Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

March 3, 1849.

Chap. C. — An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic Expenses of Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, and for other Purposes.

Appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1850.

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: —

Congress—pay and mileage, $768,200.

Legislative. — For compensation and mileage of senators, members of the House of Representatives, and delegates, seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred dollars.

$100,000.

For compensation and mileage of senators and members of the House of Representatives and delegates, for the current fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars.

Officers, $39,557 50.

For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

Contingencies, Senate, $75,000.

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Contingencies, House of Reps. $182,749.

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. Officers, $4500.

Library of Congress. — For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger, four thousand five hundred dollars.

Contingencies, $800.

For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars.

Books, $5000. $1000.

For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars.

For purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars.

Catalogue of library, $2000.

For printing and binding a complete catalogue of the Library of Congress, two thousand dollars.

President, $25,000.

Executive. — For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Vice President, $5000.

For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, five thousand dollars.

Dept. of State. Secretary and officers, $28,300.

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.

Contingencies.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, namely: —

Publishing laws, $10,880.

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

$9000.

For proof-reading, packing, and distributing laws and documents, including boxes, labor, and transportation, nine thousand dollars.

Stationery, &c. $4400.

For stationery, blank books, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, repairs, painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars.

Printing, &c. $2000.

For printing (letter press and copperplate) books and maps, two thousand dollars.

Newspapers, $200.

For newspapers, two hundred dollars.

Extra clerk hire, $2000.

For extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous, $1000.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

Biennial Register, $1800.

For compiling, printing, and binding the Biennial Register, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

North-east executive building, $1710.

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.:

$2200.

For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand two hundred dollars.

$1110.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and ten dollars.

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Treasury Department, Secretary and officers, $27,850.

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.

First Comptroller, $28,550.

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

Second Comptroller, $23,650.

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty-three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

First Auditor, $22,800.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.

Second Auditor, $51,057.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger, assistant messenger in his office, fifty-one thousand and fifty-seven dollars.

Third Auditor, $38,350.

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

Additional clerks, $6400.

1848, ch. 166.

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.

$1100.

For compensation of six additional clerks in the Third Auditor's office, for services during the current fiscal year, eleven hundred dollars.

Fourth Auditor, $20,400.

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty thousand four hundred dollars.

Fifth Auditor, $15,600.

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.

Treasurer, $13,750.

For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Register, $30,200.

Salary of a Clerk, $1400.

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."

General Land Office, $92,788 75

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.

Solicitor, $13,650.

For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

Contingencies of Treasury Department, viz. : Office of Secretary, $15,200.

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, including the public accounts, and for collecting and preparing information to be laid before Congress, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.

$2800.

For miscellaneous expenses, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

First Comptroller, $1700.

In the office of the First Comptroller:

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

$1500.

For cases to preserve books and papers; also for desks and writing tables, one thousand five hundred dollars.

$1000.

For carpets, oil-cloths, and chairs, in eight rooms, one thousand dollars.

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$300.

For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.

Second Comptroller, $700.

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.

$800.

For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.

First Auditor, $1200.

In the office of the First Auditor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, books, and labor, one thousand two hundred dollars.

$300.


Second Auditor, $1500.

In the office of the Second Auditor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing blanks, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Third Auditor, $1000.

In the office of the Third Auditor:

For blank books, binding, printing, stationery, and labor, one thousand dollars.

$200.

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.

Fourth Auditor, $750.

In the office of the Fourth Auditor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

$200.


Fifth Auditor, $425.

In the office of the Fifth Auditor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.

$350.

For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars.

Treasurer, $1000.

In the office of the Treasurer:

For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing, one thousand dollars.

$500.

For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.

Register, $3000.

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.

$1000.


Solicitor, $1050.

In the office of the Solicitor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing circulars and blank forms for reports of district attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and labor, one thousand and fifty dollars.

$200.


$1000.

For statutes and reports, including those of the several States, one thousand dollars.

General Land Office, $3327.

In the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office:

For tract books, three thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

$26,990 50.

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 handbill form, public notices, printing circulars, office furniture and repairs of the same, and pay of laborers employed in office, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars and fifty cents.

$700.

For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars.

South-east executive building, $3420.

For compensation of the superintendent, and eight watchmen of the south-east executive building, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.

$8000.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz.: for labor, fuel, and light, eight thousand dollars.

$10,000.

For rent, fuel, watching, and miscellaneous expenses of additional

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buildings for accommodation of officers of the Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars.

War Department, Secretary and officers, $17,850.

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.

Arrearages, $1269 56.

For arrearage for clerks and messengers in said office, one thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $18,700.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.

Commissioner of Pensions, $45,741 83.

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.

Commanding General, $1500.

For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Adjutant-General, $10,450.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant-General, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

Quartermaster-General, $7300.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster-General, seven thousand three hundred dollars.

Office of clothing and equipage, Philadelphia, $4200.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of Clothing and Equipage, at Philadelphia, four thousand two hundred dollars

Paymaster-General, $9900.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster-General, nine thousand nine hundred dollars.

Commissary-General of Subsistence, $6800.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, six thousand eight hundred dollars.

Chief Engineer, $5650.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer, five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

Surgeon-General, $3650.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon-General, including the sum of one thousand dollars for additional clerk hire, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

Ordnance Department, $9589.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, nine thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars.

Topographical Engineers, $4900.

For compensation of clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, four thousand nine hundred dollars.

Contingencies of War Department, and its various bureaus, viz: Office of Secretary. $1450. $1000. $1500.

Contingencies of the War Department. — For the 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.

$550.

For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $500.

In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars.

$100.

For labor, one hundred dollars.

$400.

For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.

Pension office, $7050.

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 fifty dollars.

$500.


Printing laws, &c., respecting, $800.

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

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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.

Commanding General's office, $300.

In the office of the Commanding General:


Adjutant General's office, $1200.

In the office of the Adjutant General:

For printing army register and orders, blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand two hundred dollars.

$300.


Quartermaster General's office.

In the office of the Quartermaster-General, including the office at Philadelphia:

$1800.

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, advertising, labor, and fuel, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

$5000.

For extra clerk hire, five thousand dollars.

$150.

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Paymaster-General's office.

In the office of the Paymaster-General:

$1000.

For blank books, binding, stationery, and fuel, one thousand dollars.

$400.

For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.

Office of Commissary-General of Subsistence.

In the office of the Commissary-General of Subsistence:

$1800.

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, advertising, labor, and fuel, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

$150.

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Chief Engineer, $700.

In the office of the Chief Engineer:

For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, and printing, seven hundred dollars.

$300.


Surgeon-General, $110.

In the office of the Surgeon-General:

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and fuel, one hundred and ten dollars.

$65.

For miscellaneous items, sixty-five dollars.

Ordnance Department, $500.

In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance:

For blank books, binding, stationery, and printing, five hundred dollars.

$561.

For miscellaneous items, five hundred and sixty-one dollars.

Topographical Engineers, $750.

In the Bureau of Topographical Engineers:

For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

$500.


$1710.

For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the north-west executive building, one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.

$2400.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz. : for labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars.

$1600.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars.

Rent of additional rooms, $8500.

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 guaranty, on the part of Government, to rent said rooms after the present appropriation is exhausted.

$6000.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay the balance of the estimated cost of the buildings of the Choctaw Academy to Colonel R. M. Johnson, of Kentucky, six thousand dollars.

Navy Department. Secretary and officers, $21,950.

Navy Department. — For compensation of the Secretary of the

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Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks, $11,400.

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.

Ordnance and Hydrography, $9400.

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.

Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, $13,600.

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.

$500.

For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, for current fiscal year, to supply a deficiency of the appropriation of the last session, five hundred dollars.

