Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-06

Judicial districts and the business therein and
greater than the of the annual increase of
penditures for judicial purposes.
Pauper fanatics and agricultural Statistics.
Under these heads the estimates the last
year.
Public Buildings
Under this head the estimates for the next fiscal year
62 90 less than they for the present year.
they embrace items to the amount OF
$751; II deficiencies in the appropriations for
the present fiscal year
The estimates for the next fiscal year
amount to $41s,5O4 II
Deduct therefrom the amount of the de6cien-
cies, chargeable to the present year 5l,834 Il
And the amount properly chargeable to the
next year will be S366,67O %
The estimates for the present fiscal year
amounted to $4s1. 375 90
Add the deficiencies above stated 81, 1874 II
And the amount properly chargeable to the
present year will be $533, lob II
which is $166, 4397l than is estimated for the
next fiscal year.
Peaitentiary
Here the estimate for the fiscal year 81 $50 less
than that for the present year This dmnuon Of expen
tures results from the increased productveness Of the
sttution, arising from its better management
Mericon Boundary Surrey
The amount embraced in the regular estimates for the
present fiscal year was 100000 90
The amount included in the estimates for
the next year IS S2UO,OOO w
There would therefore, appear to be the
estimate for the present year Of 100000; but this is
merely apparent After the regular estimates had been
submitted letters received from the Commissioner
making such representations to the cost of ansporta
ton and the scarcity and high price of provisions &C. in
the country along the line to render it necessary to
ask for larger sum. The facts communicated to
the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Rep
resentatves and to the Committee Finance in the Sc
nate and they requested to increase the appropri
alton to $18O,OOO. This was not done however, and
v1arun in
deficiency as being $50 which, added to
Of the present year $4,000 and deducting it
from the gross amount of the present estimates, leaves
$4,000 only chargeabe to the next fiscal year. being
900 less than the amount required for the present
year. s
Pension Office.
This Bureau has charge Of distinct branches of bu
sness viz. Pensions and Land Bounties.
Pensions may be classed under six different divisions
First To soldiers of the Revolution.
Second. To widows of Revolutionary soldiers
| Third To nyalids.
Fourth To widows and orphans of soldiers in the Next
can war. t2#
Fifth To persons in the naval service of the United
States.
Sixth. Virginia half-pay and Communication claims.
The whole number of pensioners of all classes now
the rolls is 1851 of whom 49, ACT paid during the
irs quarters of the present year. the latest periods
which have reports The number added to the rolls
during the year was 2287 and the number of deaths
ported 765. The whole amount expended for pensions
during the year ending 30h September 1851 exclusive Of
navy pensions, is about 81, 439, 848.
Revolutionary Pensions.
The first act granting pensions to Revolutionary SOL
ders passed 18th March, 1873 The whole number PEN
stoned under that act up to the present time is 20
Of whom only 1888 remain on the rolls being re-
auction since my last report Of lao.
The next law on the subject passed on the 18th
May, 1928. Under it /, l55 pensions were granted AT
the date of the last report but 1872 remained the rolls
which number "a supposed to have died during the
last year. only l28 reported being now on the
rolls. sfs a a
ing pensions soldiers Of the Revolution passed 7h
june 1892 1856 persons have been benefcares under
this act, but only 4,S13 now remain on the rolls
Widoacs of Revolutionary Soldiers.
The law granting pensions persons of this class
was passed the 4th july 1886 Under its provisions
5O6S have received pensions The number now ON the
rolls under that act and the act of 21st July, lS4S is
274. 8s
The act of It'll July 1885, granted pensions to widows of
revolutionary soldiers who married prior to 94 OF
who received the benefit of that law, only 1876
their pensions during the first two quarters of the
present year.
The act Of I'd February 1s4s extended the benefits of
the law of 1888 such widows had been married prior
to the LIST of January, 1874. The whole number pen
stoned under this act $780, of whom 4294 yet
the rolls The act of Goth July 1848 extended its bene-
those who married prior to 1900 and under
the law 900 have been pensioned oil of whom according
to the returns yet remain on the rolls.
1t thus appears that time is rapidly sweeping from
stence these venerable objects Of national gratitude and
munifcence.
Iydltd Pensions.
The whole number Of pensioners of this class on
the rolls is $780, of whom Gil have been added during
the year.
Mexican Var Pensions.
The act of 2ls july 1s4s and the supplemental act Of
22d February 1S49 and the joint resolution of 2Sth Sep
teber 1850 gave pensions to the widows and orphans
of soldiers killed in the Mexican who died from
disease contracted in the service Under these laws $50
persons receiving pensions, showing increase
of 294 since the date Of my last report.
| Nary Pensioners
It has heretofore been the report the statis-
tics relating pensioners of this class to the Secretary of
the Navy by whom they communicated to the Pre-
sdent But believing that it would be satisfactory
to embody all the facts relating to the entire subject of
pensions in single report, have deemed 1t proper to
embrace this class with the others
It appears from the report of the Commissioner Of PEN
sons that the number Of invalid pensioners of this class
now on the rolls is 709 20 having added during the
last year that the number of widows now on the rolls
4S1 being increase during the last year of 90 and
that the number of orphans is 49, III having been added
since khe last report The aggregate amount requir
Cd to pay pensioners Of this class the rolls il