per mouth allow ed him.

CHAP. 164.-AN ACT for the relief of John Farnham.

[SEC 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of $5 sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of John Farnham, of Woolwich, in the county of Lincoln, and State of Maine, on the roll of invalid pensions, and that he pay to him the sum of five dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to continue during his natural life. Approved August 11, 1848.

CHAP. 165.-AN ACT for the relief of Francis M. Holton.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreA persion of 26. Sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as per month allow sembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby,

ed him.

required to place the name of Francis M. Holton on the roll of invalid pensions, at the rate of eight dollars per month; and that he be paid at that rate during his natural life, to commence from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Approved August 11, 1848.

CHAP. 166.-AN ACT making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes.

[SEC. 1.] 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 hereby are approAppropriations priated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap ing June 3, 1848. propriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, namely:

for the year end

Congress pay and mileage.

Officers.

Contingencies
Senate.

House of hep esentatives.

LEGISLATIVE.

For compensation and mileage of senators and members of the House of Representatives and delegates, three hundred and eighty-eight thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For compensation of the officers and clerks of both houses of Congress, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fiftyseven dollars and fifty cents.

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, and including the compensation of a clerk to the Sergeant-at-arms, at the rate of our dollars per day, during the present session, one hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dol lars and fifty cents.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

Library.

For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, officers. and messenger of the library, four thousand five hundred

dollars.

For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred Contingencies. dollars.

For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars.

For purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars.

Books.

Thomas Jeffer

For paying to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, executor of Purchase of paThomas Jefferson, deceased, the sum of twenty thousand pers of the late dollars, for all the papers and manuscripts of the said Thomas son. Jefferson: Provided, That said T. J. Randolph shall deposite Proviso. all the said papers and manuscripts of a public nature in the State Department, and execute a conveyance thereof to the United States.

papers.

said

done under au

For printing and publishing the said papers and manu- Printing and scripts, the sum of six thousand dollars, or so much thereof publishing as may be necessary: Provided, The said printing and pub-Proviso; to be lishing be done under authority of the Joint Committee thority of the on the Library, the whole or any part thereof to be printed Committee on the as the said committee may direct; and a like sum for the Purchase and printing of the papurchase and printing, under the same conditions, of the pers of the late papers and manuscripts of the late Alexander Hamilton.

EXECUTIVE.

Library.

Alexander Hamil

ton.

For compensation of the President of the United States, President. twenty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Vice President.

Department of

State.

Secretary and

officers. Additional clerk

in State Depart

ment provided

For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, including a salary of two thousand dollars per annum for a clerk, whose duty it shall be to examine claims of the citizens of the Uni- for. ted States against foreign governments, and claims of the latter against the former, and to perform such other duties as the Secretary of State may designate, twenty eight thousand three hundred dollars.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of said depart. Contingencies. ment, viz:

For publishing the laws, and packing and distributing the laws and, documents, including proof-reading, labor, boxes, and transportation, nine thousand dollars.

For publishing in newspapers of the States and Territories the laws of the United States, ten thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

Publishing the laws.

For stationery, blank books, binding, labor and attendance, Stationery, &c.

Miscellaneous.

Extra clerk

hire

Northeast executive building.

Patent Office.

Chemical anal

substances, &c.

furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars.

For printing, (letter press and copperplate,) advertising, books, and maps, two thousand dollars.

For newspapers, two hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

For extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars.

For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the northeast executive building, one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand two hundred dol lars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred dollars.

For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, fifteen hundred dollars. For compensation of librarian, three hundred dollars.

For the collection of agricultural statistics, and other purposes, thirty-five hundred dollars; which several sums, amounting in the whole to five thousand three hundred dollars, shall be paid out of the patent fund.

For defraying the expenses of chemical analyses of vegetayses of vegetable ble substances produced and used for the food of man and animals in the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Patents, one thousand dollars; the said sum to be paid out of the patent fund.

Treasury Department.

Secretary and officers.

First Comptrol. ler.

Second Comp. troller.

First Auditor.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers in his office, twentyeight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, including the salary of an additional clerk, at twelve hundred dollars, authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and hereby continued for one year, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of six additional clerks in said office for one year, at twelve hundred dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, including the salaries of two additional clerks, authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each, and hereby continued for one year, and of an additional messenger six hundred dollars, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks Second Auditor. and messenger in his office, including the salaries of three additional clerks, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each, authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the salaries of nine additional clerks, at one thousand dollars each, (said additional clerks being hereby authorized to be employed for one year,) and including two hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty cents as compensation to A. B. Morton, for services in said office in eighteen hundred and forty-seven, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty cents. For compensation of thirteen additional clerks, which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employ for a period of twelve months from and after the passage of this act, at a daily compensation not exceeding three dollars, for the purpose of expediting, as far as possible, the settlement of the accounts of paymasters of the army of the United States, and the accounts for arrears of pay of discharged and deceased officers and soldiers, recruiting officers' accounts, and the accounts of captains of companies, for company clothing and equipments, the sum of twelve thousand dollars.

For compensation of Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

Third Auditor.

For compensation of six additional clerks in said office for one year, two at twelve hundred dollars each, and four at one thousand dollars each, six thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks Fourth Auditor. and messenger in his office, including four hundred and two dollars for services rendered by William Brown in said office, in eighteen hundred and forty-seven, twenty thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For compensation of two clerks in said office, at one thousand dollars each, authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and hereby continued for one year, two thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, including the salary of an additional clerk, at eight hundred dollars per annum, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.

Fifth Auditor.

For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, Treasurer. and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thou

sand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the Register. clerks and messenger and assistant messenger in his office, twenty eight thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers and packers in his office, eighty-four thousand seven hundred and eightyeight dollars and seventy five cents.

For compensation of eight additional clerk's in said office

General

Office.

Land

Solicitor.

for one year, at one thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand six hun dred and fifty dollars, the salary of the copying clerk, under the act of June seventeen, eighteen hundred and forty-four, in this office, being hereby increased to eight hundred dollars per annum from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

Contingencies CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For blank books; binding, stationery, labor, compensation for carrying the department mails, translations, printing, including the public accounts, and for collecting and preparing information to be laid before Congress, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous expenses, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For arrearages due to Robert Mayo, nine hundred dollars. For the payment of a balance due on the treasury books to the legal representatives of John Habersham, late of Georgia, deceased, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-four cents: Provided, That before payment, the proper accounting officers of the treasury shall be first satisfied that the said balance on said books is justly due.

In the office of the First Comptroller.

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.

In the office of the Second Comptroller.

For blank books, binding, stationery, and printing blanks, including pay for the National Intelligencer and Union, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, seven hundred dollars.

For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.

In the office of the First Auditor.

For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing blanks, one thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

In the office of the Second Auditor.

For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and printing blanks, one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.