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Chap. 242. 1854. the seven volumes and atlas of the Exploring Expedition, destroyed by Works of Exploring Expedition. the burning of the Library and the plates and other property destroyed by the fire in Philadelphia, including binding, nine thousand and ten dollars and seventy-five cents. Executive.—For compensation of the President of the United States, Executive. twenty-five thousand dollars; For compensation of Secretary to sign patents for lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Department of State.—For compensation of the Secretary of State and State Department. Assistant Secretary of State, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred dollars. For the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of said Department.—Contingencies.For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, eighteen thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; And such sum shall be paid for publishing the laws in California, Oregon, and Washington, as the Secretary of State may deem reasonable;

For proof-reading, packing, and distributing laws and documents, including cases, labor, and transportation, ten thousand dollars; For stationery, blank books, binding, labor and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars; For copperplate printing, books, and maps, one thousand dollars; For newspapers, four hundred dollars; For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand dollars; 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.

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars; For purchasing for the use of the State Department, one hundred Statutes at Large. copies of Little and Brown’s edition of the United States Statutes at Large, and the same number of the pamphlet laws of the Thirty-third Pamphlet laws. Congress, three thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars; For the purchase of fifty sets of Howard’s Reports of the Decisions of Howard’s Reports. the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For the purchase of copies of the Reports of the Supreme Court and Books for Kansas and Nebraska. Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States for the executive offices of the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, four hundred and fifty dollars. Northeast Executive Building.—For compensation of the superintendent N. E. Executive building. and four watchmen of the northeast executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For fuel, light, labor, and repairs, three thousand three hundred dollars. Treasury Department.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury Department. Treasury and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, fifty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger 1st Comptroller’s Office. in his office, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger 2d Comptroller’s Office. in his office, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars;

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger, 1st Auditor’s Office. and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty thousand nine hundred dollars; For compensation of Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and 2d Auditor’s Office. assistant messenger, in his office, thirty-one thousand seven hundred dollars; 549 For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messengers, and 3d Auditor’s Office. assistant messenger, in his office, sixty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation to temporary clerks, employed in the office of the Salary of Clerks. Third Auditor on bounty-land service, and arrears of pay, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and eight dollars: *Provided,* That no clerk shall Proviso. 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, 4th Auditor’s Office. and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger 5th Auditor’s Office. in his office, twelve thousand three hundred dollars; For compensation of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department, and Office of Auditor of P. Office. the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars; For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks, Treasurer’s Office. messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars—the office of assistant messenger being hereby created, at an annual salary of five hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, Register’s Office. messenger, and assistant messengers in his office, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and Solicitor’s Office. messenger in his office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks and Office of Commissioner of Customs. messenger in his office, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars;

For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light House Light House Board. Board, seven thousand six hundred dollars. Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.—For labor, blank Contingencies of treasury department. books, stationery, binding, 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 Extra Clerks. receive more than three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per day for the time actually and necessarily employed—ten thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, two thousand eight hundred dollars. In the office of the First Comptroller:1st Comptroller. For furniture, blank books, binding, stationery, books to supply deficiencies in the documentary library, labor, and miscellaneous items, two thousand four hundred dollars. In the office of the Second Comptroller:2d Comptroller. For blank books, binding, stationery, pay for the National Intelligencer and 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:1st Auditor. For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and cases for records and official papers, one thousand two hundred 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:2d Auditor. For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, 550 bound, and preserved for the use of the office, one thousand two hundred dollars.

In the office of the Third Auditor:3d Auditor. For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, carpeting, labor, two newspapers, the Union and Intelligence, preserving files and papers, expenses of bounty land service, miscellaneous items, and arrearages, four thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the Fourth Auditor:4th 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:5th Auditor. For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars; For hire of laborers, three hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, including purchase of new furniture, five hundred dollars. In the office of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department:P. O. Auditor. For labor, stationery, blank books, (including forty large ledgers,) binding, and ruling, ten thousand and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, file-boards, repairs, cases and desks for safekeeping of papers, new furniture, lights, washing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic despatches, and stores, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

