Secretary to sign patents for lands. Commissioner and forty-two, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, twenty-one thousand dollars. For compensation of the secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washof public build-ington city, and the three assistants, as draw-keepers at the Potomac bridge, including oil, fire wood, and repairs, four thousand dollars. United States Mint and Branches.-For compensation of the offi ings. Mint and branches. Mint at Phila delphia-offi cers. Workmen. Contingent expenses. Specimens. Branch mint cers and workmen of the mint at Philadelphia, viz: For the director, three thousand five hundred dollars; For the treasurer, two thousand dollars; For the chief coiner, two thousand dollars; For the assayer, two thousand dollars; For the melter and refiner, two thousand dollars; For the engraver, two thousand dollars; For the assistant assayer, one thousand three hundred dollars; For four clerks, four thousand four hundred dollars; For wages to workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including the wastage of gold and silver, fuel, materials, stationery, water, rent, and taxes, seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars. For specimens of ores and coins to be reserved at said mint, three hundred dollars. For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint at at Charlotte Charlotte, in North Carolina, viz: officers. Workmen. Contingent expenses. Branch mint For the superintendent, two thousand dollars; For the assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars; For wages to workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars. lars. For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint at at Dahlonega Dahlonega, in Georgia, viz: officers. Workmen. Contingent expenses. Branch mint at New Orleans officers. Workmen. Contingent expenses. Territories. Wisconsin. Governor. For the superintendent, two thousand dollars; For the assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars; For the clerk, one thousand dollars; For wages to workmen, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dol lars. For incidental and contingent expenses of said branch, including fuel, materials, stationery, taxes, and wastage of gold, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint at For the superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; For the coiner, two thousand dollars; For the assayer, two thousand dollars; For the melter and refiner, two thousand dollars; For two clerks, two thousand four hundred dollars; For wages to workmen, twenty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of said branch, including fuel, materials, stationery, and wastage of gold and silver, fifteen thousand dollars. Governments in the Territories of the United States.-For compen sation of the officers of Wisconsin Territory, viz: For Governor, two thousand five hundred dollars; Secretary. For secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars; dollars; For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, pay of officers, printing, stationery, fuel, furniture, postage, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, seventeen thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation of the officers of Iowa Territory, viz: For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. expenses. Legislative Assembly. Iowa. expenses. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Legislative Assembly of said Territory, pay of officers, printing, stationery, fuel, Assembly. furniture, postage, candles, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, twenty thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation of the officers of Florida Territory, viz: For Governor, two thousand five hundred dollars; For five judges, nine thousand five hundred dollars; For secretary, one thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Council of said Territory, pay of officers, stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Florida. Judges. Contingent expenses. Legislative Council. Judiciary. Chief justice and associate justices. Attorney General, &c. Judiciary. For the salaries of the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, and the judges of the several districts of the United States, ninety-three thousand nine hundred dollars. For the Attorney General of the United States, and the clerk and messenger in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars. For the salaries of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, the Judges of Disassociate judges, the judges of the criminal court and the orphans' courts of said District, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. For the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, including arrears of eighteen hundred and forty-two, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For the salaries of the district attorneys of the several districts and Territories of the United States, as prescribed by law, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For arrears of the salaries of the district attorneys of Maryland and Massachusetts, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, four hundred dollars. For the salaries of the marshals for the several districts and Territories of the United States, as prescribed by law, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and fortyfour and preceding years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, including expenses under the bankrupt law, three hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars; Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to, or in any way allowed to any person or persons, who has or have neglected, or who shall hereafter neg trict Columbia. Reporter to Supreme Court. District attor neys. Marshals. Expenses of the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts, &c. Proviso, no payments to be made to persons neglecting to comply with 167th paragraph of act of 18th May 1842, ch. 29. Miscellaneous. Annuities and grants. Coast survey. to the mode of carrying it on, &c. lect to comply with all and every requirement contained in the one hundred and sixty-seventh paragraph of the first section of the twenty-ninth chapter of the laws of the United States, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two," and approved May eighteenth eighteen hundred and forty-two. Miscellaneous.—Annuities and grants: To Josiah H. Webb, fifty dollars; To Rachel Dohrman, three hundred dollars; To Elizabeth C. Perry, four hundred dollars; For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation of superintendent and assistants, one hundred thousand dollars: ProProviso relative vided, That this, and all other appropriations hereafter to be made for this work, shall, until otherwise provided by law, be expended in accordance with a plan of reorganizing the mode of executing the survey, to be submitted to the President of the United States by a board of officers which shall be organized by him, to consist of the present superintendent, his two principal assistants, and the two naval officers now in charge of the hydrographical parties, and four from among the principal officers of the corps of topographical engineers; none of whom shall receive any additional compensation whatever for this service, and who shall sit as soon as organized. And the President of the United States shall adopt and carry into effect the plan of said board, as agreed upon by a majority of its members; and the plan of said board shall cause to be employed as many officers of the army and navy of the United States as will be compatible with the successful prosecution of the work; the officers of the navy to be employed on the hydrographical parts, and the officers of the army on the topographical parts of the work; and no officer of the army or navy shall hereafter receive any extra pay out of this, or any future appropriations for surveys. Keepers of Florida archives. Insolvent debt ors. Penitentiary of D. C. Public storehouse in Balti more. Mobile custom-house. Sick and disabled seamen. 