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Thirty-second Congress, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty cents; to pay John Taliaferro per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John P. Hungerford during the Twelfth Congress, two hundred and twentytwo dollars.

For salary of an assistant dragoman and secretary to the legation to Turkey, fifteen hundred dollars: Provided, That the said office be discontinued on and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

For clerk hire at the legation of the United States at London for one year, eight hundred dollars.

For relief of such of the Cuba prisoners, not citizens of the United States, as were pardoned by the Queen of Spain and sent out of her dominions by the United States Minister at Madrid and the American Consul at Gibraltar, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents.

Laws of the United States.

For sea-wall at Buffalo creek, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and five cents.

For harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, forty-two dollars and sixty-four cents.

For harbor at Milwaukie, Wisconsin one hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-four cents. For repairs, roads, &c., for armies in the field, five thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and five cents.

For surveys with armies in the field, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty cents. For survey from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, five thousand dollars.

For arrearages of pay due Florida militia under General Read, seven thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-three cents.

For traveling allowance to volunteers, one hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and four dollars and forty-four cents.

For pay of Louisiana and Texas volunteers,

For extra clerk hire and copying in the Depart-eighteen thousand and sixty dollars and forty-nine ment of State, two thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, lights, and stationery for the superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For traveling expenses of superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon, and agents therein, two thousand dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the Territory of Utah, twelve thousand dollars.

For payment of the second of ten installments in provisions, merchandise, etc., and the transportation of the same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of seventeenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That the same shall not be paid until the said tribes of Indians shall have assented to the amendments of the Senate of the United States to the above recited treaty.

For the service of the Post Office Department, a sum not exceeding five hundred and five thou sand dollars, to supply a deficiency in the revenues of said department, to meet the appropriations therefor for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

For the reappropriation of the following sums, carried to the surplus fund per warrant number seven, dated twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the provisions of the tenth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," approved thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to be applied to the payment of all expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the following heads, viz:

For military stations on route to Oregon, three thousand two hundred and three dollars.

For secret service money in Mexico, nineteen thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents.

For Mexican hostilities, ten thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and six cents.

For contingencies of the army, four thousand eight hundredand four dollars and seventy-fivec ents.

For transportation, supplies, etc., in Quartermaster's Department, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents.

For pay of Florida militia, on account of Quartermaster's Department, four thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eight cents.

For repressing Seminole hostilities, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-three cents. For arrearages prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventeen cents.

cents.

For pay of ten regiments of regular troops, eight thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.

To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty three, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For the repair of damages to and the improvement of Lafayette square, one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For compensation of the United States assayer at San Francisco, California, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For temporary clerk hire in the office of the Auditor of the Post Office Department, one thousand dollars.

For arrears of compensation due A. J. Downing for services as rural architect at the time of his death, six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For laying out and graveling the roads and walks, purchasing manure and trees, and seeding down in grass the square south of the President's House, twelve thousand dollars; and for paying any balance which may be due for work done and performed.

For providing proper foundations for the custom-house at San Francisco, authorized by the

For pay of volunteers under resolution of the eighth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, seven thousand one hundred and fifty-sixth section of the act entitled “An act to supply three dollars and seventeen cents.

For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and ninetyeight dollars and sixty-nine cents.

For pay of volunteers, sixty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventythree cents.

For three months'extra pay, two hundred thousand dollars.

For services of private physicians, one hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For pay of Florida militia on account of subsistence, one thousand and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents.

For subsistence of ten regiments of regular troops, six hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-six cents.

deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two," and in addition to the sum of forty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartermaster Department, ten thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For deficiency in the fund for purchasing lightnouse supplies, six thousand two hundred dollars.

For the reappropriation of seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents, being a portion of the amount heretofore appropriated for the erection of a custom-house at Eastport, Maine, and carried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth of June,

For the payment of such sums as may be due to individuals under the act of March third, eigh-eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and that the unteen hundred and fifteen, for property destroyed by burning of the navy-yard in the city of Washington, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, the amount to be ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the purpose of completing the pedestal of the Equestrian Statue of Andrew Jackson, in Lafayette square, and the erection of a suitable iron railing around the same, three thousand dollars.

For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors appointed under the act approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other expenses incurred by them, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and fifty

cents.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office Building, the sum of forty-four thousand dollars.

For deficiency in the appropriation heretofore made to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, three hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty cents, to enable said bureau to pay to Loriston Averill an account due him not exceeding that

sum.

For compensation of the acting secretary of the Territory of Utah, from the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the twenty-sixth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and

Sixteen cents.

To pay James S. Buckley, for services as keeper For arrearages of expenses of Indian service in of the navy-yard Eastern Branch bridge, from Texas, one thousand and fifteen dollars and sixty-fourth December, eighteen hundred and fortyeight cents.

For subsistence of eleven regiments of volunteers, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and eight

cents.

For improvement of the Genesee river, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and ten cents.

For removing obstructions at harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, one hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents.

eight, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty, at four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, seven hundred and eight dollars.

For payment of arrearages due to David Finch, as superintendent of the painting the exterior walls of the Patent Office and Treasury Buildings, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. For repairs of vessels employed in the coast survey, ten thousand dollars.

expended balance of the appropriation by the act of June nineteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, "for payment of the Georgia militia," &c., which has passed by subsequent acts into the surplus fund, be and the same is hereby reappropriated.

For balance due Levi Johnson for the site for marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, three thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.

For payment of salaries of deputy surveyors at Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, two thousand five hundred dollars; and the salary of said officers shall be two thousand dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

To pay Walter Burges (late district attorney of the State of Rhode Island) the sum of five hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty cents, being in full for his services and money paid out in defending Captain Simonds, of the brig Casket, by order of John Y. Mason, late Secretary of the Navy.

For additional allowance to E. S. Norris, the sum of two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-four cents; and to George R. Stuntz, the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents, additional allowance made to them as deputy surveyors under the surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa, and in accordance with the recommendations and estimates of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior, dated respectively on the eleventh and fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

For payment of the amount due Thomas W. Lane on three several drafts drawn in his favor

by G. W. Barbour, Indian agent in California, upon R. McKee, disbursing agent for transportation, supplies, and labor furnished said agent upon special contract while treating with the Indians in said State, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the services of a striker in the shop of the Delaware Indians, from August first, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and for the ser

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vices of a smith and striker in the shop of the Senecas and Shawnees of Lewistown, from seventeenth November, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, to fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, deducting all amounts paid for such service during said period, and for balance for services on Seneca milldam, as estimated for by the proper department, two thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars.

For compensation of five members of the House of Representatives appointed a committee of investigation upon all facts touching the connection of Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, with the Gardiner claim, and authorized to sit during the recess between the first and second session of the present Congress, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the said members respectively eight dollars per day for the period they were detained at Washington in discharge of the duties of their appointment.

Laws of the United States.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter no books shall be distributed to members of Congress except such as are ordered to be printed, as public documents, by the Congress of which they are members: Provided, That this section shall not prohibit or interfere with the distribution to members who have heretofore received books under an order of either House, of the remaining volumes or parts, so as to complete the sets of which they have received part.

For paying expenses of David Dale Owen's geological report, from Philadelphia to Washington, for one hundred and seventeen boxes, and porterage, ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents; for insurance, ninety dollars; for freight on one hundred and seventeen boxes, one hundred and forty-six dollars; total, three hundred and thirtyfive dollars and forty-five cents.

dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime," shall take effect and be in full force from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, anything therein to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That in the settlement of his accounts the late Collector of the port of San Francisco, in the State of California, be allowed credit for five thousand dollars advanced to J. Neely Johnson for taking the seventh census. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXVI-An Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftyfour, namely:

Legislative.

fifty-three, approved thirty-first August, eighteen
hundred and fifty-two, as provides that "no por-
tions of the moneys appropriated by this act shall
be applied to the payment of any expenses in-
curred prior to the first day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two," be, and the same is
hereby repealed, so far as it relates to the appropri-hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred
ation for light-houses contained in said act, except and ninety-nine dollars and twenty cents.
as to the light-houses which have been contracted
for to be erected upon the Pacific coast.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year To enable the Clerk of the House of Representa-ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and tives to pay Peter Force and John C. Rives for one hundred and two copies of the third volume of the fifth series of the "American Archives," or Documentary History of the United States, for the new members of the House of the Twentysixth Congress; one hundred and seventeen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-seventh Congress; one hundred copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-eighth Congress; one hundred and one copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-ninth Congress; one hundred and sixteen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirtieth Congress; one hundred and thirty-four copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-first Congress; and one hundred and thirty copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-second Congress; in all eight hundred volumes, at sixteen dollars fortyfive cents and six mills per volume, thirteen thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty

'cents.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for reporting and publishing eight hundred and fifty columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the second session of the thirty-second Congress in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars; and to enable the said John C. Rives to pay the reporters of this House for this session the sum of seven dollars per column instead of four for the reports of the Congressional Globe, the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary; and the Clerk of this House be authorized to pay the same to said Rives for that purpose.

And that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to John McC. Reynolds the sum of one thousand dollars for expenses incurred by him in removing materials for the construction of a light-house in the State of Michigan, the department having changed the site after said materials were delivered at the site first selected.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the offi cers appointed to assist the superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition in Chili, directed by the act of the third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be allowed an increased compensation in a rateable proportion, according to pay and rank, at the time of departure from the United States, to the allowance made to the said superintendent by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the time
for receiving bids under the act of third of July,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the
erection of a mint in California, be extended to the
first of April, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-three, and that the sum of three hundred
thousand dollars appropriated by said act, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, shall be ap-

a mint in California, and not to the purchase of
any building for that purpose.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay a balance due for reporting and pub-plied only to the erection and putting in operation lishing the proceedings of the House during the first session of the thirty-second Congress, being sixty-five columns and one line, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per column, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the second session of the Thirty-second Congress for each member and delegate of the House, seventeen thousand and sixty-four dollars; and for binding the same, being five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight volumes, in strong and substantial half-binding, with Russia backs and corners, at a rate not exceeding sixty cents per volume, three thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eighty cents. For this amount of money appropriated, and goods purchased under treaty stipulations for the Lake Chippewa Indians, lately destroyed by fire at the agency of said Indians, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized to purchase said goods in open market, without the usual notice in such cases required by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the seventh section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," approved August thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That when gold or silver shall be cast into bars or ingots or formed into disks at the mint of the United States, or any of the branches thereof, or at any assay office of the United States, the charge for refining, casting, or forming said bars, ingots, or disks shall be equal to but not exceed the actual cost of the operation, including labor, wastage, use of machinery, materials, etc., to be regulated from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the sizes and devices of the new silver coin, authorized by an act entitled "An act amendatory of existing laws relative to the half dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime," passed at the present session; and that, to procure such devices, as also the models, moulds, and matrices or original dies for the coins, disks, or ingots authorized by said act, the director of the mint is empowered, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to engage teinporarily for that purpose the services of one or more artists, distinguished in their respective departments, who shall be paid for such services from the contingent appropriation for the mint. And that hereafter the three cent coin now authorized by law shall be made of the weight of three-fiftieths of the weight of the half dollar, as provided in the said act, and the same standard of fineness. And the said act entitled "An act amendatory of existing laws relative to the half

For compensation and mileage of Senators, one

For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives, and delegates from Territories, six hundred and fifty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty

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For Congressional Globe and binding the same, eight thousand dollars.

For reporting proceedings, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerks to committees and President pro tempore, draughtsman, messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses and carry-alls; fifty-five thousand dollars; and to enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of said House of March first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, directing him to pay the usual extra compensation to the employees in and about the Capitol, a sum sufficient for that purpose is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and is hereby added to the contingent fund of said House.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the contingent expenses of the Senate, for lithographing and engraving, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twenty-four thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and defray the expenses of select committees of investigation appointed by the Senate, eighteen thousand dollars.

For the expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:

For furniture, carpeting, and repairs, six thousand dollars.

For twenty-one messengers, twenty-one thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars.

For the messenger who has charge of the Hall of the House of Representatives, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For two messengers in clerk's office, three thousand dollars.

For horses and carriages, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars.

For saddle-horses, six hundred dollars. For fuel, oil, and candles, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For newspapers for members, ten thousand dollars.

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For capitol police, three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.

For engraving and lithographing, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For binding documents, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That of all the documents, the printing of additional copies of which may be ordered by either House of Congress, and the size of which shall not be less than two hundred and fifty pages, such additional copies shall be bound in such manner as may be directed by the respective committees on printing of each House, the cost of which shall not exceed twelve and a half cents per volume; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the Public Printing to supervise the binding of the public documents, to receive said binding when executed, and see that the same is done in a neat and workmanlike manner, according to such sample as may be preserved in his office, and in proper time; and before the binder shall receive pay for the same, he shall produce the certificate of the said superintendent that his work has been executed as above required, and has been accepted by him. And it shall also be the duty of the said superintendent to receive and preserve in his office samples of paper upon which maps, charts, diagrams, plats, or other engravings may be contracted to be furnished, and to receive from the contractor said maps, charts, diagrams, plats, or other engravings, and compare the paper upon which they may be printed with the samples so preserved, and he shall not receive any map, chart, diagram, plat, or other engraving which may not be printed on paper equal to the samples so preserved, or which may not be executed in a proper manner, and within the time specified in the contract, (unless for special reasons the superintendent may extend the time,) and which may not be in the quantity called for thereby; and said contractor shall not receive pay for the same, except upon the certificate of the superintendent that the foregoing requisites have been complied with.