In the office of the Treasurer:Treasurer. For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the Register:Register. For ruling and full binding twenty-three books for recording the Collectors’ quarterly abstracts of the commerce and navigation, and blank abstracts for their use, one thousand five hundred dollars; For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand five hundred dollars; For labor and other miscellaneous items, including carpeting, office furniture, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the First Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For arranging and binding cancelled marine papers, returned by the Collectors of the Customs, one thousand dollars. In the office of the Solicitor:Solicitor. For blank books, binding and stationery, one thousand dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars; For statutes and law reports, including those of the several States, one thousand dollars. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs:Commissioner of Customs. For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars. Light House Board. For blank books, binding, and stationery, two Light House Board. hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and fifty dollars; For postage, one hundred and twenty dollars. For the General Purposes of the South-east Executive Building. For S. E. Executive Building. compensation of eight watchmen of the south-east executive building, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

Fuel, labor, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; For rent of building occupied in part by the Attorney-General, and Building of Attorney-General, and First Auditor. in part by the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. 551THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. For fuel, watching, and miscellaneous items for the same, five thousand dollars; For rent of the building occupied by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, 3d Auditor’s building. six hundred dollars;

For fuel, watching, labor, light, and other miscellaneous items for the same, three thousand four hundred dollars; For rent of the building occupied by the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, 5th Auditor’s building. eight hundred dollars; For fuel, watching, light, and other miscellaneous items for the same, three thousand two hundred dollars. Department of the Interior. For compensation of the Secretary of the Home Department. Interior, and the clerks, messengers, and laborers, in his office, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars;

Contingent expenses of said office: For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, three thousand seven hundred dollars; For library, books, and maps, one thousand dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and packers in his office, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said office:

For compensation of six laborers, three thousand dollars; For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; patents and other records; tract-books and blank books for this and the district land offices; binding plate and field-notes; stationery, office furniture, and repairs of same, and miscellaneous items, twenty-three thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; For contingent expenses, in addition, under swamp land act of twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; military 1850, ch. 84. bounty acts of twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and twenty-second of March, one thousand eight hundred and 1850, ch. 85.1852, ch. 19.1852, ch. 114. fifty-two, and act of thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants, twenty thousand dollars;

For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, and stationery, nine hundred dollars; For labor, three hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; For rent of building on Seventh street, for the office of Indian Affairs, commencing the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at twelve hundred dollars per annum, one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents;

For compensation of four watchmen for building occupied by the office of Indian Affairs, commencing the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand five hundred dollars; For fuel and lights, and necessary fixtures for warming and lighting the rooms occupied by the office of Indian Affairs, six hundred and sixteen dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks Office of Commissioner of Pensions. and four messengers in his office, ninety-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said office: For engraving and printing bounty-land certificates, five thousand dollars; 552 For stationery, three thousand dollars; For binding books, two thousand dollars; For furniture, five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars; For compensation of laborers, fifteen hundred dollars. For the General Purposes of the Department of the Interior. For Miscellaneous. compensation of four watchmen for the eastern wing of the Patent Office, occupied by the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand four hundred dollars;

For the purchase of books for the library of the Patent-Office, and for supplying a deficiency in former appropriations, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the Patent fund; To reimburse the Patent fund for expenses already incurred and paid for furnishing the new wing of the Patent-Office Building, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars of the appropriation made by the act approved thirty-first of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for furnishing said 1854, ch. 60. wing, be and the same is hereby authorized to be transferred by the proper accounting officers of the treasury to the credit of the Patent fund.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the preservation of the collections of the Exploring Expedition: For compensation of keepers, watchmen, and laborers, two thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; For contingent expenses, one hundred dollars. Surveyors-General and their Clerks. For compensation of the Surveyor-General Surveyors-General and their Clerks. 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 compensation of the Surveyor-General of Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars;

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, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of the Surveyor-General of California, and the clerks in his office, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of the Surveyor-General of Washington Territory, and the clerks in his office, seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For clerks in the offices 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; For salary of the Recorder of Land Titles in Missouri, five hundred Recorder in Missouri. dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, and the Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings. clerk in his office, three thousand two hundred dollars;

For compensation of the Superintendent of the Public Printing, and Office of Supt. of Printing. the clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand five hundred ninety-five dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For advertising for proposals for paper, one thousand dollars; 553 For blank books, stationery, postage, and miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars. War Department. For compensation of the Secretary of War, and War Department.Office of Secretary of War. the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, stationery, and labor, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars; For extra clerk hire, one thousand five hundred dollars; For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Office of Adjutant-General. Adjutant-General, eleven thousand six hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, and stationery, six hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, including office furniture, six hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster-General, fourteen thousand dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of clothing Office of clothing and equipage. and equipage, Philadelphia, four thousand and forty dollars. Contingent expenses of the office of the Quartermaster-General, including Office of Quartermaster-General. 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 dollars; For compensation of clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster-General, Office of Paymaster-General. ten thousand nine hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Office of Commissary-General of Subsistence. Commissary-General of Subsistence, eight thousand dollars.

Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, stationery, advertising, labor, and miscellaneous, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Office of Chief Engineer. Chief Engineer, seven thousand four hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, including subscription to two daily Washington newspapers, five hundred dollars;

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon-General, Office of Surgeon-General. four thousand four hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding and stationery, two hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Office of Colonel of Topographical Engineers. Colonel of Topographical Engineers, five thousand six hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, one thousand and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, ten thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding-General, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars.

For the General Purposes of the North-west Executive Building. For N. West Executive building. compensation of four watchmen of the north-west executive building, two thousand four hundred dollars. 554 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; For rent of house on north-west corner of F and Seventeenth streets, or such other building as the Secretary of War may select, and warming all the rooms in it, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of War be authorized to purchase Purchase of building. the said building at a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars;

For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the building on the corner of F and Seventeenth streets, two thousand six hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For miscellaneous items, including labor, one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy Department.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department, Office of Secretary. and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous items, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, Office of Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography. and the clerks and messenger in his office, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books and stationery, five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Office of Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks. Docks, and of the civil engineer, clerks, and messenger, in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said office: For labor, three hundred and sixty dollars; For stationery, books, plans, drawings, and incidental items, eight hundred dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, Office of Bureau of Construction, &c. and Repairs, and of the chief naval constructor, engineer-in-chief, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of said office: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; For labor, three hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Provisions Office of Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. and Clothing, seven thousand three hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of said bureau: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, seven hundred and seventy dollars; For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Office of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. and the clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand nine hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses of said office: For labor, one hundred and eighty dollars; For blank books and stationery, three hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars. For the General Purposes of the South-west Executive Building.—For S. West Executive Building. compensation of four watchmen of the south-west executive building, two thousand four hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, three thousand eight hundred and [sixty] sxty-five dollars. 555 Post-Office Department.—For compensation of the Postmaster-General, P.

O. Department. three Assistant Postmasters-General, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department, one hundred and twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of temporary clerks necessarily employed from the ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, and ninety-eight cents. Contingent expenses of said department:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the General Post-Office building, (including the Auditor’s office), oil, gas, and candles, printing, labor, day watchmen, and for miscellaneous, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; For repairs of the General Post-Office building, for office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fire-places and furnaces in order, two thousand five hundred dollars; For paper and printing for the Executive Departments, including paper, Paper and printing for the departments. printing, and binding the annual “Statement of Commerce and Navigation,” and paper and printing the annual “Estimates of Appropriations,” thirty thousand eight hundred dollars.

Mint of the United States.—Mint. At Philadelphia.Philadelphia. For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, melter, and refiner, chief coiner, and engraver, assistant assayer, assistant melter, and refiner and seven clerks, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, seventy-two thousand dollars; For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars; For transportation of bullion from New York assay office to the United States Mint for coinage, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For incidental and contingent expenses, including acids, copper, zinc, salt, fuel, melting-pots, and other materials, and wastage of gold and silver, being, in addition to other available funds, fifty-six thousand dollars. At New Orleans.N. Orleans. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter, and refiner, and three clerks, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, in addition to other available funds, thirty-two thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-five cents;

For wastage and incidental expenses, in addition to other available funds, seventy thousand and eighty-two dollars and fifty-five cents; For rebuilding portions of the walls and complete repairs of the building of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, thirty-seven thousand dollars. At Charlotte, North Carolina.Charlotte. For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars; For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including pay of two watchmen, two thousand one hundred dollars.

