Insane paupers the District of Columbia, including four additional insane paupers in the District of ordered by the court to be sent to the hospital, five thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and forty-five cents. Columbia. Publication of For continuing the publication of the works of the exploring exworks of explor- pedition, including the printing of charts, the pay of the scientific corps, and the salary of the horticulturist, thirty thousand dollars. ing expedition. For paying the principal and interest of the fourth and fifth instalments of the Mexican indemnities due in April and July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, the sum of three hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, The claimants, each for himself, shall relinquish to the United States his right to said instalments: Provided further, That each of the claimants shall agree to take in payment the scrip of a stock bearing interest at five per cent., payable in five years. For refunding to James Buchanan, late her Britannic Majesty's consul at the city of New York, moneys disbursed by him, and for compensating him for services performed in respect to the slaver Catharine, condemned and sold at the suit of the United States, the sum of two thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. For reducing and preparing for publication, under a resolution of the Senate, plans and drawings, made by the officers of the topographical bureau, for the improvement of harbors, rivers, &c., four thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Patent Office. For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the patent office, twelve hundred and fifty dollars; to be paid for out of the patent fund. Lighthouse Establishment. For supplying lighthouses, containing two thousand five hundred and seventy-sev lamps, with oil, tubeglasses, buff-skins, whiting, and cotton cloth, expenses of transportation, and for keeping the lighting apparatus in repair, one hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty four cents. For repairs, incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of lighthouses, and buildings connected therewith, sixty-seven thousand seventy-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents. For salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers and sixteen assistant keepers of lighthouses, (seventeen of them charged with double and two with triple lights,) one hundred thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen thousand dollars. For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, eighty-one thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-two cents. For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents. For procuring, locating, and mooring buoys at such places as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and where he shall deem them to be necessary for the safety of navigation, five thousand dollars. For expenses of rebuilding the Cape Florida Lighthouse, Florida, thirteen thousand dollars. For expenses of rebuilding Martinicus Rock Lighthouse, Maine, eleven thousand dollars. For the maintenance of the light on the Delaware Breakwater, including four hundred dollars for the salary of keeper, eight hundred dollars. For expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting their lighthouses annually, and examining and reporting the condition of each, two thousand dollars. For superintendents' commissions, at two and a half per centum, ten thousand thirty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents. 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, one thousand 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 of Louisiana, one thousand dollars. For pay of chain-carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, &c., one thousand five hundred dollars. For surveying the public lands, to be apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For surveying the copper region of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference to mines and minerals, thirty thousand dollars. For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys west of Saganaw Bay, in Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. per mile, For detached surveys in Missouri, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, on account of difficulties in surveying lakes, swamps, &c., four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For the survey of towns and villages in Missouri, named in the act of twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, including office work, in addition to the balance of the appropriation of the third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, for that object, two thousand dollars. For surveying that part of Arkansas where, in consequence of local attraction, the ordinary compass cannot be used, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For surveys at augmented rates, in Louisiana, three thousand seven hundred and four dollars. For surveys in the Greensburg district, Louisiana, now in the course of execution, in addition to former appropriations, twenty thousand four hundred dollars. For retracing old lines in the district west of Pearl River, to supply deficiencies now existing in those surveys, at five dollars and seven dollars per mile, in addition to balance of appropriations for same object, of the third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, eighteen thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars. Intercourse with Foreign Nations. - For salaries of ministers to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, sixty-three thousand dollars. For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars. For outfit of a minister to Great Britain, nine thousand dollars. For salary of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars. For salary of a dragoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. Commissioner For the salary of a commissioner to reside in China, five thousand dollars: Provided, No part of this sum shall be paid unless the said to China. commissioner actually resides in China. Secretary and Chinese interpreter. For the salary of a secretary and Chinese interpreter, two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand Contingencies. dollars. Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse. Consul at Lon don. to For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars. For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars. For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the Contingencies. consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Commissioner Islands. Sandwich Interpreters, guards, &c., at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria. Payment of balance due B. E. Green. American seamen in foreign countries. For compensation of commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars. For payment in full to Benjamin E. Green for services while employed in Mexico, as chargé d'affaires, three thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars. For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave Suppression of trade, including the support of recaptured Africans, and their removal to their country, twenty-five thousand dollars. slave trade. Maps, specifications, &c., of N. E. boundary. salary. For completing the maps, specifications, and astronomical computations of the line of boundary between the United States and the British provinces, heretofore run and established, or run and marked by the joint commissioners, under the treaty of Washington, twenty thousand dollars, and for transmitting to the respective States, whose boundaries are affected thereby, authentic copies thereof. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the assistant Additional apappraisers authorized by law at the port of New York, there may be praiser at New appointed, in the mode now prescribed by law, one additional assistant York authorized. appraiser at said port, at a salary, as heretofore established, of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of any money in the treaProviso, as to sury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, said salary shall not commence, or appointment take effect, prior to the thirtieth of November next, and in appraising all goods, at any port of the United States, heretofore subjected to specific duties, but upon which ad valorem duties are imposed by the act of the thirtieth of July last, entitled "An Act reducing the Duty on Imports, and for other Purposes," reference shall be had to values and invoices of similar goods imported during the last fiscal year, under such general and uniform regulations for the prevention of fraud or undervaluation as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Appraisement tom-house, how of goods at cus made. Ante, p. 42. Heads of departments may continue officers authorized by acts of 1842, ch. 202, and 1814, ch. 105. 1853, ch. 97, § 8. Proviso. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the respective heads of departments to continue in service during the current fiscal year the officers and persons, and at the salaries and compensations, authorized in the act approved twenty-sixth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, entitled "An Act legalizing and making Appropriations for such necessary Objects as have been usually included in the General Appropriation Bills without Authority of Law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental Expenses of the Departments and Officers of the Government, and for other Purposes," and also the clerks authorized to be employed in the office of the first comptroller of the treasury by the act of June seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled "An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and for other Purposes;" and also the clerk in the office of the second auditor, authorized by the same act: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the employment of any clerks in the statistical branch of the treasury department. and SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor-general north-west of the Ohio, under the direction of the President, be, hereby is, required to cause to be surveyed, marked, and designated, so much of the line between Michigan and Wisconsin as lies between the source of Brulé River and the source of Montreal River, as defined by the "Act to enable the People of Wisconsin Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of such State into the Union;" and the expense of such survey shall be paid, upon the certificate of the said surveyor-general, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section of the act, entitled "An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplo matic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for other Purposes," passed third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. APPROVED, August 10, 1846. CHAP. CLXXVI. - An Act making Appropriations for the naval Service for the 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 for the naval service, for the year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty seven: Aug. 10, 1846. Appropriations for year ending June 30, 1847. Pay of officers, seamen, and engineer corps. Passed midshipmen acting as For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, three millions five hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars. Passed midshipmen performing the duties of master, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, to receive the compensation allowed to such higher grade, while actually so employed. For provisions, including transportation, cooperage, and other expenses, eight hundred and sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and transportation, twenty-two dollars. masters. &c. Provisions Surgeons' ne For surgeons' necessaries, and appliances for the sick and hurt of the naval service, including the marine corps, twenty-one thousand cessaries for the and seventy-two dollars. For the increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, including coal for steamers, and hemp, one million fifty thousand dollars; and the President is hereby authorized to construct, by contract, any vessel or steamer for the public service, when in his opinion the same can be done with equal efficiency and on terms more economical than in the present navy yards. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including all incidental expenses, three hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. navy and marine corps. and Increase, repair, armament, equipment. Ordnance, &c. Books, maps, For books, maps, charts, and instruments, binding and repairing the same, and all the expenses of the hydrographical office, thirty-five charts, &c. thousand nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz. For freight and transportation; printing and stationery; books, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire-engines, and for machinery; repair of steam-engines in yards; purchase and mainteVOL. IX. PUB. - 13 Contingencies. Civil establish ment at the several navy yards. Kittery. Charlestown. Brooklyn. Philadelphia. Washington. Gosport. Pensacola. Memphis. Proviso. nance of horses and oxen; carts, timber-wheels, and workmen's tools; postage of letters on public service; coal and other fuel, and oil and candles for navy yards and shore stations; incidental labor, not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the delivery of public stores and supplies on foreign stations; wharfage, dockage, storage, and rent; travelling expenses of officers; funeral expenses; commissions, clerk hire, store rent, office rent, stationery, and fuel to navy agents and storekeepers; premiums, and incidental expenses of recruiting; apprehending deserters; per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; compensation to judge advocates; pilotage and towing vessels, and assistance rendered to vessels in distress, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, five thousand dollars. For the support of the civil establishment at the several navy yards, the officers and others to be paid the annual compensation that was allowed to them severally in the act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, except as hereinafter provided : At Kittery, Maine. For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, clerk to the commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, clerk to the naval constructor, and porter, seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. At Charlestown, Massachusetts. - For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to the commandant, three clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, keeper of magazine, and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For repairs of the sheer wharf, Charlestown navy yard, twelve thousand dollars. At Brooklyn, New York. For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to the commandant, three clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, keeper of the magazine, and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. At Philadelphia. For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, clerk to the commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, clerk to naval constructor, and porter, seven thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided, That, when the duties of the clerk to the yard and clerk to the commandant are performed by the same person, he shall not receive a greater compensation than twelve hundred dollars per annum. At Washington. For pay of storekeeper, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to the yard, two clerks to commandant, clerk to the storekeeper, keeper of the magazine, and porter, six thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. At Gosport, Virginia. For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, measurer and inspector of timber, clerk to yard, two clerks to commandant, three clerks to the storekeeper, clerk to the naval constructor, keeper of the magazine, and porter, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. --- At Pensacola. For pay of storekeeper, naval constructor, clerk to the yard, two clerks to the commandant, two clerks to the storekeeper, and porter, eight thousand and fifty dollars. At Memphis, Tennessee. For pay of storekeeper, clerk to the yard, clerk to the commandant, and porter, three thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, when in his opinion the public interest will per |