For the district judge of New York, southern district, one thousand District judges. seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For the district judge of New Jersey, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For the district judge of Pennsylvania, eastern district, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For the district judge of Pennsylvania, western district, nine hundred dollars;

For the district judge of Delaware, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For the district judge of Maryland, one thousand dollars;

For the district judge of Virginia, eastern district, nine hundred dollars;

For the district judge of Virginia, western district, eight hundred dollars;

For the district judge of Kentucky, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For the district judge of Tennessee, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For the district judge of Ohio, five hundred dollars;

For the district judge of North Carolina, one thousand dollars;
For the district judge of South Carolina, one thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars;

For the district judge of Georgia, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For the district judge of Louisiana, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For the district judge of Mississippi, one thousand dollars;

For the district judge of Indiana, five hundred dollars;
For the district judge of Illinois, five hundred dollars;

For the district judge of Alabama, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For the district judge of Missouri, six hundred dollars;

For the district judge of Michigan, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For the district judge of Arkansas, one thousand dollars;

For the chief justice of the District of Columbia, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For the two associate judges of said District, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For the judge of the Criminal Court of said District, one thousand dollars;

For the judge of the Orphans' Court of Washington county, in said District, five hundred dollars;

For the judge of the Orphans' Court of Alexandria county, in said District, five hundred dollars;

For the Attorney General of the United States, and the clerk and messenger in his office, and the contingent expenses thereof, three thousand dollars;

For the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, six hundred and fifty dollars.

For the district attorney of Maine, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of New Hampshire, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Massachusetts, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Vermont, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Rhode Island, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Connecticut, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of New York, northern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of New Jersey, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Pennsylvania, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Pennsylvania, western district, one hundred dollars.

Judges of District Columbia.

Attorney General, &c.

Reporter of Supreme Court. District attor

neys.

District attor neys.

Marshals.

For the district attorney of Delaware, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Maryland, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Virginia, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Virginia, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Tennessee, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Tennessee, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Tennessee, Jackson district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Kentucky, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Ohio, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of North Carolina, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of South Carolina, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Georgia, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Louisiana, eastern district, three hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Louisiana, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Mississippi, northern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Mississippi, southern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Indiana, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Illinois, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Alabama, northern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Alabama, southern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Missouri, one hundred dollars.
For the district attorney of Michigan, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Arkansas, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Florida, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Florida, middle district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Florida, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Florida, southern district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Florida, Appalachicola district, one hundred dollars.

For the district attorney of Wisconsin, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the district attorney of Iowa, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Maine, one hundred dollars. For the marshal of the district of New Hampshire, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Vermont, one hundred dollars. For the marshal of the district of Rhode Island, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Connecticut, one hundred dollars. For the marshal of the district of New York, northern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of New Jersey, one hundred dollars. For the marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Delaware, one hundred dollars. For the marshal of the district of Virginia, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Virginia, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of North Carolina, two hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Kentucky, one hundred dollars.
For the marshal of the district of Ohio, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Tennessee, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Tennessee, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Tennessee, Jackson district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Louisiana, eastern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Louisiana, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Mississippi, southern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Mississippi, northern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Indiana, one hundred dollars.
For the marshal of the district of Illinois, one hundred dollars.
For the marshal of the district of Alabama, northern district, one
hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Alabama, southern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Missouri, one hundred dollars.
For the marshal of the district of Michigan, one hundred dollars.
For the marshal of the district of Arkansas, one hundred dollars.
For the marshal of the district of Florida, eastern district, one hun-
dred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Florida, middle district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Florida, western district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Florida, southern district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Florida, Appalachicola district, one hundred dollars.

For the marshal of the district of Wisconsin, one hundred dollars. For the marshal of the district of Iowa, one hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and forty-three, and preceding 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, including expenses under the bankrupt law, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous.-Annuities and grants:

To Josiah H. Webb, twenty-five dollars;

To Rachel Dohrman, one hundred and fifty dollars;

To Elizabeth C. Perry, two hundred dollars;

For compensation of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida, Keepers of Flofive hundred dollars;

rida archives.

Exploring expedition.

Penitentiary

of D. C.

