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Secretary of the Treasury to make arrangements for payment of pensioners.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to make the necessary arrangements with the branch of the bank of the state of Alabama, established in the said town of Decatur, for the payment of the pensioners herein before described.

Act to take effect August 1.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect until the first day of August next.

Approved, June 27, 1834.

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June 27, 1834.

Chap. XCII.An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government.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 the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz:

For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars.

For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand three hundred dollars.

For clerks, machinist, and messenger in the patent office, five thousand four hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the expense of publishing and distributing the laws, and for carrying into effect the resolutions of the Senate of the twenty-sixth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in conjunction with the statistical inquiries set on foot by the late Secretary of State, Edward Livingston, and to reimburse the contingent fund the sum taken therefrom in prosecution of the same, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent and incidental expenses of the patent office, two thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of the buildings, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For completing the publication of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, thirteen hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-two cents.

Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 78.For the documentary history of the revolution, per act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, twenty thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to examine the contract entered into by Edward Livingston, late Secretary of that department, with Matthew St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, for the collection and publication of the documentary history of the American Revolution, and make a special report thereon, to the next session of Congress, setting forth the nature and character of the materials of which the work is to be composed, the progress made in the work, the number of volumes which will be required to complete it, and an estimate of the money which it may be necessary to appropriate for the fulfilment of the contract.

For the erection of a fence of wood corresponding with that already enclosing the war and navy buildings, to complete the enclosure of the north-east executive building, sixteen hundred dollars.

For compensation of an additional watchman of the north-east executive building, three hundred dollars.