The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-04-14
For surveyors in Missouri, in the towns named in ito

dollars appropriated tor the SAME oDJccl " ''o
cirhth April eighteen hundred and thirty eigh' '"o
Thousand dollars; ;,
For surveying five hundred miles Of detached ana
unfinished lines in Illinois and Missouri Prnc'pa"y
lin the military district Illinois, at rate not oScoeo'
;r- s,,, dollars mile three thousand dollars;
Eor s,lsriss Of ministers of the Untod States to
Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia Austria ann
sMoxico, fifty four thousand dollars; Il
For salaries Of the secretaries OF legation 20 tne
as,me places, twelve thousand dollars;
For SALARY of tho minister resident Of the United
Estates to Turkey; six thousand dollars;
For salaries of the charges dcs aairs to Poruga'j
Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Bra
zil, Chill, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela Texas
Naples and Sardinia sixty three thousand dollars;
For salary of a drogoman to tho legation to Iur-:
key, two thousand FIVE hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses Of all the missions abroad
1 thirty thouaand dollars;
For outfits of ministers to Austria and Great brl-
Stian and of charges des affairs 10 Venezuela twon-
Ety two thousand five hundred dollars;
1 For salaries of tho consuls of the Uuted States
! at London and Paris four thousand dollars;
For tho relief and protection of American seamen
sSin foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars;
For clerk hire, ofice.rent, stationery, and other
eexpcnses in the Office of the American consul at
kLondon. pcr act Of January nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and thirty.sx, two thousand eight hundred
G,dolars;
q For expenses Of intercourse with the Baroary
EPowers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars;
For the contingent expenses offoreign intercourse
Ethrty thous md dollars;
a For salary of the principal and two assistant Ii.
Sbrarians pay of the messenger, ard for contingent
scxpenses of the lbrlry, three thousand nine hun.
dred and fifty dollars;
For the purchase of books :or the library in Con-
E gress, five thousand dollars;
For he payment Of arrearages incurred in cnforc-
ing the neutrality laws the northern and north
western frontier, five thousand dollars;
\ For the service of tho General Post Office for
! the year eighteen hundr' and forty one, i'll con-
formity to the uct Of second july eighteen hundred
sa'sand thirty six;
4 For transportation of the mail, three millions
1.-TWO hundred and eighty thousand dollars;
For compensation of postmastors, one million and
sffiy 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 tn,
other several critics of tho Union eaah and every
year hereaftor to render quarerycary account to
/ the Postmaster General under oath, in such form
tho latter shall prescribe, for the purpose of Civ
ing ful effect to this proviso, of all emouments of
sums by them respectively received for boxes or pi.
goon.holes, other recepaclcs for letters or papors
and by them charged for to individuals; or for the
delivery of letters or pappcrs at or from any place n
either of said cities, other than the actual post Office
of such city,and of all cmoluments, receipts, and
profits that have come to their hands by reason Of
branch post Offices in either OF said cities; and it,
from such accounting it shall appear that the nett
amount received by either Of the postmasters at ei.
ther of such cities for such boxes and pigeonholes
and orhe reccptaces for letters and papers, and for
delivering letters pupers at or from any place in
either of said cities other thau said post Office. and
by reason of keeping branch post Office in either
iof said Cities shall, in the aggregate exceed tho
sum Of three thousand dollars in any ono year. such
,excoss shall be paid to tho Postmaster General for
the use and purposes of the Post Office Department;
and no postmaster shall hereafter, under any pro-
tence whatsoever havo or receive, retain for him.
SELF in the aggregate. more than five thousand dol.
lars per year. including salary, or commissions box
es, and all other fees, pcrquisites and emoluments
Of any name or character whatsoever, and for any
service whatsoever, now allowed and limited by i
law.
For ship, steamboat and way letters, forty thousand
dollars;
For wrapping paper, twenty five thousand dollarss
For Office furniture, five thousand dollars;
For advertising, thirty six thousand dollars;
For mail bags, thirty five thousand dollas;
For blanks, thirty three thousand dollars;
For maillocks keys and stamps, fifteen thousandt
dollars;
For mail deprcdaticns and special agents, twenty
two thoueand dollars;
For clerks for offices, two hundred and ten thou.
sand dollars;
For miscellaneous, sixty thousand six hundred and
twenty dollars; ?
And for the continuance of the survey Of The coast
of the Gulf of Mexico twenty thousand dollars; {
For the balance, certified as due 10 tho agent and
commissioners at Havana, to procure the archives Of
Florida, and transmit them TO this country, and in
full execution Of tho laws upon that subject the sum
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