# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/26th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 35

Chap. XXXV.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:
Members of Congress.For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, one hundred and eleven thousand four hundred and eight dollars;
Officers of the Senate and House of Representatives.For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars;
Expenses of Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Expenses of the House of Reps.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expense of the House of Representatives, fifteen thousand dollars; The two sums last mentioned, to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives severally, and to no other purpose. And the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby directed in the settlement of the accounts of the contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives, to credit the payments made in pursuance of the resolutions of the Senate of the eighteenth of July, eighteen hundred and forty, and the resolution of the House of Representatives of the twenty-first of July,Contracts for article for the next Congress, to an amount exceeding 2000 dollars, not authorized. eighteen hundred and forty: and nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or sanction any contract for stationery or other articles for the use of the next Congress by any officer of the present Congress to an amount exceeding in the whole two thousand dollars;
President. Vice President, and heads of departments. Secretary to sign patents for lands.For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars;
For salary of the secretary to sign patents for public lands, per act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, fifteen hundred dollars;
Off. Sec. State.For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three hundred dollars;
For the contingent expenses of the Department of State, including publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Biennial register.For compiling, printing, &c., the Biennial Register, one thousand dollars;
Superint’t and watchmen N. E. Ex. building.For the superintendent and watchmen of the northeast executive building, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For the contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Office Sec. Treasury. Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twenty-third June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled1836, ch. 115. “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money,” three thousand six hundred dollars.
First Comptroller.For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the First Comptroller, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars;
Second Comptroller.For compensation to the Second Comptroller, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messenger.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Second Comptroller, including the compensation of two clerks transferred from the office of the Fourth Auditor, twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
​1st Auditor.For compensation to the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the First Auditor, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars;
2d Auditor.For compensation to the Second Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Second Auditor, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars;
3d Auditor.For compensation to the Third Auditor, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Third Auditor, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
1837, ch. 5.For compensation to two clerks employed on claims, under the act of the eighteenth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, two thousand four hundred dollars;
4th Auditor.For compensation to the Fourth Auditor, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Fourth Auditor, sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
5th Auditor.For compensation to the Fifth Auditor, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Fifth Auditor, nine thousand eight hundred dollars;
1838, ch. 169.For compensation to two clerks in the office of the Fifth Auditor according to the act of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two thousand dollars;
Treasurer of the United States.For compensation to the Treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;
Register of the Treasury.For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, three thousand dollars;
Clerks and messengers.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Register of the Treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars;
Commissioner of General Land Office. 1836, ch. 352. Other officers in the General Land Office.For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, per act of fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, three thousand dollars;
For compensation of the recorder, solicitor, draughtsman, and assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, and packers, in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars;
Solicitor of the Treasury.For compensation to the Solicitor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Clerks and messenger.For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
Translating, &c.For translating foreign languages, and transmitting passports and sea letters, in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, three hundred dollars;
Stating and printing acc’ts.For stating and printing the public accounts, including a deficiency in former appropriations, eighteen hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses forFor stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, viz:
Office 1st Comptroller.For the office of the First Comptroller, two thousand dollars;
Off. 2d Comptroller.For the office of the Second Comptroller, fifteen hundred dollars;
Off. 1st Auditor.For the office of the First Auditor, one thousand dollars;
Off. 2d Auditor.For the office of the Second Auditor, one thousand dollars;
Off. 3d Auditor.For the office of the Third Auditor, one thousand dollars;
Off. 4th Auditor.For the office of the Fourth Auditor, one thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-three cents;
