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Finance [& immediately?]
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 hereby are, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, namely:
Legislative.
For compensation and mileage of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and delegates, seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand and two hundred dollars;
For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars.
Library of Congress.
For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians and messenger, four thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars.
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For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars;
For purchase of lawbooks for said library, one thousand dollars;
Executive.
For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
Department of State.
For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-eight thousand three hundred dollars;
For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, namely;
For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the States and territories, and of the city of Washington, ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For proof-reading, packing and distributing laws and documents, including boxes, labor and transportation, nine thousand dollars;
For stationery, blank books, binding, labor and attendance, furniture, repairs, painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars;
For printing, (letter-press and copperplate,) books and maps, two thousand dollars;
For newspapers, two hundred dollars;
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For extra clerk hire, two hundred dollars;
^54^ For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars;
For compiling, printing and binding the biennial register, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the north east executive building, one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars;
For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For labor, fuel and light, two thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
Treasury Department.
For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers in his office, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty-three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks messenger and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, and ^6^ messenger ^& assistant messenger^ in his office, fifty ^one^ thousand (five hundred) and fifty-seven dollars;
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For compensation of the Third auditor and the clerks, messenger and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-eight thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the six additional clerks in said office authorized by the act of the twelfth of august, eighteen hundred and forty eight, six thousand four hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger & assistant messenger in his office, twenty thousand four hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger and assistant messengers in his office, thirty thousand two hundred dollars; “And the clerk now employed in said office at a per diem compensation, shall hereafter be allowed a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum; Provided, no other person shall be paid for discharging any of the duties now performed by him.”
For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and packers in his office, ninety-two thousand seven hundred and eighty eight dollars and seventy five cents;
For compensation of the Solicitor of the treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
Contingent expenses of the Treasury Department.
In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, sealing ships registers, carrying the department mails, translations, printing, inclu-
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ding the public accounts, and for collecting and preparing information to be laid before Congress, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous expenses, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
In the office of the First Comptroller.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars;
For cases to preserve books and papers; also for desks and writing tables, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For carpets, oil cloths, and chairs, in eight rooms, one thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
In the office of the Second Comptroller.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, and printing blanks, including pay for the National Intelligencer and Union, to be filed, bound and preserved for the use of the office, seven hundred dollars;
For labor, office furniture and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars;
In the office of the First Auditor.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, printing, books, and labor, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundreds dollars;
In the office of the Second Auditor.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, labor and printing blanks, one thousand five hundred dollars.
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In the office of the Third Auditor.
For blank-books, binding, printing, stationery and labor, one thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars.
In the office of the Fourth Auditor.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
In the office of the Fifth Auditor.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, and labor, four hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars.
In the office of the Treasurer.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing, one thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.
In the office of the Register.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, and labor, including the printing of blank certificates of registers, enrolments, and licenses of vessels, and other blanks for the use of the collectors of the customs, three thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
In the office of the Solicitor.
For blank-books, binding, stationery, printing circulars and blank-forms for reports of district attorneys, marshals, clerks of court and labor, one thousand and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars;
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For statutes and reports, including those of the several States, one thousand dollars.
In the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
For tract books, three thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars;
For stationery, including blank books and blank forms for the district land offices, pieces of parchment, and printing patents, advertising land sales in newspapers and hand bill form, public notices, printing circulars, office furniture and repairs of the same, and pay of laborers employed in the office, ^2-692-9 H. R^ twenty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars and fifty cents;
For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars;
For compensation of the superintendent and eight watchmen of the southeast executive building, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for labor, fuel and light, eight thousand dollars;
For rent, fuel, watching, and miscellaneous expenses of additional buildings for accommodation of officers of the Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars.
War Department.
For compensation of the Secretary of War, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;
For arrearage for clerks and messengers in said office.
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fifty-six cents;
For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office,
eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and
the clerks and messengers in his office, forty-five thousand seven
hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty-three cents;
For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office
of the commanding general, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office
of the adjutant general, ten thousand four hundred and
fifty dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office
of the quartermaster general, seven thousand three hund-
red dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the of-
fice of clothing and equipage, at Philadelphia, four thousand
two hundred dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office
of the paymaster general, nine thousand nine hundred dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office
of the commissary general of subsistence, six thousand eight
hundred dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the
chief engineer, (six thousand four hundred) ^five thousand six hundred^ and fifty dollars; “being
an increase in the salary of the chief clerk, of two hundred
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clerk, of two hundred and fifty dollars; in the salary of the
one thousand dollar clerk, of one hundred and fifty dollars;
and in the salary of the eight hundred dollar clerk, of two
hundred dollars, as recommended by the Secretary of War).
