TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92. 1834.

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Sec. 2. And be if further enacted, Thai the Secretary of the Trea-sury be, and he hereby is, authorized to make the necessary arrange-ments with the branch of the bank of the state of Alabama , establishedin the said town of Decatur, for the payment of the pensioners hereinbefore described.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effectuntil the first day of August nextApproved, June 27, 1834.

Chap. XCII.— An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expensestf government for the pear one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, to bepaidout of any unappropriatedmoney in the treasury, viz :

For compensation to the President and Vice President of the UnitedStates , the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre-tary of Wat, the Secretary of the Navy , and the Postmaster General,sixty thousand dollars. t

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 thou-sand four hundred dollars.

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

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

For the superintendent and watchmen of the north-east executivebuilding, 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 ofthe United States , from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-threeto the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, thirteenhundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-two cents.

For the documentary history of the revolution, per act of March second,eighteen hundred and thirty-three, twenty thousand dollars; and it shallbe the duty of the Secretary of State, to examine the contract enteredinto by Edward Livingston, late Secretary of that department, with Mat-thew St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force , for the collection and publica-tion of the documentary history of the American Revolution , and makea special report thereon, to the next session of Congress , setting forththe nature and character of the materials of which the work is to becomposed, the progress made in the work, the number of volumes whichwill be required to complete it, and an estimate of the money which itmay be necessary to appropriate for the fulfilment of the contract.

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

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

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Secretary ofthe Treasury tomake arrange-ments for pay-ment of pen-sioners.

Act to take ef-fect August 1.

Statute X.June 27, 1834.

Appropriationsfor the civil anddiplomatic ex-penses of go-vernment.

Act of March2, 1833, ch. 78.