For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. North-west ex For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the north-west executive building, one thousand seven hundred and ten ecutive building. dollars. For the contingent expenses of the said building, viz.: For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars. - For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks, and to the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger, in his office, ten thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair, and to the assistant constructor, clerks, and messenger, in his office, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars. For salaries of the Chief Naval Constructor and Engineer-in-chief, six thousand dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and to the draughtsman, clerks, and messenger, in his office, eight thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and to the clerks and messenger in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and to the clerks, assistant surgeon, and messenger, in his office, six thousand six hundred dollars. Navy Depart ment. Construction, Equipment, and Repair. Chief Naval Constructor and Chief Engineer. Ordnance and Hydrography. Provisions and Clothing. Medicine and Surgery. For contingent expenses of said department, and all the bureaus Contingencies. connected therewith, viz.: For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. South-west ex For compensation of superintendent and three watchmen of the south-west executive building, one thousand three hundred and forty- ecutive building. five dollars. For the contingent expenses of the said building, viz.: For labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy five dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Post-Office De Post-Office Department. For compensation to the PostmasterGeneral, three assistant postmasters-general, clerks, messengers, as- partment. sistant messengers, and watchmen, of the said department, seventyfour thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of superintendent of the post-office building, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the contingent expenses of the said department, viz.: For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, oil, printing, labor, and day watchmen, six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars: Provided, That the proceeds of the telegraph between Washington city and Baltimore be, and the same are hereby, directed to be placed in the treasury of the United States for the benefit of the post-office department in the same manner as other revenues from postages. Superintendent of post-office building. Contingencies. Miscellaneous. Proceeds of the the telegraph to be placed in treasury. Auditor and For compensation of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, in his office, eighty-five clerks thousand seven hundred dollars. Contingencies. Surveyors and clerks. North-west of the Ohio. Illinois and Missouri. Arkansas. Louisiana. Mississippi. Alabama. Florida. Wisconsin and Iowa. Apportionment to clerks. For contingent expenses of said office, viz.: For labor, blank books, binding, stationery, printing blanks and circulars, five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars. Surveyors and their Clerks.-For compensation of the surveyorgeneral north-west of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Arkansas, and the clerks in his office, four thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Mississippi, and the clerks in his office, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Alabama, and the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general in Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, three thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks in the offices of the surveyors-genof compensation eral, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, sixteen thousand dollars. Land officers at St. Augustine & 1842, ch. 122. Secretary to sign patents. Commissioner of public buildings. Potomac bridge. Mint of U. S. and branches. At Philadelphia. Contingencies. At Charlotte. Contingencies. At Dahlonega, For paying to the land officers at St. Augustine and Newnansville, in Florida, for issuing permits under the act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, a per centage equal to that allowed by law upon the sale of the same quantity of public lands at the minimum price, five thousand dollars. For compensation of the Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the commissioner of public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars. For compensation to four assistants, draw-keeper at the Potomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, fire-wood, and repairs of bridge, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. Mint of the United States and Branches. At Philadelphia, viz. : For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and four clerks, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, water rent, and wastage, eight hundred dollars. For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars. At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz.: For salaries of superintendent, assayer, coiner, and clerk, six thousand dollars. For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars. Wastage of gold, and for contingent expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz.: For salaries of the superintendent, assayer, coiner, and clerk, six thousand dollars. For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage, three thousand dollars. At New Orleans, viz. : For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, and two clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, nineteen thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, twenty-one thousand dollars. For machinery and machinists, four thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Iowa Territory. -For salaries of governor, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand one hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, including arrearages of expenses of previous sessions of said Assembly, the accounts for which shall first be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, fourteen thousand and fifty dollars. Judiciary. For salaries of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the eight associate judges, forty-one thousand dollars. For salaries of the district judges, fifty-six thousand seven hundred dollars. For salaries of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, the associate judges, the judges of the criminal and orphans' courts of said district, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. For salaries of the Attorney-General, and clerk and messenger in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, thirteen hundred dollars. the District Attor For compensation of the district attorneys, including those in the several Territories, being two hundred dollars each, as prescribed by neys. law, seven thousand dollars. For compensation of the marshals, including those in the several Territories, as prescribed by law, six thousand two 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 fiscal year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and previous years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and for prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners; - four hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars. Marshals. Contingencies. Additional compensation to certain judges. 