For blank books, binding, and station

ery For labor

For compensation of the surveyor general in Mis sissippi, and the clerks in his office. For compensation of the surveyor general in Ala bama, and the clerks in his office

For miscellaneous items For compensation of the chief of Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the assistant constructor, clerks, and messenger in his office

For compensation of the surveyor general in Flor ida, and the clerks in his office For compensation of the surveyor general in Wis. consin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office For extra clerks in the offices of the surveyors gen. eral, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and including the existing undrawn balance of two hundred and ten dollars and seventy seven cents, from thirtieth Deceniber, eighteen hundred and fortytwo, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For blank books and stationery

For blank books, binding and stationery

For extra clerk-hire

For printing and advertising

For compensation of the chief of Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and the clerks and messenger in his office

For compensation of the secretary to sign patents for public lands For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington city, and the three assistants, as draw-keepers at the Potomac bridge, including oil, firewood, and repairs.

UNITED STATES MINT AND BRANCHES.

For labor

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For compensation of the officers and work. men of the mint at Philadelphia, viz:

For blank books, binding, and station

For the director

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer

ery

For miscellaneous items

For the assayer

For contingent expenses of said office, viz:

For compensation of the chief of Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrogra

For the melter and refiner

For blank books, binding, and station

phy, and the draughtsman, clerk, and messenger in his office

For the assistant assayer

For four clerks

For wages to workmen

ery

For printing

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For incidental and contingent expenses, including

For fuel

For specimens of ores and coins to be reserved at said mint .

the wastage of gold and silver, fuel, materials, stationery, water, rent, and taxes

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon General

For contingent expenses of said office, viz:

For compensation of the chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the clerks and messenger in

For compensation of the officers and work. men of the branch mint at Charlotte, in North Carolina, viz:

For the superintendent

For the assayer

his office

For the coiner

For blank books, binding, and station

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For the clerk

For wages to workmen

For blank books, binding, and station

ery

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, taxes, and wastage of gold

For miscellaneous items

For compensation of the clerks and messengers in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance

For contingent expenses of said

For miscellaneous items

office, viz:

For compensation of the superintendent and three watchmen of the southwest executive building For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For compensation of the officers and work. men of the branch mint at Dahlonega, in Georgia, viz:

For the superintendent

For the assayer

For the coiner

For the clerk

For blank books, binding, and station

For labor

For incidental and contingent expenses of said

ery

branch, including fuel, materials, stationery, taxes, and wastage of gold

For printing

For miscellaneous items

For fuel

For miscellaneous items

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in Bureau of Topographical Engineers

For blank books, binding, and station

For contingent expenses of said bureau, viz:

For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northwest executive building

For payment to Isaac Babbitt, of Boston, in execution of a contract made with him by the Secretary of the Navy, for the purchase of Babbitt's "anti-attrition metal," pursuant to the act of Congress of the twentyninth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For compensation of the Postmaster General and the three Assistant Postmasters General, and the clerks, messenger, and three assistant messengers, and two watchmen of the Post Office Department

For compensation of the officers and workmen of the branch mint at New Orleans,

seamen

clerk hire, wages of porter, and stationery, of the commissioners under the act of July seven, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, "to remit duties on certain goods destroyed by fire" For the balance due to the late commercial agent at St. Christopher's, for disbursements for the relief and protection of distressed American For enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to pro cure the necessary manual for the several custom houses, together with the necessary instru. ments and apparatus to ascertain the relative quantity of saccharine matter in the different kinds of sugar, agreeably to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the twenty first of July, one thousand eight hundred an forty-two For the balance due on the second volume of the Documentary History of the American Revolution

For contingent expenses of said Territory

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Council of said Territory, pay of officers, stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects

JUDICIARY.

For the salaries of the Chief Justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court, and the judges of the several districts of the United States

For the third volume of the Documentary History of the American Revolution For completing the indexing of the public documents connected with the office of the First Comptroller and the office of the Secretary of the Treasury

For compensation to a Commissioner to the Sand. wich Islands

3,000

For the contingent expenses of all the missions

abroad

20,000

For the contingent expenses of foreign inter

course

30,000

For the salary of the Consul at London For the salary of a Consul at Beyrout.

