State Journal & Flag, 1846-12-04

seqnenlly perloineU or stolen, and put into circulation, without having upon it any ev evidence - idence evidence or marks ol having been cancelled, and has been received by any person or in institution, - stitution, institution, lor a lull consideration, in the usn, u! course of business, without notice or know, ledge of the same having been redeemed or received as aforesaid, or having been purloined or i-lulen as aforesaid, and without any circumstances existing to create suspi suspicion - cion suspicion ot the good faith or due caution with which the sumo may have been received by such person or institution, be shall be. anil hereby is, authorized to cause llto amount of such note to be (mid to the innocent hold holder - er holder thereof, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated : Provided, That the facts upon which any such payment shall he made shall Ik proved by the oath or a I* lirinatioi) ol a credible witness or witnesses, taken before any judge of (he United Stutes, ur ol the highest court of record, or of the presiding judge of any court exercising un unlimited - limited unlimited jurisdiction in amount, ol any Stale, Territory, or district, and of the taking ol which testimony doe notice shall previously be given to the district attorney ol the Uni United - ted United States for the district in which such tes testimony - timony testimony is taken, who shall he ut liberty to appear and propound questions to such wit witnesses - nesses witnesses ; all which evidence shall bo trans transmitted - mitted transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, uud preserved in his department ; and all wilful la Iso swearing, upon such examina examinalion, - lion, examinalion, shall be and hereby is declared to be, perjury, and liable to the punishment for that offi-nco perseribed by the laws of the United Stales: A nd provided further, That a statement of all treasury notes paid un under - der under the provisions of this act, within the pre preceding - ceding preceding year, shall he submitted to Congress with the annual report ol the Secretary of the Treasury in relation to the finances. Sue. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any officer or atjerii of the. United States, duly authorized to receive, redeem, or cancel any treasury notes issued by au authority - thority authority of law, has received, or shall receive, or has paid, or shall pay, any treasury note which had been previously received or re redeemed - deemed redeemed by any officer or agent having au authority - thority authority to receive or tedeem such note, and which hud subsequently thereto been purloin purloined - ed purloined and put into circulation, the Secretary of the Treasury, upon full and satisfactory proof that the same h id been received or paid in good faith, and in the exercise of ordinary prudence, may allow a credit for the amount of such note to the officer or agent so receiving or paying the same ; and all credits which have, before the passage of this act, been allowed in such cases, and under such circumstances, are hereby sanc sanctioned. - tioned. sanctioned. - Sue. 3. And he it further enacted. That all acts and parts of acts heretofore enacted, which are supplied bv this act, so fur as the same may not have been acted on are here hereby - by hereby repealed, and so far as they may have been acted en, they are ratified and coo coofirmed. - firmed. coofirmed. Approved, August 10, 1846.

ror surveying that, part of Arkansas where, in consequence of local attraction, the ordinary coin pas, cannot be used, at a rate not exefcod- mg eight dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred dollars ; For surveys at augmented rates, in Louisia Louisians, - ns, Louisians, three thousand swell hundred and four dol dollars - lars dollars ; For surveys in the Greensburg district. Loin isiana, now in the course of execution, in ad addition - dition addition to former appropriations, twen y thou thousand - sand thousand tour hundred dollars ; For retracing old lines in the district west of Pearl river, to supply deficiencies now existing in those surveys, at five dollars and seven doL lars per mile, in adit ion to balance of appropri appropriations - ations appropriations for same object, of the third March, eighten hundred and forty thre**, aighteen thou thousand - sand thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars. INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NA NATIONS. - TIONS. NATIONS. For salaries of ministers to Great Britain. I France, Russia, Piussia, Spa n, Mexico, and i Brazil, sixty-three thousand dollars; For salaries ot secratariea of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars ; For outfit of a minister to Great Britain, j nine thousand dollars; For salaries of charges des nlfaires to Bor- ' legal, Austria, Denmark, Sweeden, Holland, ! Belgium, Chili, Peru, New Grencda, Venezeu- I la, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, fifty- ' eight thousand five hundred dollars ; Eor salary of a minister resident to Turkey, ; i six thousand dollars , For salary of a dragoman to the legation to i Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars; For the salary of a commissioner to reside in China, five thousand doffors: Provided, No | part of this sum shall be paid unless the said commissioner actually resides in China ; For the salary of a secretary and Chinese | interpreter, two thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars ; For contingent expenses of foreign inter'- l course, thirty thousand dollars ; For salary to the consul at London, t^o thou- ' sano dollars ; For clerk hire, office rent, and other expen expenses - ses expenses of the office of the consul at London, two , thousand dollars ; For compensation of commissioner to the i Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars ; For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars ; For payment in full to Benjamin E. Green for services while employed in Mexico,as clinrge d'afliiirs, three thousand dollars; For the relief and protection of American sea seamen - men seamen in foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars; For cariying into ( fleet the acts for the sup suppression - pression suppression of the slave trade, including the sup support - port support of recaptured Africans, and their removal i to their country, twentv-live thousand dollars ; For completing the maps, specifications, and astronomical computations of the line of boun boundary - dary boundary between the United States and the British provinces, heretofore run and established, or run and marked by the joint commissioners, under the treaty of Washington, twenty thousand dol dollars, - lars, dollars, and fer transmitting to the respective States, whose boundaries are effected thereby, authentic copies thereof. -

