Chapter XXIX. *making appropriations fir the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.* May 18, 1842. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and are her
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Chap. XXIX.— An Act *making appropriations fir the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.* May 18, 1842. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, namely: No. 1. For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates Congress—pay and mileage.from the Territories, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, two hundred seventy-three thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars.
No. 2. For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House Officers of the Senate and House of Reps.of Representatives, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. No. 3. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent Contingent expenses.expenses of the Senate, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, thirty-five thousand dollars.
No. 4. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, in addition to the sum already appropriated to that object during the present session, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the sums appropriated for Proviso.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.
No. 5. For printing and binding ordered by the Senate during the Printing and binding ordered by Senate during 26th Congress.twenty-sixth Congress, and remaining unpaid, twenty-seven thousand two hundred eighty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents, or so much there of as may be found due on auditing the account by the proper committee. No. 6. For preparing, printing, and binding documents ordered by Preparing, &c. documents.the resolutions of the Senate of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, relating to the establishment of the seat of Government, reports, plans, and surveys, for improvements of harbors and rivers, roads and canals, (to be disbursed under the direction of the committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate; this sum being for printing and engraving done in pursuance of said resolutions prior to July, eighteen hundred and forty), twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: but Continuation of work not authorized hereby.
Deficiency in appropriations for contingent expenses of the House.nothing in this appropriation shall authorize the continuance of said work, unless Congress shall hereafter direct the same. No. 7. For a deficiency in the appropriations for the twenty-sixth Congress, on account of the contingent and incidental expenses of the House, namely: for printing, lithographing, binding, and books, ninety-476eight thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-five cents, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, on auditing the accounts by the appropriate committee; fifty-two thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-six cents of this amount being for books ordered by the House of Representatives, at the second session of the twenty-sixth Congress, to be distributed to the members of that body.
Library of Congress—officers. No. 8. For the salary of the principal and two assistant librarians, and the messenger of the library, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses. No. 9. For contingent expenses, for carpet and repairs to the furniture of the library, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Purchase of books. No. 10. For purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars. No. 11. For purchase of law books for the library of Congress, one thousand dollars.
President of United States. No. 12. For the salary of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. Department of State. *Department of State.—*No. 13. For the salary of the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars. Secretary. Clerks, &c. No. 14. For clerks and messengers in his office, twenty thousand three hundred dollars. Contingent expenses. No. 15. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five Printing, &c. of executive departments, to be by contract.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the job printing, stationery, and binding, of each of the Executive Departments, shall, until otherwise directed by law, be furnished by contract, proposals for which shall regularly be advertised in the public prints.
The classes, character, and description, of the printing being specified in each advertisement as far as that can be done, and it being made a condition in all cases, unless otherwise specifically stated in the advertisement, that the work shall be done in the city of Washington; and the contract shall in each case, so far as the proposals and acceptance shall enable the contract to be made, be given to the lowest bidder, whose bid shall be accompanied with proper testimonials of the ability of the bidder to fulfil his contract.
Biennial Register. For amount due, in addition to former appropriations, for compiling, printing, and binding the Biennial Register, one thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-nine cents. Treasury Department. *Treasury Department.—*No. 16. For the salary of the Secretary of the Treasury, six thousand dollars. Secretary. Clerks, &c. No. 17. For compensation to clerks and messengers in his office, twenty thousand and fifty dollars. First Comptroller, &c. No. 18. For the salary of the First Comptroller, and the compensation of the clerks and messengers in his office, twenty-two thousand six hundred dollars.
Second Comptroller, &c. No. 19. For the salary of the Second Comptroller, and the compensation of the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. 1st Auditor. No. 20. For the salary of the First Auditor, and the compensation of the clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars. 2d Auditor. No. 21. For the salary of the Second Auditor, and the compensation of clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand nine hundred dollars. 3d Auditor.
No. 22. For the salary of the Third Auditor, and the compensation of clerks and messengers in his office, thirty-five thousand and fifty dollars. 4th Auditor. No. 23. For the salary of the Fourth Auditor, and the compensation of clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. 477 No. 24. For the salary of the Fifth Auditor, and the compensation 5th Auditor.of clerks and messenger in his office, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars. No. 25.
