# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 30

Chap. XXX.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, ​and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:
Congress.For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, three hundred and fifty-three thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, including twenty thousand dollars deficiency of appropriation for the same objects for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the sum of eighty-five thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, two hundred 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.
President and Vice President, &c.For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars.
Department of State.For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three hundred dollars.
For clerks, machinist, and messenger in the patent office, five thousand four hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expense of publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, two thousand dollars.
For compiling and printing the Biennial Register, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the buildings, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Treasury Department.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the first comptroller of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the first comptroller, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second comptroller of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the first auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the first auditor, fourteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the second auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second auditor, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the third auditor, twenty-four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fourth auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fifth auditor, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the treasurer of the United States, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the register of the treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the general land office, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the commissioner of the general land office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the solicitor of the treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, to the seventh of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, twenty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For the expenses of stationery, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, the following several sums, viz:
For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including the copying and expenses incurred in consequence of the burning of the treasury building, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first comptroller, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the second auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the third auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the fourth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the treasury of the United States, seven hundred dollars.
For the office of the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the commissioner of the general land office, including one hundred thousand parchments, and cost of printing patents, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the issuing of military land scrip, making out of patents for Virginia military surveys, and for private land claims, and in adjusting the accounts of the surveyors general, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to six additional clerks, one year, to aid in registrering sales of lands, and adjusting the accounts of receivers of public moneys, and for opening tract books, making indexes, and bringing up other arrears, six thousand dollars.
For renewing the old war office index of Virginia military warrants, ​Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.and patents issued on surveys made to satisfy the same, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the preparation of maps to examine and check the quantities and technical designation of parts of fractional sections sold preparatory to the issuing of patents, and in comparing the charges made by surveyors general with the lines exhibited on the return of surveys, one thousand dollars.
For writing, recording, examining, making out lists, and transmitting eighty thousand patents, fifteen thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the bureau of private land claims, to aid in the investigation of land titles; and writing and recording patents for private land claims; and recording deeds of transfer of lands reserved to individual Indians under treaties after conveyances by them, two thousand dollars.
For translations, and for expense of passports and sea letters, three hundred dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the buildings occupied by the Treasury Department, including arrearages for one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the sum of two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs, furniture, and for rent, amounting to three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, eight thousand dollars.
Department of War.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
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 messenger in the bounty land bureau, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of Indian affairs, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of Indian affairs, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, and for a clerk employed at the seat of government, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of [the] adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, including printing advertisements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.
For salary of the clerk of the topographical bureau, one thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the topographical bureau, one thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents.
For the salary of the commissioner of pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks transferred from the office of the Secretary of War, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of additional clerks, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.For additional or temporary clerk hire, to assist in the re-examination of claims and accounts, in order to carry into effect the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, granting revolutionary pensions, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For messengers in the pension office, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the pay of the temporary clerks employed for five months to prepare a statement under the resolutions of the Senate of the sixth and thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, required to be made during the recess of Congress, at an average of eighty dollars per month for each clerk, nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For printing, stationery, rent, expenses of procuring revolutionary records, and other contingencies in the office of the commissioner of pensions, six thousand five hundred dollars.
War office building.For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of building, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for the rent of rooms occupied by the bounty land bureau, and a deficiency of sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Department of the Navy.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
Post-office.For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
For additional clerk hire for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, ​Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.thirty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-four cents.
For the services of a topographer and map-maker for obtaining materials and drawing maps of the several states and territories, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the said surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to clerks in said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Mississippi, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk and draughtsman in the office of the said surveyor, one thousand dollars each.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field-notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary appointed by the President to sign all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand five hundred dollars.1833, ch. 91.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars.
Library.For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, and for contingent ​Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.expenses of the library, and pay of messenger, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For new articles of furniture for the library of Congress, fifteen hundred dollars.
Mint.For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, including one thousand dollars for the salary of an assistant assayer, twenty-three thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For defraying the excess of expenditure in the several departments of the mint for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, beyond the appropriation for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, arising from the extra coinage consequent upon the1834, ch. 96. act of the twenty-eighth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, relative to the gold coinage, including wastage on said coinage, twenty thousand dollars.
Michigan.For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, including five hundred dollars arrearages of compensation to the governor of said territory, from thirtieth of June to thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, per act of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, ten thousand five hundred dollars.1834, ch. 164.
For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, nine thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, and the incidental expenses of an extra session of said council, held at Detroit in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, four thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents.
Arkansas.For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, nine thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses, per act of twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and twenty dollars.1828, ch. 100.
For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislature of the territory of Arkansas, including fuel, stationery, printing and distribution of the laws, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations of six thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-six cents, the sum of two thousand five hundred and two dollars and forty-four cents.
