for the President's grounds, Fountain square, Lafayette square, and Pennsylvania avenue, repairs of fence at Fountain square, Lafayette square, President's garden, and for repairs of pumps and sewers, three thousand and seventy-seven dollars.

For improved iron water posts on Pennsylvania avenue, for flagging in front of the Treasury buildings, for repairs of the figure on the tympanum of the Capitol, and for the purchase of hose for the Anacostia Fire Engine Company, four thousand three hundred and twentyseven dollars.

For paving and repairing Pennsylvania avenue and repairing the road to the Congressional burial ground and to the navy-yard, agreeably to the mode, and under the superintendence provided in a bill for that purpose, which passed the Senate February twenty, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, thirty-eight thousand dollars.

And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a skilful architect to prepare and submit to him the necessary plans for a fire-proof building upon such plan of arrangement as may be ultimately required for the War and Navy Departments; and that he submit the same to Congress at its next session with an estimate of the cost of erecting such buildings for its action and decision.

Surveyors and their Clerks.-For compensation of the surveyor general northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That said surveyor general's office northwest of the Ohio shall be removed to and kept at such place in the State of Michigan as the President of the United States shall from time to time direct. And that on the removal of the said office as aforesaid, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the surveyor general of said district shall be required to deliver over to the Secretaries of State of the States of Ohio and Indiana or such other officers as may be authorized to receive them, all the field notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to the surveys and land titles within their limits.

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, three thousand six hundred 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 general, 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, fifteen 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 keepers at the Potomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, fire wood, and repairs of the bridge, and for arrearages due, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

Mint and branches. Mint at Phila

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 thou- delphia-offisand two hundred dollars.

cers.

expenses.

For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, Contingent stationery, repairs, water rent, and wastage, six thousand dollars. For specimens of ores, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars.

At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz:

For the erection of a building in the place of the one destroyed by fire, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required so to arrange the plan of the building, and the execution of it, that the whole cost of the building shall not exceed the aforesaid sum;

For the purchase of machinery and tools, including repairs of the old, and contingencies, ten thousand dollars; and that the expenditure of the appropriations for the erection of the building and the purchase and repair of machinery be commenced as soon as practicable after the passage of this act;

For salaries of superintendent, assayer, coiner and clerk, six thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required, immediately after the passage of this act, to suspend the payment of salaries to any of the said officers until the branch is in a condition to resume its operations, unless he shall consider it advisable to retain the services of one or more of them in superintending the erection of the building herein provided for.

At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz:

Branch mint

at CharlotteBuilding.

&c.

Officers; salaries to be suspended.

Branch mint

For salaries of the superintendent, assayer, coiner, and clerk, six at Dahlonegathousand dollars;

officers.

For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, Contingent stationery, repairs, and wastage, three thousand three hundred 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-three thousand dollars;

Governments in the Territories of the United States.-Wisconsin 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, 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 As sembly of said Territory, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, fourteen thousand and fifty dollars;

Florida Territory:

expenses.

Branch mint at New Orleansofficers.

Contingent expenses.

Territories.
Wisconsin.

Executive offi

cers.

Contingent expenses. Legislative Assembly.

Iowa.
Executive offi.

cers.

Contingent

expenses.

Legislative

Assembly.

Florida.

Executive offi

cers.

Contingent

expenses.

Legislative Assembly.

For salaries of Governor, five judges, and secretary, thirteen 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 of said Territory, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-three cents: Application of Provided, That the appropriations made for the Territories of Iowa and Florida shall be applied only to the payment of expenses that may be incurred before their admission as States into the Union.

appropriations

for lowa and

Florida.

Judiciary.

Chief justice and associate judges. District judges. Judges of Dis. trict Columbia.

Attorney General, &c.

Reporter of Supreme Court. District attor

neys. Marshals.

Contingent

expenses.

Additional counsel.

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-two thousand nine 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 in his office, five thousand 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.

For compensation of the district attorneys, including those in the several Territories, as prescribed by law, eight thousand dollars.

For compensation of the marshals, including those in the several Territories, as prescribed by law, seven 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 thousand dollars, a part of which may be applied to make good any deficiency that may exist in the appropriation for this object for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

For the employment of additional counsel or agents for the defence of the interests of the United States, in suits authorized to be brought against the United States by virtue of the act of the seventeenth day of Act of June 17, June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and in those parts of the States of Mississippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Perdido and Mississippi rivers," five thousand dollars.

1844, ch. 95.

Miscellaneous, Annuities and grants. Keepers of Florida archives.

Confederation and Washing

ton papers.