For the salary of the Treasurer, and for the compensation Treasurer.of clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. No. 26. For the salary of the Register of the Treasury, and the Register.compensation of clerks and messengers in his office, twenty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. No. 27. For the salary of the Commissioner of the General Land Commissioner of General Land Office.Office, and the compensation of the recorder, solicitor, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, and packers in his office, ninety-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
No. 28. For the salary of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and compensation Solicitor of the Treasury.to clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. *Department of War.*—No. 29. For the salary of the Secretary of War Department.War, six thousand dollars. No. 30. For clerks and messengers in said office, thirteen thousand Secretary. Clerks, &c.three hundred and fifty dollars. No. 31. For the salary of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Commissioner of Ind. affairs.the compensation of clerks and messengers in his office, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
No. 32. For the salary of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the Commissioner of Pensions &c.compensation of clerks and messenger in his office, sixteen thousand six hundred dollars. No. 33. For the compensation of clerk in the office of the Commanding Offices of the Commanding General.General, one thousand dollars. No. 34. For the compensation of clerks in the office of the Adjutant Adj. General.General, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. No. 35. For compensation of clerks and messenger in the Office of Quarter-master General.the Quartermaster General, seven thousand three hundred dollars.
No. 36. For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of Paymaster General.the Paymaster General, seven thousand one hundred dollars. No. 37. For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of Comm’y Gen. of Purchases.the Commissary General of Purchases, four thousand and forty dollars. No. 38. For compensation of clerks in the office of the Commissary Comm’y Gen. of Subsistence.General of Subsistence, three thousand eight hundred dollars. No. 39. For compensation of clerks in the office of the Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer.five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
No. 40. For compensation of clerk in the office of the Surgeon Surgeon General.General, one thousand dollars. No. 41. For compensation of clerks in the office of the Colonel of Colonel of Ordnance.Ordnance, eight thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. No. 42. For compensation of clerks in the bureau of Topographical Topographical Bureau.Engineers, three thousand four hundred dollars. *Navy Department.—*No. 43. For the salary of the Secretary of the Navy Department.Navy, six thousand dollars.
No. 44. For compensation of clerks and messengers in his office, Secretary. Clerks, &c.eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. No. 45. For salaries of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, ten Commiss’rs of Navy Board.thousand five hundred dollars. No. 46. For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy Board, two Secretary.thousand dollars. No. 47. For compensation of clerks, draughtsman, and messenger, Clerks, &c.in the office of said Board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For this sum to pay arrearage for clerks’ salary heretofore appropriated, Arrearages.(the same having been carried to the surplus fund in the year 478eighteen hundred and thirty-five,) six hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-three cents. Post Office Department. Postmaster General. *Post Office Department.—*No. 48. For salary of Postmaster General, six thousand dollars. Assistant Postmasters General. No. 49. For salary of three Assistant Postmasters General, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Clerks and messengers. No. 50. For compensation of clerks and messengers in said office, forty-eight thousand six hundred dollars. Watchmen. No. 51. For compensation of two watchmen at three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars. Auditor. No. 52. For salary of Auditor for Post Office Department, three thousand dollars. Clerks, &c. No. 53. For compensation of clerks and messengers in said office, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs of the building lately occupied.
No. 54. For repairs of the building lately occupied by the Post Office Department, under an agreement entered into between Amos Kendall, Postmaster General, and B. Ogle Tayloe, the proprietor of said building, on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to put the same in a good and tenantable condition, two thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-five cents. Surveyors and their clerks. North-west of the Ohio. 1836, ch. 60. *Surveyors and their Clerks.—*No. 55.
For salary of surveyor general northwest of the Ohio, two thousand dollars. No. 56. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, six thousand three hundred dollars. Illinois and Missouri. No. 57. For salary of surveyor general in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars. 1836, ch. 60. No. 58. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, three thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Arkansas. No. 59. For salary of surveyor general of Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars. 1836, ch. 60. No. 60. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Louisiana. No. 61. For salary of surveyor general of Louisiana, two thousand dollars. 1836, ch. 60. No. 62. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Mississippi. No. 63. For the salary of the surveyor general of Mississippi, two thousand dollars. 1836, ch. 60. No. 64. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, five thousand dollars. Alabama. No. 65. For the salary of the surveyor general of Alabama, two thousand dollars. 1836, ch. 60. No. 66. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand dollars. Florida. No. 67.
For salary of surveyor general of Florida, two thousand dollars. 1836, ch. 60. No. 68. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one thousand dollars. Wisconsin and Iowa. No. 69. For salary of surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa, per act of twelfth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. 1838, ch. 99. No. 70. For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of twelfth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Secretary to sign patents for lands. No. 71. For salary of Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. 479 No. 72. For salary of Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington Commissioner of public buildings.city, three thousand dollars. No. 73. For compensation of two assistants to the Commissioner, as Assistants, Potomac bridge, &c.superintendent of the Potomac bridge, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, including oil for lamps, fuel, repairs, and for securing and delivering to the drawkeeper at the Potomac bridge, the draws, timber, iron, &c., carried away by the ice freshet, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
No. 74. For completing the requisite offices, fuel, vaults, water-closets, Treasury building.erecting the portico of the western wing, the colonnade, courts, pavements, and enclosures, including the amount due for lumber and materials for the Treasury building, forty thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. No. 75. For completing the work yet to be done, and to pay for labor General Post Office building.and materials due, at the General Post Office building, seventy-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
No. 76. For erecting privies, grading and paving courts, at the new New jail.jail, and erecting suitable furnaces for heating the building, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars. No. 77. For pay of John Joyce, account allowed him by the board J. Joyce to be paid.of commissioners under resolution of Congress, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-seven and a half cents. No. 78. For enclosing Patent Office and grounds with wood pale Enclosing Patent Office, &c.fence, clearing grounds, planting trees, preparing and fixing window shutters, two thousand dollars. *United States Mint and Branches.—*No. 79.
For salary of the director Mint and branches. Mint at Philadelphia. Officers, &c.of the mint at Philadelphia, three thousand five hundred dollars. No. 80. For compensation of the treasurer in said office, two thousand dollars. No. 81. For compensation of chief coiner in said office, two thousand dollars. No. 82. For compensation of the assayer in said office, two thousand dollars. No. 83. For compensation of melter and refiner in said office, two thousand dollars. No. 84. For compensation of engraver in said office, two thousand dollars.
No. 85. For compensation of the assistant assayer, one thousand three hundred dollars. No. 86. For compensation of one clerk at one thousand two hundred dollars, two at one thousand one hundred dollars, and one at one thousand dollars, four thousand four hundred dollars. No. 87. For compensation to workmen in said office, twenty-four thousand dollars. No. 88. For specimens of ores and coins to be reserved at the mint, two hundred dollars. No. 89. For salary of the superintendent of the branch mint at Charlotte, Branch mint at Charlotte.North Carolina, two thousand dollars.
No. 90. For compensation of assayer in said office, one thousand five Officers, &c.hundred dollars. No. 91. For compensation of coiner in said office, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 92. For compensation of one clerk, one thousand dollars. No. 93. For compensation to workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars. No. 94. For compensation of the superintendent of the branch mint Branch mint at Dahlonega.at Dahlonega, Georgia, two thousand dollars. No. 95. For compensation of the assayer, one thousand five hundred Officers, &c.dollars. 480 No. 96.
For compensation of the coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 97. For compensation of one clerk, one thousand dollars. No. 98. For compensation of workmen, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Branch mint at N. Orleans. No. 99. For compensation of the superintendent of the branch mint at New Orleans, two thousand five hundred dollars. Officers, &c. No. 100. For compensation of the Treasurer, two thousand dollars. No. 101. For compensation of the coiner, two thousand dollars.
No. 102. For compensation of the assayer, two thousand dollars. No. 103. For compensation of the melter and refiner, two thousand dollars. No. 104. For compensation of two clerks, at twelve hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars. No. 105. For compensation of workmen, two thousand dollars. No. 106. For rebuilding flues of melting department, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 107. For iron rods for strengthening north and south wings of the mint, one thousand dollars.
