Completing surveys.

In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,

and Wisconsin. In Florida.

In Louisiana.

In Alabama.

Ministers to Great Britain, &c.

Diplomatic agent to Texas.

Envoy, &c. to Mexico.

Secretaries of legation to Great Britain,

&c.

Chargé des

Affaires to Por tugal, &c.

Drogoman,

&c.

Minister to

Russia.

Chargé d'affaires to Bel

gium. Contingent expenses of missions

abroad.

Consuls at London and

Paris.

Barbary

Powers.

Relief, &c. of American sea

men.

Contingent

expenses of foreign inter

course.

Expenses in office of American consul in London.

For completing the surveys of unfinished portions of townships, islands, lakes, &c. viz:

In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, not exceeding five dollars per mile, three thousand and forty dollars;

In Florida, not exceeding five dollars per mile, six thousand dollars; In Louisiana, not exceeding eight dollars per mile, twenty thousand dollars; and

In Alabama, not exceeding eight dollars per mile, one thousand dollars, in addition to two thousand five hundred dollars already appropriated;

For salaries of ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, and Russia, and outfits and salaries of ministers to Prussia and Austria, and for the outfit and salary of a diplomatic agent to be sent to the Republic of Texas, whenever the President of the United States may receive satisfactory evidence that Texas is an independent power, and shall deem it expedient to appoint such minister, in addition to the balance remaining of the appropriation for eighteen hundred and thirty-six, seventy-two thousand dollars;

For an outfit and salary for an Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, whenever, in the opinion of the Executive, circumstances will permit a renewal of diplomatic intercourse honorably with that power, eighteen thousand dollars;

For salaries of the secretaries of legation to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Prussia, Mexico and Austria, fourteen thousand dollars;

For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, New Grenada, and Venezuela, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of the drogoman, and for contingent expenses of the legation to Turkey, six thousand five hundred dollars;

For outfit of a minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars;

For outfit of a chargé d'affaires to Belgium, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, in addition to the balance remaining of a former appropriation, thirty thousand dollars;

For salaries of the consuls of the United States at London and Paris, four thousand dollars;

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars;

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars;

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, in addition to the balance remaining of former appropriations, thirty thousand dollars;

For clerk hire, office rent, stationery and other expenses in the office of the American consul in London, per act of nineteenth January eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For interpreters, guards, and other expenses incidental to the conConsulates in sulates in the Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred dollars;

the Turkish dominions.

Librarians to Congress, &c.

Purchase of books.

Diplomatic correspond

For salary of the principal and assistant librarians; compensation of assistant during the two sessions of the twenty-fourth Congress; messenger, and contingent expenses of the library, four thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars;

For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars;

For furnishing such members of the present House of Representatives as have not received the same, under former orders of the House,

&c. to

certain mem

the Diplomatic Correspondence, American State Papers, Register of ence, Debates, Elliot's Debates, and the first volume of the Land Laws, forty-bers of House four thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-eight cents, of Reps. Provided, That, if there are any surplus books, copies of which have Proviso. been distributed to former members, in the Library of Congress, they shall be distributed one copy to each of the said members who has not received the same;

For the purchase of the manuscripts of the late Mr. Madison referred to in a letter from Mrs. Madison to the President of the United States dated fifteenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and communicated in his message of sixth December eighteen hundred and thirtysix, thirty thousand dollars;

For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in conformity to the act of the second of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six, viz:

For transportation of the mails, compensation of postmasters, ship, steam-boat, and way letters, wrapping paper, office furniture, advertising, mail bags, blanks, mail locks and keys, and stamps, mail depredations, and special agents, clerks for offices, and miscellaneous expenses, four millions four hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars;

For payment to A. Fuller, and the rent of the building now occupied as a General Post Office, from the sixteenth December last, and for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, five thousand dollars;

For guarding the site of the old Post Office, and preserving the lic property, two thousand dollars;

Manuscripts

of the late Mr. Madison.

General Post

Office.

Transportation of mails,

&c.

Payment to A. Fuller.

pub-Site of old Post Office, &c. Branch of

For the expenses of the branch mint, at New Orleans, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, viz:

mint at New

For salaries of officers and clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred Orleans. dollars;

For compensation to laborers in the various departments, thirteen thousand dollars;

For completing the mint edifice, and enclosing the lot, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars;

For furnishing the whole establishment, inclusive of all apparatus, tools, and fixtures, not included in the contracts, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars;

For wastage of gold and silver, and for the contingent expenses of the mint, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars;

For expenses of the branch mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, viz:

For salaries of officers and clerks, six thousand dollars;

For compensation to laborers, one thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing the establishment with all the apparatus, tools and fixtures, not included in the contracts, seven thousand dollars;

For wastage of gold, and for the contingent expenses of the mint, five thousand five hundred dollars;

Officers.

Laborers.

Completing mint edifice, &c.

Furnishing the establish

ment.

Wastage of gold and silver, &c.

Branch mint at Dahlonega. Officers. Laborers. Furnishing the establishment.

Wastage of gold, &c.

Edifice and

For expenses incurred in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the edifice and machinery, more than the amount appropriated in the act machinery. of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, two thousand dollars;

For the expenses of the branch mint at Charlotte, North Carolina,

for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, viz:

For salaries of officers and clerks, six thousand dollars;
For compensation to laborers, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For furnishing the establishment with all the apparatus, tools, and
fixtures, not included in the contracts, six thousand dollars;

For wastage of gold, and for the contingent expenses of the mint, five thousand five hundred dollars;

For enclosing the grounds, repairing a building on the lot, and for out-houses, seven thousand dollars;

1835, ch. 30. Branch mint at Charlotte.

Officers. Laborers. Furnishing the establishment.

Wastage of gold, &c.

Enclosing the grounds, &c.

For furniture of the President's house, twenty thousand dollars; For the taxes on the arsenal near Philadelphia, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents;

For the salaries of the registers and receivers of land offices where there are no sales, including one thousand seven hundred and six dollars and thirty-four cents, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For the construction of the Treasury building, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in addition to the amount unexpended in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars;

For the construction of the Patent Office, in addition to former appropriations, one hundred thousand dollars;

For surveying unfinished portions of townships, islands, and lakes, in Arkansas, at the rate of six dollars per mile, six thousand dollars; For compensation to George Watterston, for his services in preparing a statement of the persons imprisoned for debt in this District, since one thousand eight hundred and twenty, under a resolution of the House of Representatives, six hundred dollars;

For building a light-house at or near Michigan City, being an amount heretofore appropriated for the same purpose, and carried to the surplus fund, five thousand dollars;

For rebuilding the lazaretto and wharf near the city of Baltimore, thirty thousand dollars;

For arrearages for the expenses of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, fifteen thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and sixteen cents;

For the expenses of the same, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, thirty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For an outfit and salary of a chargé d'affaires to Naples, nine thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the capitol, and incidental expenses, three thousand six hundred dollars;

For lighting lamps and superintendence of the public grounds around the capitol, five thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars;

To enable the President to cause the southwestern boundary line of the United States to be run, the following sums, viz:

For the salary of a commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars; For the salary of a surveyor, two thousand dollars; and for contingencies, including the purchase of necessary instruments, wages to attendants, and other expenses, ten thousand dollars; Provided, That said commissioner and surveyor be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate;

For exploring and surveying the north and east boundary line of the United States, where the same has not already been surveyed, and establishing monuments thereon, agreeably to the definitive treaty of peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, twenty thousand dollars;

For enlarging the public stable at the capitol, and the erection of a shed for the protection of the tools, implements and materials, twelve hundred dollars;

For completing the improvements commenced, by extending the capitol square west, forty thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the President's house, and for super

intendence of the grounds around the same, seven thousand three &c., of Presihundred dollars;

For compensation to the gardener employed in superintending the capitol square and other public grounds, one thousand dollars; For clerk hire, mileage, pay of witnesses, serving subpoenas, and other incidental expenses, under the orders of the select committees of inquiry appointed by the House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the contingent fund of said House; For an outfit of a chargé d'affaires to New Grenada, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For balance due the acting Governor of Michigan, according to an account adjusted by the accounting officers, seven hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-one cents;

For completing surveys of unfinished portions of townships, islands, lakes, &c., in Missouri, not exceeding five dollars per mile, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;

For completing the light-house at Oswego, New York, seven hundred and fifteen dollars;

dent's house, & c.

Gardener for capitol square,

&c. Incidental expenses of select committee of inquiry. Chargé to

New Grenada. Balance due the acting Gov. of Michigan. Surveys in Missouri.

Light-house at Oswego. Arrearages due contractors on the Cumber

For payment of arrearages due contractors on the Cumberland road in Ohio, being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, land road. twelve hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty-one cents;

For compensation to Daniel Graham, late Secretary of the State of Tennessee, for his services, performed at the request of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in order to answer a call of the House of Representatives, made on twentieth of January eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, two hundred and fifty dollars;

Compensation to Daniel Gra

ham.

