SESS. Commonwealth, north of aid way or street to connect street with the west end of e village of Chelsea: Providway can, in the opinion of reasury, be granted without c interests; and if hereafter continued, the right hereby the United States. 2, 1853. 'n Act providing for adminisfice to William R. King, Vice United States of America. Senate and House of RepreStates of America in Congress iam L. Sharkey, who was he United States at Havana, authorized to administer at place in the island of Cuba, Laws of the United States. offices and receivers of public moneys, eight thou- For expenses of depositing public moneys, by For incidental expenses of the several land offices, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For the extension of the United States Capitol, , Vice President elect of the zed States. urther enacted, by the authority idge or magistrate in the Unia may administer the oath o e Vice President elect on the t, or on some day subsequent fficer before whom the same by required to certify the ad said oath as is hereinbefore 2, 1853. For compensation of three men at one dollar per day each for one year, to finish and keep in order Lafayette square, one thousand and ninety five dollars. fence, five thousand one hundred dollars. For completing the work of the seventh census, For stationery, printing blank forms and regulations, furniture, binding books, and miscellaneous items in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, ten thousand dollars. expended under the direction of the President of the United States. For the compensation of Senators for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in addition to appropriations heretofore made, and including that for the special session commencing fourth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twenty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For books, two thousand three hundred dollars. For Congressional Globe, and binding the same, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars. For messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carry-alls, ten thousand dollars. For clerks of President of the Senate and committees, draughtsman, fireman in crypt, and other miscellaneous items, thirty-six thousand six hundred dollars. For the printing of the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars. For the printing of the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, twenty-five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. For the printing of the Senate for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, thirtyseven thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars. For the printing of the House of Representatives for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, fifty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars; the same having been executed and to be executed by the public printer under the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for executing the public printing and estabFor engraving for fifty-one thousand five hun-ishing the prices thereof, and for other purposes,' dred and twenty copies of the mechanical part of approved August twenty-six, eighteen hundred the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and land fifty-two. fifty-one-two, (1851-'2,) five hundred and eightyfive dollars. For contingent expenses of the House of lars. For horses and carriages, one thousand one hun. dollars. To pay for the Congressional Globe and Ap- To enable the Clerk of the House of Represent- four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of five clerks, authorized to be appointed and employed by the Postmaster General, under the thirteenth section of the act of thirty-first August, eighteen.hundred and fiftytwo, four thousand five hundred and four dollars and ninety cents. For compensation to an assistant day watchman of the General Post Office, from the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty two, until the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, four hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the payment of the amount due William Williams, under the sixteenth article of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six, being the balance of an award of four hundred and five dollars by the commissioners under said treaty, two hundred and fifty-five dollars of which was paid out of the appropriation "for carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six," one hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Gregory Ennis, executor of Philip Ennis, deceased, balance due upon a contract for filling up the low ground south of the President's House, authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the sum of four hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-four cents. For expenses of the Board of Visiters at the Military Academy, five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens and American vessels from shipwreck, two thou For clerks, messengers, pages, and laborers, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For clerks on maps for the use of the Committee on Public Lands, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For folding documents for members, four thousand dollars. For clerks on index of private claims, twenty. eight thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents. For miscellaneous items, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars. For paper used and to be used for printing for the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents. For paper used and to be used for printing for the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, sixteen thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents. For paper for the printing for the two Houses of Congress for the second session of the Thirtysecond Congress, being for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, one hundred and forty thousand and sixtyfour dollars. For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messenger in his office, four thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-three cents. For blank books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, &c., one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, to pay John S. Littell per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John Robbins, Jr., during the Thirty-first Congress, two thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars; to pay Hendrick B. Wright per diem and mileage while housand nine hund twenty cents; to and mileage while Hungerford during andred and twenty agoman and secrey, fifteen hundred d office be disconday of June, one ty-three. on of the United eight hundred dol uba prisoners, not were pardoned by t of her dominions at Madrid and the seven hundred and 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 