of the messenger, and for contingent expenses of the library, 1839. three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five Purchase of thousand dollars; books. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses Contingent exof the Senate, in addition to former appropriations, forty thou- penses of Senate. sand dollars; of House For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses Contingent exof the House of Representatives, in addition to former appro- Representatives. priations, one hundred thousand dollars; applicable only expenses. The two sums last mentioned to be applied to the payment Two last sums of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Repre- to the ordinary sentatives, severally, and to no other purpose. For salary of the principal gardener, one thousand two hundred dollars; For alterations and repairs of the President's house and furniture, and for superintendence of the grounds, three thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars; Principal gar dener. Presdt.'s house and grounds. For preparing, printing, and binding documents ordered by Preparing, printing, and binding the resolutions of the Senate of the second of July, one thousand documents ordereight hundred and thirty-six, and second March, one thousand ed by the Senate. eight hundred and thirty-seven, relating to the establishment of the seat of Government; plans and surveys for the improvement of harbors and rivers, roads and canals; to be disbursed under the direction of the committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, fifteen thousand dollars; For expenses arising under the act for the relief of certain Expenses uninsolvent debtors of the United States, three thousand dollars; of insolvent debtFor an appropriation carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-wall first of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, lew house. for a brick wall around the custom-house at New Orleans, five thousand five hundred dollars; der act for relief around custom-house at in Mobile. For completing the marine hospital authorized to be erected Marine hospital in the city of Mobile, fifteen thousand dollars; and wharves at For an appropriation carried to the surplus fund on the thirty- Repair of pier first of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, for the public stores on repair of the pier and wharves at the public stores on Staten Staten Island. island, two thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents; at Boston. For constructing the custom-house at Boston, seventy-five Custom-house thousand dollars; For constructing the custom-house at New York, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Custom-house at New York. rooms in the new For furnishing one hundred and fifty-six rooms in the new Furnishing Treasury building, including one thousand dollars for shelves Treas. building. and cases in the various rooms occupied by the Register, sixteen thousand six hundred dollars; For carrying into effect the acts relating to the Smithsonian Smithsonian lelegacy, ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the fund arising gacy. from that legacy; For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended Surveying the balance of former appropriations, fifteen thousand dollars; public lands. 1839. For surveying the public lands in Louisiana, at a rate not Surveying the exceeding eight dollars per mile, in addition to the special Louisiana. appropriation for this purpose, per act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, fifteen thousand dollars; public lands in New Treasury building. Patent Office. Alterations and repairs of the Capitol. For the construction of the new Treasury building, one hundred thousand dollars; For the construction of the Patent Office, fifty thousand dollars; For alterations and repairs of the Capitol and incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars; For lighting lamps and keeping in order the public grounds grounds around around the Capitol, the iron waterpipes, and wooden fences, six the Capitol, &c. thousand three hundred and six dollars; Lighting lamps and keeping the Attendance at western gates. Removing a light-house Goat island. on For attendance on the western gates of the Capitol, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For removing a light-house on Goat island, being the balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, eight thou sand seven hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents; For deepening the straight channel of the east pass to Appaof the E. pass to lachicola, Florida, being the balance of an appropriation transAppalachicola. ferred to this improvement, and since carried to the surplus fund, nine thousand nine hundred dollars; Deepening the straight channel Improving Saybrook harbor. Charge d'affaires to Holland. Warehouse at Baltimore. 1st vol. Docy. deliver to clerk For improving the harbor of Saybrook, by removing the bar at the mouth of Connecticut river, being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifteen thousand seven hundred and ten dollars; For an outfit of a charge d'affaires to Holland, four thousand five hundred dollars; For completing the warehouse at Baltimore, thirty thousand dollars; For the balance due on account of the first volume of the History. Documentary History of the United States, five thousand six Sec. of State to hundred and two dollars; and the Secretary of State is hereby House Reps. 368 authorized to deliver to the Clerk of the House of Representacopies for men- tives three hundred and sixty-eight copies of said work, to be of 234, 24th, and distributed to each of the members of the House of Representa bers of that house 25th Congresses. tives of the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth Cor H. Randall for