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Specific appropriation.account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For quartermaster’s and barrack master’s stores, officers’ travelling expenses, armorer’s and carpenters’ bills, fuel, premium for enlisting, music, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars.

For the expense of navy yards, docks, and other improvements, the pay of superintendents, storekeepers, clerks and labourers, sixty thousand dollars.

For completing the marine barracks at the city of Washington, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, and amounting altogether to the sum of one million two hundred and forty thousand dollars, shall be paid, first, out of the monies accruing at the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and five, from the duties laid by the act passed on theAct of March 25, 1804, ch. 46. twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, intituled “An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers,” provided that the sum to be paid from the proceeds of the said duties shall not exceed five hundred and ninety thousand dollars; secondly, out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the navy, and lastly, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, January 25, 1805.

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Jan. 25, 1805.
Chap. X.—An Act making an appropriation for completing the south wing of the Capitol, at the City of Washington, and for other purposes.

Appropriation for completing the south wing of the Capitol, to be applied under the direction of the President.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding one hundred and ten thousand dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, towards completing the south wing of the Capitol, at the city of Washington.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, to such necessary alterations and repairs, as he may deem requisite, in the north wing of the Capitol, and other public buildings at the city of Washington; which said sums shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, January 25, 1805.

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Jan. 30, 1805.
Chap. XI.—An Act to provide for completing the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves in South Carolina, and for other purposes.
Act of July 9, 1798, ch. 70.
Act of Jan. 2, 1800, ch. 3.
Secretary of the treasury to employ clerks, upon such terms as may be reasonable, for completing, &c. the abstracts of the valuation of lands, &c. &c. in the state of South Carolina, under the direction of the supervisor.
The clerks, under the direction of the supervisor, to make proper additions to or deductions from the valuations.
Lists and abstracts, when finished, to have the same force and effect as if they had been completed, &c. &c. agreeably to the provisions of the acts quoted in this law.
An additional per diem allowance to the supervisor.
Proviso.
Act of July 14, 1798, ch. 75.
Supervisor of S. Carolina to appoint one or more surveyors, when the assessment of the direct tax therein is completed.
The surveyors to make out the lists of the sums payable.
The lists to have the effect of lists made by distinct surveyors of the revenue.
Powers, and duties; compensation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ clerks, for such compensation as he shall judge reasonable, to complete, register, and record, under the direction of the supervisor of the district of South Carolina, the lists and abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and of the enumeration of slaves within the state of South Carolina; and under the direction of the supervisor aforesaid, to add to, or to deduct from the valuations aforesaid, of each individual, such a rate per centum as has been determined by the commissioners appointed for the said state, under the act, intituled “An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling-houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States,”