Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 4.djvu/737

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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.