Appropriation. For erection of public buildings in Territory of
Florida

For current and contingent expenses of the In-
dian department and for fulfilling treaty stipu-
lations with the various Indian tribes for 1839
For pay of Indian interpreters

For presents to Indians

For provisions for Indians

For buildings at the Indian agencies

For contingent expenses of the Indian depart

For Indian deputations

For locating reservations

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For removal and subsistence of Indians -
For corn crop abandoned by Pottawatamies

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For the examination of claims under treaty of
September 18, 1837, with the Sioux

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For stock animals for the Creeks, removed as
hostile

For payment of claims for depredations
For vaccination of Indians

For making maps, showing the position of lands
of Indians at amity with the United States
For the further survey and an estimate for im-
proving and connecting the Neenah and Wis-
consin -

For roads from Racine, by Janesville, by Sinipee
For a road from Fond du Lac, by Fox Lake to
Wisconsin river

For survey of the most eligible route for a rail-
road, from the town of Milwaukee, on Lake
Michigan, to such point on the Mississippi
river as may be deemed most expedient
For building a pier at the northern extremity of
Winnebago Lake, and for other purposes
For marshals under the act providing for the cen-
sus of the inhabitants of the United States, to
be taken in 1840
For taking the census

For the civil and diplomatic expenses of the go-
vernment for 1839

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For the office of the Secretary of State

For compiling and printing Biennial Register
For the office of Secretary of the Treasury
For First Comptroller

For Second Comptroller

For the Auditors of the Treasury Department

For the salaries of the President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, and for the heads of
department

Appropriation. For the Treasury of the United States
For the Register of the Treasury

For the Commissioner of the General Land Office
For the Solicitor of the Treasury

For contingent expenses of the Treasury Depart

For the office of the Secretary of War
For the Commissioner of Indian affairs
For the Commissioner of Pensions
For the office of Postmaster General,

For the offices of the Commanding General, Quar-
termaster General, and Adjutant General
For office of Commissary General of purchases,
and of the Commissary General of subsistence
For the office of the Chief Engineer
For the office of the Surgeon General

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For the salaries of foreign ministers and missions 64-66
For the Library of Congress

For constructing the customhouse at Boston

For constructing the customhouse at New York
For the Smithsonian legacy

For constructing the new Treasury building

For alterations and repairs of the Capitol

For deepening the Straight Channel of the East
Pass to Appalachicola

For the balance due, on account of the first vo-
lume of the Documentary History of the United
States

For the chart of bay and harbor of New York
For arrears due the clerks in the customhouse at
Philadelphia

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Appropriation. For support of U. S. penitentiary at Washington
For survey of boundary of Iowa

For survey of public lands in Wisconsin.

For the General Post Office, five millions one hun

dred thousand dollars

For the transportation of the mail

For compensation of Postmasters

For ship, steamboat, and way letters
For wrapping paper

For mail bags and mail locks
For mail depredations

For miscellaneous expenses

Army appropriations. For pay of the army
Subsistence of officers

Forage for officers' horses

Payments in lieu of clothing

Subsistence exclusive of officers

Clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, &c.

Medical and hospital department

Supplies furnished by quartermaster's department"

Barracks, quarters, storehouses, hospitals, temporary can

tonments, gun houses, &c.

Transportation of officers' baggage

Transportation of troops and supplies

Incidental expenses of quartermasters' department

Contingencies. Extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, &c.

National armories

Armament of fortifications

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Drawing and other supplies in ordnance department

Arrearages prior to 1st July, 1815

Surveying and opening western frontier military road

Appropriations for fortifications

Castle Island and Fort Independence

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Castle Williams, Fort Columbus, and officers' quarters at

Fort Moultrie

Fort Pulaski

Fort Caswell

Fortification in Charleston, and preservation of the site of

Fort Marion, and sea-wall at St. Augustine

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Army appropriations. Fort on Foster's Bank

Incidental expenses in repairing fortifications and purchas
ing additional land in the neighborhood

Fort at Grande Terre

Fort Niagara

Fort at Oswego

Sackett's Harbour

Plattsburg

Western frontier

Appropriations for military academy

Pay, subsistence, forage of officers' horses, clothing of offi-
cers' servants, board of visiters, fuel, forage, stationary, &c.
Repairs, improvements, &c.

Adjutant's and Quartermaster's clerks' library

Miscellaneous

Departments of engineering, philosophy, mathematics, che

mistry, drawing

Tactics, artillery

Reservoir, fire engines, completion of buildings

Payment to Missouri volunteers whose horses were lost in

the voyage from New Orleans to Tampa Bay in 1837,
thirty-five thousand dollars appropriated

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In case of erroneous valuation, payment to be suspended
until Secretary of War can be satisfied

Arts, useful. Two assistant examiners to be appointed in manner

as provided by the former act on this subject Temporary clerks may be employed

List of patents to be published

One hundred copies to be retained in patent office, and nine
hundred deposited in Congress library

Appropriation for the same, and for paying for use of rooms
in city hall; and for books.

No person to be debarred from receiving a patent for any in-
vention or discovery by reason of the same having been
patented in a foreign country more than six months prior
to his application -

Persons or corporations, having purchased or constructed any
newly invented machine, &c. prior to application of in-
ventor or discoverer for a patent, shall possess the right to
use or vend the same

Patents not invalid by reason of such purchase, &c. with cer-
tain exceptions

Repeal of certain parts of the 11th section of the act of 4th
July, 1836, and all assignments, &c. under said section, to
be recorded in future without charge
Appropriation for agricultural statistics, and other agricul-
tural purposes

Provisions of the 16th section of act 4 July, 1836, extended to
all cases where patents are refused by the commissioner
of patents, or the Chief Justice of the District of Columbia -
Instead of appeals from decision of commissioner of patents
to a board of examiners, as now authorized, the parties

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may appeal to the Chief Justice of the District Court of the
U. States, for the District of Columbia
Arts, useful. The manner prescribed in which the Chief Justice is
to hear and determine such appeals

Commissioner to notify the parties to lay before the Judge,
all the original papers and evidence, and the grounds of his
decision. Commissioner and examiner may be examined
under oath; and Judge to return the papers with a certifi-
cate of his proceedings and decision

Judge's decision to govern commissioner, but not so as to
preclude any person interested in favour of or against the
validity of a patent from the right to contest the same in
any judicial court in any action in which its validity may
come in question

Commissioner may make regulations respecting evidence in
contested cases

Provisions of former act relative to a board of examiners re-
pealed. Allowance to Chief Justice for his duties under
this act

B.

Baldwin, Aaron, of Boston. Certain payments to be made to, as con-
signee of the British brig Despatch, and cargo,

Balch, John, Jun. Act for the relief of

Bank. Suits pending, wherein the bank of Columbia is party, plain-
tiff or defendant, not to abate by reason of expiration of the
charter

Bargy, Peter, Jun., Act for the relief of -

Barnes, Sibel. Act for the relief of

Basset, James. Act for the relief of the heirs of, and James Loomis
Baxter, Zebulon. Act for the relief of
Beatty, Edmund, of Missouri.

Resolution for the relief of

Bell, Captain Frederick M. Resolution for the relief of the heirs

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at law of
Belknap, William G., Henry Stoker, and Benjamin Walker. Act for
the relief of

Biennial Register. Printing of the same to be done by contract
Bigham, William Washington. Act for the relief of
Blanchard, Thomas. Rights secured to by letters patent, granted
September 6th, 1819, extended for fourteen years, from 20th
January, 1834

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Blane, John. Act for the relief of

Borey, John, of Arkansas. Act for the relief of

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Act for the relief of

Boundary, Northeastern. See title Defence of the United States.
Bradford, Dunscomb. Act for the relief of the legal representatives of
Braham, John.

Brown, Return B. Act for the relief of

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Brown, John, and Company. Act for the relief of

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Brown, Charles.

Resolution for the relief of the heirs of

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