Wisconsin Territory. Governor. *Wisconsin Territory.—*No. 108. For the salary of the Governor of Wisconsin Territory, as Governor, one thousand five hundred dollars; as superintendent of Indian affairs, one thousand dollars; being in all two thousand five hundred dollars. Judges. No. 109. For compensation of three judges, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars. Secretary. No. 110. For compensation of secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses. No. 111. For contingent expenses of the Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. Legislative Assembly, &c. No. 112. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, pay of officers, printing, stationery, fuel, lights, enclosing the Capitol square, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, twenty thousand dollars. Iowa Territory. Governor. *Iowa Territory.—*No. 113. For salary of Governor of Iowa Territory, as Governor, one thousand five hundred dollars; as superintendent of Indian affairs, one thousand dollars; being in all two thousand five hundred dollars.
Judges. No. 114. For compensation of three judges, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars. Secretary. No. 115. For compensation of secretary, one thousand two hundred dollars. Contingent expenses. No. 116. For contingent expenses of the Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. Legislative Assembly. No. 117. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, pay of officers, printing, stationery, fuel, postage, lights, furniture, rent, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects, twenty thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
And for Arrearages.the arrearages of expenses for the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa, for the present and previous years, the accounts for which shall first be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars: Proviso*Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the payment of the members of the said Legislative Assembly for per diem wages, mileage, or extra services, or for stationery for their individual use, nor for any other purpose not authorized by the act of Congress Further proviso.establishing the Territory of Iowa: *And provided, further,* That the Legislative Assembly of no Territory shall, hereafter, in any instance, or under any pretext whatever, exceed the amount appropriated by Congress for its annual expenses.
Florida Territory. Governor. *Florida Territory.—*No. 118. For salary of the Governor, two thousand five hundred dollars. 481 No. 119. For compensation of four judges, at one thousand eight Judges.hundred dollars each, and one at two thousand three hundred dollars, nine thousand five hundred dollars. No. 120. For compensation of secretary, one thousand five hundred Secretary.dollars. No. 121. For contingent expenses of the Territory, three hundred Contingent expenses.and fifty dollars.
No. 122. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Legislative Council.Council, pay of officers, stationery, fuel, printing, rent, furniture, and all other incidental and contingent objects, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. *Judiciary.—*No. 123. For the salary of the Chief Justice of the Judiciary. Chief justice.Supreme Court, five thousand dollars. No. 124. For the salaries of eight associate judges, at four thousand Associate judges.five hundred dollars, thirty-six thousand dollars.
No. 125. For the salary of the district judge, of Maine, one thousand District judges.eight hundred dollars. No. 126. For the salary of the district judge, of New Hampshire, one thousand dollars. No. 127. For the salary of the district judge, Massachusetts, two thousand five hundred dollars. No. 128. For the salary of the district judge, Vermont, one thousand two hundred dollars. No. 129. For the salary of the district judge, Rhode Island, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 130.
For the salary of the district judge, Connecticut, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 131. For the salary of the district judge, New York, northern district, two thousand dollars. No. 132. For the salary of the district judge, New York, southern district, three thousand five hundred dollars. No. 133. For the salary of the district judge, New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 134. For the salary of the district judge, Pennsylvania, eastern district, two thousand five hundred dollars.
No. 135. For the salary of the district judge, Pennsylvania, western district, one thousand eight hundred dollars. No. 136. For the salary of the district judge, Delaware, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 137. For the salary of the district judge, Maryland, two thousand dollars. No. 138. For the salary of the district judge, Virginia, eastern district, one thousand eight hundred dollars. No. 139. For the salary of the district judge, Virginia, western district, one thousand six hundred dollars.
No. 140. For the salary of the district judge, Kentucky, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 141. For the salary of the district judge, Tennessee, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 142. For the salary of the district judge, Ohio, one thousand dollars. No. 143. For the salary of the district judge, North Carolina, two thousand dollars. No. 144. For the salary of the district judge, South Carolina, two thousand five hundred dollars. No. 145. For the salary of the district judge, Georgia, two thousand five hundred dollars.
