Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

March 27,1848.

Chap. XXIII. — An Act further to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

Supply of deficiencies.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, namely:

Additional clerk of Fifth Auditor.

For pay of one additional clerk in the office of the Fifth Auditor, rendered necessary by the increase of lighthouse business, at eight hundred dollars per annum, from the first of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-four cents.

Extra clerk hire in navy.

For extra clerk hire for the settlement of the increase of business in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, occasioned by the Mexican war, six thousand dollars.

District Judge of Florida.

1847, ch. 20.

For salary of the judge of the sourthern 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.

District Attorney and Marshal in Florida.

1847, ch. 20.

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.

Keepers of archives in Florida.

1825, ch. 83, ð 9.

Office abolished.

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and twenty-five, as authorizes the appointment of two keepers of the public archives, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed from and after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; and in the mean time, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the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.

Lighthouses, &c.

For expenses of thirty-five lighthouses, 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, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.

For one new floating light, including the keeper's salary at six hundred and fifty dollars, and all other expenses for nine months, two thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars.

For additional expenses of a temporary floating light at Sand Key, Florida, in lieu of the lighthouse destroyed there, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For superintendent's commission on twenty-eight thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars, at two and a half per cent, seven hundred and six dollars and fifteen cents.

Contingent expenses

1846, ch. 90.

For contingent expenses under the act for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, five hundred dollars.

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Clerk of Adjutant-General.

For per diem compensation for clerk employed in the Adjutant-General's office, one thousand dollars.

Clerk in Ordnance office.

For per diem compensation of clerk employed in the Ordnance office, one thousand and ninety-eight dollars.

Pension Department.

For per diem compensation for eight clerks employed, and such additional number of clerks as the exigencies of the public service may require to be employed temporarily, by the commissioner of pensions, with the approbation and 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 six hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-six cents.

For contingent expenses of the Pension office, one thousand dollars.

Clerk in War Department.

For clerks in the office of the Secretary of War, being an unexpended balance of the appropriation remaining on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, for that purpose, two hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-five cents.

Foreign intercourse.

For outfits of chargés des affaires to Naples, the Papal States, and the republics of Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecuador, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

For one quarter's salary, for each of the chargés des affaires to the Papal States, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecuador, 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.

Additional clerks in Treasury Department.

For compensation of such additional number of clerks as the exigencies of the public service may require, to be employed temporarily by the Secretary of the Treasury in the offices of the Second and Third Auditor, and in the office of the Second Comptroller, at a rate not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, and for contingencies, seventeen thousand dollars.

Clerks in General Land office.

For compensation to eight additional clerks to be employed in the General Land office, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each, the sum of two thousand dollars.

Seamen.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, twenty thousand dollars.

Army.

Army. — For regular supplies, incidental expenses, and transportation in the Quartermaster's department of the army, five million dollars.

Clothing.

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, including one hundred and sixty thousand dollars for clothing to volunteers, in lieu of commutation therefor, one million one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Subsistence in kind.

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.

Pay of volunteers.

For pay of volunteers called into service during the present fiscal year, three million six hundred and eleven thousand dollars.

Medical and Hospital Department.

For medical and hospital department, sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

Ordnance, &c.

For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, three hundred thousand dollars.

Pea Patch Island.

For expenses of arbitrating the title to the Pea Patch island, five thousand dollars.

Marine Corps.

Marine Corps. — For provisions, sixteen thousand one hundred and four dollars.

For clothing, thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

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For fuel, three thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars.

For military stores, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For transportation and expenses of recruiting, five thousand dollars.

Contingencies.

For contingencies, six thousand dollars.

For paying James Crutchett for lighting the Capitol and grounds, three thousand dollars and ten cents.

For contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, fifty thousand dollars.

For payment for printing of one thousand copies of list of patents, by Commissioner of Patents, two thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund.

Clothing in kind for volunteers.

1848, ch. 6.

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 thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, agreeably to the act entitled "An Act to provide clothing for volunteers in the service of the United States,' approved the twenty-sixth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; 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.

Approved, March 27, 1848.