Southern shield., 1850-11-30
LAWS OF THE UNIFIED STATES.
PuBLIC-No. 5.

 IAN ACT making appropriations for the civil
 and diplomatic expenses of Government
 for the year ending the thjrtieth of June,
 one thousand eight hundred and fifty y-one,
 and for other purposes.
 Be a enacted by he Senate and House of Representatives. of the United States 9f Amer 9ca io Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and hereby are, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thrtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty one, namely.
 LEGISLATIVE.
 For compensation and mileage of Sena- tors, members of the House of Representa- lives, and Delegates, four hundred and six teen thousand three hundred and thirty eight dollars. And it is hereby declared that ac- cording to the true interpretation of the third section of the entitled "An act allow ing compensation to the members of the Senate, members of the House of Represen- tatives of the United States, and to the Del egates of the Territories, and repeating all other laws on that subject" approved twen- ty-second January, eighteen hundred and eighteen, all certificates which have been or may be granted by the presiding officers of the Senate and House of Representatives respectvel y of the amount of compensation due to the members of their several houses, and to such Delegates, are, and ought to be deemed, held, and taken, and are hereby declared 10 be, conclusive upon all the de- partmeniS and officers of the Government of the United States.
 For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, forty-one thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and tWenty-six cents.
 For stationery, fuel, printing, and other contingent expenses of the Senate, includ- ing publishing proceedings and debates, one hundred thousand dollars.
 For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred and ninety seven thousand seven hundred and forty nine dollars.
 For addition to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, thirty thou sand dollars.
 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
 For compensation oflibrarian, two assist ant librarians, and messenger, four thousand five hundred dollars.
 For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars.
 For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars.
 For purchase of law books for said libra ", two thousand dollars.
 For carrying into effect the international exchanges of books, authorized by the act of twenty ysixth June, eighteen hundred and torty-eight, entitled "An act to regulate the exchanges of certain documents and other publications of Congress, two thousand dol lars.
 For purchase of books for the library of the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars.
 For the purchase of library to be ple- served in the Executive mansion, two thou sand dollars; and the Joint Committee on the Library ot Congress are hereby author ized to supply said libraries with any dupli- cates of public documents which can be spared from the public collections in the Library of Congress or elsewhere. And the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be author iZed and required to subscribe, on behalf off Congress, for two thousand copies of the Debates and Proceedings of Congress from the commencement of the first session, (of which one thousand copies of the first four Congresses already subscribed for be con sidered as part,) to the second session of the Eighteenth Congress, when the Register of Debates, already already published, begins; the price per volume not to exceed that agreed upon for the volumes already print ed and delivered under the title of "Annals ot Congress-" which copies (after distrib- uting one copy to each member of the Thir- ty-flrst Congress, not provided for by the previous @ order for supplying the members ot the Ihlrtieth Congress) shall be deposited with the Librarian of Congress for the fu- ture disposition of Congress.
 EXECUTIVE
 For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation of the Vice President of the United Staies, one thousand dollars.
 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
 For compensation of the Secretary off State, and the clerks, messenger, and assist ant messenger in his office, twentv-eightl thousand three hundred dollars.
 For the incidental and contingent ex- penses of said Department, viz: For publish ing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars