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For compensation to clerks and messengers in said office, Clerks and mes- fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars;

sengers.

Contingent expenses, &c.

Surveyor Genl.
N. W. of Ohio.

Clerks.

Surveyor Genl.
for Illinois and
Missouri.
Clerks.

Surveyor Genl. of Arkansas.

Clerks.

Surveyor Genl. of Louisiana.

Clerks.

Surveyor Genl. of Mississippi.

Clerks.

Burveyor Genl. for Alabama.

Clerks.

Surveyor Genl. of Florida.

Clerks.

Copies of confir

mations and

vey, &c.

For contingent expenses of said office, including books, stationery, printing, and expenses incidental to new offices, eight thousand two hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Surveyor General northwest of the Ohio, two thousand dollars;

For compensation to clerks in his office, per acts of ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, six thousand three hundred dollars;

For compensation to the Surveyor General for Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars;

For compensation to clerks in the office of said Surveyor General, per acts of ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirtysix, three thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars;

For compensation to the Surveyor General of Arkansas, two thousand dollars;

For compensation of clerks in the office of said Surveyor General, three thousand dollars, and for office-rent and fuel, three hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Surveyor General of Louisiana, two thousand dollars;

For compensation to clerks in the office of said Surveyor General, per acts of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, twenty-five hundred dollars;

For compensation to the Surveyor General of Mississippi, two thousand dollars;

For compensation of clerks in the office of said Surveyor General, per acts of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, five thousand dollars;

For compensation to the Surveyor General for Alabama, two thousand dollars;

For compensation of clerks in the office of said Surveyor General, per acts of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand dollars;

For compensation of the Surveyor General of Florida two thousand dollars;

For compensation of clerks in the office of said Surveyor General, three thousand dollars;

For expenses of completing the copies of confirmations and orders of sur orders of survey, and procuring from the offices of the registers copies of plats and sketches necessary to a correct location of private claims, explained in the report from the General Land Office, two thousand dollars;

Commissioner of
Public Build-
ings.
Assistants.

Repairs of Poto

mac bridge, &c.

For compensation to the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation to three assistants to commissioner, as su perintendent at Potomac bridge, two thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents;

For repairs of the said bridge, wood for the draw-keepers, and oil for lamps, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars;

For compensation to the officers and clerks of the Mint, nineteen thousand seven hundred dollars;

For compensation to assistants and laborers in the various departments of the Mint, twenty-four thousand dollars;

and silver, &e.

For wastage of gold and silver, and contingent expenses of wastage of gold the Mint, including improvements in machinery, thirty-eight thousand one hundred dollars;

&c.

For expenses incident to the introduction of new machinery New machinery, and apparatus, twenty thousand dollars;

For compensation of the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of Governor, &e. of Wisconsin Territory, nine thousand one hundred dollars;

Wisconsin.

For contingent expenses and compensation of the members of Contingent ex the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, and printing the penses, &c. laws, nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

Florida.

For compensation of the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of Governor, &c. of the Territory of Florida, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars; For contingent expenses, pay, and mileage of the members of Contingent ethe Legislative Council of said Territory, stationery, fuel, printing, pay of the officers of the council, and copying laws, ten thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars;

penses, &c.

Associate Judg

For compensation to the Chief Justice, the Associate Judges, Chief Justice, and District Judges of the United States, eighty-four thousand es, and Districs nine hundred dollars;

Judges, U. S.

Associate Judg

For compensation of the Chief Justice and Associate Judges Chief Justice and of the District of Columbia, and of the Judges of the Orphans' es, D. C., &c. Courts of said District nine thousand five hundred dollars;

al.

For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, Attorney Generfour thousand dollars;

For compensation of clerk and messenger in the office of the Clerk and mes Attorney General, one thousand three hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars;

. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Su preme Court, one thousand dollars;

For compensation to the District Attorney's and Marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several Territories, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

senger.

Contingent expenses.

Reporter to

preme Court.

District Attor shals.

neys and Mar

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and the Expenses of the Supreme, CirDistrict Courts of the United States, including the District of cuit, and Dis Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses in aid of the funds trict Courts, &. arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven 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, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars;

For expenses of printing the records of the Supreme Court, Records of ethree thousand dollars;

preme Court.

For the payment of pensions granted by special acts of Con- Pensions.

gress, one thousand and fifty dollars;

For the support and maintenance of light-houses, floating-Light-houses, de. lights, beacons, buoys, and stakages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers salaries, repairs, improvements, and contin

1837.

Bell on lighthouse at Cove

point.

Light-house

at

mouth of Chefuncte river.

Two small bea.

gent expenses, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand and fiftyfive dollars;

For a bell, and fixing the same on the light-house at Cove point in the Chesapeake bay, being the amount of an appropriation for that purpose, which will be carried to the surplus fund, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For a light-house at the mouth of Chefuncte river, being the amount of a former appropriation for that object, which will be carried to the surplus fund, five thousand dollars;

For two small beacon-lights on Cockspur island, at the mouth Cockapur isl. of Savannah river, including four thousand dollars already appropriated, which will be carried to the surplus fund, seven thousand dollars;

and.

Survey of coast,
U.S.

Warehouse at
Baltimore.

Custom-house at
Boston.

Refunding duties on rail-road *. iron.

Insolvent debtors.

Disabled seamen.

Archives
Florida.
Miscellaneous
claims.

in

Surveys of publie lands.

Completing surтеув.

