Chapter CV. making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes

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Chap. CV.— An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes.June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Appropriations. sums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five; to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, namely:

For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House Congress. of Representatives, and Delegates, three hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred dollars; For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps. twenty-nine thousand and ten dollars and fifty cents; For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Contingent expenses of the Senate. Senate, sixty thousand dollars; For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Contingent expenses of the House of Reps.

Proviso. House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars; *Provided,* That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them; nor as payment or compensation to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them, unless such clerk, messenger, or other attendant, be so employed by a resolution or order of one of said Houses. *And provided, also,* That Proviso. the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed, in the future disbursements of the public moneys for the use of their respective bodies, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles the growth and manufacture of the United States, provided the same can be procured of such growth and manufacture, of suitable quality and at reasonable prices upon as good terms as to quality and price as can be obtained of foreign growth and manufacture. *Library of Congress.*—For compensation of librarian, and two assistant Library of Congress.

Librarian, &c. librarians, and messenger of the library, four thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said library, six hundred dollars; for Contingent expenses. Purchase of books. Law books. purchase of books for said library, two thousand five hundred dollars; for purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars; *Executive.*—For compensation of the President of the United States, Executive. President of United States. twenty-five thousand dollars;

For repairs of the capitol, attending furnaces and water-closets, lamp-lighting, Capitol, grounds, &c. oil, laborers on the capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, and top-dressing for plants, for trees and plants, repairs of public stable, pumps, flagging, enclosures, extra labor in removing snow, &c., for taking down and rebuilding four chimneys on the capitol, for one bulk-head containing sixty-four lights, baize doors, &c., complete, for one large fan-light and frame, ten feet by five feet, containing thirty-seven lights, and for three additional lamps for the capitol, and alteration in water-works, and for fish, nine thousand and eighty-four dollars.

For repairs to windows, glass, and glazing, heretofore done by John Repairs to windows, &c., by Purdy. Purdy, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents. For digging out the crypt, excavating and making sufficient drains, Digging out crypt, &c.682 paving points and whitewashing lower story under the north wing of the capitol, cutting out additional windows for drying and improving the Supreme Court room and passages, constructing a fuel vault pursuant to the proposition of John Skirving, under date June third, eighteen hundred and forty-four, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars.

For repairs of the President’s house, gardeners’ salary, laborers, cartage, President’s house, &c. tools, manure and straw for top-dressing, for repairs of copper roof, new floor in basement story, chimney tops, trees for fountain square and Pennsylvania Avenue, and for repairs of fence at Lafayette square, fountain square, and President’s garden, three thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars; For salary of the public gardener, twelve hundred dollars;Gardener. For repairing damage done to iron pipes by freshet and fixing jet Repairing iron pipes, &c. d’eau, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For repairing the figure in the tympanum of the capitol, two hundred Repairing figure in tympanum of capitol. dollars; For removing Persico’s statues from the Navy Yard to the capitol, Removing Persico’s statues, &c. preparing the pedestal, erecting the statues and enclosing the same with an iron railing, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For painting, glazing, and whitewashing in the post office, three hundred Painting, &c. in post-office. and eighty-six dollars. *Department of State.*—For compensation of the Secretary of State, State Department.

Secretary, &c. and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his department, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, viz:Contingent expenses, including printing of laws, &c. For publishing the laws, and packing and distributing the laws and documents, including proof-reading, labor, boxes, and transportation, nine thousand dollars; For stationery, blank books, and binding, two thousand dollars; For labor, and attendance, twelve hundred dollars;

For furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing, twelve hundred dollars; For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand dollars; For printing, letter-press and copperplate, and advertising, one thousand dollars; For newspapers, two hundred dollars; For books and maps, one thousand dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the northeast executive building, viz:N. E. executive building. Contingent expenses. For labor, one thousand dollars;