Off. 5th Auditor.For the office of the Fifth Auditor, one thousand dollars;
​Off. Treasurer.For the office of the Treasurer of the United States, two thousand dollars;
Off. Register.For the office of the Register of the Treasury, three thousand dollars;
Off. Solicitor.For the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, one thousand five hundred dollars;
General Land Office.For eighty-three thousand pieces of parchment and printing, books and stationery, advertising, and contingent expenses of the General Land Office; and for books and blanks for the district land offices, twenty-four thousand six hundred and seventy dollars;
Superint’t and watchmen S. E. exec. building.For compensation of the superintendent and watchmen of the south-east executive building, two thousand one hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of the building occupied by the Treasury, including fuel, labor, oil, carrying the department mails, and sealing ships’ registers, twelve thousand dollars;
Office Secretary of War. 1818, ch. 87.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, including the messenger in the bounty land bureau, and the clerkship under the act of April twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, transferred back from Pension Office on the first of March, eighteen hundred and forty, thirteen thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and ten cents;
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars;
For books, maps, and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars;
For compensation of extra clerks when employed in said office, three thousand dollars;
Commissioner of Ind. affairs.For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, three thousand dollars;
Office.For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand dollars;
Commissioner of Pensions.For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Office. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to clerks and messengers for the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, authorized by the act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, twelve thousand four hundred dollars;
1840, ch. 4.For compensation of clerks transferred from the office of the Secretary of War to the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, two thousand seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty cents;
1840, ch. 4.For compensation of one clerk transferred from the Navy Department, per act March fourth, eighteen hundred and forty, sixteen hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Off. Comm’dg General.For compensation of clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars;
Off. Adj. Gen.For compensation to clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant General, seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Off. Quartermaster General.For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster General, seven thousand three hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars;
Off. Paymaster General.For compensation to clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, seven thousand one hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars;
Off. Com. Gen. of Purchases.For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Purchases, four thousand two hundred dollars;
​For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars;
Off. Com. Gen. of Subsistence.For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, four thousand three hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand two hundred dollars;
Off. Chief Engineer.For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer, five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Off. Surgeon General.For compensation to clerk and messenger in the office of the Surgeon General, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of a clerk, at one thousand dollars, under the act of April twenty, eighteen hundred and eighteen, transferred from the office of the Secretary of War,1818, ch. 87. to the said office of Surgeon General, one thousand dollars;
Ordnance Office.For compensation to clerks and messenger in the Ordnance office, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
Topographical Bureau.For compensation to clerks and messenger in the office of the Topographical Bureau, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of a clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars, transferred from the office of the Secretary of War to the Pension office, to be transferred from that office on the first of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents;
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars;
N. W. executive building.For compensation of the superintendent and watchmen of the northwest executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said building, including rent of Bounty Land office, for labor, fuel, oil, and repairs, and for the contingencies of the fire-engines and apparatus, four thousand seven hundred dollars;
Off. Secretary of the Navy. 1840, ch. 4.For compensation of the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, after deducting one clerk transferred to Pension office, per act March four, eighteen hundred and forty, at sixteen hundred dollars, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars;
Commiss’rs of Navy Board.For compensation of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, ten thousand five hundred dollars;
Office.For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy Board, two thousand dollars;
For compensation to the clerks and messenger of the Navy Board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand five hundred dollars;
S. W. executive building.For salary of superintendent and watchmen of the southwest executive building, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, repairs of building, engine, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;
Assistant Postmasters Gen’l. 1836, ch. 270.For compensation to three Assistant Postmasters General, per act of July three, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
General Post Office.For compensation to clerks and messengers in the General Post Office, forty-eight thousand six hundred dollars;
For salaries of two watchmen, six hundred dollars;
