For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Con- Expenses of stantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars. For payment of the fourth and fifth volumes of the Documentary History, under contract with the Secretary of State, forty-eight thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For compensation to the copying clerk hereby authorized to be employed in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, including arrearages since May 7th, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, at six hundred dollars a year, twelve hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-four cents. For additional compensation to the assistant messenger of the General Land Office, so as to increase it to the rate of one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventyfive cents. For additional compensation to the assistant messenger in the office of the Register of the Treasury, two hundred dollars. For compensation for preparing a classified synoptical index of public documents in the office of the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, and making examinations for information thereon to answer inquiries from the department and the different bureaus, from July thirteen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, to June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, eleven hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For compensation of four clerks, hereby authorized to be appointed and employed for one year only, in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand six hundred dollars. For additional compensation to the watchmen employed at the War Department, for services rendered by day under the regulations of the department, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For additional compensation to the watchmen of the Navy Department, for services rendered by day under the regulations of the Department, two hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents. For the purchase of the building in the city of Philadelphia, formerly the Bank of the United States, for a custom-house for the port of Philadelphia, in addition to the proceeds of sale of the present customhouse, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the whole cost shall not exceed two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever, hereafter, in submitting to Congress the annual estimates from the several Executive departments of the Government, it shall be found that the usual items of such estimates vary materially in amount from the appropriation ordinarily asked for the object named, and especially from the appropriation granted for the same objects for the year next preceding, and whenever new items not theretofore usual shall be introduced into such estimates for any year, the estimates shall be accompanied by minute and full explanations from the head of the appropriate department, of all such variations and new items, setting forth the reasons and grounds upon which the amounts are required, and the different items added: and whenever any such estimate, whether annual or special, shall ask an appropriation for any new specific expenditure, such as the construction of a fort, the erection of a custom-house, or other public building, or the construction of any other public work requiring a plan before the building or work can be properly completed, every such estimate shall be accompanied by a full plan and detailed estimates of the cost of the whole work; and all subsequent estimates for every such work shall give the original estimated cost, the aggregate amount theretofore appropriated for the same, and the amount actually expended thereupon, as well as consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, &c. Commissioner to the Sandwich islands. Documentary History. Copying clerk in Solicitor's office. Additional compensation senger in Land to assistant mes Office. Additional to assistant mes senger in Re gister's Office. Indexing public documents. Four clerks to be employed in Comptroller's office. Additional to watchmen at War Dep't. Additional to watchmen at Navy Dep't. Purchase of building for cusPhiladelphia. tom-house in Proviso. When the usual items vary materially in amount from the ordinary apthat object, &c. propriation for All estimates for works requiring a plan must be accompanied with one, &c. Part of 6th sec. of act of Aug. 26, 1842, ed. Provisions of the amount asked for the current year for which such estimates shall be made; and whenever any such subsequent estimate shall ask for an appropriation for any such work beyond the original estimate of the cost, the full reasons for the excess, and the extent of the anticipated excess, shall be also stated. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the sixth section of the act entitled "An act legalizing and making appropriations ch. 202, repeal for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the Government, and for other purposes," approved on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and which enacts, that the several offices and employments therein before mentioned, except such as were otherwise limited by the act, shall be continued until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be and is hereby repealed; and the various provisions of the said act concerning the said several offices and employments thereby legalized are hereby re-enacted, and declared to be in full force and operation until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and no longer. That, for the compensation of the several offices and employments legalized by the said act of the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, the sum of forty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents be, and is hereby, appropriated. That the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized to continue, for one year, the employment of the additional clerks authorized by any existing resolution of their respective Houses, and the sum of nine thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated for their compensation. said act re-enacted, and to be in force till July 1, 1845. Compensation of offices, &c. legalized by said act. Additional clerks to be continued for one year. For deficien cies in appropri ations for the year ending June 30, 1844. Arranging let ters. S. E. executive building. Contingencies in Adj. General's office. Clerk to naval constructor. Extra clerk hire, bureau of Provisions and Clothing. Book-cases for executive office, Florida. Legislative SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following sums are hereby appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for various objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, namely: For expenses incurred in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury in preserving and arranging important letters of the office which have been lying in mass since the burning of the Treasury, in continuation of an appropriation last year, twelve hundred dollars; For arrearages of salaries of superintendent and watchmen of the For arrearages of contingent expenses in the office of the Adjutant For clerk to the chief naval constructor from July eighth, to Novem- and thirty-five dollars; For arrears of extra clerk hire in the bureau of Provisions and Cloth- For three large book-cases, made for the use of the Executive office, For arrearages of former sessions of the Legislative Council of Flo Council of Florida, four hundred dollars; rida. Purchase of site for light house on Bod- For amount expended for the purchase of a site for a light house on Boddy's island, North Carolina, being part of the amount appropriated for that purpose, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of De cember, one thousand eight hundred and forty, three hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-nine cents; Indices to Washington papers. For preparing indices to the manuscript papers of Washington, being an arrearage for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, one thousand one hundred and eight dollars; For completing the work of the custom-house in Wilmington, North Carolina, including the purchase of a lot adjoining the site, nineteen at Wilmington, thousand nine hundred dollars; For expenses incident to the issue of Treasury notes, four thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation be applied, and no compensation shall be made to any officer whose salary is established by law for preparing, signing or issuing said Treasury notes. For expenses in relation to the loan, eight thousand dollars; For salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private claims in Florida, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general of Florida, one thousand dollars; Custom-house N. C. Issue of Trea sury notes. Proviso. Expenses of loan. Assistant sur veyor in Florida. For pay of chain carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, &c., Chain carriers, for ditto, fifteen hundred dollars; For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and oversight of the re-surveys in the Greensburg (late St. Helena) district, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general of Louisiana, one thousand dollars; For outfit of the late chargé d'affaires to Texas, four thousand five hundred dollars; For arrearages in Black Hawk war, in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, due Captain R. Anderson, on report of the accounting officers, four hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-seven cents; For arrearages due marshals and district attorneys, one thousand five hundred dollars; For arrearages of contingent expenses of branch mint at New Orleans, ten thousand dollars; For arrearages on account of a survey for an extension of the National Road to Jefferson, Missouri, one thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents; For the purpose of completing and rendering secure and tenantable the State House in Florida, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That this act shall not be construed as sanctioning any excess of expenditure heretofore made beyond former appropriations for that object, nor as authorizing any further expenditure beyond the amount hereby appropriated in completing said building; For settlement of the claims of Sextus Shearer for goods furnished the New York Indians, one thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars and five cents, to be paid out of balances of appropriations heretofore made for blacksmiths' establishments in the Indian service; For completing the marine hospital at the town of McDonough, opposite to the city of New Orleans, thirty thousand dollars; &c. for same. Assistant sur veyor, Greensburg district. Chargé d'affaires to Texas. Capt. R. Anderson. Marshals and district attor neys. Completing state-house in Proviso. Florida. S. Shearer. Marine hospital at McDonough. Jeremiah Sunith. For the payment of Jeremiah Smith, jr., as per schedule to the Sac and Fox treaty, concluded eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and the act of Congress of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for carrying into effect the pro- 1843, ch. 80. visions of said treaty, four thousand dollars. To defray arrearages of expense of the commission appointed to mark the boundary line between the United States and Great Britain, eight thousand dollars; Commission to between U.S. mark boundary and Gr. Britain. To satisfy the claims of the State of Maine, under the stipulations of Claims of Maine under the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded on treaty with the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, a sum Great Britain. not exceeding eighty thousand dollars; Expenses of procuring information respecting foreign com merce. Sec. to publish monthly the last preceding weekly statement of the Treasurer, &c. Quarterly statement of receipts and expenditures to be published. Number of of houses not to be increased, &c. To defray expenses incurred and to be incurred in complying with the resolutions of the House of Representatives of the third of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and of the Senate of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and of the fourteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, calling for information respecting the foreign commerce of the United States, its restrictions and privileges, prices of commodities, &c., ten thousand dollars. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to be published in some newspaper of the city of Washington, on the first day of each month, the last preceding weekly statement of the Treasurer of the United States, showing the amount to his credit in the different banks, in the mint, or other depositories, the amount for which drafts have been given, and those remaining unpaid, and the balance remaining subject to his draft; and that he also specially note any changes that have been made in the depositories of the Treasury during the preceding month, and report to Congress, at the commencement of its next session, the reasons for such changes. And that no changes be made except for non-compliance with the instructions of the Department or the failure to furnish sufficient security. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury at the expiration of thirty days from the end of each quarter, cause to be published in some newspaper of the city of Washington a statement of the whole receipts of such quarter, specifying the amount received from customs, from public lands, and from miscellaneous sources, and, also, the whole amount of payments made during the said quarter, specifying the general head of appropriation, whether for the civil list, the army, the navy, Indian department, fortifications, or pensions. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the number of inspectors, ficers in custom gaugers, weighers, measurers, or markers, in any custom-house shall not be increased beyond the number now in service; and that no allowance shall be made to any inspector, for any services, subsistence, travelling or any other amount beyond the amount fixed by law of three dollars per day, and not to exceed ten cents per mile for travelling expenses when actually engaged in the performance of his duties at any other place than the port or custom-house from the collector of which he has received his appointment. STATUTE I. June 17, 1844. In addition to unexpended balances. Army. Commutation of subsistence. Commutation of forage. Proviso. APPROVED, June 17, 1844. CHAP. CVI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and fortyfive. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums in addition to unexpended balances of former appropriations be and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the support of the army for the fiscal year, commencing on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. For pay of the army, one million fifty-eight thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For commutation of officers' subsistence, two hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents. For commutation of forage of officers' horses, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That forage shall be allowed only for horses actually mustered. For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers and officers' Clothing. servants, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. For subsistence in kind, two hundred and twenty-six thousand three Subsistence. hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty cents. For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For expenses of recruiting, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy cents. For three months' extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers' horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen belonging to the quartermasters' department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the regiment of dragoons, and the four companies of light artillery; of straw for soldiers' bedding, and of stationery including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermasters' departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. Clothing. Recruiting. Extra pay. Supplies of Quartermas ter's departm't. Incidental ex penses. Act of March For the incidental expenses of the quartermasters' department, consisting of postage on letters and packages received by officers on public service; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses while on that service, under the act of sixteenth of March, eighteen 16, 1802, ch. 9. hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads and other constant labor, for a period of not less than ten days, under the act of second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks to the officers of the quartermasters' department at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid; and compensation to agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to employ under the act of fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; various expendi- 1838, ch. 162. tures necessary to keep the regiment of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost, and become unfit for service; shoeing horses; and the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incidental to their pursuit, ninety thousand dollars. Act of July 5, for 2d regiment of dragoons. Act of April 4, 1844, ch. 11. For the purchase of horses, equipments and forage, and to pay [the] Horses, &c. other expenses caused by the act entitled "An act to repeal so much of the act approved twenty-third of August, eighteen hundred and fortytwo, as requires the second regiment of dragoons to be converted into a regiment of riflemen, after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three," one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For barracks, quarters and store-houses, including repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may be occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated; and for the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons and light artillery; for rent of quarters for officers, barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, and of store-houses for the safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, &c.; and of grounds for summer canVOL. V.-88 31 Barracks, &c. |