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the minimum price of said lands, from and after that day, shall be twodollars and fifty cents per acre.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Chap. CV .—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses
of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen
hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter ex-pressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteenhundred and forty-five; to be paid out of any unappropriated money inthe treasury, namely:
For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the Houseof Representatives , and Delegates, three hundred and fifty-one thousandsix hundred dollars;
For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Con-gress , twenty-nine thousand and ten dollars and fifty cents;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of theSenate , sixty thousand dollars;
For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of theHouse of Representatives , seventy-five thousand dollars; Provided, Thatno part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of eitherHouse of Congress shall be applied to any other than the ordinary ex-penditures of the Senate and House of Representatives , nor as extraallowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said twoHouses, or either of them ; nor as payment or compensation to anyclerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either ofthem, unless such clerk, messenger, or other attendant, be so employed bya resolution or order of one of said Houses. And provided, also, Thatthe Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representa-tives be directed, in the future disbursements of the public moneys forthe use of their respective bodies, to confine their purchases exclusivelyto articles the growth and manufacture of the United States , providedthe same can be procured of such growth and manufacture, of suitablequality and at reasonable prices upon as good terms as to quality andprice as can be obtained of foreign growth and manufacture.
Library of Congress. —For compensation of librarian, and two as-sistant librarians, and messenger of the library, four thousand fivehundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of said library, six hundred dollars ; forpurchase of books for said library, two thousand five hundred dollars ;for purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars ;
Executive. —For compensation of the President of the United States ,twenty-five thousand dollars ;
For repairs of the capital, attending furnaces and water-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on the capital grounds, tools, keeping iron pipesand wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, and top-dressing for plants, for trees and plants, repairs of public stable, pumps,flagging, enclosures, extra labor in removing snow, &c., for taking downand rebuilding four chimneys on the capital, for one bulk-head contain-ing sixty-four lights, baize doors, &c., complete, for one large fan-lightand frame, ten feet by five feet, containing thirty-seven lights, and forthree additional lamps for the capital, and alteration in water-works, andfor fish, nine thousand and eighty-four dollars.
For repairs to windows, glass, and glazing, heretofore done by JohnPurdy, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents.
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Appropria-
tions.
Officers of theSenate and H.of Reps.
Contingentexpenses of theSenate .
Contingentexpenses of theHouse of Reps .
Proviso,
Proviso.
Library ofCongress.
Librarian, &c.
Contingent
expenses.
Purchase ofbooks.
Law books.
Executive.
Repairs to win-dows, &c., byPurdy.
Digging outcrypt, &c.