Chief naval constructor, $6000.

For compensation of the Chief Naval Constructor and the Engineer in Chief, six thousand dollars.

Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, $9300.

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.

Medicine and Surgery, $7300.

For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and of the assistant surgeon, clerks, and messenger in his office, seven thousand three hundred dollars.

Contingencies of Navy Department and its various bureaus. $6150. $200. $2000. $1345.

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, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For newspapers and periodicals, two hundred dollars.


For compensation of superintendent and three watchmen of the south-west executive building, one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, namely:

$1675.

For labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

$1150.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Post-Office Department. Postmaster-General and officers, $76,600.

Post-Office Department. — For compensation of the Postmaster-General, three Assistant Postmasters-General, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department, seventy-six thousand six hundred dollars.

Superintendent P. O. Department, $250.

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.

Miscellaneous, $800.

For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.

$500.

For repairs of the post-office building, repairs of furnaces and fireplaces, office furniture, glazing, and whitewashing, five hundred dollars.

Auditor Post-Office Department, $85,800.

For compensation of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, eighty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, viz. :

$5790.

For labor, blank books, binding, stationery, printing blanks and circulars, five thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.

$1000.


Surveyors-general and clerks north-west of the Ohio, $8300.

Surveyors-General and their Clerks. — For compensation of the

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Surveyor-General north-west of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.

Illinois and Missouri, $5820.

For compensation of the Surveyor-General of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

Louisiana, $4500.

For compensation of the Surveyor-General of Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars.

Florida, $5500.

For compensation of the Surveyor-General of Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Wisconsin, $8300.

For compensation of the Surveyor-General of Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.

Clerks in office of surveyor-general, $22,500.

Surveys in Arkansas.

For clerks in the office of the Surveyor-General, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, and for correcting, restoring, and retracing of surveys in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes, twenty-two thousand and five hundred dollars.

Secretary to sign patents, $1500.

For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Commissioner of Public Buildings, $2000.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars.

Potomac bridge, $4290.

For compensation of four assistants, draw-keepers at the Potomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, firewood and repairs, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

Mint of the United States, viz.: At Philadelphia.

Mint of the United States. —

At Philadelphia, viz. :

Officers, $18,400.

For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, engraver, assistant assayer, and three clerks, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars.

$24,000.

For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars.


For incidental and contingent expenses, including materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to available funds on hand, three thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars.

$300.

For specimens of ores and coins, to be removed at the mint, three hundred dollars.

At Charlotte, N. C.

At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz. :

Officers, &c., $6000.

For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars.

$3500.

For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars.


For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage, two thousand one hundred dollars.

Dahlonega, Georgia.

At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz. :

Officers, &c., $6000.

For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars.

$3600.

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 N. Orleans, $12,900.

At New Orleans:

For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, coiner, assayer, melter, and refiner, and two clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars.

$15,500.

For wages of workmen, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.

$1500.

For machinery and mechanist, fifteen hundred dollars.

$24 600

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.

Territory of Oregon, $10,500.

Government in the Territory of Oregon. — For salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

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$1500.

For contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand five hundred dollars.

$20,600.

For compensation and mileage of members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand six hundred dollars.

Judiciary. Chief Justice and associates, $41,000.

Judiciary. — For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the eight associate judges, forty-one thousand dollars.

District judges, $63,700.

For salaries of the district judges, sixty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.

Judges of District of Columbia. $10,700.

For salaries of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, the associate judges, and judges of the criminal and orphans' court, ten thousand seven hundred dollars.

Attorney-General and office, $6100.

For salaries of the Attorney-General, and the clerk and messenger in his office, six thousand one hundred dollars.

$500.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars.

$2000.

For the purchase of law books, and the necessary book-cases for said office, two thousand dollars.

Reporter of Supreme Court, $1300.

For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars.

District judge of Louisiana, $600.

1844, ch. 95.

For additional compensation to the district judge of Louisiana for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six hundred dollars — being the deficiency of the appropriation for that year — and eight hundred and forty-nine, under the provisions of the first section of the act of seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

District attorneys, $7400.

For compensation of the district attorneys — being two hundred dollars each, as prescribed by law — seven thousand four hundred dollars.

Marshals, $6800.

For compensation of the marshals, six thousand eight hundred dollars.

Contingencies, $443,000.

Proviso relative to fees of clerks of Circuit Courts.

1842, ch. 29.

Proviso relative to fees for taking and certifying depositions.

1848, ch. 166.

Exception where the taking occupies more than three hours.

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 of the several Circuit Courts of the United States be, and the same are hereby, authorized and allowed to retain to their own use of the fees and emoluments of their office, a sum equal to that allowed to the clerks of the District Courts of the United States, by the "act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two," approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two: 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 cause between any parties whatsoever, and to all admiralty 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 depositions 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.

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District judge of Louisiana.

(This is a repetition of a clause, p. 361.)

1844, ch. 95.

For additional compensation to the district judge of Louisiana, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six hundred dollars, being the deficiency of the appropriation for that year, and eight hundred dollars for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under the provision of the first section of the act of seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

Miscellaneous.

Furniture for President's house, $14,000.

Miscellaneous. — For furnishing the President 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 or 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.

Capitol and grounds, $17,000

For annual repairs of the Capitol, and 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, gravelling the walks in the Capitol grounds, manure and trees for ground; 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, shoveling snow; repairing abutments at Tiber Creek, and building protecting walls; enclosing and improving the public grounds at the north, south, and west of the Capitol, and the open triangular spaces on Pennsylvania Avenue, seventeen thousand dollars.

President's house and grounds, $3500.

For annual repairs of President's house, gardener, and laborers, gravelling the walks in President's Square, manure, leather, nails, tools, &c.; and repairs of fence at Lafayette Square, Fountain Square, President's Square, and President's garden, cottage, &c., three thousand five hundred dollars.

Lighting Pennsylvania Avenue, $6000.

For lighting Pennsylvania Avenue from Capitol Square to the Treasury Department, and compensation for one lamplighter for the same, and for lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds, and President's house, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.

Corporation of Washington for one half the cost of the City Hall, $30,000.

To reimburse the corporation of Washington the cost of erecting the half of the City Hall building, granted to, and occupied by, the government for the Circuit, District, and Criminal Courts of the United States, thirty thousand dollars, the same to be expended by the said corporation in finishing the exterior of the said building under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That rooms enough be set apart for the use of the United States in the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Treasury to be the judge as to the sufficiency of the rooms so provided.

Auxil'ry guard, $6775.

For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Coast survey, $186,000.

For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to superintendent and assistants, one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars.

Charts of Bay of San Francisco, &c. $260.

For printing two thousand charts of the Bay of San Francisco and River Sacramento, under resolution of the House of Representatives of the fifteenth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, two hundred and sixty-dollars.

Penn. Avenue, $1200.

For completing the centre strip of Pennsylvania Avenue to Fifteenth Street west, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Charts of surveys of north and north-western lakes, $5000.

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.

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$10,000.

For continuing the survey of the northern and north-western lakes, ten thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous claims, $5000.

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.

Examiners of drugs and medicines, $8000.

Examiner at New York to have a clerk and salary of $2000.

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.

Recorder of land titles in Missouri, $500.

For the salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri, heretofore paid out of the survey of public lands, five hundred dollars.

Execution of the act for the relief of settlers under the acts for the armed occupation of Florida, $1500.

1848, ch. 90.

For the expenses that may be incurred in the further execution of the act of first July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the relief of the bona fide settlers under the acts for the armed occupation of Florida, the provisions of said act being continued and extended till the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, fifteen hundred dollars.

Assis't Treasurers of the U.S., $11,500.

For salaries of assistant Treasurers of the United States, at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.

Treasurers of the mint, $1000.

For additional salaries of treasurers of the mint at Philadelphia, and branch mint at New Orleans, one thousand dollars.

Clerks to assistant Treasurers, $9000.

1846, ch. 90. 1848, ch. 166.

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.

Chief clerk to assistant Treasurer at New York, $1500.

For salary of chief clerk to assistant Treasurer, New York, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Contingencies under Independent Treasury act, $15,000.

1846, ch. 90.

For contingent expenses under the act for the safe-keeping, collection, transfer, and disbursement 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.

Compensation to special agents, $5000.

1846, ch. 90.

For compensation to special agents to examine books, accounts, and money, on hand in the several depositories, under the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five thousand dollars.

Insane paupers of District of Columbia, $6400.

For support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers of the District of Columbia, six thousand four hundred dollars.

Pauper patients in Washington Infirmary.

Transient pauper patients.

For the support, care, and medical treatment of twelve transient pauper medical or surgical patients in the Washington Infirmary, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings: Provided, The physicians and surgeons of the aforesaid infirmary give bonds for the maintenance of twelve pauper transient patients during one year, if application be made for their reception, or bind themselves to keep rooms for the accommodation of twelve pauper patients weekly on an average during the year.

Penitentiary of Dist. of Columbia, $8550.

For the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, three assistant keepers, five guards, and messenger of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

$300.

For three inspectors of said penitentiary, three hundred dollars.

Expenses of loans and treas'y notes, $6000.

For expenses of loans and treasury notes, twenty thousand dollars; and for the same during the remainder of the current fiscal year, six thousand dollars.

Sick and disabled seamen, $15,000.

To make good a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick seamen, fifteen thousand dollars.

Custom-house Plymouth, N.C., $100.

For repairs of the custom-house and wharf at Plymouth, North Carolina, one hundred dollars.

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Books for Patent office, $1500.

For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, fifteen hundred dollars.

Librarian, $500.

For compensation of librarian, five hundred dollars.

Agricultural statistics, $3500.

For the collection of agricultured statistics and other purposes, thirty-five hundred dollars.

Chemical analyses of vegetable substances, $6500.

For defraying the expenses of the 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 six thousand five hundred dollars, shall be paid out of the patent fund.

Erection of wings of Patent Office, $50,000.

Towards the erection of the wings of the Patent Office building, according to the original plan, under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund: Provided, That the said Secretary is hereby authorized to cause the said extension to be done by contract, in the same manner as was pursued in executing the work of the General Post-Office building.

Custom-house at Portland, Me., $149,000.

For the purchase of a building for a 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.

Custom-house at Erie, Pa., $29,000.

For the purchase of a building erected by the President and Directors of the Bank of the United States for a banking-house in the town of Erie, Pennsylvania, to be used as a custom-house, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to make said purchase: Provided, That the cost of the building and the ground necessary to its convenient use can be made for a sum not exceeding twenty-nine thousand dollars.

Custom-house Savannah, Ga., $35,000.

For continuing the construction of the custom-house at Savannah, in Georgia, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Custom-house Charleston, $50,000.

For the construction of a custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars.

Books for members of Congress $8280.

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 and forty-seven, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.

$8747 52.

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.

Widow of Jas McDonald, $37 50.

For the re-appropriation of this sum, (carried to the surplus fund,) 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.

Site for custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia, $12,000.

For the purchase of a site for a new custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars: Provided, The President of the United States shall deem it proper to make the purchase.

Custom-house Eastport, $13,000.

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.

Custom-house New Orleans, $150,000.

For continuing the construction of the custom-house in the city of New Orleans, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Deficiency in appropriation for books for members of Congress, $3893 50.

(This clause is repeated, post, p. 365.)

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation in the act entitled "An Act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under a

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resolution of the House of the seventh of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, directing the clerk to furnish the members of the House the books therein authorized, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents."

Publication of works of Exploring Expedition, $15,000.