For fuel and light, twelve hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, eleven hundred dollars. *Treasury Department.*—For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury Department. Secretary, &c. Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-six thousand and fifty dollars. For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, First Comptroller, &c. and assistant messengers, in his office, twenty-two thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and Second Comptroller, &c. messenger in his office, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger 1st Auditor, &c. in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger 2d Auditor, &c. in his office, twenty thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, 3d Auditor, &c. and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty-five thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger 4th Auditor, &c. in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. 683 For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger 5th Auditor, &c. in his office, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the Treasurer, &c. clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, Register, &c. messenger and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Commissi’r of General Land Office, &c. and the recorder, solicitor, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers and packers in his office, ninety-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks Solicitor, &c. and messenger in his office, seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Contingencies of the Treasury Department:Contingencies of the Dep’t and its bureaus.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, and the various offices and bureaus connected therewith, viz: In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury:Office of the Secretary. For blank books, binding, and stationery, three thousand five hundred dollars; For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars; For sealing ships’ registers, one hundred dollars; For compensation for carrying the department mails, and for arrearages for two years, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For translations, one hundred and fifty dollars; For extra clerk hire, one thousand five hundred dollars; For printing, including public accounts, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous expenses, one thousand dollars. In the office of the First Comptroller:First Comptroller. For blank books, binding, stationery and printing, one thousand dollars; For labor, four hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Second Comptroller:Second Comptroller.

For blank books, binding, stationery, and printing blanks, seven hundred dollars; For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars; In the office of the First Auditor:1st Auditor. For blank books, binding and stationery, five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars: In the office of the Second Auditor:2d Auditor. For blank books, binding and stationery, four hundred and fifty dollars; For labor, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, including printing blanks, one hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Third Auditor:3d Auditor. For blank books, binding, printing and stationery, six hundred dollars; For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. In the office of the Fourth Auditor:4th Auditor. For blank books, binding and stationery, six hundred dollars; For printing, fifty dollars; For labor, fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. 684 In the office of the Fifth Auditor:5th Auditor.

For blank books, binding and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars; For labor, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Treasurer:Treasurer. For blank books, binding and stationery, four hundred dollars; For labor, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. In the office of the Solicitor:Solicitor. For blank books, binding and stationery, six hundred dollars; For printing circulars, blank forms for returns of district attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and collectors of the customs, three hundred dollars;

For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. In the office of the Register:Register. For the employment of a clerk qualified to conduct and execute the statistical compilations and returns required to be prepared in the Treasury Department for the use of Congress, agreeably to the joint resolution Post, p. 719. of the present session, fifteen hundred dollars; For blank books, binding and stationery, five hundred dollars; For printing, five hundred dollars;

For labor, six hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. In the General Land Office:General Land Office. For stationery, including blank books, and blank forms for the district land offices, five thousand dollars; For pieces of parchment and printing patents, four thousand dollars; For advertising land sales in newspapers, and in hand-bill form, public notices, and printing circulars, three thousand dollars; For office furniture, and repairs of same, one thousand dollars;

For pay of laborers employed in the office, five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items and public documents, seven hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses of the southeast executive building, namely:S. E. executive building. Contingent expenses. For labor, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, three thousand seven hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand seven hundred dollars. *War Department.*—For compensation of the Secretary of War, and War Department.

Secretary, &c. the clerks, messenger and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Commiss’r of Indian Affairs, &c. clerks, messenger and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks Commissioner of Pensions, &c. and messengers in his office, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks in the office of the Commanding General, Clerk in office of Com’dg Gen. one thousand dollars. For compensation of the clerks in the office of the Adjutant General, Adj. General. seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster Quartermaster General. General, including the clerks that were attached to the purchasing department, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General.

Paymaster General, seven thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Com. Gen. of Subsistence. Commissary General of Subsistence, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer. Chief Engineer, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. 685 For compensation of the clerk in the office of the Surgeon General, Surgeon General. one thousand dollars. For compensation of the clerks in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, Colonel of Ordnance. eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the clerk in the bureau of Topographical Engineers, Topographical Bureau. one thousand dollars. Contingencies of the War Department, viz:Contingencies. For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, and War Dep’t and its bureaus. the various offices and bureaus connected therewith, viz: In the office of the Secretary of War:Office of the Secretary. For blank books, binding and stationery, six hundred dollars; For labor, three hundred dollars;

For printing, three hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars; For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars; For extra clerk hire, three thousand dollars. In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs:Commissioner of Ind. Affairs. For blank books, binding, and stationery, six hundred dollars; For labor, fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, eight hundred and fifty dollars; In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions:Commissioner of Pensions.

For extra clerk hire, for one year, two thousand one hundred dollars; For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars; For printing blank forms and regulations, and for advertising, two hundred and fifty dollars; For fuel, one hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars; For rent of houses occupied by the pension office, six hundred dollars; In the office of the Commanding General:Commanding General. For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.