Votes of Pre

For the expense of bringing to the seat of Government, the votes for President and Vice President of the United States, in addition to a sident and Vice former appropriation, two thousand two hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Senators and Representatives elected by
Michigan, twelve hundred and forty-eight dollars;
For the payment of a balance due for the expenses of the Legislative
Council of the Michigan Territory, two thousand and fifty-seven dollars
and seventy-two cents;

For fulfilling the contracts made with John Vanderlyn, Henry Inman, Robert Wier, and John G. Chapman, by the Joint Committee of Congress under the joint resolution of the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for the execution of four historical paintings for the vacant pannels of the rotundo of the capitol, eight thousand dollars;

To enable the President of the United States to contract for two groups of statues, to adorn the two blockings on the east front of the capitol, eight thousand dollars;

To Mr. Auger for the bust of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth, four hundred dollars;

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ for one year, a competent person to classify and arrange, translate when necessary, and make suitable records of the papers and documents connected with the private land claims, which, at sundry periods, have been presented to, and acted on, by the Commissioner, or the registers and receivers acting as commissioners, on private land claims for the district east of the island of New Orleans, and west of Pearl river, in the State of Louisiana, the sum of two thousand dollars;

For pay and mileage of the members of the Senate for the extra session to commence on the fourth day of March instant, thirteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the

President.

Senators and Representatives of Michigan. Legislative Council of Michigan.

Paintings for the rotundo of the capital.

Groups of statues for the

east front.

Bust of Chief Justice Ellsworth.

Arrangement, &c. of papers connected with private land claims.

Pay and mileage of Senators for the extra session.

Cont. expens.

Distribution

ton's State

Papers.

Senate for the extra session to commence on the fourth day of March, instant, five thousand dollars;

For the expenses of the distribution in boxes, and by the ordinary of Gales & Sea- modes of transportation, of the compilation of the State Papers printed by Gales and Seaton, as directed by the joint resolution of the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to the several States, Territories, colleges, and athenæums of the United States, one thousand five hundred dollars;

Purchase of the American State Papers.

Debates of the

First Congress and Register of Debates.

Commission under the convention with Spain.

Medal in honor of Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan.

1836, ch. 256.

Improving the crypt of the capitol, &c.

Making Post Office, &c. of H. R. fire proof. Grounds of naval magazine, &c. Conducting water to Treasury and Post Office buildings, &c.

Fire-engine, &c. for War and Navy Departments. Fire-engine, &c. for Treasury building. Pay to Wil liam P. Elliott. Constructing a dwarf wall and fence in President's square.

Support of the penitentiary.

Burying ground at Fort Gibson.

For the purchase of nineteen copies of the American State Papers, printed by Gales and Seaton, pursuant to the resolution of the Senate, of the first day of March, instant, four thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents;

For two hundred and forty-four copies of the Debates of the First Congress, and of the Register of Debates to the end of the present Congress, as published by Gales and Seaton, to be distributed to the members of the present House, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation to the commissioner, secretary, and clerk, and the contingent expenses of the commission under the convention with Spain, eight thousand two hundred dollars;

To authorize the President of the United States to procure new dies to renew the medal directed to be made in honor of Brigadier General Daniel Morgan, by the act of the second day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, in case the original dies for the said medal cannot be found, one thousand dollars;

For improving the crypt of the capitol, by closing the openings on the east front with sash doors, making double doors to the outer entrances, and repairing furnaces, eleven hundred and fifty dollars;

For making the post office, document, folding, and library rooms of the House of Representatives fire proof, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;

To complete the enclosing the garden and grounds of the naval magazine and marine hospital, one hundred dollars;

For conducting water along the Pennsylvania avenue from the pipes at the Capitol to the Treasury and General Post Office buildings, with the necessary fire-plugs to water the avenue, ten thousand dollars;

For the purchase of a fire-engine, apparatus, and engine-house for the War and Navy Departments, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For the purchase of a fire-engine and apparatus for the Treasury building, and the enlargement of the engine-house, five thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For paying William P. Elliott, for drawings of the Treasury building and Patent Office, three hundred dollars;

For constructing a dwarf wall and fence from the southwest corner of the President's house to intersect the new fence near the north corner of the Navy Department, one thousand three hundred dollars;

For the support of the penitentiary for the District of Columbia, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven: for pay of officers and agents; for repairs to buildings; for purchase of raw materials; for rations, clothing, beds, and bedding of prisoners; for purchase of fuel; for purchase of hospital stores and medicines; for purchase of books and stationery; for purchase of horse feed; for allowance to discharge convicts; and for other contingent expenses, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred and five dollars and thirty-nine cents, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be expended under the direction of the Board of Inspectors;

For the erection of a plain substantial fence around the burying ground at Fort Gibson in the State of Arkansas, five hundred dollars; For surveys of the public lands in the district composed of the States