including extra clerk hire and labourers, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage, of the mint, thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fucl, stationery, and printing, and repairs of the legislative hall, including arrearages, eight thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, including additional compensation to each judge, to thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, nine thousand four hundred dollars. For pay and mileage of the legislative council of said territory, five thousand four hundred and ten dollars. For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For incidental expenses of the legislature of Arkansas, by act of twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation for the judges for extra duty under the act of twenty-third May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, fifteen thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars. For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, including two hundred and forty-eight dollars for arrears, seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including arrearages arising from increased salaries of certain district judges under the act of May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars, eighteen cents. For the salaries of chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans' courts of the said district, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to William Cranch, chief justice of the circuit court for the District of Columbia, for preparing a code of civil and criminal jurisprudence, in compliance with an act of Congress, approved twenty-ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars. For contingencies to the office of the attorney general, five hundred dollars. For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars. For purchase of books for office of attorney general, five hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses already incurred in fitting up the office of the attorney general, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars. VOL. IV.-58 2 Q Territories. 1828, ch. 100. 1828, ch. 70. Judiciary. 1830, ch. 213. William Cranch, Attorney general. Reporter Supreme Court. District at torneys and marshals. Expenses of United States courts, &c. Pensions. Lighthouses,&c. Lighthouses. Registers and receivers. Keepers of archives. Commissioners of loans. Assistant Florida land claims. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eleven thousand three 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 thirty-one, 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, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars. For building lighthouses on little Watt's island, Maryland; on Clay island, Maryland; at the entrance of Roanoke Sound, in North Carolina; at or near Choctaw Point, in Alabama; and near St. Mark's harbour, in Florida, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, being the amount of balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to the said objects; which said several balances are hereby re-appropriated to the several objects specifically. For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, two thousand dollars. For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars. For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, five hundred dollars. For allowance to assistant counsel and district attorney, under the counsel, &c. for act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, dated twenty-third of May, one thousand 1828, ch. 70. eight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, eight thousand dollars, including the unexpended balance of the last year's appropriation for the same objects. Luigi Persico. Executive buildings. Surveying of public lands. Diplomatic expenses. For the third payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars. For alterations and improvements in the executive buildings, and painting the same, six thousand five hundred dollars. For surveying the public lands, including the amount of arrearages due for the last year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia, fifty-four thousand dollars. For the salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, twelve thousand dollars. For the salaries of the chargé des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala, forty thousand five hundred dollars. For outfit of the present minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars. For outfits of the chargé des affaires at Peru, Chili, Brazil, and Guatemala, eighteen thousand dollars. For the outfit and salary of a chargé d'affaires, for the salary of a drogoman at Constantinople; and for the contingent expenses of the legation, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars, to wit: For the outfit of a chargé d'affaires, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of a chargé d'affaires, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of a drogoman, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the contingent expenses of the legation, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, in addition to the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars hereinafter appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars. For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, thirty thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen, in foreign countries, twenty thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, twenty-five thousand dollars. For carrying into effect the act of May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the settlement of the accounts of certain diplomatic functionaries, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For the payment of claims for property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy, the balance of the appropriation made by the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, heretofore carried to the surplus fund, thirty-two thousand seventy-three dollars and eighty cents. For the compensation due to James Parker for investigating the accounts of Robert Arnold, late collector of Amboy, two hundred [and] nine dollars and sixty-four cents. For the designating and marking the boundary line between the state of Louisiana and the district of Arkansas, three thousand dollars; the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. For preparing a revision of the former estimates of the population of the United States, one thousand dollars. APPROVED, March 2, 1831. CHAP. LVI.