No. 146. For the salary of the district judge, Louisiana, three thousand dollars. 482 No. 147. For the salary of the district judge, Mississippi, two thousand dollars. No. 148. For the salary of the district judge, Indiana, one thousand dollars. No. 149. For the salary of the district judge, Illinois, one thousand dollars. No. 150. For the salary of the district judge, Alabama, two thousand five hundred dollars. No. 151. For the salary of the district judge, Missouri, one thousand two hundred dollars.
No. 152. For the salary of the district judge, Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars. No. 153. For the salary of the district judge, Arkansas, two thousand dollars. Judges of District Columbia. No. 154. For the salary of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, two thousand seven hundred dollars. No. 155. For the salary of two associate judges, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars. No. 156. For the salary of the judge of the criminal court, two thousand dollars.
No. 157. For the salary of the judge of the orphans’ court, Washington county, one thousand dollars. No. 158. For the salary of the judge of the orphans’ court, Alexandria county, one thousand dollars. Attorney General. No. 159. For the salary of the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars. Clerk, &c. No. 160. For the compensation of the clerk and messenger, one thousand five hundred dollars. District attorneys. No. 161. For the compensation of the district Attorneys of Alaine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, (northern district,) New Jersey, Pennsylvania, (western district,) Delaware, Virginia, (eastern district,) Virginia, (western district,) Tennessee, (eastern district,) Tennessee, (western district,) Tennessee, (Jackson district,) Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, (western district,) Mississippi, (northern district,) and Mississippi, (southern district,) Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, (northern district,) Alabama, (southern district.,) Missouri, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida, (eastern district,) Florida, (middle district,) Florida, (western district,) Florida, (southern district,) Florida, (Appalachicola district,) and Iowa, each two hundred dollars, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
No. 162. For compensation of the district attorney of South Carolina, from April twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and forty-one, to December thirty-one, eighteen hundred and forty-two, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and eleven cents. No. 163. For compensation of district attorney of the eastern district of Louisiana, six hundred dollars. No. 164. For compensation of district attorney of Wisconsin, two hundred and fifty dollars. Marshals. No. 165. For compensation of marshals for the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, (northern district,) New Jersey, Pennsylvania, (western district,) Delaware, Virginia, (eastern district,) Virginia, (western district,) Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, (eastern district,) Tennessee, (western district,) Tennessee, (Jackson district,) Louisiana, (eastern district,) Louisiana, (western district,) Mississippi, (northern district and southern district,) Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, (northern district,) Alabama, (southern district,) Missouri, Michigan, Arkansas, Florida, (eastern district,) Florida, (middle district,) Florida, (western district,) Florida, 483(southern district,) Florida, (Appalachicola district,) Wisconsin, and Iowa, each two hundred dollars, six thousand eight hundred dollars.
No. 166. For compensation of marshal for the district of North Carolina, four hundred dollars. No. 167. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and Expenses of Supreme Court &c.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 forty-two and preceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, including expenses under the bankrupt law, and also including thirty thousand dollars arrearages for last year, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided, however,* That every district Proviso: district attorneys, &c. to make semi-annual returns of fees.attorney, clerk of a district court, clerk of a circuit court, and marshal of the United States, shall, until otherwise directed by law, upon the first days of January and July in each year, commencing with the first day of July next, or within thirty days from and after the days specified, make to the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as he shall prescribe, a return, in writing, embracing all the fees and emoluments of their respective offices, of every name and character, distinguishing the fees and emoluments received or payable under the bankrupt act, from those received or payable for any other service; and in the case of a marshal, further distinguishing the fees and emoluments received or payable for services by himself personally rendered, from those received or payable for services rendered by a deputy; and also distinguishing the fees and emoluments so received or payable for services rendered by each deputy, by name, and the proportion of such fees and emoluments which, by the terms of his service, each deputy is to receive; and also, embracing all the necessary office expenses of such officer, together with the vouchers for the payment of the same, for the half year ending on the said first day of January or July, as the case may be; which return shall be, in all cases, verified by the oath of the officer making the same.
And no district attorney shall be allowed by Amount of fees which they are allowed to retain.the said Secretary of the Treasury, to retain of the fees and emoluments of his said office, for his own personal compensation, over and above his necessary office expenses, the necessary clerk hire included, to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding six thousand dollars per year, and at and after that rate, for such time as he shall hold the office; and no clerk of a district court, or clerk of a circuit court, shall be allowed by the said Secretary, to retain of the fees and emoluments of his said office, or, in case both of the said clerkships shall be held by the same person, of the said offices, for his own personal compensation, over and above the necessary expenses of his office, and necessary clerk hire included, also to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars per year, for any such district clerk, or a sum exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars per year for any such circuit clerk, or at and after that rate, for such time as he shall hold the office; and no marshal shall be allowed by the said Secretary, to retain of the fees and emoluments of his said office, for his own personal compensation, over and above a proper allowance to his deputies, which shaft in no case exceed three-fourths of the fees and emoluments received as payable for the services rendered by the deputy to whom the allowance is made, and may be reduced below that rate by the said Secretary of the Treasury, whenever the return shall show that rate of allowance to be unreasonable, and over and above the necessary office expenses of the said marshal, the necessary clerk hire included, also to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the 484Treasury, a sum exceeding six thousand dollars per year, or at and after that rate, for such time as lie shall hold the office; and every such officer shall, with each such return made by him, pay into the Treasury Surplus to be paid into the Treasury, &c.of the United States, or deposite to the credit of the Treasurer thereof, as he may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, any surplus of the fees and emoluments of his office, which his half-yearly return so made as aforesaid shall show to exist over and above the compensation and allowances hereinbefore authorized to be retained and paid by him.
And in every case where the return of any such officer shall show that a surplus may exist, the said Secretary of the Treasury shall cause such returns to be carefully examined and the accounts of disbursements to be regularly audited by the proper officers of his Department, and an account to be opened with such officer in proper books to be provided for that purpose, and the allowances for personal compensation for each calendar year shall be made from the fees and emoluments of that year, Further proviso: no per diem to be made in certain cases.and not otherwise: *And provided, further,* That nothing in any existing law of Congress authorizing the payment of a per diem compensation to a district attorney, clerk of a district court, or clerk of a circuit court, or marshal, or deputy marshal, for attendance upon the district or circuit courts during their sittings, shall be so construed as to authorize any such payment to any one of those officers for attendance upon either of those courts, while sitting for the transaction of business under the bankrupt law merely, or for any portion of the time for which either of the said courts may be held open, or in session, by the authority conferred in that law; and no such charge, in an account of any such officer, shall be certified as payable, or shall be allowed and paid out of the money hereinbefore appropriated for defraying the expenses of the courts of the United States, unless such district attorney, clerk, or marshal, shall be required by the judge of said court or the Solicitor of the Treasury to attend the sessions of the same, and shall actually attend for the performance of the duties of his said office.
And no per diem or other allowance shall be made to any such officer for attendance at rule days, of the circuit or district courts, and when the circuit and district courts sit at the same time, no greater per diem or other allowance shall be made to any such officer than for an attendance on one court: *And provided further,* Further proviso: fixing the fees for the northern and southern dial’s of New York. 1841, ch. 9.That the district attorney, marshal, clerk of the circuit court and clerk of the district court of the United States for the northern and southern districts of New York, shall not hereafter receive any greater or other fees and emoluments, including fees and emoluments under the act entitled “An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” for services rendered by them, respectively, in the said courts, than now are or hereafter may be allowed by the laws of the State of New York to attorneys, solicitors, counsel, sheriffs, and clerks, in the highest courts of law or equity, of original jurisdiction, of the State of New York, according to the nature Proviso.of the proceedings, for like services rendered therein: *Provided,* That no part of the fund hereby appropriated, shall be applied unless in addition to the certificates now required by law, the clerk of the said court shall certify in his official capacity, that the services have been rendered, and the supplies furnished for, and used by the court, and that the charges therefor were legal and proper.
Miscellaneous. Annuities and grants. *Miscellaneous.—*No. 168. Annuities and grants; Josiah H. Webb, per act of twelfth December, eighteen hundred and eleven, fifty dollars; Rachael Dohrtnan, per act of third March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, three hundred dollars; Elizabeth C. Perry, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, four hundred dollars; Elizabeth M. Perry, per act of second March, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, one hundred and fifty dollars; making in all nine hundred dollars.