For folding, ten thousand dollars.

For laborers, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For pages, four thousand dollars.
For stationery, twenty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Library of Congress.

For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger, four thousand five hun

dred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said library, one thousand dollars.

For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars.

For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars.

For the completion of the publication of the works of the Exploring Expedition in pursuance of contracts already made, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall finish the publication.

For the preparation and publication of a general catalogue of the Library of Congress, to be made in such manner as the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress may direct, three thousand dollars.

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For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.

For the Incidental and Contingent expenses of said Department.

For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the United States and Territories and in the city of Washington, sixteen thousand twenty-five dollars.

For proof-reading, packing, and distributing laws and documents, including cases, labor, and transportation, ten thousand dollars.

For the payment of the expenses attending upon the funeral obsequies of the late Secretary of State, one thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents.

Laws of the United States.

For stationery, blank-books, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars. For books and maps, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and seventy cents.

For newspapers, two hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
Northeast Executive Building.

For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northeast executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, three thousand three hundred dollars.

Treasury Department.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-two thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

In the office of the First Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, furniture, labor, and miscellaneous items, two thousand and forty dollars.

In the office of the Second Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, including pay for the National Intelligencer and the Union, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, seven hundred dollars.

For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.

In the office of the First Auditor:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, labor, and cases for records and official papers, one thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, including subscription for the Union and National Intelligencer, to be filed for the use of the office, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Second Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, office furniture, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and the use of the office, and miscellaneous items, one

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty-eighty-four cents. four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-three thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messengers, and assistant messenger in his office, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of temporary clerks, employed in the office of the Third Auditor in making

out certificates of service from the muster-rolls of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the several Indian wars, and on arrearages of pay, thirty-one thousand one hundred dollars: Provided, That no clerk shall receive more than at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum under this act, except whose salary shall be sixteen hundred dollars per annum, and four whose compensation shall be four dollars per day.

one,

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; the salary of the assistant messenger per act of third of March, eighteen hundred and fortynine, being hereby increased to the sum of three hundred dollars per annum.

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eleven thousand four hundred dollars.

In the office of the Third Auditor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, including carpeting, two newspapers-the Union and Intelligencer-to be filed, labor and miscellaneous items, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-nine cents.

For expenses of arranging document rooms and preserving files and papers, one thousand dollars. For contingencies incident to the bounty land service, and arrearages, one thousand four hundred dollars.

In the office of the Fourth Auditor: For stationery, books, and binding, six hundred dollars.

For labor, one hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.

In the office of the Fifth Auditor: For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For hire of laborers, one hundred and seventyfive dollars.

For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred dollars.

In the office of the Treasurer:

miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and and sixty-two dollars.

In the office of the Register:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, including one thousand five hundred dollars for ruling and full binding twenty-three books for re

For compensation of the Treasurer of the Uni-cording the collectors' quarterly abstracts of the ted States, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, in his office, thirty thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messengers in his office, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks and messenger in his office,

sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-House Board, six thousand four hundred dollars.

Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.

In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For labor, blank books, stationery, sealing ships' registers, translating foreign languages, advertising, and extra clerk hire for preparing and collecting information to be laid before Congress

commerce and navigation, and blank abstracts for dollars. their use, two thousand nine hundred and forty-six

For labor and other miscellaneous items, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the First and Fifth Auditors, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, two thousand dollars. For arranging and binding canceled marine papers, returned by the collectors of the customs, one thousand dollars.

In the office of the Solicitor: labor, nine hundred dollars. For blank books, binding, stationery, and for

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. For statutes and reports, including those of the several States, one thousand dollars.

In the office of the Commissioner of Customs: For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Light-House Board.

For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and fifty dollars.

Southeast Executive Building.

said clerks to be employed only during the session of Congress, or when indispensably necessary to enable the Department to answer some call made by either House of Congress at one session to be answered at another; and no such extra clerk shall receive more than three dollars For compensation of the superintendent and thirty-three and one third cents per day for the eight watchmen of the southeast executive buildtime actually and necessarily employed-eighting, four thousand five hundred dollars. thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous items, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for labor, fuel and lights, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.

