1853.1 32D CONG.....2D SESS. For continuing the collection and for publishing the statistics and other information authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and subsequent acts..... For the payment of the accounts. of Governor John P. Gaines and Courtney M. Walker, for expenses incurred by them in quelling the difficulties with the Rogue River Indians of Oregon, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, To enable the Department to procure the medals of the next President of the United States for presentation to chiefs and headmen of the Indian tribes. APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE. Appropriations. 17,620 50 4,979 00 For the erection of a fog-bell or whistle, as the 2,500 00 For a fog-bell or whistle, to be worked by ma- For a second-class light-house at Point Boneta, San Francisco Bay 25,000 00 2,500 00 For the erection of a light-house in San Pedro Bay.. 10,000 00 Oregon. 2,000 00 1,500 00 250 00 800 00 Delaware. .250,000 00 To enable the President of the United States to make five military reservations from the public domain in the State of California, or the Territories of Utah and New Mexico bordering on said State, for Indian purposes, and to defray the expense of subsisting the Indians in California, and removing them to said reservations for protection.... To enable the President of the United States to enter into negotiation with the Indian tribes west of the States of Missouri and Iowa, for the purpose of securing the assent of said tribes to the settlement of the citizens of the United States upon the lands claimed by said Indians, and for the purpose of extinguishing the title of said Indian tribes, in whole or in part to said lands.... For beacons and buoys for Delaware Bay, to 5,000 00 For a light-house on Point Betsey, Lake Michi- 5,000 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 2,500 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 10,000 00 By the act making appropriations for the transportation of the United States mail by ocean steamers and otherwise, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. ..$858,000 00 .290,000 00 .348,250 00 For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool and back.. For transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon, and back..... For carrying out the contract entered into by the Post Office Department under the law passed at the last session of Congress, establishing a tri-monthly mail by steam-vessels between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, via Tampico... 70,000 00 For transportation of the mails in two steam ships from New York, by Southampton, to Bremen and back, at one hundred thousand dollars for each ship; and in two steamships from New York, by Cowes, to Havre and back, at seventy-five thousand dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of New York For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, under the contract with M. C. Mordecai.... For transportation of the mails across the Isthmus of Panama... For a fog-bell, to be worked by machinery, for For the erection of a light-house at Point Iro- Ohio. For a beacon of solid masonry, to be placed on Virginia. For a first-class buoy to be placed on the "Upper For buoys to be placed in the Potomac River, as For additional buoys at Columbia River To test the adaptation of Jabez Stone's patent buoy as a guide to river and other narrow channels... To enable the Light-House Board to procure the necessary machinery and test practically the plan for distinguishing lights by occultations, submitted by Charles Babbage, Esq., and which was communicated to Congress at its last session.... To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, if in his opinion the safety of commerce demanded a light at Minot's Ledge, at the entrance of Boston harbor, to replace that which was destroyed, to examine into and allow the claims of R. B. Forbes and others, who kept a light-boat there at their private expense.. By the resolution for the relief of the Spanish Consul and other subjects of Spain residing at New Orleans, and of subjects of Spain residing at Key West, by indemnity for losses occasioned in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one. To pay any losses that may have been sustained by the Consul of Spain and other persons residing at New Orleans, or at Key West, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and who, at that time, were subjects of the Queen of Spain, by the violence of individuals arising out of intelligence, then recently received at those places, of the execution of certain persons at Havana, in Cuba, by the Spanish authorities of that island, and that such losses, so ascertained, to persons at that time subjects as aforesaid, on the certificate of the Secretary of State that the same are proven to the satisfaction of the President, together with the reasonable costs of the investigation..... 20,000 00 By the act for the relief of Mrs. E. A. McNeil, widow of the late General John McNeil. For arrears of pension claimed by her late husband, at the rate of thirty dollars a month; commencing on the twenty-fifth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirteen, being the day on which he was wounded at the battle of Bridgewater, and ending on the thirtieth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty, being the day on which he resigned his commission in the Army... $3,000 00 For a beacon on "Deep-hole Rock," in Vineyard Sound... 500 00 600 00 For an iron pile light-house, to take the place of the light-vessel stationed near Key West..... 12,000 00 For making permanent the signals placed by the Coast Survey along the Florida reef... For the erection of a first-class light-house, and fitting the same with a first-order illuminating apparatus, near Jupiter Inlet.................. Alabama. 10,000 00 35,000 00 4,000 00 For a beacon to mark a shoal in Mobile Bay channel, caused by a wreck 500 00 Louisiana. 