adjacent thereto, which may be reserved for the use of the same, by the President of the United States, and the section number sixteen, in every township to be granted to the inhabitants of such township, for the use of public schools; which locations shall be subject to such regulations, as to priority of choice, and the manner of location, as the President of the United States shall prescribe.
Land warrants to be issued by the Secretary of War.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary for the Department of War, for the time being, shall from time to time, under such rules and regulations as to evidence as the President of the United States shall prescribe, issue to every person coming within the description aforesaid, a warrant for such quantity of land as he may be entitled to by virtue of the aforesaid provision; and in case of the death of such person, then such warrant shall be issued to his widow, or if no widow, to his child or children.
Three months’ additional pay to be made to them by the Treasurer of the United States.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay to each of the persons aforesaid three months’ additional pay, according to the rank they respectively held in the army of the United States during the late war.
Approved, March 5, 1816.
Statute I.
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act making appropriations for ordnance and ordnance stores for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Specific appropriations.
Appropriation for ordnance and ordnance stores.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expense of ordnance and ordnance stores, including arsenals, magazines and armories for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say; for armories, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars, twenty-five cents—for arsenals, three hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars, for timber for mounting cannon, seventy-five thousand dollars. For coals, iron and steel, seventy-nine thousand dollars. For contracts for gun-powder, ninety-three thousand dollars. For contracts for cannon, shot and shells, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars. In part of the annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars, appropriated for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the militia, eighty-nine thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 18, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. XXX.—An Act to change the mode of compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the delegates from territories.
See act of Jan. 22, 1818, ch. 5.
Compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Three thousand dollars to the Vice-President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Fifteen hundred dollars to members of the Senate and House of Representatives.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the daily compensation now allowed by law, there shall be paid annually to the senators, representatives and delegates from territories, of this and every future Congress of the United States, the following sums, respectively: that is to say, to the president of the Senate, pro tempore, when there is no vice-president, and to the speaker of the House of Representatives, three thousand dollars each; to each senator, member of the house of representatives, other than the speaker, and delegate, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; Provided, nevertheless, That in case any senator, representative or delegate shall not attend in his place at the day on which
