Public Law 1–XXII

Section 1.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized to

President authorized to draw $40,000.

draw from the treasury of the United States, a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars annually, to be paid out of the monies arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, for the support of such persons as he shall commission to serve the United States in foreign parts, and for the expense incident to the business in which they may be employed: Provided,

for outfit;

That exclusive of an outfit, which shall in no case exceed the

and salaries of ministers plenipotentiary, and

amount of one year’s full salary to the minister plenipotentiary or charge des affaires to whom the same may be allowed, the President shall not allow to any minister plenipotentiary a greater sum than at the rate of FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 25, 26, 27. 1790.nine thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal

charge des affaires, and

services and other expenses; nor a greater sum for the same, than four thousand five hundred dollars per annum to a charge des affaires; nor a greater sum for the same, than one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars per annum to the secretary of any minister plenipotentiary: And

minister’s secretary;

provided also, That the President shall account specifically for all such expenditures of the said money as in his judgment may be made public,

and to account specifically.

and also for the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify, and cause a regular statement and account thereof to be laid before Congress annually, and also lodged in the proper office of the treasury department.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be

Continuance of this act.

in force for the space of two years, and from thence until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.