30,000 00 6,000 00 For the erection of a light-house and keeper's house on or near the breakwater at Bass river.... Towards the erection of a light-house on the rocks called the "Sow and Pigs," near the entrance of Buzzard's Bay, to take the place of the light-vessel now stationed there.. For a light-vessel to be moored off Minot's Ledge, in addition to the sum appropriated at the last session of Congress.. For largest class iron buoys, to mark the approaches to the principal passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River... Towards the erection of a first-class light-house, as a substitute for the light-vessel at "Ship Shoal," to be located at "Ship Shoal," or Raccoon Point, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. 3,000 00 20,000 00 Texas. 500 00 1,000 00 For third-class iron buoys, to be placed at " Brazos Santiago Bar," mouth of "Grand River Bar," and the entrance to Matagorda Bay..... For a first-class light-house at the mouth of the Sabine River.. 2,000 00 30,000 00 200 00 California. 7,000 00 For a buoy to mark Commission Ledge, in Mare Island Straits. 500 00 For a buoy to mark "Middle Ground," in Suisun Bay.. 500 00 For a horse killed in battle, and for other property lost in Mexico, and particularly in consequence $1,361 82 By the act for the relief of the widow and orphan children of Colonel William R. McKee, late of Lexington, Kentucky. By the act for the relief of the legal representatives of Bernard Todd, deceased. The appraised value of the buildings of the said Bernard Todd, which were burnt by the British forces in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, in consequence of their being used and occupied by troops in the service of the United States for military purposes... $4,315 00 By the act for the relief of Captain George P. Smith. For so much money paid and expended by the said George P. Smith, of his private means, for the use of the United States............. $200 00 By the act to provide for the payment of the companies of Captains Bush, Price, and Suarez, for military services in Florida." The pay and allowances of mounted troops to the following militia forces of the Territory of Florida, for the period of their respective service, as hereinafter specified, to wit: Captain Bush's company of mounted troops from the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentyfifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Price's company of mounted troops, from the twentieth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Suarez's company of mounted troops, from the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine..[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of John Charles Frémont, late lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States. To liquidate and satisfy the judgment, damages, and costs recovered, and such expenses in defense of said suit as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem reasonable, which has been recoved, or may be recovered, against John Charles Frémont, late a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States, by Anthony Gibbs & Sons, assignees of F. Hüttman, in her Britannic Majesty's court of exchequer, at Westminster, in England, on four several bills of exchange, or each and every of them, drawn by the said John Charles Frémont at Ciudad de los Angelos, in the then Upper California, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, amounting in all to nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, in favor of one F. Hüttman, for moneys advanced for the public service, the said bills having been drawn on James Buchanan, Secretary of State, and payment refused by him for want of any appropriation out of which the same could be paid, and the said Frémont being sued in London for the same........ $19,500 00 By the act for the relief of L. M. Goldsborough and others. For expenses incurred by them, respectively, while serving upon a joint commission of Army and Navy officers in California and Oregon, during the years eighteen hundred and fortynine and eighteen hundred and fifty, double the pay of a commander in the Navy, in sea service, during the exact time of their employment on said coasts as aforesaid, to wit: from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, deducting therefrom the regular pay accruing to said officers during that period.... .......[Indefinite.] Commutation of fuel and quarters from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, equal in amount to the allowance authorized to a major of the Army on duty at San Francisco during that time, deducting therefrom the commutation to which they would have been entitled, respectively, at their posts in the Atlantic States..... ..[Indefinite.] and seven pipes and seventeen hogsheads of Sicily Madeira wine, imported via Boston, and reshipped under bond, per brig Echo, to Philadelphia, in June, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, which wines were destroyed in Philadelphia by fire, while in store in the custody of the Custom-House....... ..[Indefinite.] By the act granting a pension to Elizabeth Monroe. For a pension, payable semi annually, equal to one half the pay to which the said Thomas J. C. Monroe was entitled at the time of his decease.... .[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of the legal representatives Civil, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous.... . . $11,223,374 16 of Walter Colton. The amount deposited by said Colton in the Treasury of the United States, above the net amount for which the prize ship Admittance was purchased by his agent...... Army Fortifications, Military Academy, and Harbors and Rivers.. 10,429,620 81 2,837,522 73 8,209,260 77 Post Office Department and Ocean Mail Steamers.... 12,519,750 08 By the act for the relief of Harlow Spaulding. The usual compensation allowed naval storekeepers in foreign places, for the time he acted in that capacity at Port Mahon and Spezzia, after deducting the amount received by him as compensation for his services as clerk ................[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of John Huffington. For the loss of the schooner Relief, sunk in eighteen hundred and twenty-two, while in the employ of the United States in transporting stone to the Rip Raps; but no interest shall be allowed on said sum. By the act for the relief of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon. For losses and damages sustained by them by the proceedings of custom-house officers at New York, in exacting from them, upon certain importations of iron into that port, made between the first day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, higher duties than were required by law, and in seizing and libeling some of said goods upon refusal of said Bates and Lacon to enter the same as subject to such higher duty, and for certain costs of court paid by them and not reimbursed......