo- Members, Deleries, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House and Clerk, may of Representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to cument, printed transmit, free of postage, to any post office within the United by order, to any 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.]

post office.

CHAP. 2. An aet making a partial Appropriation for the Military Service of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

[SECT. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated to Appropriations: the objects herein specified, to wit:.

For subsistence of the army of the United States, two hun- For subsistence. dred and twenty thousand dollars.

For the national armories, fifty-six thousand dollars.

For armories

For arrearages, on the settlement of outstanding claims, For arrearages, fifty thousand dollars.

in the Treasury.

SECT. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums be Out of any money paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, January 14, 1829.]