gress's, who are not entitled to receive the same under former resolutions or acts of Congress. For the balance due H. Randall for a lot of ground upon a lot of ground. which the engine-house of the Union Fire Company has been erected, three hundred dollars; Surveying pub Jic lands in Illinois. Custom-house at Key West. Group of sta tues. the rotundo. For surveying the public lands in the State of Illinois, and for surveys not yet completed, twelve thousand dollars; For repairs of the custom-house at Key West, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; For the third payment to Luigi Persico, under the contract with him for a group of statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars; Paintings for For the third payment to the artists engaged in executing paintings for the rotundo of the Capitol, eight thousand dol lars; For engraving a chart of the bay and harbor of New York, five thousand dollars; 1839. Chart of bay York. in the cus For paying the clerks in the custom-house at Philadelphia, and harbor of N. the arrears of their salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-Arrears to the two, to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, so as to make the tom-house at Phisame equal to what they received in the last mentioned year, on the same principle as has been applied at New York, fifteen thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary; ladelphia. and papers relat grants, formerly ors of Orleans For procuring such books and papers relating to Spanish Procuring books grants of land, formerly belonging to the late Spanish surveyors ing to Spanish in the Territories of Orleans or Florida, as may be useful to belonging to late protect the interests of the United States, and to be expended Spanish survey. only with the approbation of the Secretaries of the State and or Florida. Treasury Departments, after an inspection and examination of said books and papers by a competent person or persons, at the General Land Office, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars; penitentiary in For support of the United States Penitentiary in the city of Support of U.S. Washington for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, in- Washington. cluding the pay of officers and agents, rations, clothing, beds and bedding, hospital stores and medicines, repairs to buildings, fuel, raw materials to be worked up, allowance to discharged convicts and other contingencies as per estimate of board of inspectors, twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents; Survey of S. boundary of Io wa. The survey of the southern boundary of the Territory of Iowa, nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and five cents; For the surveys of public lands north of the Wisconsin and Surveys of pubNeenah rivers in Wisconsin, the sum of five thousand dollars; lic lands in WisFor three new cupolas over the Library of Congress, one New cupolas thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-four cents; ;consin. For branch pipes and stop cocks to water the Capitol grounds three hundred and fifty dollars and thirty cents; For repairing the water pipes from the Tiber, north of the Capitol, to the Capitol, five hundred dollars; Congress over library of Pipes to water Capítol grounds Repairing wa ter pipes. c. Gordon for services under For compensating Charles Gordon for services rendered under the resolutions of the Senate of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the twenty-eighth of June, eighteen Senate. hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For completing the special repairs heretofore proposed in the Repairs in the President s House, including a deficiency in a former appropria- Presdi.'s house. tion one thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and twenty two cents; For the purchase of two fire engines for the Capitol, the Ma- Purchase of fre rine Barracks, and the Navy Yard, including apparatus and for engines, &c. suction and hose for the Perseverance fire company, ten thousand one hundred dollars; Post For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen _For the Genl. hundred and thirty-nine, in conformity to the act of second July, $5,100,000 Office eighteen hundred and thirty-six, five million one hundred thousand dollars; 1839. Transportation of the mails. Compensation For the transportation of the mails, three million five hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars; For compensation of postmasters, one million and ninety-one of postmasters. thousand dollars; Ship, steam For ship, steamboat, and way letters, thirty-five thousand dol boat, and way lars; letters. Wrapping pa per. Office furniture. Mail bags. Blanks. Mail locks, &c. Mail depreda For wrapping paper, twenty-five thousand dollars; For advertising, thirty-eight thousand dollars; For mail-locks, and keys, and stamps, twelve thousand dollars; For mail depredations and special agents, fifteen thousand tions, and special dollars; agents. Clerks. Miscellaneous. master General For clerks for offices, two hundred thousand dollars; For miscellaneous, sixty-seven thousand dollars; Provided dent and Post That the President and the Postmaster General shall have the shall have the same power to transfer funds from one to another head of appro same power to priation, between the foregoing appropriations made for the ser from one to ano- vice of the General Post Office, as the President and any other hea: of an Executive department now have to transfer funds appro other heads of priated under one head to the service of another, in any other Executive de-branch of the public service. transfer funds ther head of ap propriation, as the President and partments. collectors or per as tained duties, or protest against placed to credit of posed of as all for duties. Money paid