# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 71

Chap. LXXI.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1846. That the following sums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:
Congress.For compensation and mileage of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates, five hundred thousand dollars.
Officers.For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, thirty-two thousand and ten dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation of three clerks employed in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, under resolutions of the Senate, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingencies―Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, sixty thousand dollars.
​House of Reps.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars.
Distribution of books.For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives arising under the resolution of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, providing for the distribution of certain books, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Provided, That the accounts for said books shall be settled at the Treasury Department upon satisfactory evidence of the delivery of the same according to the intent of said resolution.
Library of Congress. Officers.Library of Congress.―For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger of the library, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said library, six hundred dollars.
Books.For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars.
For purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars.
Executive. President.Executive.―For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Repairing and furnishing President’s house.For repairing and painting the Presidential mansion, six thousand dollars, and for furnishing the same with furniture of American manufacture, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of the old furniture, fourteen thousand dollars; Provided, That the painting of the same shall be done under contract to be made with the lowest bidder, after proposals for the same shall have been published in two of the principal newspapers printed in the city of Washington, for the period of sixty days.
Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.
State Department. Secretary, &c.Department of State.―For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, viz:
For publishing the laws, and packing and distributing the laws and documents, including proof-reading, labor, boxes, and transportation, nine thousand dollars;
For stationery, blank books, binding, labor, attendance, furniture, fixtured, repairs, painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars;
For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand dollars;
For printing, letter-press, and copperplate, advertising, books and maps, two thousand dollars;
For newspapers, two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
N. E. executive building.For the contingent expenses of the northeast executive building, viz:
For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, eleven hundred dollars;
Biennial Register.For compiling, printing, and binding the Biennial Register, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriation.
Treasury Department. Officers in office of― Secretary. First Comptroller.Treasury Department.―For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Second Comptroller.For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
1st Auditor.For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars.
2d Auditor.For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty-one thousand nine hundred dollars.
3d Auditor.For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, ​and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
4th Auditor.For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
5th Auditor.For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Treasurer.For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Register.For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty thousand three hundred dollars.
General Land Office. Reduction of clerks.For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, and packers, in his office, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars; Provided, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce the number of clerks to be employed in the General Land Office from and after the thirtieth day of June next, to sixty; and any excess of appropriations herein made for clerks in that office, shall be carried to the surplus fund of the Treasury.
Solicitor.For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand dollars.
Contingencies in the office of―Secretary of the Treasury.Contingencies of the Treasury Department:
In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, sealing ships’ registers, compensation for carrying the department mails, translations, printing, including public accounts, eight thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous expenses, one thousand dollars.
First Comptroller.In the office of the First Comptroller:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
For expenses incident to loans, three thousand dollars.
Second Comptroller.In the office of the Second Comptroller:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing blanks, including pay for the National Intelligencer and Globe, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, labor, and office furniture, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
1st Auditor.In the office of the First Auditor:
For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.
2d Auditor.In the office of the Second Auditor:
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing blanks, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars.
3d Auditor.In the office of the Third Auditor:
For blank books, binding, printing, stationery, labor, and office furniture, eight hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.
4th Auditor.In the office of the Fourth Auditor:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, seven hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.
5th Auditor.In the office of the Fifth Auditor:
For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, three hundred and seventy-five dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Treasurer.In the office of the Treasurer:
​For labor, three hundred and seventy-five dollars:
Register.In the office of the Register of the Treasury:
For blank books, binding, printing, stationery, and labor, two thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
General Land Office.In the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office:
For stationery, including blank books, and blank forms for the district land offices, pieces of parchment and printing patents, advertising land sales in newspapers an din hand-bill form, public notices, and printing circulars, office furniture and repairs of the same, and pay of laborers employed in the office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars.
Solicitor.In the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing circulars and blank forms for returns of district attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, collectors of the customs, and labor, one thousand and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.
S. E. executive building.For the contingent expenses of the southeast executive building, namely:
For labor, fuel, and light, seven thousand seven hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
War Department. Officers in office of― Secretary. Commiss’r of Indian Affairs.War Department.―For compensation of the Secretary of War, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars;
Commissioner of Pensions.For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks in his office, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars;
Com’dg Gen.For compensation of the clerk in the office of the Commanding General, one thousand dollars;
Adj. General.For compensation of clerks in the office of the Adjutant General, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Quartermaster General.For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster General, including clerks that were attached to the purchasing department, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
Paymaster General.For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, seven thousand one hundred dollars.
Com. Gen. of Subsistence.For compensation of clerks in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Chief Engineer.For compensation of clerks in the office of the Chief Engineer, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Surgeon General.For compensation of the clerk in the office of the Surgeon General, one thousand dollars.
Colonel of Ordnance.For compensation of clerks in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Topographical Engineers.For compensation of the clerk in the bureau of Topographical Engineers, one thousand dollars.
Contingencies in office of―Contingencies of the War Department, viz:
For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, and the various offices and bureaus connected therewith, viz:
Secretary.In the office of the Secretary of War:
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing, one thousand two hundred dollars;
For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars.
Commissioner of Pensions.In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions:
For stationery, blank books, binding, printing blank forms and regulations, advertising, and fuel, eight hundred dollars;
​For rent of houses occupied by the Pension Office, six hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars.
Commanding General.In the office of the Commanding General:
For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.
Adjutant General.In the office of the Adjutant General:
For printing Army Register and orders, blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars.
Quartermaster General.In the office of the Quartermaster General, including the office at Philadelphia:
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing, six hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
Paymaster General.In the office of the Paymaster General:
For blank books, binding, stationery, and fuel, three hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.
Comm’y G. of Subsistence.In the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, advertising, labor, and fuel, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars.
Chief Engineer.In the office of the Chief Engineer:
For blank books, binding, stationery, and fuel, four hundred and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, four hundred and fifty dollars.
Surgeon General.In the office of the Surgeon General:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and fuel, one hundred and eighty-five dollars:
For miscellaneous items, sixty-five dollars.
Colonel of Ordnance.In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and fuel, six hundred and thirty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.
Topographical Engineers.In the bureau of Topographical Engineers:
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the northwest executive building, viz:
For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Navy Department. Officers in―Office of Secretary. Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks. Bureau of Construction, equipment and repairs.Navy Department.―For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of Navy Yards and Docks, and to the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, ten thousand four hundred dollars;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair, and to the assistant constructor, clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand seven hundred dollars;
For two clerks at the rate of twelve hundred dollars each, and one clerk at the rate of one thousand dollars, hereby authorized to be appointed in the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs, three thousand four hundred dollars;
Chief Naval Constructor, and Engineer-in-chief.For salaries of the chief naval constructor and engineer-in-chief, six thousand dollars.
Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography.For compensation of the chief of the bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and to the draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, eight thousand four hundred dollars;
​Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.For compensation of the chief of the bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and to the clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand one hundred dollars;
For one additional clerk, hereby authorized to be appointed in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, twelve hundred dollars;
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For compensation to the chief of the bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and to the clerks, assistant surgeon, and messenger in his office, six thousand six hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said department, and all the bureaus connected therewith, viz:
For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, four thousand one hundred and forty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
S. W. executive building.For the contingent expenses of the southwest executive building, namely:
For labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
Post Office Department. Postmaster General, &c.Post Office Department.―For compensation to the Postmaster General, three assistant Postmasters General, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, superintendent and watchmen of the said department, seventy-four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of the said department, viz:
For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, oil, printing, labor, and day watchmen, six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars;
Auditor, &c.For compensation of the Auditor of the Post Office Department, clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers in his office, eighty-five thousand seven hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said office, viz:
For labor, blank books, binding, stationery, printing blanks and circulars, four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars;
Purchase of lots.To enable the Postmaster General to purchase, for the use of the Post Office Department, the remainder of the square on which the General Post Office building is situated, at the prices agreed upon with the owners of the property, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
Magnetic telegraph.For defraying the expenses of the magnetic telegraph from the city of Washington to Baltimore for the current year, ending on the first day of February next, the said sum to be disbursed under the direction and superintendence of the Postmaster General, eight thousand dollars.
Patent office.Patent Office.―For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, one thousand dollars; for the collection [of] agricultural statistics, and other purposes, three thousand dollars―which several sums, amounting in the whole, to four thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund.
Public buildings, &c. Contingencies for Capitol and grounds.Public Buildings and Grounds.―For repairs of the Capitol, lamp lighters, oil for lamps, wick and repairs of lamps and lamp posts, attending furnaces and water closets, cleaning the rotundo and crypt, laborers and cartage on the Capitol grounds, tools, wire, leather, nails, and manure and straw for grounds, trees and shrubs, attendance at the western gates of the Capitol, repairs of public stables and sewers, keeping in order the iron pipes that conduct the water to the Capitol and public offices, for repairs of the roof of the Capitol and hose for the grounds, eight thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty cents.