Claims under

Miscellaneous. For the payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

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

For preparing indices to the manuscript papers of the Confederation and of Washington, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For the adjustment of claims arising under the act of the fifth of act of March 5, March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, [sixteen,] for the relief of Lieutenant Colonel William Lawrence and others, being a re-appropriation of an amount heretofore carried to the surplus fund, three hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents.

1816, ch. 23.

For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars.

For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to the superintendent and assistants, eighty-eight thousand dollars. For the publication of maps and charts, the materials for which have been accumulating in the office of the coast survey, twelve thousand dollars.

For completing the publication of the work on the Exploring Expedition, including the printing of an extra number of charts, and for the salary of the horticulturist, ten thousand dollars.

For completing the work of the custom-house at Boston, one hundred thousand dollars.

For plans and estimates for the erection of a custom-house in the city of New Orleans, in front of the square now occupied for that purpose, five hundred dollars: Provided, That the site for said ground be conveyed by the first municipality of New Orleans, in full title, absolutely and unconditionally, to the United States; that its location and extent be deemed satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized to agree upon such conditions for the settlement of the conflicting pretensions of the United States and the first municipality to said custom-house square, and the ground in front of it, as he may consider just and equitable.

For repairs of the custom-house at Charleston, five thousand dol

lars.

For the erection of a custom-house building in the city of Savannah, Georgia, thirty thousand dollars.

For the liquidation and settlement of the debt due to the Maryland hospital for the support of lunatic paupers of the District of Columbia from the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to tenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, five thousand dollars; the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the order of the marshal of the District of Columbia, and according to such adjustment of the said account as he may find correct.

For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane pau- Insane paupers pers of the District of Columbia, four thousand dollars: Provided, That in D. C. the amount paid for each person shall not exceed four dollars per week: And provided, further, That the marshal of the District of Columbia be, and he hereby is authorized to maintain at Baltimore or some other suitable lunatic asylum, all such lunatic persons being paupers, who are now confined in the lunatic asylum at Baltimore by order of Congress or are in the jails of Washington and Alexandria counties, and all such as may hereafter be committed as lunatics by order of the circuit or criminal courts, they being paupers of said District of Columbia, and their support being legally chargeable thereto; and that he pay the expenses of their removal and maintenance in such asylum as he may select, and be allowed for the same in the settlement of his accounts at the Treasury Department.

Light-house Establishment.-For supplying light-houses, containing two thousand six hundred and seventy-one lamps, with oil, tube glasses, buff skins, whiting and cotton cloth, expenses of transportation, and for keeping the lighting apparatus in repair, one hundred thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-four cents.

Light-house establishment. Supplies.

For repairs, incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of light- Repairs. houses, and buildings connected therewith, eighty-three thousand dol

lars.

For salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers, and sixteen as- Keepers. sistant keepers, of light-houses, (seventeen of them charged with double

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and two with triple lights,) ninety-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty cents.

For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen thousand dollars.

For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, sixty-two thousand dollars.

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-two thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.

For expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting their light-houses, annually, and examining and reporting the condition of each, two thousand dollars.

For superintendents' commissions, at two and a half per centum, nine thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty-five cents: Provided, That no superintendent or collector, or other officer acting as superintendent, whose compensation may exceed two thousand dollars per annum, shall receive any commissions allowed by this or any other act: And provided, further, That the fifth Auditor of the Treasury, shall continue to superintend the several matters and things connected with the light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, as heretofore, of the United States, and to perform all the duties connected therewith, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, until otherwise ordered by law.

Surveys of Public Lands.-For salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private claims in Florida, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general in Florida, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of the seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the same object, one thousand dollars.

For pay of chain carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, &c., for the above, in addition to fifteen hundred dollars, the unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor, fifteen hundred dollars.

For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and oversight of the resurveys in the Greensburg, (late St. Helena,) district, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balance of the former appropriation for the same object, one thousand dollars.

For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, twelve hundred

dollars.

For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand dollars.

For resurveys in Alabama, to supply the field notes destroyed with the office of the surveyor general by fire, in addition to a former appropriation for the same object, ten thousand dollars.

For the survey of small detached tracts in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars.

For resurveys in Florida, to replace the field marks obliterated by Indians and other causes, two thousand dollars.

For surveying in Louisiana, as follows: at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, for the correction of the surveys in the Greensburg district, under the act of twenty-ninth August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, including office work, in addition to the unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the same object, eleven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, for the correction of the surveys in the four other districts, including office work, twenty thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, exclusive of surveys at