1802, ch. 51. Boston custom-house. Charleston custom-house and post-office. Ships' regis ters, &c. For compensation of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars. For expenses in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, two thousand dollars. For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. For repairing the cellar of the public store-house in the city of Baltimore, in such manner as to prevent the admission of water into the same, four thousand dollars: this sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For repairs of the custom-house at Mobile, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as, in the estimation of the Secretary of the Treasury, after due inquiry and proper estimates are made, may be deemed necessary to prevent further dilapidation, and render the court-room and other departments in said building fit for use. To make good a deficiency in the eighteen months ending the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and forty-three, and estimated deficiency in the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fortyfour, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the act of the third of May eighteen hundred and three, [two] twenty-five thousand dollars. For paying the contractors under contracts made by the Government of the United States for completing the Boston custom-house, fifty thousand dollars. For repairing the custom-house and post office buildings in Charleston, South Carolina, five thousand dollars. For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, including cost of new dies and plates, four thousand dollars. Officers of old and direct tax. For the payment of balances to officers of old internal revenue and direct tax, being part of the amount carried to the surplus fund thirty- internal revenue first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, three thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety cents. J. Russ and For payment to Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach, in full for labor bestowed, any money expended in repairing or constructing a road S. J. Roach. leading from Pensacola to Tallahassee in Florida, in pursuance of a settlement of their account under the act approved seventeenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An act for the relief of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach," two thousand dollars. For lighting Pennsylvania avenue, one hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses for fuel and light for said watch, three hundred dollars. 1836, ch. 23. Lighting Penn sylvania aveCity watch. nue. Books ordered For payment of the books ordered by the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the eighth of August, one thousand eight by House of Rehundred and forty-two, forty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-six cents. For expenses incurred prior to January first, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for clerk-hire, wages of porter, and stationery, of the commissioners under the act of July seven, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, "to remit duties on certain goods destroyed by fire," one thousand three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ninety nine cents. For the balance due to the late commercial agent at St. Christopher's for disbursements for the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and eight cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to procure the necessary manual for the several custom-houses, together with the necessary instruments and apparatus, to ascertain the relative quantity of saccharine matter in the different kinds of sugar, agreeably to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the twenty-first of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, six thousand two hundred dollars. For the balance due on the second volume of the Documentary History of the American Revolution, six thousand eight hundred and twentysix dollars. For the third volume of the Documentary History of the American Revolution, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That the whole work, when completed, shall not exceed twenty volumes, and that the whole cost of the entire work shall not exceed twenty thousand four hundred dollars per volume: Provided, also, That the materials which shall compose each successive volume shall, before any appropriation is hereafter made for the cost of the same, be submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary of State for the time being: And provided, also, That the parties who stipulated, by articles of agreement dated the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, to publish the "Documentary History of the American Revolution," shall, within ten days from the passage of this act, deliver to the Secretary of State a written agreement, to be by him accepted and approved, adopting as part of the said original articles the restrictions and limitations in these provisoes contained, and making the same legally binding and operative, as portions of the said original articles, in all respects as if they had been in terms incorporated into the same. For completing the indexing of the public documents connected with 3D2 presentatives. Expenses unduties on goods destroyed by der act to remit fire. Act of July 7, 1838, ch. 174. Late commercial agent at St. Christopher's. Sugar manual and apparatus for the customhouses. Documentary History. Indexing docu ments. the office of the First Comptroller and the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight hundred dollars. For paying balance of expenses, in full, for negotiating the loans authorized by the acts of twenty-first July, eighteen hundred and fortyone, and fifteenth April, eighteen hundred and forty-two, ten thousand dollars. Patent Office. For the purchase of such scientific books as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, to be paid out of the patent fund, one thousand two hundred dollars. For the collection of agricultural statistics, and for other agricultural purposes, to be paid out of the patent fund, two thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of taking care of and preserving the botanical and horticultural specimens brought home by the squadron of the Exploring Expedition under the direction and control of the Joint Committee on the Library, twelve hundred dollars. For the removal of the statue of Washington, from its present position, and permanently placing the same on a proper pedestal, and covering it temporarily in the enclosed and cultivated public grounds east of the Capitol, directly in front of the main entrance and steps of the east front of the Capitol, as suggested in the report of the Joint Committee on the Library, and in the letter of Mr. Greenough, dated February third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, referred to and reported by said committee in connection with the memorial of Horatio Greenough, under the direction and supervision of the said Greenough, the sum of five thousand dollars. Light-House Establishment. For supplying the light-houses, containing two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buffskins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation, and keeping apparatus in order, one hundred and five thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and thirty cents. To reimburse the Chamber of Commerce at Philadelphia, the expense incurred by them in continuing the light on the breakwater near Cape Henlopen, a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars. For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-two cents. For compensation of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of lighthouses, eighteen of them being charged with double lights, and one with three, ninety-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For compensation of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen thousand dollars. For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, sixty-six thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-four cents. For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-four thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-four cents. For rebuilding the beacon at Black Rock, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of examining annually and reporting the condition of the light-houses, four thousand dollars. For superintendents' commissions, at two and one half per cent., ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-five cents. For the completion of the repairs of the Potomac bridge, three thousand five hundred dollars. Surveys of Public Lands.-For completing the survey of private land claims in Alabama, and their connection with the adjacent public lands, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, being in addition to the appropriation made for a similar object by the act of April sixth, |