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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.23. 1841.
Outfits of mi-nisters andcharges d’af-faires.
Salaries of mi-nisters.
Secretaries oflegation.
Regular pay ofmessenger, off.Sec. of Senate ,and off. ClerkHouse of Reps .
Catalogue ofLibrary of Con-gress.
Statute I.
Sept. 11,1841.
Appropriation.
How to be ex-pended.
Mineralizingof the timbersauthorized.
Appropriation
therefor.
and the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money inthe Treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz :
For outfits of ministers to Russia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil , and ofcharges d’affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sardinia , Naples, Chili, andTexas , sixty-three thousand dollars.
For salaries of ministers to Spain and Brazil , for the residue of thecurrent year, eight thousand dollars.
For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, onethousand eight hundred dollars.
Also, so much as may be necessary to pay, for compensation, to theclerks and other officers in the service of the two Houses, the librarianand assistant librarians of Congress , the gate-keeper and lamp-lighter,for the services rendered by them during the present extra session, threemonths’ additional pay; and to the messengers, assistant messengers,pages and laborers of the two Houses and Library of Congress, and tothe hostler of the House of Representatives , the usual allowances madeat the close of each session; and to each of the police of the Capitol ,the same as to the messengers, to be paid under the direction of theCommittee on the Contingent Fund of each House : And the regularpay of the messenger of the office of the Secretary of the Senate , andoffice of the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall be equal to thepay of any other permanent messenger employed in the Capitol .
Also, a sum not exceeding two hundred and seventy-three dollars, forcompleting the contract for printing and binding the catalogue of thelibrary.
Approved, September 11, 1841.
Chap. XXIII .—An Act to provide for repairing the Potomac Bridge.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled , That the sum of fifteen thou-sand eight hundred and six dollars be, and the same is hereby, appro-priated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated and unexpended,for the repair of the Potomac bridge in the District of Columbia , to bepaid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sums shall be ex-pended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the followingmanner, to wit: He shall designate some competent officer of the En-gineer corps to draw plans and make specifications of the work to beperformed, and estimates of the cost or value thereof, which shall notexceed the sum of forty-five thousand eight hundred and six dollars; theofficer thus selected, shall lay his plans, specifications, and estimatesbefore the Secretary of War for his approval, and the said Secretaryshall thereupon cause the work to be constructed upon the plan mostapproved by him, under the immediate superintendence of some com-petent officer of either Engineer corps, who shall make all necessarycontracts for materials and labor, and cause the work to be constructedin the best and most substantial manner within the estimates and ac-cording to the plan approved by the Secretary of War, and under theorders and general direction of said Secretary, who will, from time totime, cause such advances of the amounts for this object appropriatedas he may deem necessary and proper.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the timbers, or such ofthem as the superintending engineer may think fit, shall be mineralized,and a sum not exceeding three and a half cents per cubic foot is herebyappropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-priated, to defray the expense and cost thereof, the proper amount to bepaid on the requisition of the Secretary of War, founded on the esti-mate of the superintendent.
Approved, September 11, 1841.