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THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H.R. 135.
(Miscellaneous Document No. 14.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 29, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Mr. Vinton, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the following bill:
A BILL
Further to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
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10 		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated to supply deficiences in the appropri-
ations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thir-
tieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, namely:
For pay of one additional clerk in the office of the
Fifth Auditor, rendered necessary by the increase of light-
house business, at eight hundred dollars per annum, from
the first of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the
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35 		thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, eight
hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-four cents.
For extra clerk hire for the settlement of the increase
of business in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, oc-
casioned by the Mexican war, six thousand dollars.
For salary of the judge of the southern district of
Florida, per act twenty-third February, eighteen hundred
and forty-seven, from third March, eighteen hundred and
forty-seven, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-
eight, at two thousand dollars per annum, two thousand
six hundred and sixty-one dollars and twelve cents.
For salaries of district attorney and marshal of the
southern district of Florida, per same act, from third
March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to thirtieth June,
eighteen hundred and forty-eight, at two hundred dollars
each per annum, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and
twenty-two cents.
For salaries of the two keepers of the public archives
in Florida, per act of third of March, eighteen hundred
and twenty-five, one thousand dollars: Provided, That so
much of said act of third of March, eighteen hundred and
and twenty-five, as authorizes the appointment of two
keepers of the public archives, shall be, and the same is
hereby, repealed from and after the thirtieth June, eighteen
hundred and forty-eight; and in the mean time it shall be
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⋄ 1st amendment
Insert (as separate item) between lines 39 & 40.
Separate item [?] 1st Am
For expenses of thirty-five light-houses, including oil and other annual supplies, delivering the same, and repairing the lighting apparatus for four hundred and twenty lamps; salaries of thirty-five keepers at the fixed average of four hundred dollars per annum, and also all other expenses, for six months, $22,740,00.⋄
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60 		the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the
said archives to be removed to some public office in the
State of Florida, to be designated by the President of the
United States, there to be safely kept. ^1st Insert here as separate item,^
For one new floating light, including the keeper’s
salary at six hundred and fifty dollars and all other ex-
penses for nine months, two thousand three hundred and
sixteen dollars.
For additional expenses of sundry new buoys for six
months, one thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.
For additional expenses of a temporary floating light
at Sand Key, Florida, in lieu of the light-house destroyed
there, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendent’s commission on twenty-eight thou-
sand two hundred and forty-six dollars at two and a half
per cent., seven hundred and six dollars and fifteen cents.
For contingent expenses under the act for the collec-
tion, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public
revenue of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six,
five thousand dollars.
For expenses of loans and treasury notes, five thou-
sand dollars. ^agreed to^ ^2^
For per diem compensation for clerk employed in the
Adjutant General’s office, one thousand dollars.
For per diem compensation for eight clerks employed
⋄between lines 59 & 60—E. Vinton 3[S?] 3d
For per diem compensation of clerk employed in the Ordnance office—$1.098
Separate item⋄
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Strike out from 60th to 62d inclusive, and insert the following
For per diem compensation for eight clerks employed, and such additional number of clerks to be as the exigencies of the public service may require to be employed temporarily by the commissi[?] of pensions ^ with the approbation & consent of the Secretary of War^ during the present fiscal year, on Bounty Land business in the Pension Office, at a rate not exceeding three dollars and thirty three cents per day fifteen thousand [?] hundred and ninety dollars and ninety six cents.⋄
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thousand dollars.
For outfits of charges des affaires to Naples, ^“^the Papal
States,^”^ and the Republics of Bolivia, Guatemala, and
Ecuador, ^“^twenty-two^”^ ^ four Eighteen ^ thousand five hundred dollars.
^“^For one quarter’s salary for each of the charges des
affaires to the Papal States, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecu- ^7 [?] ^
ador, four thousand five hundred dollars.^”^
For salary of the consul at Beyroot, from the fourth
of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth
of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, nine hundred
and fifty three dollars and eighty cents.
ARMY.
For regular supplies, incidental expenses, and trans-
portation, in the Quartermaster’s Department of the army,
five million dollars.
For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equip-
age, six hundred thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind, (in addition to the sum of
one million dollars appropriated at the present session,)
two million nine hundred and thirty-seven thousand nine
hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-four cents.
For pay of volunteers called into service during the
⋄[81 Smith Robert O. Add at end of 74 line
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That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be and ^ are ^ hereby ^is^ appropriated for the purpose of enabling and authorising the secretary of the Treasury to employ such an additional number of clerks in the office of the 2nd auditor, (at a per diem of not more than 3 33/100 dollars for each clerk) as are required by the exigencies of the service?]⋄
⋄Between lines 64 and 65 K [?]
For clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, bring the ^an^ unexpanded balance of the appropriation remaining on the 30th of June 1847 for that purpose $291.85.⋄
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Line 80—Strike out the words “six hundred” and insert the words “including one hundred and sixty thousand dollars for clothing to volunteers, in lieu of commutation therefor, one million one hundred and twenty.”⋄
⋄ [?]t to be inserted [Betwe?]en lines 74 and 75 ^separate item [?] Separate item^
^Yes^ For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries for the residue of the current fiscal year. $20.000. ⋄
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⋄Vinton [11. A.?]
Lines 86 and 87. Strike out the words “seven hundred and seventy-one” and insert the words “six hundred and eleven”⋄
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ty-one ^”^ thousand dollars.
For medical and hospital department, sixty-four thou-
sand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and sup-
plies, three hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses of arbitrating the title to the Pea
Patch Island, five thousand dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For provisions, sixteen thousand one hundred and
four dollars.
For clothing, thirty-six thousand three hundred dol-
lars.
For fuel, three thousand seven hundred and seventy-
seven dollars.
For military stores, three thousand five hundred dol-
lars.
For transportation and expenses of recruiting, five
thousand dollars.
For contingencies, six thousand dollars.
⋄Amend 1st Sec, insert separate item after line 105. KS
For paying James Crutchet for lighting the capital & grounds, [...?] Two thousand dollars ^and ten cents.^
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(Sec 2.) And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for clothing in kind to volunteers for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June 1849, agreeably to the act entitled “An act to provide clothing for volunteers in the service of the United States,” approved the 26th of January 1848: And that so much of said sum of eight hundred thousand dollars as the President shall direct, is hereby authorized to be applied to the purchase of said clothing during the current fiscal year.⋄
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H R N o 135
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To supply further deficiencies in the appropriations for the year ending June 30 1848.
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March 8, 1848
Engrossed & HR &
Passed
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2Printed text and handwritten notes appear in full on page 4; they will not be repeated here.

Printed Document, 7 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB ,