TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 105. 1844.
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For lighting Pennsylvania avenue during the sessions of Congress ,six hundred dollars:
For preparing indices to the manuscript papers of the Confederation and the papers of Washington, one thousand two hundred and fifty-twodollars;
For compensation of the commissioner and clerk appointed to markthe boundary between the United States and Great Britain and for otherexpenses of the commission, including the purchase and repair of in-struments, wages of persons employed, and other contingencies, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to two commissioners to examine claims under thetreaty with the Cherokees of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and pay of secretary, including provisions for Indians during thesession of the board, and for contingent expenses, eleven thousand fivehundred dollars.
For defraying the contingent expenses of commissioners to adjustclaims to Choctaw reservations under the treaty of one thousand eighthundred and thirty with the Choctaws, six thousand one hundred dol-lars : Provided, That the duration of either of said commissions shallnot extend beyond one year after the passage of this act.
To pay the expenses that may be incurred in conveying to the seatof Government the votes of the electors of the several States for Presi-dent and Vice President of the United States , twelve thousand dollars.
For survey of the coast of the United States , including compensationof superintendent and assistants, eighty thousand dollars: Provided,That officers of the army and navy shall, as far as practicable, be em-ployed in the work, whenever and in the manner required by the De-partment having charge thereof.
For carrying on the work of the custom-house [at] Boston , fifty thou-sand dollars.
For continuing the preparation and publication of the Narrative andAccount of the Exploring Expedition, forty thousand dollars.
For the publication, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy and of the Secretary of the Treasury, of such of the maps of theexploring expedition as, in their judgment, will be serviceable to thenavy and the commerce of the country, two thousand dollars.
To defray the expenses of taking care of and preserving the botan-ical and horticultural specimens brought home by the exploring expe-dition, and for the salary of the keeper of, and enlarging the greenhouse under the direction and control of the joint committee on thelibrary, twenty-two hundred dollars.
Light-house Establishment .—For the support and maintenance oflight-houses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, includingthe purchase of lamps, oil, wicks, buff-skins, whiting, and cotton cloth,transporting oil, and for keepers’ salaries, repairs, improvements, andcontingent expenses, three hundred and eighty-five thousand four hun-dred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.
For expenses of superintendents in visiting their light-houses annu-ally, and examining and reporting their condition, two thousand dol-lars.
For superintendents’ commissions, at two and a half per centum,nine thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and fourteen cents :Provided, That no superintendent shall receive any of the commissionswhose compensation may exceed two thousand dollars per annum.
Surveys of Public Lands .—For surveying the public lands, in addi-tion to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be appor-tioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the publicservice, exclusive of surveys in Louisiana , one hundred and ten thou-sand dollars.
For surveying, with reference to mines and minerals, in that portion
LightingPenn-sylvania ave-nue.
Indices toWashingtonpapers.
Expenses ofcommission tomark the boun-dary betweenU. S. and GreatBritain .
Expenses ofcommission un-der Choctawtreaty.
Proviso.
Expenses ofconveying votesof electors toWashington.Coast survey.Proviso.
Botanical andhorticulturalspecimens, &c.
Light-houseestablishment.Supplies, &c.
Expenses ofsuperintendents.
Superintend-ents’ commis-sions.
Proviso.
Surveyingpublic lands.
Surveying withreference tomines.