Gardender.For the gardener’s salary, twelve hundred dollars.
President’s house, &c.For repairs of the President’s house, laborers and cartage, tools, wire, twine, leather, stakes, nails, and manure and straw for the grounds, trees ​for the President’s grounds, Fountain square, Lafayette square, Pennsylvania avenue, repairs of fence at Fountain square, Lafayette square, President’s garden, and for repairs of pumps and sewers, three thousand and seventy-seven dollars.
Water-posts, flagging, &c.For improved iron water posts on Pennsylvania avenue, for flagging in front of the Treasury buildings, for repairs of the figure on the tympanum of the Capitol, and for the purchase of hose for the Anacostia Fire Engine Company, four thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
Pennsylvania avenue, &c.For paving and repairing Pennsylvania avenue and repairing the road to the Congressional burial ground and to the navy-yard, agreeably to the mode, and under the superintendence provided in a bill for that purpose, which passed the Senate February twenty, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
Plans for War and Navy Department buildings.And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a skilful architect to prepare and submit to him the necessary plans for a fire-proof building upon such plan of arrangement as may be ultimately required for the War and Navy Departments; and that he submit the same to Congress at its next session with an estimate of the cost of erecting such buildings for its action and decision.
Surveyors and their clerks. North-west of the Ohio. Proviso, office to be removed to Michigan. Papers to be handed over.Surveyors and their Clerks.―For compensation of the surveyor general northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That said surveyor general’s office northwest of the Ohio shall be removed to and kept at such place in the State of Michigan as the President of the United States shall from time to time direct. And that on the removal of the said office as aforesaid, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the surveyor general of said district shall be required to deliver over to the Secretaries of State of the States of Ohio and Indiana or such other officers as may be authorized to receive them, all the field notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to the surveys and land titles within their limits.
Illinois and Missouri.For compensation of the surveyor general in Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Arkansas.For compensation of the surveyor general in Arkansas, and the clerks in his office, four thousand three hundred dollars.
Louisiana.For compensation of the surveyor general in Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Mississippi.For compensation of the surveyor general in Mississippi, and the clerks in his office, three thousand six hundred dollars.
Alabama.For compensation of the surveyor general in Alabama, and the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars.
Florida.For compensation of the surveyor general in Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Wicsonsin and Iowa.For compensation of the surveyor general in Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, three thousand one hundred dollars.
Apportionment of compensation to clerks.For compensation of the clerks in the offices of the surveyors general, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government, fifteen thousand dollars.
Secretary to sign patents.For compensation of the secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Commissioner of public buildings.For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, in Washington city, two thousand dollars.
Potomac bridge.For compensation to four assistants, draw keepers at the Potomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, fire wood, and repairs of the bridge, and for arrearages due, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
​Mint and branches. Mint at Philadelphia―officers.Mint of the United States and Branches.―At Philadelphia, viz:
For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and four clerks, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, water rent, and wastage, six thousand dollars.
For specimens of ores, to be reserved at the mint, three thousand dollars.
Branch mint at Charlotte― Building.At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz:
For the erection of a building in the place of the one destroyed by fire, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required so to arrange the plan of the building, and the execution of it, that the whole cost of the building shall not exceed the aforesaid sum;
Machinery, &c.For the purchase of machinery and tools, including repairs of the old, and contingencies, ten thousand dollars; and that the expenditure of the appropriations for the erection of the building and the purchase and repair of machinery be commenced as soon as practicable after the passage of this act;
Officers; salaries to be suspended.For salaries of superintendent, assayer, coiner and clerk, six thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required, immediately after the passage of this act, to suspend the payment of salaries to any of the said officers until the branch is in a condition to resume its operations, unless he shall consider it advisable to retain the services of one or more of them in superintending the erection of the building herein provided for.
