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Congress appropriated $ 30, 000 in 1843 for construction of an experimental telegraph line between Washington, D. C., and Baltimore along the right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
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This warm relationship came to an abrupt end in June of 1834 when the National Congress appropriated $3,000 for compiling and printing the laws of Arkansas Territory, and, taking note of the recent wave of corruption in the legislature, left it to the governor to award the contract.
Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.
The Federal Government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890 and Congress appropriated $ 75, 000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island.
After a drought had ruined crops in several Texas counties, Congress appropriated $ 10, 000 to purchase seed grain for farmers there.
In 1993, Congress appropriated no funds for the Johnston Atoll " Safeguard C " mission, bringing it to an end.
U. S. relations with Liberia date back to 1819 when the US Congress appropriated $ 100, 000 for the establishment of Liberia.
Some Presidents have claimed the authority under this clause to impound money appropriated by Congress.
Section 4 confirmed the legitimacy of all United States public debt appropriated by the Congress.
It was not until 1857 that Congress appropriated money ($ 2, 500 ) for the hiring of one clerk.
The major plans for the " Grand Tour " were dramatically scaled back because of lack of money appropriated by Congress.
Funds for this expensive system were appropriated by Congress in 1926, and in 1929, seven years after the dedication, the statue was properly lighted.
Via the Act of September 30, 1850, Congress appropriated funds to allow the President to appoint three Commissioners, O. M. Wozencraft, Redick McKee and George W. Barbour, to study the California situation and "... negotiate treaties with the various Indian tribes of California.
Congress eventually appropriated $ 1, 000 for those purposes on July 7, 1884.
Congress appropriated to the Department of Education an annual budget of $ 14. 2 billion and 17, 000 employees when establishing the Department of Education.
Hoping to enforce treaties and protect overseas holdings, the U. S. Congress appropriated funds to build American sea power.
On February 11, 1876, Congress appropriated US $ 1. 5 million in a loan.
After assisting Congress in their earliest questions regarding the safety of the chemical preservatives then being employed in foods, Wiley was appropriated $ 5, 000 in 1902 to study the effects of a diet consisting in part of the various preservatives on human volunteers.
As a result of the growth, the US Congress appropriated funds for a lighthouse on Seahorse Key in 1850.
That same year, Congress appropriated money to build the jetty.
In 1864, the U. S. Congress appropriated money to build a U. S. mint in The Dalles that was to use gold from Canyon City for coinage.
These debts had been incurred mostly when Arthur St. Clair signed his bond for Indian Treaties as well as other expenses in the Northwest Territory for which Congress authorized the funds, but never appropriated the money, leaving St. Clair without reimbursement.
It is said that Arthur told his children to continue to petition the government for their inheritance, and in 1857 Congress appropriated $ 30, 000 ( which was a fraction of what was due ) to the Arthur St. Clair Memorial, to be divided to the six branches of the family, with each branch receiving $ 5, 000.
By 1890, Hart's Mill had outlived its usefulness, and Congress appropriated $ 150, 000 for construction of a military installation on the mesa approximately east of El Paso's 1890 city limits.
By 2000, Congress had appropriated $ 20 million for goat and sheep producers.
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* 1974 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress places a $ 1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
* 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $ 500, 000.
* 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $ 5, 000 USD to purchase " such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress ".
On the morning of March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman appeared before Congress to ask for $ 400 million of aid to Greece and Turkey.
* 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US $ 150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
In June 1992, the General Accounting Office released a report that members of Congress had requested two years earlier estimating the costs associated with the ban on gays and lesbians in the military at $ 27 million annually.
Photographer Stephen Wilkes ' series Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom ( 2006 ) captured the abandoned south side of Ellis Island and helped raise $ 6 million in funding from the United States Congress towards restoration of that area.
The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $ 25, 000 a year — a large sum in 1789.
By 1995, a billion cubic meters of the gas had been collected and the reserve was US $ 1. 4 billion in debt, prompting the Congress of the United States in 1996 to phase out the reserve.
After the nephew died without heirs in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest, which amounted to about US $ 500, 000 ($ 10, 100, 997 in 2008 U. S. dollars after inflation ).
Congress passed the Rivers and Harbors Bill in 1846 to provide $ 500, 000 to improve rivers and harbors, but Polk vetoed the bill.
Although Kemp coaxed Bush to support a $ 4 billion housing program that encouraged public housing tenants to buy their own apartments, the Democratic Congress allocated only $ 361 million to the plan.
During 1995-1997, the Library of Congress received $ 2 million in appropriations to deacidify 72, 000 books using the Bookkeeper commercial method and evaluate alternative methods.
Truman cut this to $ 17 billion in the bill he put to Congress.
Soon after, a bill granting an initial $ 5 billion passed Congress with strong bipartisan support.
The Congress would eventually allocate $ 12. 4 billion in aid over the four years of the plan.
* 1970 – U. S. President Richard Nixon asks the U. S. Congress for $ 155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
By 1815, Jefferson's library included 6, 487 books, which he sold to the Library of Congress for $ 23, 950 to replace the smaller collection destroyed in the War of 1812.
In the spring of 1852, he traveled in to Washington, DC in a failed attempt to prevail upon the Congress to rescind an order that he, in his capacity as quartermaster, reimburse the military $ 1000 in losses incurred on his watch, for which he bore no personal guilt.
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