32D CONG.....2D SESS. of the State of Michigan, out of the revenues of mail on route number three thousand seven hun- [No. 87.]-An Act for the Relief of Moses Olmstead and Mrs. Elizabeth Craig. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and directed to place the name of Moses Olmstead on the list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him, during his life, a pension of eight dollars per month; said pension to commence on the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized and required to place the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, widow of the late Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Craig, of the United States Army, who was killed in California about the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, on the pension roll, at the rate of one half the pay her husband was receiving at the time of his death; this allowance to commence from the said first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to continue to her during her widowhood; and should she marry again, or die, while her daughter, now living, shall be a minor, the same allowance shall be made to said daughter during her minority. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 88.]-An Act for the Relief of George Poindexter. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Quartermaster General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be ascertained the amount justly due and owing to George Poindexter for the use and occupation of his property, by the volunteers from the State of Kentucky, mustered into the service of the United States, for the war in Mexico, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the amount so ascertained to be due, to be paid to the said Poindexter, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the same do not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, the amount awarded. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 89.]-An Act for the Relief of Mary Pearson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, the name of Mary Pearson, of Newberry, Massachusetts, widow of Silas Pearson, and pay her a pension at the rate of twenty-four dollars per annum, to commence on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and continue during her natural life. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 90.]—An Act for the Relief of Henry Miller, a soldier of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of Henry Miller, a soldier in the service of the United States, in the late war with Great Britain, be placed on the roll of invalid pensions, at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 91.]—An Act for the Relief of William J. Price. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That William J. Price be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a certain tract of Laws of the United States. land situate in the county of Jackson, State of Ala- [No. 92.]-An Act for the Relief of Gilman Smith, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent- [No. 93.]-An Act granting a Pension to Elizabeth Monroe. mencing with the said fifth of November, eighteen [No. 97.]—An Act for the Benefit of John Ozias. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to pay to John Ozias, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated by law, the sum of two hundred dollars, the amount paid by him on the thirty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, for a quarter section of land which the Government had sold to another. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 98.]-An Act for the Relief of William H. Wells, and others. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen!atives of the United States of America in Congress Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent-assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, granted to Elizabeth Monroe, widow of Thomas J. C. Monroe, late of the Army of the United States, for the space of five years, to commence from the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-two, a pension, payable semi-annually, equal to one half the pay to which the said Thomas J. C. Monroe was entitled at the time of his decease, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. and he is hereby, directed to issue a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land to William H. Wells, Edmund Wells, and Sally Wells, heirsat-law of Lemuel Wells, deceased, to be located on any of the unappropriated lands of the United States which have been offered for sale and are subject to private entry, at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, which shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by said Lemuel Wells, deceased, as a soldier in the late war with Great Britain. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 99.]-An Act for the Relief of Nathan H. Darling. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress and he is hereby, authorized and required to place the name of Nathan H. Darling, of Lake county, in the State of Illinois, on the roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to continue during his life. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 94.]-An Act for the Relief of Maria Taylor. [No. 95.]—An Act for the Relief of Betsey Norton. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 96.]-An act for the Relief of Mary Woodward. [No. 100.]-An Act to authorize the issuing of a Register to the Brig Boundary, and to change the Names of the Steamers Roger Williams and Propeller Ontario. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be issued under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Boundary, formerly a British vessel, now owned by B. B. Titcomb, an American citizen, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, which vessel put into said port in distress, and was purchased by said Titcomb, in the winter of eighteen hundred and fifty-one: Provided, That it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of the repairs of said vessel by the present owner, is equal to three fourths of made in the United States subsequent to that time, the value of such a vessel built in the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the owners of the steamboat "Roger Williams" be, and they are hereby, authorized to change the name of said boat to that of "El Paraguay," and that the owners of the propeller Ontario be, and they are hereby, authorized to change the name of the said propeller to the "Carrier Pigeon." APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 101.1-An Act authorizing the Adjustment and Payment of the Claims of William Hazzard Wigg, deceased, for losses sustained by him during the War of the Revolution. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, adjust and settle the claims of Major William 32D CONG....2D Sess. Hazzard Wigg, deceased, late of the State of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said accounting officers, in the adjustment of the said losses, shall, and they are hereby, directed to allow the said Wigg the sum of thirty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety-seven dollars, with legal interest from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, until the day of stating the account of said losses. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to William Hazzard Wigg, the grandson of the said William Hazzard Wigg, deceased, the amount that shall be ascertained to be due on account of said losses, including the interest, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 102.]