Branch mint at Dahlonega—officers.At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz:
For salaries of the superintendent, assayer, coiner, and clerk, six thousand dollars;
For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage, three thousand three hundred dollars;
Branch mint at New Orleans―officers.At New Orleans, viz:
For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, and two clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars;
For wages of workmen, nineteen thousand dollars;
Contingent expenses.For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, twenty-three thousand dollars;
Territories. Wisconsin.Governments in the Territories of the United States.―Wisconsin Territory:
Executive officers. Contingent expenses.For salaries of Governor, three judges, and Secretary, nine thousand one hundred dollars; for contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars;
Legislative Assembly.For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars;
Iowa.Iowa Territory:
Executive officers.For salaries of Governor, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand one hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars;
Legislative Assembly.For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, fourteen thousand and fifty dollars;
Florida.Florida Territory:
​Executive officers.For salaries of Governor, five judges, and secretary, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars;
Legislative Assembly.For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, pay of officers and attendants, printing, stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expenses, twenty thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-three cents:Application of appropriations for Iowa and Florida. Provided, That the appropriations made for the Territories of Iowa and Florida shall be applied only to the payment of expenses that may be incurred before their admission as States into the Union.
Judiciary. Chief justice and associate judges. District judges.Judiciary.―For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the eight Associate Judges, forty-one thousand dollars.
For salaries of the district judges, fifty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.
Judges of District of Columbia.For salaries of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, the associate judges, the judges of the criminal and orphans’ courts of said district, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars.
Attorney General, &c.For salaries of the Attorney General, and clerk in his office, five thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of Attorney General, five hundred dollars.
Reporter of Supreme Court.For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, thirteen hundred dollars.
District Attorneys.For compensation of the district attorneys, including those in the several Territories, as prescribed by law, eight thousand dollars.
Marshals.For compensation of the marshals, including those in the several Territories, as prescribed by law, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For defraying the contingent expenses of the Supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and previous years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and for prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, four hundred thousand dollars, a part of which may be applied to make good any deficiency that may exist in the appropriation for this object for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five.
Additional counsel.For the employment of additional counsel or agents for the defence of the interests of the United States, in suits authorized to be brought against the United States by virtue of the act of the seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitledAct of June 17, 1844, ch. 95. “An act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, and in those parts of the States of Mississippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Perdido and Mississippi rivers,” five thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. Annuities and grants.Miscellaneous.―For the payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Keepers of Florida archives.For compensation of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.
Confederation and Washington papers.For preparing indices to the manuscript papers of the Confederation and of Washington, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Claims under act of March 5, 1816, ch. 23.For the adjustment of claims arising under the act of the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, [sixteen,] for the relief of Lieutenant Colonel William Lawrence and others, being a re-appropriation of an amount heretofore carried to the surplus fund, three hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents.
​Auxiliary guard.For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Penitentiary of D. C.For the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars.
Coast survey.For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to the superintendent and assistants, eighty-eight thousand dollars.
For the publication of maps and charts, the materials for which have been accumulating in the office of the coast survey, twelve thousand dollars.
Exploring expedition.For completing the publication of the work of the Exploring Expedition, including the printing of an extra number of charts, and for the salary of the horticulturist, ten thousand dollars.
Boston custom-house.For completing the work of the custom-house at Boston, one hundred thousand dollars.
New Orleans custom-house.For plans and estimates for the erection of a custom-house in the city of New Orleans, in front of the square now occupied for that purpose, five hundred dollars: Provided, That the site for said ground be conveyed by the first municipality of New Orleans, in full title, absolutely and unconditionally, to the United States; that its location and extent be deemed satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized to agree upon such conditions for the settlement of the conflicting pretensions of the United States and the first municipality to said custom-house square, and the ground in front of it, as he may consider just and equitable.
Charleston custom-house.For repairs of the custom-house at Charleston, five thousand dollars.
Savannah custom-house.For the erection of a custom-house building in the city of Savannah, Georgia, thirty thousand dollars.
Maryland hospital.For the liquidation and settlement of the debt due to the Maryland hospital for the support of lunatic paupers of the District of Columbia from the tenth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to tenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, five thousand dollars; the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the order of the marshal of the District of Columbia, and according to such adjustment of said account as he may find correct.
Insane paupers in D. C.For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane paupers of the District of Columbia, four thousand dollars: Provided, That the amount paid for each person shall not exceed four dollars per week: And provided, further, That the marshal of the District of Columbia be, and he hereby is authorized to maintain at Baltimore or some other suitable lunatic asylum, all such lunatic persons being paupers, who are now confined in the lunatic asylum at Baltimore by order of Congress or are in the jails of Washington and Alexandria counties, and all such as may hereafter be committed as lunatics by order of the circuit or criminal courts, they being paupers of said District of Columbia, and their support being legally chargeable thereto; and that he pay the expenses of their removal and maintenance in such asylum as he may select, and be allowed for the same in the settlement of his accounts at the Treasury Department.