ror compensation ot the Secretory ol !he Navy, and the clerks, messenger, nnd assl-tant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand live hundred and fifty dollars ; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards aisd Docks, and to the civil en engineer, - gineer, engineer, draughtsman, clerks, nnd niesst-nger in his office, ten thousand four hmidri d dollars ; Fur compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and llepair, ami to the assistant constructor, clerks, nnd messen messenger - ger messenger in his office, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars; For salaries of the Chief Naval Constructor and Engineer-in-Chief, six tliousad dollars ; For compensation of the cliicr ofllie Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and to the draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his of office, - fice, office, eight thousand four hundred dollars ; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, and to the clerks and messenger in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars ; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and to the clerks, as assistant - sistant assistant surgeon, and messenger in his office, six thousand six hundred dollars ; For contingent expenses of said department, and all the bureaus conneded therewith, viz: Foi blank books, binding, nlai innery, printing, and labor, four thousand one hundred and furiy dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation ofsuperintendent and three watchmen of the southwest executive build building, - ing, building, one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars. For the contingent expenses of the said build building, - ing, building, viz : Fur labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars ; For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fif y dollars. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For compensation to the Postmaster General, three assistant postmasters general, clerks, mes messengers, - sengers, messengers, assistant messengers, and watchmen ot the said department, seventy four thousand three hundred dollars ; For compensation of superintendent of the Post Office building, two hundred and fifty dol lars. For the contingent expenses of the said de partment, viz : For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, oil, printing labor, and day watchmen, six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars ; For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dol dollars - lars dollars : Provided, That the proceeds of the tele telegraph - graph telegraph between Washington city and Baltimore be, ami the same are hereby, directed to be placed ill the Trea-ury of Ihn United .States tor the benefit of the Post Office Department in the same manner as other revenue from posta postages. - ges. postages. For compensation of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, clerks, messenger, nnd as assistant - sistant assistant messengers in his office, eighty-five thou sand seven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, viz : For labor, blank books, funding, stationery, printing blanks and circulars, five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars ; For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dol dollars. - lars. dollars. SURVEYORS AND THEM CLERKS.

In ihe office of Hie Treasurer: For blank books, binding, stationery, and la labor - bor labor six hundred dollars ; For miscellaneous items, three hundred and seventy-five dollars. In the office ul the Register of the Treasury : For blank books, binding, printing,stationery, and labor, four thousand dollars, including two thousand dollars for arrears for blank books, binding, and ruling ; For miscellaneous items, one thousand do!. 'a For cases for the safekeeping of books and papers, and including the wages of a laborer, two thousand three hundred dollars. In the office of the Commissioner of the Gen General - eral General Land Office; For stationery, including blank hooks, and b'ank forms for the district land offices, pieces of parchment and printing patents, advertising land tales in newspapers and in handbill form, public notices, and printing circulars, office fur furniture - niture furniture and repairs of the same, and pay of la borers employed in the office, ten thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars ; For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dol dollars. - lars. dollars. In the office of the Solicitor ol the Treasury : For blank books, binding, stationery, printing circulars and blank forms for returns of district attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, collectors of the customs, and labor, one thousand and fifty dollars; - For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollas. For compensation of a superintendent and eight watchmen of the southeast executive buil ding, three thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For the contingent expenses ol the said building, nsmely : For labor, fuel, and light, seven thousand sev seven - en seven hundred dollars ; For miscellaneous items, one thousand seven hundred dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT. For compensation o! the Secretary of War, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, nineteen thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of In Indian - dian Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in Ins office, nineteen thou thousand - sand thousand four hundred dollars ; For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks in his office, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars ; For compensation of the clerk in the nffie of the Commanding General, one thousand dol dollars - lars dollars ; For compensation of clerks in Ihe office of the Adjutant General, seven thousand one hun hundred - dred hundred and fil'iy dollars ; For compensation of clerks ond messenger in the office of (lie Quartermaster General, in including - cluding including clerks that were attached to Ihe pur purchasing - chasing purchasing department, eleven thousand five bun dred dollars; For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, nine thousand one hundred dollars, including two ad additional - ditional additional clerks at a salary of one thousand dollars each ; For compensation of clerks in the office of

