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An Act appropriating the public revenue. 1839 6 (1839.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0539 and id is 1 raw text is: 6                                 Appropriations.
CnAN. 3.-An ACT appropriating the public revenue.
(Pu [od April 5, 13.]
General fiand.  1. Be it enacted by the gneral assembly, That the taxes and ar-
rears of taxes due prior to the first day of October last, and not
otherwise appropriated, and all other branches of revenue, and all
public moneys not otherwise appropriated by law, which shall come
into the public treasury prior to the first day of October next, and
the surplus of all appropriations heretofore made, shall constitute a
SpasCifi npptopri- general fund, and b appropriated as follows, to wit: To the ex-
nun,.      penses of the gener*d assemblyi eighty-five thousand dollars; to the
salaries and allowanses of the officers of civil government seventy-
eight thousand dollarki; to the commissioners of the revenue, and
clerks for examining commissioners' books, thirty-three thousand
dollars; to defray criminal charges, including the expense of guard-
ing jails, thirty-eight thousand dollars; to pay the interest on three
hundred and nineteen thousand dollars of the seven per cent. debt,
and on two certificates of six per cent, debt held by the literary
fund, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars
and thirty-four cents; to pay one year's interest on two hundrcd
and fifty thousand dollars of five per cent. stock, created by the act
passed on the twetieth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-
three, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; to contingent expenses
of courts, including allowances to clerks, attorneys, sheriflh and
jailors, twenty-seven thousand dollars; to the payment of pensions
allowed by law, two thousand dollars; as a civil contingent fund,
fifteen thousand dollars; to militia establishment, including services
of clerks of courts of enquiry, adjutants, sergeant maje'e, provost
martial and expresses, and for the purchase of colours, horns, drums,
fifes and the pay of musicians, where the fines of the regiment are
insufficient, and also including the pay of the adjutant general,
eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; to the internai charges of
the penitentiary house, eix thousand dollars; to the pimitentiary
officers' salaries, eight thousand and two hundred dollars; to the
transportation of convicts to the penitentiary, six thousand dollars;
to the public guard in the city of Richmond, twenty thousand dol-
lars; for slaves executed and transported, twelve thousand dollars;
to expense of representation to congress and state senate, five hun-
dred dollars; to public warehouses, including pay of superinten-
dents and repairn, one thousand two hundred dollars; to civil pro-
secutious, including clerks', sheriffs' and marshals' fees, two hun.
dred and fifty dollars; to the expenses of the guard at the Lexing.
ton arsenal, five thousand five hundred dollars; for the collection
and transportation of arms, five hundred dollars; as a military con-
tingent fund, including claims for services during the last war, five
hundred dollars; for the support of the Western lunatic hospital, a
sum equal to the balance remaining after deducting the value of
the clothing furnished the said hospital at the penitentiary during
the year ending the thirtieth of September last, from the sum of
seventeen thousand dollars; for the support of the lunatic hospital
at Williamsburg, a sum equal to the balance remaining after de-
ducting the value of the clothing furnished the said hospital at the
penitentiary during the year ending the thirtieth of September last,
from the sum of sixteen thousand dollars; to the manufactory of
arms, for rent of water from the James river company, one thou-
sand two hundred and eighty dollars; for the transportation and

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