Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-04-07
BY AUTHORITY.
Acts and Resolutions passed at the First
Session of the Thirtieth Congress.

[PUBL1c-No. 2O.l-An Act further 10 supply
deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service OF the fiscal year ending the Thrift
eth of June, eighteen hundred and forty
eight.
Be 1t enacted, By the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of Ameri-
ca an Congress assembled, That the following
sums be, and the same are hereby, appropria-
ted to supply deficiencies in the appropriations
for the service of the fiscal year ending the
thrtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty
eight, namely:
For pay of one additional clerk in the office
of the Fifth Auditor, rendered necessary by
the increase of light. house business, at eight
hundred dollars per annum, from the first of
June, eighteen hundred and forty to
the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
forty eight, eight hundred and sixty five dol
lars and ninety-four cents.
For extra clerk hire for the settlement of
the increase of business in the office of the
Secretary of the Navy, occasioned by the Mex
lean 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 forty-seven, to
thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty
eight, at two thousand dollars per annum, two
thousand six hundred and siXty-one dollars
and twelve cents.
For salaries of district attorney and marshal
of the southern district of Florida, per same
act, from third March, eighteen hundred and
forty-seven, to thirtieth June, eighteen hun
dred and forty eight, at two hundred dollars
each per annum, five hundred and thlrty-tWO
dollars and twenty-five cents.
For salaries of the two keepers of the pub
lie archives in Florida, per act of third OF
March, eighteen hundred and twenty five, one
thousand dollars Provided, That so much OF
said act of third of March, eighteen hundred
and twenty-five, as authorizes the appointment
of two keepers of the public archives, shall
be, and the same is hereby, repealed from and
after the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and
forty eight; and, in the meantime, it shall be
the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury tC
cause the said archives to be removed to some
public office in the State of Florida, to be de-
signated by the President of the United States
there to be safely kept.
For expenses of thirty-fve light
including oil and other annual supplies, deliv-
ering the same, and repairing the lighting ap-
paratus for four hundred and twenty lamps
salaries of thirty-fve keepers at the fixed av.
erage of four hundred dollars per annum, anC
also all other expenses for SIX months, twenty
two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars
For one new floating light, including the
keepers salary at six hundred and fifty dol
lars, and all other expenses for nine months
two thousand three hundred and sixteen dol
lars.
For additional expenses of sundry new
buoys for six months, one thousand six hun
dred and ninety dollars.
! For additional expenses of temporary
floating light at Sand Key, Florida, in lieu o
the lighthouse destroyed there, one Thousand
five hundred dollars.
For superintendent commission on twenty
eight thousand two hundred and fortysix dol
lars, at two and half per cent, seven hun
dred and six dollars and fifteen cents.
For contingent expenses under the act TO
the collection, sate-keeping, transfer, and dis
bursement of the pablo revenue of sixth Au
gust, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five
thousand dollars
For contingent expenses in the office of thu
Treasurer of the United States, five hundred
dollars.
For per diem compensation for clerk en-
ployed in the AGiutant Generals office, one
thousand dollars.
For per diem compensation Of clerk EN-
| ployed in the Ordnance office, one Thousand
and ninetyeight dollars.
For per diem compensation for eight clerks
employed, and such additional number O
clerks as the exgences of the public servc'
may require to be employed temporarily, by
| the Commissioner OF Pensions, with the ap
probation and consent of the Secretary O
War, during the present fiscal year, on boun
ty land business in the Pension Office, at a rat
not exceeding three dollars and thirty-thre'
cents per day, fifteen thousand six hundred
and ninety dollars and ninety-six cents.
For contingent expenses of the Pension of
flee, one thousand dollars.
For clerks in the office of the Secretary o
War, being an uneXpended balance of the ap
preparation remaining Oh the thirtieth Of June
one thousand eight hundred and forty seven
for that purpose, two hundred and ninety ON
dollars and eighty five cents.
For outfits of charges des afaires to Naples
the Papal States, and the Republics of Bolivia
Guatemala, and Ecuador, twenty-five thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For one quarters salary for each of tn
charges des affares TO the Papal States, Bolivia
|
hundred dollars.
For salary of the consul at Beyroot, from
the fourth of August, eighteen hundred an
fortv-six, to the lhirtietR of June, eighteei
hundred and forty eight, nine hundred ant
ffty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For compensation for such additional nun
Der of clerks rs the exigencies of the publ
service may require, to be employed Temporal
rily by the Secretary of the Treasury in tn
offices of the Second and Third Auditor, an
in the Office of the Second Comptroller, at
rate not exceeding one thousand dollars pc
annum, and for contingencies, seventeen thou
sand dollars.
For compensation to eight additional clerk
to be employed in the General Land Office, a
the rate OF one thousand dollars per annur
each, the sum of two thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of America
seamen in foreign countries, twenty thousan
dollars.
Armu-For regular supplies, incidental ex
penses, and transportation in the Quartermas
ters department of the army, five million dol
Vars.
For clothing Of the army, camp and CARR
son equipage, including one hundred and SIX
ty thousand dollars for clothing to volunteer
in lieu of Communication therefor, one millio
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind, Gin addition to tn
sum OF one million dollars appropriated at tn
present session. two million nine hundred an
thirty seven thousand nine hundred and thlrt
nine dollars and seventy-four cents.
For nav of volunteers called into serviC
during the present fiscal year, three millio
six hundred and eleven thousand dollars.