[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of S. Morris Waln. For the amount of duties paid on one hundred and sixty quarter casks, and sixty-two Indian barrels of Malaga wine, imported in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Canning; one hundred and eighty-nine quarter casks of Malaga wine, imported in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Virginia; nine pipes and one quarter cask of Madeira wine, imported in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Forest; ninety-nine casks of Oporto wine, imported in the brig Elbe, via New York, and reshipped under bond, per schooner Perseverance, to Philadelphia, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; II.-OFFICES CREATED AND THE SALARIES By the act to amend an act entitled "An set to A Register of the land office for the Territory of Oregon, west of the Cascade Mountains, to be appointed, whose compensation shall be equal to that allowed to the Receiver of Public Moneys to be appointed under this act. By the act to establish the Territorial Government of Washington. A Governor authorized to be appointed, to receiv annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as Governor, må fifteen hundred dollars as Superintendent of Indian Affus. A Secretary authorized to be appointed, to receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. A Chief Justice and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, to receive each an annual salary of two thousand dollars. An Attorney for the Territory to be appointed, to receive the same fees as the Attorney for the Territory of Oregon A Marshal for the Territory to be appointed, to receive the same fees as the Marshal for the Territory of Oreg and the sum of two hundred dollars per annum for extra services. A Legislative Council, consisting of nine members, to receive each three dollars a day during their attendance, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel. A House of Representatives, consisting of eighteen menbers, to receive three dollars each per day during their 32D CONG.....2D SESS. tendance, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel. A Chief Clerk, to receive five dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. An Assistant Clerk, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. A Sergeant-at-Arms, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. A Doorkeeper, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. A Delegare in Congress, to receive the per diem compensation and mileage allowed the Delegate from Oregon. By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854. An additional Appraiser General on the Pacific coast to be appointed, to receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum. An Assistant Secretary of State, at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. An assay office established in New York, and the requi site number of officers and clerks authorized, to receive the compensations allowed for "corresponding services" in the Mint of the United States and its branches. The Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern district of Mississippi authorized to perform the duties of Register and Receiver of the land office at Ponto toc, Mississippi, upon the discontinuance of the same, and made keeper of the records and files thereof; for which services he is allowed five hundred dollars per annum. By the act to provide for the survey of public lands in California, the granting of preemption rights therein, and for other purposes. A Surveyor General for the district or State of California authorized, at a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and allowed for clerk hire eleven thousand dollars per annum, the salary of each clerk not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. A Register of the Land Office for the State of California authorized, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an num. A Receiver of Public Moneys for the State of California authorized, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an num. The Surveyors General of the United States, respectively, authorized to appoint, each, a confidential agent to inspect the surveying operations while in progress, who shall each receive five dollars a day while so employed. By the act to provide for additional clerks, and extend the sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico. A translator and interpreter, and two additional clerks, authorized, and the accounts and charges for the same to be audited and settled in the manner provided for as in other cases. Appropriations. III.—OFFICES THe salaries of wHICH HAVE BEEN INCREASED, WITH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH INCREASE. By the act to make the salary of the Judge of the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia equal to that of the Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of said District. The salary of the Judge of the Criminal Court is increased by this act five hundred dollars per annum. By the act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the office of Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey and to make donations to the settlers of the said public lands," approved September 27, 1850. To compensate the Surveyor General of the Territory of Oregon for the additional labors and responsibilities imposed by this act, he shall receive two per centum on all sums received, kept, paid over, and accounted for; to include the payment for clerk hire, costs, and incidental expenses: Provided, that the salary and percentage of said surveyor, and for clerk hire, shall not exceed four thousand dollars for any one year. By the act to provide compensation to such persons as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and keep the public money under the fifteenth section of the act of the 9th April, 1846, for