-An Act to Incorporate the Georgetown and Catoctin Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the State of Maryland shall by law incorporate a company to lay out and construct a railroad, from any point, in connection with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at or near the Point of Rocks, to Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, the right of way, not exceeding sixty-six feet wide, be, and is hereby, granted to such company: Provided, That before any such road, depôt, and its necessary fixtures shall be located in Georgetown, the assent of said city shall first be obtained: And provided, also, That the same provisions for the condemnation of, and payment for, land, or other private property for the use of the said road, as may be made by any act for the incorporation of such company by the State of Maryland shall be, and hereby are, extended to the condemnation of and payment for land or other private property for the use of the said road within the District of Columbia. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 103.]-An Act for the Relief of the Southern Michigan Railroad Company. Laws of the United States. thorpe Barracks adjacent to said city; which said APPROVED, January 20, 1853. [No. 2.]-A Resolution for the Relief of Alexander Y. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives [No. 3.]-Joint Resolution granting the petition of William and Matthew Moss. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to adjust and settle the account of William and Matthew Moss, contractors for carrying the mail on route number five thousand nine hundred and ninety-one, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, in the same manner as if that sum had been the consideration stipulated in the contract, instead of the sum of seven hundred dollars, for which their bid was erroneously made and a contract executed. APPROVED, February 5, 1853. [No. 4.]—Joint Resolution for the Relief J. P. Con- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives charges for delivering of the goods, storage, &c.; the charges for journey to Paris, of Major Jackson and Leonard De Neufville to obtain Dr. Franklin's acceptance of bills. The amount of these four charges is three thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty cents, or seven thousand two hundred and sixty-one florins, also the balance due by the accounts and papers in the State Department, on notarial agreement dated the twenty-eighth December, seventeen hundred and eighty-one; the florin to be calculated at forty-six and one quarter cents; and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the time the debt was contracted to the day of payment; and the former partial settlement of the Comptroller to be corrected upon the above basis, as to the value of the florin and interest, the gratuity of three thousand dollars made the family of De Neufville, in seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, not to be taken from this claim. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 6.]-Joint Resolution for the Relief of Thompson Barnett. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, directed and authorized to pay to Thompson Barnett, of Logansport, Indiana, out of the funds of his department, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents, ($123 75,) in full for services rendered by said Barnett in carrying the mail from Logansport to Winnimac, Indiana, frem July first, eighteen hundred and forty-two, to February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. [No. 7.]—A Resolution for the Relief of the Estate of Isaac L. Battle. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the estate of Isaac L. Battle, deceased, late of the County of Jackson, in the State of Florida, be, and the same is hereby, released from any liability under a judgment heretofore obtained by the Post Office Department against him as guarantor on behalf of Charles Matthews and William King, late of said county and State, as bidders for a contract to carry the United States mail, three times a week each way between Bainbridge, in the State ritory) of Florida, in the year one thousand eight of Georgia, and Pensacola, in the State (then Ter hundred and forty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized, and is hereby directed, to pay to the Southern Michigan Railroad Company, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and fortythree cents, for services in the transportation of [No. 5.]-A Resolution for the Relief of the heir of || [No. 8.]—A Resolution for the Relief of the Heirs of the great northern mail from Toledo to Hillsdale, beyond Detroit, in the State of Michigan. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1.]-A Resolution for surrendering the site of the old Oglethorpe Barracks to the City Council of Savannah, Georgia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the City Council of Savannah, Georgia, the site of the old Ogle John De Neufville and Son. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to allow and pay Mrs. Anna C. De Neufville Evans, the heir of John De Neufville and Son, in addition to the eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents, or twenty-one thousand nine hundred and nineteen florins, allowed by joint resolution of the third March, eighteen hundred and fifty one, upon the report of the Comptroller to the Senate, the followgin sums, to wit: the share awarded to De Neufville and Son in the damages as part owners of the ships Aurora and Liberty, the charges for lighterhire, stay-days, traveling to the Texel, &c.; the David Corderey. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper officers of the Treasury ascertain and pay to the legal representatives of David Corderey, deceased, the value of a certain reservation of six hundred and forty acres as unimproved land at the date of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, which reservation was allowed under the eighth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, and thirteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, made with the Cherokee Indians, and that the amount so ascertained, without interest, be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1853. APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, ETC. APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, &c. STATEMENTS, SHOWING 1. Appropriations made during the second session of the Thirty-Second Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase during the same period. MAY 20, 1853.-Prepared by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, in pursuance of the sixth section of the act of July 4, 1836, "to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, and for other purposes." I.-APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. For pensions to widows under the acts of seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, second of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and twentyninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight..... ........272,000 00 For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans provided for by the eleventh section of an act, approved January the twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the first and second sections of an act, approved the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, in addition to an unexpended bal ance By the act making an appropriation for the payment of Navy pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. For invalid pensions....... By the act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. For compensation of the Vice President of the $1,638 89 For outfit of a Chargé d'Affaires to Denmark... 