Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-05-03


appropriated to that object.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, Tha, it shall
be the duty Of the Secretary Of the Treasury to
report to Congress, at the commencement of the
next session, the amount OF money borrowed
under this act, aud Of whom, and on what terms
| it shall haze been obtained, with an abstract or
brief statement of all the proposals submitted
for the same, distinguished between those accep-
ted and those objected, with detailed state
ment Of the expense of making such loans.
APPROVED MARCH 81, 1913.
[PUBLIc. No. 2o.]
AN ACT further to supply DEFICIENCIES in the
appropriations for the service of the fiscal
year ending the tiiirtieth Of June, eighteen
hundred and forty-eight.
Be It enacted by the Senate and House Of Rep-
resentatves Of the United states OF America in
Congress assembled, That the following sums
pe, and the same are hereby appropriated to sup
ply deficiencies, in the appropriations for the
service OF the fiscal year, ending the thirtieth
day OF June, eighteen hundred and forty -eigh,,
namely:
For pay Of one additional clerk in the Office
Of nth auditor, rendered necessary by the in
crease OF light house business. at eight hundred
dollars per annum, from the first Of June eight
cen hundred and fcrty-eisht, eight hundred and
For extra clerk hire for the settlement Of the
increase Of business in the Office Of the Secre,a.
ry OF the Navy, occasoned by the Mexican war,
six thousand dollars
For salary OF the Judge Of the southern dis
trict OF Florida, per act tWenty-third February.
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, from third
March, eighteen hundred and fortv-seven, to the
thirteth June, eighteen hundred and forty eight
at two thousand dollars per annun, two thousand
six hundred and sixsy-one dollars and twelve
cents.
For salary OF district attorney and marsha!
of the southern district of Florida per same act
from third March. eighteen hundred aud forty
seven, to hirtieth ofJune, eighteen hundred and
forty-eight, at two hundred dollars each per an
nun. five hundred and thirty-two dollars and
| twenty-five cents.
For salaries Of the two keepers of the public
archives in Florida. per act Of third March
| eighteen hundred and twenty five, one thou.
sand dollars: Provided, That so much of said
act Of third March. eighteen hundred and TWEEN
ty-five, as authorizes the appointment of two
keepers Of the public archives. shall be, and the
same is hereby repealed, from and after the
| thrtiefh June. eighteen hundred and forty-eight
and in the meantime it shall be the duty Of the
Secretary OF the Treasury to cause the said arch
| ives to be removed to some public office in the
State of Florida, 10 be designated by the presi.
| dent Of the United States, there to be safe,,
/ kent.
/ For expenses OF t'ir;y-fve lighthouses, inclu
! ding oil and other annual supplies. delivering thu
same and repairing the lighting apparatus for fou
hundred and twenty lamps, salaries of thirty-fy.
keepers, at the fixed average of four hundred dollar
/ peg annun, and also all other expenses for 81,
months, twenty-five thousand, seven hundred ant
| forty dollars.
j For one new floating light including the keeper,
salary at six hundred and fifty dollars, and all othe
expenses for nine months, two thousand three hun
dred AMI sixteen dollars.
/ For additional expenses of suniry new buoys fo
six months, one thousand six hundred and ninet,
dollars.
i For additional expenses of The Temporary foatn
light at Sand Key, Florida, in lieu of the light hous
destroyed there, one thousand five hundred dollars
For superintendents commission twenty eigh
thousand two hundred and fofty-six dollars, at tw,
and half per cent, seven hundred and six dollars
and fifteen cents.
For contingent expenses under the act for the col
lection, safe and disbursement of thu
public revenue Of sixth August, eighteen hundred
and forty-six five thousand dollars.
| For contingent expences in the Office of the Treas
urer of the United States, five hundred dollars.
| For per diem compensation for clerk employed
1 IN the adjutant generals office one thousand dol,
/ lars.
/ For per diem compensation of clerk employed il
| ordinance Office, one thousand and nnety-eigh
dollars.
! For per diem compensation for eight clerks en-
pleyed, and such additional number of clerks as the
exegencies Of the public service may require to be
employed temporarily, by the commissioner of pen.
sions, with the appreciation OF and consent of the
Secretary Of War, during the present fiscal year
bounty land business in the pension Office, at rate
not exceeding three dollars and thirty-hFee cents
per day, fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety
dollars and nnety-slz cents
For contingent expenses ofthe pension office, one
thousand dollars.
| For clerks in the Office Of the Secretary of War
being unexpended balance of the appropriation
| remaining on the thirtieth of June, thousand
eight hundred and forty-SeSen, for that purpose
two hundred and ninety-oae dollars and eighty five
cents
For outfits Of charges des affairs to Naples, the
Papal States, and the republics of Bolivia Guatemala
and Ecuador, twenty-five thousand five hundred
dollars.
For one quarters salary for each OF the charges
des affairs to the Papal States, Bolivia States Guate-
mai;, and Ecuador, four thousand five hundred
dollars.
For salary of the consul at Bcyroot, from thu
fourth OF August, eighteen hundred and forty-sx
to the thireth of June, eighteen hundred and for
ty-eight, nine hundred and fifty dollars ant
eight cents.
For compensation for such additional number
of clerss as the exigencies Of the public service
may require, to be employed temporarily by the
Secretary Of the Treasury in the office of the second
| and third auditor. and in the office of the second
comptroller, at a rate not exceeding thousand
dollars per annum, and for contingencies, seven.
teen thousand dollars.
For compensation to eight additional clerks to be
employed in the general land office, at the rate OF
one thousand dollars per annum each, the sum Of
two thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen
IN foreign countries, twenty Thousand dollars.
ARMY
For regular supplies, incidental expenses, and
transportation in the quarter masters department
of the army. five millions dollars.
For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equip
page, including one hundred and sixty thousand
dollars for clothing the volunteers, in lieu Of
mutation therefor, one million one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind lin addition to the sum OF
one million dollars appropriated at the present
sion) two millions nge hundred and thirty-seven
thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and
seventy-four cents.
For pay of volunteers called into service during
the present fiscal year. three millions six hundred
and eleven thousand dollars.
For medical and hospital department s;xty-four
thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores and
supplies, three hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses of arbitrating the title to the Pea
Patch island, five thousand dollars.
MARINE CORPS.
For provisions, sixteen thousand one hundred and