At Dahlonega, Georgia.Dahlonega. For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars; For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred [dollars;] For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, wastage, and purchase of new scales, two thousand five hundred dollars. At San Francisco, California.San Francisco. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, melter, refiner, and coiner, and five clerks, twenty-eight thousand dollars; 556 For wages of workmen, seventy-eight thousand dollars;

For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. Assay Office, New York.Assay office, N. Y. For salaries of officers and clerks, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, thirty thousand dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, fifty-nine thousand three hundred dollars. Government in the Territories.—Territories. Territory of Oregon.Oregon. For salaries of Governor, three judges, and secretary, ten thousand five hundred dollars; That George L.

Curry, Secretary of Oregon, be allowed and paid the salary of governor for and during the time he discharged the duties of governor, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three; 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.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, thirty thousand dollars. Territory of New Mexico.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, including the compensation of the person employed by the governor as a translator, fifteen hundred dollars;

For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, including the compensation of the person employed by the governor to revise and correct the laws of New Mexico, and the expense of printing the same, twenty thousand dollars; To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for the preservation of the archives of the Territory from May fifth, to September ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, four hundred and twenty dollars.

Territory of Utah.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; Disbursements having been made from the appropriations “for compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses,” by the secretaries of the Territories of Oregon, Minnesota, and Utah, under the authority of territorial laws, or resolutions; and the accounting officers of the treasury having disallowed several payments in settling the accounts of said secretaries, because they were not authorized by the act of August twenty-nine, eighteen hundred 1842, ch. 259. and forty-two, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby empowered to cause credits to be given to said secretaries for such disbursements so disallowed as he shall find to be equitable and just;

That the accounting officers of the treasury be authorized to adjust the 557 expense of a board of commissioners appointed under an act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah, approved by the governor thereof, January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to prepare a code of laws and of practice for said Territory; and the just and proper compensation and expense found to have been necessarily incurred before the passage of this resolution, the evidence of which, with the laws drawn by said commissioners, shall be submitted in detail to said accounting officers, and the amounts so found shall be paid from the balance of appropriations for “compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Territory of Utah" now standing on the books of the treasury unexpended: *Provided,* That the authority to charge the expense on said balance is not an approval by Congress of the act of the territorial legislature of Utah creating a board, for a term of years, to report laws, from time to time, for the action of the legislature of said Territory.

Territory of Washington.Washington. For salaries of Governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, ten thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said territory, including salary of clerk of executive department, 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; To reimburse the fund appropriated to defray the pay and mileage of members of the legislative assembly and the contingent expenses thereof, the amount fraudulently taken from said fund by Henry V.

Colter, and to relieve Charles H. Mason, secretary of said Territory, from his liability therefor, two thousand dollars; For compensation and expenses of commission to frame a code of laws for the Territory, two thousand five hundred dollars; That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to settle and pay the commission to frame a code of laws for the Territory of Washington, at the same rate *per diem* as has been allowed a similar board in Oregon. Territory of Kansas.Kansas.

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 Nebraska.Nebraska. 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; For the purchase of books for the territorial libraries of Minnesota, Books for libraries. Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Washington, Nebraska, and Kansas, five hundred dollars for each of said Territories, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Judiciary.—For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Judiciary. and eight Associate Judges, forty-one thousand dollars;

For salaries of the district judges, seventy thousand seven hundred dollars; For compensation of the district judge of the southern district of Cali-558fornia, commencing the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, four thousand and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents; 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 thousand seven hundred dollars; For salaries of the Attorney-General, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twelve thousand three hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars; For purchase of law books, and the necessary book-cases, for the office of the Attorney-General, one thousand 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, nine thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of the marshals, eight thousand two hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.—For annuities and grants, seven hundred and fifty Miscellaneous. dollars.

Independent Treasury.—For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the Independent Treasury. United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For additional salaries of the treasurer of the mint at Philadelphia of one thousand dollars, and of the treasurer of the branch mint at New Orleans of five hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries of six of the additional clerks, authorized by the acts of August sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, 1846, ch. 90.1848, ch. 166.1851, ch. 32.1852, ch. 108. one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, March third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and August thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, six thousand dollars;

For one additional clerk in the office of the assistant treasurer at Boston, Massachusetts, one thousand two hundred dollars; For clerks, messenger, and watchmen in the office of the assistant treasurer at New York, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars; For salary of a clerk for the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses under the act for the safe keeping, collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue of August sixth, one 1846, ch. 90. thousand eight hundred and forty-six, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no part of said sum of sixteen thousand five hundred dollars shall be expended for clerical services;

For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand, of the several depositories, under the act of August sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, five thousand dollars; For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided Claims. for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* that no part of the appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure;

To supply a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled Seamen. seamen, two hundred thousand dollars; To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to compensate the agent Indian agent. employed in paying annuities to Cherokee Indians remaining in North Carolina, three hundred dollars; For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors, appointed Steamboat inspectors.1852, ch. 106. under the act of August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with travelling and other expenses incurred by them, eighty thousand dollars.