​1839, ch. 81. 1840, ch. 22.For topographer and additional clerks in said office, per acts March three, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and May eight, one thousand eight hundred and forty; and a clerk to keep the appropriation account, eleven thousand six hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, including fuel for the Auditor’s office, and four thousand dollars for rent of building occupied by the department, ten thousand five hundred dollars;
Auditor of the Post Office.For compensation to the Auditor of the Post Office, three thousand dollars;
Office.For compensation to clerks and messengers in said office, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars;
1838, ch. 169.For eleven additional clerks in said office, per act of July seven, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, including the expense of quarterly books, stationery, printing, and pay of laborers, four thousand seven hundred dollars;
Surveyor Gen. north-west of the Ohio.For compensation to the Surveyor General, northwest of the Ohio, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to clerks in his office, per act of ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, six thousand three hundred dollars;
Surveyor Gen. for Illinois and Missouri.For compensation of the Surveyor General of Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to clerks in his office, per act of ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, three thousand eight hundred dollars;
Surveyor Gen. of Arkansas.For compensation to the Surveyor General of Arkansas, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to his clerks, per act ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
Surveyor Gen. of Louisiana.For compensation to the Surveyor General of Louisiana, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to his clerks, per act ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Surveyor Gen. of Mississippi.For compensation to the Surveyor General of Mississippi, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to his clerks, per act ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, one thousand dollars;
Surveyor Gen. of Alabama.For compensation to the Surveyor General of Alabama, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to his clerks, per act ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, two thousand two hundred dollars;
Surveyor Gen. of Florida.For compensation to the Surveyor General of Florida, two thousand dollars;
Clerks. 1836, ch. 60.For compensation to his clerks, per act ninth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, five hundred dollars;
Surveyor gen. of Wisconsin and Iowa. 1838, ch. 99. Clerks. 1838, ch. 99.For compensation to the Surveyor General of Wisconsin and Iowa, per act of June twelve, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation to his clerks, per act June twelve, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Extra clerks and draughtsmen in offices of surveyors general.For extra clerks and draughtsmen in the offices of the Surveyors General, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, seven thousand two hundred dollars;
For extra clerks in the offices of the Surveyors General to transcribe field notes of survey, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz.,
​Office of the Surveyor General northwest of the Ohio, four thousand five hundred dollars;
Office of the Surveyor General of Illinois and Missouri, three thousand dollars;
Office of the Surveyor General of Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Office of the Surveyor General of Louisiana, one thousand dollars;
Commissioner of public buildings. 1840, ch. 99, § 11.For compensation to the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, per act of the twenty-first of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty, three thousand dollars;
For compensation to Commissioner, from the twenty-first July to the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and forty, three hundred and twelve dollars;
Assistants, &c. Potomac bridge.For compensation to two assistants to the Commissioner, as superintendent of the Potomac bridge, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, including oil for lamps, fuel, and repairs, thirty-one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. So much of this sum as may be applied for repairs, shall be applied under the direction of the Secretary of War;
The Mint.For compensation to the officers and clerks of the Mint, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars;
For pay of laborers in the various departments of the Mint, twenty-four thousand dollars;
For incidental and contingent expenses, including the wastage of gold and silver, fuel, materials, stationery, water-rent, and taxes, in addition to the unexpended balance of appropriation of eighteen hundred and forty, eight hundred dollars;
For specimens of ores and coins to be reserved at the Mint, one thousand dollars;
Branch mint at Charlotte.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 five hundred dollars;
For wastage of gold, and for contingent expenses of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Branch mint at Dahlonega.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, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;
For wastage of gold, and for contingent expenses of the same, one thousand dollars;
Branch mint at N. Orleans.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, twenty-two thousand dollars;
For wastage of gold and silver, and for contingent expenses of the same, seventeen thousand one hundred dollars;
Wisconsin Territory.For compensation of the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of Wisconsin Territory, nine thousand one hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of the said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, pay of officers, printing, furniture, stationery, fuel, and all other incidental expenses, twenty thousand dollars;
Iowa Territory.For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Territory of Iowa, nine thousand one hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay and mileage to the Legislative Assembly, pay of officers, ​printing, stationery, fuel, and all other incidental expenses, twenty thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Florida Territory.For compensation of the Governor, Judges and Secretary of the Territory of Florida, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars;
