Thirtieth Congress,
thiSecond Session,
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-nine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:

For contingent expenses of the General Land Office, to cover a deficiency in appropriation for parchment, the increase required to satisfy military locations being much greater than was estimated, four thousand dollars;

For contingent expenses of the office of the Register of the Treasury, for amount due on an account for printing and biding blank books for the entry of the collectors’ quarterly returns of the commerce and navigation of their several districts, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For salary of the governor and Superintendent of Indian affairs of Oregon Territory from eighteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, at three thousand dollars per annum, per act, fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, two thousand six hundred and eight dollars and seventy-four cents;

For salaries of the chief justice and two associate judges of Oregon Territory, at two thousand dollars each per annum, from fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, per same act, five thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents;

For salary of the secretary of Oregon Territory, from fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty nine, at fifteen hundred dollars per annum, per same act, one thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars, and fifty-eight cents;

For salaries of district attorney and marshal of Oregon Territory, from fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, at two hundred dollars each per annum, per same act, three hundred and fifty-one dollars and eight cents;

For the re-appropriation of this sum (carried to the surplus fund) being for the purchase of agricultural implements, cattle, and mechanics tools for the Ottawas and Chippewas stipulated in the fourth clause of the fourth article of the treaty of twenty-eighth March eighteen hundred and thirty-six, five thousand four hundred and six dollars and forty seven cents.

For payment of services of blacksmith and striker of the Choctaws, rendered after the treaty provision had expired

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by limitation and before he was notified thereof, and for coal furnished the shop during the same time, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety eight cents. For expenses of an agent in taking the census of the North Carolina Cherokees, under the fourth section of the act of twenty ninth July eighteen hundred and forty eight, ^four hundred^ (five hundred & fifty) dollars. (said sum to be paid to John C. Mullay who was employed for that purpose)

For continuing the collecting and digesting of such statistics and materials as may illustrate the history, the present condition, and future prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States, five thousand dollars.

For re-appropriation of this sum (carried to the surplus fund) for pay, subsistence and clothing of the company of sappers, miners and pontoniers, and for carrying out the other purposes of the act of May fifteenth eighteen hundred and forty-six, twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty cents.

To enable the Clerk of the House to furnish to members of the House the books authorized by the resolution of the seventh of August eighteen hundred and forty-eight, seventy-six thousand dollars.

For copying abstracts from old sea journals for the “wind and current charts,” and for payment of duties on books, maps, charts and instruments imported for the use of the Navy, four thousand dollars. And from and after the thirtieth of June next, all books, maps, charts, mathematical nautical instruments, philosophical apparatus, and all other articles whatever, imported

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for the use of the United States, shall be imported free of duty, anything in the act of July thirtieth eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled “an act reducing the duty on imports and for other purposes,” to the contrary notwithstanding.

For salary of the Secretary to sign patents for public lands, fifteen hundred dollars.

To pay two messengers in the Pension office, in addition to those now employed, at the rate of four hundred dollars each per annum for the last two quarters of the current fiscal year, four hundred dollars.

For furnishing sixteen rooms, in the new Building occupied by the Pension office, at an average of one hundred dollars per room, for carpets, matting, desks, tables, shelves, book cases, chairs and other necessary articles, sixteen hundred dollars.

For compensation to the commissioner in China, under the act to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China, and the Ottoman Porte, of eleventh August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents;

For compensation to the consuls of the United States at the five ports in China, viz; Kwangehow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ningpo and Shanghai, under the same act, two thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.

For outfit of a charge d’affaires to the Papal States, per act first of May, eighteen hundred and ten, four thousand five hundred dollars; ^For contingent expenses of the Senate^ For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives fifty thousand dollars, including the compensation of a clerk to the Sergeant-at-Arms at the rate of four dollars per day, during the present session;

For completing the three rooms in the capitol of Iowa, set apart for the use of the United States courts under a resolution of the General Assembly of Iowa, approved January twenty-two, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, one thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents; Provided, That before any money be paid under this appropriation, the said apartments be ceded by the proper authorities of the States of Iowa, for the use of the courts of the United States, until other arrangements for the accommodation of the courts be made by the United States.

In Senate of the United States,
January 12^th 1848

Resolved, That the Bill from the House of Representatives entitled
“An Act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the 30^th of June 1849, pass with the following

Amendments:

^[?]oncur. [1?]^ Page 3 Line 6, strike out “five hundred and fifty” and in lieu thereof insert
“four hundred”
^[?]oncur 2^ Line 7. an[d?] 58 strike out all after the word “dollars” to the end of the section.

Page 5 after Line 3—1insert the following:—
“For contingent expenses of the Senate, ^[?] cur 3.^ one hundred and twenty three thousand dollars.”

^4 [?]cur ^ At the end of the bill add the following:—
“For bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and vice President of the United States, nine thousand dollars.”

“For the employment, in the adjutant ^[?]cur 5 amendment^ general’s office, of two temporary clerks, for the last half of the current fiscal year, one thousand dollars.” ^and for the contingent &c^

For the six swords ordered to be

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presented by the Joint Resolution ^[?]ncur 6^ approved march second eighteen hundred and forty seven, nine thousand dollars.”

“For instruments necessary for the astronomical observations directed to be made in the Southern Hemisphere ^[?]ncur. 7^ by the act of August third eighteen hundred and forty eight” and for freight and expenses on the same, six thousand four hundred dollars”

In the House of Representatives
January 19^th AD 1849.

Resolved, That this House do concur in the amendments of the Senate No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, & 7, to the Bill (H.R. N^o 665.) To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty nine.

That this House do concur in the fifth amendment of the Senate to said Bill, with the following amendment; add at the end, after the word dollars: “And for the contingent expenses of the Pension office for the last and the current fiscal years, five thousand five hundred and sixty six dollars and forty-five cents”.

In Senate of the United States
January 23^d, 1849.

Resolved, That the Senate agree to the amendment of the House of Representatives to the fifth amendment of the Senate to the above mentioned Bill, (H. R. 665.)