In the office of the Adjutant General:Adjutant General. For printing Army Register and orders, six hundred and fifty dollars; For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Quartermaster General, and office that was attached Quartermaster General. to it: For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars; For labor, one hundred dollars; For printing, one hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; In the office of the Paymaster General:Paymaster General. For blank books, binding and stationery, two hundred dollars; For fuel, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars. In the Office of Commissary General of Subsistence:Comm’y Gen. of Subsistence. For blank books, binding and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars; For printing and advertising, twelve hundred dollars; For labor, one hundred dollars;

For fuel and miscellaneous items, two hundred and fifty dollars; In the office of the Chief Engineer:Chief Engineer. For blank books, binding and stationery, two hundred dollars; For printing, two hundred dollars; For fuel, one hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Surgeon General:Surgeon General. For blank books, binding and stationery, sixty dollars; For printing, fifty dollars; 686 For fuel, seventy-five dollars;

For miscellaneous items, sixty-five dollars; In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance:Colonel of Ordnance. For blank books, binding and stationery, four hundred dollars; For printing, eighty dollars; For fuel, one hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. In the Bureau of Topographical Engineers:Topographical Engineers. For blank books, binding and stationery, four hundred dollars; For labor, one hundred dollars; For fuel, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That in all Miscellaneous. Proviso. cases under this bill, when the appropriations for the contingencies of a department proper, and of the bureaus of that department, or any of them, shall be separately made, the head of the department may in his discretion, consolidate those items of appropriations under the respective heads, and consider them as single sums appropriated for the “contingencies of the department and its several bureaus;” and, in that case, the head of such department may direct the expenditure of those consolidated sums between the department and its bureaus, having regard to the heads of appropriation, according to his discretion, so far as expenditures therefrom shall become necessary; but such head of a department shall, in his annual report to be made to Congress, state the portion of it expended for the department proper, and for each bureau.

For the contingent expenses of the northwest executive building, N. W. executive building. Contingent expenses. viz: For labor, four hundred dollars; For fuel and light, two thousand dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars. *Navy Department.*—for compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department. Office of Secretary. and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks.

Docks, and to the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, ten thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, Bureau of Construction, equipment and repairs. and Repairs, and to the assistant constructor, clerks, and messenger in his office, nine thousand seven hundred dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. and to the clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand one hundred dollars;

For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography. and to the draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, eight thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. and to the clerks and messenger in his office, five thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said department, and all the bureaus connected Contingencies of Department and bureaus. therewith, viz:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars; For printing, three hundred dollars; For extra clerk hire, six thousand dollars; For labor, seven hundred and forty dollars; For compensation of assistant surgeon, detailed for duty in the Bureau Assistant Surgeon, including arrearages. of Medicine and Surgery, at the rate of fourteen hundred dollars per annum, including arrearages since the twenty-fourth of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, sixteen hundred and fifty six dollars and fifty cents. 687 For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars;Miscellaneous.

For the contingent expenses of the southwest executive building, viz:S. W. executive building. Contingent expenses. For labor, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; For fuel and light, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. *Patent Office.*—For the purchase of such scientific works as are Patent Office. Scientific works. necessary for the use of the Patent Office, one thousand dollars; For the collection of agricultural statistics, and for other purposes, Agricultural statistics. two thousand dollars;

For covering the coping of the Patent Office, to protect the building Covering the coping of patent office. from injury by water, seven hundred dollars; For an iron railing on the portico, and for lamp posts, six hundred Iron railing, &c. To be paid out of patent fund. dollars; which several sums, amounting in the aggregate to four thousand three hundred dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund. *Post Office Department.*—For compensation to the Postmaster General, Post Office Department.

Postmaster General, &c. Proviso. three Assistant Postmasters General, clerks, messenger, three assistant messengers, and two watchmen, of the said department, seventy-four thousand three hundred [dollars:] *Provided,* That no extra compensation shall be paid to clerks in any department for extra services; For additional compensation to the four assistant messengers employed Increase of pay to 4 assistant messengers. in the Post Office Department, two hundred dollars, so as to increase their compensation to four hundred dollars per year;

For the contingent expenses of said department, viz:Contingent expenses. For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For fuel and oil, two thousand one hundred dollars; For printing, nine hundred dollars; For labor, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For day watch, three hundred and sixty dollars; For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; including compensation Miscellaneous including compensation to superintendent of building. to the superintendent of the General Post Office building from the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars a year.

For compensation of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, and Auditor, &c. the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, eighty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, viz:Contingent expenses. For labor, two thousand and forty dollars; For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand one hundred dollars; For printing blanks and circulars, one thousand and twenty dollars; For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars; *Surveyors and their Clerks.*—For compensation of the surveyor Surveyors and their clerks.