For pay and mileage of the members of the Legislative Council of said Territory, pay to the officers of the Council, printing, furniture, rent, stationery, fuel, and all other incidental expenses, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars;
Chief justice, &c. U. S.For compensation of the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, ninety-three thousand nine hundred dollars;
Judges of the District of Columbia.For compensation of the chief justice and associate Judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the criminal and orphan’s courts of said District, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars;
Lunatics in the District of Columbia. 1841, ch. 4. Attorney Gen.For carrying into effect the provisions of the act approved on the second of February instant, “Making temporary provision for lunatics in the District of Columbia,” three thousand dollars;
For compensation of the Attorney General of the United States, four thousand dollars;
Office.For compensation of clerk and messenger in the office of the Attorney General, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars;
Reporter Supreme Court.For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars;
Dist. attorneys and marshals.For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, including those in the several Territories, fourteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
Expenses of Supreme Court, &c.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 year eighteen hundred and forty-one, 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 twenty-five thousand dollars;Proviso. Provided, however, That hereafter, in lieu of all fees, emoluments, and receipts now allowed in districts where the present entire compensation of any of the officers hereinafter named shall exceed the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, it shall and may be lawful for the United States’ clerks, attorneys, counsel, and marshals, in the district and circuit courts of the United States in the several States, to demand and receive the same fees that now are, or hereafter may be, allowed by the laws of the said States respectively where said courts are held, to the clerks, attorneys and counsel, and sheriffs, in the highest courts of the said States in which like services are rendered; and no other fees or emoluments, except that the marshals shall receive in full, for summoning all the jurors for any one court, thirty dollars; and shall receive, for every day’s actual attendance at any court, five dollars per day; and for any services, including the compensation for mileage, performed by said officers in the discharge of their official duty, for which no compensation is provided by the laws of said States respectively, the said officers may receive such fees as are now allowed by law according to the existing usage and practice of said courts of the United States;Attorneys. Proviso, limiting the amount of fees retainable by attorneys, &c. and every district attorney, except the district attorney of the southern district of New York, shall receive, in addition to the above fees, a salary of two hundred dollars per annum: Provided, That the fees and emoluments retained by the district attorneys, marshals, and clerks, ​exclusive of any reasonable compensation to their deputies, to be allowed in their accounts by the courts of the respective districts to which they belong, and after the payment of such necessary office and other expenses as shall be allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed, as to any one of the said offices in the southern district of New York, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, and in any other district the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, shall in no case exceed, for the district attorneys and the marshals, or either of them, the sum of six thousand dollars each; and those for each of the clerks shall not exceed, in any case, four thousand five hundred dollars; the overplus of fees and emolumentsThe overplus to be paid into the Treasury. to be paid into the public Treasury, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the disposition of Congress.
Annuities and grants.For the payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, nine hundred dollars;
U. S. coast survey.For survey of the coast of the United States, including the compensation of the superintendent and assistants, one hundred thousand dollars;
Keepers of Florida archives.For compensation of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars;
Registers and receivers.For salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, three thousand five hundred dollars;
Insolvent debtors.For expenses in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, three thousand dollars;
Private land claims in Florida.For allowance to the law agent, assistant, counsel, and district attorney, under the acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, five thousand dollars;
Support of lighthouses, &c.For the support and maintenance of light-houses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, wicks, buffskins, whiting and cotton cloth, transporting oil, &c., keepers’ salaries, repairs, improvements, and contingent expenses, four hundred and eighty-four thousand and seventy-two dollars;
Statues for the Capitol. Proviso.For payment to Luigi Persico and Horatio Greenough, for statues to adorn the two blockings, east front of the capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, The work is in such state of progress, as, in reference to the whole sum to be paid to the artists, respectively, for their execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payments.
Paintings for the Capitol. Proviso.For payments to the artists engaged in executing four historical paintings for the vacant panels of the rotundo of the capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, The paintings are in such state of progress as, in reference to the whole sum to be paid to the artists, respectively, for their execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payments.
