The overplus to be paid into the Treasury.

Annuities and

grants.

U. S. coast survey.

"Keepers of Florida archives.

Registers and

receivers.

Insolvent debtors.

Private land

clusive of any reasonable compensation to their deputies, to be allowed in their accounts by the courts of the respective districts to which they belong, and after the payment of such necessary office and other expenses as shall be allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed, as to any one of the said offices in the southern district of New York, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, and in any other district the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, shall in no case exceed, for the district attorneys and the marshals, or either of them, the sum of six thousand dollars for each; and those for each of the clerks shall not exceed, in any case, four thousand five hundred dollars; the overplus of fees and emoluments to be paid into the public Treasury, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the disposition of Congress.

For the payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, nine hundred dollars;

For survey of the coast of the United States, including the compensation of the superintendent and assistants, one hundred thousand dollars;

For compensation of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars;

For salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For expenses in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, three thousand dollars;

For allowance to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attor claims in Flori- ney, under the acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, five thousand dollars;

da.

Support of lighthouses, &c.

Statues for the Capitol. Proviso.

Paintings for the Capitol.

Proviso.

Penitentiary

of D. C.

Sick and disabled seamen. 1802, ch. 51.

Commissioner for southern boundary of Iowa.

Custom-house at Boston.

Warehouse at Baltimore. Custom-house at New York.

For the support and maintenance of light-houses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, wicks, buffskins, whiting and cotton cloth, transporting oil, &c., keepers' salaries, repairs, improvements, and contingent expenses, four hundred and eighty-four thousand and seventy-two dollars;

For payment to Luigi Persico and Horatio Greenough, for statues to adorn the two blockings, east front of the capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, The work is in such state of progress, as, in reference to the whole sum to be paid to the artists, respectively, for their execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payments.

For payments to the artists engaged in executing four historical paintings for the vacant panels of the rotundo of the capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, The paintings are in such state of progress as, in reference to the whole sum to be paid to the artists, respectively, for their execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payments.

For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eight thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars;

To make good a deficiency in the years eighteen hundred and thirtynine and eighteen hundred and forty, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the act of third May, eighteen hundred and two, ninety-seven thousand dollars;

For balance due the commissioner for ascertaining and marking the southern boundary of Iowa Territory, under the act of eighteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, four hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-six cents;

For carrying on the work of the new custom-house building at Boston, one hundred thousand dollars;

For defraying the cost of extra work on the public warehouse at Baltimore, three thousand dollars;

For payment of arrearages for completing the custom-house, New

York, thirty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-one cents;

For the payment of expenses incurred by the collector of New York, under the act of seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to remit the duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late conflagration in the city of New York, seven hundred dollars;

For the payment of certain certificates, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, five hundred dollars; For furniture for the President's house, of American manufacture, so far as may be practicable and expedient, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the avails of the sales of decayed furniture, the sum of six thousand dollars;

For annual repairs of the capitol, attending furnaces, water-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at gates, gardener's salary, and for top dressing delicate and valuable plants, seven thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents;

1838, ch. 174. Expenses under act to remit duties on goods destroy'd by fire in New York. Payment of a balance carried to the surplus fund. Furniture for Presid'ts house.

Capitol and grounds.

President's

For annual repairs of President's house, gardener's salary, horse and cart, laborers and tools, and for amount due F. Masi and Company for house, &c. repairs on furniture, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars;

For completing back buildings, grading grounds, and cutting balance of stone for west portico of the new Treasury building, and paying for materials delivered, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-four cents;

New Treasury building.

New Patent

For fluting columns of portico of new Patent Office, finishing roof, and the cut stone-work of said building, and paying for materials deli- Office building. vered, seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;

For enclosing the new jail yard, in the city of Washington, five thousand dollars;

For new General Post Office building, one hundred thousand dollars; For completing court-house, in the city of Alexandria, three thousand dollars;

For payment to the stone-cutters, and the other workmen on the new Treasury building and the new Patent Office building, of the sums allowed them by the commissioners appointed by the President of the United States to superintend the prosecution of the work in the construction of the said buildings, in fulfilment of the resolution of Congress of the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and forty, twelve thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-one cents;

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying districts according to the exigencies of the public service, including officerent, and fuel, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, fifty-five thousand dollars;

For retracing certain old surveys in the State of Alabama, at a rate not exceeding four dollars a mile, fifteen thousand dollars;

New jail.