—An Act making additional appropriations for the improvement of For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For removing sand bar at or near the mouth of Black river, Ohio, nine thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For completing the improvement of Cleaveland harbour, Ohio, three thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand river, Ohio, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula creek, Ohio, seven thousand and fifteen dollars. For improving the navigation of Conneaut creek, Ohio, six thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. For completing the improvement of the harbour of Presque isle, Pennsylvania, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For improving the navigation of Genesee river, New York, sixteen thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. STATUTE II. March 2, 1831. [Obsolete.] Huron river. Black river. Cleaveland harbour. Grand river. Ashtabu.a creek. Conneaut creek. Presque isle. Genesee river Sodus bay. Contractors. Oswego. Buffalo. Dunkirk. Provincetown. Merrimack break water. Kennebunk. Deer island. Plymouth beach. Hyannis breakwater. Nantucket. New Castle. Cape Fear river. Ocracock. St. Mark's. Appalachicola. Red river. Black Rock. Dunkirk. Delaware breakwater. For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus bay, New York, seventeen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For completing piers at Oswego, New York, two thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-two cents. For claim of contractors for losses by storms in eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, five hundred and nineteen dollars. For balance due contractors for said piers, eighty-four dollars and ninety-two cents. For securing the works of Oswego harbour, New York, by a stone pier-head and mole, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars. For completing the pier, at the mouth of Buffalo harbour, New York, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars. For securing and completing the works at the harbour of Dunkirk, New York, six thousand four hundred dollars. For further protection and preservation of the beach of Provincetown, Massachusetts, two thousand and fifty dollars. For the repair and completion of the breakwater at the mouth of Merrimack river, Massachusetts, sixteen thousand dollars. For completing repairs to piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river, Maine, one thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For completing the sea wall for the preservation of Deer island, Boston harbour, Massachusetts, twelve thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. For repairing Plymouth beach, Massachusetts, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbour, Massachusetts, eight thousand four hundred dollars. For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket harbour, Massachusetts, eight thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars. For improving the harbours of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, in the Delaware river, four thousand dollars. For improving Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and five dollars. For carrying on the works for the improvements of Ocracock inlet, in North Carolina, seventeen thousand dollars. For completing the removal of obstructions in the river and harbour of For arrearage due Major Birch for survey of the raft of Red river, For arrearage due the superintendent of the works at Black Rock harbour, New York, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For arrearage due for materials delivered to the works at Dunkirk harbour, New York, seven hundred and two dollars, fifty cents. For carrying on the work of the Delaware breakwater, two hundred and eight thousand dollars. APPROVED, March 2, 1831. STATUTE II. March 2, 1831. [Obsolete.] Officers, &c. CHAP. LVII.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 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 they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: For pay and subsistence of the officers of the navy, and pay of sea men, one million two hundred and seventy-eight thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment of the several navy yards and stations, fifty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For provisions, one hundred seventy-three thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars. Superintend ents. Provisions. Repairs, &c. For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the wear and tear of vessels in commission, six hundred and fifteen thousand four hundred dollars. For medicines, surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other ex- Medicines, &c. penses on account of the sick, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements of navy yards, two hundred and fortyfour thousand dollars. For the erection of a wharf at the navy yard at Pensacola, twentyeight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Navy yards. For defraying expenses that may accrue during the year one thousand Miscellaneous. eight hundred and thirty-one, for the following purposes, viz: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage and rent, travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen, house rent, chamber money, and fuel and candles to officers, other than those attached to navy yards and stations, and for officers in sick quarters, where there is no hospital, and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, and office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances for persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry, and for officers engaged in extra service beyond the limits of their stations; for printing and stationery of every description, and for books, maps, charts, and mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase and repair of steam and fire engines, and for machinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage; for cabin furniture of vessels in commission; and for furniture of officers' houses at navy yards; for taxes on navy yards and public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labour at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel for vessels in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of magazines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other object or purpose whatever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects arising during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and not herein before enumerated, five thousand dollars. For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, and for subsistence of officers of the marine corps, one hundred and nine thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars; the pay, subsistence, emoluments, and allowances of the said officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, to be the same as they were previously to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. For subsistence for four hundred and sixty-one non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and washer-women, serving on shore, twenty thousand one hundred and ninety-one dollars. For clothing, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. For fuel. nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. For military stores, two thousand dollars. For medicines, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars. Contingencies. Marine corps. Subsistence. Clothing. Fuel. Contingencies. Stores. Medicines. |
