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For continuing the collection and for publishing the statistics and other information authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and subsequent acts........ For the payment of the accounts of Governor John P. Gaines and Courtney M. Walker, for expenses incurred by them in quelling the dif ficulties with the Rogue River Indians of Oregon, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, 4,979 00 To enable the Department to procure the medals of the next President of the United States for presentation to chiefs and headmen of the Indian tribes.....

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For a fog bell or whistle, to be worked by machinery, to be placed on the south pier, near the light-house at Buffalo...... For a new light-vessel to take the place of that now moored off Sandy Hook, in addition to the sum appropriated at the last session of Congress

For buoys for Humboldt Harbor ........... For buoys for Umpqua..

2,000 00 500 00

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For a second class light house at Point Boneta, San Francisco Bay.

25,000 00

2,500 00

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1,500 00

New Jersey.

..250,000 00

To enable the President of the United States to make five military reservations from the public domain in the State of California, or the Territories of Utah and New Mexico bordering on said State, for Indian purposes, and to defray the expense of subsisting the Indians in California, and removing them to said reservations for protection.... To enable the President of the United States to enter into negotiation with the Indian tribes west of the States of Missouri and Iowa, for the purpose of securing the assent of said tribes to the settlement of the citizens of the United States upon the lands claimed by said Indians, and for the purpose of extinguishing the title of said Indian tribes, in whole or in part to said lands....

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For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool and back....... For transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon, and back.. For carrying out the contract entered into by the Post Office Department under the law passed at the last session of Congress, establishing a tri-monthly mail by steam-vessels between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, via Tampico... 70,000 00 For transportation of the mails in two steamships from New York, by Southampton, to Bremen and back, at one hundred thousand dollars for each ship; and in two steamships from New York, by Cowes, to Havre and back, at seventy-five thousand dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of New York For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, under the contract with M. C. Mordecai.... For transportation of the mails across the Isthmus of Panama..

For the erection of a light-house, at Point Iroquois, or on the island off Point Auxchens, as the Light-House Board shall determine....... 5,000 00 For making the foundations of two light-houses, one to be a beacon light on Saint Clair Flats.. 10,000 00

Ohio.

For a beacon of solid masonry, to be placed on a reef lying in the track of vessels at the west end of Lake Erie, near the south shore, off Bois Blanc and near Touissant River.......

Virginia.

For a first-class buoy to be placed on the "Upper Middle" in Chesapeake Bay, and buoys for "Sand Shoal" and "Hog Island Inlet,” Atlantic coast....

For buoys to be placed in the Potomac River, as follows: lower end "Jones's Point," Occoquon Flats," off "Marlow's Creek," lower part of" Wade's Bay," "Jenifer's Quarter," "Matthias Point," and "Dent's Shoal" For a small light at "Stingery Point," Rappahannock

3,000 00

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For additional buoys at Columbia River ........ To test the adaptation of Jabez Stone's patent buoy as a guide to river and other narrow channels....

To enable the Light House Board to procure the necessary machinery and test practically the plan for distinguishing lights by occultations, submitted by Charles Babbage, Esq., and which was communicated to Congress at its last session.. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, if in his opinion the safety of commerce demanded a light at Minot's Ledge, at the entrance of Boston harbor, to replace that which was destroyed, to examine into and allow the claims of R. B. Forbes and others, who kept a light-boat there at their private expense...

250 00

5,000 00

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$325,660 00

By the act making an appropriation for the completion of the public buildings in the Territory of Minnesota.

For the continuation of the public buildings in the Territory of Minnesota, one half of said sum to be applied to the completion of the capitol at St. Paul, and the remainder to the completion of the prison buildings at Stillwater, in said Territory.....

.$25,000 00

By the resolution for the relief of the Spanish Consul and other subjects of Spain residing at New Orleans, and of subjects of Spain residing at Key West, by indemnity for losses occasioned in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one. To pay any losses that may have been sustained by the Consul of Spain and other persons residing at New Orleans, or at Key West, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and who, at that time, were subjects of the Queen of Spain, by the violence of individuals arising out of intelligence, then recently received at those places, of the execution of certain persons at Havana, in Cuba, by the Spanish authorities of that island, and that such losses, so ascertained, to persons at that time subjects as aforesaid, on the certificate of the Secretary of State that the same are proven to the satisfaction of the President, together with the reasonable costs of the investigation......