For continuing the publication of the works of the exploring expedition, including the salary of the horticulturist, and addition to the greenhouse, fifteen thousand dollars.

Survey of mineral lands, $16,000.

For completing the geological survey and exploration of the mineral lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for that service, sixteen thousand dollars.

A. J. Glossbrenner, $250.

To pay A. J. Glossbrenner for work done in re-arranging and classifying the volumes in the copy-right room in the Department of State, in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, two hundred and fifty dollars.

Site for custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia, $12,000.

For the purchase of a site for a new custom-house, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars; Provided, The President of the United States shall deem it proper to make the purchase.

Survey of Potomac River, $1500.

To enable the Secretary of War to execute the survey and examination of the Potomac River, order by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the eighth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, fifteen hundred dollars.

Repeal of proviso limiting commissions of certain disbursing officers.

1848, ch. 166, ante, p. 297.

And the proviso contained in the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes, approved August twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight — which proviso is in the following words: 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: and from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the said disbursements shall be made by the collectors of the customs without compensation — is hereby repealed.

Publication of works of exploring expedition, $15,000.

For continuing the publication of the works of the exploring expedition, including the salary of the horticulturist, and addition to the greenhouse, fifteen thousand dollars.

Messenger of Post Office Dept. $130.

1850, ch. 56.

For additional compensation to the messenger of the Post-Office Department, so as to place them on the same footing as the messenger of the other Departments, the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars.

Expenses under resolution for arbitration of Cherokee claims, $2500.

Res. No. 27.

For the expenses incurred under the joint resolution of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-eight — "A Resolution authorizing the submission of certain claims to arbitration" — twenty-five hundred dollars, the same to be disbursed under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury.

(Repetition of a clause on page 363.)

1848, ch. 90.

For the expenses that may be incurred in the further execution of the act of first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the relief of the bona fide settlers under the acts for the armed occupation of Florida, the provisions of said act being continued and extended till the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Robert Beale. 300.

To Robert Beale, for his services and expenses incurred in a journey to Virginia to notify President Tyler, of his accession to the Presidency, three hundred dollars.

Correction of erroneous surveys in Michigan, $10,000.

For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Southern Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand dollars.

Deficiencies in appropriation for books for members of Congress $3893 50.

(This is a repetition of a clause ante, p. 364.)

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation in the act entitled "And Act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine," approved the twenty-sixth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under a resolution of the House of the seventh of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, directing the clerk to furnish to members of the House

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the books therein authorized, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents.

Redemption of treasury scrip issued under the act to raise for a limited time an additional military force, &c., $300,000.

1847, ch. 8.

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, A. D. 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.

Completing rooms in the Capitol, $4000.

For completing the room under the post-office of the Senate, and the staircases and passages communicating therewith, and the circular room on the upper floor of the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

Lighthouse establishment, $135,103 60.

Supplies.

Lighthouse Establishment. — For supplying lighthouses, containing two thousand eight hundred and forty-three lamps, with oil, tubeglasses, 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.

Repairs, $81,714 04.

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, eighty-one thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and four cents.

Clearing out Washington city canal, $20,000.

Proviso.

For clearing out and deepening that portion of the Washington city canal which passes through and along the public grounds, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, The corporation of Washington shall expend a like sum in cleaning out and deepening the other portions of said canal: And provided, also, That all transportations on said canal for the use of the government of the United States shall be free of toll.

Sewer under Fifteenth Street, $2160.

For sewer under Fifteenth Street, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Topographical Bureau.

Payment of annuities and grants, $750.

For payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Wm. C. Reddall and Wm. C. Zantzinger, $771 43.

For payment, by the Secretary of State, to William C. Reddall and William C. Zantzinger, equally to be divided between them, the sum 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.

(Repetition of clause on page 365.)

For the expenses incurred under the joint resolution of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "A Resolution authorizing the submission of certain claims to arbitration," twenty-five hundred dollars, the same to be disbursed under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Salaries of keepers of lighthouses, &c., $116,198 33.