U. S. coast survey. No. 169. For survey of the coast of the United States, including 485compensation to superintendent and assistants, one hundred thousand dollars. No. 170. For the continuation of the survey of the northern and Survey of the lakes.southern lakes of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. No. 171. For completing survey of the boundary between the State Boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin. of Michigan and territory of Wisconsin, seven thousand dollars.
No. 172. To enable the President of the United States to cause to Exploration and survey of north-eastern boundary. be made and completed an exploration and survey of that part of the northeastern boundary line of the United States and the adjacent country which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire from the British provinces, and for completing maps of surveys already made, and other work, according to estimates, sixty-six thousand three hundred and one dollars and seventy-five cents.
No. 173. For the salaries of the two keepers of the public archives Keepers of Florida archives.in Florida, one thousand dollars. For allowance to law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, Allowance to law agents, &c.under acts providing for settlement of private land claims in Florida, three thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-two cents: *Provided,* That no allowance shall hereafter be made for compensation Proviso.to the law agent, assistant counsel, or extra fees to the district attorney of Florida, for attending to the settlement of private land claims in Florida.
And the said office of law agent and the power to employ assistant counsel are hereby abolished. No. 174. For expenses in relation to the relief of certain insolvent Insolvent debtors.debtors of the United States, two thousand dollars. No. 175. For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the Penitentiary of D. C.District of Columbia, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars, six hundred and sixteen dollars. No. 176.
To make good a deficiency in the year eighteen hundred Sick and disabled seamen. 1802, ch. 51.and forty-one in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the act of the third May, eighteen hundred and three, [two] forty-six thousand five hundred dollars. No. 177. To complete and put in a suitable condition for occupation Marine hospital at Mobile.the marine hospital at Mobile, fifteen thousand dollars. No. 178. For the custom-house at Boston, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Custom-house at Boston. No. 179. For payment of such amount as shall be found due by the Custom-house at New York.select committee, appointed in the House of Representatives on the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-two, for superintendence, work done, and materials furnished in completing the custom-house at New York, a sum not exceeding twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars. No. 180. For expenses of sixth census, including printing statistics Expenses of 6th census.and reports, enumeration of inhabitants and addendum, and census of pensioners for revolutionary and military services, ten thousand copies each, a sum not exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars:
Proviso.*Provided, however,* That before the said accounts are paid it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, or other proper accounting officer, to ascertain from one or more disinterested practical printers, what would be considered a fair and just compensation for composition, press-work, printing and paper, and that so much and no more be allowed: *And provided further,* That no part of the said sum be applied to the payment of printing the compendium which is now the subject of dispute.
For the removal of the statue of Washington under the direction of Statue of Washington.a joint committee of both Houses of Congress, the account for which shall be audited and certified by said committee, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. 486 Expenses of issuing Treasury notes. For expenses incident to the issue of Treasury notes heretofore authorized, two thousand 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.
Light-house establishment. Light-houses. *Light-house Establishment.—*No. 181. For supplying light-houses, containing two thousand six hundred and fifty-two lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buff-skins, whiting and cotton cloth, transportation and keeping the apparatus in order, one hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-six cents. No. 182. For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents.
No. 183. For salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of light-houses, (seventeen of them being charged with two lights each, and one with three,) ninety-four thousand thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. Floating lights, &c. No. 184. For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars. No. 185. For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies to thirty floating lights, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighteen cents.
Buoys, &c. No. 186. For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-five thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twelve cents. No. 187. For expenses of examining annually the condition of the light-houses, four thousand dollars; and for superintendents’ commissions, at two and a half per cent., eleven thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars. Light-house at Goat Island. No. 188. For completing the dike (from Goat Island, Newport, Rhode Island) and removing the light to the new light-house, thirteen thousand dollars.
Foreign intercourse. Ministers. *Intercourse with Foreign Nations.—*No. 189. For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, seventy-two thousand dollars. Secretaries of Legation. No. 190. For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, sixteen thousand dollars. Chargés dos affaires. No. 191. For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Den-mark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, fifty-four thousand dollars.