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For rent of additional buildings, in part occupied by the Secretary of the Interior, and part by the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For fuel, watching, and miscellaneous items for the same, four thousand dollars.

Department of the Interior.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, and the clerks, messengers, and laborers in his office, twenty-four thousand seven hundred dollars.

Laws of the United States.

War Department.

For compensation of the Secretary of War and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, eighteen thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant General, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster General, twelve For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughts- thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That it man, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, shall be the duty of the Quartermaster General to assistant messengers, and packers in his office, have prepared in his office, out of the above approninety-eight thousand eight hundred and six dol-priation, books of transfer for the use of the Third lars. Auditor's office.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-six thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks and messengers in his office, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to temporary clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, forty-two thousand and forty-six dollars and sixtysix cents: Provided, That no clerk shall receive more than at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per day, except two, whose compensation shall be twelve hundred dollars per

annum.

Contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior.

In the office of the Secretary of the Interior: For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For library, books, and maps, one thousand dollars.

In General Land Office:

For compensation of laborers, two thousand dollars.

For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patent and other records, tractbooks, blank books, for the district land offices; binding plats, field-notes, &c.; stationery, office furniture, and repairs of same, and miscellaneous items, thirty-six thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars: Provided, That whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands in any United States land district shall be as much as one third of the whole amount of revenue collected in such district, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to discontinue the land office in such district, and to annex the said district to some other adjoining land district or districts of the United States.

For parchment, maps, records, letter and other records, required under the swamp land act of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; military bounty acts of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twentysecond of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants, per act of thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; printing plate and engraving scrip, authorized to be issued by act of thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, including form, &c., under said act, and other miscellaneous expenses, thirty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.

In the office of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand dollars.

For labor, two hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions:
For stationery, three thousand dollars.
For binding books, one thousand dollars.

For furniture, five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of clothing and equipage, in Philadelphia, four thousand and forty dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, nine thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence seven thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer, five thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon General, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, four thousand nine hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of the War Department. In the office of the Secretary of War: For blank books, stationery, and labor, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty

dollars.

For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars.

For extra clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars.

In the office of the Commanding General: For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Adjutant General: For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, including office furniture, five hundred dollars.

In the office of the Quartermaster General, including the office at Philadelphia: For blank books, binding, and stationery, seven hundred dollars.

For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars.
For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars.
For office rent at Philadelphia, five hundred dol-
lars.

In the office of the Commissary General of
Subsistence:

For blank books, binding, stationery, advertising, and labor, two thousand nine hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.

In the office of the Chief Engineer: For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, including subscription to two daily Washington newspapers, four hundred dollars.

In the office of the Surgeon General:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars.

In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance: For blank books, binding, and stationery, four

For engraving bounty land warrants, four thou- | hundred dollars. sand five hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of east wing of Patent
Office Building, viz:

For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses, two thousand two hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars.

In the Bureau of Topograpical Engineers:" For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, twelve hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.

Northwest Executive Building.

For compensation of the superintendent, and four watchmen, of the Northwest Executive Building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars.

Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets.

For rent of house on north west corner of F and Seventeenth streets, and warming all the rooms in it, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For compensation of superintendent, and four watchmen, of the building corner of F and Seventeenth streets, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building: For miscellaneous items, including labor, one thousand four hundred dollars.

Navy Department.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the clerks, draughtsinan, and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That the chief of the Bureau be a " skillful naval constructor," as required by the act approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fortytwo, instead of a captain in the Navy.

For compensation of the chief naval constructor, and the engineer-in-chief, six thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his office, nine thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, Navy-Yards and Docks, and of the civil engineer,

twelve thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, seven thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the assistant to chief, clerks, and messenger in his office, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.

Contingencies of the Navy Department. For contingencies of the Navy Department, and all the bureaus connected therewith, viz: For blank books, binding, stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, newspapers and periodicals, incidental and miscellaneous items, six thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.

Southwest Executive Building.

For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the south west executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For fuel and lights, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Post Office Department.

For compensation of the Postmaster General, three Assistant Postmasters General, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department, one hundred and eight thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the superintendent of the Post Office building, two hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses of the Post Office Department. For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel for the General Post Office building, including the Auditor's office, oil, gas, and candles, labor, day watchman, and for miscellaneous expenses, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For repairs of the General Post Office building, for office furniture, glazing, whitewashing, and for keeping the fire-places and furnaces in order, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Auditor of the Post Office Department: For compensation of the Auditor of the Post

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Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, one hundred and three thousand two hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office, viz: For labor, three thousand and eighty dollars. For stationery, two thousand three hundred dollars.