Sick and disabled seamen.

1802, ch. 51.

Custom-house

at Boston. Miscellaneous

claims.

Proviso.

Light-house establishment.

For expenses attending the preparation of the results and account of the exploring expedition for the publication thereof ordered by Congress, twenty thousand dollars.

For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and eightyfour cents.

To make good a deficiency in the eighteen months ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and estimated deficiency in the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fortyfour, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the act of the third of May, eighteen hundred and three, [two,] fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For carrying on the work of the new custom-house building at Boston, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropria tion shall be expended in the payment of any claims for finishing and furnishing the new custom-house in the city of New York.

Light-house Establishment. For supplying the light-houses, conLight-houses. taining two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight lamps, with oil, tube glasses, wicks, buffskins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation, and keeping apparatus in order, fifty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifteen cents.

Floating lights, &c.

Buoys, &c.

Annual examination.

Superintendents' commissions.

Foreign inter

course.

Ministers.

Secretaries of Legation.

Chargés des affaires.

Minister to Turkey. Drogoman.

Expenses of missions, &c.

Consul at

London.

Relief, &c. of

Am. seamen.

For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and thirtythree dollars and one cent.

For compensation of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of lighthouses, eighteen of them being charged with double lights, and one with three, forty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

For compensation of thirty keepers of floating lights, eight thousand dollars.

For seamens' wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen

cents.

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, ten thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and fourteen cents.

For expenses of examining annually and reporting the condition of the light-houses, four thousand dollars.

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For superintendents' commissions, at two and one half per cent., thousand eight hundred and four dollars and seventy-three cents. Intercourse with Foreign Nations.-For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, thirty-six thousand dollars.

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

For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, twenty-seven thousand dollars.

For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, three thousand dollars. For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, fifteen thousand dollars.

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

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the
American consul at London, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, seven thou-
sand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in case the sum appropriated for any object of contingencies should be found more than sufficient to meet the expense thereby contemplated, the surplus may be applied, under the direction of the head of the proper department, to supply the deficiency of any other item in the same department or office: Provided, That the expenditure for newspapers and periodicals shall not exceed the amount specifically appropriated to that object by this act, except in the State Department.

APPROVED, December 24, 1842.

CHAP. III.—An Act to amend the act establishing a district court of the United
States at Wheeling, Virginia. (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter two
annual terms of the district court for the western district of Virginia
be holden at the city of Wheeling, commencing on the twenty-fifth
March and the twenty-fifth of October, in lieu of the one term of the
said district court now directed to be held at Wheeling.
APPROVED, January 20, 1843.

CHAP. IV.-An Act to continue the office of Commissioner of Pensions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the office of Commissioner of Pensions shall be, and the same is hereby continued until the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a Commissioner of Pensions shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Senate, and that he shall execute, under the direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, such duties in relation to the various pension laws as may be prescribed by the President and also such duties in relation to the laws granting military bounty lands as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of War with the sanction of the President.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioner shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, and shall have the privilege of sending and receiving letters and packets by mail free of postage.

APPROVED, January 20, 1843.

CHAP. XX.-An Act to re-enact and continue in operation the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States. (b)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled, "An act to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States," approved the twenty-seventh May, eighteen hundred and forty, and the several acts therein mentioned, shall be, and the same are hereby, re-enacted and continued in force for three years from and after the expiration of the said first-mentioned act, and until the cases which may be depending

Expenses of consulate at London. Barbary pow.

ers.

Any surplus for contingenplied to supply cies may be apdeficiencies.

Proviso.

STATUTE III.

Jan. 20, 1843.

Hereafter two annual terms to be held.

STATUTE III.
Jan. 20, 1843.

Act of March

3, 1835, ch. 46. 3, 1837, ch. 43.

Act of March

Office contin

ued until 4th

March 1846.

A commissioner to be appointed-his duties.

Salary, &c. Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43, sec. 6.

STATUTE III.
Jan. 28, 1843.

Acts continued for 3 years, &c. Act of May 27, 1840, ch. 26.

(a) See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 478.
(b) See notes to the act of March 2, 1831, chap. 62.