Florida.For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Florida territory, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the contingent expense of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and incidental expenses, per1834, ch. 164. act of eighteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, seven thousand four hundred dollars.
For the printing and distribution of the laws and journals, and publication of the laws of said territory, in three newspapers, as required by law, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
For allowances to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, ​Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.under the acts for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, four thousand and fifty dollars.
For expenses of clerk hire, interpreter, office rent, and stationery, rendered necessary to the judge of the superior court of East Florida, at St. Augustine, in the performance of the services required of him under the1834, ch. 87. act for the relief of inhabitants of East Florida, of June twenty-six, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Judiciary.For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, eighty-one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the expenses of printing the records of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the term of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, three thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans’ courts of the said District, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, and including the sum of three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, being a deficiency in the appropriation to meet the expenditure for the fourth quarter of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, fifteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, 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 safe-keeping of prisoners, three hundred thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.For the payment of sundry pensions, granted by special acts of Congress, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents.
To make good a deficiency in the funds for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the1798, ch. 77. 1802, ch. 51. acts of sixteenth July, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and third May, eighteen hundred and two, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of the marine hospital wharf at Chelsea, Massachusetts, five hundred dollars.
For enclosing the custom-house lot at Norfolk with a brick wall, and for repairs of the custom-house buildings, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and for building an addition to the house occupied by the revenue officer having charge of the public property at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, four hundred dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government. 1834, ch. 144.For a beacon on the piers at the mouth of Genesee river and Sodus bay, as authorized by the act of the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in addition to a former appropriation of four thousand dollars, the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For a lighthouse or beacon-light on one of the piers at the harbour of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, as authorized by the act of the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four,1834, ch. 144. in addition to a former appropriation of three thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars, the sum of six thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For the removal of the lighthouse now on the north end of Goat island, near the harbour of Newport, Rhode Island, as authorized by the act of the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in addition1834, ch. 144. to a former appropriation of thirteen thousand six hundred dollars, the sum of thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars.
For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, seventy thousand dollars.
For surveying the lots in the town of Peoria, in the state of Illinois, as authorized by the1823, ch. 68. act of third March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, five hundred dollars.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the recorder, two commissioners, and translator, for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, from the first January to the first of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, per act of the twenty-seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four,1834, ch. 92. the sum of four thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars.
For contingent expenses and office rent of said board, including five hundred dollars for conveying the final report to the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For stationery and books for the office of commissioners of loans, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For additional payment for the statue of Washington, five thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.
Diplomatic expenses.For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to France, Spain, and Russia, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, New Grenada, Prussia, and Venezuela, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For outfit of a minister of the United States to Spain, nine thousand dollars.
For outfits to the chargés des affaires to Venezuela and Portugal, nine thousand dollars.
For outfit of a chargé d’affaires to Denmark or to Prussia, as may be required, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.
For a balance due John Randolph Clay, chargé des affaires at Russia, thirteen hundred dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.To Captain John Downes the sum of one thousand and eighty dollars, in reimbursement of the cost of presents to native authorities in the Society and Sandwich Islands while commanding the squadron of the United States in the Pacific ocean.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation and expenses of an agent to Havana, to procure the archives of Florida, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous.For completing a “Digest of Commercial Regulations of Foreign Countries,” under the resolution of the House of Representatives of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, including the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars for expenses in obtaining information from foreign countries, the sum of six thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to Lemuel Slater, for services in collecting information, in the state of Rhode Island, upon the extent and condition of manufactures of that state, under the appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two; eight hundred and ten dollars, and twenty-seven cents.
For completing the public warehouse, in Baltimore, sixty thousand dollars.
For the payment of the balance of the salary of Valentine Giesy, late superintendent of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, eight hundred sixty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For the purchase of a site and building a custom-house in the city of Boston, fifty thousand dollars, in addition to what may be obtained by a sale of the present custom-house, provided a suitable site can be obtained and a custom-house satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury can be built to cost not exceeding these appropriations for that purpose.
For the repair of the pier and wharves connected with the public stores on Staten Island, in consequence of the damage done to them by a late gale, for the rebuilding of the store thrown down in consequence of the breaking up of the foundation on which it stood by the same gale: and for putting on of a new roof and other repairs to the remaining store, the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the work to be done upon contract in the ordinary mode of letting contracts for public works.
For payment for preparing, printing and binding the documents ordered to be printed, by Gales and Seaton, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation for the same object, in the1832, ch. 74. act of May the fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, forty thousand dollars.
For payment for printing the documents relating to the public lands, and for binding, and for engraving the necessary maps, ordered to be printed by the Senate, ten thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
And the following sums for the military academy at West Point:
For defraying the expenses of the board of visitors at West Point, two thousand dollars.