the additional services under that act. The depositaries referred to to receive a specified percentage, not to exceed in amount fifteen hundred dollars per annum. By the act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1853. The Assistants to the Superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition to Chili to be allowed the same ratable increased compensation as was allowed the Superintendent by the act of March 3, 1851. By the act making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854. The salary of the Assistant Observer or Astronomer at the National Observatory raised from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the principal clerk at the said Observatory raised from one thousand dollars to one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. The pay of a purser when attached to, or doing duty at, the naval station at California, shall be four thousand dol lars per annum. A clerk to a purser at that station to be allowed a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. The first and second clerks of the commandants at Boston, New York, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, to receive the pay of the two lowest classes of clerks of the bureaus of the departments. By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854. The clerks in the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, are to be arranged in four classes, and to receive the annual salaries specified for each class. To some, when thus classified, the salaries will be increased; to others diminished. The salaries of the chief clerks of the First and Second Comptroller, First Auditor, Third Auditor, Fourth Auditor, Fifth Auditor, increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the chief clerk of the Second Auditor increased from eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the chief clerk of the Commissioner of the Customs increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salaries of the chief clerks of the Treasurer, Commissioner of Pensions, Register, and Commissioner of Patents, increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars; the salary of the chief clerk of the Commissioner of the Land Office increased from eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars; and the salaries of the chief clerks of the Departments of Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and General Post Office, increased from two thousand dollars to twenty-two hundred dollars each per annum. The salary of the Vice President of the United States increased from five thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars; the salary of the Secretary of State increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars; and the salaries of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, the Postmaster General, and the Attorney General, increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars each. The Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York, (performing the duties of the Treasurer of the Assay Office,) to receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum, instead of four thousand dollars per annum. The salary of each of the Commissioners for settling land claims in California, appointed under the act of 3d March, 1851, increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the Collector at Chicago raised to twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The salaries of the Deputy Surveyors at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, increased to two thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia increased one thousand dollars, and the salary of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at New Orleans increased five hundred dollars. The salary of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey increased from four thousand five hundred dollars to six thousand dollars per annum. By the act to establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes. The Postmaster at Richmond, Virginia, and the Postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio, allowed the same commission as is allowed to the postmasters at other distributing offices. MAY 27, 1853. By the act to provide for the payment of the companies of Captains Bush, Price, and Suarez, for military services in Florida. The pay and allowances of mounted troops to the following militia forces of the Territory of Florida, for the period of their respective service, as hereinafter specified, to wit: Captain Bush's company of mounted troops from the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentyfifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Price's company of mounted troops, from the twentieth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Suarez's company of mounted troops, from the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine..[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of John Charles Frémont, late lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States. To liquidate and satisfy the judgment, damages, and costs recovered, and such expenses in defense of said suit as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem reasonable, which has been recoved, or may be recovered, against John Charles Frémont, late a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States, by Anthony Gibbs & Sons, assignees of F. Hüttman, in her Britannic Majesty's court of exchequer, at Westminster, in England, on four several bills of exchange, or each and every of them, drawn by the said John Charles Frémont at Ciudad de los Angelos, in the then Upper California, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, amounting in all to nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, in favor of one F. Hüttman, for moneys advanced for the public service, the said bills having been drawn on James Buchanan, Secretary of State, and payment refused by him for want of any appropriation out of which the same could be paid, and the said Frémont being sued in London for the same.... .