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20,000 00 By the act for the relief of Mrs. E. A. McNeil, widow of the late General John McNeil. For arrears of pension claimed by her late husband, at the rate of thirty dollars a month, commencing on the twenty-fifth day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirteen, being the day on which he was wounded at the battle of Bridgewater, and ending on the thirtieth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty, being the day on which he resigned his commission in the Army....

For an iron pile light-house, to take the place of the light-vessel stationed near Key West..... 12,000 00 For making permanent the signals placed by the Coast Survey along the Florida reef....... For the erection of a first-class light-house, and fitting the same with a first-order illuminating apparatus, near Jupiter Inlet............................ Alabama.

For largest class iron buoys, to mark the approaches to the principal passes at the mouth of the Mississippi River.... Towards the erection of a first-class light-house, as a substitute for the light-vessel at "Ship Shoal," to be located at "Ship Shoal," or Raccoon Point, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury...

3,000 00

10,000 00

For a beacon on "Deep-hole Rock," in Vineyard Sound...

500 00 600 00

35,000 00

4,000 00

For a beacon to mark a shoal in Mobile Bay channel, caused by a wreck

500 00

Louisiana.

30,000 00

6,000 00

For buoys to be placed on the following points: "Old Newton," "The Sisters," Ledge," (Narragansett Bay,) "Sandy Point," (Block Island,) and "Taursett Point," near Wickford

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For erecting a beacon light at "Seine Rock," Newport harbor....

500 00 1,000 00

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Texas.

20,000 00

For third-class iron buoys, to be placed at "Brazos Santiago Bar," mouth of "Grand River Bar," and the entrance to Matagorda Bay..... 2,000 00 For a first class light-house at the mouth of the Sabine River.. 30,000 00

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By the act to provide for the payment of the companies of Captains Bush, Price, and Suarez, for military services in Florida. The pay and allowances of mounted troops to the following militia forces of the Territory of Florida, for the period of their respective service, as hereinafter specified, to wit: Captain Bush's company of mounted troops from the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentyfifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Price's company of mounted troops, from the twentieth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Captain Suarez's company of mounted troops, from the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to the twentieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine..[Indefinite.]

By the act for the relief of Benjamin S. Roberts. The full amount of his pay and subsistence as a second lieutenant in the first regiment of dragoons, from the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, when he was coerced to resign his commission of second lieutenant in the first regiment of dragoons, without authority of law, until the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, when he was restored to the Army. ..........[Indefinite.]

By the act for the relief of Catharine Proctor
Hayden, only child and heir of John White,
deceased, late a lieutenant colonel in the fourth
Georgia battalion of the Revolutionary Army.
For the seven years' half pay of the said John
White, and for advances made by him to the

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By the act for the relief of John Charles Frémont, late lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States.

To liquidate and satisfy the judgment, damages, and costs recovered, and such expenses in defense of said suit as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem reasonable, which has been recoved, or may be recovered, against John Charles Frémont, late a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States, by Anthony Gibbs & Sons, assignees of F. Hüttman, in her Britannic Majesty's court of exchequer, at Westminster, in England, on four several bills of exchange, or each and every of them, drawn by the said John Charles Frémont at Ciudad de los Angelos, in the then Upper California, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, amounting in all to nineteen thousand five hundred dollars, in favor of one F. Hüttman, for moneys advanced for the public service, the said bills having been drawn on James Buchanan, Secretary of State, and payment refused by him for want of any appropriation out of which the same could be paid, and the said Fremont being sued in London for the same...

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By the act for the relief of L. M. Goldsborough and others.

For expenses incurred by them, respectively, while serving upon a joint commission of Army and Navy officers in California and Oregon, during the years eighteen hundred and fortynine and eighteen hundred and fifty, double the pay of a commander in the Navy, in sea service, during the exact time of their employment on said coasts as aforesaid, to wit: from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, deducting therefrom the regular pay accruing to said officers during that period [Indefinite.] Commutation of fuel and quarters from the first of April, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-seventh of November, eighteen hundred and fifty, equal in amount to the allowance authorized to a major of the Army on duty at San Francisco during that time, deducting therefrom the commutation to which they would have been entitled, respectively, at their posts in the Atlantic States...

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By the act for the relief of the legal representatives of Walter Colton.