For salaries of two hundred and seventy-four keepers of lighthouses, and fifteen assistants, (twenty of them charged with double and two with triple lights,) including one thousand two hundred dollars for that

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of an inspector of lights on the upper lakes, one hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.

Floating lights, $17,850.

For salaries of thirty-three keepers of floating lights, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

$84,386 65.

For seamen's wages, repairs and supplies for thirty-three floating lights, eighty-four thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-five cents.

Beacons, buoys, &c., $29,677 46.

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.

Annual examination, $2000.

For expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting lighthouses annually, and examining and reporting their condition, two thousand dollars.

Superintendents' commissions, $11,673 25.

(This is in part a repetition of the clause ante, p. 365.)

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 lighthouse purposes, eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-five cents. And the proviso contained in the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes, approved August twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, which proviso is in the following words: "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; and from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the said said disbursement shall be made by the collectors of the customs without compensation" is hereby repealed.

Lighthouses, &c., viz. : Brandywine Shoal, $29,802 61.

For completing the lighthouse on Brandywine Shoal, Delaware Bay, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and two dollars and sixty-one cents.

Carysfort Reef, Florida, $31,590 76.

For completing the lighthouse on Carysfort Reef, coast of Florida, thirty-one thousand five hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-six cents.

Ebenezer Warner, $3298.

To pay the balance due to Ebenezer Warner, for constructing the lighthouse at White Fish Point, on Lake Superior, three thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars.

Minot's Rock, Boston Harbor, $4500.

For illuminating apparatus for the lighthouse at Minot's Rock, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, four thousand five hundred dollars.

Light-boat at Eel Grass Shoals, $10,407.

For the reimbursement of the New York, Providence, and Boston Railroad Company, and the New Jersey Steam Navigation Company, for their expenses in maintaining a light-boat on Eel Grass Shoals, in Fisher's Island Sound, from the month of November, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to the present time, ten thousand four hundred and seven dollars.

Hospitals, viz.: Pittsburg, $11,667.

Hospitals. — For completion of marine hospital at Pittsburg, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

Louisville, $11,667.

For completion of marine hospital at Louisville, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

Cleveland, O., $6667.

For completion of marine hospitals at Cleveland, six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

Chicago, $20,000.

For completion of marine hospital at Chicago, twenty thousand dollars.

Paducah, $20,000.

For completion of marine hospital at Paducah, twenty thousand dollars.

Natchez, $20,000.

For completion of marine hospital at Natchez, twenty thousand dollars.

Napoleon, Ark., $20,000.

For completion of marine hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas, twenty thousand dollars.

St. Louis, Mo., $20,000.

1848, ch. 121.

For the purpose of erecting a marine hospital at or near St. Louis,

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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.

Collection of information in relation to marine hospitals, $1000.

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 are necessary and practicable, in the administration of the same, one thousand dollars.

Surveys.

Surveys of Public Lands. — For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, viz. :

Surveying public lands, &c., $115,000.

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.

Missouri, $4000.

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.

$1200.

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.

$2000.

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.

Arkansas, $850.

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.

Foreign intercourse.

Ministers, $126,000.

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.

Secretaries of legation, $14,000.

For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars.

Minister to Turkey, $6000.

For salary of minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.

Dragoman, $2500.

For salary of the dragoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Outfit and salary of minister to Germanic Confederation, $18,000.

For the outfit of a minister to the Germanic Confederation, nine thousand dollars.

For one year's salary for the said minister, nine thousand dollars.

Secretary of legation, $2000.

For one year's salary for a secretary of legation to the said mission, two thousand dollars.

Outfit and salary of minister to Chili, $18,000.

For outfit for a minister to the government of Chili, nine thousand dollars.

For salary of said minister, nine thousand dollars.

Abraham Rencher.