hun- 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, ying in the Depart- || eighteen thousand and sixty dollars and forty-nine llars. el, lights, and stat of Indian affairs hundred dollars. superintendent of agents therein, two nses of the Indian h, twelve thousand ten installments in and the transportaDes of Indians, per f Fort Laramie of housand eight hunsand dollars: Probe paid until the ve assented to the he United States to Office Department, dred and five thouncy in the revenues the appropriations and eight hundred he following sums, er warrant number mber, one thousand der the provisions t entitled "An act civil and diplomatic For the year ending and eight hundred rposes," approved sand eight hundred he payment of all e first day of July, d fifty-two, under te to Oregon, three e dollars. Mexico, nineteen urteen dollars and thousand five hunsix 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 reads 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 pay of volunteers under resolution of the For providing proper foundations for the cuseighth of August, one thousand eight hundred and tom-house at San Francisco, authorized by the forty-six, seven thousand one hundred and fifty-sixth section of the act entitled "An act to supply three dollars and seventeen cents. deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers, the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one twenty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-thousand eight hundred and fifty-two," and in eight 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. 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, , etc., in Quarter-three hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty housand nine hunhirty-five cents. four thousand eight venty-fivec ents. n account of Quarhousand five hunmd eight cents. stilities, two hunforty-three cents. year one thousand four hundred and en cents. -f Indian service in 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 of the navy-yard Eastern Branch bridge, from n dollars and sixty-fourth December, eighteen hundred and fortyeight, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty, at four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, seven hundred and eight 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 Bages (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 32D CON vices of a sm the Gardiner tives to pay and thirty-f new membe hundred and the new men all eight hu -five cents a sand one h cents. To enab atives to hundred a the House sion of th Globe, at six thous lars; and the repo sum of s the repor three thou sary; and pay the s To ena atives to lishing th first sessio sixty-five seven doll dred and s To ena sentatives Congressi session of ber and de and sixty being five volumes, with Rus ceeding s four hund For thi goods pu Lake Chi at the ag dollars: first, eigh same is ED SESS. striker in the shop of the es of Lewistown, from seven#ghteen hundred and thirtybruary, eighteen hundred and ag all amounts paid for such eriod, and for balance for serIdam, as estimated for by the two thousand two hundred ars. of five members of the House pointed a committee of invests touching the connection of cretary of the Treasury, with and authorized to sit during he first and second session of ss, the sum of three thousand rty dollars, or so much thereof 7, to pay the said members rears per day for the period they ashington in discharge of the -intment. rk of the House of RepresentaForce and John C. Rives for wo copies of the third volume of he American Archives," or ory of the United States, for of the House of the Twenty= hundred and seventeen copies e for the new members of the ongress; one hundred copies of for the new members of the ngress; one hundred and one e volume for the new members th Congress; one hundred and the same volume for the new hirtieth Congress; one hundred ies of the same volume for the Thirty-first Congress; and one copies of the same volume for the Thirty-second Congress; in olumes, at sixteen dollars fortyills per volume, thirteen thouand sixty-two dollars and forty 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. 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 ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, approved thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as provides that "no portions of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be applied to the payment of any expenses incurred 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 ation for light-houses contained in said act, except as to the light-houses which have been contracted for to be erected upon the Pacific coast. 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. erk of the House of Representeporting and publishing eight columns of the proceedings of resentatives of the second sessecond Congress in the Daily llars and fifty cents per column, hundred and seventy-five dolthe said John C. Rivea to pay SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the time his House for this session the for receiving bids under the act of third of July, rs per column instead of four for one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the Congressional Globe, the sum of erection of a mint in California, be extended to the ars, or so much as may be neces- first of April, one thousand eight hundred and t of this House be authorized to fifty-three, and that the sum of three hundred id Rives for that purpose. thousand dollars appropriated by said act, or so lerk of the House of Represent- much thereof as may be necessary, shall be apance due for reporting and pub-plied only to the erection and putting in operation dings of the House during the a mint in California, and not to the purchase of thirty-second Congress, being any building for that purpose. and one line, at the rate of ifty cents per column, four hunen dollars and fifty-four cents. Clerk of the House of Reprefor twenty-four copies of the be and Appendix of the second y-second Congress for each memthe House, seventeen thousand lars; and for binding the same, d six hundred and eighty-eight g and substantial half-binding, and corners, at a rate not exts per volume, three thousand twelve dollars and eighty cents. it of money appropriated, and ander treaty stipulations for the ndians, lately destroyed by fire said Indians, fifteen thousand That the Commissioner of Ineby authorized to purchase said rket, without the usual notice in d by law. it further enacted, That the seve act entitled "An act making r the civil and diplomatic ex 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 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 Repreassembled, That the following sums be and are sentatives of the United States of America in Congress 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: 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 dol lars. 