For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twenty-two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.

For books, maps, and plans, for the War Department, one thousand dollars.

For additional or temporary clerk hire during the years eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in order to carry into effect the act of seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, granting revolutionary pensions, twenty-four thousand and thirty-nine dollars. For printing, stationery, rent, and expenses of procuring revolutionary records, arising under the act aforesaid, five thousand dollars.

For additional clerk hire, messengers, stationery, printing, and other contingencies of the pension office for the present year, four thou sand dollars. And a commissioner of pensions shall be appointed by the President and Senate, who shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, which is hereby appropriated. He shall execute, under the direction of the Secretary of War, such duties in relation to the various pension laws, as may be prescribed by the President of the United States; and he shall also have the privilege of franking; but this provision shall only continue until the expiration of the next Congress.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, four thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, including advertising, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the topographical bureau, including the purchase of books, repair of instruments, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.

For the services of a lithographer, and the expenses of the lithogra phic press of the War Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.

For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of buildings, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand one hundred dollars.

For completing the fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For the fitting up the basement rooms of the executive building occu

pied by the War Department, for the preservation of papers, and the occupation of clerks, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Navy Depart

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars. ment. For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engines, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.

For additional clerk hire in the Post-office Department, during the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, beyond the annual appropriation, thirty-four thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.

Post-office.

For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Mi- Miscellaneous. chigan, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand. dollars.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand seven hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor general in Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to clerks in said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, including fifty-four 1831, ch. 116. dollars ninety-five cents, from twenty-first June to thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, two thousand fifty-four dollars ninetyfive cents.

For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, by act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, fifteen hun'dred dollars.

Miscellaneous.

1830, ch. 106.

Judiciary.

For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, fifteen thousand dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For completing the building for the mint at Philadelphia, and machinery thereof, eleven thousand dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, seven thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay and mileage of the legislative council of said territory, six thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary, of the Florida territory, including additional compensation to two of the judges, under the act of twenty-sixth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, at eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand one hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and distribution of the laws, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, eighty-one thousand four hundred dollars.

For the salaries of chief justice and judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans' courts of the said district, nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.

For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court, 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 thirty-three, and pre

ceding 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, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

Pensions.

Lighthouses.

For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices where there Miscellaneous are no sales, two thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance

of former appropriations, seventy thousand dollars.

For completing the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi and Alabama, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars.

For surveys of private land claims in Florida, eight thousand dollars. For the salaries of the district attorney, agent, and assistant council, and contingent expenses in Florida, five thousand dollars.

For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.

For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, twelve hundred dollars.

For the fifth payment to Luigi Persico, for two colossal statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Colombia, forty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, nine thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, Naples, and Colombia, sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits of the chargés des affaires of the United States to Great Britain, Central America, and Colombia, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand

dollars.

For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.

To satisfy a claim presented by his majesty, the king of Sweden, on account of injuries sustained by subjects of the said government in the island of St. Bartholomews, by an illegal act of the commanding officer of the United States' sloop of war Erie, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.

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Miscellaneous.

To Washington Irving, late secretary of legation at London, for an arrearage on account of his services as chargé d'affaires, and for one quarter's salary, the allowance for his return to the United States, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-five cents.

To George W. Slacum, consul of the United States at Buenos Ayres, on account of diplomatic services at that place, from the death of John M. Forbes, till the arrival of Francis Baylies, chargé d'affaires of the United States, from the fourteenth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to the fifth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, four thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.

To John Randolph Clay, secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, as an outfit, and on account of his services as chargé d'affaires one year seven months and six days, seven thousand two hundred dollars.

To Cyrenius Hall, a resident of Upper Canada, the sum of five thousand three hundred dollars, (being the value of a schooner, the property of the said Hall, seized and libelled by the collector of the port of Venice, in Sandusky bay, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, which was ordered by a decree of the district court of Ohio to be restored, but which, previously to said decree, had been lost,) with interest on the said sum of five thousand three hundred dollars from the tenth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, till the eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one; and with further interest on the said sum from the twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, till paid.

To the clerk employed in the Department of State as a translator of foreign languages, in addition to the salary now provided by law, six hundred dollars per annum.

To the clerk employed in the Department of State as agent of accounts, in addition to the salary now provided by law, three hundred dollars per

annum.

To indemnify Captain Daniel Turner, of the United States' navy, for the expense of conveying the Netherlands' minister, and his suite, from New York to Curacao, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, eleven hundred and eighty-two dollars seventy-eight cents.

To indemnify Captain George Washington Storer, of the United States navy, for the expenses of acommodating Commodore David Porter, chargé d'affaires of the United States at Constantinople, on board of the United States ship Boston; and for the expenses of conveying George Porter, consul of the United States at Tangiers, from Port Mahon to Tangiers; and of conveying Lieutenant Ebenezer Ridgway, consul of the United States at Tripoli, and his family, from Port Mahon to Tripoli, in all five hundred dollars.

To Michael Hogan, the sum of eighteen thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, in full, for diplomatic services rendered the United States in Chili, from the eighteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and from the twenty-ninth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to second of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

To George F. Brown, consular agent at Algiers, three thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars for his services to the twentieth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

For purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dol lars.

For payment of preparing and printing the documents ordered to be printed by Gales and Seaton, fifty thousand dollars, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation for the same object at the last session.