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For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars.

For compensation to the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars.

For payment of the fourth and fifth volumes of the Documentary History, under contract with the Secretary of State, forty-eight thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars.

For compensation to the copying clerk hereby authorized to be employed in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, including arrearages since May 7th, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, at six hundred dollars a year, twelve hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-four cents.

For additional compensation to the assistant messenger of the General Land Office, so as to increase it to the rate of one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.

For additional compensation to the assistant messenger in the office of the Register of the Treasury, two hundred dollars.

For compensation for preparing a classified synoptical index of public documents in the office of the Secretary and Comptroller of the Treasury, and making examinations for information thereon to answer inquiries from the department and the different bureaus, from July thirteen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, to June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, eleven hundred and fifty-eight dollars.

For compensation of four clerks, hereby authorized to be appointed and employed for one year only, in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of four clerks, hereby authorized to be appointed and employed for one year only, in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand six hundred dollars.

For additional compensation to the watchmen of the War Department, for services rendered by day under the regulations of the department, three hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For additional compensation to the watchmen of the Navy Department, for services rendered by day under the regulations of the Department, two hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-five cents.

For the purchase of the building in the city of Philadelphia, formerly the Bank of the United States, for a custom-house for the port of Philadelphia, in addition to the proceeds of sale of the present custom-house, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the whole cost shall not exceed two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That whenever, hereafter, in submitting to Congress the annual estimates from the several Executive departments of the Government, it shall be found that the usual items of such estimates vary materially in amount from the appropriation ordinarily asked for the object named, and especially from the appropriation granted for the same objects for the year next preceding, and whenever new items not heretofore usual shall be introduced into such estimates for any year, the estimates shall be accompanied by minute and full explanations from the head of the appropriate department, of all such variations and new items, setting forth the reasons and grounds upon which the amounts are required, and the different items added: and whenever any such estimate, whether annual or special, shall ask an appropriation for any new specific expenditure, such as the construction of a fort, the erection of a custom-house, or other public building, or the construction of any other public work requiring a plan before the building or work can be properly completed, every such estimate shall be accompanied by a full plan and detailed estimates of the cost of the whole work; and all subsequent estimates for every such work shall give the original estimated cost, the aggregate amount theretofore appropriated for the same, and the amount actually expended thereupon, as well as