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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 105. 1844.
Attorney Gen-eral, <fec.
Contingent
expenses.
District attor-neys.
Marshals.
Proviso.
1842, ch. 29.
Miscellaneous.
Annuities andgrants.
Expenses ofloan.
Penitentiary ofD. C.
Deficiency infund for relief ofseamen.
Auxiliary
guard.
For compensation of the Attorney General, clerk and messenger inhis office, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the reporter of the decisions of the SupremeCourt , one thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the district attorneys, including those in the se-veral Territories, as prescribed by law, eight thousand dollars.
For compensation of the marshals, including those in the severalTerritories, as prescribed by law, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme , circuit, and districtcourts of the United States, including the District of Columbia ; also,for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penaltiesand forfeitures incurred in the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, onethousand eight hundred and forty-five and previous years; and likewisefor defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are con-cerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the UnitedStates , and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, four hundred thousanddollars: Provided , That no part of the sum hereby or hereafter to beappropriated for this object shall be paid to or in any way allowed toany person or persons who has or have neglected or who shall hereafterneglect, to comply with all and every requirement contained in the onehundred and sixty-seventh paragraph of the first section of the twenty-ninth chapter of the Laws of the United States entitled “An act makingappropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Governmentfor the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two,” and approvedMay eighteenth one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
And the sum of three thousand three hundred and nineteen dollarsand sixty-seven cents is hereby appropriated and directed to be paid tothe State of Kentucky , in discharge of a claim for that amount due thesaid State, for receiving, keeping and supporting the convicts of theFederal court for the district of Kentucky from the year one thousandeight hundred and four up to the first day of December one thousandeight hundred and forty-three.
From and after the passage of this act the printing ordered by or forthe Supreme Court in the city of Washington or any of its officers forthe use of said court, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder, inthe same manner as is now done for the printing of the Executive De-partments.
Miscellaneous .—For the payment of annuities and grants by specialacts of Congress , seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of two keepers of the public archives in Florida ,one thousand dollars.
For expenses in relation to the loan, two thousand five hundred dol-lars.
For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the Districtof Columbia , five thousand dollars.
For payment to Horatio Greenough for statues for the east front ofthe Capitol , four thousand dollars.
For compensation to Luigi Persico for services rendered and expensesincurred in bringing the group of statues made by him to this countryand placing it on the pedestal by direction of the Secretary of the Trea-sury, four thousand dollars.
To make good a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and dis-abled seamen, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard,after deducting the unexpended balance of one thousand one hundredand fifty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents, five thousand six hundredand twenty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.