Chapter X. *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.* May 15, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following To
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Chap. X.— An Act *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.* May 15, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following To supply deficiencies for 1850.sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: *Treasury Department.—* In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Office of Secretary of the Treasury. Assistant Secretary. Clerk. For salary of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, from the twelfth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, and for the clerk in aid of said Assistant Secretary from the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, six thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-one cents. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs.
For salary of the Commissioner of Customs, from the seventeenth Commissioner of Customs.of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, three thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For salary of chief clerk in the office of the Commissioner of Customs, Chief clerk.from the first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, at the rate of one thousand seven hundred dollars per annum, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For salaries of five additional clerks in the office of the Commis-Five additional clerks424sioner of Customs from the first of October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Contingencies. For contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioner of Customs, one thousand dollars. First Comptroller’s office. Messenger. In the office of the First Comptroller.
For salary of one messenger in the office of the First Comptroller, from the first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, seven hundred dollars. Register’s office. Contingencies. J. C. McGuire. In the Register’s office. For contingent expenses of the office of the Register of the Treasury, being an amount due to J. C. McGuire, for printing, ruling, and binding books and abstracts for statements of the commerce and navigation, blank enrolments and licenses, ledgers, and other books, under the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in relation to the advances to collectors and receivers of public moneys, and the settlement incident thereto, and for desks and other furniture, three thousand five hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
Second Auditor’s office. Outstanding claims. In the office of the Second Auditor. For amount required to meet outstanding claims for contingent expenses incurred in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, by the Second Auditor of the Treasury in fitting up his office, one thousand six hundred and ninety-five dollars and eighty-five cents. South-east executive building, 1848. For deficiency of appropriation for the contingent expenses of the south-east executive building for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, three thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety cents.
South-east executive building, 1849. For deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the south-east executive building for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, five thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. South-east executive building, 1850. For deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the south-east executive building for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, seven thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars.
Department of the Interior. *Department of the Interior.—* In the office of the Secretary of the Interior. Secretary. For salary of the Secretary of the Interior from the ninth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Chief clerk and other officers. For salaries of the chief clerk and other clerks in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, from the ninth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents:
Proviso as to transfer of clerks.*Provided,* That thereafter the clerks shall be transferred from the other Departments in proportion to the business transferred to the Department of the Interior, or from the bureaus of either Departments, and nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize any increase of clerical force in the several Departments in consequence of the creation of the Department of the Interior, above the specification 1849, ch. 108.of the law of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.
Messengers, &c. For salary of messenger and laborer in the office of the Secretary of the Interior to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents. For salaries of messengers and laborers in the office of the Secretary of the Interior from the first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, two thousand dollars. 425 For books, stationery, furniture, fuel, and other contingencies of the Contingencies.office of the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, five thousand dollars.
For library, maps, &c., for the office of the Secretary of the Interior Library, &c.for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, five hundred dollars. In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions. Pension office. For compensation to temporary clerks employed in the office of the Temporary clerks.Commissioner of Pensions, from the first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For compensation of nine extra clerks, employed under the act of Nine extra clerks in Third Auditor’s office, 1842, ch. 202.August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, during the session of Congress, in the Third Auditor’s office, and for contingencies incident thereto, five thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of Contingencies. First Auditor of the Treasury.the office of the First Auditor of the Treasury, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty, six hundred and fifty dollars. *War Department.—* War Department.
In the office of the Surgeon-General. For arrearages in the office of the Surgeon-General for furniture, Surgeon-General.two hundred and twenty-five dollars. For expenses of military reconnoissance in Texas, including examination Reconnoissance of route from Texas to New Mexico.of a new route from San Antonio, Texas, to El Paso, in New Mexico, made in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, three thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventeen cents. *Post-Office Department.—*For compensation to temporary clerks Post-Office.
Temporary clerks.employed upon the current business of the Post-Office Department, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-two cents. *Territorial Government.—*For contingent expenses of the Territory Territories. Minnesota contingencies, and salaries of officers.of Minnesota, six hundred and fifty dollars; and for deficiencies in the appropriation for the salaries of the Governor, three Judges, and Secretary of the said Territory, for the present fiscal year, three thousand two hundred and nine dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For a deficiency in the last appropriation to defray the expenses of Deficiency supplied.the government of the Territory of Minnesota, nine thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and sixteen cents, the accounts for which shall, before payment, be audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of the treasury. *Intercourse with Foreign Nations.—*For outfit of the minister resident Foreign Intercourse.at Constantinople, six thousand dollars. For outfit of a charge d’affairs to Naples, four thousand five hundred Minister at Constantinople.
Chargé to Naples.dollars. For one year’s salary of a secretary of legation to Chili, two thousand dollars. Secretary of legation to Chili. Minister to Prussia. Chargé to Austria. For outfit of the minister to Prussia, nine thousand dollars. For outfit of charge d’affairs to Austria, four thousand five hundred dollars. *Miscellaneous.—*For the expenses of pauper lunatics in the Maryland Pauper lunatics.Hospital at Baltimore, one thousand three hundred and twenty eight dollars.