Survey of the Coast.—For survey of the coast of the United States,Coast survey.559 (including compensation to superintendent and assistants, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy, employed on the work,) two hundred and six thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy; employed on the work,) thirty thousand dollars;

For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. Custom-Houses.—For completing the custom-house at St. Louis, Custom-Houses.St. Louis. Missouri, one hundred thousand dollars; For completing the custom-house at Mobile, Alabama, sixty-five thousand Mobile. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Cincinnati, Ohio, forty thousand Cincinnati. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky, forty thousand Louisville. dollars;

For completing the custom-house at Bangor, Maine, twenty thousand Bangor. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Bath, Maine, twenty thousand Bath. dollars; For completing the custom-house at Wilmington, Delaware, twelve Wilmington. thousand dollars; To purchase a site for custom-house at Providence, Rhode Island, Providence. twenty-four thousand dollars; And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to contract for the construction of a custom-house on said site, to include accommodations for a post-office and United States’ court room, at a cost not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars;

For purchasing a site for a custom-house at San Francisco, California, San Francisco. a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For the rebuilding of the custom-house, Portland, Maine, including Portland. accommodations for a post-office and rooms for the United States courts, two hundred thousand dollars; For extinguishment of private claims to the possession of the whole or any part of the custom-house lot in San Francisco, ten thousand dollars. *Provided,* That none of the moneys appropriated by this act for any Proviso as to sites of custom house, and jurisdiction and taxes. custom-house or marine hospital shall be used or applied for the purposes mentioned, until a valid title to the land for the site of such building, in each case, shall be vested in the United States; and until the State in which such building is to be completed shall in due form, and in a manner that shall bind such State, release and surrender to the United States jurisdiction over the site of such building; and shall, also, duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the said United States shall be or remain the owner thereof;

That none of the said moneys appropriated for said Contracts for buildings. buildings by this act, or heretofore appropriated for the purposes mentioned, shall be used or applied for the purposes for which they are appropriated, unless the same shall be sufficient in each case to complete the building in such case fully, and entirely accomplish the object for which the appropriation in this act is made. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby prohibited from using or applying any of the moneys aforesaid in any one case, until he shall have made a contract, with such security as he shall approve, for the completion of the entire building 560 and work in such case, at a sum not exceeding the sum of the moneys appropriated and unexpended in such case.

And the said Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into no contract, either conditional or final, for the purposes mentioned, which shall involve an expenditure in any one case beyond the sums appropriated and remaining unexpended for such case; and in all cases where such unexpended appropriations shall be insufficient to complete the entire work in such case, the said Secretary of the Treasury shall suspend all action in reference thereto, and shall report to Congress on the first day of its session the condition of the work in such case, and shall at the same time lay before Congress such plans and estimates as, in his judgment, shall be proper for the completion of the building and work in such case.

For improving and repairing the room in the custom-house at Savannah, Savannah. used as a post-office, one thousand dollars; For continuing operations on custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana, N. Orleans. three hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; For continuing operations on custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston. two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars; For the annual repairs and fixtures of custom-houses of the United In general. States, forty-three thousand and one dollars and fifty-nine cents, and for alterations and repairs of the custom-house at Baltimore heretofore made, and for rent of rooms during the repairs of said building, such sum as may by the Secretary of the Treasury be deemed reasonable and proper of said amount, not to exceed five thousand five hundred and one dollars and fifty-nine cents.