For Abraham Rencher, late chargé d'affaires to Portugal, such sum as the Secretary of State, upon adjusting his claim, shall allow for his unavoidable detention abroad from second January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to the sixteenth September following: Provided, Such sum shall not exceed the rate of his official salary.

Chargés des affaires, $153,000.

For salaries of chargés 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 out-

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fits for said chargés des affaires, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Contingencies of foreign intercourse, $30,000.

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.

Barbary Powers, $9000.

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars.

Consul at London, $2000.

For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars.

Commissioner to Sandwich Islands, $3000.

For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars.

For payment of the salary of a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, from the commencement of the salary of Mr. Eames to the termination of that of Mr. Ten Eyck, so much as is necessary of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

Interpreters, guards, &c., at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, $1500. $1500.

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Commissioner to China, $6000.

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.

Peter Parker, $295 92.

For compensation to Peter Parker, secretary of legation and Chinese interpreter at Canton, for his services as chargé d'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.

Interpreter and Secretary, $2500.

For salary of the interpreter and secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Buoys on Nassau River, $1000.

For buoys on and near the bar of Nassau River, and on the coasts of Georgia and Florida, in the neighborhood thereof, one thousand dollars.

Consuls at five Chinese ports, $5000.

For compensation to the consuls at the five Chinese ports, viz. : Kwangehow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ningpo, and Shanghae, five thousand dollars.

Consul-general at Alexandria, $3000.

For salary of consul-general at Alexandria, three thousand dollars.

Consul at Beirout, $500.

For salary of consul at Beirout, five hundred dollars.

Relief of American seamen, $100,000.

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

Clerk hire and office rent of consul at London, $2800.

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.

Office rent of consul at Basle, $400.

For office rent of the consul at Basle, in Switzerland, one hundred dollars; and for office rent from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to the close of the current fiscal year, four hundred dollars.

Medals for Indians, $2500.

For procuring medals for Indians, twenty-five hundred dollars.

Heads of departments may continue officers authorized by act of August 26, '42, and June 17, '44.

1848, ch. 175.

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.

Repeal of proviso limiting the purchase of stocks by Treasury Department to par. 1847, ch. 5.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso to the nineteenth section of the act of the twenty-eighth of January, eighteen hun-

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dred 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.

Proviso — no clerk to receive salary of Secretary or head of bureau while said Secretary or head receives such salary.

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, receives such salary.

Public archives of Florida to be delivered over to officers of said State.

Proviso.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall be shown to the President of the United States that the State of Florida has by law provided for the safe custody of the public archives, which were formerly kept by the keepers of archives at St. Augustine and Pensacola, it shall be lawful for him to cause to be delivered to duly authorized officers of the State such of the said archives as do not relate to grants of land which remain unconfirmed or unsurveyed: Provided, That the President of the United States may suspend the execution of this provision, if, in his judgment, the public interests requires it.

Appropriation of $20,000 for payment of compensation to certain depositaries of public money.

1846, ch. 90.

Proviso.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the payment of a compensation of one half per centum to each designated depositary, (provided to be appointed, but not provided to be paid, under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six,) on all moneys received by him, as such depositary, from the date of his appointment to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine: Provided, That no compensation shall be allowed, for above services, where the emoluments of the office, of which said designated depositary is in commission, amounts to over two thousand dollars per annum; nor shall the amount allowed to any one of said designated depositaries for such service be at the rate of over fifteen dollars per annum.

Three temporary clerks in Gen. Land Office to be continued.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of the General Land Office be authorized to continue three temporary clerks, during the recess of Congress, until the patents for bounty lands shall be issued; said clerks to be paid out of the contingent fund.

Purchase of papers of General Washington and James Monroe, $40,000.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of State to purchase the remaining manuscript books and papers of General George Washington; the said books and papers to be deposited and preserved in the Department of State; and that a like sum be appropriated for the purchase of the manuscript books and papers of the late James Monroe, to be deposited in like manner in the Department of State.

Approved, March 3, 1849.