HOSPITALS.

For completion of marine hospital at Pittsburg, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;

For completion of marine hospital at Louisville, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;

For completion of marine hospitals at Cleveland, six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;

For completion of marine hospital at Chicago, twenty thou sand dollars;

For completion of marine hospital at Paducah, twenty thou sand dollars;

For completion of marine hospital at Natchez, twenty thousand dollars;

For completion of marine hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas, twenty-thousand dollars;

For the purpose of erecting a marine hospital at or near St. Louis, Missouri, in addition to the ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the same object, twenty thousand dollars, to be expended only when the Government shall have obtained a bona fide title to the site. And for the purchase of said site the ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by the act aforesaid, or so much thereof as is necessary, shall be applied; To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to collect facts and information in relation to marine hospitals and the marine hos pital fund, and to report to Congress what alterations are necessary and practicable in the administration of the same, one thousand dollars.

SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.

Hospitals, viz:

Pittsburg.

Louisville.

Cleveland, O.

Chicago.

Paducali.

Natchez.

Napoleon, Ark.

St. Louis, Mo.

Collection lation to marine

of information in re

hospitals.

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unex- Surveys. pended balance of former appropriations, viz:

Surveying pub

For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses, to be apportioned to the several districts, according to lie lands, &c. the exigencies of the public service, the part to be applied to the surveys of the mineral regions of Michigan, Wisconsin, and lowa, in the location of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at augmented rates, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars;

For surveys in the southern part of Missouri, east of the me- Missouri ridian, at five dollars per mile, on account of the difficulties in executing surveys in that section of the State, owing to lakes, swamps, and marshes, four thousand dollars;

For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys, in sinall and detached portions, in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For completing surveys of the towns and villages in Missouri, named in the. acts of eighteen hundred and twelve and

Arkansas.

Foreign inter

course.

Ministers.

eighteen hundred and twenty-four, including office work, two thousand dollars;

For completing certain surveys in Arkansas, at the increased rates, in consequence of the peculiar difficulties attending the execution of them, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.

For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico, sixty-three thousand dollars; and for outfits of said ministers, sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be ne

cessary;

Secretaries of For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars;

legation.

Minister Turkey.

Dragoman.

to

Outfit and sal

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

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

For the outfit of a minister to the Germanic Confederation, Germanic Con- nine thousand dollars;

ary of minister to

federation

Secretary of legation.

Outfit and sal

ary of minister to Chili.

Abraham Ren

eher.

Charges des affaires.

Contingencies of foreign inter

course.

ers.

Barbary Pow

Consul at London.

For one year's salary for the said minister, nine thousand dollars;

For one year's salary for a secretary of legation to the said mission, two thousand dollars;

For outfit for a minister to the government of Chili, nine thousand dollars;

For salary of said minister, nine thousand dollars;

For Abraham Rencher, late chargé d'affaires to Portugal, such sum as the Secretary of State, upon adjusting his claim, shall allow for his unavoidable detention abroad from second January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to the sixteenth September following: Provided, such sum shall not exceed the rate of his official salary;

For salaries of chargés des affaires to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecuador, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars; and for outfits for said chargés des affaires, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousard dollars;

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars;

For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars; For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich islands, three to Sandwich is thousand dollars;

Commissioner

Jands.

For payment of the salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich islands, from the commencement of the salary of Mr. Eames to the termination of that of Mr. Ten Eyck, so much as is necessary of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars;

Interpreters, guards, &c., at

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consu lates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, one thousand Constantinople, five hundred dollars;

Smyrna, and Alexandria.

to China.

For salary of the commissioner to reside in China, including Commissioner additional compensation, under the act of eleventh August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six thousand dollars;

For compensation to Peter Parker, secretary of legation and Chinese interpreter at Canton, for his services as chargé d'affaires of the United States at said place, from the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the twentyfirst day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being the interval between the death of Alexander Everett, late commissioner at Canton, and the actual arrivat of John W. Davis, the present commissioner, after the rate of four thousand five bundred dollars per annum, (deducting his salary as such secretary, and two thousand dollars already paid him towards said service,) the sum of two hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-two cents;

Peter Parker.

For salary of the interpreter and secretary to said mission, Interpreter and two thousand five hundred dollars;

For buoys on and near the bar of Nassau river and on the coasts of Georgia and Florida, in the neighborhood thereof, one thousand dollars;

Secretary.

Buoys on Nag

sau river.

Chinese ports.

For compensation to the consuls at the five Chinese ports, Consuls at five viz: Kwangchow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ningpo, and Shanghae, five thousand dollars;

at Alexandria.

For salary of consul general at Alexandria, three thousand Consul general dollars;

For salary of consul at Beirout, five hundred dollars; For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars;

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For office rent of the consulat Basle, in Switzerland, one hundred dollars; and for office rent from June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to the close of the current fiscal year, four hundred dollars;

Consul at Beirout.

Relief of Amer

ican seamen.

Clerk hire and sul at London.

office rent of con

Office rent of consul at Basle.

For procuring medals for Indians, twenty-five hundred dol-Medals for In

lars.

dians.

partments may

authorized by act and June 17, 44.

of August 26, 42,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the third section of Heads of dethe act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and continue officers diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes," approved the tenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

Repeal of propurchase

viso limiting the

of

stocks by Trea

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proviso to the nineteenth section of the act of the twenty-eighth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An act authorizing sury Department the issue of treasury notes, a loan, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

to par.

Proviso-no

elerk to receive

tary or head of

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That no clerk or other salary of Secre- officer shall receive the salary of any secretary, or head of bubureau while said reau, for acting or having acted in his place or office, while said receives such sal- secretary, or head of bureau, receives such salary.

Sec'tary or head

ary.

Public archives

officers of said State.

Proviso.

Appropriation of

ment of compen.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall of Florida to be be shown to the President of the United States that the State of delivered over to Florida has by law provided for the safe custody of the public archives, which were formerly kept by the keepers of archives at St. Augustine and Pensacola, it shall be lawful for him to cause to be delivered to duly authorized officers of the State such of the said archives as do not relate to grants of land which remain unconfirmed or unsurveyed: Provided, That the President of the United States may suspend the execution of this provision, if in his judgment the public interests requires it. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty $20,000 for pay- thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated for the paysation to certain ment of a compensation of one-half per centum to each designated depositary (provided to be appointed, but not provided to be paid, under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six) on all moneys received by him, as such depositary, from the date of his appointment to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine: Provided, That no compensation shall be allowed, for above services, where the emoluments of the office, of which said designated depositary is in commission, amounts to over two thousand dollars per annum; nor shall the amount allowed to any one of said designated depositaries for such service be at the rate of over fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

depositaries

public money.

Proviso.

of

Three tempo

Gen. Land office

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner rary clerks in of the General Land office be authorized to continue three temto be continued. porary clerks, during the recess of Congress, until the patents for bounty lands shall be issued; said clerks to be paid out of the contingent fund.

Purchase of pa- SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty pers of General thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be Washington and James Monroe. paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of State to purchase the remaining manuscript books and papers of General George Washington; the said books and papers to be deposited and preserved in the Department of State; and that a like sum be appropriated for the purchase of the manuscript books and papers of the late James Monroe, to be deposited in like manner in the Department of State.

Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 101.-AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty:

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby,

appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty: For pay of the army, one million six hundred and thirtyfive thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars;

Pay.

sistence.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, five hundred and Officers' subsixty-one thousand eight hundred dollars, including the additional rations for commissioned officers commanding "arsenals" or "armories," being separate and fixed or permanent "posts" of the army of the United States;

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and four thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars;

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, thirtysix thousand two hundred dollars; For expenses of recruiting, thirty-eight thousand and fiftytwo dollars;

Forage:

Clothing for of

ficers' servants.

Recruiting.

Extra pay on re-enlistment.

sup

master's depart

For three months' extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, on re-enlistment, ten thousand dollars; For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, Regular consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of plies of quarter. officers' horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen of the ment. quartermaster's department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the first and second regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen; 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 quartermaster's department, and for the printing of division and department orders and army regulations, five hundred thousand dollars;

penses of quar

de

For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's depart- Incidental exment, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and termaster's sent by officers on public service; expenses of courts martial partment. and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses and hospitals, the construction) of roads, and other constant labor, under the direction of the quartermaster's department, for periods of not less than ten days, under the act of second March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers, and trains, where military escorts cannot be furnished;, expense of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, hire of laborers in the quartermaster's department; compensation of clerks to the officers of the quartermaster's department; compensation to wagon and forage masters, authorized by the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various expenditures necessary to keep the first and second regiment of dragoons, the four companies of light