TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 71. 1845.
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books for entering collectors’ returns of imports and exports, eight hun-dred dollars
For cases for the safe-keeping of settled accounts, two hundred dol-lars.
To make good a deficiency (anticipated) in the appropriation for therelief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, thirtythousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the compensation ofthe Commissioner of Pensions and the clerks and messenger in hisoffice, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred andforty-five, two thousand dollars.
For the payment of mudding duties, erroneously charged by theDanish Government, and refunded in the year eighteen hundred andthirty-seven, being a balance remaining in the hands of the agent of theDepartment of State , and by him paid into the Treasury March tenth,eighteen hundred and forty-one, four hundred and eighty-one dollars andninety cents.
For additional compensation to the district judges of Missouri, Arkan-sas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama , under the provisions of thefirst section of the act of seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, seven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-sevencents.
To make good a deficiency in the appropriation for stationery, fuel,printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Represen-tatives , fifty thousand dollars, out of which shall be paid to William L.Goggin the sum of eight hundred and twenty-four dollars, his pay andmileage as a member of the House of Representatives while contestingthe seat of Thomas W. Gilmer of Virginia , the same being at the rateof eight dollars per day from the seventh day of December, eighteenhundred and forty-three, to the seventeenth day of February, eighteenhundred and forty-four inclusive.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent ex-penses of the Senate , seventy thousand dollars.
To defray arrearages of expenses of the commission appointed tomark the boundary line between the United States and Texas , ninety-four dollars and sixty cents.
For paying the April and July instalments of the Mexican indemni-ties due in eighteen hundred and forty-four, the sum of two hundredand seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided , It shall be ascertained tothe satisfaction of the American Government, that said instalments havebeen paid by the Mexican Government to the agent appointed by theUnited States to receive the same in such manner as to discharge allclaim on the Mexican Government, and said agent to be a delinquent inremitting the money to the United States .
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of the Treasury to pay, out of any money in the treasury nototherwise appropriated, the amount of postages which may be charge-able to any of the Executive Departments or the Bureaus thereof, underthe provisions of an act passed the present session of Congress , entitled“ An act to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct theabuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on therevenues of the Post Office Department,” the accounts for the samebeing first audited and allowed by the proper officer of the TreasuryDepartment; the amount thereof to be reported to Congress at the nextsession.
Approved, March 3, 1845.
Cases.
Office of Com-missioner ofPensions.
Mudding du-ties.
Additionalcompensation todistrict judges.1844, ch. 95.
W. L. Goggin .
Mexican in-demnity.
Postage of theExecutive De-partments.
1845, ch. 43.