to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the sons acting passage of this act, all money paid to any collector of the customs, such, for nascer or to any person acting as such, for unascertained duties or for duties paid under duties paid under protest against the rate or amount of duties the amount, to be charged, shall be placed to the credit of the Treasurer of the Treasurer U. S. United States, kept and disposed of as all other money paid for and kept and dis duties is required by law, or by regulation of the Treasury De other money paid partment to be placed to the credit of said Treasurer, kept and disposed of; and shall not be held by the said collector, o person acting as such, to await any ascertainment of duties, the result of any litigation in relation to the rate or amount of duty legally chargeable and collectable in any case where mone But whenever is so paid; but whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction to the satisfaction the Secretary of the Treasury, that in any case of unascertained of Sec. Treasury duties or duties paid under protest more money has been pa has been paid to the collector or person acting as such than the law requires quires, he shall should have been paid, it shall be his duty to draw his warran Treasurer,and di- upon the Treasurer in favor of the person or persons entitled t the over-payment, directing the said Treasurer to refund the same out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated. it shall be shown that more money than the law re draw upon the rect him to refund the same. are fixed by law No person, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no officer in a or emoluments branch of the public service, or any other person whose salaries and regulations, or whose pay or emoluments is or are fixed by law and regul shall receive any tions, shall receive any extra allowance or compensation in any or compensation form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or the perthorized by law. formance of any other service, unless the said extra allowan or compensation be authorized by law; nor shall any executive extra allowance unless it be au officer, other than the heads of departments, apply more than 1839. thirty dollars, annually, out of the contingent fund under his con- No executive trol, to pay for newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, or other books or prints not necessary for the business of his office. Approved, March 3d, 1839. CHAP. 83. An ACT for the relief of the Brothertown Indians, in the Territory of officer, other than the heads of departments, shall apply more than $30 annually, out of contingent fund, for newspapers, &c. not necessary for the business of his office. ship of land lying lake Winnebago, among the indi thertown In [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the township of land containing twenty-three Acertain town. thousand and forty acres, lying on the east side of Winnebago on the east side lake, in the Territory of Wisconsin, which, by the proviso of a in Wisconsin, treaty made with the Menomonie Indians on the seventeenth may be divided February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and ratified on the viduals of the Breninth July 1832, was reserved for the use of the Brotherton or dians, and held Brothertown Indians, and which by a subsequent treaty with the ly and severally Menomonie tribe, bearing date 27th October 1832, and ratified in fee simple. 13th March 1833, was further secured to the said Brothertown Indians, may be partitioned and divided among the different in$dividuals composing said tribe of Brothertown Indians, and may be held by them separately and severally in fee simple, after such division shall have been made in the manner hereafter mentioned. by them separate board sist of five of the said tribe-a ma SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of Said division to making partition and division of said lands among the individuals bed of commi of said tribe of Brothertown Indians, a board of commissioners sioners. shall be constituted, to consist of five of the principal or head Board to conmen of said tribe, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum principal men of to do business, whose duty it shall be to make a just and fair jority to be a quopartition and division of said lands among the members of said rum-the tribe, or among such of them as, by the laws and customs and made. I regulations of said tribe, are entitled to the same, and in such proportions and in such manner as shall be consistent with equity and justice, and in accordance with the existing laws, customs, usages, or agreements of said tribe. division how to be be held for the board, when and vote. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of A meeting to electing or choosing said board of commissioners, a meeting of election of said said tribe shall be held at their church, or principal place, on the where-who may reservation of land aforesaid, on the first Monday in July next, at which all the male members of said tribe over the age of twenty-one years shall be allowed to vote for such commissioners; and the said five commissioners shall, then and there be chosen or elected by the said tribe, by a majority of the whole number of such voters then present. And the judge of the district in The judge of which said lands are situated (or in his absence the register of the lands are sithe land office at Green Bay, or the commanding officer of the to the he United States troops at Fort Howard) shall attend at the time and gister of the land place aforesaid, and preside at said meeting, superintend the said manding officer election, and see that the proceedings are fairly conducted: and to attend and pre district in which absence, re office, or the com at Fort Howard |