Specific appropriations for support of government for 1795.For the pay of mechanics employed in making and repairing machinery for the mint, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For the purchase of a new coining press, ironmongery, lead, wood, coals, stationery, office furniture, and for other contingencies of the establishment of the mint, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of a house and lot for the mint, and of lumber, bricks and other materials for buildings to be erected, and other necessary improvements to be made, including mason’s and carpenter’s work, cartage and laborers, one thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensations to the governors, secretaries and judges of the territory northwest, and the territory south of the river Ohio, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, printing patents for lands, and other contingent expenses in both the said territories, seven hundred dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, two thousand and seven dollars, and seventy-three cents.
For the annual allowance to the widow and orphan children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan children of Major Alexander Trueman, by the 1793, ch. 14.act of Congress of the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer, son of the late Major General Mercer, by the 1793, ch. 28.act of Congress of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, four hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, three thousand dollars.
For lighthouses.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, there shall be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars; and for making good a deficiency of appropriation for building a lighthouse at Baldhead, there shall be appropriated a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars.
Specific appropriations for miscellaneous claims, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for discharging certain miscellaneous claims upon the United States, there shall be appropriated a sum of money not exceeding eight thousand and four dollars, and thirteen cents, that is to say:—For making good, to the Bank of the United States, loss and insurance on shipments of money for, and on account of the United States, and for loss on silver and gold, received from the collectors at Wilmington and Edenton, one thousand four hundred and twelve dollars, and ninety-three cents:—For paying Joseph Stretch, sole administrator of Joseph Wright, deceased, for modelling a likeness, and cutting two dies, in conformity to a resolution of Congress, of the twenty-fourth of September, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred and thirty-three dollars, and thirty-three cents:—For the payment of a balance due to Arthur St. Clair, pursuant to an 1794, ch. 38.act of Congress, of the thirty-first of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, one thousand and fifty-seven dollars, and eighty-seven cents:—For an allowance to the widow and orphan children of Robert Forsyth, late marshal of the district of Georgia, pursuant to an 1794, ch. 56.Ante, p. 401.act of June the seventh, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, two thousand dollars:—For defraying the expense of publishing lists of invalid pensioners, in compliance with the resolution of Congress, of the ninth of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, eight hundred dollars:—For defraying the expense of sundry expresses to and from the
