Chapter XIV. *supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for certain Objects made for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.* May 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That t
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Chap. XIV.— An Act *supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for certain Objects made for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.* May 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following Appropriation.sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for various objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, namely:
Contingent expenses of the Senate.For the contingent expenses of the Senate, being for printing and lithographing, ordered during the twenty-eighth Congress, seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Printing and lithographing.For the contingent expenses of the Senate, being for printing and lithographing, ordered by the Senate, during the first session of the twenty-ninth Congress, fifty-one thousand dollars. Contingencies of H. of Rep.For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, seventy thousand dollars.
Purchase of certain books.To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States to comply with former orders of the House, directing him to supply the members with certain books, to wit: Cong. Globe.For two hundred and twenty-six copies of the fourteenth volume of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, six hundred and seventy-eight dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation, or any legislation hereto-7fore had in relation to said work, shall not he deemed to authorize any further subscription to said work, or the purchasing any further volumes thereof.
For seventy-six copies of the fourteenth volume of the Register ofRegister of Debates. Debates, seven hundred and sixty dollars. For one hundred and fifty-eight copies of “Contested Elections,”Contested Elections. seven hundred and ninety dollars. For two hundred and nineteen copies of the fourth and fifth volumesDocumentary History.Proviso. of the Documentary History, seven thousand forty-three dollars and ninety-one cents: *Provided,* That this appropriation, or any legislation heretofore had in relation to said work, shall not be deemed to authorize any further subscription to said work, or the purchasing any further volumes thereof, beyond the number authorized and required by existing contracts with the publishers.
For contingent expenses in the office of the First Auditor, threeContingent expenses, office of 1st and 4th Auditors. hundred dollars. For contingent expenses in the office of the Fourth Auditor, five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of theContingent expenses, office of Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury, for publishing notices as required by acts of the twelfth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the superintendent of the post-office buildingCompensation of superintendent of the post-office. for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, two hundred and fifty dollars. For additional salaries of the District judges of Ohio, Indiana,Additional Salaries of certain District judges. Illinois, and Missouri, from the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, two thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety-seven cents.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and DistrictExpenses of the Courts of the U.S.; also of jurors, witnesses, &c. Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and for prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses incurred, and to be incurred, for the support, clothing,Insane paupers of the District of Columbia. and medical treatment, of the insane paupers of the District of Columbia, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents. For reimbursement of the Philadelphia board of underwriters, forLight on Delaware Breakwater. expenses paid and to be paid by them in maintaining the light on the Delaware Breakwater from the first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-four, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For outfits of *chargés des affaires* to Texas, Austria, Peru, andOutfits of *chargés des affaires.* Venezuela, five hundred dollars; and that the proper accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow to William II. Stiles, *chargé d‘affaires* to Austria, his salary from the tenth day of May to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and to pay the same out of any unexpended balance of the appropriations for salaries of the *chargés des affaires* of the United States.
For outfits of the late *chargés des affaires* to Peru and Venezuela, and *chargés des affaires* to Naples, Holland, New Grenada, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Sardinia, Chili, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-four thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousandContingent expenses of foreign missions dollars. 8 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 14. 1846. Pensions.For payment of invalid pensions under various laws, seventy-four thousand dollars. 18S6, ch. 362.For payment of pensions under act of July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one hundred and two thousand dollars. 1838, ch. 189.For payment of widows’ pensions under act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the acts supplementary thereto, one hundred and three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Repairing State artillery of Louisiana.For repairing of the State artillery of the State of Louisiana, injured in the service of the United States in Texas, during the summer and fall of eighteen hundred and forty-five, one thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars. Payment of Texas and Louisiana volunteers.For payment of four companies of Texas volunteers, and two companies of Louisiana volunteers, including the supplies required by the quartermaster’s department, sixty-nine thousand two hundred and six dollars and sixty-eight cents.
Transportation of officers’ baggage.For transportation of officers’ baggage, thirty thousand dollars. Transportation of troops, supplies, &c.For the transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including baggage of troops, when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds of the pay department; expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; of clothing, from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence, from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the necessities of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Supplies of quartermaster’s department.For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen, belonging to the quarter-master’s department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, and of the four companies of light artillery; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred thousand dollars.
Penitentiary in the District of Columbia.For amount required for the support of the [penitentiary of the](*a*)(*a*) The words in brackets were, by a clerical error, omitted, in engrossing the bill. The omission is corrected by the joint resolution of May 15, 1B46, post, p 110. District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, eleven thousand nine hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents. Refunding certain duties collected in contravention of treaty with G.
Britain.1842, ch. 270.For refunding certain duties collected under the act of the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled “An Act to provide Revenue from Imports, and to change and modify existing Laws imposing Duties on Imports, and for other Purposes,” contrary to the terms of the convention of eighteen hundred and fifteen, between Great Britain and the United States, in fulfilment of the agreement lately entered into by the government of the United States and Great Britain, one hundred thousand dollars.
Compensation and mileage of members of Congress, and delegates.For compensation and mileage of senators and members of the House of Representatives and delegates, the same being rendered necessary by an increase in the number of senators and members of the House of Representatives, twenty thousand dollars. TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 15, 16. 1846.9 For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, seven thousand fiveContingent expenses of foreign intercourse. hundred dollars.
For salary of the commissioner to reside in China from the first ofSalary of Commissioner to China. April to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Approved, May 8, 1846.