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office
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of the surgeon general, including the sum of one thousand dollars for additional clerk hire, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the colonel of ordnance, nine thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars;
For compensation of clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, four thousand nine hundred dollars;
Contingencies of the War Department.
For incidental and contingent expenses of said department, and the various offices and bureaus connected therewith, namely:
In the office of the Secretary of War.
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing, and newspapers and periodicals, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars;
For extra clerks in the War Department, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars.
In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars;
For labor, one hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.
In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.
For stationery, blank books, binding, printing blank forms and regulations, advertising, fuel and furniture, seven thousand and
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fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars;
For the purpose of printing under the direction of the Commissioner of pensions, an additional number of House Document number ninety-five of the first session of the Twenty-ninth Congress, and all laws relating to pensions, which have been passed since the twenty-seventh day of January eighteen hundred and forty-six, and are still in force, together with the constructions placed upon such laws by the War Department or Attorney General, and the forms necessary to be followed by applicants for pensions under the several laws, and the bounty land laws, together with the necessary forms for application therefor, for the use of the pension office, the sum of eight hundred dollars.
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In the office of the Commanding General.
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
In the office of the Adjutant General.
For printing army register and orders, blank books, binding and stationery, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
In the office of the Quartermaster General including the office at Philadelphia.
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, advertising, labor, and fuel, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For extra clerk hire, five thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.
In the office of the Paymaster General.
For blank books, binding, stationery, and fuel, one thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.
In the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence.
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, advertising, labor, and fuel, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.
In the office of the Chief Engineer.
For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel and printing, seven hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
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In the office of the Surgeon General.
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and fuel, one hundred and ten dollars;
For miscellaneous items, sixty-five dollars.
In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance.
For blank books, binding, stationery, and printing, five hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred and sixty-one dollars.
In the Bureau of Topographical Engineers.
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor and fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars;
For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the northwest executive building, one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars;
For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars
For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars;
For rent of sixty additional rooms for offices, (properly warmed,) eight thousand five hundred dollars; Provided, That the Secretary of War can procure the rooms at the rate of said sum of eight thousand five hundred dollars per annum: And provided also, That the said appropriation for rent shall not be construed into a pledge or guarantee, on the part of the government to rent said rooms after the present appropriation is exhausted.
Navy Department.
For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty one thousand
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nine hundred and fifty dollars: (Provided, That is shall be and hereby is made the duty of the Secretary of the Navy forthwith to publish an order to abolish the practice of whipping in the navy);
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of navy yards and docks, and of the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, eleven thousand four hundred dollars;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and of the draughtsman, clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand four hundred dollars;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of construction, equipment, and repairs, and of the assistant constructor, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, & Repairs for current fiscal year, to supply a deficiency of the appropriation of the last session, five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the chief naval constructor, and the engineer in chief, six thousand dollars;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing, and of the clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand three hundred dollars;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, and of the assistant surgeon, clerks, and messenger in his office, (six thousand eight hundred) ^seven thousand three hundred^ dollars.
Contingencies of the Navy Department.
For contingent expenses of said department, and all the bureaus connected therewith, namely:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor,
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six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
For newspapers and periodicals, two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars;
For compensation of superintendent and three (watchmen of the southwest executive building, one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars;
For contingent expenses of said building, namely;
For labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred & fifty dollars;
Post Office Department.
For compensation of the Postmaster General, three assistant postmasters general, clerks, messengers, assistant messenger, and watchmen of said department, seventy-six thousand six hundred dollars;
For compensation of the superintendent of the post office building, two hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said department, viz:
For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, oil, printing, labor, and day watching, six thousand two hundred and eighty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars;
For repairs of the post office building, repairs of furnaces and fire places, office furniture, glazing, and whitewashing, five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Auditor of the Post Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his
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For contingent expenses of said office, viz;
For labor, blank books, binding, stationery and printing blanks
and circulars, five thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars;
Surveyors General and their clerks.
For compensation of the surveyor general north-west of the Ohio,
and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars;
For compensation of the surveyor general of Illinois, and Missou-
ri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and
twenty dollars;
For compensation of the surveyor general of Louisiana, and
the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the surveyor general of Florida, and the
clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the surveyor general of Wisconsin and
Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars;
For clerks in the office of the Surveyors General to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public Service; and
is necessary to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government ^& for other purposes^ twenty two thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars;
For compensation of four assistants, drawkeepers, at the Potomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, fire wood and repairs, four thousand and two hundred and ninety dollars.