For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats, carts, and fences, six thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For philosophical apparatus and repairs of the same, five hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For models for the department of engineering, six hundred dollars.
For completing the custom-house building and enclosing the lot, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
For models for the drawing department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, and repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, one thousand and eighty dollars.
For the department of mineralogy, artillery, and sword exercises, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For increase and expenses of the library, eight hundred and seventy-three dollars.
For miscellaneous items, and incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars.
For pay of the officers, cadets and musicians, fifty-six thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For forage of officers, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and thirty dollars.
For recording the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, two hundred and fifty dollars; which recording shall be done by the clerk of said court presently after the delivery of such opinions.
For the publication of the new System of Discipline and Tactics for the use of the army of the United States, two thousand six hundred dollars; and for compensation to Winfield Scott, the author and compiler, and for superintending the printing of the same, five thousand dollars.
For additional pay to the officers of the navy and the civil establishment of the navy yards, granted byMarch 3, 1835, ch. 27. act of the present session of Congress, two hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy-four cents.
For alterations and repairs in the Capitol, including the domes of the chambers of the Senate and House of Representatives, replacing and renewing the copper of the same, and painting the ceiling of the Rotundo, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of the gardener employed in superintending the Capitol square and other public grounds, one thousand dollars.
For lighting lamps and keeping the grounds and walks in order, including cost of trees and shrubs, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For protection of the waste water pipes and air pipe of the aqueduct of the Capitol and repairs of the pipes, five hundred dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, for gardener’s salary, and for keeping the grounds and walks in order, including the cost of trees and shrubs, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For laying a line of iron water pipes from the State to the Navy Department, seventeen hundred dollars.
For improving Lafayette square, three hundred dollars.
For the annual expense of two fire engines, two hundred dollars.
For preparing the niches for the reception of the statues at the east front of the Capitol, four hundred and sixty dollars.
For repairing the culvert, at the west front of the Capitol, three hundred and eighty dollars.
For completing the work of repairing and putting in order the Congressional burial ground, six hundred dollars.
Land appropriated for unsatisfied warrants and certificates, &c. 1830, ch. 215. 1832, ch. 205. 1833, ch. 94.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That six hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war,” approved the thirtieth day of May one thousand eight ​hundred and thirty, and the act entitled “An act to extend the time for issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,” approved the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the act entitled “An act granting an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants,” approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied in the manner provided for in said acts, to the unsatisfied warrants whether original or duplicate, which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers, soldiers and others therein described; and the certificates of scrip, issued pursuant to said acts shall be receivable in payment for any of the public lands liable to sale at private entry:Proviso. Provided, That no scrip shall be issued until the first day of September next, and warrants shall be received in the general land office until that day and immediately thereafter, if the amount filed exceed six hundred and fifty thousand acres, the commissioner of the general land office shall apportion the said six hundred and fifty thousand acres of land among the warrants which may be then on file, in full satisfaction thereof.
Second section of the act making appropriations for 1834, ch. 92, repealed, and Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain amounts to officers of the custom. 1832, ch. 227. Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the second section of the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, is hereby repealed, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers of the several ports of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as will give to the said officers, respectively, the same compensation in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, according to the importations of that year, as they would have been entitled to receive, if the act of the fourteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, had not gone into effect: Provided, That no officer shall receive under this act a greater annual salary or compensation than was paid to such officer for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and that in no case, shall the compensation of any other officers than collectors, appraisers and surveyors, whether by salaries, fees, or otherwise, exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars each per annum; nor shall the union of any two or more of these offices in one person entitle him to receive more than that sum per annum:Proviso. Provided, That the whole number of the custom-house officers in the United States on the first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall not be increased until otherwise allowed by Congress:Proviso. Provided, further, That the said collectors, naval officers and surveyors shall render an account, quarterly, to the treasury, and the other officers herein named or referred to, shall render an account, quarterly, to the respective collectors of the customs, where they are employed, to be forwarded to the treasury, of all the fees and emoluments whatever by them respectively received; and of all expenses incident to their respective offices; which accounts shall be rendered on oath or affirmation, and shall be in such form, and be supported by such proofs, to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, as will, in his judgment, best enforce the provisions of this section, and show its operation and effect:Proviso. Provided also, That any salary or compensation due for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall not be affected by this section.
Payments not to be made in bank notes below par at place of payment.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no payment of the money appropriated by this act, or any other act passed at the present session of Congress, shall be made in the note or notes of any bank which shall not be at par value at the place where such payment may be made: Provided, that nothing here contained shall be construed to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of any debt due from the United States to individuals.
Approved, March 3, 1835.