Arrearages for

1837.

Watchmen. Auditor of Post Office.

Clerks and messengers. Contingent expenses.

Surv'r. Gen'l. N. W. of Ohio.

Clerks, 1836,

chap. 60.

Surv'r. Gen'l.

for Illinois and

Missouri.

Clerks.

Surv'r. Gen'l.

of Arkansas.

Clerks.

Surv'r. Gen'l.

of Louisiana.

Clerks.

Surv'r. Gen'l. of Mississippi. Clerks.

Surv'r. Gen'l. of Alabama.

Clerks, May

9, 1836, ch. 60.

Additional clerk hire.

Surv'r. Gen'l.

of Florida.

Clerks.

Commissioner of Public Build

ings. Assistants, &c.

Officers and clerks of Mint.

Laborers and

contingent exp.

Officers and

clerks of Mint

at Charlotte. Laborers.

For arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, six thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents; For compensation of two watchmen, six hundred dollars;

For compensation to the Auditor of the Post Office, three thousand dollars;

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

For contingent expenses of said office, including the expense of quarterly books, stationery, printing, pay of laborers, and arrearage of expenses incidental to the occupation of the new office, seven thousand four hundred and thirty-seven 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 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 May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, three thousand two hundred 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;

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, four thousand three hundred dollars;

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

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

For compensation of the Surveyor General of 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, including one thousand five hundred dollars for additional clerk-hire in preparing the survey and return of the Cherokee cession, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars;

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

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

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

For compensation to three assistants to the Commissioner, as superintendent of the Potomac bridge; for the expense of oil for the lamps, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents;

For compensation to the officers and clerks of the Mint, twenty thousand four hundred dollars;

For pay of laborers in the various departments of the Mint, and for contingent expenses, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars;

For compensation to the officers and clerk of the branch Mint at Charlotte, North Carolina, six thousand dollars;

For pay of laborers in the various departments of the same, three thousand six hundred dollars;

For wastage of gold and for contingent expenses of the same, five thousand four hundred dollars;

For renewing the roof of the Mint at Charlotte, North Carolina, two thousand dollars;

For compensation to the officers and clerk of the branch Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia, six thousand dollars;

For pay of laborers in the various departments of the same, thousand eight hundred dollars;

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For wastage of gold, and for contingent expenses of the same, four thousand dollars;

For enclosing the Mint lot, and for buildings, seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation to the officers and clerks of the branch Mint at New Orleans, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars;

For pay of laborers in the various departments of the same, twentytwo thousand dollars;

For wastage of gold and silver, and for contingent expenses of the same, twenty-seven thousand one hundred dollars;

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

For contingent expenses, pay, and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly; pay of officers of the Council, and taking the census of said Territory, and for printing the laws; for furniture and rent of buildings, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For compensation of the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Territory of Florida, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses, pay, and mileage of the members of the Legislative Council of said Territory; pay of the officers of the Council, and for copying the laws for the printer, ten thousand dollars; For compensation to the Chief Justice, the Associate Judges, and district Judges of the United States, one hundred and one thousand four hundred dollars;

Governor, &c. of Florida.

Pay and mile-
age of members
of Legislative
Council, &c.
Chief Justice,
Associates, and
Dist. Judges U.
States.
Chief Justice,

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

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

of D. C.

Attorney General.

For compensation of clerk and messenger in the office of the Attorney Clerk and 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 Supreme
Court, one thousand dollars;

For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several Territories, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and the 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 year eighteen hundred and thirtyeight 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 fifty thousand dollars;

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

For the payment of pensions granted by special acts of Congress, one thousand and fifty dollars;

For the support and maintenance of light-houses, floating lights,

messenger. Cont. exp.

Reporter of Supreme court. District Attorneys and Mar

shals.

Expenses of the Supreme and District Courts U. S.,

&c.

Records of Supreme Court. Pensions by special acts. Light-houses,

&c.

Survey of the coast U. S. Warehouse at Baltimore. Surveys in Alabama.

1837, ch. 33.

Surveys in

Missouri.

Keepers of archives in Fl'a.

Ministers of

U.S.

Secretaries of Legation. Charges des affaires.

Drogoman, &c. Cont. exp. of missions abroad. Consuls at London and Paris.

Intercourse

with Barbary

Powers.

Relief, &c., of Am. Seamen. Cont. exp. of foreign inter

course.

Expenses in office of AmeriLondon, 1836,

can consul in

chap. 2.
Interpreters,
&c., in consu-
lates in Turkish
dominions.
Librarians,
messenger, &c.
Books for Li-
brary of Con-
gress.
Registers for
ships, &c.

Abstract of the
pension laws,
&c.

Fourth art. of treaty with Spain.

Alterations, &c., of the Capitol, &c.

Street in front of carpenter's shop; water for stables. Lighting lamps, &c.,

around Capitol.

beacons, buoys, and stakages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers' salaries, repairs, improvements, and contingent expenses, three hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars;

For survey of the coast of the United States, including the compensation of the superintendent and assistants, ninety thousand dollars; For completing the public warehouse at Baltimore, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For completing surveys in Alabama, according to the provision in the appropriation act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, twenty-five hundred dollars;

For surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the act of twentysixth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, six thousand dollars; For the compensation to two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars;

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

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

For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Central America, New Granada, and Venezuela, and for an outfit to a charge d'affaires to Peru, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars ;

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

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

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

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars;

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars;

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, fifteen thousand dollars;

For clerk-hire, office-rent, stationery, and other expenses, in the office of the American consul in London, per act of nineteenth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For interpreters, guards, and other expenses incidental to the consulates in the Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of the principal and two assistant librarians; pay of the messenger, and for contingent expenses of the library, four thousand two hundred and ten dollars;

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

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

For compensation to a person employed in making an abstract of the pension laws, and in preparing the papers for Congress, under the resolution of the House of Representatives of the ninth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, five hundred dollars;

For carrying into effect the fourth article of the treaty with Spain, three thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, and incidental expenses, six thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars;

For filling up the street in front of carpenter's shop, and conducting water to the public stables, five hundred and fifty dollars;

For lighting lamps and superintendence of public grounds around the Capitol, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars;

For extending Capitol square west, and improving the same south of

the centre footway, according to the plan already in part executed, under the provisions of an act of the last Congress, twenty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents;

For attendance at the western gates of the Capitol, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents;

super

For salary of the principal gardener, one thousand dollars; For alterations and repairs of the President's house, and for intendence of the grounds around the same, four thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars;

For flag footways across Pennsylvania avenue at Third, Four-and-ahalf, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth streets, and across First street, east of Capitol square, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For repairing the Marine Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, two thousand dollars;

For the second payment to Luigi Persico, according to the contract made with him, for a group of statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars;

For the second payment to the artists engaged in executing paintings for the rotundo of the Capitol, under the joint resolution of the two Houses, eight thousand dollars;

For purchasing eighty thousand pieces of parchment, and the expense of printing the same, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars;

Improving the Capitol square.

Attendance at western gates.

Principal Gardener. Alterations, &c., of President's house,

&c.

on Pa. avenue, &c.

Flag footways

Marine Hospi

tal at Charleston.

Second pay

ment to L. Per

sico. Second payment to artists executing paintings for the rotundo. Purchasing and printing parchment.

General Post

For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, in conformity to the act of second July, eigh- Office. teen hundred and thirty-six, four million six hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars, viz:

For transportation of mails, three million four hundred thousand dollars;

For compensation of postmasters, nine hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars;

For ship, steamboat, and way-letters, thirty-one thousand dollars;
For wrapping paper, twenty thousand dollars;

For office furniture, six thousand dollars;

For advertising, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For mail bags, forty thousand dollars;

For blanks, thirty-six thousand dollars;

For mail locks and keys and stamps, nine thousand dollars;
For mail depredations and special agents, twelve thousand dollars;
For clerks for offices, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous, forty thousand dollars.

Provided, That there shall exist in the President and in the Postmaster General, the same power to transfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between the appropriations above made for the service of the General Post Office, as exists in the President and any other head of an executive department to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the service of another, in any other branch of the public service.

1836, ch. 270.

Transportation of mails. Compensation of postmasters. Ship, steamboat, and wayletters.

Wrapping pa

per.

Off furniture.
Advertising
Mail bags.
Blanks.
Mail locks,&c.
Mail depreda-
tions and special

agents.
Clerks.
Miscellaneous.
Proviso.

Furniture for

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the money arising from the sale of the old furniture in the President's house shall be applied to the the President's purchase of new furniture for the same.

of

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the unexpended balances. appropriations for compensation to the clerks in the offices of the surveyors general of public lands be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to the sums appropriated by this act for the same purpose.

APPROVED, April 6, 1838.

house.

Unexpended balances for

clerks in offices

of surveyors gen'l. appropriated.

CHAP. LV.-An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; that is to say:

For the pay of the army, one million and ninety-one thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars.

For the subsistence of officers, three hundred and forty-seven thou sand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars.

For forage of officers' horses, seventy thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars.

For clothing for officers' servants, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

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

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, seven hundred and thirty thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.

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

For the medical and hospital department, thirty-nine thousand two hundred dollars.

For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two hundred and three thousand dollars.

For barracks, quarters, store-houses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard; the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and for grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, ninety-five thousand dollars.

For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, fifty thousand dollars. For the transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the Pay department; expense of sailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico; and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge