United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 92
Chap. XCII.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government.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 compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars.
For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three 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, and for carrying into effect the resolutions of the Senate of the twenty-sixth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in conjunction with the statistical inquiries set on foot by the late Secretary of State, Edward Livingston, and to reimburse the contingent fund the sum taken therefrom in prosecution of the same, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, two thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the buildings, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the publication of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, thirteen hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 78.For the documentary history of the revolution, per act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, twenty thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to examine the contract entered into by Edward Livingston, late Secretary of that department, with Matthew St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, for the collection and publication of the documentary history of the American Revolution, and make a special report thereon, to the next session of Congress, setting forth the nature and character of the materials of which the work is to be composed, the progress made in the work, the number of volumes which will be required to complete it, and an estimate of the money which it may be necessary to appropriate for the fulfilment of the contract.
For the erection of a fence of wood corresponding with that already enclosing the war and navy buildings, to complete the enclosure of the north-east executive building, sixteen hundred dollars.
For compensation of an additional watchman of the north-east executive building, three hundred dollars. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For reimbursing the fund for the contingent expenses of the north-east executive building, including fuel, labour, oil, and repairs, for so much paid out of that fund for extra watchings during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars, including one hundred and fifty dollars additional compensation to the assistant messenger for extra labour.
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 three hundred dollars, including two hundred dollars additional compensation to the assistant messenger for extra labour.
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 treasury, 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 treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the second auditor, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the third auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the third auditor, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fourth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fourth auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the fifth auditor of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the fifth auditor, twelve thousand eight hundred 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 thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the register of the treasury, twenty-four thousand 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, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of solicitor of the treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the secretary to the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For the expenses of stationery, printing, and all other incidental expenses of the several offices of the Treasury Department, the following sums, viz:
For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including the expenses incurred in consequence of the burning of the treasury building, ten thousand dollars.
For the office of the first comptroller, including the sum necessary to supply books and stationery lost in the conflagration, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the office of the first auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the second auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the third auditor, eight hundred dollars.
For the office of the fifth auditor, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the treasurer of the United States, one thousand dollars.
For the office of the register of the treasury, three thousand dollars.
For the office of the solicitor of the treasury, one thousand dollar.s
For the office of the commissioner of the general land office, including eighty thousand parchments, and cost of printing patents, eighteen thousand dollars.
For compensation to the legal representatives of the late William Wirt, Esq., in full for professional services rendered the United States in suits relative to lands lying in Missouri, in Alabama, and in Florida, the sum of one thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in the issuing of military land scrip, making out patents for Virginia military surveys, and for private land claims, and in adjusting the accounts of the surveyors general, four thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire in writing and recording not less than forty thousand patents, at a price not exceeding fifteen cents each, six thousand dollars.
For compensation to six additional clerks, one year, to aid in registering sales of lands and adjusting the accounts of receivers of public moneys for districts recently created, and for opening tract books, making indexes, and bringing up other arrears, six thousand dollars.
For translations, and for expense of passports and sea letters, three hundred dollars.
For stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the buildings occupied by the Treasury Department, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of said buildings, fuel, labour, oil, and repairs, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For books, maps and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, including printing advertisements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For the services of a lithographer, and the expenses of the lithographic press of the War Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.
For the salary of a clerk in the topographical bureau, one thousand dollars.
For the salary of a clerk in the clothing bureau, seven hundred dollars.
For the salary of the commissioner of pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks transferred from the office of the Secretary of War, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of additional clerks, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For additional or temporary clerk hire for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four,1832, ch. 126. in order to carry into effect the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, granting revolutionary pensions, five thousand dollars.
For arrearages for salaries and clerk hire, printing, stationery, rent, expenses of procuring revolutionary records, and other contingencies, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, five thousand dollars.
For printing, stationery, rent, expenses of procuring revolutionary records, and other contingencies in the office of the commissioner of pensions, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of building and improvements of adjoining ground, including arrearages for eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and the sum of one hundred and four dollars and seventeen cents for the rent of rooms occupied by the bounty land bureau, three thousand two hundred and four dollars and seventeen cents.
For fitting up the basement rooms of the executive building occupied by the War Department, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For compensation to the commissioners of the navy board, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the navy board, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks, draughtsmen, and messenger in Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.the office of the commissioners of the navy board, eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the commissioners of the navy board, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salary of the superintendent of the south-west executive building, and the watchmen, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engine, and improvement of the grounds, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the two assistant postmasters general, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and one labourer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars.
For additional clerk hire for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-four cents.
For the repairs of the buildings occupied by the general post-office, three thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-one cents.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and transcribing field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Illinois and Missouri, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general in Arkansas, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to clerks in said office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Louisiana, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, fifteen hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Mississippi, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Alabama, two thousand dollars.
Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For compensation to the clerk and draughtsman in the office of said surveyor, one thousand dollars each.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor in Florida, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of said surveyor, three thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire, in order to bring up the arrears, and for transcribing the field notes of said office, for the purpose of having them preserved at the seat of government, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For enabling the respective surveyors general to furnish the several land offices, commencing under the credit system, with renewed township plats, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in cases where those previously furnished have been defaced, or become materially injured by use, five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the secretary appointed by the President to sign all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States,Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 91. per act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, including arrears of salary not paid for eighteen hundred and thirty-three, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the commissioner of the public buildings in Washington city, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars.
For salary of the principal and assistant librarians, and for contingent of the library and pay of messenger, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the officers and clerk of the mint, ten thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the mint, and wages of labourers employed in the various operations of the establishment, including one thousand dollars for the salary of an assistant assayer, and one thousand five hundred dollars for his services and expenses during a visit to Europe on behalf of the mint, in order to examine certain processes in the treatment of the precious metals, twenty thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost of machinery, for allowance for wastage in gold and silver coinage of the mint, twenty thousand and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Michigan territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council, pay of the officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, of the territory of Michigan, eleven thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For arrearages for compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Michigan territory, pay of officers of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Arkansas territory, including additional compensation to judges, under theAct of April 220, 1832, ch. 72. act of twentieth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at eight hundred dollars each, from the sixteenth March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, thirteen thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.
1828, ch. 100.For incidental expenses of the legislative council of said territory, per act of twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, omitted last year, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
To defray the expenses of compiling and printing the laws of the territory of Arkansas, under the direction and superintendence of the governor of said territory, three thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of Arkansas territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Florida territory, including additional compensation per1830, ch. 106. act of twenty-sixth May, eighteen hundred and thirty, of eight hundred dollars to the judge of the superior court of the eastern district of said territory, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.
For additional compensation for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to the judges of the superior courts of the eastern and southern district of the Florida territory, one thousand six hundred dollars, in lieu of an1833, ch. 54. appropriation of last year of one thousand six hundred dollars, for “additional compensation of two of the said judges” of the Florida territory.
For contingent expenses of the Florida territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, and printing, nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-four cents.
For arrearages for the compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative council of Florida, pay of officers and servants of the council, fuel, stationery, printing, and the distribution of the laws for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, two thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents.
For allowances to the law agent and assistant counsel, under the acts for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, including arrearages, nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For compensation to the chief justice, the associate judges, and district judges of the United States, eighty-one thousand four hundred dollars.
For the expenses of printing the records of the Supreme Court of the United States for the term eighteen hundred and thirty-four, three thousand dollars.
For the salaries of chief justice and associate judges of the District of Columbia, and of the judges of the orphans’ courts of the said district, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the attorney general of the United States, four thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the attorney general, eight hundred dollars.
For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals as granted by law, including those in the several territories, twelve thousand seven hundred 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 eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and preceding years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by special acts of Congress, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating-lights, beacons, buoys and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices where there are no sales, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveying the public lands, and for establishing a permanent and conspicuous land-mark on the line dividing the states of Indiana and Illinois at some suitable point near Lake Michigan, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, sixty thousand dollars.
For surveying a portion of the public lands in the south-western part of the state of Missouri, to which the Indian title was extinguished in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, twenty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the recorder, two commissioners, and translators, for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri,1832, ch. 180.
1833, ch. 84.per act of ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, which act, and a supplemental act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, are hereby continued in force for one year from the first of October next, including an unexpended balance of former appropriations of eight hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy-two cents, the sum of five thousand one hundred and seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For contingent expenses and office rent of said board, five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said board for eighteen hundred and thirty-four, including compensation to the agent employed to convey annual report of the board to the seat of government, including also expenses incurred by commissioners in taking testimony, and for payment of balances of claims admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, two thousand three hundred 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 salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, and Russia, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, eight thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, and New Granada, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for the contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For outfits of a minister of the United States to Russia, and a chargé des affaires to Buenos Ayres, Chili and Brazil, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen, in foreign countries, thirty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation and expenses of an agent to Havana, to procure the archives of Florida, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the judges of the western and middle districts of Florida, under the1828, ch. 70. act of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, sixteen hundred dollars.
To defray the costs of certain suits decided against the United States, as directed in the act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand dollars.
For balance due to Lucius Lyon, commissioner appointed to ascertain and survey the northern boundary of the state of Illinois, per1831, ch. 86. act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, one thousand and sixty-eight dollars and twelve cents.
For additional payment for the statue of Washington, five thousand dollars.
For payment of the balance found to be due on settlement, at the treasury, to the legal representatives of John W. Smith, deceased, late special agent in relation to the sale of property in New Orleans, formerly belonging to Edward Livingston, nine hundred and ten dollars and twenty-four cents.
For survey of the coasts of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For the erection of the custom-house at New London, in the state of Connecticut, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, nine thousand dollars.
For the erection of the custom-house at Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, six thousand dollars.
For the erection of a custom-house at New Bedford, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For the erection of a custom-house at Newburyport, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For the erection of a public warehouse at Baltimore, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, twenty-three thousand dollars.
To construct a cistern on the custom-house lot at Key West, five hundred dollars.
To construct a brick wall to enclose the custom-house lot, and a small building connected with the wall, and for repairs to the custom-house at Providence, Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.
To construct a brick wall to enclose the custom-house lot at New Orleans, five thousand five hundred dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the contingent fund of the House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For completing the compilation of the laws of the territory of Florida, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to Robert Mills, the architect employed by order of the House of Representatives to superintend the alterations in the Representatives Hall, according to the plan of said Mills, one thousand dollars. Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For the repair and completion of the United States’ marine hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, one thousand one hundred dollars, to be places at the disposal of the intendant and wardens of the said city of Charleston.
For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, seventy thousand and eighty dollars, in addition to the appropriation made by act of the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.1834, ch. 10.
To enable the directors of the mint to procure the requisite apparatus for parting gold and silver by the sulphuric acid, and to establish a refinery for that purpose on the most approved principles under the control of the institution, seven thousand dollars.
For payment of preparing, printing and binding the documents ordered to be printed by Gales and Seaton, forty thousand dollars, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation of the same object by the1832, ch. 74. act of the fifth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
For payment for printing the documents relating to the public lands, ordered to be printed by the Senate of the United States, and for binding and engraving the necessary maps, forty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be disbursed by the secretary of the Senate, whose accounts for the same shall be settled and adjusted at the treasury in the usual manner.
For the contingent expenses of the Senate, in addition to the appropriation contained in the act of the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four,1834, ch. 70. forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors,” approved the seventh day of June,1834, ch. 45. eighteen hundred and thirty-four, five thousand dollars.
For payment of balance due the representatives of Samuel Babcock on settlement of his accounts, one hundred and forty-six dollars twenty-three cents.
For payment of balance due Gordon Trumbull, superintendent of the public works at Stonington harbour, two hundred and sixty-two dollars sixteen cents.
For payment of Major P. H. Perrault, balance due on account of the survey of the harbour of St. Augustine, two dollars and eighty-four cents.
For payment of balances due Joseph D. Selden, superintendent of the erection of a lighthouse at Buffalo and Erie, one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-two cents.
For payment of the arrearages due contractors on the Cumberland road in Ohio, one thousand six hundred and nine dollars thirty-six cents.
For expenses of a “Digest of the existing commercial regulations of foreign countries” now in preparation under a resolution of the House of Representatives of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the sum of five thousand and one hundred dollars.
Compensation to be allowed to collectors and other officers of the customs.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers of the several ports of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as will give to the said officers, respectively, the same compensation in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, according to the importations of that year, as they would have been entitled to receive if the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,1832, ch. 227. had not gone into effect: and that the clerks employed by the respective collectors, naval officers, and surveyors of the several ports, shall be paid for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, as if they had been specifically included in the third section of the act of the second of March, of said year, entitledAct of March 2, 1833, ch. 54.
Proviso. “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three:” Provided, however that in no case shall the compensation of any other officers than collectors, naval officers and surveyors, whether by salaries, fees, or otherwise exceed the sum of two thousand dollars each per annum; nor shall the union of any two or more of these officers in one person entitle him to receive more than the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and provided, also, that no officer shall receive under this act a greater annual salary or compensation than was paid to such officer for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, provided, however, that the number of officers to be employed in any of the custom-houses shall not be augmented beyond those now in service; and provided further, that the said collectors, naval officers and surveyors shall render an account quarterly to the treasury, and the other officers herein named or referred to shall render an account quarterly to the respective collectors of the customs where they are employed, to be forwarded to the treasury, of all the fees and emoluments whatever by them respectively received, and of all expenses incident to their respective offices, which accounts shall be rendered on oath or affirmation, and shall be in such form, and be supported by such proofs, to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, as will in his judgment best enforce the provisions of this section, and show its operation and effect.
Payments not to be made in bank notes below par at place of payment.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no payment of the money, appropriated by this act, or any other act passed at the present session of Congress, shall be made in the note or notes of any bank which shall not be at par value at the place where such payment may be made, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment, of any debt due from the United States to individuals.
Elisha R. Potter to be paid for mileage and attendance.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, directed to pay, out of the fund appropriated by law for the pay of members of Congress, to Elisha R. Potter, of the state of Rhode Island, such compensation as is allowed by law to members of Congress, for his travel from his place of residence to the city of Washington, to claim a seat in the Senate, and for his return and also the per diem compensation for the days he was in actual attendance at the seat of government from the commencement of the present session of Congress, until the final decision by the Senate against his right to the seat so claimed by him.
Approved, June 27, 1834.