Clerks, and Draftsman, per act of 26th May, 1824 4,000

Provisional security of the Records and Buildings of the War

Incidental and contingent expenses, including oil, candles, fuel, labor, &c.

Clerks, per act of 20th April, 1818,
Do. per act of 26th May, 1824,

500

200

Submitted, $820

Messenger and Assistant,
Contingent expenses, viz: wood, stationery, making up
blanks, newspapers, &c. not including various expenses
of prosecutions, mail portmanteaus, locks, &c. these
being paid for out of the funds of the Department,

SURVEYING DEPARTMENT.

4,000

5,000

Surveyor General in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, 2,000
Clerks,

2,100

4,100

ESTIMATE-Continued.

10,800

MINT ESTABLISHMENT.

For compensation of Assistant Artists in the several de-
partments of the Mint, for extra clerk hire, and for
the wages of laborers employed in the different opera-
tions of the Mint,

Incidental and Contingent Expenses and Repairs.
For Machinery, repairs of furnaces and machinery,
repairs of buildings, carpenters, blacksmiths, and
millwrights' work, ground rent, and taxes and
rent of a lot and building adjoining the Mint,
For iron, steel, lead, antimony, nitric and sulphuric
acids, potashes, copper for alloy, castings, tallow,
oil, candles, and a variety of other necessary ar-
ticles,

·

3,100

725

1,720

230

For wood and coal for the steam engine and furnaces,
For stationery and fire wood for the different offices,
For meltingpots, crucibles, muffles, and ironmongery, 725
For wastage in coining gold and silver,

3,500

For the occasional employment of an Assistant En

graver,

600

10.600

21,400

$1,000

Extract from a letter accompanying the above estimates, from

the Director of the Mint.

Compared with the estimates of the past and previous
years, the present will be found considerably to exceed
them in amount. This arises from the necessity of re-
newing some expensive parts of the machinery, and
making provision in other respects to meet a heavier de-
mand for coinage than has heretofore been experienced.
That such a demand will occur during the ensuing year,
is probable from the recent increase of deposites, and the
opinion of those possessing the best means of informa-
tion on the subject."

GOVERNMENTS IN THE TERRITORIES OF
THE UNITED STATES.

5,482

Contingent expenses,

Compensation and travelling expenses to the members of

the Legislative Council, including the contingent expenses, printing the laws, &c.

13,632