JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
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mo- SO AN ACT in addition to act TO regulate and


the compensation of the Clerks in the different Offices"


passed April, thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatires of the United Sates of .smerica in Con-
gress assembled, That the Secretary OF State be
authorized to employ in the State Department, one
additional Clerk, whose compensation shall not ex-
ceed sixteen hundred dollars two additional Clerks
whose compensation shall net exceed one thousand
dollars each and one additional Clerk for the Pa
tent Office, whose compensation shall not exceed
eight hundred dollars.


Sec. Q. .and be it further enacted, Tha, the Sec
re,ary Of the Treasury be, and he hereby s author
ICED 10 employ, in the Treasury Department. one
additional Clerk, whose compensation shall not cx-
coed fourteen hundred dollars in the Office of the
Fourth Auditor, two additional Clerks, whose com.
pensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars
cach


Sec 8 find be 1t further enacted, Tha, the Sec
re.ary Of the Navy be- and he hereby is, authorized
to employ one additional Clerk, whose compensa-
lion shall no: exceed one thousand dollars.
/ Sec d find be it further enacted, That the Sec.


e,a.y OF the War Department be, and he hereby is,
authorized to employ one additional Clerk for the
office of the Chief Engineer; one additional Clerk
for the Office Of the Adjurant General and one ad
ditional Clerk for the Office of the Commissary
General os Subsistence the compensation to each
not exceeding eight hundred dollars.


Sec. S. find be it further enacted That the Post
master General be, and he hereby is, authorized to
employ five additional Clerks whose compensation
shalt rot exceed one thousand dollars each; and one