Light-house establishment. Supplies.Light-house Establishment.―For supplying light-houses, containing two thousand six hundred and seventy-one lamps, with oil, tube glasses, buff skins, whiting and cotton cloth, expenses of transportation, and for keeping the lighting apparatus in repair, one hundred thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-four cents.
Repairs.For repairs, incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, eighty-three thousand dollars.
Keepers.For salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers, and sixteen assistant keepers, of light-houses, (seventeen of them charged with double ​and two with triple lights,) ninety-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty cents.
Floating lights.For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen thousand dollars.
For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, sixty-two thousand dollars.
Buoys, &c.For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-two thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Annual examination.For expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting their light-houses, annually, and examining and reporting the condition of each, two thousand dollars.
Superintendents’ commissions. 5th Auditor to superintend light-houses.For superintendents’ commissions, at two and a half per centum, nine thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty-five cents: Provided, That no superintendent or collector, or other officer acting as superintendent, whose compensation may exceed two thousand dollars per annum, shall receive any commissions allowed by this or any other act: And provided, further, That the fifth Auditor of the Treasury, shall continue to superintend the several matters and things connected with the light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, as heretofore, of the United States, and to perform all the duties connected therewith, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, until otherwise ordered by law.
Surveys. Assistant surveyor, &c. in Florida. 1844, ch. 105.Surveys of Public Lands.―For salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private claims in Florida, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general in Florida, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of the seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the same object, one thousand dollars.
For pay of chain carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, &c., for the above, in addition to fifteen hundred dollars, the unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor, fifteen hundred dollars.
Assistant surveyor in Greensburg district, La.For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and oversight of the resurveys in the Greensburg, (late St. Helena,) district, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balance of the former appropriation for the same object, one thousand dollars.
Surveys in Illinois and Missouri.For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mils, twelve hundred dollars.
Michigan.For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand dollars.
Alabama.For resurveys in Alabama, to supply the field notes destroyed with the office of the surveyor general by fire, in addition to a former appropriation for the same object, ten thousand dollars.
Arkansas.For the survey of small detached tracts in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars.
Florida.For resurveys in Florida, to replace the field marks obliterated by Indians and other causes, two thousand dollars.
Louisiana. 1842, ch. 258.For surveying in Louisiana, as follows: at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, for the correction of the surveys in the Greensburg district, under the act of twenty-ninth August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, including officer work, in addition to the unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the same object, eleven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, for the correction of the surveys in the four other districts, including office work, twenty thousand dollars.
Surveying public lands.For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, exclusive of surveys at ​augmented rates in Louisiana, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the surveyor general for the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, shall be, and hereby is, authorized to pay for the surveys to be made in the northern peninsula of Michigan and in the northern part of the southern peninsula of that State, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile for township boundaries, and four dollars per mile for section lines.
Foreign intercourse. Ministers.Intercourse with Foreign Nations.―For salaries of ministers to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, sixty-three thousand dollars; and for outfits of said ministers, sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Secretaries of legation.For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars.
Commissioner to China.For compensation to a Commissioner to reside in China, five thousand dollars.
For salary of secretary and Chinese interpreter to that mission, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Chargés des affaires.For salaries of chargés des affaires to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Texas, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Minister to Turkey.For salary of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.
Drogoman.For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifteen thousand dollars.
Consul at London.For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars.
Consul at Beyroot.For salary of the consul at Beyroot, five hundred dollars.
Outfits.For outfits of chargés des affaires to Texas, Austria, Peru, and Venezuela, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Consulate at London.For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Commiss’r to the Sandwich isl’ds.For compensation of a commissioner to the Sandwich islands, three thousand dollars.
Consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, &c.For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars.
H. Ledyard.For salary as chargé d’affaires, and outfit to Henry Ledyard, while so employed in France, nine thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars.
B. E. Green.For compensation to Benjamin E. Green, while officiating as chargé d’affaires in Mexico, one thousand and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents.
J. P. Hutchinson.For compensation to J. Pemberton Hutchinson, in full, for diplomatic services at Lisbon, during the interval between the suspension of the mission of T. L. L. Brent, and the recognition of his successor at the Court of Portugal, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
A. Middleton.For compensation to Arthur Middleton, in full for diplomatic services in Spain, during several periods in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hundred and forty, fourteen hundred and fifty-four dollars.
