the amount asked for the current year for which such estimates shall be made; and whenever any such subsequent estimate shall ask for an appropriation for any such work beyond the original estimate of the cost, the full reasons for the excess, and the extent of the anticipated excess, shall be also stated.
Part of 6th sec. of act of Aug. 26, 1842, ch. 202, repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the sixth section of the act entitled “An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and office of the Government, and for other purposes,” approved on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and which enacts, that the several offices and employments therein before mentioned, except such as were otherwise limited by the act, shall be continued until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be and is hereby repealed; and the various provisions of the said act concerning the said severalProvisions of said act re-enacted, and to be in force till July 1, 1845.
Compensation of offices, &c. legalized by said act.
Additional clerks to be continued for one year. offices and employments thereby legalized are hereby re-enacted, and declared to be in full force and operation until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and no longer. That, for the compensation of the several offices and employments legalized by the said act of the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, the sum of forty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents be, and is hereby, appropriated. That the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized to continue, for one year, the employment of the additional clerks authorized by any existing resolution of their respective Houses, and the sum of nine thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated for their compensation.
For deficiencies in appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1844.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following sums are hereby appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for various objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, namely:
Arranging letters.For expenses incurred in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury in preserving and arranging important letters of the office which have been lying in mass since the burning of the Treasury, in continuation of an appropriation last year, twelve hundred dollars;
S. E. executive building.For arrearages of salaries of superintendent and watchmen of the southeast executive building, including ten dollars short, appropriated for the calendar year, ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and twenty dollars for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, thirty dollars;
Contingencies in Adj. General’s office.For arrearages of contingent expenses in the office of the Adjutant General, five hundred dollars;
Clerk to naval constructor.For clerk to the chief naval constructor from July eighth, to November second, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, three hundred and thirty-five dollars;
Extra clerk hire, bureau of Provisions and Clothing.For arrears of extra clerk hire in the bureau of Provisions and clothing, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars;
Book-cases for executive office, Florida.For three large book-cases, made for the use of the Executive office Florida Territory, one hundred and twenty dollars;
Legislative Council of Florida.For arrearages of former sessions of the Legislative Council of Florida, four hundred dollars;
Purchase of site for lighthouse on Boddy’s island, N. C.For amount expenses for the purchase of a site for a light house on Boddy’s island, North Carolina, being part of the amount appropriated for that purpose, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of De-