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 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 H. R. No. 7. For carrying into effect an act making further provision. 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 35,000 00 For repairs of old Fort Griswold, New London harbor, 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,. 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 For repairing forts at Annapolis harbor, Maryland For repairs of Forts Caswell and Johnson, and preserva- 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 Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor, 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 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 the Quartermaster's Department the sum of - For arrearages due for roads, harbors, and rivers, where 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 For outfits of ministers to Russia, Spain, Mexico, and 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 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 $273.00 15,806 00 20,100 00 497,657 00 $5,043,705 02 |