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Navy board.

S. W. executive building.

Post-office Department.

Surveyors.

1831, ch. 116.

1831, ch. 116.

1831, ch. 116.

Commissioner

For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engines, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars. For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, including one thousand dollars, from first July to thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, per act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, per act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, fifteen hundred dollars.

For an additional clerk for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to bring up arrearages of recording, and including compensation to clerks in one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, for which no appropriation was made by the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in of public build- Washington city, two thousand dollars.

ings.

Mint.

For compensation to the officers and clerks of the mint, ten thousand

six hundred dollars.

For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, twentyone thousand eight hundred 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, fuel, stationery, and printing, seven thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay and mileage of the legislative council of said territory, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

To pay deficiency in appropriation of last year for pay and mileage to the members of the legislature of Arkansas, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation to the judges, under the act of twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, at eight hundred dollars, each, and arrearages of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and nine cents.

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 thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the publication of the statutes of the territory, as directed by a law of the territory, and a deficiency in the appropriation for one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, of two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-one cents, nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-one cents.

For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, eighty-one thousand four hundred dollars. For the salaries of the chief justice and 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 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 a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme
Court, one thousand dollars.

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For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eleven thousand three torneys and hundred dollars

marshals.

For compensation to assistant counsel and district attorneys under the act of the twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty- 1828, ch. 70. eight, supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, including contingencies, seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the payment of a salary to the law agent in Florida. 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,

Expenses of United

States

courts, &c.

Pensions.

Lighting public grounds, &c.

&c.

Lighthouses,

1829, ch. 25.

and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, 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 five hundred and fifty dollars.

For expense of lighting the lamps in the Capitol square, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For improving the grounds round the President's house, including the gardener's salary, three thousand dollars.

For alterations and repairs in the President's house, three hundred 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, two hundred and five thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For building a lighthouse on or near one of the islands called The Brothers at the Narrows, in Long Island Sound, New York, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, five thousand dollars.

For placing eight buoys at proper sites between the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook, New York, being the amount of an 1829, ch. 25. appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, five hundred dollars.

1829, ch. 25.

Registers and receivers. Survey of public lands.

Keepers of archives.

Census.

Miscellaneous

claims.

Commissioners of loans. Ships' registers.

Luigi Persico.

Ministers.

Secretaries of legation. Chargés.

For erecting a beacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order to mark the entrance into the channel commonly known as Lawford's channel, South Carolina, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six hundred dollars.

For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, two thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, viz: For the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi, eighty thousand dollars; and for the survey of other public lands, eighty thousand dollars; and a further sum for the survey of the lands ceded by the Creeks to the United States, fifty thousand dollars.

For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.

For the revision of all former statements of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States and their territories, being a balance due D. Green, for printing the abstract of said revision, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.

For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, five hundred dollars.

For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, four thousand dollars.

For the fourth payment to Luigi Persico, for two colossal statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Colombia, forty-five thousand dollars.

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

For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru,

Mexico, Central America, and Naples, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

Legation to

For salary of the drogoman, and for contingencies of the legation of the United States to Turkey, thirty-seven thousand five hundred Turkey.

dollars.

For outfits of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, and Russia, thirty-six thousand dollars.

For outfits of the chargés des affaires of the United States to Holland, Belgium, Central America, Buenos Ayres, and Naples, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

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

For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.

Outfits.

Contingent expenses.

Agents of claims.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty- Mediterranean four thousand four hundred dollars.

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

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

powers.

Relief of American seamen.

Contingent expenses.

Historical do

To enable the President of the United States to procure copies of documents relative to the history of the United States, from the public cuments. offices in Great Britain, two thousand dollars.

Bust of Tho

Marshal of

For the purchase of the bust of Thomas Jefferson, executed by Ceracci, now in the possession of Mr. Jefferson's executor, four thousand dollars, mas Jefferson. if so much should be deemed necessary by the committee on the library. For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to discharge a balance due to the marshal of the territory of Michigan, beyond the Michigan. existing appropriation, for his services in taking a census of the persons in the said territory, who are not freeholders, one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-four cents.

For account of printing and binding, and for selecting, editing, and preparing indexes, for the compilation of documents, for which a subscription was authorized by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, fifty-five thousand dollars; the printing to be paid for by the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House, according to the terms of the subscription; and the selecting, editing and making indexes, to be paid for in like manner, and at such rate of compensation as shall be judged reasonable and proper by the committees of accounts of the two Houses.

To enable the Secretary of State to cause to be printed, under his direction, a selection from the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, between the peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, remaining unpublished in the Department of State, twelve thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to carry into effect the resolution of Congress of the seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, in relation to recording patents, fourteen thousand six hundred and twelve dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to pay for seventy copies of Peters' Condensed Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court, subscribed for under the resolution of Congress of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For the payment of a balance due to Walter Smith, on the books of the fourth auditor, to be applied, first, to the discharge of any balance standing against said Smith on the books of the treasury, and the residue to be paid to the legal representatives of Walter Smith, the sum of three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-one cents. VOL. IV.-65

Compilation of documents.

1831, ch. 65.

Diplomatic correspondence.

Recording pa

tents.

Post, p. 605.

Peters' Con

densed Reports, Ante, p. 495.

Walter Smith.

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To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to complete the marine hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, authorized by the act of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to enlarge the said contract, or to release the contractor from his liability thereunder.

For the erection of marine barracks and officers' quarters at the navy yard, Philadelphia, nine thousand dollars.

For the purpose of defraying the expenses of a survey of the waters of Narragansett bay, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, with a view to ascertain the practicability and expediency of establishing a naval depot therein, five thousand dollars.

For enabling the President of the United States to obtain from the Norfolk Bridge Company a release and conveyance to the United States of the bridge over the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, between the navy yard and the dry dock, and of the road leading from the same to the south-western side of said yard, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars: Provided, the Secretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that the said sum does not exceed the value of the same: And provided, That the Attorney General of the United States shall be satisfied of the validity of the title, and that the right thus acquired will authorize the United States to remove the bridge, and to enclose the road within the navy yard.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State be authorized, out of the sums appropriated to defray the expenses of taking the late census, to pay those assistant marshals, for their services, who have failed to receive compensation, from the delinquency of the principal marshals.

APPROVED, May 5, 1832.

STATUTE I. May 5, 1832.

Tribes to be convened for vaccination.

Physicians or surgeons to be employed, &c.

Supply of vaccine matter.

Monthly re

CHAP. LXXV.-An Act to provide the means of extending the benefits of vacci nation, as a preventive of the small-pox, to the Indian tribes, and thereby, as far as possible, to save them from the destructive ravages of that disease.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the several Indian agents and sub-agents, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to take such measures as he shall deem most efficient, to convene the Indian tribes in their respective towns, or in such other places and numbers, and at such seasons as shall be most convenient to the Indian population, for the purpose of arresting the progress of smallpox among the several tribes by vaccination.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, empowered to employ as many physicians or surgeons, from the army or resident on the frontier near the point where their services shall be required, as he may find necessary for the execution of this act; and, if necessary, two competent persons to conduct the physicians to the remote Indians who are infected, or may be in immediate danger of being infected, with the small-pox, whose compensation shall be six dollars per day, and six men, whose compensation shall be twenty-five dollars per month.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, to cause all Indian agents to be supplied with genuine vaccine matter; and all agents and sub-agents shall use all proper means to persuade the Indian population to submit to vaccination.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all agents, sub-agents, physiturns and gene- cians and surgeons, employed in the execution of this act, shall make monthly returns or reports of their proceedings to the War Department.

ral report.

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