New General

Post Office
building.
Court-house in

Alexandria.
Payments to
workmen on
new Treasury
and Patent Of-
fice buildings.

Surveying public lands.

Retracing certain old surveys in Alabama. Surveys in Missouri.

1824, ch. 184. 1838, ch. 54.

For surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the act of twentysixth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in addition to the sum of six thousand dollars appropriated for the same object by the act of sixth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two thousand dollars; For surveying five hundred miles of detached and unfinished lines in Surveying in Illinois and Missouri, principally in the military district, Illinois, at a rate not exceeding six dollars a mile, three thousand dollars; For salaries of ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Ministers. Russia, Prussia, Austria and Mexico, fifty-four thousand dollars; For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, twelve thousand dollars;

Illinois and Missouri.

Secretaries of legation.

Minister to Turkey.

Chargés des affaires.

Drogoman.

Expenses of

missions.

Outfits.

Consuls at London and Paris.

Relief, &c. of Am. seamen. Expenses of consulate at London.

1836, ch. 2. Barbary pow

ers.

Foreign inter

course.

Library of Congress.

Purchase of books.

Enforcement of the neutrality

laws.

Service of the General Post Office.

1836, ch. 270. Transporta

tion.

Compensation of postmasters. Proviso, requiring them to make returns of all emoluments received from boxes, &c.

Act of March

For salary of the minister resident of the United States to Turkey, six thousand dollars;

For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, sixty-three thousand dollars;

For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars;

For outfits of ministers to Austria and Great Britain, and of charges des affaires to Venezuela, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries of the consuls of the United States at London and Paris, four thousand dollars;

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

For clerk hire, office-rent, stationery, and other expenses in the office of the American consul at London, per act of January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

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

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars;

For salary of the principal and two assistant librarians, pay of the messenger, and for contingent expenses of the library, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;

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

For the payment of arrearages incurred in enforcing the neutrality laws on the northern and northwestern frontier, five thousand dollars;

For the service of the General Post Office for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six;

For transportation of the mail, three million two hundred and eighty thousand dollars;

For compensation of postmasters, one million and fifty thousand dollars: Provided however, That in addition to returns now required to be rendered by postmasters, it shall be the duty of the postmasters at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, and the other several cities of the Union, each and every year hereafter, to render a quarter-yearly account to the Postmaster General, under oath, in such form as the latter shall prescribe, for the purpose of giving full effect to this 3, 1845, ch. 43. proviso, of all emoluments or sums by them respectively received for boxes or pigeon-holes, or other receptacles for letters or papers, and by them charged for to individuals; or for the delivery of letters or papers at or from any place in either of said cities, other than the actual post office of such city, and of all emoluments, receipts, and profits that have come to their hands by reason of keeping branch post offices in either of said cities; and if, from such accounting, it shall appear that the net amount received by either of the postmasters at either of such cities for such boxes and pigeon-holes, and other receptacles for letters and papers, and for delivering letters or papers at or from any place in either of said cities other than said post office, and by reason of keeping a branch post office in either of said cities, shall, in the aggregate, exceed the sum of three thousand dollars in any one year, such excess shall be paid to the Postmaster General for the use and purposes of the Post Office Department; and no postmaster shall hereafter, under any pretence whatsoever, have, or receive, or retain for himself, in the aggregate, more than five thousand dollars per year, including salary, com

No postmaster to receive more

than $5000 a

year, salary in

cluded.

missions, boxes, and all other fees, perquisites and emoluments, of any
name or character whatsoever, and for any service whatsoever;

For ship, steamboat, and way-letters, forty thousand dollars;
For wrapping-paper, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For office-furniture, five thousand dollars;
For advertising, thirty-six thousand dollars;
For mail-bags, thirty-five thousand dollars;
For blanks, thirty-three thousand dollars;

For mail-locks, keys and stamps, fifteen thousand dollars;
For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-two thousand dol-
lars;

For clerks for offices, two hundred and ten thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous, sixty thousand. ix hundred and twenty dollars; And for the continuance of the survey of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, twenty thousand dollars;

For the balance, certified as due to the agent and commissioners at Havana, to procure the archives of Florida, and transmit them to this country, and in full execution of the laws upon that subject, the sum of six thousand and forty-three dollars and ten cents;

