Civil and diplomatic expenses of government.For the repair and completion of the United States’ marine hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, one thousand one hundred dollars, to be places at the disposal of the intendant and wardens of the said city of Charleston.
For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, seventy thousand and eighty dollars, in addition to the appropriation made by act of the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.1834, ch. 10.
To enable the directors of the mint to procure the requisite apparatus for parting gold and silver by the sulphuric acid, and to establish a refinery for that purpose on the most approved principles under the control of the institution, seven thousand dollars.
For payment of preparing, printing and binding the documents ordered to be printed by Gales and Seaton, forty thousand dollars, under the same restrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation of the same object by the1832, ch. 74. act of the fifth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
For payment for printing the documents relating to the public lands, ordered to be printed by the Senate of the United States, and for binding and engraving the necessary maps, forty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be disbursed by the secretary of the Senate, whose accounts for the same shall be settled and adjusted at the treasury in the usual manner.
For the contingent expenses of the Senate, in addition to the appropriation contained in the act of the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four,1834, ch. 70. forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect the act entitled “An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors,” approved the seventh day of June,1834, ch. 45. eighteen hundred and thirty-four, five thousand dollars.
For payment of balance due the representatives of Samuel Babcock on settlement of his accounts, one hundred and forty-six dollars twenty-three cents.
For payment of balance due Gordon Trumbull, superintendent of the public works at Stonington harbour, two hundred and sixty-two dollars sixteen cents.
For payment of Major P. H. Perrault, balance due on account of the survey of the harbour of St. Augustine, two dollars and eighty-four cents.
For payment of balances due Joseph D. Selden, superintendent of the erection of a lighthouse at Buffalo and Erie, one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-two cents.
For payment of the arrearages due contractors on the Cumberland road in Ohio, one thousand six hundred and nine dollars thirty-six cents.
For expenses of a “Digest of the existing commercial regulations of foreign countries” now in preparation under a resolution of the House of Representatives of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the sum of five thousand and one hundred dollars.
Compensation to be allowed to collectors and other officers of the customs.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers of the several ports of the United States, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as will give to the said officers, respectively, the same compensation in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, according to the importations of that year, as they would have been entitled to receive if the act of the fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,1832, ch. 227. had not gone into effect: and that the clerks employed by the respective collectors, naval officers, and surveyors