Outfits. No. 192. For outfits of chargés des affaires to Sweden, Belgium, New Grenada, and Holland, eighteen thousand dollars. Minister to Turkey. No. 193. For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars. Drogoman. No. 194. For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. Expenses of foreign intercourse. No. 195. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That such portion of the appropriations for foreign missions as shall remain unexpended by reason of reduction or discontinuance of missions, (if any should be made,) may be applied to the payment of such allowances as shall become necessary in consequence of such reduction or discontinuance.
Expenses of missions. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars. Consul at London. No. 196. For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars. Relief, &c. of Am. seamen. No. 197. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of consulate at London. No. 198. For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of [the]consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. 487 No. 199.
In full for the balance of expenses of running and marking Boundary between U. S. and Texas.the boundary line between the United States and Texas, four hundred dollars; and for salaries of the commissioner, surveyor, and clerk, eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be found due, on the accounts being audited by the appropriate officer. No. 200. For the benefit of the legal representatives of Edward Lee, Edward Lee.(being a re-appropriation of the amount specified in the act of March seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for the relief of Edward Lee,) 1832, ch. 35.three hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,* That no allowance shall be Proviso.made, out of any moneys appropriated by this bill, to any clerk or other officer for the discharge of duties, the performance of which belongs to any other clerk or other officer in the same or any other department; and that no allowance shall be made for any extra services whatever, which any clerk or other officer may be required to perform: *And provided, also,* Proviso.That no person shall be paid for carrying the office mails or doing any other duties which ought to be done by the messengers of particular departments. *Post Office Department.—*For the service of the General Post Office Post Office Department. 1836, ch. 270.for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, four millions four hundred and eighty-five thousand and nine hundred dollars, viz:
No. 201. For transportation of the mail, three millions one hundred Transportation.and fifty thousand dollars. No. 202. For compensation of postmasters, nine hundred and fifteen Compensation of postmasters. Proviso, requiring returns of emoluments received from boxes, &c.thousand dollars: *Provided, however,* That in addition to returns now required to be rendered by postmasters, it shall be the duty of Postmasters at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, and the other several cities of the Union, each and every year hereafter, to render a quarter-yearly account to the Postmaster General, under oath, in such form as the latter shall prescribe, for the purpose of giving full effect to this proviso, of all emoluments or sums by them respectively received for boxes, or pigeon-holes, or other receptacles for letters or papers, and by them charged for to individuals; or for the delivery of letters or papers at or from any place in either of said cities, other than the actual post office of such city; and of all emoluments, receipts, and profits, that have come to their hands by reason of keeping branch post offices in either of said cities; and if, from such accounting, it shall appear that the nett amount received by either of the postmasters at either of such cities, for such boxes, and pigeon-holes, and other receptacles for letters and papers, and for delivering letters or papers at or from any place in either of said cities, other than said post office, and by reason of keeping a branch post office in either of said cities, shall, in the aggregate, exceed the sum of three thousand dollars in any one year, such excess shall be paid to the Postmaster General, for the use and purposes of the Post Office Department; and no postmaster shall, No postmaster to receive more than $5000 a year, salary included.hereafter, under any pretence whatsoever, have, or receive, or retain for himself, in the aggregate, more than five thousand dollars per year, including salary, commissions, boxes, and all other fees, perquisites, and emoluments, of any name or character whatsoever, and for any service whatsoever.
No. 203. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twenty thousand dollars. Ship letters, &c. No. 204. For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Wrapping paper. No. 205. For office furniture, (for offices of postmasters,) four thousand Office furniture.six hundred dollars. No. 206. For advertising, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Advertising. No. 207. For mail bags, twenty thousand dollars. Mail bags. No. 208. For blanks, thirty thousand dollars. Blanks.
No. 209. For mail locks, keys and stamps, ten thousand dollars. Mail locks, &c. 488TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 30, 31. 1842. Depredations. No. 210. For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-eight thousand dollars. Clerks. No. 211. For clerks for offices, (i. e. to deputy postmasters,) two hundred thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. Proviso, giving power to transfer funds, &c. No. 212. For miscellaneous, fifty-eight thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the President and the Postmaster General shall have the same power to transfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between the foregoing appropriations, made for the service of the General Post Office, as the President and any other head of an Executive Department now have to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the service of another, in any other branch of the public service.
Approved, May 18, 1842.