Washington telegraph., 1851-01-01
BY AUTH HORIT Y.
PUBLIC ACTS.
PUBLIC ACTS.
Passed during the first session Of the Thirty. first
Congress.


PUBLIC ACTS.
PASSED during the first session of the 7Hirty,r
Congress.
[PUBL1c-No 53l
AN ACT making appropriations for the civil and
diplomatic expenses of Government for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred
and fly -one, and for other purposes. o
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of America
an Congress assembled, That the following sums
he and hereby are, appropriated, out of any money
in the treasury lot otherwise appropriated for the
objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year
ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
fifty lone, namely: -e.ft sr
LEGISLATIVE.
For compensation and mileage of Senators,
members of the House of Representatives, and
Delegates four hundred and sixteen thousand three
hundred and thirty eight dollars. And it is hereby
declared that according to the true Interpretation
of the third section of the act entitled "An act
allowing compensation to the members of the
Senate, members of the House Of Representatives
of the United States, and 10 the Delegates of the
Territories, and repeating all other laws on that
subject" approved twenty second January, eigh-
teen hundred and eighteen, all certificates which
have been may be granted by the presiding
officers of the Senate and House of Representatives
respectively 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 to be, conclu-
sive upon all the departments 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, aud other contn-
ent expenses of the Senate, including publishing
-oceedings and debates, one hundred thousand
olIars.
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other con-
tingent expenses of the House o. Representatives.
one hundred and nlnety-seven thousand seven
hundred and forty mine dollars.
For addition to the contingent fund of the House
of Representatives, thirty thousand dollars.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
For compensation Of librarian, two assistant Ii
brarians, and messenger four thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For contingent expenses Of said library, eight
hundred dollars.
For purchase of books for said library, five thou
sand dollars.
For purchase of law books for said library, two
thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect the International ex-
changes of books authorized by the act OF twenty
sixth June, eighteen hundred and forty eight, en-
titled 'An act to regulate the exchanges oil certain
documents and other publications of Congress- %
two thousand dollars.
For the purchase Of books for the library of the
Treasury Department, one thousand dollars.
For the purchase of library 10 be preserved in
the Executive mansion, two thousand dollars; and
the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress
hereby authorized to supply said libraries with
any duplicates o: public documents which can be
spared from the public collections in the Library
of Congress elsewhere. And the Secretary of
the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives be authorized and required to subscribe
on behalf Of 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
arendy subscribed for be considered part,) to
the second session of the Eighteenth Congress-,
when the Register of Debates. already published,
begins; the price per volume not to exceed that
agreed upon for the volumes already printed and
delivered under the title of "Annas of Congress-"
which copies (after distributing copy to each
member OF the Thirty first Congress- not provided
for by the previous order for supplying the mem
bers of the rhrtiett Congress) shall be deposited
with the Librarian of Congress for the future dis
position 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 States, one thousand collars.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
For compensation of the Secretary of State, and
the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in
his office, twenty EIGHT thousand three hundred
dollars.
For the in cidental and contingent expenses of
said Department. viz: For publishing The laws
pamphlet form, and in the newspapers OF the States
and Territories, and in the city of Washington,
eighteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For proof reading, packing and distributing
laws and documents, including boxes, labor, and
transportation, ten thousand dollars
For stationery, blank books, binding, labor, and
attendance, furniture. fixtures, repairs, painting,
and glazing, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For printing tlelter press and copper plate)
books and maps, two thousand dollars.
For newspapers, TWO hundred dollars.
For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand
dollars.
For miscellaneous items one thousand dollars.
For compensation of the superintendent and
four watchmen of the northeast Executive building
one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars; for
contingent expenses of said building, viz: for labor
fuel, and light, two thousand two hundred dollars
For miscellaneous items, one thousand Que hun
dred dollars.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
For compensation Of the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, and the assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
clerks, messenger and assistant messenger, i'm his
office, thrty-two Thousand five hundred and fifty
dollars
For compensation of the FRS: Comptroller, and
the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty
Thousand one hundred and fifty dollars-the salary
of one of the clerks in his office, per act of the
twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen,
being hereby increased to fourteen hundred dollars
per annum, from first of July, eighteen hundred
and fifty
For compensation of the Second Comptroller,
and the clerks and messenger in his Office twenty
three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of one temporary clerk in the
office of the Second Comptroller, at salary Of
one thousand dollars per annum, one thousand
dollars.
For compensation of the First Auditor, and the
clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his
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