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For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, and their travelling expenses, two thousand dollars.

For fuel, forage, stationary, printing, transportation, and postage for the military academy, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars.

For re-constructing the out-buildings attached to West Point Academy, and for improvements connected therewith, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For general repairs of Barracks, Academies, Mess House, Officers' and Professors' Quarters, Store Houses, wharves, carts, boats, fences, roads, paints, and other objects, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For renewal and repairs of fire-grates, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For pay of Adjutant's and Quartermaster's Clerk, nine hundred dollars.

For increase and expenses of the Library, fourteen hundred dollars.

For philosophical apparatus, seven hundred and ninety dollars.

For models for department of engineering, six hundred dollars.

For models for the drawing department, repairs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus, and contingencies for the department of chemistry, eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars.

Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand six hundredand twenty-five dollars. For contingencies of the army, ten thousand dollars. For the National Armories, three hundred and sixty

thousand dollars.

For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, seventy thousand dollars.

For Arsenals, sixty thousand seven hundred dollars. For an Arsenal in Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For the recruiting service, twenty four thousand nine hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of nine thousand dollars.

For the arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor's office, five thousand dollars.

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when offered at private sale, may be purchased at the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, half sections, quarter sections, half quarter sections, or quarter quarter sections; and in every case of a division of a half quarter section, the line for the division thereof shall run cast and west, and the corners and contents of quarter quarter sections, which may thereafter be sold, shall be ascertained as nearly as may be, in the manner, and on the principles, directed and prescribed by the second section of an act, entitled "An act concerning the mode of surveying the public lands of the United States," passed on the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and five; and fractional sections, containing fewer or more than one hundred and sixty acres, shall, in like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, be subdivided into quar. ter quarter sections, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to alter any special provision made by law for the sale of land in town lots: And provided, also, That no person shall be per mitted to enter more than one half quarter section of land under this act, in quarter quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case, unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of its improvement: And the person making application to make an entry under this act, shall file his and her affida vit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Trea sury may prescribe, that he or she makes the entry in his or her own name, for his or her own benefit; and not in trust for another: Provided, further, That all actual settlers, being house-keepers, upon the public lands, shall have the right of pre-emption to enter, within six months after the passage of this act, not exceeding the quantity of one half quarter section, under the provisions of this act, to include his or their improvements, under such regulations as have been, or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and in cases where two persons shall live upon the same quarter section, subject to be entered under the provisions of this act, each shall have the right to enter that quarter quarter section which includes his improvement.

Approved: 5th April, 1832.

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AN ACT to authorize the Judges of the Courts of the United States to take bail of the claimants of proper ty seized, and perform other acts in vacation. To enable the Second Auditor to close the accounts, maritime jurisdiction, or other case of seizure, dependBe it enacted, &c. That in any cause of admiralty and under the act of third March, one thousand eight huning in any court of the United States, any Judge of the dred and twenty-one, allowing three months' gratuitous said court, in vacation, shall have the same power pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundred dollars. authority to order any vessel, or cargo, or other proper Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary ty, to be delivered to the claimants, upon bail or bond, of War be authorized and required to settle, adjust, and under the statute, as the case may be, or to be sold when pay, the claims of the militia called out by competent authority, or received into the service of the United States, necessary, as the said court now has in term time, and to by a General Officer of the United States' army, in the appoint appraisers, and exercise every other incidental year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and all power necessary to the complete execution of the au charges and expenses incident to the service of said thority herein granted; and the said recognizance of bail or bond, under such order, may be executed before the troops, agreeably to the provisions of the third section of clerk upon the party's producing the certificate of the an act making appropriations for the military service of collector of the district, of the sufficiency of the securi the United States, approved twenty-first of March, one ty offered; and the same proceedings shall be had in thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which procase of said order of delivery, or of sale, as are now had vides for the payment of like expenses, and troops called in like cases when ordered in term time: Provided, That, out in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and that the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and upon every such application, either for an order of delive ry or of sale, the collector and the attorney of the dis thirty-two dollars; be appropriated for the said object to trict shall have reasonable notice in cases of the United be paid out of any money in the Treasury. States, and the party or counsel in all other cases. Approved: April 5th, 1832. Approved: April 5, 1832.

AN ACT supplementary to the several laws for the sale of Public Lands.

Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the first day of May next, all the public lands of the United States,

AN ACT providing for the organization of the Ordnance
Department.

Be it enacted, &c. That, from and after the passage of this act, the Ordnance Department shall consist of one

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Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors, and ten Captains, and as many enlisted men as the public service may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to select from the Sergeants of the line of the army, who shall have faithfully served eight years in the service, four years of which in the grade of non-commissioned officer, as many ordnance Sergeants as the service may require, not to exceed one for each military post; whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the ordnance, arms, ammunition, and other mili. tary stores, at the post under the direction of the com. manding officer of the same, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and who shall receive for their services five dollars per month, in addition to their pay in the line.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the first sec tion of the act passed on the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act for the better regulation of the Ordnance Department," and so much of the second section of the act, entitled "An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," passed the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, as provides for one supernumerary Captain to each regiment of artillery, to perform ordnance duty, and so much of the fourth section of the same as merges the Ordnance Department in the artillery, and reduces the number of enlisted men, be, and the same are, hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to divest the President of the United States of authority to select from the regiments of artillery such number of Lieutenants as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the Ordnance Department.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all officers and the rules and articles of war, and that the officers shall enlisted men authorized by this act, shall be subject to receive the pay and emoluments now allowed to, or which may hereafter be allowed, artillery officers. Approved: April 5, 1832.

AN ACT to change the time of holding the United States' District Court, at Staunton, in the western district of Virginia.

Be it enacled, &c. That, from and after the passing of this act, the United States' District Court, in the western district of Virginia, heretofore held at Staunton, on Wednesday after the fourth Monday in April and September, in each year, be hereafter held at Staunton on the first day of May, and the first day of October, in each year; and when those days, or either of them, fall on Sunday, the Court is to be held on the next succeeding day. Approved: April 20th, 1832.

AN ACT authorizing the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas to lease the Salt Springs, in said Territory, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Salt Springs, lying on the Washita river, on Little river, and on Saline creek, in said Territory of Arkansas, together with as many contiguous sections to each of said Springs as shall be equal to one township, and every other salt spring which may be discovered in said Territory, with the section of one mile square which includes it, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States, and shall not be liable to be entered, located, or appropriated, for any other purpose whatever.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Governor of said Territory shall be, and is hereby, authorized to let out or lease said springs, for a term not exceeding five years; and the rents and profits arising from said Springs

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shall be applied, by the Legislature of said Territory, to the opening and improving such roads in said Territory as said Legislature may direct, and to no other purpose whatever.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Hot Springs in said Territory, together with four sections of land, including said Springs, as near to the centre thereof as may be, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States, and shall not be entered, located, or ap propriated, for any other purpose whatever. Approved: April 20, 1832.

AN ACT making appropriations, in conformity with the stipulations of certain Indian treaties.

Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of thirty-nine thousand and seventy five dollars be appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, to the several following objects, specifically, namely:

For payment of the permanent annuity to the Chippe. wa, Ottawa, and Pottawatamy Indians, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, sixteen thousand

dollars.

dollars.

For the expense of salt for the same tribes, according to the treaty with them, one hundred and twenty-five eight thousand dollars. For payment of the annuity to the Winnebago Indians,

For tobacco and salt for the same tribe, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the support of blacksmiths, shops, iron, and steel, three thousand dollars.

For the purchase of oxen, cart, and service of a man, at the portage of Ouisconsin and Fox rivers, according to ities aforesaid, one thousand one hundred and sixty doltreaty, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For the transportation and other expenses of the annu

lars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be further appropriated, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, namely:

For the payment of the missionary property held by the Baptist denomination, at the St. Joseph's of Lake Michigan, as valued by agents appointed for that purpose, in pursuance of the fifth article of the treaty of St. Joseph's of 20th September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty one dollars and fifty cents.

For payment of the claims of the Cherokees for improvements abandoned under the treaty of the eighth of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and the convention of twenty seventh February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, four thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars.

Approved: April 20, 1832.

AN ACT providing for the postponement of the trial of certain cases now pending in the Superior Courts of Arkansas Territory, and for withholding from sale or entry certain lands in said Territory.

Be it enacted, &c. That the District Attorney of the United States for the Territory of Arkansas be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to postpone, until after the expiration of the next session of the Supreme Court of the United States, all further proceedings in any case which has been tried, or now is pending for trial, in the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, upon which bills of review have been filed in said Superior Court on the part of the United States, under the provisions of an act, passed May the eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled "An act for further extending the pow

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ers of the Judges of the Superior Court of the Territory of Arkansas, under the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and for other purposes:" Provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be applicable to any of the aforesaid cases now pending for trial on appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States: And provided, also, That nothing herein contained shall prejudice the rights of any of the parties: Provided, also, That no extra compensation shall be allowed said Judges until after the termination of the next term of the Supreme Court of the United States, after which the Judges shall proceed to dispose of said cases under the provisions of said acts, and then be allowed the additional compensation from said time, until the cases are disposed of, or tried, by the said Courts of

Arkansas.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall cause all the lands, the titles to which are involved in, or dependent upon, the trial of said bills of review, which are claimed by purchasers after the rendition of the original judgment, to be withheld from sale until the further order of Congress.

Approved: April 20th, 1832.

AN ACT to provide the means of extending the benefits of vaccination, as a preventive of the small pox, to the Indian tribes, and thereby, as far as possible, to save them from the destructive ravages of that disease. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be the duty of the several Indian Agents and Sub agents, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to take such measures as he shall deem most efficient to convene the Indian tribes in their respective towns, or in such other places and numbers, and at such seasons, as shall be most convenient to the Indian population, for the purpose of arresting the progress of small pox among the several tribes, by

vaccination.

each year, instead of the first Mondays of said months, as is now required by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or return. able to, sajd Court, shall be proceeded in by said Court in the same manner as if no alteration of the times for holding said Court had taken place. Approved: May 19, 1832.

An ACT to extend the patent of Jethro Wood. Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and hereby is,granted unto Jethro Wood, a citizen of the United States, his heirs, assigns, and legal representatives, for the term of fourteen years from the last day of Augus', one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the full and exclusive right and privilege of making,using, and vending to others to be used, his improvements in the construction of a plough; a description of which is given in a schedule or specifi cation annexed to letters patent granted to the said Jethro Wood for the same on the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen: Provided, That all rights and privileges heretofore sold by the said patentee, to make, use, or vend the said improvements, shall enure to, and be enjoyed by, the purchasers, respectively, as fully and upon the same conditions, during the period hereby granted, as for the existing term. And provided also, That the price at which the same has been sold by the said patentee, shall not be advanc ed upon future purchasers.

Approved: May 19, 1832.

An ACT for giving effect to a commercial arrangement between the United States and the Republic of Colombia.

lombia, and their cargoes, whether of foreign or domes Be it enacted, &c. That vessels of the Republic of Cotic produce or manufacture, which shall come direct from no greater duties on importation, anchorage, tonnage, or the ports of that nation to the United States, shall pay any other kind, than are now, or hereafter may be,levied

on the vessels of the United States.

Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, empowered to employ as many physicians or surgeons, from the army, or resident on the frontier near the point where their services shall be required, as he may find necessary for the execution of coming direct from a port in Colombia, contained in Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the restriction of this act; and, if necessary, two competent persons to the preceding section, shall be taken off, as soon as the conduct the physicians to the remote Indians who are President shall receive satisfactory evidence that a like infected, or may be in immediate danger of being infect-restriction is taken off from vessels of the United States ed, with the small pox, whose compensation shall be six dollars per day, and six men, whose compensation shall be twenty-five dollars per month,

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to cause all Indian agents to be supplied with genuine vaccine matter; and all agents and sub-agents shall use all proper means to persuade the Indian population to submit to vaccination.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all agents, sub-agents, physicians, and surgeons, employed in the execution of this act, shall make monthly returns or reports of their proceedings to the War Department. And the Secretary thereof shall submit to Congress, on or before the first of February next, a general report of all proceedings in the premises.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, to carry this act into effect, the sum of twelve thousand dollars be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved: May 5, 1832.

An ACT for altering the time of holding the District

Court of the United States for the District of Indiana.

