twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger in said office, in full of all allowances, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the contingent expenses of said office, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. 1824, ch. 157. Messenger. Contingent expenses. Superintendent and watch.men of war and For allowance to the superintendent and four watchmen employed for the security of the war and navy buildings, and for incidental and contingent expenses, including oil, fuel, candles, labour, repairing pumps navy buildings. and windows in passages, whitewashing halls and passages, for expense of lamps, and extra to watchmen for Sabbath-day, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents. For compensation to the Postmaster General, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Postmaster General, per act of twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, seventeen thousand and twenty-five dollars. For compensation to the clerks in said office, per act of the twentysixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, four thousand two hundred dollars; for clerks, per act of second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, four thousand eight hundred dollars; and for clerks, per act of twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the messenger and two assistants in said office, in full of all allowances, one thousand and fifty dollars. For the completion of the new building for the patent office and post-office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifteen cents. For contingent expenses of said office, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs of the post-office, one thousand and thirty-seven dollars and eighty cents. For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation to the surveyor south of Tennessee, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, one thousand five hundred dollars. Postmaster General. Assistants. Clerks. 1818, ch. 87. 1824, ch. 157. 1827, ch. 50. 1828, ch. 99. Messenger and assistants. Completion of patent office and post-office. Contingent expenses. Repairs of post-office. Surveyor general of Ohio, &c. Clerks. Surveyor south of Ten nessee. Clerks. Surveyor in Illinois, &c. Clerks. Surveyor in Alabama. Clerks. Surveyor in Florida. Clerks. For extra clerk hire in the office of the surveyor south of Tennessee, two thousand dollars. Extra clerk hire. For extra clerk hire in the office of the surveyor in Tilinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars. Extra clerk hire. For copying the township plats and field notes, in the office of the Copying in office of commissioner of general land office. Commissioner commissioner of the general land office, of the surveys in the state of Alabama, the originals having been destroyed by fire in the office of the surveyor, four thousand dollars. For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Wash of public build-ington city, one thousand five hundred dollars. ings. Officers and clerk of mint. Agents in mint. Contingent expenses of mint. Extension and improvement of mint establishment. Governor, judges, &c. of Michigan terri tory. Contingent expenses. Compensa tion, &c. legislative council. For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the persons employed in the different operations of the mint, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs; cost of machinery; for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars. For extending the mint establishment, and increasing its efficiency and security, by purchasing the necessary lot or lots of ground and erecting thereon suitable buildings, by the director thereof, according to a plan to be first approved by the President of the United States, and procuring such additional machinery as may be requisite, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; not to exceed, in the whole, the sum hereby appropriated. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Michigan territory, five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of the Michigan territory, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. For compensation and mileage to the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, printing of the laws and journals, including the sum of sixteen hundred and thirty-five dollars for arrearages, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Governor, &c. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkanof Arkansas tersas territory, including additional compensation to the judges under the ritory. 1824, ch. 157. act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour, and for salary of one judge appointed under the act of the seventeenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, from the seventeenth of May, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, ten thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. 1828, ch. 29. Contingent expenses. Pay, &c. of legislature. 1828, ch. 100. Governor, &c. of Florida territory. 1828, ch. 77. Contingent expenses. Compensa tion, &c., legis lative council. Chief justice, &c. of United States. For contingent expenses of said territory, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. For pay and mileage of the members of the two branches of the legis lature of said territory, including the incidental expenses of the legislature, per act of twenty-fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight, six thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation to the judges under the act of the twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, eleven thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the contingent expenses of the Florida territory, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. For compensation and mileage to the members of the legislative council of said territory, for the session ending the twenty-fourth November, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing and transportation of the laws, including the sum of two thousand one hundred dollars for publishing a revised code of all the laws of Florida, authorized by an act of the legislative council, seven thousand and thirty-two dollars. For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia; and also, for additional compensation to the district judge for the district of Missouri, under the act of the 1824, ch. 173. twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, fiftynine thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, six hundred dollars. For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Attorney general. Clerk. Reporter Su preme Court. District at For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eight thousand five hun- .torneys and dred and seventy-five dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year one thousand eight hundred and twentynine, and preceding years; and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the salary of the marshal of the northern district of the state of Alabama, for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-four and eighteen hundred and twenty-five, three hundred dollars. For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, twelve hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents. For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating-lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers' salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars. For buoys to be placed on proper sites on the north and south sides of New Inlet, near Federal Point, in North Carolina, one hundred and sixty dollars. For placing eleven buoys on proper sites at the entrance of the Mississippi river, in Louisiana, being the balance of a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December last, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty cents. For the repair of Provincetown harbour, three thousand five hundred dollars, being a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. marshals. Expenses, Supreme, circuit, and dis trict courts, &c. Marshal, northern district, Alabama. &c. Pensions. Lighthouses, Buoys at New Inlet, North Ca rolina. Buoys at mouth of Mississippi. Repair of Provincetown harbour. Beacon at For erecting a beacon near the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Yarmouth and Dennis, one