SURVEYORS GENERAL AND THEIR CLERKS.

Surveyors general and clerks northwest of the

For compensation of the Surveyor General northwest of the Ohio. Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Surveyor General of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars;

For compensation of the Surveyor General of Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Surveyor General of Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of the Surveyor General of Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars;

For clerks in the office of the Surveyor General, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, and for correcting, restoring, and retracing of surveys in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars;

Illinois and

Missouri.

Louisiana.

Florida.

Wisconsin

Clerks in office ral of Arkansas.

of surveyor gene

Secretary sign patents.

Commissioner of Public Build

ings.

For compensation of four assistants, drawkeepers, at the Po. Potomac bridge tomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, firewood

and repairs, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

MINT OF THE UNITED STATES.

At Philadelphia, viz:

For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, engraver, assistant assayer, and three clerks, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars;

For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars;

Mint of the United States, viz:

At Philadelphia.

Officers.

For incidental and contingent expenses, including materials, Contingencies. stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to avail

able funds on hand, three thousand eight hundred and forty

six dollars;

For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars.

At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz:

At Charlotte N. C.

For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, Officers, &c. six thousand dollars;

For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, ma- Contingencies. terials, stationery, repairs and wastage, two thousand one hun

dred dollars.

At Dahlonega,

Georgia.

Officers, &c.

Contingencies.

At N. Orleans.

At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz:

For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars;

For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage, two thousand five hundred dollars.

At New Orleans.

For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, and two clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars;

For wages of workmen, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars;

For machinery and machinist, fifteen hundred dollars;

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water-rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to available funds on hand, twenty-four thousand six hundred dollars.

Chief Justice and associates.

District judges.

Judges of Dis

GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORY OF OREGON.

For salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs,three judges, and secretary, ten thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation and mileage of members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand six hundred dollars.

JUDICIARY.

For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the eight associate judges, forty-one thousand dollars;

For salaries of the district judges, sixty-three thousand seven hundred dollars;

For salaries of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, trict of Columbia. the associate judges, the judges of the criminal and orphan's court, ten thousand seven hundred dollars;

Attorney Gencral and office.

Reporter of Supreme Court.

District judge

of Louisiana.

For salaries of the Attorney General, and the clerk and messenger in his office, six thousand one hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney General, five hundred dollars;

For the purchase of law books, and the necessary book-cases for said office, two thousand dollars;

For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars;

For additional compensation to the district judge of Louisiana for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six hundred dollars-being the deficiency of the appropriation for that year-and eight hundred dollars for

the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under the provisions of the first section of the act of seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four;

neys.

For compensation of the district attorneys-being two hun-District attor dred dollars each, as prescribed by law-seven thousand four hundred dollars;

For compensation of the marshals, six thonsand eight hun- Marshals, dred dollars;

Contingencies.

rela

tive to fees of

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty, and previous years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, four hundred and forty-three thousand dollars; Provided, That the clerks of the several circuit Proviso courts of the United States be, and the same are hereby, au- clerks of circuit thorized and allowed to retain to their own use of the fees and courts. emoluments of their office, a sum equal that allowed to the clerks of the district courts of the United States, by the "Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-two," approved May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two: Provided, That the proviso in the first section of an act entitled Proviso rela"An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic ex- taking and certipenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth day fying depositions. of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes," limiting the fees for taking and certifying the depositions of witnesses in civil causes, be, and the same is hereby, declared to extend and apply to all and every civil. cause between any parties whatsoever, and to all admiralty proceedings: Provided, however, That where the actual taking of any such deposition shall necessarily require a longer time. than three hours, the judge of the court in which said depositions is to be used is hereby authorized to certify an amount not exceeding eight dollars as a proper charge for taking such deposition, and the same shall thereupon be taxable as a part of the costs of the suit in proceeding;

tive to fees for

For additional compensation to the district judge of Louis- District judge iana, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hun- of Louisiana. dred and forty-eight, six hundred dollars, being the deficiency of the appropriation for that year, and eight hundred dollars for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under the provision of the first section of the act of seventeenth of June, eighteen-hundred and forty-four.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Miscellaneous.

for

President's house

For furnishing the President house, after the third day of Furniture March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in addition to such

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sum as may be realized from the sale of such articles furnished for the same by the United States, as may be decayed or out of repair, or unfit for use, and the President may direct to be sold, a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States;