and lamp po>t-», attendance on furnaces of the crypt, attendance on water closets, cleaning the roiumioaud crypt, brushes and brooms, la laborers - borers laborers aad_ cartage on Capitol grounds, tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, manure, and straw for grounds, trees, attendance at the western gates of the Capitol, repairs of public stables, flagging, and enclosures, keeping in or order - der order iron pipes that convey the water to the Capitol and public offices, and gardener's sala salary, - ry, salary, nine thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars ; For constructing seven furnaces for warming and drying the lower story, halls, and passages of the north wing of the Capitol, three thous and nine hundred and ten dollars ; For constructing six water closets for the Senate and two for the Sit); me Court, on the same floors, respectively, three thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars, For enlarging the low library, constructing a new stairway, and other work, and the mate materials - rials materials therefor, according to the plan of John Skirving, dated July twentieth, eighteen hund hundred - red hundred and forty.six, two 'thousand four hundred and twelve dollars; To replace the oil intended for the use of the Government, which was destroyed by the recent fire at Nantucket, fourteen thousand dol dollars - lars dollars ; For annual repairs of President's House, gardener's salary, laborers and cartage, tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, manure, and straw For garden and plants, trees for Presi President's - dent's President's grounds, Fountain square, Lafayette square, and Pennsylvania avenue, repairs of fence at Fountain square, La fay el te square, and President's garden, three thousand two hui.dred and seventy seven dollars. 9 For replacing platforms on tho dome, and re ; pairing balusters,(including materials and work,) ; repairing hatchway, door and frame, (including steps and plastering in dome,) furnishing and repairing step-ladders end platforms on the dif different - ferent different roofs, furnishing two double window frames and sash (including painting and gla glazing) - zing) glazing) in open courts, white-washing walls in the open courts, containing about twenty-five hundred square yards, four hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents. And for the removal of the building over the statute of Washington, and erecting an iron fence around the same, one thousand dol dollars - lars dollars ; For repairs of Congressional burial ground, rendered necessary by the lute freshet, five hun hundred - dred hundred dollars ; For repairs of the road lending from the Cap* I itol square to the Congressional burial ground rendered necessary by the late heavy rains, to be expended under the direction of the Commis Commissioner - sioner Commissioner of Public Buildings, one thousand five hundred dollars ;

For salaries ot two Keepers of me public ar archives - chives archives in l''lori(!a, one tliousund duller*! l'or arrearages prior to first of July, eighteen humlreil and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor's office, in addition to one thousand-two hundred dollars appropriated this session for the same object, two thousand eight hundred dollars ; For expenses in relation to loans, four thous thousand - and thousand dollars; For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hun hundred - dred hundred and seventy-fil e dollars ; For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to the superintendent and assistants, one hundred and eleven thous thousand - and thousand dollars; For completing the custom house at Wil Wilmington, - mington, Wilmington, North Carolina, five thousand one hundred dollars ; For completing the work of the custom house at Boston, fifty thousand dol ars ; F.r payment to Horatio Grcenough far a group of statutes to adorn the eastern portico of the Capitol, eight thousand dollars : Provi Provided. - ded. Provided. Tlte work is in such state of progress as, in reference to the whole sum to he paid for its exocu'ion, shall, in the opinion of the Presi President - dent President of the United States, render it proper to make such payment ; , To supply deficiencies in the fund fir the relief of sick and disabled seamen, twenty five thousand dollars ; For repairs ot that part of the custom-house at Mobile occupied by the United States court, three hundred and ninety dollars : For the building or purchasing of a revenue cutter, twelve thousand dollars ; For the sixth volume of the fourth series of the Documentary History of the United States, twenty-five thousand four hundred and forty fortynine - nine fortynine dollars ; For payment of the excess of duties paid up upon - on upon wines imported from Portugal into the Uni UnitedStatosby - tedStatosby UnitedStatosby John Osborn, of the city of New York, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and forty two cents ; and by Isaac Winslow and Son, of Boston, the sum of one thousand and nineteen dollars and fifty fiftyfour - four fiftyfour cents ; and by Alexander Soltan, ot New York, the sum of eight hundred and eiglity eiglityfive - five eiglityfive dollars and ninety six cents; which said duties were levied and collected contrary to the treaty stipulations existing between Portugal and this Government : Provilded, hoioever. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not pay suid sums of money to said Osborn, and Winslow and Son, and Soltan, unless he is sat satisfied - isfied satisfied they are rightfully entitled thereto; For annual repairs of the Capitol, lamplight lamplighter*, - er*, lamplighter*, oil for lamps, wicks, and repairs of lam's

BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Public. - No. 175. AN ACT making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, a id for other purposes. [Sec. 1.] lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the following sums be, and hereby are, ap appropriated - propriated appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the year ending the thirtieth day ot June, eighteen hundred and lorly-scven, to ho paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasu Treasury, - ry, Treasury, viz: For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of t''e Mouse of Representatives, and delegates, three hundred and seventy one thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars. For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, thirty-nine thousand five hundred aud fifty-seven dolars and fifty cents. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses ofllie Senate, one hundred and nine thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Repre Representatives, - sentatives, Representatives, two hundred and sixteen thousand and three dollars ; including one hundred and forty-three thousand five bundled and twenty twentyeight - eight twentyeight dollars for printiug lor the year ending thirtieth of June, eigh teen hundred and forty fortysix. - six. fortysix. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger of I lie library, four thousand five hundred dollars ; For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dollars; For purchase of nooks for said library, five thousand dollars ; For purchase of law books for said library one thousand dollars. For compensation of the President of the United Slates, twenty-five thousand dollars; For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF SPATE. For compensation of the Secretaty of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant mes eenger in Ine office, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars; For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, viz : For publishing the lows, and packing and dis distributing - tributing distributing the laws and document*, including proofreading, labor, boxes, and transportation, nine thousand dollars; For stationery, blank books, binding, labor, attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, paint painting - ing painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dol dollars - lars dollars ;

rnr compensation ol tne surveyor general northwest of the Olijo, and Ihecitrks in his of office, - fice, office, eight thousand three hundred dollars ; For compensation of the surveyor general in III inois and Missoni i, and the chirks ill his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars ; Fur compensat ion of the surveyor general in Arkansas, and the clerks in his office, four thou thousand - sand thousand three hundred dollars ; For compensation of the surveyor general in Louisiana, and the chrks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars ; For compensation of the surveyor general in Mississippi, and the clerks *in his office, four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ; For compensation of the surveyor general in Alabama, and the clerks in his office tour thou thousand - sand thousand dollars ; For compensation of the surveyor general in Florida, and the clerka in Ins office, five thou thousand - sand thousand five hundred dollars ; For compensation of the surveyor general in Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, three thousand one hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks in the offices of i he surveyors general, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the pur purpose - pose purpose of preserving them at the seat of Govern Government, - ment, Government, sixteen thousand dollars ; For paying to the land offices at St. Augus Augustine - tine Augustine and Newnaiisvillo, in Florida, for issuing permits under the act of fourth August, eigh eighteen - teen eighteen hundred arid forty two. n per centage equal to that allowed by law upon the sale of the sunie quantity of public lands at the minimum price, five thousand dollars ; For compensation of the Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hun hundred - dred hundred dollars; For compensation of the Commiss'oner of Public Buildings in Washington city, two thou thousand - sand thousand dollars ; For compensation to four assistant?, draw drawkeeper - keeper drawkeeper at the Potomac bridge, inc'udng oil for lamps and machinery, fire-wood, and repairs of bridge, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars; . MINT OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRANCHES. At Pliila 'elphia, viz : For salaries of the director, treasurers chief coiner, inelter and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and four clerks, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars : For wages of workmen twenty-four thousand doHas; For incidental and contingent expenses, in including - cluding including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs,