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One clerk in the Engineer Office at twelve hundred dollars, and one clerk at one thousand dollars. One clerk in the Commanding General’s office at one thousand dollars. Six clerks and one messenger in the Emigrating Indian Bureau attached to the Subsistence Department, whose compensation shall be as follows: one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, one clerk at fourteen hundred dollars, one clerk at twelve hundred dollars, three clerks at one thousand dollars each, and one messenger at five hundred dollars; Provided, That the authority claimed under the acts approved, and , or by any other act for the employment of non-commissioned officers, or the appointment of extra clerks in any of the offices of the War Department be, and the same are hereby repealed. Provided however, That where express appropriations are made by law, for the employment of clerks, such employment shall not be deemed to be extra, within the meaning of the above act.

For one clerk in the Topographical Bureau, one thousand dollars.

That the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis be authorized to employ two clerks in his office, and no more, one of which shall receive a compensation of one thousand, and the other of eight hundred dollars.

That the Superintendent of Indian Affairs south of the Missouri river be authorized to employ one clerk in his office who shall receive a compensation of one thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the salaries provided for in this act, and payable for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

, May 9, 1836.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, viz:

For pay of commissioned, warrant, and petty officers, and of seamen, two millions three hundred and eighteen thousand and seventeen dollars and sixteen cents.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars.

For provisions, seven hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.

For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million and sixty-five thousand dollars.

For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sixty-seven thousand dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, eighty-four thousand three hundred dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.