The amount deposited by said Colton in the Treasury of the United States, above the net amount for which the prize ship Admittance was purchased by his agent.........

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By the act for the relief of the Southern Michigan Railroad Company.

For services in the transportation of the great northern mail from Toledo to Hillsdale, beyond Detroit, in the State of Michigan........ $971 43

By the resolution for the relief of the heirs of David Cordery.

For the value of a certain reservation of six hundred and forty acres as unimproved land at the date of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, which reservation was allowed under the eighth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, and thirteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, made with the Cherokee Indians......

RECAPITULATION.

Civil, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous... Army Fortifications, Military Academy, and Harbors and Rivers.

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$11,223,374 16

10,429,620 81

$7,865 33

Indian Department, Naval, Revolutionary, and other Pensions... Naval service....

2,837,522 73

Post Office Department and Ocean Mail Steamers.....

8,209,260 77

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By the act for the relief of Lewis H. Bates and William Lacon.

For losses and damages sustained by them by the proceedings of custom-house officers at New York, in exacting from them, upon certain importations of iron into that port, made between the first day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, higher duties than were required by law, and in seizing and libeling some of said goods upon refusal of said Bates and Lacon to enter the same as subject to such higher duty, and for certain costs of court paid by them and not reimbursed......[Indefinite.]

By the act for the relief of S. Morris Waln. For the amount of duties paid on one hundred and sixty quarter casks, and sixty-two Indian barrels of Malaga wine, imported in December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Canning; one hundred and eighty-nine quarter casks of Malaga wine, imported in May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Virginia; nine pipes and one quarter cask of Madeira wine, imported in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in the brig Forest; ninety-nine casks of Oporto wine, imported in the brig Elbe, via New York, and reshipped under bond, per schooner Perseverance, to Philadelphia, in De cember, eighteen hundred and thirty-three ;..

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By the act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the office of Surveyor General of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey 00 and to make donations to the settlers of the said public lands," approved September 27, 1850.

A Receiver of public moneys to be appointed for the Territory of Oregon, west of the Cascade Mountains, who shall be allowed not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum, for the safe keeping and accounting for the public moneys by him received, including all charges for office rent and clerk hire.

A Register of the land office for the Territory of Oregon, west of the Cascade Mountains, to be appointed, whose compensation shall be equal to that allowed to the Receiver of Public Moneys to be appointed under this act.

By the act to establish the Territorial Government of Washington.

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A Governor authorized to be appointed, to receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as Governor, and fifteen hundred dollars as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. A Secretary authorized to be appointed, to receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars.

A Chief Justice and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, to receive each an annual salary of two thousand dollars.

An Attorney for the Territory to be appointed, to receive the same fees as the Attorney for the Territory of Oregon.

A Marshal for the Territory to be appointed, to receive the same fees as the Marshal for the Territory of Oregon, and the sum of two hundred dollars per annum for extra services.

A Legislative Council, consisting of nine members, to receive each three dollars a day during their attendance, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel. T

A House of Representatives, consisting of eighteen members, to receive three dollars each per day during their at

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tendance, and three dollars each for every twenty miles travel.

A Chief Clerk, to receive five dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature.

An Assistant Clerk, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature.

A Sergeant-at-Arms, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature.

A Doorkeeper, to receive three dollars a day during the sitting of the Legislature.

A Delegate in Congress, to receive the per diem compensation and mileage allowed the Delegate from Oregon. By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854.

An additional Appraiser General on the Pacific coast to be appointed, to receive a salary of six thousand dollars per

annum.

An Assistant Secretary of State, at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum.

An assay office established in New York, and the requi site number of officers and clerks authorized, to receive the compensations allowed for "corresponding services" in the Mint of the United States and its branches.

The Clerk of the United States District Court for the Northern district of Mississippi authorized to perform the duties of Register and Receiver of the land office at Ponto toc, Mississippi, upon the discontinuance of the same, and made keeper of the records and files thereof; for which services he is allowed five hundred dollars per annum.

By the act to provide for the survey of public lands in California, the granting of preemption rights therein, and for other purposes.

A Surveyor General for the district or State of California authorized, at a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and allowed for clerk hire eleven thousand dollars per annum, the salary of each clerk not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

A Register of the Land Office for the State of California authorized, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an

num.

A Receiver of Public Moneys for the State of California authorized, at a salary of three thousand dollars per an

num.