2,000

600

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries

50,000

For the Attorney General of the United States, and the clerk and messenger in his office For contingent expenses of said office

For the salaries of the district attorneys of the sev eral districts and Territories of the United States, as prescribed by law

For the arrears of the salaries of the district attor neys of Maryland and Massachusetts, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two For the salaries of the marshals of the several districts and Territories of the United States, as prescribed by law For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for ju rois and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four and preceding years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safekeeping of prisoners, including expenses under the bankrupt law

For paying balance of expenses in full for negotia ting the loans authorized by the acts of twenty first July, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and fifteenth April, eighteen hundred and forty-two PATENT OFFICE.

For the purchase of such scientific books as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office For the collection of agricultural statistics, and for other agricultural purposes To defray the expenses of taking care of and pre. serving the botanical and horticultural speci mens brought home by the squadron of the ex. ploring expedition, under the direction and control of the Joint Committee on the Library. For the removal of the statue of Washington from its present position, and permanently pla cing the same on a proper pedestal, and covering it temporarily in the enclosed and cultivated public grounds east of the Capitol, directly in front of the main entrance and steps of the east front of the Capitol, as suggested in the report of the Joint Committee on the Library, and in the letter of Mr. Greenough, dated February third, one thousand eight hundred and fortythree, referred to and reported by said commit. tee in connexion with the memorial of Horatio Greenough, under the direction and supervision of the said Greenough..

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. For supplying the light-houses, containing two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight lamps, with oil, tube glasses, wicks, buffskins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation, and keeping ap. paratus in order"

To reimburse the Chamber of Commerce at Phila delphia the expense incurred by them in continuing the light on the breakwater near Cape Henlopen

For repairs, refitting, and improvements of lighthouses, and buildings connected therewith For compensation of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of light-houses, eighteen of them being charged with double lights, and one with three For compensation of thirty keepers of floating lights

For clerk-hire, office-rent, and other expenses of the office of the American Consul at London For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers For defraying the expenses attending the convey. ance and forwarding, by land, and of the receipt and delivery of mails, letters, and despatches at and between Chagres and Panama, including the compensation of an agent of the United States at each of said places for the above purposes

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For the services of the General Post Office for the year commencing on the first day of July, eigh. teen hundred and forty-three, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six

Viz: For the transportation of the mail. 3,195,000 For compensation of postmasters

For compensation of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida

For expenses in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia

For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers.

For expenses of examining annually, and reporting the condition of light-houses

For superintendents' commissions, at two and onehalf per cent

penses.

210,000 56,000

For repairing the cellar of the public store-house in the city of Baltimore, in such manner as to prevent the admission of water into the same For repairs of the custom-house at Mobile To make good a deficiency in the eighteen months ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and estimated deficiency in the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the act of the third of May, eighteen hundred and three

For paying the contractors under contracts made by the Government of the United States for completing the Boston custom-house

For repairing the custom-house and post office buildings at Charleston, South Carolina For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, including cost of new dies and plates For the payment of balances to officers of old internal revenue and direct tax, (being part of the amount carried to the surplus fund thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty eight) For payment to Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach, in full for labor bestowed and money expended in repairing or constructing a road leading from Pensacola to Tallahassee, in Florida, in pursu ance of a settlement of their account under the act approved the seventeenth February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An act for the relief of Joseph Russ and Stephen J. Roach"

For lighting Pennsylvania avenue

For the compensation of the captain and watchmen for the city of Washington

For the completion of the repairs of the Potomac bridge

SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS. For completing the survey of private land claims in Alabama, and their connexion with the adjacent public lands, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, being in addition to the appropriation made for a similar object by the act of April sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; and including a deficiency in the existing appropriation of three thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-six cents, to pay for work already completed and returned

For completing the retracing of certain old sur veys in the State of Mississippi, at a rate not ex. ceeding eight dollars per mile, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of May eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ferty, for the survey of private land claims, and con. necting the same with the adjacent public lands south of the 31st degree of latitude, at the same

For mail locks, keys, and stamps
For mail depredations and special
agents
Provided, That no special, or travel.
ling, or post office agent shall receive
a higher compensation than one thou
sand two hundred and fifty dollars per
annum, and, in addition thereto, two
dollars per day for his travelling ex-

For clerks for offices (for the offices of
postmasters).

For miscellaneous
Provided, That the President and the
Postmaster General shall have the
same power to transfer funds from
one to another head of appropriation
of the foregoing appropriations-
made for the service of the General
Post Office-as the President and any
other head of an Executive depart
ment now have to transfer funds ap-
propriated under one head to the ser-
vice of another, in any other branch
of the public service.

MISCELLANEOUS. For taking down the two old furnaces in the crypt under the rotundo, and building two new ones, cutting out the necessary flues, and doing other work connected there with, according to a proposition of John Skirving, under date of February first, eighteen hundred and forty-three For constructing two furnaces under each end of the first story of the centre of the Capitol, for warming the rooms and passages upon and above said first story, including the Congress Library room, according to the proposition of John Skirving to the chairman of the Commit tee on Public Buildings

For annual repairs of the Capitol, attending furnaces and water closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on the Capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, gardener's salary, and top-dressing for plants, for the eighteen months ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four

1,454

7,973

221

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service

For marble basin at the fountain on the terrace of the Capitol

For pay of James Kelly, amount allowed him by the commissioners under the resolution of Congress

For preparing and publishing charts, and otherwise carrying into effect the act of August twenty.six, one thousand eight hundred and forty. two, for publishing an account of the discoveries of the exploring expedition, under the supervis ion and direction of the Joint Committee on the Library

H. R. 720. To enable the President of the United States to establish the future commercial relations between the United States and the Chinese empire, on terms of national equal reciprocity H. R. Res. 30. For continuing an additional clerk in the Second Auditor's office one year

1,000 $8,388,936 42

For military and geographical surveys west of the
Mississippi for the said half calendar year
And for the said fiscal year

And for the said fiscal year

5,000

15,000

For Philadelphia naval asylum, for the said half calendar year

945

For continuation of the surveys of the northern and north western lakes of the United States for the said fiscal year

And for the said fiscal year

366

For necessary repairs of magazines, viz:

30,000

For Charlestown, Massachusetts, for the said half

H. R. 645. For the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

For pay of the army for the said half calendar year

For continuing the meteorological observations at the military posts of the United States, under the direction of the Surgeon General, for said fiscal year

For medical and hospital department for the said half calendar year

calendar year

9,500

And for the said fiscal year

And for the said fiscal year

25,000

For Brooklyn, New York, for the said half calen

dar year

350

And for the said fiscal year

350

For Washington, District of Columbia, for the

2,000

said half calendar year

250

For continuation of improvements on the Mis souri, Missisippi, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers for said half year

And for the said fiscal year

250

For Norfolk, Virginia, for the said half calendar

50,000

year

350

And for said fiscal year

100,000

And for the said fiscal year

350

For the support of the military academy for the half calendar year and for the fiscal year afore. said:

For ordnance and ordnance stores for the navy and armed vessels on the Northern lakes, for the said half calendar year

For commutation of forage for officers' horses for

said half calendar year

31,760 56

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians for the said half calendar year

And for said fiscal year

101,035

And for the said fiscal year

30 232 60,464

For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged

soldiers and officers' servants, for said half cal. endar yar

For commutation of subsistence for said half calendar year.

29,415

And for the said fiscal year

19.873 80 40,077

And for said fiscal year

58,830

For commutation of forage for officers' horses for

For subsistence in kind for fiscal year

495,465 60

said half calendar year.

2,592

And for said fiscal year.

5,184

For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, for said fiscal year

100,000

For commutation of clothing for officers' servants

For regular supplies in the quartermaster's department for said half calendar year

for said half calendar year

420

And for said fiscal year.

195,000

For the various current and ordinary expenses of the academy, other than pay and subsistence for said half calendar year

11,805 10

And for said fiscal year

24,941 20

For increase and expense of library for said half calendar year

650

And for said fiscal year

1,300

30,000 $4,973,134 11

For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials, and of furniture for the bar. rack-rooms, rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of storehouses for the safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military practice, for said half calendar year And for said fiscal year

For arrearages for completing the quarters and bar. racks at Fort Se-vern, Maryland For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, consisting of postage on public let. ters and packets, expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional com. pensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses, and of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborera; compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermas. ters, at posts where their duties cannot be per. formed without such aid, and of temporary agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such wagon and forage-masters as it may he necessary to employ under the act of the fifth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to keep the regiments of dragoons and the four companies of light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for service, and the erection of stables, for said fiscal year For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, for said fiscal year