For blank books, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For binding and ruling, six hundred and twenty dollars.

For miscellaneous items, viz:

Laws of the United States.

For payment of the expenses of the board of commissioners to prepare and compile a code of laws for the better government of the Territory of New Mexico, authorized by the act of the Legislative Assembly approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the sum of eighteen hundred and fifty-five dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars; and it is hereby provided that the appropriation made by the act approved thirteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and

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Surveyors General and their Clerks. For compensation of the surveyor general northwest of the 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 file-boards, repairs, cases, and desks, for For compensation of the surveyor general of safe-keeping of paper, new furniture, lights, wash-fifty, for public buildings for the Territory of New Mexico," is continued and made applicable Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, ing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic to the object originally contemplated, notwith-eight thousand three hundred dollars. dispatches, stoves, &c., one thousand five hundred standing the provisions of the tenth section of the dollars. act of August thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

Mint of the United States at Philadelphia. For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and six clerks, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars.

For wages of workmen, seventy-two thousand dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the mint to cause to be paid annually into the Treas ury of the United States the profits of the mint, and to present a quarterly account of the expenditures of the mint to the Secretary of the Treas

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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 wastage, in addition to other available funds, one thousand four hundred dollars.

At New Orleans, Louisiana.

For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter, and refiner, and clerks, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.

For wages of workmen, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds, sixty-eight thousand dollars.

Government in the Territories.

TERRITORY OF OREGON.

For salaries of governor, 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 the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars.

TERRITORY OF MINNESOTA.

For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars.

TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.

For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.

TERRITORY OF UTAH.

For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.

For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars.

To enable the President to cause a site to be purchased and a suitable building to be erected for a penitentiary in each of the Territories of Utah and New Mexico, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That the entire cost of the site and the completion of said buildings shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated.

Judiciary.

For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and eight Associate Judges, forty-one thousand dollars.

For salaries of the district judges, seventy thousand seven hundred dollars.

For salaries of the chief judge of the District of Columbia, the assistant judges, and the judges of the criminal court and the orphans' court, eleven ta usard seven hundred dollars.

For salaries of the Attorney General, and the clerks and messengers in his office, ten thousand three hundred dollars.

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

For salary of the reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of the district attorneys, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the marshals, seven thousand four hundred dollars.

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-four, and previous years, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, six hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred dollars.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to examine the claim presented by the county of Lee, in the State of Iowa, for the expenses of the United States district court, which were paid by said county prior to the admission of said State into the Union; and if, upon such examination, he is satisfied that prior to said time the said county has paid money which, in accordance with the instructions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, dated December nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-three, should have been paid by the marshal of the United States for said Territory, he is directed to audit and allow the same: Provided, That the amount thus allowed shall not exceed the sum of fourteen thousand four hundred dollars, which is hereby appropriated for that purpose, out of any money in the Treasury.

To aid the directors of the Washington Infirmary to enlarge their accommodations for the benefit of sick transient paupers, twenty thousand dollars.

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For compensation of the surveyor general of Arkansas, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of the surveyor general of Oregon, and the clerks in his office, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the surveyor general of California, and the clerks in his office, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerks in the office of the surveyors general, including the offices in Oregon and California, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and to be employed in transcribing field-notes of surveys for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government, forty thousand dollars.

Light-House Establishment.

For supplying light-houses, containing three thousand two hundred and seventy-two lamps, with oil, lamp-glasses, wicks, buff-skin, polishing powder, whiting, and other cleaning materials; transportation, and other necessary expenses on the same; repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and instructions; notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, and of lights, &c., one hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-eight cents.

For supplying forty-nine light-houses, to contain five hundred and sixty-one lamps, with oil, &c., &c., as above, authorized by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, thirty thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-four cents.

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of three hundred and forty-nine light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars.

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of forty-nine light-houses and buildings connected therewith, provided for by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-one cents.

For salaries of three hundred and twenty-one light-house keepers, and twenty-four assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, one hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and thirtythree cents.

For salaries of forty-nine keepers, and six as. sistants, for the light-houses authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at the average legal rate per annum for each keeper, twenty-two thousand dollars.

For salaries of forty-two keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand dollars.

For salaries of five keepers of light-vessels, authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies for forty-two light-vessels, one hundred and three thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-two cents.

For seamen's wages, supplies, and incidental expenses for five light-vessels, authorized by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred

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