Relief of American seamen.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars;
N. E. boundary.For running and marking the boundary line between the United States and the possessions of Great Britain, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Application of the contingent fund of the two Houses of Congress.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no part of the appropriations which may be made for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or attendant of the said two Houses, ​or either of them, nor as payment or compensation to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant [to] be so employed by a resolution of one of said Houses, nor in the purchase of books to be distributed to members.Congressional printing. And all Congressional printing, executed under an order of either House, made after the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, shall be paid for at prices twenty per centum less than those fixed in the joint resolution of the third of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen.
Application of appropriation for the judicial expenses.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no part of any appropriation that may be made for the judicial expenses of the United States, shall be paid, or in any way allowed, to any person or persons who has or have neglected, or who shall hereafter neglect, to comply with all and every requirement contained in the one hundred and sixty-seventh paragraph of the first section of the twenty-ninth chapter of the Laws of the United States, entitledAct of May 18, 1842, ch. 29. “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two,” approved May eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Adjusted accounts not to be re-opened. 1846, ch. 13, § 3. Time for presenting acc’ts limited. 1846, ch. 175, § 5. Proviso.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, no accounts which have been adjusted by the accounting officers of the Treasury, shall be re-opened without authority of law, nor shall the accounting officers of the Treasury act upon any account which shall not be presented within six years from the date when the claim first existed, unless the person having the claim was an infant, lunatic, or feme covert, and then within six years after the removal of the disability: Provided, That this section shall not apply to cases where special acts have passed, or shall pass, for the relief of individuals.
Certain officers and persons continued. 1842, ch. 2.}}Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the respective heads of departments to continue in service, during the next fiscal year, the officers and persons, and at the salaries and compensations authorized in the act approved the 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 offices 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, entitled1844, ch. 105. “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 copying clerk, authorized by the same act, in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and also, the clerk in the office of the Second Auditor, by the same act.
Reduction of clerks in General Land Office.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from and after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, to cause the number of clerks in the General Land Office to be reduced to sixty. And the excess of appropriationsApplication of the excess of appropriations. made for payment of salaries in the General Land Office, shall be and hereby is applied to the payment of any additional clerks that may be required in the other offices of the Treasury Department.
Appropriations for the year ending June 30th, 1845.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five:
Vice President.For compensation to the Vice President of the United States from the fourth of March to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, sixteen hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Register’s office.For arrearages of contingent expenses in the office of the Register of the Treasury, including paper printing, ruling and binding sixteen ​books for entering collectors’ returns of imports and exports, eight hundred dollars.
Cases.For cases for the safe-keeping of settled accounts, two hundred dollars.
Relief of American seamen.To make good a deficiency (anticipated) in the appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.
Office of Commissioner of Pensions.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions and the clerks and messenger in his office, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, two thousand dollars.
Mudding duties.For the payment of mudding duties, erroneously charged by the Danish Government, and refunded in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, being a balance remaining in the hands of the agent of the Department of State, and by him paid into the Treasury March tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, four hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety cents.
Additional compensation to district judges. 1844, ch. 95.For additional compensation to the district judges of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, under the provisions of the first section of the act of seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, seven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
House of Representatives.To make good a deficiency in the appropriation for stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, fifty thousand dollars, out of which shall be paid to William L. Goggin the sum of eight hundred andW. L. Goggin. twenty-four dollars, his pay and mileage as a member of the House of Representatives while contesting the seat of Thomas W. Gilmer of Virginia, the same being at the rate of eight dollars per day from the seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-four inclusive.
Senate.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expense of the Senate, seventy thousand dollars.
Texas boundary.To defray arrearages of expenses of the commission appointed to mark the boundary line between the United States and Texas, ninety-four dollars and sixty cents.
Mexican indemnity.For paying the April and July instalments of the Mexican indemnities due in eighteen hundred and forty-four, the sum of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, It shall be ascertained to the satisfaction of the American Government, that said instalments have been paid by the Mexican Government to the agent appointed by the United States to receive the same in such manner as to discharge all claim on the Mexican Government, and said agent to be a delinquent in remitting the money to the United States.
Postage of the Executive Departments. 1845, ch. 43.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of postages which may be chargeable to any of the Executive Departments or the Bureaus thereof, under the provisions of an act passed the present session of Congress, entitled “An act to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Post Office Department,” the accounts for the same being first audited and allowed by the proper officer of the Treasury Department; the amount thereof to be reported to Congress at the next session.
Approved, March 3, 1845.