Penitentiary of D. C.For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eight thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars;
Sick and disabled seamen. 1802, ch. 51.To make good a deficiency in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-nine and eighteen hundred and forty, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the act of third May, eighteen hundred and two, ninety-seven thousand dollars;
Commissioner for southern boundary of Iowa.For balance due the commissioner for ascertaining and marking the southern boundary of Iowa Territory, under the act of eighteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, four hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-six cents;
Custom-house at Boston.For carrying on the work of the new custom-house building at Boston, one hundred thousand dollars;
Warehouse at Baltimore.For defraying the cost of extra work on the public warehouse at Baltimore, three thousand dollars;
Custom-house at New York.For payment of arrearages for completing the custom-house, New York, ​thirty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-one cents;
1838, ch. 174. Expenses under act to remit duties on goods destroy’d by fire in New York.For the payment of expenses incurred by the collector of New York, under the act of seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to remit the duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late conflagration in the city of New York, seven hundred dollars;
Payment of a balance carried to the surplus fund.For the payment of certain certificates, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, five hundred dollars;
Furniture for Presid’ts house.For furniture for the President’s house, of American manufacture, so far as may be practicable and expedient, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the avails of the sales of decayed furniture, the sum of six thousand dollars;
Capitol and grounds.For annual repairs of the capitol, attending furnaces, water-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at gates, gardener’s salary, and for top dressing delicate and valuable plants, seven thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents;
President’s house, &c.For annual repairs of President’s house, gardener’s salary, horse and cart, laborers and tools, and for amount due F. Masi and Company for repairs on furniture, two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars;
New Treasury building.For completing back buildings, grading grounds, and cutting balance of stone for west portico of the new Treasury building, and paying for materials delivered, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-four cents;
New Patent Office building.For fluting columns of portico of new Patent Office, finishing roof, and the cut stone-work of said building, and paying for materials delivered, seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
New jail.For enclosing the new jail yard, in the city of Washington, five thousand dollars;
New General Post Office building.For new General Post Office building, one hundred thousand dollars;
Court-house in Alexandria.For completing court-house, in the city of Alexandria, three thousand dollars;
Payments to workmen on new Treasury and Patent Office buildings.For payment to the stone-cutters, and the other workmen on the new Treasury building and the new Patent Office building, of the sums allowed them by the commissioners appointed by the President of the United States to superintend the prosecution of the work in the construction of the said buildings, in fulfilment of the resolution of Congress of the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and forty, twelve thousand nine hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-one cents;
Surveying public lands.For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying districts according to the exigencies of the public service, including office-rent, and fuel, for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, fifty-five thousand dollars;
Retracing certain old surveys in Alabama.For retracting certain old surveys in the State of Alabama, at a rate not exceeding four dollars a mile, fifteen thousand dollars;
Surveys in Missouri. 1824, ch. 184. 1838, ch. 54.For surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the act of twenty-sixth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in addition to the sum of six thousand dollars appropriated for the same object by the act of sixth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two thousand dollars;
Surveying in Illinois and Missouri.For surveying five hundred miles of detached and unfinished lines in Illinois and Missouri, principally in the military district, Illinois, at a rate not exceeding six dollars a mile, three thousand dollars;
Ministers.For salaries of ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria and Mexico, fifty-four thousand dollars;
Secretaries of legation.For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, twelve thousand dollars;
​Minister to Turkey.For salary of the minister resident of the United States to Turkey, six thousand dollars;
Chargés des affaires.For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, sixty-three thousand dollars;
Drogoman.For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Expenses of missions.For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars;
Outfits.For outfits of ministers to Austria and Great Britain, and of charges des affaires to Venezuela, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;
Consuls at London and Paris.For salaries of the consuls of the United States at London and Paris, four thousand dollars;
Relief, &c. of Am. seamen.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars;
Expenses of consulate at London. 1836, ch. 2. Barbary powers.For clerk hire, office-rent, stationery, and other expenses in the office of the American consul at London, per act of January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars;
Foreign intercourse.For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars;
Library of Congress.For salary of the principal and two assistant librarians, pay of the messenger, and for contingent expenses of the library, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;