North-west of the Ohio. general northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general in Illinois and Missouri, Illinois and Missouri. and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general in Arkansas, and the Arkansas. clerks in his office, four thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general in Louisiana, and the Louisiana. clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the surveyor general of Mississippi, and the Mississippi. clerks in his office, three thousand dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general in Alabama, and the Alabama. clerks in his office, four thousand dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general in Florida, and the Florida. clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars. 688 For compensation of the surveyor general of Wisconsin, and the clerks Wisconsin. in his office, three thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks in the offices of the surveyors general, Clerks, to be apportioned. to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, ten thousand dollars. For clerks in the offices of the surveyors general, to transcribe field Clerks to transcribe field notes. notes of survey for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government, in addition to former appropriations, as follows: Office of surveyor general northwest of [the] Ohio, four thousand five North-west of the Ohio. hundred dollars.

Office of surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa, two thousand dollars.Wisconsin and Iowa. Office of surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, four thousand Illinois and Missouri. dollars. Office of surveyor general of Arkansas, one thousand dollars.Arkansas. Office of surveyor general of Alabama, one thousand dollars.Alabama. For compensation of the secretary to sign patents for public lands, Secretary to sign patents. one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the Commissioners of public Buildings in Commissioner of public buildings.

Washington city, two thousand dollars; For compensation to four assistants, draw-keepers at the Potomac Assistants, &c. at Potomac bridge. bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, fire wood and repairs of bridge, and for arrearages due, five thousand five hundred dollars. *Mint of the United States and Branches.*—For compensation of the Mint and branches. Mint at Philadelphia—officers. officers and workmen of the mint at Philadelphia, namely: 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 engraver, two thousand dollars; For the assistant assayer, one thousand three hundred dollars; For the melter and refiner, two thousand dollars; For four clerks, four thousand four hundred dollars; For wages to workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars.Workmen. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, Contingent expenses. water rent and repairs, four thousand dollars.

For specimens of ores and coins to be reserved at the mint, eight Specimens. hundred dollars. For the purchase of the perpetual right, for the mint and branch Purchase of patent right for counting coins. mints of the United States, to the use of a patented apparatus for counting coins, invented by the late Rufus Tyler, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint at Branch mint at Charlotte—officers. Charlotte, in North Carolina, viz:

For the superintendent, two thousand dollars; For the assayer, fifteen hundred dollars; For the coiner, fifteen hundred dollars; For the clerk, one thousand dollars; For wages to workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars;Workmen. For the incidental and contingent expenses of said branch, including Contingent expenses. fuel, materials, stationery, repairs and wastage of gold, fifteen hundred dollars; For renewing the roof of the mint, one thousand dollars;New roof to mint. For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint at Branch mint at Dahlonega—officers.

Dahlonega, Georgia, viz: For the superintendent, two thousand dollars; For the assayer, fifteen hundred dollars; For the coiner, fifteen hundred dollars; For the clerk, one thousand dollars; 689 For wages to workmen, four thousand three hundred and twenty Workmen. dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses of said branch, including Contingent expenses. fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage of gold, three thousand three hundred dollars; For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint Branch mint at New Orleans—officers. at New Orleans, viz;

For the superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; For the treasurer, two thousand 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, eighteen thousand dollars;Workmen. For incidental and contingent expenses of said branch, including Contingent expenses. fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs and wastage of gold and silver, twenty-three thousand dollars;

For machinery and machinists, four thousand dollars.Machinery and machinists. *Governments in the Territories of the United States.*—For compensation Territories. Wisconsin. of the officers of Wisconsin Territory, viz: For Governor, two thousand five hundred dollars;Governor. For three judges, five thousand four hundred dollars;Judges. For secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars;Secretary. For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty Contingent expenses. dollars;

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Legislative Assembly. Assembly of said Territory, pay of their clerks, librarian, and superintendent of public buildings, printing, stationery, fuel, lights, arrearages of previous sessions and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the officers of Iowa Territory, viz:Iowa. For Governor, two thousand five hundred dollars;Governor. For three judges, five thousand four hundred dollars;Judges.

For secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars;Secretary. For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty Contingent expenses. dollars; For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Legislative Assembly. Assembly of said Territory, pay of officers, printing, stationery, fuel, lights, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, including arrearages of expenses of previous sessions of said Assembly, sixteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars.

