Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-04-08
TPuBLIc-No. 90


eighteen hundred and forty
BE enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives.
II the United STATES OF america in Congress assembled,
That the following be a, the hereby appro
priaed to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the
vice Of the fiscal year ending the hieh Of June eighteen
hundred and or;y-eight, namely
For pay Of one additional clerk in the office of the Fifth Au
dor rendered necessary by the increase of lighthouse bust
al eight hundred dollars per annum from the first
June eighteen hundred and forty seven the theth OF
June eighteen hundred and foyeigh eight hundred and
sixty-fve dollars and nney-four cents.
For extra clerk hire for the settlement Of the increase of
sness in the Office Of the Secretary Of the Navy occasoned
by the Mexican war, six thousand dollars.
For salary Of the judge Of the southern district Of Florida
per twenty February, eighteen hundred and forty
seven from third March, eighteen HUNDRED and forty
thousand dollars per annum, thousand hundred and
sixty -one dollars and twelve cents.
For salaries Of district attorney and marshal Of the southern
district OF Florida per act from third March, eighteen
hundred and forty seven, hireth June eighteen hundred
and forty eight at two hundred dollars each per annum
hundred and hirty-wo dollars and twenty-five cents.
For salaries Of the two keepers Of the public archives in Flo
da per act Of third OF March, eighteen hundred and twenty
FIVE, thousand dollars Porided That so much Of sail
act of third Of March, eighteen hundred and twenty ve
authorizes the appointment Of keepers Of the public
chves shall be and the is hereby repealed from and
after the breh June, eighteen hundred and forty eight
and, in the e shall be the duty Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury to the said archives be removed
public office in the State of Florida be designated by the
PRESIDENT oil tue Unlteu crates, tnec 10 be safely
For expenses Of thiy-ve lighthouses including oil and
other annual supplies delivering the same and repairing the
lighting apparatus for four hundred and twenty lamps saa
s Of thirty 1--WE keepers, at the fixed average Of four hun
dred dollars per annum and also all other expenses for six
months twenty thousand hundred and forty dollars
For floating light including the keepers salary
hundred and fifty dollars and all other expenses for nine
months two thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars
For additional expenses of sundy buoys for six months
one thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. M y
For additional expenses Of temporary floating light Sand
Key, Florida, in lieu Of the lighthouse destroyed there,
thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
For superinendents commission twenty eight thousand
hundred and fory-sx dollars and half per cent
seven hundred and six dollars and fifteen cents.
For contingent expenses under the for the collection
saekecpng, transfer and disbursement Of the public
Of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty five thousand
dollars. qet
For contingent expenses the Office Of the Treasurer Of the
United States, five hundred dollars.
For per diem compensation for clerk employed in the Adju
tant Generals Office, one thousand dollars
For per diem compensation Of clerk employed in the Ord
nance Office, thousand and ninety-eight dollars
For per diem compensation for eight clerks employed and
such additional number Of clerks tho exgences OF the pub
lie service may require be employed temporarily, by the
Commissioner Of Pensions, with the appreciation and
Of the Secretary Of War; during the presen, fiscal year.
bounty land business in the Pension Office AT not
cecdng three dollars and hiryhree per day. fifteen
thousaod six hundred and ninety dollars and nineyx cents.
For contingent expenses Of the Pension Office tous
dollars
unexpcnded balance Of the appropriation remaining the
hieth Of June thousand eight hundred and
for that purpose two hundred and nncone dollars and
/ ty-five cents.
For outfits ofchsges dies aares Naples the Papa States
and the Republics OF Bolivia Guatemala and Ecuador TWEEN
ty-two thousand five hundred dollars
For quarters salary for each of the charges des aare
to the Papal States, Bolivia Guatemala, and Eucado ou
4 thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary Of The consul Beyroo from the 4th OF August
eighteen hundred and fory SIX to the thch Of june egh
teen hundred and fortyeght nine hundred and fifty hre
dollars and eighty cents M
For compensation for such additional number Of clerks
the cxgence Of the public service may require to be employ
cd temporarily by the Secretary ofhe Treasury in the office
Of the Second and Third Auditors and in the Office of tb
Second Comptroller not exceeding thousand dol
lars per annum, and for contingencies, houssn
dollars.
For compensation eight additional clerks 10 be employee
in the General Land Office, the rate Of thousand dollar
! per annum each, the OF two thousand dollars. y
For the relief and protection Of American oreig
countries, twenty thousand dollars. ttfflrte, ~
! ~ lf,fefasA Na 4t ARMY, sea.ss .s4 s.ss &c.,,
For regular supplies incidental expenses and trapspoao
10 the Quarermasers department Of the army, five miiO