In Ohio, Indiana
Michigan, and

For survey of the coast of the United States including arrears of compensation and expenses of the superintendent, estimating his compensation at three thousand dollars per annum, and his expenses at the same rate from August second eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and including also, such additional payment to the army and navy officers employed upon the survey for their past services and expenses as the President may decide to be just and proper, sixty thousand dollars;

For completing the public warehouse at Baltimore, fifty thousand dollars;

For the custom-house at Boston, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For refunding duties on railroad iron to the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company, imported in eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, per act of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars;

For expense in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, three thousand dollars;

For deficiency in the fund for the relief of the sick and disabled seamen as established by act of third May eighteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For the compensation to two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars;

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

For an addition to the existing unexpended balances of appropriation for surveys of the public lands, to be duly apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For completing the surveys of unfinished portions of townships, islands, lakes, &c. : viz

In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, not exceeding Wisconsin. five dollars per mile, three thousand and forty dollars;

In Florida.

Is Louisiana.

In Florida, not exceeding five dollars per mile, six thousand dollars;

In Louisiana, not exceeding eight dollars per mile, twenty thousand dollars; and

In Alabama, not exceeding eight dollars per mile, one thou- 1837. sand dollars, in addition to two thousand five hundred dollars In Alabama. already appropriated;

10

Great Britain,

to Texas.

For salaries of ministers of the United States, to Great Britain, Ministers France, Spain, and Russia and outfits and salaries of ministers &c. to Prussia and Austria, and for the outfit and salary of a diplomatic agent to be sent to the Republic of Texas, whenever the Diplomatic agent President of the United States may receive satisfactory evidence that Texas is an independent power, and shall deem it expedient to appoint such minister, in addition to the balance remaining of the appropriation for eighteen hundred and thirty-six, seventytwo thousand dollars;

Mexico.

For an outfit and salary for an Envoy Extraordinary, and Envoy, &c. to Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico, whenever, in the opinion of the Executive, circumstances will permit a renewal of diplomatic intercourse honorably with that power, eighteen thousand dollars; For salaries of the secretaries of legation to Great Britain, legation France, Spain, Russia, Prussia Mexico and Austria, fourteen Great Britain, thousand dollars;

Secretaries

&c.

of

to

faires to Portu

For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Charges des Af Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Mexico, gal, &c. Central America, New Grenada, and Venezuela, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of the drogoman, and for contingent expenses of Drogoman, &c. the legation to Turkey, six thousand five hundred dollars;

Minister to Rus

For outfit of a minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars; sia. For outfit of a chargé d'affaires to Belgium, four thousand Charge d'affaires five hundred dollars;

to Belgium.

penses of mis

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, in addition Contingent exto the balance remaining of a former appropriation, thirty thou- sions abroad. sand dollars;

don and Paris.

For salaries of the consuls of the United States, at London Consuls at Lonand Paris four thousand dollars;

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers seven- Barbary Powers teen thousand four hundred dollars;

American

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign Relief & sear countries thirty thousand dollars;

men.

penses of for

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, in addition Contingent exto the balance remaining of former appropriations, thirty thou- eign intersand dollars;

course.

fice of Ameri

For clerk hire, office rent, stationery and other expenses, in Expenses in of the office of the American consul in London, per act of nine- can consul in teenth January eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand London. eight hundred dollars;

the Turkish

For interpreters, guards and other expenses incidental to the Consulates consulates in the Turkish dominions five thousand five hun- dominions. dred dollars;

Librarians

For salary of the principal and assistant librarians; compen- Longress, &e. sation of assistant during the two sessions of the twenty-fourth Congress; messenger, and contingent expenses of the library, four thousand two hundred and forty three dollars;

to

1837.

Purchase books.

For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five of thousand dollars;

Diplomatic corFor furnishing such members of the present House of Reprerespondence, sentatives as have not received the same, under former orders of members Ho. the House, the Diplomatic Correspondence, American State Pa

&c., to certain

of Reps.

Proviso.

pers, Register of Debates, Elliot's Debates, and the first volume of the Land Laws, forty-four thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-eight cents, Provided, That, if there are any surplus books, copies of which have been distributed to former members, in the Library of Congress, they shall be distributed one copy to each of the said members who has not received the same;

Manuscripts of For the purchase of the manuscripts of the late Mr. Madison the late Mr. Madison. referred to in a letter from Mrs. Madison to the President of the United States dated fifteenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and communicated in his message of sixth December eighteen hundred and thirty-six, thirty thousand dollars; For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in conformity to the act of the second of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six, viz:

General Post Of fico.

Transportation of mails, &c.

Fuller.

For transportation of the mails, compensation of postmasters, ship, steam-boat, and way letters, wrapping paper, office furniture, advertising, mail bags, blanks, mail locks and keys, and stamps, mail depredations, and special agents, clerks for offices, and miscellaneous expenses four millions four hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars;

Payment to A. For payment to A. Fuller, and the rent of the building now occupied as a General Post Office, from the sixteenth December last, and for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, five thousand dollars;

Site of old Post
Office, &c.

Branch of mint at N. Orleans.

Officers & cl'rks.

Laborers.

Completing mint edifica, &c.

Furnishing the establishment.

Wastage of gold
and silver, &c.

Branch mint at
Dahlonega.

Officers & cl'rks. Laborers.

Furnishing the establishment.

For guarding the site of the old Post Office, and preserving the public property, two thousand dollars;

For the expenses of the branch mint, at New Orleans, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, viz:

For salaries of officers and clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars;

For compensation to laborers in the various departments, thirteen thousand dollars;

For completing the mint edifice, and enclosing the lot, ninetysix thousand five hundred dollars;

For furnishing the whole establishment, inclusive of all apparatus, tools, and fixtures, not included in the contracts, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars;

For wastage of gold and silver, and for the contingent expenses of the mint, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars;

For expenses of the branch mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, viz:

For salaries of officers and clerks, six thousand dollars; For compensation to laborers, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For furnishing the establishment with all the apparatus. tools and fixtures, not included in the contracts, seven thousand dollars;