$19,500 00 By the act for the relief of L. M. Goldsborough and others. For expenses incurred by them, respectively, while serving upon a joint commission of Army and Navy officers in California and Oregon, during the years eighteen hundred and fortynine and eighteen hundred and fifty, double the pay of a commander in the Navy, in sea service, during the exact time of their employment on said coasts as aforesaid, to wit: from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, deducting therefrom the regular pay accruing to said officers during that period.. ......... . . . . . . [Indefinite.] Commutation of fuel and quarters from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, equal in amount to the allowance authorized to a major of the Army on duty at San Francisco during that time, deducting therefrom the commutation to which they would have been entitled, respectively, at their posts in the Atlantic States.. ..[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of the legal representatives of Walter Colton. The amount deposited by said Colton in the Treasury of the United States, above the net amount for which the prize ship Admittance was purchased by his agent...... By the act for the relief of the Southern Michigan Railroad Company. For services in the transportation of the great northern mail from Toledo to Hillsdale, beyond Detroit, in the State of Michigan........ 8971 43 By the resolution for the relief of the heirs of David Cordery. For the value of a certain reservation of six hundred and forty acres as unimproved land at the date of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, which reservation was allowed under the eighth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, and thirteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, made with the Cherokee Indians............................... RECAPITULATION. ..[Indefinite.] .... $7,865 33 Naval service... 8,209,260 77 Post Office Department and Ocean Mail Steamers.. Total........ 12,519,750 00 .$45,219,528 47 By the act for the relief of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon. For losses and damages sustained by them by the proceedings of custom-house officers at New York, in exacting from them, upon certain importations of iron into that port, made between the first day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, higher duties than were required by law, and in seizing and libeling some of said goods upon refusal of said Bates and Lacon to enter the same as subject to such higher duty, and for certain costs of court paid by them and not reimbursed......[Indefinite.] By the act for the relief of S. Morris Waln. For the amount of duties paid on one hundred and sixty quarter casks, and sixty-two Indian barrels of Malaga wine, imported in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Canning; one hundred and eighty-nine quarter casks of Malaga wine, imported in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Virginia; nine pipes and one quarter cask of Madeira wine, imported in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Forest; ninety-nine casks of Oporto wine, imported in the brig Elbe, via New York, and reshipped under bond, per schooner Perseverance, to Philadelphia, in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three; II. OFFICES CREATED AND THE SALARIES By the act to amend an act entitled "An act to A Register of the land office for the Territory of Oregon, west of the Cascade Mountains, to be appointed, whose compensation shall be equal to that allowed to the Receiver of Public Moneys to be appointed under this act. By the act to establish the Territorial Government of Washington. A Governor authorized to be appointed, to receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as Governor, and fifteen hundred dollars as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. A Secretary authorized to be appointed, to receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. A Chief Justice and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, to receive each an annual salary of two thousand dollars. An Attorney for the Territory to be appointed, to receive the same fees as the Attorney for the Territory of Oregon. A Marshal for the Territory to be appointed, to receive the same fees as the Marshal for the Territory of Oregon, and the sum of two hundred dollars per annum for extra services. A Legislative Council, consisting of nine members, to receive each three dollars a day during their attendance, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel. A House of Representatives, consisting of eighteen members, to receive three dollars each per day during their at 32D CONG.....2D SESS. tendance, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel. A Chief Clerk, to receive five dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. An Assistant Clerk, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. A Sergeant-at-Arms, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. A Doorkeeper, to receive three dòllars a day during the sitting of the Legislature. A Delegate in Congress, to receive the per diem compensation and mileage allowed the Delegate from Oregon." By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854. An additional Appraiser General on the Pacific coast to be appointed, to receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum. An Assistant Secretary of State, at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum. An assay office established in New York, and the requi site number of officers and clerks authorized, to receive the compensations allowed for "corresponding services" in the Mint of the United States and its branches. The Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern district of Mississippi authorized to perform the duties of Register and Receiver of the land office at Ponto toc, Mississippi, upon the discontinuance of the same, and made keeper of the records and files thereof; for which services he is allowed five hundred dollars per annum. By the act to provide for the survey of public lands in California, the granting of preemption rights therein, and for other purposes. A Surveyor General for the district or State of California authorized, at a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and allowed for clerk hire eleven thousand dollars per annum, the salary of each clerk not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. A Register of the Land Office for the State