thousand dollars, being a former mouth of Bass appropriation for that object, which will be carried to the surplus fund in March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. river. Surveying For surveying the public lands of the United States, in addition to the unexpended balance of forty thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dol- public lands lars and forty-nine cents, seventy-five thousand dollars. For surveying private land claims in Florida, ten thousand dollars. For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, twelve hundred dollars. For the salaries of the keepers of the public archives in Florida, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the payment of balances due to officers of the old internal revenue and direct tax, being the balance of a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, five thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty cents. For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices where there are no sales, one thousand dollars. of United States. Surveying land claims in Florida. Stationery, &c. Keepers of archives in Flo rida. Balance due officers of the old internal revenue and direct tax. Registers and receivers of land offices. Law agent, For allowance to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, under the act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settle- &c., land ment of private land claims in Florida, dated twenty-third of May, one claims in Florida. 1828, ch. 70. Discharge of miscellaneous claims. Salaries of and chargé d'affaires at thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, eight thousand dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars. For the salaries of the ministers at London, Paris, Madrid, St. Petersthe ministers to burg, Mexico, and Colombia; for outfit and salary of a minister, or London, &c., salary of a chargé des affaires, to the king of the Netherlands; for the salaries of the chargé des affaires at Stockholm, Denmark, Lisbon, Stockholm, &c. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Peru; for outfit of a chargé des affaires at Peru; for the salaries of the secretaries of legation; and for the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, one hundred and five thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. Fifth census. Distressed American seamen. Intercourse with Barbary powers. Agents of claims at London & Paris. Agents under act April 17, 1828, ch. 30. Marshals of Ohio, for making returns of non-freehold ers. Certain citi zens of Louisiana or Mississippi. 1814, ch. 68. Members of Senate and For discharging the expense of taking the fifth enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen in foreign countries, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, ten thousand dollars. For the salaries of the agents of claims at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. For the compensation of two agents appointed under the act of the seventeenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, from the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, including the contingent expenses incidental to the agency, twenty thou sand eight hundred and ten dollars and forty-four cents. For compensation to the marshals of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and of the territories of Michigan, Arkansas and Florida, the sum of eight hundred and fifty dollars, for making return to the Department of State of the number of non-freeholders in their respective states and territories, according to the resolution of the Senate, passed the twenty-fifth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars and nineteen cents be appropriated to pay certain inhabitants of the late province of West Florida, now citizens of Louisiana or Mississippi, the claims that have been passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, under the act of the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the sum of four hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dolHouse of Rep- lars, appropriated by the act of the sixth of January, eighteen hundred resentatives, &c. Appropriation to be paid out of treasury. and twenty-nine, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of government for the first quarter of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine," for compensation to senators and members of the House of Representatives, their officers and clerks, and for the contingent expenses of both houses of Congress, there be, and hereby is, appropriated for the objects aforesaid, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and the said sums, respectively, may be applied to the said objects in any part of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, as the public service shall require; any thing in said act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several sums, hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 2, 1829. CHAP. XXV.-An Act making appropriations for building lighthouses and beacons, State of Maine: Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the most eligible site on an island called Mount Desert Rock. Five thousand dollars for one on Hendrick's Head, a point of land near the mouth of Sheepscot river, or some place in the vicinity thereof; and Two thousand dollars for a tower and bell at Whitehead Point. State of New Hampshire: Ten thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to appropriations heretofore made for building a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks called the Whale's Back, near the harbour of Portsmouth. Three hundred dollars, for placing two buoys, one on Kitt's Rock, and one on a rock in Peperell's Cove in Portsmouth harbour. State of Massachusetts: Two thousand dollars for the erection of a monument on the eastern point of the harbour of Gloucester. One hundred dollars for placing two buoys at or near the same harbour; and Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be placed on Minot's Ledge, Cohasset Rock, a beacon on Spit Sand, and a buoy on a ledge called Toddy Rock, at or near the harbour of Boston. Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument on a ledge of rocks without the harbour of Swampscut, or in the vicinity of the same; and five hundred dollars for placing a spindle on Lone Rock and six spar buoys on rocks and ledges in the passage between the Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay. Five hundred dollars for placing buoys and monuments on rocks and shoals in Anisquam harbour, in Gloucester. State of Rhode Island: Six hundred dollars for six buoys and a spindle on the following sites, to wit: one on a ledge of rocks east of Brenton's Point, in the harbour of Newport, one on Auld's Rock, south-east of Rose Island, one on the extreme north point of Rose Island, one on Dyer's Rock, northeast of Coaster's Harbour Island, one on the ledge off the Bishop Rock, and one on the ledge north end of Prudence Island, and a spindle, with a ball, on the rock south end of Rose Island. One hundred and fifty dollars for placing a buoy at the end of the shoal making out from the lighthouse on Goat Island. Five thousand five hundred dollars for a lighthouse at a proper site on the northwest point of Block Island. And two thousand five hundred dollars for fixing two bells, viz: one to the lighthouse on Gull Island, and one on the Beaver Tail lighthouse. State of Connecticut: That the appropriation of six thousand two hundred dollars, made by the act of the first session of the twentieth Congress, for the erection of a beacon light on or near Spindle Rock, at the mouth of Black Rock harbour, be, and the same is hereby, directed to be applied to the erection of a beacon instead of the said beacon light; and Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on Great Captain's Island, or Greenwich Point, or some other fit place in the vicinity of those mentioned in Long Island Sound. State of New York: Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse in Hudson Bells to lighthouses. Connecticut. Beacon instead of beacon light. 1828, ch. 69. Lighthouse. New York. river, at Four Miles Point, on the west side of the river, and four miles Lighthouse. north of the city of Hudson, or at some other site in the vicinity. VOL. IV.-44 |