Purchase of books.For the purchase of books for the library in Congress, five thousand dollars;
Enforcement of the neutrality laws.For the payment of arrearages incurred in enforcing the neutrality laws on the northern and northwestern frontier, five thousand dollars;
Service of the General Post Office. 1836, ch. 270. Transportation.For the service of the General Post Office for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six;
For transportation of the mail, three million two hundred and eighty thousand dollars;
Compensation of postmasters. Proviso, requiring them to make returns of all emoluments received from boxes, &c. Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 43.For compensation of postmasters, one million and fifty thousand dollars: Provided however, That in addition to returns now required to be rendered by postmasters, it shall be the duty of the postmasters at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, and the other several cities of the Union, each and every year hereafter, to render a quarter-yearly account to the Postmaster General, under oath, in such form as the latter shall prescribe, for the purpose of giving full effect to this proviso, of all emoluments or sums by them respectively received for boxes or pigeon-holes, or other receptacles for letters or papers, and by them charged for to individuals; or for the delivery of letters or papers at or from any place in either of said cities, other than the actual post office of such city, and of all emoluments, receipts, and profits that have come to their hands by reason of keeping branch post offices in either of said cities; and if, from such accounting, it shall appear that the net amount received by either of the postmasters at either of such cities for such boxes and pigeon-holes, and other receptacles for letters and papers, and for delivering letters or papers at for from any place in either of said cities other than said post office, and by reason of keeping a branch post office in either of said cities, shall, in the aggregate, exceed the sum of three thousand dollars in any one year, such excess shall be paid to the Postmaster GeneralNo postmaster to receive more than $5000 a year, salary included. for the use and purposes of the Post Office Department; and no postmaster shall hereafter, under any pretence whatsoever, have, or receive, or retain for himself, in the aggregate, more than five thousand dollars per year, including salary, ​commissions, boxes, and all other fees, perquisites and emoluments, of any name or character whatsoever, and for any service whatsoever;
Ship letters, &c.For ship, steamboat, and way-letters, forty thousand dollars;
Wrapping papers.For wrapping paper, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Office furniture.For office furniture, five thousand dollars;
Advertising.For advertising, thirty-six thousand dollars;
Mail bags.For mail-bags, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Blanks.For blanks, thirty-five thousand dollars;
Mail locks, &c.For mail-locks, keys and stamps, fifteen thousand dollars;
Mail depredations, &c.For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-two thousand dollars;
Clerks.For clerks for offices, two hundred and ten thousand dollars;
Miscellaneous Survey of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.And for the continuance of the survey of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, twenty thousand dollars;
For procuring the archives of Florida.For the balance, certified as due to the agent and commissioners at Havana, to procure the archives of Florida, and transmit them to this country, and in full execution of the laws upon that subject, the sum of six thousand and forty-three dollars and ten cents;
Compensation to W. W. Chew.For compensation to William W. Chew, late acting chargé d’affaires at Russia, from the twenty-third of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, till the twenty-first of September, eighteen hundred and forty, the sum of two thousand nine hundred dollars, it being the difference between his salary as Secretary of Legation and the pay of a chargé d’affaires during that period;
Extra session of the Senate. Pay and mileage.For the pay and mileage of the members of the Senate for the extra session of that body, to be convened in its Executive capacity on the fourth day of March of the present year, the sum of thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars;
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of the Senate for the extra session including the pay of messengers, service of horses, fuel, stationery, and all other contingent items of the extra session, three thousand dollars;
Hydrographic survey of the lakes.And for a hydrographic survey of the coasts of the northern and northwestern lakes of the United States, to be expended under the direction of the President, fifteen thousand dollars;
Assistant to Librarian of Congress.And the Librarian of Congress is authorized to employ an additional assistant, who shall receive a yearly compensation of eleven hundred and fifty dollars, commencing December first, one thousand eight hundred and forty, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated;
Compensation of custom-house officers for the year 1839.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is, hereby authorized to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the collectors, deputy collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers, gaugers, measurers and markers of the several ports of the United States, the same compensation for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, which they would have been entitled to receive if the third section of the1838, ch. 169. act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” had continued in force during the said year, and subject to the provisions and restrictions therein contained:Proviso. Provided, That nothing in this section contained shall be so construed as to give to any collector of the customs a salary for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, beyond the maximum now fixed by law, or four thousand dollars.