For annual. repairs of the Capitol, and attendance on fornaces in the crypt, attendance on water closets, for public gardCapitol and ener and laborers, and cartage on the Capitol grounds; tools, grounds. wire, leather, nails, stakes, boxes, straw for grounds, and whitewashing, gravelling the walks in the Capitol grounds, manure and trees for ground; repairs of public stables, flagging, enclosures, &c.; keeping in order the iron pipes that convey water to the Capitol and public offices, and repairing the damage by freshets; brooms, brushes, wooden spades, shovelling snow; repairing abutments at Tiber creek, and building protecting walls; enclosing and improving the public grounds at the north, south, and west of the Capitol, and the open triangular spaces on Pennsylvania avenue, seventeen thousand dollars;

and grounds.

For annual repairs of President's house, gardener, and laPresident's house borers, gravelling the walks in President's square, manure, leather, nails, tools, &c.; and repairs of fence at Lafayette square, Fountain square, President's square, and President's garden, cartage, &c., three thousand five hundred dollars;

Lighting Penn

For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from Capitol square to the sylvania avenue. Treasury Department, and compensation for one lamplighter for the same, and for lighting Capitol and Capitol grounds, and President's house, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings; Corporation of To reimburse the corporation of Washington the cost of Washington for erecting the half of the City Hall building, granted to, and of the City Hall. Occupied by, the Government for the circuit, district, and crim

one-half the cost

&c.

Auxil❜ry guard.

Coast survey.

Charts of bay

inal courts of the United States, thirty thousand dollars, the same to be expended by the said corporation in finishing the exterior of the said building under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That rooms enough be set apart for the use of the United States in the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Treasury to be the judge as to the sufficiency of the rooms so provided;

For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to superintendent and assistants, one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars;

For printing two thousand charts of the bay of San Francisof San Francisco, co and river Sacramento, under resolution of the House of Rep resentatives of the fifteenth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, two hundred and sixty-dollars;

Charts of sur

Penn. avenue. For completing the centre strip of Pennsylvania avenue to fifteenth street west, one thousand two hundred dollars; For publishing an atlas of charts, of the surveys of the veys of north northern and northwestern lakes, made under various approern lakes. priations, under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars;

and northwest

For continuing the survey of the northern and northwestern Takes, ten thousand dollars;

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury, except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure;

Miscellaneous

claims.

Examiners of

cines.

For salaries of special examiners of drugs, medicines, and drugs and medichemicals, eight thousand dollars. Hereafter the salary of examiner of drugs, medicines, and chemicals, at New York, shall be two thousand dollars instead of his present salary of eighteen hundred dollars; and that he be allowed a clerk at one thousand dollars per annum;

For salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri, heretofore paid out of survey of public lands, five hundred dollars;

Recorder

of

land titles in Missouri.

Execution of

lief of settlers

For the expenses that may be incurred in the further execution of the act of first July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the act for the refor the relief of the bona fide settlers under the acts for the under the acts for armed occupation of Florida-the provisions of said act being the armed occucontinued and extended till the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, fifteen hundred dollars;

For salaries of assistant Treasurers of the United States, at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars;

pation of Florida.

Assis't Treasurers of the U. S.

Treasurers of the mint.

Clerks to agsistant Treas

For additional salaries of treasurers of the mint at Philadelphia, and branch mint at New Orleans, one thousand dollars; For salaries of ten clerks, authorized by the act of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the twelfth urers. of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, nine thousand dollars;

Chief clerk to

For salary of chief clerk to assistant Treasurer, New York, assistant Treas one thousand five hundred dollars;

urer at New York.

For contingent expenses under the act for the safe-keeping, collection, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, of Contingencies sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, fifteen thousand under Indepen dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum of fifteen thou- act. sand dollars shall be expended for clerical services;

For compensation to special agents to examine books, accounts, and money, on hand in the several depositories, under the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five thousand dollars;

dent Treasury

Compensation to special agents.

Insane paupers of District

For support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers of the District of Columbia, six thousand four hundred of Columbia. dollars;

For the support, care, and medical treatment of twelve transient pauper medical or surgical patients in the Washington Infirmary, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings: Provided, the physicians and surgeons of the aforesaid infirmary give bonds for the maintenance of twelve pauper transient patients during one year, if application be made for their reception, or

Pauper patients

in Washington

Infirmary