The Surveyors General of the United States, respectively, authorized to appoint, each, a confidential agent to inspect the surveying operations while in progress, who shall each receive five dollars a day while so employed.

By the act to provide for additional clerks, and extend the sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.

A translator and interpreter, and two additional clerks, authorized, and the accounts and charges for the same to be audited and settled in the manner provided for as in other

cases.

Appropriations.

III.-OFFICES THE SALARIES OF WHICH HAVE BEEN
INCREASED, WITH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH IN-
CREASE.

By the act to make the salary of the Judge of the Criminal
Court of the District of Columbia equal to that of the As-
sistant Judge of the Circuit Court of said District.

The salary of the Judge of the Criminal Court is increased by this act five hundred dollars per annum.

By the act to amend an act entitled "An act to create the office of Surveyor General of the Public Lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey and to make donations to the settlers of the said public lands," approved September 27,

1850.

To compensate the Surveyor General of the Territory of Oregon for the additional labors and responsibilities imposed by this act, he shall receive two per centum on all sums received, kept, paid over, and accounted for; to include the payment for clerk hire, costs, and incidental expenses: Provided, that the salary and percentage of said surveyor, and for clerk hire, shall not exceed four thousand dollars for any one year.

By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854.

The clerks in the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, are to be arranged in four classes, and to receive the annual salaries specified for each class. To some, when thus classified, the salaries will be increased; to others diminished.

The salaries of the chief clerks of the First and Second Comptroller, First Auditor, Third Auditor, Fourth Auditor, Fifth Auditor, increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the chief clerk of the Second Auditor increased from eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salary of the chief clerk of the Commissioner of the Customs increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum; the salaries of the chief clerks of the Treasurer, Commissioner of Pensions, Register, and Commissioner of Patents, increased from seventeen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars; the salary of the chief clerk of the Commissioner of the Land Office increased from eighteen hundred dollars to two thousand dollars; and the salaries of the chief clerks of the Departments of Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and General Post Office, increased from two thousand dollars to twenty-two hundred

By the act to provide compensation to such per-
sons as may be designated by the Secretary of
the Treasury to receive and keep the public dollars each per annum.
money under the fifteenth section of the act of
the 9th April, 1846, for the additional services
under that act.

The depositaries referred to to receive a specified per-
centage, not to exceed in amount fifteen hundred dollars
per annum.

By the act to supply deficiencies in the appropria-
tions for the service of the fiscal year ending
the 30th of June, 1853.

The Assistants to the Superintendent of the naval as-
tronomical expedition to Chili to be allowed the same rata-
ble increased compensation as was allowed the Superin-
tendent by the act of March 3, 1851.

By the act making appropriations for the Naval
service for the year ending the 30th of June, 1854.

The salary of the Assistant Observer or Astronomer at
the National Observatory raised from one thousand five
hundred dollars to two thousand dollars per annum.

The salary of the principal clerk at the said Observatory raised from one thousand dollars to one thousand two hundred dollars per annum.

The pay of a purser when attached to, or doing duty at, the naval station at California, shall be four thousand dol lars per annum.

A clerk to a parser at that station to be allowed a salary of two thousand dollars per annum.

The first and second clerks of the commandants at Boston, New York, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, to receive the pay of the two lowest classes of clerks of the bureaus of the departments.

The salary of the Vice President of the United States increased from five thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars; the salary of the Secretary of State increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars; and the salaries of the Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, the Postmaster General, and the Attorney General, increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars each.

The Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York, (performing the duties of the Treasurer of the Assay Office,) to receive a salary of six thousand dollars per annum, instead of four thousand dollars per annum.

The salary of each of the Commissioners for settling land claims in California, appointed under the act of 3d March, 1851, increased from six thousand dollars to eight thousand dollars per annum.

The salary of the Collector at Chicago raised to twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

The salaries of the Deputy Surveyors at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, increased to two thousand dollars per annum.

The salary of the Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia increased one thousand dollars, and the salary of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at New Orleans increased five hundred dollars.

The salary of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey increased from four thousand five hundred dollars to six thousand dollars per annum.

By the act to establish certain post-roads, and for other purposes.

The Postmaster at Richmond, Virginia, and the Postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio, allowed the same commission as is allowed to the postmasters at other distributing offices.

MAY 27, 1853.

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