1836.

Assistant messen.

third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, one at a salary of eleven hundred and fifty dollars, and the other at a salary of one thousand dollars.

That the assistant messenger in said Department be allowed

ger in Treasury, the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars.

salary.

In office of First
Comptroller.

Clerks and mes

sengers in office of

The assistant messenger in the First Comptroller's office be allowed the annual compensation of five hundred dollars.

For the emolument of clerks and messengers for the office of Commissioner of the Commissioner of Pensions, in addition to those authorized by law, twelve thousand two hundred dollars.

Pensions.

Messenger, office of Indian Affairs.

Additional clerk to Navy Board.

Surveyor Gen. of

Ohio, &c. to em

ply

clerks.

That the annual compensation of the messenger in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, be seven hundred dollars. That the Commissioners of the Navy Board, be authorized to employ a clerk in addition to those authorized by law, at the sum of nine hundred dollars.

That the Surveyor General of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, additional be authorized to employ two clerks at a sum not exceeding twentythree hundred dollars, and that he be allowed the further sum of four thousand dollars for additional clerk hire.

Surveyor Gen. of

That the Surveyor General of Illinois and Missouri be authoIllinois to employ, rized to employ clerks at a sum not exceeding three thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

&c.

$2,800 to Survey. That the Surveyor General of Arkansas be allowed the sum or Gen. of Arkan of two thousand eight hundred dollars, for clerk hire in his

sas for clerk hire.

$2,500 to Survey.

or

of Louisiana for clerk hire.

$5.000 to Survey.

office.

That the Surveyor of Louisiana be allowed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for clerk hire in his office.

That the Surveyor General of Mississippi be allowed the sum Gen. of Missisip- of five thousand dollars for clerk hire in his office.

pi for clerk hire.

$2,000 to Survey

That the Surveyor General of Alabama be allowed the sum ina for clerk hire. Of two thousand dollars for clerk hire in his office.

or Gen. of Alaba

$3,500 to Survey. or Gen. of Florida for clerks.

Clerks to be em.

partment of War.

That the Surveyor General of Florida be allowed the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars for clerks in his office.

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized ployed in the De to employ, for the discharge of the various duties of the Department, the following clerks and messengers; one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, and one clerk at fourteen hundred dollars; to be employed in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties: Provided, That the said clerks shall not be employed Clerks in the Pen- for a longer term than four years. Three clerks for the Pension office at one thousand dollars each, to be continued only during the present year.

Proviso.

sion office.

In the Quartermaster General's oflice.

Six clerks and one messenger, in the Quartermaster General's office, whose compensation shall be as follows; one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, one clerk at twelve hundred dollars, four clerks at one thousand dollars each, and one messenger at five hundred dollars, one clerk for the Ordnance Office at twelve hundred dollars, and four clerks at one thousand dollars each. One clerk for the Adjutant General's Office at twelve hundred dollars, and three clerks at one thousand dollars each. One clerk in the Engineer Office at twelve hundred dollars, and one clerk at one thousand dollars. One clerk in the Commanding General's

office at one thousand dollars. Six clerks and one messenger in the Emigrating Indian Bureau attached to the Subsistence Department, whose compensation shall be as follows: one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, one clerk at fourteen hundred dollars, one clerk at twelve hundred dollars, three clerks at one thousand dollars each, and one messenger.at five hundred dollars; Provided That the authority claimed under the acts approved March twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and twelve, and May twenty-second eighteen hundred and twelve, or by any other act for the employment of non-commissioned officers, or the appointment of extra clerks in any of the offices of the War Department be, and the same are hereby repealed. Provided however, That where express appropriations are made by law, for the employment of clerks, such employment shall not be deemed to be extra, within the meaning of the above act.

1836.

For one clerk in the Topographical Bureau, one thousand Clerk in Toro dollars.

graphical Bureau.

to employ two

That the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis be au- Supt. of Indian thorized to employ two clerks in his office, and no more, one of Affairs, St. Louis, which shall receive a compensation of one thousand, and the clerks. other of eight hundred dollars.

That the Superintendent of Indian Affairs south of the Mis- Supt. south of souri river be authorized to employ one clerk in his office who Missouri to en shall receive a compensation of one thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the salaries provided for in this act, and payable for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, 9th of May, 1836.

CHAP. 61. An ACT making appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

[SEC 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaices of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz:

ploy one.

of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of $2.319,017 16. Pay teamen, two millions three hundred and eighteen thousand and of officers and sea seventeen dollars and sixteen cents.

men.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the $65,340. Superinavil establishment at the several yards, sixty-eight thousand tendents, &c. at three hundred and forty dollars.

navy yards.

For provisions, seven hundred and eighty-two thousand two $782,263 75. Prohundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.

visions.

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear $1.065. [Repairs, and tear of vessels in commission, one million and sixty-five &c. thousand dollars.

cines, &c.

For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and $41,100. other expenses on account of the sick, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.

Medi

1836.