For compensation to William W. Chew, late acting chargé d'affaires at Russia, from the twenty-third of July, eighteen hundred and thirtynine, till the twenty-first of September, eighteen hundred and forty, the sum of two thousand nine hundred dollars, it being the difference between his salary as Secretary of Legation and the pay of a chargé d'affaires during that period;

For the pay and mileage of the members of the Senate for the extra session of that body, to be convened in its Executive capacity on the fourth day of March of the present year, the sum of thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars;

For the contingent expenses of the Senate for the extra session including the pay of messengers, service of horses, fuel, stationery, and all other contingent items of the extra session, three thousand dollars; And for a hydrographic survey of the coasts of the northern and northwestern lakes of the United States, to be expended under the direction of the President, fifteen thousand dollars;

And the Librarian of Congress is authorized to employ an additional assistant, who shall receive a yearly compensation of eleven hundred and fifty dollars, commencing December first, one thousand eight hundred and forty, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated;

Compensation

of custom-house officers for the

year 1839.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, hereby authorized to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the collectors, deputy collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers, gaugers, measurers and markers of the several ports of the United States, the same compensation for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, which they would have been entitled to receive if the third section of the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, 1838, ch. 169. entitled "An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes," had continued in force during said year, and subject to the provisions and restrictions therein contained: Provided, Proviso. That nothing in this section contained shall be so construed as to give to any collector of the customs a salary for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, beyond the maximum now fixed by law, of four thousand dollars;

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the clerks in the customhouse at Boston, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap

Payment of arrears to the custom-house at Boston.

clerks in the

Payment of arrears to clerks

in the custom

house at Phila delphia.

Additional accounts to be rendered by collectors, &c.

money over

$2000 a year, received for

rents, storage, &c. to be paid into the Treasury.

propriated, the arrears of their salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, so as to make the same equal in proportion to what they received in the last mentioned year, on the same principle as has been applied to the custom-houses at New York and Philadelphia; and the payments under this section shall be governed by what has been the practical construction of the former laws on this subject, at the Treasury Department, applicable to the last named ports;

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to pay to the clerks in the custom-house at Philadelphia such sum of money as, with the amount appropriated by the general appropriation act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, will make up the arrears of their respective salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the sum to be so paid being first ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury;

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the account now required to be rendered by every collector of customs, naval officer and surveyor of ports, every such collector, naval officer and surveyor shall, each and every year hereafter, render a quarter-yearly account, under oath, to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as said Secretary shall prescribe, of all sums of money by each of them respectively received or collected for fines, penalties, or forfeitures, or for seizure of goods, wares, or merchandise, or upon compromises made upon said seizure; or on account of suits instituted for frauds against the revenue laws; or for rent and storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, which may be stored in the public store-houses, and for which a rent is paid, beyond the rents paid by the collector or other such officer; The excess of and if from such accounting it shall appear that the money received in any one year by any collector, naval officer, or surveyor, on account and for rents and storage, as aforesaid, and for fees and emoluments, shall in the aggregate, exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, such excess shall be paid by the said collector, naval officer, or surveyor, as the case may be, into the Treasury of the United States, as part and Compensation parcel of the public money; and no such collector shall, on any pretence whatsoever, hereafter receive, hold, or retain for himself, in the aggregate, more than six thousand dollars per year, including all commissions for duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law. Nor shall such naval officer on any pretence whatever, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than five thousand dollars per year, including all commissions on duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law. Nor shall such surveyor, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than four thousand five hundred dollars per year, including all commissions or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law: Provided, The aggregate sums allowed per year to the several officers aforesaid shall be exclusive of the necessary expenses incident to their respective offices, in the same year, subject to the regulation of the Secretary of the Trea

of collectors limited.

Naval officers

limited.

Surveyors limited.

Proviso.

All stores hereafter rented to be on public account, &c.

False swearing to the accounts required

sury;

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all stores hereafter rented by the collector, naval officer, or surveyor, shall be on public account, and paid for by the collector as such, and shall be appropriated exclusively to the use of receiving foreign merchandise, subject as to the rates of storage, to regulation by the Secretary of the Treasury;

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That every collector, naval officer, surveyor of the several ports of the United States, who shall be guilty

and