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Mint of the United States.
At Philadelphia, viz:
For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, engraver, assistant assayer, and three clerks, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars;
For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars;
For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water, rent, repairs and wastage, in addition to available funds on hand, three thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars;
For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars.
At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz:
For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars;
For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For incedental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs and wastage, two thousand one hundred dollars.
At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz:
For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars;
For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars;
For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs and wastage, two thousand five hundred dollars.
At New Orleans, viz:
For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, coiner, assayer,
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melter, and refiner, and two clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars;
For wages of workmen, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars;
For machinery and machinists, fifteen hundred dollars;
For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to available funds on hand, twenty-four thousand six hundred dollars.
Government in the Territory of Oregon.
For salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, ten thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation and mileage of members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand six hundred dollars.
Judiciary.
For salaries of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the eight associate judges, forty one thousand dollars;
For salaries of the district judges, sixty-three thousand seven hundred dollars;
For salaries of the chief justice of the district of Columbia, the associate judges, the judges of the criminal and orphans’ court ten thousand seven hundred dollars;
For salaries of the Attorney General, and the clerk and messenger in his office, six thousand one hundred dollars;
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For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney General, five hundred dollars;
For the purchase of law books, and the necessary book cases for said office, two thousand dollars;
For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court, one thousand three hundred dollars;
For compensation of the district attorneys, being two hundred dollars each, as prescribed by law, seven thousand four hundred dollars;
For compensation of the marshals, six thousand eight hundred dollars;
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in the fiscal year, ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and previous years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, four hundred and forty-three thousand dollars; ^Provided that the clerks &c^ Provided, That the proviso in the first section of an act entitled “an act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes limiting the fees for taking and certifying the depositions of witnesses in civil causes be and the same is hereby declared to extend and apply to all and every civil
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cause between any parties whatsoever and to all admirality proceedings; Provided, however, That where the actual taking of any such deposition shall necessarily require a longer time than three hours the judge of the Court in which said deposition is to be used, is hereby authorized to certify an amount not exceeding eight dollars as a proper charge for taking such deposition, and the same shall thereupon be taxable as a part of the costs of the suit in proceeding.
Miscellaneous.
For furnishing the Presidents House after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in addition to such sum as may be realized from the sale of such articles furnished for the same by the United States, as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, and the President may direct to be sold, a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States;
For annual repairs of the Capitol, attendance on furnaces in the crypt, attendance on water closets, for public gardener and laborers, and cartage on the Capitol grounds; tools, wire, leather, nails, stakes, boxes, straw for grounds, and whitewashing, graveling the walks in the Capitol grounds, manure and trees for grounds; repairs of public stables, flagging, enclosures &c.: Keeping in order the iron pipes that convey water to the Capitol and public offices, and repairing the damage by freshets; brooms, brushes, wooden spades, shovelling snow; repairing abutments at Tiber creek and building protecting walls, enclosing and improving the public grounds at the north
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Pennsylvania avenue, seventeen thousand dollars;
For annual repairs of Presidents House, gardener and laborers,
graveling the walks in Presidents square, manure, leather, nails, tools &c.;
and repairs of fence at Lafayette square, Fountain square, and
Presidents garden, cartage &c.; three thousand five hundred dollars.