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. 1 and five hundred ing, twenty-five ty-five thousand e documents, the hich may be oress, and the size two hundred and s shall be bound ed by the respeceach House, the welve and a half = the duty of the ting to supervise ments, to receive see that the same like manner, ac preserved in his before the binder he shall produce atendent that his ve required, and 1 it shall also be -nt to receive and -aper upon which or other engrairnished, and to maps, charts, diaes, and compare be printed with shall not receive other engraving aper equal to the may not be exewithin the time for special reaxtend the time,) antity called for I not receive pay certificate of the ; requisites have 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 compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northeast executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. nd distributing | ises, labor, and 8. attending upon retary of State, venty-nine dol 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. For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twentyfour 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 dol lars. 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 one, whose salary shall be sixteen hundred dollars per annum, and four whose compensation shall be four dollars per day. 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. For compensation of the Treasurer of the United 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 -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 thirty-three and one third cents per day for the time actually and necessarily employed-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, two thousand eight hundred 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 the use of the office, and miscellaneous items, one thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-four cents. 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: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars. In the office of the Register: cluding one thousand five hundred dollars for For blank books, binding, and stationery, inruling and full binding twenty-three books for recording the collectors' quarterly abstracts of the commerce and navigation, and blank abstracts for their use, two thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars. For labor and other miscellaneous items, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the of the General Land Office, two thousand dollars. First and Fifth Auditors, and the Commissioner For arranging and binding canceled marine papers, returned by the collectors of the customs, one thousand dollars. In the office of the Solicitor: For blank books, binding, stationery, and for labor, nine hundred dollars. 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. For compensation of the superintendent and eight watchmen of the southeast executive build⠀ing, four thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for labor, fuel and lights, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For compe nor, and the his office, tw dollars. For compe ninety-eight t For compe six cents: Pi annum. Contingent ex In Gener laws prior to In the For blank thousand do For labor In the o For stati For bind For furni For engr sand five hu For mise two thousa O SESS. al buildings, in part occupied the Interior, and part by the Treasury, three thousand five g, and miscellaneous items ousand dollars. nt of the Interior. of the Secretary of the Intemessengers, and laborers in ur thousand seven hundred of the Commissioner of the and the recorder, draughtsghtsman, clerks, messengers, , and packers in his office, d eight hundred and six dol of the Commissioner of Ine clerks, messenger, and asis office, twenty-six thousand of the Commissioner of Penand messengers in his office, ght hundred dollars. to temporary clerks employed ommissioner of Pensions, forforty-six dollars and sixtyThat no clerk shall receive e of three dollars thirty-three per day, except two, whose be twelve hundred dollars per of the Department of the Interior. the Secretary of the Interior: nery, furniture, and other conusand seven hundred dollars. ks, and maps, one thousand d Office: n of laborers, two thousand and military patents, under h of September, eighteen hunent and other records, tract, for the district land offices; notes, &c.; stationery, office rs of same, and miscellaneous housand three hundred and Provided, That whenever the › revenue from the sales of the y United States land district one third of the whole amount in such district, it shall and the President of the United inion not incompatible with to discontinue the land office to annex the said district to g land district or districts of aps, records, letter and other nder the swamp land act of tember, eighteen hundred and aty acts of twenty-eighth of hundred and fifty, and twentyghteen hundred and fifty-two, on of Virginia land warrants, t of August, eighteen hundred ng plate and engraving scrip, sued by act of thirty-first of ndred and fifty-two, including dact, and other miscellaneous thousand seven hundred dol the Commissioner of Indian binding, and stationery, one ndred dollars. items, eight hundred dollars. || he Commissioner of Pensions: ree thousand dollars. 3, one thousand dollars. 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 thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That it shall be the duty of the Quartermaster General to have prepared in his office, out of the above appropriation, books of transfer for the use of the Third Auditor's office. 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 Subsist ence 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. lars. For books, maps, and plans, one thousand do!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: hundred dollars. For blank books, binding, and stationery, five 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. In the office of the Commissary General of 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 anty land warrants, four thou- hundred dollars. llars. items, one thousand dollars. enses of east wing of Patent g, viz: For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the Bureau of Topograpical Engineers: For blank books, binding, stationery, and 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 northwest 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, draughtsman, 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 Navy-Yards and Docks, and of the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, 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 southwest 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. |