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The size of a congressional pension depends on the years of service and the average of the highest three years of their salary by law the starting amount of a member's retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of their final salary in 2006 the average annual pension for retired senators and representatives under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) was $60,972 while those who retired under FERS or in combination with CSRS was $35,952. . ! . 7.4 Reconstruction Finance 4.2.2 Congressional Research Service. South Branch nomenclature Main article: 1860 United States presidential election, The British sought out the United States Treasury in hopes of finding money or items of worth but they found only old records. They burned the United States Treasury and other public buildings the United States Department of War building was also burned However the War and State Department files had been removed so the books and records had been saved; the only records of the War Department lost were recommendations of appointments for the Army and letters received from seven years earlier the First U.S Patent Office Building was saved by the efforts of William Thornton the former Architect of the Capitol and then the Superintendent of Patents who gained British cooperation to preserve it.[A] "When the smoke cleared from the dreadful attack the Patent Office was the only Government building . left untouched" in Washington. Mexican territorial claims relinquished in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in white Although the President and military officers returned to Washington only a few days after the British left Congress did not return for three and half weeks the Thirteenth Congress officially convened on September 19 1814 at the Blodgett's Hotel one of the few surviving buildings large enough to hold all members the Blodgett's Hotel also housed the U S Patent Office Although the British had destroyed all public buildings the Blodgett's Hotel and U.S Patent Office was spared it was in this building that Congress met between September 1814 and December 1815 (when construction of the Old Brick Capitol was complete). .

Congress authorizes defense spending such as the purchase of the USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31), Washington D.C. Business Directory 1920 437,571 32.2% The treatment of slaves in the United States varied widely depending on conditions times and places the power relationships of slavery corrupted many whites who had authority over slaves with children showing their own cruelty Masters and overseers resorted to physical punishments to impose their wills Slaves were punished by whipping shackling hanging beating burning mutilation branding and imprisonment Punishment was most often meted out in response to disobedience or perceived infractions but sometimes abuse was carried out to re-assert the dominance of the master or overseer of the slave. Treatment was usually harsher on large plantations which were often managed by overseers and owned by absentee slaveholders conditions permitting abuses. . .