Specific appropriations for the support of government for 1797.and persons employed in his office, seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant to the War department, six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the Surveyor General two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the assistant surveyors, chain-carriers, axe-men and other persons employed in carrying into effect the surveys to be made by the act, intituled “An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Governor, Secretary and Judges of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, printing patents for land, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents.
For the annual allowance to the widow and orphan children of Colonel John Harding, and to the orphan children of Major Alexander Trueman, by the 1793, ch. 14.act of Congress of the twenty-seventh of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the annual allowance for the education of Hugh Mercer, son of the late Major-general Mercer, by the 1793, ch. 28.act of Congress of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, four hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of foreign intercourse, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, beyond the annual appropriations authorized by the act of Congress, passed the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, intituled Ante, p. 128.“An act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations,” seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensations to the following officers of the mint: The Director, two thousand dollars; the Treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars; the assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars; the chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; the melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; the engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, one at seven hundred dollars, and two at five hundred dollars each, one thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the wages of persons employed in the mint, at the different branches of refining, melting, carpenter’s, millwright’s, and smith’s work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die-forger, who also overseers the execution of the iron work, seven thousand dollars.
For the payment of a deficiency which has arisen in the mint, in coining the precious metals, by reason of wasteage, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety-six cents; and for the payment of a deficiency which has arisen by reason of the loss of a quantity of silver, the further sum of nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-six cents.
For the purchase of ironmongery, lead, wood, coals, stationery, office furniture, and for all other contingencies for the establishment of the mint, seven thousand four hundred dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, one thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and