1844, ch. 95. Miscellaneous. For additional compensation, at eight hundred dollars each, to the district judges of Missouri, Arkansas. Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, under the provisions of the first (a) section of the act of seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, four thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. For payment of annuities and grants by special Annuities and acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars. grants. Florida chives. ar Arrearages pay. For salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars. For arrearages prior to first of July, eighteen hundred and fifteen, able through 3d payable through the third auditor's office, in addition to one thousand two hundred dollars appropriated this session for the same object, two thousand eight hundred dollars. auditor's office. Expenses in relation to loans. Auxiliary guard. Coast survey. Custom-house, Wilmington. Custom-house at Boston. Group of statues for the Cap itol. Proviso. Sick and disabled seamen. Custom-house at Mobile. ter. Revenue cut 6th vol. Docu For expenses in relation to loans, four thousand dollars. For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to the superintendent and assistants, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars. For completing the custom-house at Wilmington, North Carolina, five thousand one hundred dollars. For completing the work of the custom-house at Boston, fifty thousand dollars. For payment to Horatio Greenough for a group of statues to adorn the eastern portico of the Capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, The work is in such state of progress as, in reference to the whole sum to be paid for its execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payment. To supply deficiencies in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of that part of the custom-house at Mobile occupied by the United States Court, three hundred and ninety dollars. For the building or purchasing of a revenue cutter, twelve thousand dollars. For the sixth volume of the fourth series of the Documentary Hismentary History. tory of the United States, twenty-five thousand four hundred and fortynine dollars. For payment of the excess of duties paid upon wines imported from Portugal into the United States by John Osborn, of the city of New York, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-two cents; and by Isaac Winslow and Son, of Boston, the sum of one thousand and nineteen dollars and fifty-four cents; and by Alexander Soltan, of New York, the sum of eight hundred and eightyfive dollars and ninety-six cents; which said duties were levied and collected contrary to the treaty stipulations existing between Portugal and this government: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not pay said sums of money to said Osborn, and Winslow and Son, and Soltan, unless he is satisfied they are rightfully entitled thereto. For annual repairs of the Capitol, lamplighters, oil for lamps, wicks, and repairs of lamps and lamp posts, attendance on furnaces of the crypt, attendance on water closets, cleaning the rotundo and crypt, brushes and brooms, laborers and cartage on Capitol grounds, tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, manure, and straw for grounds, trees, attendance, at the western gates of the Capitol, repairs of public stables, flagging and enclosures, keeping in order iron pipes that con (a) That act has but one section. rey the water to the Capitol and public offices, and gardener's salary, nine thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars. For constructing seven furnaces for warming and drying the lower story, halls, and passages of the north wing, of the Capitol, three thousand nine hundred and ten dollars. For constructing six water closets for the Senate and two for the Supreme Court, on the same floors, respectively, three thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For enlarging the law library, constructing a new stairway, and other work, and the materials therefor, according to the plan of John Skirving, dated July twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand four hundred and twelve dollars. To replace the oil intended for the use of the government, which was destroyed by the recent fire at Nantucket, fourteen thousand dollars. Contingencies for the President's house and For annual repairs of President's house, gardener's salary, laborers and cartage, tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, manure and straw for garden and plants, trees for President's grounds, Fountain Square, grounds. Lafayette Square, and Pennsylvania Avenue, repairs of fence at Fountain Square Lafayette Square, and President's garden, three thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars. For replacing platforms on the dome, and repairing balusters, (including materials and work,) repairing hatchway, door, and frame, (including steps and plastering in dome,) furnishing and repairing stepladders and platforms on the different roofs, furnishing two double window frames and sash (including painting and glazing) in open courts, white-washing walls in the open courts, containing about twenty-five hundred square yards, four hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents. And for the removal of the building over the statue of Washington, and erecting an iron fence around the same, one thousand dollars. For repairs to Congressional burial ground, rendered necessary by the late freshet, five hundred dollars. For repairs to the road leading from the Capitol Square to the Congressional burial ground, rendered necessary by the late heavy rains, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of public buildings, one thousand five hundred dollars. And the sum of two hundred dollars, being a portion of the unexpended balance of an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars, made on the twenty-seventh of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, to be distributed among the captors of certain Algerine vessels which were restored to the Dey of Algiers, which balance has been carried to the account of the surplus fund, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, for the benefit of such of the captors as have not yet received their shares of the said fund, or their representatives. Statue of Washington. Congressional burying ground. Balance of an appropriation to be distributed among the сарtors of certain Algerine vessels 1816, ch. 119. F. Gardner, for To pay F. Gardner, late acting United States naval store-keeper to the African squadron, from the twenty-fourth of August, eighteen hun- balance due him dred and forty-four, when Floyd Waggaman ceased to receive a salary, until December ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, when Francis Alexander proceeded to the post, three months and fifteen days, at fifteen hundred dollars per annum, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. To pay the legal representatives of Thomas H. Storm, for a balance due to him as agent for prisoners at Barbadoes, two thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-six cents. For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand six hundred and eleven dollars and Corty-six cents. For support, clothing, and medical treatment, of insane persons of Thomas H. Storm, for bal ance due him. Penitentiary of the District of Columbia. |