Chapter XCIX. *for the relief of Chaatelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.* July 21, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the collector of the port of New York is hereby authorized to deduct from the amount of a bond given by Duties charged on goods destroyed by fire to be deducted from a bond
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Chap. XCIX.— An Act *for the relief of Chaatelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.* July 21, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the collector of the port of New York is hereby authorized to deduct from the amount of a bond given by Duties charged on goods destroyed by fire to be deducted from a bond.Chastelaiu and Ponvert, for duties on merchandize imported in the schooner General Jackson, Hawes, master, from Neuvitas, in the island of Cuba, such duties as may have been charged on that portion of said merchandize, which was not landed in the United States, having been destroyed by fire in the harbor of New York, upon their producing proof, to the collector of New York, of the destruction of said merchandize.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums to pay Appropriations for—the balances of accounts for which no appropriations now exist, and which have been passed upon and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Government, or are now before them for audit, and for the payment of which, appropriations are recommended by the heads of the proper departments, be, and the same are hereby appropriated, viz: For an award made by the proper accounting officers of the treasury Transportation by certain steamboats.in favor of the owners of the Steamboats Stasca and Dayton, for service rendered under an agreement with Major Charles Thomas, Quarter-master, for the transportation oi supplies, laborers and other things, for the use of the works at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment of a balance due for supplies furnished to the Creek Supplies, &c. to the Creek Indians.Indians, and medical services rendered to those Indians, after the commencement of the disturbances in the Creek country, and before and during the removal of the said Indians west of the Mississippi, which accounts were incurred tinder the direction of the proper officers or agents of the Government, seven thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-four cents. For the payment of the expenses of a division of the Division of lands of Brothertown Ind’s.Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 83.lands of the Brotnertown Indians among the members of the tribe, in obedience to tie act of Congress of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act for the relief of the Brothertown Indians in the Territory of Wisconsin” the duties having been performed and the accounts presented, one thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars.
For the payment of an account of Henry Lucas and A. P. King, of 814 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99. 1840. H. Lucas and A. P. King, for teams and wagons.the state of Alabama, for the loss and injury sustained by them by the impressment of their teams and wagons into the service of the United Stales by D. H. Baldwin, Quartermaster-General of the Florida militia, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, a sum not to exceed six thousand and fifty dollars. Hart and Bosworth, for arms and ammunition.For the payment of an account of Hart and Bosworth, merchants of Irwinton, Alabama, and of John Hart, merchant of the same place, for stores, arms, and ammunitions, taken for the use of the troops in the service of the United States, by the order of General William Irwin, commandant of the fifth division of the Alabama militia, during the Creek campaign of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, a sum not to exceed two thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and ninety cents.
J. H. Craddack.For the payment of an account of John H. Craddack, of Alabama, for property of his destroyed by the order of Colonel J. T. Lane, an officer in the service of the United States, in the month of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars and sixty-three cents. J. Mitchell and B. F. Fox.For the payment of a balance due to John Mitchell and Benjamin F. Fox, contractors for the erection of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, as admitted by and recommended from, the accounting officers of the treasury, a sum not to exceed eight thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-five cents.
Surveys.For the payment of balances due for military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, and north of the state of Missouri, made under the direction of the War Department, and the accounts for which are now before the proper accounting officers for settlement, a sum not C. Gordon, for making maps.to exceed sixteen thousand dollars. For the payment of Charles Gordon agreeably to the certificate of the Committee on Public lands for services rendered by him in making maps, twenty-one hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. A. Davezac, Chargé d’Affaires at the Hague.*And be it further enacted,* That there be paid to Auguste Davezac, late Charge d’Affitires of the United States at the Hague, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eight cents, it being the balance due to him, as acting Chargé d’Affitires, between the twenty-fourth day of May and the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, after deducting therefrom the pay of Secretary of Legation during that period, which he has already received.
Sec. 4. W. D. Jones, for diplomatic services at Mexico.*And be it further enacted,* That the sum of eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-five cents be, and the same .is hereby, appropriated, ont of any unappropriated money in the treasury, to William D. Jones, in full for diplomatic services rendered to the United States at the Government of Mexico, from the twenty-eighth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.