For compensation of the officers of Florida Territory, viz:Florida. For the Governor, two thousand five hundred dollars;Governor. For the five judges, nine thousand five hundred dollars;Judges. For the secretary, one thousand five hundred dollars;Secretary. For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred and fifty Contingent expenses. dollars; For pay and mileage of the members of the Senate and House of Members of Senate and H. of Reps.—pay and mileage. Representatives and their officers, fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty cents.

For contingent expenses of the Legislative Assembly, including Legislative Assembly, contingent expenses. printing, stationery, fuel, and all other incidental objects and arrearages, seven thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. *Judiciary.*—For compensation of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judiciary. Chief justice and associate judges. Court, and the eight Associate Judges, forty-one thousand dollars. For compensation of the district judges, fifty-two thousand nine hundred District judges. dollars.

For compensation of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, Judges of District Columbia. the associate judges, the judges of the criminal and orphans’ courts of said District, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. 690 For compensation of the Attorney General, clerk and messenger in Attorney General, &c. his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.Contingent expenses. For compensation of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Reporter of Supreme Court.

Court, one thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the district attorneys, including those in the several District attorneys. Territories, as prescribed by law, eight thousand dollars. For compensation of the marshals, including those in the several Marshals. Territories, as prescribed by law, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district Expenses of the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts, &c. 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 fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five and previous 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, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the sum hereby or hereafter to be Proviso. appropriated for this object shall be paid to or in any way allowed to any person or persons who has or have neglected or who shall hereafter neglect, 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 1842, ch. 29. for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two,” and approved May eighteenth one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

And the sum of three thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars To the State of Kentucky for supporting convicts. and sixty-seven cents is hereby appropriated and directed to be paid to the State of Kentucky, in discharge of a claim for that amount due the said State, for receiving, keeping and supporting the convicts of the Federal court for the district of Kentucky from the year one thousand eight hundred and four up to the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

From and after the passage of this act the printing ordered by or for Printing for Supreme Court to be let by contract. the Supreme Court in the city of Washington or any of its officers for the use of said court, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder, in the same manner as is now done for the printing of the Executive Departments. *Miscellaneous.*—For the payment of annuities and grants by special Miscellaneous. Annuities and grants. acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, Keepers of Florida archives. one thousand dollars. For expenses in relation to the loan, two thousand five hundred dollars.Expenses of loan. For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District Penitentiary of D. C. of Columbia, five thousand dollars. For payment to Horatio Greenough for statues for the east front of H. Greenough for statues. the Capitol, four thousand dollars. For compensation to Luigi Persico for services rendered and expenses L.

Persico for services, &c. incurred in bringing the group of statues made by him to this country and placing it on the pedestal by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, four thousand dollars. To make good a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled Deficiency in fund for relief of seamen. seamen, twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, Auxiliary guard. after deducting the unexpended balance of one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents, five thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirty-three cents. 691 For lighting Pennsylvania avenue during the sessions of Congress, Lighting Pennsylvania avenue. six hundred dollars;

For preparing indices to the manuscript papers of the Confederation Indices to Washington papers. and the papers of Washington, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars; For compensation of the commissioner and clerk appointed to mark Expenses of commission to mark the boundary between U. S. and Great Britain. the boundary between the United States and Great Britain and for other expenses of the commission, including the purchase and repair of instruments, wages of persons employed, and other contingencies, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation to two commissioners to examine claims under the Expenses of commission under Cherokee treaty. treaty with the Cherokees of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and pay of secretary, including provisions for Indians during the session of the board, and for contingent expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For defraying the contingent expenses of commissioners to adjust Expenses of commission under Choctaw treaty. Proviso. claims to Choctaw reservations under the treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty with the Choctaws, six thousand one hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the duration of either of said commissions shall not extend beyond one year after the passage of this act.

To pay the expenses that may be incurred in conveying to the seat Expenses of conveying votes of electors to Washington. of Government the votes of the electors of the several States for President and Vice President of the United States, twelve thousand dollars. For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation Coast survey. Proviso. of superintendent and assistants, eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That officers of the army and navy shall, as far as practicable, be employed in the work, whenever and in the manner required by the Department having charge thereof.

For carrying on the work of the custom-house [at] Boston, fifty thousand Boston custom-house. dollars. For continuing the preparation and publication of the Narrative and Publication of narrative of exploring exped’n. Account of the Exploring Expedition, forty thousand dollars. For the publication, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy Maps of exploring expedit’n. and of the Secretary of the Treasury, of such of the maps of the exploring expedition as, in their judgment, will be serviceable to the navy and the commerce of the country, two thousand dollars.

