Act for 1789 Federal Government Appropriations

Congress of the United States,

begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday the
fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

An Act making appropriations for the service of the present year.

Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that there be appropriated for the services of the present year, to be paid out of the monies which arise either from the requisitions heretofore made upon the several states or from the duties on Impost and Tonnage, the following sums, viz[‘]t. a sum not exceeding two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars for defraying the expences of the Civil List under the late and present Government; A sum not exceeding one hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars for defraying the expences of the Department of War; A sum not exceeding one hundred and ninety thousand dollars for discharging the warrants issued by the late Board of Treasury and remaining unsatisfied; And a sum not exceeding ninety one thousand dollars for paying the pensions to Invalids.

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

John Adams, Vice President of he United States and President of the Senate.

Approved September the Twenty ninth 1789

George Washington – President of the United States