Sec. 5. N. Niles allowed the outfit, &c. nf a Charge d’Affaires, after deducting, Sc..*And be it further enacted,* That there be paid to Nathaniel Niles, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same outfit, salary, and allowances, as though he had been regularly commissioned as a Chargé d’Affiiires to Sardinia, from the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, until the eighteenth of June eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, that being the termination of his special mission to Sardinia, during which period he negotiated the subsisting treaty between the United States and the King of Sardinia, deducting therefrom the amount of the salary and contingent expenses which he has already received during the same period, as special agent to Austria and Sardinia.
Sec. 6. Payment to M. St. Clair .Clarke and P. Force for the Documentary History.*And be it further enacted,* That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in part payment for the expense incurred by Matthew St. Clair Clarke, and Peter Force, and for work done by them in publishing the second and third volumes of TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 99. 1840. 815 the Documentary History of the American Revolution, and for collecting materials for publishing said history: *Provided,* That the sum Proviso.hereby appropriated shall not be considered as giving any sanction whatever, by Congress, to any contract alleged to have been entered into between the said Clarke and Force, and Edward Livingston, the late Secretary of State, under the act of March second eighteen hundred 1833, ch. 73.and thirty-three, providing for the publication of said history: *And provided, further,* That the sum hereby appropriated shall not be regarded by Clarke and Force as any encouragement given to them for proceeding either in the collection of further materials, or in any way for continuing said history—but the sum so appropriated is made upon the expectation that Congress will, at its next session, resume the consideration of this subject, with a view to putting an end to any further publication of said history at the expense of the United States, agreeable to a joint resolution which has been adopted by Congress at its present session.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the third section of the act Proviso.of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the year eighteen hundred and forty, and until otherwise directed by law. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and Appropriations for repairs. tec. of die Capitol.the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the use and repair of the public buildings; viz:
For repairing two cupolas, on the north wing of the Capitol, three hundred dollars. For removing two cupola sashes over the principal stairway and vestibule leading to the hall of the House of Representatives, three hundred and ninety-two dollars. For preparing panels of the rotunda with curtains for the reception of the paintings, five hundred and forty-two dollars. For repairing chimney stacks of the Capitol, two hundred and fifty dollars. For cost of preparing suitable foundation for supporting the Colossal Statue of Washington, in the centre of the rotunda of the Capitol, two thousand dollars.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That the Commissioner of Public Commissioner of public buildings to report to Congress, &c.Buildings, make to Congress, annually, at the commencement of the year, a report of the manner in which all appropriations for the public buildings and grounds have been applied. Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted,* That all the estimates of the public Estimates.&c. to be submitted to the committee thereon.buildings and grounds, shall hereafter be submitted by the Commissioner of Public Buildings to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to be examined and approved by them, before they are reported to the House.
Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted,* That it shah be the duty of the Duties of commiss’r of public buildings.Commissioner of Public Buildings to form all the contracts’ and to disburse all the moneys for materials furnished or labor performed, for the public buildings, and that he shall receive for all his services the same compensation, as is allowed by law, to the Commissioners of Patents. Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of one thousand Appropriation for expenses of certain Alabama volunteers.one hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated to defray the expenses of calling into service Captain Snodgrass’s company of Alabama volunteers to serve as a guard Act of July 1, 1838. ch. 169, Sec. 3, revived. 816 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 100. Res. 2. 1840. in accompanying a party of emigrating Cherokees from Bellante to Waterloo, in the state of Alabama. Sec. 13. Appropriation to enable P. M. Gen. to comply with resolutions of 23d June 1840.*And be it further enacted,* That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Postmaster-General to comply with the resolutions of the House of Representatives passed twenty-third of June eighteen hundred and forty, which were reported on the twenty-fifth of May by the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads.
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*for the relief of Chaatelain and Ponvert, and for other purposes.* July 21, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the collector of the port of New York is hereby authorized to deduct from the amount of a bond given by Duties charged on goods destroyed by fire to be deducted from a bond
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