For placing buoys and beacons at or near the entrance of Beverly harbour in Massachu

For erecting two lights on lake Erie, viz. on or near Bird Island, and on or near Presque Isle

For placing two beacons and buoys at or near
the entrance of the harbour of New Haven
in Connecticut

For placing buoys at the entrance of the har-
bour of Edgarton in Massachusetts
For placing buoys at or near the main bar and
New Inlet Bar off Cape Fear in North Ca-
rolina

For erecting a beacon on a point of land near
New Inlet in North Carolina
For completing the fitting up of all the light-
houses with Winslow Lewis's improvements,
in addition to the sums heretofore appro-
priated for that purpose

350

4,000

100

1,443 43

2,000

1,800

40,000

For defraying the expense of surveying the public lands within the several territories of the United States

60,000

For the support and safe keeping of prisoners of war

400,000

20,000

For the contingent expenses of government
For the expense of printing one thousand
copies of the digest of manufactures, pursu-
ant to a resolution of the house of represen-
tatives of the ninth of July, 1813
For the support of sick and disabled seamen,
in addition to the funds heretofore appropria-
ted by law

1,250

20,000

For the salaries, allowances, and contingent expenses of ministers to foreign nations, and of secretaries of legation

89,400

For the contingent expenses of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary

50,000

powers

10,000

For the relief and protection of distressed
American seamen

30,000

For expenses of agents at Paris and Copenha

gen in relation to prize causes and capturès of American vessels

4,000

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury,

4,000

The following additional appropriations were made at the end of the session :

may

For defraying the expences which have been or
be incurred in building and equipping ves-
sels of war on Lakes Ontario and Champlain,
to be paid, first, out of the balances of appropri-
ations for the support of the navy remaining
unexpended at the end of the year 1813, and,
secondly, out of the surplus of any other appro-
priation which may in the opinion of the presi-
dent be transferred to that object without injury
to the public service,

For defraying the expence of additional clerks,
In the office of the secretary of the treasury,
In the office of the comptroller,

In the office of the auditor,

$625,000

1,000

700

1,000

For the bounty, subsistence, clothing, and other

expences of the marine corps,

189,291

For the bounty and pay of seamen for 1814, in

addition to the sum already appropriated,

122,700

59. Congress adjourned on the 18th of April, after fixing on

the last Monday in October for their next meeting.

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Message from the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirteenth Congress.

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate & of the House of Representatives.

IN meeting you at the present interesting conjuncture, it would have been highly satisfactory if I could have communicated a favourable result to the mission charged with negociations for restoring peace. It was a just expectation from the respect due to the distinguished sovereign who had invited them by his offer of mediation; from the readiness with which the invitation was accepted on the part of the United States; and from the pledge to be found in an act of their legislature for the liberality which their plenipotentiaries would carry into the negociations, that no time would be lost by the British government in embracing the experiment for hastening a stop to the effusion of blood. A prompt and cordial acceptance of the mediation on that side was the less to be doubted as it was of a nature not to submit rights or pretensions on either side to the decision of an umpire; but to afford merely an opportunity, honourable and desirable to both, for discussing, and if possible adjusting them for the interest of both.

The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power, or misled by other fallacious calculations, has disappointed this reasonable anticipation.

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