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

Civil and diplo-matic expensesof government.

1834, ch. 10.

1S32, ch. 74.

1834, ch.70.

1834, ch. 45.

Compensationto be allowed tocollectors andother officers ofthe customs.

1832, ch. 227.

For the repair and completion of the United States ’ marine hospitalin Charleston, South Carolina , one thousand one hundred dollars, to beplaced at the disposal of the intendant and wardens of the said city ofCharleston .

For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, seventythousand and eighty dollars, in addition to the appropriation made by actof the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.

To enable the directors of the mint to procure the requisite apparatusfor parting gold and silver by the sulphuric acid, and to establish a re-finery for that purpose on the most approved principles under the controlof the institution, seven thousand dollars.

For payment of preparing, printing and binding the documents orderedto be printed by Gales and Seaton, forty thousand dollars, under the samerestrictions and reservations as were contained in the appropriation forthe same object by the act of the fifth day of May, eighteen hundred andthirty-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 bindingand engraving the necessary maps, forty-two thousand nine hundred andsixty dollars, to be disbursed by the secretary*of the Senate , whose ac-counts for the same shall be settled and adjusted at the treasury in theusual manner.

For the contingent expenses of the Senate , in addition to the appro-priation contained in the act of the eleventh day of February, eighteenhundred and thirty-four, forty-six thousand two hundred and ninety-fourdollars. And for the contingent expenses of the House of Represen-tatives , in addition to former appropriations, thirty-five thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry into effect the actentitled “ An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors,” approvedthe seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, five thousanddollars.

For payment of balance due the representatives of Samuel Babcockon settlement of his accounts, one hundred and forty-six dollars twenty-three cents.

For payment of balance due Gurdon Trumbull, superintendent of thepublic works at Stonington harbour, two hundred and sixty-two dollarssixteen cents.

For payment of Major P. H. Perrault, balance due on account of thesurvey of the harbour of St. Augustine , two dollars and eighty-fourcents.

For payment of balances due Joseph D. Selden, superintendent of theerection of a lighthouse at Buffalo and Erie , one thousand six hundredand ninety-seven dollars and sixty-two cents.

For payment of the arrearages due contractors on the Cumberlandroad in Ohio , one thousand six hundred and nine dollars thirty-six cents.

For the expenses of a “Digest of the existing commercial regulationsof foreign countries” now in preparation under a resolution of the Houseof Representatives of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the sum of five thousand and one hundred dollars.

Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasurybe, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the collectors, naval officers,surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers of theseveral ports of the United States , out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated, such sums as will give to the said officers, re-spectively, the same compensation in the year one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-four, according to the importations of that year, as theywould have been entitled to receive if the act of the fourteenth of July,eighteen hundred and thirty-two, had not gone into effect: and that theclerks employed by the respective collectors, naval officers, and surveyors