45,000 105,000

9,029 53

For construction of barracks for cadets for said fiscal year

210

H. R. No. 659. For the naval service for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers
and seamen, including engineer corps of the
navy for the said half calendar year
And for the said fiscal year

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors,
and all the civil establishments of the several
yards, for the said half calendar year
And for the said fiscal year

For provisions for the navy, including transporta.
tion, cooperage, and other expenses, for the said
half calendar year

And for the said fiscal year

And for the said fiscal year

For defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: For freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage; stor. age and rent; travelling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; house-rent to pursers, when duly authorized; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office-rent, stationery, and fuel, to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services authorized by law; for printing and stationery of every description, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and draw. ings; for the purchase and repair of fire en gines and machinery connected therewith, and for other machinery; for the repair of steam engines in the navy-yards; for the purchase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war; for assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards not applica. ble to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil for the use of navy. yards and shore stations, and for no other object or purpose whatever, for the said half calendar year

And for said fiscal year

For contingent expenses for objects not enumerated for the said half calendar year. And for the said fiscal year

For printing and publishing the code of rules and regulations for the government of the navy, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy and Attor ney General, in obedience to a resolution of the last session, in case the same should be ratified by Congress

For defraying the expenses of the agencies for the inspection of hemp, authorized by a joint reso. lution of Congress, approved eighteenth Febru ary, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three MARINE CORPS. For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and servants, serving on shore, and subsistence of officers of the marine corps, for the said half calendar year And for the said fiscal year

380,000

115,000

For surgeons' necessaries, and appliance for the sick and hurt of the naval service, including the marine corps, for the said half calendar year And for the said fiscal year

51,250

42,840

And for arrearages of preceding years under this head

50,000

50,000

For the increase, repair, armament, and equip ment of the navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission, for the said half calendar year And for said fiscal year

500,000 1,000,000

For clothing for the said half calendar year

5,000

And for the said fiscal year

For fuel for the said half calendar year

And for the said fiscal year

To keep barracks in repair, and for rent of temporary barracks, for the said half calendar year And for the said fiscal year

20.992 70

And for the said fiscal year

34,379

For Brooklyn, New York, for the said half calen

For transportation of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting, for the said half year And for the said fiscal year

4,000

8,000

dar year

16.000

170,000

And for the said fiscal year

25,400

80,000

100,000

For the construction of a floating dry dock at Pensacola, of capacity sufficient for the repair of frigates of the smaller class, and upon such plan as the Secretary of the Navy shall approve 100,000 For Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the said half calendar year

For military stores, pay of armorers, keeping arms in repair, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments for the band, for the said half calendar year And for the said fiscal year

1,400

2,800

1,950

And for the said fiscal year

2,070

75,000

For Washington District of Columbia, for the

said half calendar year

5,767

300,000

And for the said fiscal year

4,814

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at Springfield armory for the said fiscal year For repairs, improvements, and new machinery

For Gosport, Virginia, for the said half calendar

5,200

And for the said fiscal year

9,310

For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: Transportation of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages, purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats for pur poses of transportation or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situations require it; transpor tation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery, under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, for said fiscal year For the current expenses of ordnance service for the said fiscal year. For armaments of fortifications, including com pensation of a competent person to superintend the manufacture of cannon, for the said fiscal year

For contingent expenses of said corps, viz: For freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage; for per diem allowance for attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no pub lic quarters assigned; per diem allowance to enlisted men on constant labor; expenses of bury. ing deceased marines; printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters, expenses in pur. suit of deserters, candles, oil, straw, barrack fur.

H. R. 748. For the payment of navy pensions due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty.. three, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

To pay the invalids now on the rolls, (and those who may he added during the first half year of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,) on the said first day of July twenty thousand dol lars, and on the saul first day of January twen ty thousand dollars

To pay widows' pensions under the act of June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour. (including not only those who are now on the rolls, but those who may be added for the first half year of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,) on the first day of July three

usand dollais, and on the said first day of January three thousand dollars To pay the claims of widows and orphans, under the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, on the said first day of July eight thousand dollars, and on the said first day of January eight thousand dollars

40,000

6,000

H. R. 661. For pensions for the half calendar year, begin ning the first day of January, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty three; and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty four.

