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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.

. And be it further enacted, That so much of the sixth section of the act entitled “,” 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by the act, shall be continued until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be and is hereby repealed; and the various provisions of the said act concerning the said several offices and employments thereby legalized are hereby re-enacted, and declared to be in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.

. 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:

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;

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;

For arrearages of contingent expenses in the office of the Adjutant General, five hundred dollars;

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;

For arrears of extra clerk hire in the bureau of Provisions and clothing, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars;

For three large book-cases, made for the use of the Executive office Florida Territory, one hundred and twenty dollars;

For arrearages of former sessions of the Legislative Council of Florida, four hundred dollars;

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