Department of War.For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twenty-two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars.
For books, maps, and plans, for the War Department, one thousand dollars.
For additional or temporary clerk hire during the years eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, in order to carry into effect the act of seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,1832, ch. 126. granting revolutionary pensions, twenty-four thousand and thirty-nine dollars.
For printing, stationery, rent, and expenses of procuring revolutionary records, arising under the act aforesaid, five thousand dollars.
For additional clerk hire, messengers, stationery, printing, and other contingencies of the pension office for the present year, four thousand dollars. And a commissioner of pensions shall be appointed by the President and Senate, who shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, which is hereby appropriated. He shall execute, under the direction of the Secretary of War, such duties in relation to the various pension laws, as may be prescribed by the President of the United States; and he shall also have the privilege of franking; but this provision shall only continue until the expiration of the next Congress.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the paymaster general, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the commissary general of purchases, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the adjutant general, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the commissary general of subsistence, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, including advertising, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the chief engineer, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the topographical bureau, including the purchase of books, repair of instruments, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
For the services of a lithographer, and the expenses of the lithographic press of the War Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the ordnance office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerk in the office of the surgeon general, eleven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the clerks in the office of the quartermaster general, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said office, six hundred dollars.
For the salary of the superintendent and watchmen of the north-west executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, furniture, repairs of buildings, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand one hundred dollars.
For completing the fence on the Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For the fitting up the basement rooms of the executive building occu-