For invalid pensions for the said half calendar year

And for the said fiscal year For revolutionary pensions under the act of the eighteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the said half calendar year And for the said fiscal year For pensions to widows and orphans, under the act of fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for the said half calendar year

And for the said fiscal year

86,240 158,400

17,600 192,000

15,000 15,000

For continuing the public works at the harbor of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, for the said half calendar year

10,000

4 500

And for the said fiscal year

15,000

222,250

For five years' pensions to widows, under the act of seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, for the said half calendar year

For continuing the public works at the harbor of St. Joseph, in the State of Michigan, for the said half calendar year

10,000

And for the said fiscal year

:

15,000

16,000 $62,000

H. R. 670. For certain fortifications of the United States for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. For repairs of Fort Independence and sea wall, Castle island, Boston harbor, for the said fiscal year

For arrearages and half-pay pensions, through the
Second Auditor, for the said fiscal year
For half-pay pensions, payable through the Third
Auditor, for the said fiscal year

H. R. 655. For pensions under the act of March 3d, 1843, to widows of revolutionary soldiers

And for the said fiscal year For arrearages prior to July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor, for the said half calendar year And for the said fiscal year

380,000 $1,197,490

19,399 87

970 84 1,000 282.05

H. R. 660. For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, for the half calendar year be ginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four; and for other purposes.

For the fulfilment of the treaties with various In-
dian tribes, for the same half-calendar year
And for the said fiscal year

For the payment of three drafts, drawn on the de-
partment by Governor Doty, for goods, provis.
ions, and presents, procured and delivered by
him to the Sioux Indians, while holding the trea-
ty with them, in one thousand eight hundred
and forty-one, and which treaty was rejected by
the Senate, at its late session, for said half-calen.
dar year
For the removal to the west of the Mississippi of
two hundred and fifty of the New York Indians,
of the Seneca, Cayuga, and Onondaga tribes,
and for fulfilling other treaty stipulations with
them, provided that so many are willing to emi.
grate, for the half calendar year
For current expenses of the Indian department for
the said half calendar year
And including four hundred and fifty dollars, paid,
by order of General Z. Taylor, for two white
boys ransomed from the Camanche Indians, and
for the said fiscal year
For subsistence of the Choctaw claimants and
their Indian witnesses during their attendance
at the sitting of the commissioners appointed
under the "Act to provide for the satisfaction of
claims arising under the fourteenth and nine.
teenth articles of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit
creek, concluded in September, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty

For the removal of the Choctaws to the west of
the Mississippi
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Chip
pewa Indians, concluded October fourth, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sac
and Fox Indians, concluded October 11th, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two
For defraying the expenses of a negotiation with
the Kansas Indians, or other tribes on the wa.
ters of the Missouri river, for the purpose of ob
taining a tract of land for the permanent and
perpetual residence of the Sacs and Foxes, as
stipulated in the second article of the treaty rati.
fied February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and
forty-three

To satisfy contracts entered into in the month of
August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
six, by Major General Thomas S. Jesup, then
commanding the army in Alabama, with the
Creek tribe of Indians

PRIVATE CLAIMS. H. R. 319 Samuel Hambleton Do 360 James Lowe.

Do 388 Allen Rogers

Do 389 William G. Sanders
Do 422 Edwin Bartlett
Do 429 Peter Lionberger

$2,100,383 33

Pensions-invalid, revolutionary, and widows Indian department-treaties, &c.

Protection of commerce, Lake Michigan

Examination and survey harbor of Memphis Establish telegraphs

Payment of Georgia militia

Private claims

H. R. 697. For carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washing ton on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred md forty-two.

• This item includes the appropriations for the Post Office Department, which are paid exclusively out of the revenues of that department, and, therefore, are no charge on the treasury, and which amount to $4,545,000.

OFFICES CREATED AND THE SALARIES THEREPOR. By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic service, No 804:

Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands

By the act for carrying into effect the treaty between the United Sates and Great Britain, No. 697:

900

9,062 50

100

1,500 3,815.73

7,965 29

376

906 50 240

2,166 66

400 16,900

1,351 76

600

151 85 3,471, 57 1,179 61 3,750

80

50

750

$65,708 52

62,000 00

.808,500 00

1,197,499 00

2,100,383 33

632,727 74

80,000 00

3,000 00

30,000 00

19.399 87

65,708 52

29,214,185 71