Be it enacted, &c. That the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana shall be hereafter holden on the last Mondays of May and November, in

in the ports of the Republic of Colombia, and shall make
known the same by his proclamation declaring the fact.

of the United States shall at any time receive satisfacto
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, if the President
ry information that the privileges allowed or which may
be allowed to American vessels and their cargoes in the
ports of Colombia, corresponding with those extended,
their cargoes in the ports of the United States, have been
or to be extended by this act, to Colombian vessels and
revoked or annulled, he is hereby authorized, by procla
mation, to suspend the operation of either or both of the
provisions of this act, as the case may be, and to withhold
any or all the privileges allowed, or to be allowed, to
Colombian vessels or their cargoes.
Approved: May 19, 1832.

AN ACT authorizing the revision and extension of the
rules and regulations of the Naval service.

Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to constitute a Board of Naval officers, to be composed of the Naval Commissioners and two Post Captains, to meet at the seat of Government, whose duty it shall be, with the aid and assistance of the Attorney General, carefully to revise and enlarge the rules and regulations governing the naval service, with the view to adapt them to the present and

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future exigencies of this important arm of national defence, which rules and regulations, when approved by him and sanctioned by Congress, shall have the force of law, and stand in lieu of all others heretofore enacted. Approved: May 19, 1832.

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seventy-two degrees, west twenty-three poles, to the said first line of the "Rock of Dunbarton," thence, with said line, to the beginning.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the rights, powers, and privileges, heretofore granted by law to the said Corporation, and which are at this time claimed and AN ACT to alter the time of holding the District Court exercised by them, may and shall be exercised and enof the United States for the Western District of Lou-joyed by them within the bounds and limits set forth and described in the first section of this act. Approved: May 25, 1832.

isiana.

Be it enacted, &c. That the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana, shall be hereafter holden on the second Monday of June, in each year, instead of the third Monday of August, as is now required by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all proceedings of a civil or criminal nature now pending in, or returnable to said Court, shall be proceeded in by the said Court, in the same manner as if no alteration of the time for holding said Court had taken place. Approved: May 22, 1832.

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Be it enacled, &c. That the Land Office at Mount Salus, in the Choctaw District, in the State of Mississippi, shall be removed to, and located at, such place in the said Land District as the President of the United States may direct, if in his opinion any removal be necessary; and that the Land Office at Franklin, in the county of Howard, State of Missouri, shall be removed to, and located in, the town of Fayette, in said county; and it shall be the duty of the Registers and the Receivers of public money for said Land Offices, within sixty days from and after the passage of this act, to remove the books, records, and whatever else belongs to said offices, to their respective places of location, as herein provided for. Approved: May 22, 1832.

AN ACT to exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of duties on tonnage.

Be it enacted, &c. That no duties upon tonnage shall be hereafter levied or collected of the vessels of the kingdom of Portugal: Provided always, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the vessels of the United States are subjected, in the ports of the kingdom of Portugal, to payment of any duty of tonnage, he shall, by proclamation, declare the fact, and the duties now payable by the vessels of that kingdom shall be levied and paid as if this act had not been passed.

Approved: May 25, 1832.

AN ACT for improving Pennsylvania avenue, supplying the public buildings with water, and for paving the walk from the western gate to the Capitol with flagging.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to contract, after giving due notice by public adver tisement, for improving the avenue in the city of Washington, leading from the Capitol to the Executive Offices, by paving the centre way thereof, forty-five feet in width, the McAdam plan, or in any other permanent manner, as with cobble or pebble stones, or with pounded stone,upon the President of the United States may direct; and also, for the graduation, and covering with the best gravel to gutters and drains to carry off the water, for which purbe obtained, the sideways of said avenue, and for proper pose the sum of sixty-two thousand dollars is hereby ap propriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, under the lowing sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively, same direction as prescribed in the first section, the fol appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Trea sury, not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say:

square number two hundred and forty-nine, to the Presi For conducting water in pipes from the fountain, on dent's House and public offices, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, five thousand seven hundred dollars.

For bringing water in pipes to the Capitol, and the construction of reservoirs and hydrants, and the purchase of the rights of individuals to the water, forty thousand

dollars.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the Public Buildings is hereby authorized and directed to contract for the purchase, delivery, and laying of Seneca flagging on the walk from the western gate to the Capitol; and for this purpose the sum of seven thousand one hundred and two dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any mo ney in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved: May 25, 1832.