&c. navy yard,

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at 867,000. kepans, Partsmouth, New Hampshire, sixty-seven thousand dollars. For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at $199,575. Charles Charlestown, Massachusetts, one hundred aud ninety-nine thonsand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Portsmouth N. H.

town, Mass.

$81,300. Brook

lyn, N. Y.

$11,750.

delphia.

$37,500.

ington.

8167. Virginia.

$49,000.

cola.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, eighty-four thousand three hundred dollars. Phila- For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Wash

Gosport,

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars. Pensa- For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensocola, forty-nine thousand dollars.

$150,000. Wharves, &e.

$17,000. Powder magazine.

$24,000. Brick wall.

$64,900.

Ordnance and stores.

contingent exper

rated.

For wharves and their appendages at the navy yard, at Pensacola, as recommended by the Secretary of the Navy, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For powder magazine, seventeen thousand dollars.

For wall or enclosure of brick three yards high, and a half yard thick, as recommended by Commodore Dallas, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.

8321,600. Various For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following ditures enurue purposes, viz; for the 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 for pursers, when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for perdiem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationery of every description, and working the lithographic press, and for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery, and for the repair of steam engines; for the 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 and towing ships of war; for cabin furniture for vessels in commission; for taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil; for repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built; and for no other purpose whatever, three hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.

$3,000. Con. ex. not enumerated.

For contingent expenses for objects not herein before enumerated, three thousand dollars.

vessel building at

ing navy hospi

For completing the steam vessel now building at the navy 1836. yard at Brooklyn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. $150,000, steam For completing the navy hospitals near New York and Boston, Brooklyn. regulating the grounds, making the necessary enclosures, repair-8541, complet ing the naval asylum and all other hospitals, and the buildings, tals near N. York wharves, and landings connected with them, and for preparing suitable burying grounds, forty-five thousand four hundred and ten dollars.

and Boston, &c.

magazines, &c.

For completing the powder magazines near New York and $19,300, powder Boston, with the landings, enclosures, and dependencies, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.

of marine corpa

For pay of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians $163.077 25, pay and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, one hundred and sixty-three thousand seventy-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.

marine corps,&c.

For provisions for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and $33,517 72, pay of privates of said corps, serving on shore, and for servants and on shore. washerwomen, thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen

dollars and seventy-two cents.

For clothing, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty-five $38,655, clothing. dollars.

For fuel, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dol- 814,589, fuel

lars.

barracks, &c.

For the purchase of sites and the erection of barracks near $150.000, sites for the navy yards at Charlestown, Gosport, and Pensacola, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

barracks.

For repair of barracks near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and $8,900, repair of for repairs at other stations, eight thousand nine hundred dollars. For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musi- 86,000, transpor cians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, six thousand ton of officers, dollars.

tation

recruiting, &c.

cines, hospital

For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay $4 139 29, medi of matron, four thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars stores, &c. and twenty-nine cents.

For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, $2,000, military drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores, two thou-stores, armorers,

sand dollars.

tingent expenses.

the coast survey

For contingent expenses of said corps, seventeen thousand $17,977 93, con nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-three cents. For arrearages for defraying the extra services and expenses $1 500, services in of the officers of the navy engaged in the survey of the coasts for 1830, and prior and harbors of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred thereto. and thirty, and prior thereto, being the amount appropriated in eighteen hundred and thirty-four, for the same object, but by that act made applicable only to arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, fifteen hundred dollars.

the President to

tion to the south

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the $150,000 to enable United States, be, and he hereby is authorized, to send out a survey-send out an exag and exploring expedition to the Pacific ocean and the South ploring expedi as, and for that purpose to employ a sloop of war, and to pur- seas, dec. chase or provide such other smaller vessels as may be necessary and proper to render the said expedition efficient and useful, and

1836.

for this purpose the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and in addition thereOther means to to, if necessary, the President of the United States is authorized to use other means in the control of the Navy Department, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the objects required. Approved, 14th of May, 1836.

the amount of

$150,000 may be used by him.

8958,317. Pay of the army.

$315,118. Subsistence of offi

cers.

$60,139. Forage.

$24,930. Clothing officers' servants.

$30,000 to dischar ged soldiers.

$495,400. Subsist

ence.

$202.982. Clothing, &c.

$31,500. Medical
and hospital de-
partment.
$332,000, expen-

ses of quarter.

ment.

CHAP. 62. An ACT making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 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 year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; that is to say:

For the pay of the army, nine hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars.

For subsistence of officers, three hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars.

For forage of officers' horses, sixty thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars.

For clothing for officers' servants, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars.

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred dollars.

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, hospital furniture, two hundred and two thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-one thousand

five hundred dollars.

For various expenses in the quartermaster's department, viz: master's depart fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, and printing; repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, at the various posts; erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, including huts for the dragoons, and gun-houses at the Atlantic posts, and those on the Gulf of Mexico, with the necessary tools and materials; providing materials for the authorized furniture of the rooms of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; rent of quarters, barracks and storehouses, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, including a farm at Fort Monroe for military practice; postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under an act of Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to paymasters; hire of laborers; compensation to extra