To defray the expenses of taking care of and preserving the botanical Botanical and horticultural specimens, &c. and horticultural specimens brought home by the exploring expedition, and for the salary of the keeper of, and enlarging the green house under the direction and control of the joint committee on the library, twenty-two hundred dollars. *Light-house Establishment.*—For the support and maintenance of Light-house establishment. Supplies, &c. light-houses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, wicks, buff-skins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transporting oil, and for keepers’ salaries, repairs, improvements, and contingent expenses, three hundred and eighty-five thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.

For expenses of superintendents in visiting their light-houses annually, Expenses of superintendents. and examining and reporting their condition, two thousand dollars. For superintendents’ commissions, at two and a half per centum, Superintendents’ commissions. Proviso. nine thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and fourteen cents: *Provided,* That no superintendent shall receive any of the commissions whose compensation may exceed two thousand dollars per annum. *Surveys of Public Lands.*—For surveying the public lands, in addition Surveying public lands. to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, exclusive of surveys in Louisiana, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For surveying, with reference to mines and minerals, in that portion Surveying with reference to mines.692 of Michigan south of Lake Superior, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, under the special direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, twenty thousand dollars. For survey of private claims in Alabama, and their connexion with Survey of private claims. the adjacent public lands, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, being in addition to the appropriations made for a similar object by the acts of sixth April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, 1838, ch. 54. 1843, ch. 100. and March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the survey of detached tracts in Illinois and Missouri, in addition Surveys in Illinois and Missouri. to the appropriation of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for that purpose, at a rate not exceeding six dollars a mile, and including office work, three thousand dollars. For surveying in the State of Louisiana, as follows: At a rate not Surveying in Louisiana. exceeding eight dollars a mile, to pay for the excess of the contracts over the amount heretofore provided and expended, twenty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars; at a rate not exceeding eight dollars a mile, for the correction of the surveys in the Greensburg district, under the act of twenty-ninth August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, including office work, thirty-three thousand four hundred and 1842, ch. 258. eighty dollars; at a rate not exceeding four dollars a mile, and incidental expenses, being in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, eleven thousand nine hundred and seven dollars.

For the survey of private claims in Florida, and their connexion with Survey of private claims in Florida. the adjacent public lands, at a rate not exceeding five dollars a mile, five thousand dollars. *Intercourse with Foreign Nations.*—For salaries of the ministers to Foreign intercourse. Ministers. Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, seventy-two thousand dollars. For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, sixteen Secretaries of legation. thousand dollars.

For salaries of chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Chargés des affaires. Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Granada, Texas, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.Minister to Turkey. For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand Drogoman. five hundred dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, ten thousand Barbary powers. dollars;

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, in addition to the Contingent expenses. balance that may remain thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, fifteen thousand dollars; For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifteen thousand Cont. exp. of missions. dollars. For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars.Consul at London. For salary of consul to Beyroot, five hundred dollars.Consul at Beyroot. For outfits of the late and present ministers to Brazil and the minister Outfits. to Mexico, and of chargés des affaires to Portugal, Sardinia, Chili, Texas, Belgium, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the appointment of a chargé d’affaires to Belgium be made Proviso. during the present session of Congress.

For outfit of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.Outfit of minister to Turkey. For outfit to David Porter, late minister resident to Turkey, to be Outfit of D. Porter. paid to his legal representatives, six thousand dollars. For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the Consulate at London. consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, American seamen abroad. thirty thousand dollars. 693 For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Expenses of consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, &c.

Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars. For compensation to the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three Commissioner to the Sandwich islands. thousand dollars. For payment of the fourth and fifth volumes of the Documentary History, Documentary History. under contract with the Secretary of State, forty-eight thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars. For compensation to the copying clerk hereby authorized to be employed Copying clerk in Solicitor’s office. in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, including arrearages since May 7th, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, at six hundred dollars a year, twelve hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-four cents.

For additional compensation to the assistant messenger of the General Additional compensation to assistant messenger in Land Office. Land Office, so as to increase it to the rate of one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. For additional compensation to the assistant messenger in the office Additional to assistant messenger in Register’s Office. of the Register of the Treasury, two hundred dollars. For compensation for preparing a classified synoptical index of public Indexing public documents. documents in the office of the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, and making examinations for information thereon to answer inquiries from the department and the different bureaus, from July thirteen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, to June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, eleven hundred and fifty-eight dollars.

For compensation of four clerks, hereby authorized to be appointed Four clerks to be employed in Comptroller’s office. and employed for one year only, in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand six hundred dollars. For additional compensation to the watchmen employed at the War Additional to watchmen at War Dep’t. Department, for services rendered by day under the regulations of the department, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For additional compensation to the watchmen of the Navy Department, Additional to watchmen of Navy Dep’t. for services rendered by day under the regulations of the Department, two hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents.

For the purchase of the building in the city of Philadelphia, formerly Purchase of building for custom-house in Philadelphia. Proviso. the Bank of the United States, for a custom-house for the port of Philadelphia, in addition to the proceeds of sale of the present custom-house, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the whole cost shall not exceed two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That whenever, hereafter, in submitting When the usual items vary materially in amount from the ordinary appropriation for that object, &c. to Congress the annual estimates from the several Executive departments of the Government, it shall be found that the usual items of such estimates vary materially in amount from the appropriation ordinarily asked for the object named, and especially from the appropriation granted for the same objects for the year next preceding, and whenever new items not theretofore usual shall be introduced into such estimates for any year, the estimates shall be accompanied by minute and full explanations from the head of the appropriate department, of all such variations and new items, setting forth the reasons and grounds upon which the amounts are required, and the different items added: and whenever All estimates for works requiring a plan must be accompanied with one, &c. any such estimate, whether annual or special, shall ask an appropriation for any new specific expenditure, such as the construction of a fort, the erection of a custom-house, or other public building, or the construction of any other public work requiring a plan before the building or work can be properly completed, every such estimate shall be accompanied by a full plan and detailed estimates of the cost of the whole work; and all subsequent estimates for every such work shall give the original estimated cost, the aggregate amount theretofore appropriated for the same, and the amount actually expended thereupon, as well as 694 the amount asked for the current year for which such estimates shall be made; and whenever any such subsequent estimate shall ask for an appropriation for any such work beyond the original estimate of the cost, the full reasons for the excess, and the extent of the anticipated excess, shall be also stated.

Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the sixth section Part of 6th sec. of act of Aug. 26, 1842, ch. 202, repealed. of the act entitled “An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the Government, and for other purposes,” approved on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and which enacts, that the several offices and employments therein before mentioned, except such as were otherwise limited by the act, shall be continued until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be and is hereby repealed; and the various provisions of the said act concerning the said several offices and employments thereby legalized are hereby Provisions of said act re-enacted, and to be in force till July 1, 1845.

Compensation of offices, &c. legalized by said act. re-enacted, and declared to be in full force and operation until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and no longer. That, for the compensation of the several offices and employments legalized by the said act of the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, the sum of forty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents be, and is hereby, appropriated.

That the Secretary of the Additional clerks to be continued for one year. Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized to continue, for one year, the employment of the additional clerks authorized by any existing resolution of their respective Houses, and the sum of nine thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated for their compensation. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums are For deficiencies in appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1844. hereby appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for various objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, namely:

For expenses incurred in the office of the First Comptroller of the Arranging letters. Treasury in preserving and arranging important letters of the office which have been lying in mass since the burning of the Treasury, in continuation of an appropriation last year, twelve hundred dollars; For arrearages of salaries of superintendent and watchmen of the S. E. executive building. southeast executive building, including ten dollars short, appropriated for the calendar year, ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and twenty dollars for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, thirty dollars;

For arrearages of contingent expenses in the office of the Adjutant Contingencies in Adj. General’s office. General, five hundred dollars; For clerk to the chief naval constructor from July eighth, to November Clerk to naval constructor. second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, three hundred and thirty-five dollars; For arrears of extra clerk hire in the bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Extra clerk hire, bureau of Provisions and Clothing. five hundred and thirty-eight dollars;

For three large book-cases, made for the use of the Executive office, Book-cases for executive office, Florida. Florida Territory, one hundred and twenty dollars; For arrearages of former sessions of the Legislative Council of Florida, Legislative Council of Florida. four hundred dollars; For amount expended for the purchase of a site for a light house on Purchase of site for light-house on Boddy’s island, N. C. Boddy’s island, North Carolina, being part of the amount appropriated for that purpose, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of De-695cember, one thousand eight hundred and forty, three hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-nine cents;

For preparing indices to the manuscript papers of Washington, being Indices to Washington papers. an arrearage for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, one thousand one hundred and eight dollars; For completing the work of the custom-house in Wilmington, North Custom-house at Wilmington, N. C. Carolina, including the purchase of a lot adjoining the site, nineteen thousand nine hundred dollars; For expenses incident to the issue of Treasury notes, four thousand Issue of Treasury notes.

