United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 27
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Chap. XXVII.—An Act providing for the expenses of the Civil Government of Louisiana.
Monies received for duties or taxes in Louisiana to be accounted for and paid into the treasury, as other monies.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the monies which have been, or which shall be received by any officer of the United States, on account of duties or taxes within the territories ceded by the French Republic to the United States, by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, eighteen hundred and three, shall be paid into the treasury, and accounted for in the same manner as other public monies.
Appropriations for defraying the expenses incurred in taking possession of, and holding Louisiana till a new government thereof shall be established.
To be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of making a reasonable compensation to the person or persons, in whom the powers of civil government, heretofore exercised by the officers of the said territories under the Spanish and French governments, have been vested by the President of the United States, and also for defraying the other civil expenses of the said territories, from the time when possession of the same was obtained by the United States, to the time when a form of government shall, under the authority of Congress, be established therein, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, and to be accounted for as other public monies, shall be, and the same hereby is appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 19, 1804.