APPROPRIATIONS AND OFFICES CREATED IN 1841.

STATEMENTS

OF

Appropriations made, new offices created, with the salaries of each; of fices of which the salaries are increased, with the amount of such increase, during the 1st session of the 27th Congress of the United States of America.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1841.

Prepared by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in obedience to the 6th section of the act of July 4, 1836, entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, and for other purposes."

Statement of appropriations made during the 1st session of the 27th Congress of the United States of America, specifying the amount and object of each.

H. R. No. 1.

For carrying into effect an act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States

H. R. No. 2.

An act making appropriations for the present session of

Congress.

For the pay and mileage of the members of the Senate for the present session

For the pay of the Chaplain of the Senate

For printing, stationary, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate for the present session

$25,000 00

$68,541 60

500 00

20,000 00

For the pay and mileage of the members of the House of
Representatives, including five hundred dollars to the
Chaplain, for the present session of Congress
For the printing, stationary, and all other contingent ex-
penses of the House of Representatives for the present
session
For the supply of stationary for the House of Representa-
tives for the 2d session of the 27th Congress

256,600 00

30,836 00

15,000 00

H. R. No. 4.

For carrying into effect an act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars

12,000 00

H. R. No. 6.

For carrying into effect an act to provide for the payment
of navy pension's

H. R. No. 7.

For carrying into effect an act making further provision.
for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of
Columbia

H. R. No. 8.

An act making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities."

For repairs of West-head battery, Governor's island, Boston horbor

For repairs of Southeast battery, Governor's island, Boston harbor

5,000 00

For repairs of Fort Independence and sea-wall of Castle island, Boston harbor

65,000 00

For fortifications in New London harbor, rebuilding of
Fort Trumbull, Connecticut

35,000 00

For repairs of old Fort Griswold, New London harbor,
Connecticut

10,000 00

For completing repairs of Fort Niagara, and erecting and repairing necessary buildings therein, New York

20,000 00

For completing repairs of Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, and erecting necessary buildings therein

15,000 00

For Fort Schuyler, New York harbor

70,000 00

For repairs of Fort Wood and sea-wall, Bedlow's island,.
New York harbor

50,000 00

For permanent walls for Fort Columbus, Castle William, and South battery, Governor's island, New York harbor For repairs of sea-wall of Castle William and other parts of Governor's island

For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, provided the title to
the Pea Patch island shall be decided to be in the Uni-
ted States, including twenty-two thousand seven hun-
dred and seventy dollars carried to the surplus fund,
January one, eighteen hundred and forty-one

For repairing forts at Annapolis harbor, Maryland
For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac river
For Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia

For repairs of Forts Caswell and Johnson, and preserva-
tion of the site of the former, at the mouth of Cape Fear
river, North Carolina

For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina

12,000 00

7,000 00

50,000 00

5,000 00

35,000 00

115,000 00

5,000 00 15,000 00

For commencing dyke to Drunken Dick shoal, for preservation of Sullivan's island, and site of Fort Moultrie," Charleston harbor, South Carolina

For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, Georgia

For repairs of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida
For continuing sea-wall at St. Augustine, Florida

For Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor, Florida.
For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, Florida

$30,000 00

35,000 00

20,000 00

5,000 00

20,000 00

45,000 00

For Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama

40,000 00

For Fort Livingston, Barrataria bay, Louisiana

30,000 00

For repairs of other forts on the approaches to New Or

leans, Louisiana

For defensive works, and barracks, and purchase of site at or near Detroit, Michigan

50,000 00

For purchase of site, and for barracks and defensive works at or near Buffalo, New York

50,000 00

For fortifications at the outlet of Lake Champlain, and purchase of site

75,000 00

For defensive works, barracks, and other necessary buildings, and purchase of site for a depot at or near the junction of the Mata wankeag and Penobscot rivers, Maine For contingencies of fortifications

25,000 00

15,000 00

55,500 00

25,000 00

75,000 00

100,000 00

For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications -
For current expenses of ordnance service -
For purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores
For armament of fortifications

For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone

For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities, viz: For balance required, in addition to the sum applicable out of the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress, for arrearages of pay due Florida militia called into service by the Governor of the Territory in eighteen hundred and forty

For arrearages of pay due Florida militia, commanded by Brigadier General Read, for six months in the service of the United States, commencing November, eighteen hundred and forty, and terminating April, eighteen hundred and forty-one

For arrearages of pay due to a battalion of Georgia militia
for service on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida, in
eighteen hundred and forty and eighteen hundred and
forty-one

For the Quartermaster's Department the sum of -
For surveys in reference to the military defences of the
frontier, inland and Atlantic

For arrearages due for roads, harbors, and rivers, where
'public works and improvements have hitherto been
made, and for the protection of public property now on
hand at these places, and for arrearages for surveys and
completing maps authorized by the act of March third,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine

20,000 00

19,388 02

297,213 92

78,495 99 440,040 00

30,000 00

40,000 00

For defraying the expenses of selecting a suitable site on the Western waters for the establishment of a national armory, a sum not exceeding

For the construction or armament of such armed steamers or other vessels for defence on the Northwestern lakes as the President may think most proper, and as may be authorized by the existing stipulations between this and the British Government

H. R. No. 9.

$5,000 00

.100,000 00

An act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.

For the purpose of purchasing ordnance and ordnance stores for the use of the Navy of the United States

H. R. No. 10.

For carrying into effect an act making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c., of a home squadron

H. R. No. 17.

An act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of
diplomatic agents, and for other purposes.

For outfits of ministers to Russia, Spain, Mexico, and
Brazil, and of chargés d'affaires to Portugal, Denmark,
Sardinia, Naples, Chili, and Texas

600,000 00

789,310 00

63,000 00

For salaries of ministers to Spain and Brazil, for the residue of the current year

For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places

Also, so much as may be necessary to pay, for compensa

tion, to the clerks and other officers in the service of the two Houses, the librarian and assistant librarians of Congress, the gate-keeper and lamp-lighter, for the services rendered by them during the present extra session, three months' additional pay; and to the messengers, assistant messengers, pages, and laborers of the two Houses and Library of Congress, and to the hostler of the House of Representatives, the usual allowances made at the close of each session; and to each of the police of the Capitol the same as to the messengers, to be paid under the direction of the Committee on the Contingent Fund of each House. And the regular pay of the messenger of the office of the Secretary of the Senate and office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall be equal to the pay of any other permanent messenger employed in the Capitol

8,000 00

1,800 00

26,477 50

For completing the contract for printing and binding the catalogue of the library

H. R. No. 22..

For carrying into effect an act to provide for repairing the
Potomac bridge

H. R. No. 29.

For carrying into effect an act to provide for placing Greenough's statue of Washington in the rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned.

H. R. No. 30.

For carrying into effect an act making provision for the
Post Office Department

$273.00

15,806 00

20,100 00

497,657 00

$5,043,705 02