of California authorized, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an num. A Receiver of Public Moneys for the State of California authorized, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an num. The Surveyors General of the United States, respectively, authorized to appoint, each, a confidential agent to inspect the surveying operations while in progress, who shall each receive five dollars a day while so employed. By the act to provide for additional clerks, and extend the sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico. A translator and interpreter, and two additional clerks, authorized, and the accounts and charges for the same to be audited and settled in the manner provided for as in other cases. Appropriations. III. OFFICES THE SALARIES OF WHICH HAVE BEEN INCREASED, WITH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH INCREASE. By the act to make the salary of the Judge of the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia equal to that of the Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of said District. The salary of the Judge of the Criminal Court is increased by this act five hundred dollars per annum. By the act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the office of Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey and to make donations to the settlers of the said public lands," approved September 27, 1850. To compensate the Surveyor General of the Territory of Oregon for the additional labors and responsibilities imposed by this act, he shall receive two per centum on all sums received, kept, paid over, and accounted for; to include the payment for clerk hire, costs, and incidental expenses: Provided, that the salary and percentage of said surveyor, and for clerk hire, shall not exceed four thousand dollars for any one year. By the act to provide compensation to such persons as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and keep the public money under the fifteenth section of the act of the 9th April, 1846, for the additional services under that act. The depositaries referred to to receive a specified percentage, not to exceed in amount fifteen hundred dollars per annum. By the act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1853. The Assistants to the Superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition to Chili to be allowed the same ratable increased compensation as was allowed the Superintendent by the act of March 3, 1851. By the act making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854. The salary of the Assistant Observer or Astronomer at the National Observatory raised from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the principal clerk at the said Observatory raised from one thousand dollars to one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. The pay of a purser when attached to, or doing duty at, the naval station at California, shall be four thousand dol lars per annum. A clerk to a purser at that station to be allowed a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. The first and second clerks of the commandants at Boston, New York, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, to receive the pay of the two lowest classes of clerks of the bureaus of the departments. By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854. The clerks in the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, are to be arranged in four classes, and to receive the annual salaries specified for each class. To some, when thus classified, the salaries will be increased; to others diminished. The salaries of the chief clerks of the First and Second Comptroller, First Auditor, Third Auditor, Fourth Auditor, Fifth Auditor, increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the chief clerk of the Second Auditor increased from eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the chief clerk of the Commissioner of the Customs increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salaries of the chief clerks of the Treasurer, Commissioner of Pensions, Register, and Commissioner of Patents, increased from seventeen bundred dollars to two thousand dollars; the salary of the chief clerk of the Commissioner of the Land Office increased from eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars; and the salaries of the chief clerks of the Departments of Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and General Post Office, increased from two thousand dollars to twenty-two hundred dollars each per annum. The salary of the Vice President of the United States increased from five thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars; the salary of the Secretary of State increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars; and the salaries of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, the Postmaster General, and the Attorney General, increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars each. York, (performing the duties of the Treasurer of the Assay Office,) to receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum, instead of four thousand dollars per annum. The Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New The salary of each of the Commissioners for settling land claims in California, appointed under the act of 3d March, 1851, increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the Collector at Chicago raised to twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The salaries of the Deputy Surveyors at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, increased to two thousand dollars per annum. The salary of the Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia increased one thousand dollars, and the salary of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at New Orleans increased five hundred dollars. The salary of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey increased from four thousand five hundred dollars to six thousand dollars per annum. By the act to establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes. The Postmaster at Richmond, Virginia, and the Postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio, allowed the same commission as is allowed to the postmasters at other distributing offices. MAY 27, 1853. |