AN ACT to extend the limits of Georgetown, in the Dis- AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to enlarge

trict of Columbia.

Be it enacted, &c. That the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be, and they are hereby, extended, so as to include the part of a tract of land called "Pretty Prospect," recently purchased by the Corporation of the said town, as a site for their poor's house: be. ginning, for the said piece of ground, at a stone marked number four, extending at the end of four hundred and seventy-six poles on the first line of a tract of land called the "Rock of Dunbarton;" said stone also standing on the western boundary line of lot numbered two hundred and sixty, of Beatty and Hawkins's addition to said town, and running thence, north, seventy-eight degrees, east thirty-eight poles; south eighty degrees, east three poles; south eighteen poles, south twelve degrees, east nine poles; south eleven degrees, west twelve poles; south

the powers of the several corporations of the District of Columbia."

Be it enacted, &c. That the Corporation of Washington be, and it is hereby, empowered to collect, annually, the tax at the rate of one per centum and thirteen hundredths of one per centum on the assessed value of the real and personal estates within the city of Washington, assessed and laid by the fifth section of said act, or any part thereof, for the purposes and objects designated in said act, by the same officers, process, and means, by which said Corporation is now, or may hereafter be, empowered to collect any other taxes; and to pay over said money, when so collected as aforesaid, to the Treasury of the United States, in the manner, and within the times, prescribed by the acts to which this act is a supplement; and that, in default made by the said Corporation, either

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in collecting or paying over as aforesaid, that then, and in such case, the President of the United States may proceed to exercise the powers reposed in, and conferred on, him, in and by the said fifth section.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Common Council of Alexandria shall have the power to appoint one or more Inspectors of Tobacco for the town of Alexandria; and the said Inspectors shall take an oath before a Justice of the Peace of the County of Alexandria, or the Mayor of the Corporation, for the faithful discharge of the duties of office of Inspector, a certificate of which he shall return to the Clerk of the Common Council: and the said Common Council shall have power to pass all needful laws for the due and proper inspection of Tobac co, and for regulating the conduct of the said Inspectors; and the said Common Council shall have power to remove, for just cause, any Inspector, and appoint another in his place.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall commence and be in force from the passage thereof. Approved: May 25, 1832.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of Government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz :

For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, four hundred and ninety-three thousand eight

hundred dollars.

For pay of the officers and clerks of both Houses, thirty-four thousand four hundred dollars

For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, repairs of the building, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For a clerk employed on Revolutionary bounty land scrip, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the First Comptroller, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Second Comptroller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the First Auditor of the Treasu. ry, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the First Auditor, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Second Auditor of the Trea sury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Second Auditor, sixteen thousand nine hun. dred dollars.

For compensation to the Third Auditor of the Treasu ry, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Third Auditor, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Fourth Auditor of the Trea sury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Fourth Auditor, seventeen thousand seven thou-hundred and fifty dollars.

For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five sand dollars.

For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. The said two sums last named to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives severally, and to no other purpose.

For the Library of Congress, five thousand dollars; and also for repairs and furniture for the Library of Congress, three thousand dollars, to be applied under the direction of the Library Committee.

For salary of the principal and assistant Librarians, two thousand three hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Library and pay of Messenger, eight hundred dollars.

For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, five hundred dollars.

For improving the grounds, including the gardener's salary, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secre

For compensation to the Fifth Auditor of the Treasu ry, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Fifth Auditor, twelve thousand eight hun. dred dollars.

For compensation to the Treasurer of the United States, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, six thou sand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Register of the Treasury, twenty-four thou sand two hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three thousand dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Solicitor of the Treasury,

tary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secreta-three thousand five hundred dollars.
ry of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thou
sand dollars.

For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the Patent Office, five thousand four hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expense of publishing and distributing the laws, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For contingent and incidental expenses of the Patent Office, fifteen hundred dollars.

For the superintendent and watchmen of the northeast executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation to the Secretary to the Commission. ers of the Sinking Fund, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the expenses of stationary, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, the following several

sums, viz:

For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including advertising and extra copying, and the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars applied from this fund for clerk hire and other expenses incident to the issuing

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