Proviso. dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation be applied, and no compensation shall be made to any officer whose salary is established by law for preparing, signing or issuing said Treasury notes. For expenses in relation to the loan, eight thousand dollars;Expenses of loan. For salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private claims in Assistant surveyor in Florida. Florida, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general of Florida, one thousand dollars;

For pay of chain carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, &c., Chain carriers, &c. for same. for ditto, fifteen hundred dollars; For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and oversight of Assistant surveyor, Greensburg district. the re-surveys in the Greensburg (late St. Helena) district, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general of Louisiana, one thousand dollars; For outfit of the late chargé d’affaires to Texas, four thousand five Chargé d’affaires to Texas. hundred dollars;

For arrearages in Black Hawk war, in one thousand eight hundred Capt. R. Anderson. and thirty-two, due Captain R. Anderson, on report of the accounting officers, four hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-seven cents; For arrearages due marshals and district attorneys, one thousand five Marshals and district attorneys. hundred dollars; For arrearages of contingent expenses of branch mint at New Orleans, Cont. exp. of mint at New Orleans. ten thousand dollars; For arrearages on account of a survey for an extension of the National Survey of National Road.

Road to Jefferson, Missouri, one thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents; For the purpose of completing and rendering secure and tenantable Completing state-house in Florida. Proviso. the State House in Florida, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this act shall not be construed as sanctioning any excess of expenditure heretofore made beyond former appropriations for that object, nor as authorizing any further expenditure beyond the amount hereby appropriated in completing said building;

For settlement of the claims of Sextus Shearer for goods furnished S. Shearer. the New York Indians, one thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars and five cents, to be paid out of balances of appropriations heretofore made for blacksmiths’ establishments in the Indian service; For completing the marine hospital at the town of McDonough, opposite Marine hospital at McDonough. to the city of New Orleans, thirty thousand dollars; For the payment of Jeremiah Smith, jr., as per schedule to the Sac Jeremiah Smith. and Fox treaty, concluded eleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and the act of Congress of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, for carrying into effect the provisions 1843, ch. 80. of said treaty, four thousand dollars.

To defray arrearages of expense of the commission appointed to mark Commission to mark boundary between U. S. and Gr. Britain. the boundary line between the United States and Great Britain, eight thousand dollars; To satisfy the claims of the State of Maine, under the stipulations of Claims of Maine under treaty with Great Britain. the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded on the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, a sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars; 696TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Ch. 106. 1844. To defray expenses incurred and to be incurred in complying with Expenses of procuring information respecting foreign commerce. the resolutions of the House of Representatives of the third of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and of the Senate of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and of the fourteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, calling for information respecting the foreign commerce of the United States, its restrictions and privileges, prices of commodities, &c., ten thousand dollars.

Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Sec. to publish monthly the last preceding weekly statement of the Treasurer, &c. cause to be published in some newspaper of the city of Washington, on the first day of each month, the last preceding weekly statement of the Treasurer of the United States, showing the amount to his credit in the different banks, in the mint, or other depositories, the amount for which drafts have been given, and those remaining unpaid, and the balance remaining subject to his draft; and that he also specially note any changes that have been made in the depositories of the Treasury during the preceding month, and report to Congress, at the commencement of its next session, the reasons for such changes.

And that no changes be made except for non-compliance with the instructions of the Department or the failure to furnish sufficient security. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Quarterly statement of receipts and expenditures to be published. at the expiration of thirty days from the end of each quarter, cause to be published in some newspaper of the city of Washington a statement of the whole receipts of such quarter, specifying the amount received from customs, from public lands, and from miscellaneous sources, and, also, the whole amount of payments made during the said quarter, specifying the general head of appropriation, whether for the civil list, the army, the navy, Indian department, fortifications, or pensions.

Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the number of inspectors, Number of officers in custom-houses not to be increased, &c. gaugers, weighers, messurers, or markers, in any custom-house shall not be increased beyond the number now in service; and that no allowance shall be made to any inspector, for any services, subsistence, travelling or any other amount beyond the amount fixed by law of three dollars per day, and not to exceed ten cents per mile for travelling expenses when actually engaged in the performance of his duties at any other place than the port or custom-house from the collector of which he has received his appointment.

Approved, June 17, 1844.