For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from Capitol square to the Treasury
Department, and compensation for one Camp lighter for the same,
and for lighting Capitol and Capitol Grounds and Presidents House,
six thousand dollars to be expended under the direction of the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings;
For payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress,
seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For payment, by the Secretary of State, to William C. Reddall and ^4-25-387^William C. Zantzinger, equally to be divided between them, the sum ^692 H R^of seven hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-three cents, which has been already appropriated for clerk hire in the State Department, but not drawn from the Treasury;
(For payment to Ezra Williams, a clerk in the Bounty Land Division of the General Land Office, for extra services rendered out of office hours, five hundred dollars);
For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars;
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For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to superintendent and assistants, one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars;
For printing two thousand charts of the Bay of San Francisco and river Sacremento, under resolution of the House of Representatives of the fifteenth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, two hundred and sixty dollars;
For completing the centre strip of Pennsylvania avenue to fifteenth street west, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For publishing an Atlas of Charts, of the surveys of the Northern and North Western lakes, made under various appropriations, under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars;
For continuing the survey of the Northern and North Western lakes, ten thousand dollars;
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, five thousand dollars; Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be drawn from the Treasury, except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure;
For salaries of special examiners of drugs, medicines, and chemicals, eight thousand dollars; hereafter the salary of Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals, at New York, shall be two thousand dollars instead of his present salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and that he be allowed a clerk at one thousand dollars per annum;
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For salary of the records of land titles in Missouri, heretofore paid out of survey of public lands, five hundred dollars;
For salaries of assistant treasurers of the United States, at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars;
For additional salaries of treasurers of the mint at Philadelphia, and branch mint at New Orleans, one thousand dollars;
For salaries of ten clerks, authorized by the act of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the twelfth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, nine thousand dollars;
For salary of chief clerk to assistant treasurer New York, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For,
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collection, transfer and disbursment of the public revenue of sixth
August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, fifteen thousand dollars;
Provided, That no part of said sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
shall be expended for clerical services;
For compensation to special agents to examine books, ac-
counts, and money on hand in the several depositions, under the
act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five thou-
sand dollars;
For support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane
paupers of the District of Columbia, six thousand four hundred
dollars;
For the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, three assist-
ant keepers, five guards and messenger of the penetentiary of the
District of Columbia, eight thousand five hundred and fifty
dollars;
For three inspectors of said penitentiary, three hundred
dollars;
For expenses of loans and treasury notes, twenty thou-
sand dollars; ^& for the same &c^
To make good a deficiency in the fund for the relief
of sick seamen, fifteen thousand dollars;
For repairs of the custom-house and wharf at Ply-
mouth, North Carolina, one hundred dollars.
For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for
the use of the Patent Office, fifteen hundred dollars;
For compensation of librarian, five hundred dollars;
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thirty-five hundred dollars;
For defraying the expenses of chemical analyses of vegetable
substances produced and used for the food of man and animals in
the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner
of Patents, one thousand dollars; which several sums amounting in
the whole to six thousand five hundred dollars, shall be paid out of
the patent fund;
Towards the erection of the wings of the Patent office building
according to the original plan ^under &c^, fifty thousand dollars, to be paid
out of the Patent fund; ^Provided &c^
For the purchase of a building ^for a^ (to be used for holding the courts
of the United States, Post Office, and) Custom House, at Portland in the
state of Maine; a sum not exceeding one hundred and forty-nine
thousand dollars, provided; That the secretary of the Treasury shall
after full examination deem such purchase expedient, and for the
interest of the United States.
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for twelve copies of the Congressional Globe, and twelve copies of the appendix, for each member of the House of Representatives, under the resolution of the first of March eighteen hundred forty seven, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars;
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for five hundred and thirty six copies of the seventh volume of the Documentary History of the American Revolution, being the first volume of the fifth series of that work, eight thousand seven hundred and forty seven dollars and fifty two cents.
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For the reappropriation of this sum (carried to the surplus funds for payment to the widow of James McDonald deceased, said McDonald’s share of the sum granted by Congress for distribution as prize money among the captors of the British Brig Detroit, during the last war with Great Britain, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
For the erection of a Custom House, at Eastport, in the State of Maine, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for that object, thirteen thousand dollars;
For the redemption of the Treasury scrip heretofore issued for the satisfaction of the bounties promised to the non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates by the ninth section of the act of the eleventh of February eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to raise for a limited time an additional military force, and for other purposes, and for the satisfaction in money of such bounties due, under said section of said act, as those to whom they are due may elect to receive in money instead of land, three hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby directed, immediately after the passage of this act, to give notice by publication for sixty days in at least one of the principal papers, in Washington city, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, and in such other papers as he may deem expedient, that the principal and interest of such scrip, as has been or may be issued prior to the first of July AD. eighteen hundred and forty nine, will be paid on that day on presentation at the Treasury of the United States, and that the interest on such scrip will cease on that day, And the said Secretary is further directed not to issue scrip for said bounty after that day; but to pay the same in money out of this appropriation in all cases when the person entitled to the bounty in land, shall elect to receive money in lieu thereof.
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Light-House Establishment.