4,500 00 For salary to the Commissioner at the Sandwich Islands, from the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty two, and to make the same equal to the sum now provided for by law.... For the contingent expenses of the office of the Treasurer of the United States 10,000 00 $910,000 00 4,414 00 1,000 00 For incidental expenses of the several land offices.......... For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys........ For expenses of depositing public moneys, by receivers of public moneys... 8,000 00 2,050 00 .$25,000 00 3,800 00 For the extension of the United States Capitol..400,000 00 For the completion of the repairs of the Congressional Library Room, authorized by the act approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.... 20,500 00 For inclosing Lafayette Square with an iron fence... For compensation of three men, at one dollar per day each, for one year, to finish and keep in order Lafayette Square. 1,095 00 By the act making an appropriation for bringing dent and Vice President of the United States. For the payment of the sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States, as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government the vote of the electors of the said States for President and Vice President of the United States.... .$20,000 00 For the construction of a road from Point Douglas, on the Mississippi river, to the falls or rapids of the St. Louis river of Lake Superior, by the most direct and convenient route between those points...... For the construction of a road from Point Douglas to Fort Gaines, now Fort Ripley... For the construction of a road from the mouth of Swan river, or the most expedient point near it, north or south of said river, to the Winnebago agency at Long Prairie.. For the construction of a road from Wabashaw -to Mendota... By the act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. For invalid pensions under various acts.......$480,000 00 For pensions to widows and orphans under the acts of July the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and July the twentyfirst, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight.. For pensions to widows under the act of seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight.... Equestrian Statue of Washington. To enable the President of the United States to employ Clark Mills to erect, at the city of Washington, a colossal equestrian statue of George Washington, at such place on the public grounds in said city as shall be designated by the President of the United States.. $50,000 00 By the act to provide compensation to such persons as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and keep the public money, under the fifteenth section of the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the additional services required under that act. To meet the allowances which may be made under the provisions of this act.. .$20,000 00 By the act to establish the Territorial Government of Washington. For the erection of suitable buildings at the seat of government... $5,000 00 For the purchase of a library, to be kept at the seat of government for the use of the Governor, Legislative Assembly, judges of the supreme court, secretary, marshal, and attorney of said Territory, and such other persons, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law.. 5,000 00 $10,000 00 By the act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and mu- For commutation of subsistence.. ..$88,266 00 2,190 00 960 00 For repairs, fuel, and apparatus therefor, forage for public horses and oxen, postage, stationery, printing, and other incidental and contingent expenses.. For increase and expenses of the library........ For expenses of the Board of Visiters For completion of the new mess hall........... For stable for dragoon and artillery horses... For forage for dragoon and cavalry horses.. For additional pay of fifty dollars each to the soldier employed in the adjutant's office as clerk, and to the two enlisted men employed in the philosophical and chemical departments...... For the construction of a wharf...... 29,660 00 1,000 00 3,000 00 3,500 00 8,000 00 8,640 00 150 00 4,330 $149,696 00 For completing the work of the Seventh Census, and to prepare the same for publication..... For stationery, printing blank forms and regulations, furniture, binding books, and miscelJaneous items in the office of Commissioner of Pensions... For engraving for fifty one thousand five hundred and twenty copies of the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and fifty-one-two..... To pay for the Congressional Globe and Appendix, and the Annals of Congress, ordered for the use of the Library of the House of Representatives, under the resolution of the House of September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish, pay for, and deliver the same books to five new members of the present Congress, as per resolution of said House passed twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty two... For compensation of five clerks, authorized to be appointed and employed by the Postmaster General, under the thirteenth section of the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two For compensation to an assistant day watchman of the General Post Office, from the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, until the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three............. For the payment of the amount due William Williams, under the sixteenth article of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six, being the balance of an award of four hundred and five dollars by the commissioners under said treaty, two hundred and fifty five dollars of which was paid out of the appropriation "for carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six". To pay Gregory Ennis, executor of Philip Ennis, deceased, balance due upon a contract for filling up the low ground south of the President's house, authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine..... For expenses of the Board of Visiters at the Military Academy For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens and American vessels from shipwreck For the compensation of Senators for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and 5,100 00 25,000 00 10,000 00 585 00 4,500 00 4,500 00 4,504 90 475 00 150 00 474 54 557 83 2,000 00 7,153 17 26,998 69 68,157 73 .200,000 00 130 27 1,039 39 684 86 For paper used and to be used for printing for the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-Second Congress.. For paper for the printing for the two Houses of Congress for the second session of the ThirtySecond Congress, being for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three .104,064 00 4,376 33 1,550 00 For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messengers in his office For blank books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, &c.. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay John S. Little per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John Robbins, Jr., during the Thirty-First Congress.... To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay Hendrick B. Wright per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of Henry M. Fuller during the ThirtySecond Congress To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay John Taliaferro per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John P. Hungerford during the Twelfth Congress..... For salary of an assistant dragoman and secretary to the legation to Turkey. For clerk hire at the legation of the United States at London for one year.... For relief of such of the Cuban prisoners, not citizens of the United States, as were pardoned by the Queen of Spain and sent out of her dominions by the United States Minister at Madrid, and the American Consul at Gibraltar, For extra clerk hire and copying in the Department of State...... For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, lights, and stationery, for the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon.... For traveling expenses of Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, and agents therein.... For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the Territory of Utah.... For payment of the second of ten installments in provisions, merchandise, &c., and the trans portation of the same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of seventeenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one........ For the service of the Post Office Department, to supply a deficiency in the revenues of said Department, to meet the appropriations therefor for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.. 2,376 00 1,939 20 222 00 1,500 00 880 00 For subsistence of ten regiments of regular troops For the payment of such sums as may be due to individuals under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for property destroyed by the burning of the navy yard in the city of Washington, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen... For the purpose of completing the pedestal of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, in Lafayette Square, and the erection of a suitable iron railing around the same... For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors appointed under aet approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other expenses incurred by them..... To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office Building..... For deficiency in the appropriation heretofore made to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, to enable said bureau to pay to Loriston Averil an account due him... For compensation of the acting Secretary of the Territory of Utah, from the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the twenty sixth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two...... To pay James S. Buckley for services as keeper of the navy-yard Eastern Branch bridge, from fourth December, eighteen hundred and fortyeight, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty, For payment of arrearages due to David Finch as superintendent of the painting the exterior walls of the Patent Office and Treasury Buildings... For repairs of vessels employed in the Coast Survey... To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.. For the repair of damages to, and the improvement of, Lafayette Square... For compensation of the United States assayer at San Francisco, California, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftythree.... 750 00 3,000 00 53,870 50 44,000 00 314 30 1,859 16 708 00 117 50 10,000 00 4,550 00 1,278 00 7,500 00 1,000 00 625 00 For laying out and graveling the roads and walks, purchasing manure and trees, and seeding down in grass the square south of the President's House, and for paying any balance which may be due for work done and performed.......... 12,000 00 For providing proper foundations for the customhouse at San Francisco, authorized by the sixth section of the act entitled "An act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two," and in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated...... For fuel and quarters for officers of the Army serving on light house duty, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartermaster Department... For deficiency in the fund for purchasing lighthouse supplies....... 25,000 00 2,341 27 6,200 00 ..[Indefinite.] For the reappropriation of seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents, being a portion of the amount heretofore appropriated for the erection of a custom-house at Eastport, Maine, and carried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftytwo; the unexpended balance of the appropriation by the act of June nineteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, "for payment of the Georgia militia," etc., which has passed by subsequent acts into the surplus fund, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated..... For balance due Levi Johnson for the site for marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio..... For payment of salaries of deputy surveyors at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans.. To pay Walter S. Burges (late district attorney of the State of Rhode Island) for his services and money paid out in defending Captain Simonds, of the brig Casket, by order of John Y. Mason, late Secretary of the Navy... For additional allowance to E. S. Norris and George R. Stuntz, made to them as deputy surveyors under the surveyor-general of Wisconsin and Iowa........ .... 3,396 00 For payment of the amount due Thomas W. Lane upon three several drafts drawn in his favor by G. W. Barbour, Indian agent in California, upon R. McKee, disbursing agent for transportation, supplies, and labor furnished said agent upon special contract while treating with the Indians in said State....... For the services of a striker in the shop of the Delaware Indians, from August first, eighteen hundred and twenty three, to August thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; and for the services of a smith and striker in the shop of the Senecas and Shawnees of Lewistown, from seventeenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, deducting all amounts paid for such service during said period; and for balance due for services on Seneca mill dam, as estimated for by the proper department..... 2,500 00 584 80 4,218 84 3,825 00 2,229 00 For compensation of five members of the House of Representatives appointed a committee of investigation upon all facts touching the connection of Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, with the Gardiner claim, and authorized to sit during the recess between the first and second sessions of the present Congress.. 3,840 00 To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Peter Force and John C. Rives for one hundred and two copies of the third volume of the fifth series of the "American Archives," or "Documentary History of the United States," for the new members of the House of the Twenty-Sixth Congress; one hundred and seventeen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-Seventh Congress; one hundred copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-Eighth Congress; one hundred and one copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-Ninth Congress; one hundred and sixteen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirtieth Congress; one hundred and thirty-four copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-First Congress; and one hundred and thirty copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-Second Congress; in all eight hundred volumes, at sixteen dollars forty-five cents and six mills per volume.. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for reporting and publishing eight hundred and fifty columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the second session of the Thirty Second Congress in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column.. 13,162 40 6,375 00 487 54 To enable the said John C. Rives to pay the re- For this amount of money appropriated, and |