ESTIMATE-Continued. To increase the salaries of the Clerks now in the Engineer office, and providing for the procurement of others, Submitted $ 2.250 Clerks in the Ordnance Office, per act of 20th April, 1818 Contingent expenses . . . . Clerk in the office of the Surgeon General, per act of 26th May, 1824 • Contingent expenses ^ 1,375 Clerks in the office of the Quartermaster General Contingent expenses . • 2,150 830 Contingencies for the Office of the General in Chief Navy Department. - 6,000 - 1,000 - 1,050 Contingent expenses, including arrearages of, and prior to, 1826 3,000 For the salary of an additional Clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Navy $1,000 whose salary is now $ 800, which is Surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansaw, Clerks, • - 2,000 2,000 The surveyor estimates for extra Clerk hire for 1827, the sum of Submitted, $1,700 ESTIMATE-Continued. MINT ESTABLISHMENT. For compensation of Assistant Artists in the several de partments of the Mint, for extra clerk hire, and for 10,800 Incidental and Contingent Expenses and Repairs. For Machinery, repairs of furnaces and machinery, repairs of buildings, carpenters, blacksmiths, and millwrights' work, ground rent, and taxes and rent of a lot and building adjoining the Mint, . 3,100 acids, potashes, copper for alloy, castings, tallow, ticles, - - - - . - 725 - 600 10.600 21,400 31,000 |