Payment of arrears to the clerks in the custom-house at Boston.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the clerks in the custom-house at Boston, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ​appropriated, the arrears of their salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, so as to make the same equal in proportion to what they received in the last mentioned year, on the same principle as has been applied to the custom-houses at New York and Philadelphia; and the payments under this section shall be governed by what has been the practical construction of the former laws on this subject, at the Treasury Department, applicable to the last named ports;
Payment of arrears to clerks in the custom-house at Philadelphia.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the clerks in the custom-house at Philadelphia such sum of money as, with the amount appropriated by the general appropriation act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, will make up the arrears of their respective salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, the sum to be paid being first ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury;
Additional accounts to be rendered by collectors, &c.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the account now required to be rendered by every collector of customs, naval officer and surveyor of ports, every such collector, naval officer and surveyor shall, each and every year hereafter, render a quarter-yearly account, under oath, to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as said Secretary shall prescribe, of all sums of money by each of them respectively received or collected for fines, penalties, or forfeitures, or for seizure of goods, wares, or merchandise, or upon compromises made upon said seizure; or on account of suits instituted for frauds against the revenue laws; or for rent and storage of goods, wares, or merchandise, which may be stored in the public store-houses, and for which a rent is paid, beyond the rents paid by the collector or other such officer; and if from such accounting it shallThe excess of money over $2000 a year, received for rents, storage, &c. to be paid into the Treasury. Compensation of collectors limited. appear that the money received in any one year by any collector, naval officer, or surveyor, on account and for rents and storage, as aforesaid, and for fees and emoluments, shall in the aggregate, exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, such excess shall be paid by the said collector, naval officer, or surveyor, as the case may be, into the Treasury of the United States, as part and parcel of the public money; and no such collector shall, on any pretence whatsoever, hereafter receive, hold, or retain for himself, in the aggregate, more than six thousand dollars per year, including all commissions for duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law.Naval officers limited. Nor shall such naval officer on any pretence whatever, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than five thousand dollars per year, including all commissions on duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law.Naval officers limited. Nor shall such naval officer on any pretence whatever, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than five thousand dollars per year, including all commissions on duties, and all fees for storage, or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law.Surveyors limited. Nor shall such surveyor, in the aggregate, receive, hold, or retain for himself, hereafter, more than four thousand five hundred dollars per year, including all commissions or fees or emoluments, or any other commissions or salaries which are now allowed and limited by law:Proviso. Provided, The aggregate sums allowed per year to the several officers aforesaid shall be exclusive of the necessary expenses incident to their respective offices, in the same year, subject to the regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury;
All stores hereafter rented to be on public account, &c.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all stores hereafter rented by the collector, naval officer, or surveyor, shall be on public account, and paid for by the collector as such, and shall be appropriated exclusively to the use of receiving foreign merchandise, subject as to the rates of storage, to regulation by the Secretary of the Treasury;
False swearing to the accounts required by the 5th section of this act, to be deemed perjury.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That every collector, naval officer, and surveyor of the several ports of the United States, who shall be guilty ​of false swearing in taking the oath, at the rendition of his accounts as required by the fifth section of this act to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the intention to deceive and defraud the Government of the United States, shall be deemed to be guilty of perjury, and liable to the same prosecution and penalty inflicted for like offences, to be tried and adjudged in any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, and it shall be the duty of theSec. Treasury may direct the Dist. Attorney to prosecute the offender. Secretary of the Treasury, whenever in his opinion the said offence has been perpetrated as aforesaid, to direct the District Attorney of the United States for the district within which the same has occurred to prosecute the offender;
Laws inconsistent with the 5th, 6th, 7th sections of this act, repealed.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, inconsistent with the provisions of the fifth, sixth, and seventh sections of this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1841.