the minimum price of said lands, from and after that day, shall be two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CV.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five; to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, namely:
Congress.For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and Delegates, three hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred dollars;
Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps.For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, twenty-nine thousand and ten dollars and fifty cents;
Contingent expenses of the Senate.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, sixty thousand dollars;
Contingent expenses of the House of Reps.For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars; Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them; nor as payment or compensation to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them, unless such clerk, messenger, or other attendant, be so employed by a resolution or order of one of said Houses. And provided, also, That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed, in the future disbursements of the public moneys for the use of their respective bodies, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles the growth and manufacture of the United States, provided the same can be procured of such growth and manufacture, of suitable quality and at reasonable prices upon as good terms ad to quality and price as can be obtained of foreign growth or manufacture.
Library of Congress.
Librarian, &c.Library of Congress.―For compensation of librarian, and two assistant librarians, and messenger of the library, four thousand five hundred dollars;
Contingent expenses.
Purchase of books.
Law books.
Executive.
President of the United States.For contingent expenses of said library, six hundred dollars; for purchase of books for said library, two thousand five hundred dollars; for purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars;
Executive.―For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Capitol grounds, &c.For repairs of the capitol, attending furnaces and water-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on the capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, and topdressing for plants, for trees and plants, repairs of public stable, pumps, flagging, enclosures, extra labor in removing snow, &c., for taking down and rebuilding four chimneys on the capitol, for one bulk-head containing sixty-four lights, baize doors, &c., complete, for one large fan-light and frame, ten feet by five feet, containing thirty-seven lights, and for three additional lamps for the capitol, and alteration in water-works, and for fish, nine thousand and eighty-four dollars.
Repairs to windows, &c., by Purdy.For repairs to windows, glass, and glazing, heretofore done by John Purdy, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents.
Digging out crypt, &c.For digging out the crypt, excavating and making sufficient drains,