For supplying light-houses, containing two thousand eight hundred and forty-three lamps, with oil, tube glasses, wicks, buff-skins, whiting and cotton cloth, transportation and other expenses thereon, and for repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, one hundred and thirty-five thousand one hundred and three dollars and sixty cents;
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of light-houses and buildings connected therewith, eighty-one thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and four cents;
For salaries of two hundred and seventy-four keepers of light-houses, and fifteen assistants, (twenty of them charged with double and two with tripple lights,) including one thousand two hundred dollars for that of an inspector of lights on the upper lakes, one hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents;
For salaries of thirty-three keepers of floating lights, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;
For seamens’s wages, repairs and supplies for thirty-three floating lights, eighty four thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty five cents;
For expenses of weighing, mooring, cleansing and supplying losses of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty nine thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-six cents;
For expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting light-houses annually, and examining and reporting their condition, two thousand dollars;
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For superintendents’ commissions, at two and a half per cent. on the four hundred and sixty-six thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and eight cents, appropriated above for light-house purposes, eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-five cents: ^and the proviso^ (Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to any person who receives a salary as an officer of the customs exceeding fifteen hundred dollars per annum. And from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the said disbursement shall be made by the collectors of the customs, who shall, also discharge the duty or superintendents)
For completing the light-house on Brandywine (shoal, Delaware Bay, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and two dollars and sixty-one cents; ^5-692-33 784^
For completing the light house on Carysfort Reef, Coast of Florida, thirty-one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-six cents; ^17^
To pay the balance due to Ebenezer Warner for constructing the light-house at White Fish Point on Lake Superior, three thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars;
For illuminating apparatus for the light-house at Minots rock, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Hospitals.
For completion of marine hospital at Pittsburgh, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Louisville, elven thousand
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six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Cleveland, six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;
For completion of the marine hospital at Chicago, twenty thousand dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Paducah, twenty thousand dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Natchez, twenty thousand dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas, twenty thousand dollars;
For the purpose of erecting a marine hospital at or near St. Louis, Missouri, in addition to the ten thousand dollars, heretofore appropriated, by the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the same object; twenty thousand dollars, to be expended only when ^the^ government shall have obtained a bona fide title to the site: And for the purchase of said site, the ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, by the act aforesaid, or so much thereof as is necessary shall be applied;
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to collect facts and information in relation to Marine Hospitals, and the Marine Hospital Fund, and to report to Congress what alterations and improvements are necessary and practicable in the administration of the same, one thousand dollars.
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Surveys of Public Lands.
For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, viz:
For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses, to be apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, the part to be applied to the surveys of the mineral regions of Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, in the location of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at augmented rates, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars;
For surveys in the southern part of Missouri, east of the meridian, at five dollars per mile, on account of the difficulties in executing surveys in that section of the State, owing to lakes, swamps, and marshes, four thousand dollars;
For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys, in small and detached portions, in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For completing surveys of the towns and villages in Missouri, named in the acts of eighteen hundred and twelve and eighteen hundred and twenty-four, including office work, two thousand dollars;
For completing certain surveys in Arkansas, at the increased rates, in consequence of the peculiar difficulties attending the execution of them, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
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Intercourse with Foreign Nations.
For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil and Mexico, sixty-three thousand dollars; and for outfits of said ministers sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
For salaries of the Secretaries of legation, to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars;
For salary of minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars;
For salary of the dragoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For salaries of charges des affaires to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecuador, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars; and for outfits for said charges des affaires, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty-five thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars;
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars;
For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars;
For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars;
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For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For salary of the commissioner to reside in China, including additional compensation under the act of eleventh August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six thousand dollars;
For compensation to Peter Parker, Secretary of Legation and Chinese interpreter at Canton, for his services as Charge des affaires of the United States at said place, from the twenty eighth day of June eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the twenty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being the interval between the death of Alexander Everett late commissioner at Canton, and the actual arrival of John W. Davis the present commissioner, after the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum (deducting his salary as such Secretary, and two thousand dollars already paid him towards said service,) the sum of two hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety two cents;
For salary of the interpreter and secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation to the consuls at the five Chinese ports, viz: Kwangchow, Anroy, Fuchow, Ningpo and Shanghae, (three) thousand dollars;
For salary of consul general at Alexandria, three thousand dollars;
For salary of consul at Beirout, five hundred dollars;
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars;
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For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
For office rent of the consul at Basle in Switzerland, one ^5^ hundred dollars; ^& for office rent &c^
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the third section of the act, entitled, “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes,” approved the tenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso to the nineteenth section of the act of the twenty-eighth of January eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled, “an act authorizing the issue of treasury notes, a loan, and for other purposes,” be, and the ^same^ is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no clerk or other officer shall receive the salary of any Secretary or Head of Bureau for acting or having acted in his place or office, while said Secretary or Head of Bureau receive such salary.
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Passed the House of Representatives
January 23d AD. 1849.
Attest,
Tho. J Campbell
Clerk
1“25” changed to “27”.

Partially Printed Document, 61 page(s), Volume Volume 2, 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 ,