For fifteen days’ services of Joseph Bryan, as commissioner to take Joseph Bryan.testimony in pursuance of an inquiry by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, at eight dollars per day, one hundred and twenty dollars. 426 Custom-house at New Orleans. 1849, ch. 100. For continuing the construction of the custom-house at New Orleans, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, in addition to the sum appropriated by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, one hundred thousand dollars.
Custom-house at Eastport, Me. To complete the erection of a custom-house at Eastport, Maine, and for compensation of architect, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, thirteen thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Custom-house at New Bedford, Mass. For repairs of the custom-house at New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, eight hundred and forty-five dollars. Patent Office.
Towards the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office building, according to the original plan, and placing the west wing in a state of security, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ninety thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund. Running boundary line between United States and Mexico. Proviso as to salaries. For expenses of running and marking the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, and paying the salaries of the officers and men of the commission, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* There shall be allowed and paid to the commissioner, surveyor, and astronomer, appointed or to be appointed for the purpose aforesaid, each a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, and that if the duties of either have been or shall be performed by an officer of the army, his pay during the time of such employment shall be increased to that sum:
Proviso.*And provided, further,* That the appointments aforesaid shall terminate and cease at the expiration of three years from the first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty. Western coast survey. To provide for unforeseen expenses in the survey of the western coast of the United States, already commenced, fifteen thousand dollars. Protection of American seamen. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses. In aid of the appropriation heretofore made for the contingent expenses of the treasury office, eight hundred dollars. Seminole Indians. To provide for the removal and subsistence of the Seminole Indians, now in Florida, west of the Mississippi, two hundred thousand dollars. Deficiency in pensions. For deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Pavement of the avenue around the Capitol grounds. For continuing the pavement of the avenue around the Capitol grounds, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, on whose application to the Secretary of War an officer of the engineers or other corps of the army may be detailed to supervise the work. Mint of the United States at Philadelphia. For deficiency in the appropriation for the mint of the United States at Philadelphia, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, twelve thousand dollars.
Repairs at mint. For supplying new boilers to the engines, lengthening chimney, and for other alterations and improvements in the mint of the United States at Philadelphia, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars. Provisions for the navy. Additional sum required to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for provisions for the navy, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, seventy thousand dollars. Two additional clerks in Post-Office Department.
For the pay of two additional clerks in the Auditor’s office of the Post-Office Department, from the first of January to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, one thousand dollars. Norfolk navy yard. To supply the deficiency in former appropriation for storehouse number nineteen, and gateway, wall across timber dock, digging out timber dock, and for repairs at the Norfolk navy yard, sixty thousand dollars. 427 For deficiency in the appropriation for the present fiscal year for Lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds, etc.lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds, Pennsylvania Avenue, and the President’s house, six thousand dollars.
For the management of Indian affairs in Oregon Territory, to be Indian affairs in Oregon. 1848, ch. 177.expended under the direction of the President, ten thousand dollars, to supply the deficiency in the appropriation made by the law of fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.of the House of Representatives for printing, binding, and engraving, and other miscellaneous expenses for the present fiscal year, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for one Statutes at Large.thousand sets of the continuation of the Statutes at Large, printed by Little & Brown, pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives, two thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars. For repairing the United States steamers Jefferson, Hetzel, and Legare, Repairs of certain U. States steamers.employed in the coast survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Senate, two hundred and thirteen Contingent expenses of the Senate.thousand dollars. For deficiencies in the appropriations for the branch mint at New Branch mint at New Orleans.Orleans, the present fiscal year, fifteen thousand dollars. For supplying deficiencies in appropriations for the naval service for Naval service.the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in pursuance of the letter of the Secretary of the Navy of December twenty-four, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, seven hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty cents.
For the compensation of two watchmen to be employed in preserving Two watchmen about the Capitol grounds.the public grounds about the Capitol, at the rate of three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For the removal of the public greenhouse, and the botanical collection Removal of public greenhouse, etc.thereat, to some suitable site on the public grounds, and for the erection of such other greenhouse as may be deemed necessary by the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand dollars, to be expended by the direction of the said Joint Committee, and under the supervision of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
For continuing the improvement of the grounds south of the President’s Improvement of grounds south of the President’s house, and construction, of culvert.house, and as incidentally necessary thereto, towards the construction of a culvert on Seventeenth Street, leading from the grounds attached to the Navy Department building to the Washington Canal, ten thousand dollars. For completing the improvement of Indiana Avenue in the city of Indiana Avenue.Washington, from the City Hall to the Capitol Hill, seven thousand dollars, to be expended under the control of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
For continuing the improvement of the public grounds west of Seventh Public grounds.Street, designated as the mall, five thousand dollars. For enclosing with a substantial wooden fence, grading, and planting Enclosing, grading, and planting certain, low grounds. Twenty-two additional clerks, and one watchman, in Post-Office Department.with trees, the low grounds on the canal, between Third and Sixth Streets, two thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ twenty-two additional clerks in the Post-Office Department, viz.: seven clerks each at an annual salary of fourteen hundred dollars, eight clerks each at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, and seven clerks each at an annual salary of one thousand dollars, and one additional watchman at a salary of three hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the salaries provided for Salaries to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.in the second section of this act, and payable for the remainder of the 428 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 11. 1850.fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and for the whole year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 15, 1850.