To complete the custom-house at Richmond, Virginia, one hundred Richmond. and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That none of the moneys appropriated Provisos. for this building in and by this act, or by any former act, and now remaining unexpended, shall be used or applied for the purposes mentioned in this act by the Secretary of the Treasury, until a valid title to the land for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Virginia shall, in due form, and in a manner that shall bind said State, release and surrender to the United States jurisdiction over the site of such building; and shall, also, duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the said United States shall be, or remain the owner thereof: *And provided further,* That none of the said money appropriated for said building by this act, or heretofore appropriated for the purposes mentioned, and now remaining unexpended, shall be used or applied for the purpose for which they are appropriated, unless the same shall be sufficient to complete the building fully, and entirely accomplish the object for which the appropriation in this act is made.

And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby prohibited from using or supplying any of moneys aforesaid until he shall have made a contract, with such security as he shall approve, for the completion of the entire building and work, at a sum not exceeding the sum of the moneys appropriated and unexpended; and the said Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into no contract, either conditional or final, for the purpose mentioned, which shall involve an expenditure beyond the sums appropriated and remaining unexpended; and should such expended appropriations be insufficient to complete the entire work, the said Secretary of the Treasury shall suspend all action in reference thereto, and shall report to Congress, on the first day of its session in December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, the condition of the work, and shall at the same time lay before Congress such plans and estimates as, in his judgment, shall be proper for the completion of the building and work: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to go on and construct, or cause to be constructed, completed, and finished, the building mentioned and 561 provided for, subject in all things to the limitations and restrictions contained herein.

To complete the custom-house at Waldoborough, in the State of Maine, Waldoborough. the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, which, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, shall constitute the entire cost of the purchase of the site, and the erection and completion of the buildings. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to apply such sum as, in his opinion, may be necessary to complete the building for the custom-house, post-office, and court-house in the city of Pittsburg, Pittsburg.

Pennsylvania, and to furnish such building in a manner appropriate to its uses, and to improve the grounds attached to said building; and also to pay to the two commissioners who superintended the construction of said building such compensation as the said Secretary shall deem just, not to exceed three dollars a day each: *Provided,* That the sum so, as aforesaid, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the sum now remaining unexpended of appropriations heretofore made for the said building;

For buildings for the use of the courts of the United States at Pontotoc, Pontotoc. Mississippi, four thousand dollars: *Provided,* said sum shall complete said buildings. And also the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary be, and the same is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make a contract with the proper authorities for furnishing a suitable building for the permanent use and accommodation of the United States District Court in holding its session at Marietta, Georgia, which contract the said Secretary is hereby authorized Marietta. to make: *Provided,* it can be made for the sum aforesaid or less: *And provided,* said contract shall be made with sufficient guarantees to secure to the said court a suitable building for holding said court so long as its sessions may be held at that place, without further charge on the United States.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase, for the use of the United States, the land and buildings thereon, constituting the boarding station at the south-west pass of the Mississippi river, three thousand Southwest Pass. five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no part of said sum shall be expended until the title to said land be secured to the United States, and the consent of the legislature of the State of Louisiana obtained to the release of said land from taxation or assessment of any kind;

For the construction of an appraiser’s store on a portion of the square San Francisco. selected for the custom-house at San Francisco, California, including the expense of piling for the foundation thereof, by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem best, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the same restrictions regarding the completion of said work with the sum hereby appropriated as are contained in this act concerning the erection and completion of custom-houses and marine hospitals shall be applicable thereto.

For the purchase of the lots or parcels of land, with the appurtenances Assay office at New York. and the buildings thereon, belonging the one thereof to the Bank of Commerce, and the other thereof to the Bank of the State of New York, and particularly referred to and described in two contracts; one with each of said banks, for the leasing and right to purchase the same, bearing date the nineteenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, until said purchases shall be completed: *Provided,* That the same be so completed within one year from the day such interest is hereby authorized to be paid;

And the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, is hereby further authorized to purchase, for the use of the United States, such property 562 adjoining thereto, situated on Pine street, on which the United States now hold a mortgage, as may be sold to satisfy the same, at a price not exceeding the amount of said lien. Marine Hospitals.—To complete the marine hospital at Cleveland, in Marine Hospitals. the State of Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars; To complete the marine hospital at St.

Louis, in the State of Missouri, ten thousand dollars; To complete the marine hospital at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, eight thousand dollars; To complete the marine hospital at Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; To complete the marine hospital at Paducah, in the said State of Kentucky, five thousand dollars; To complete the marine hospital at Evansville, in the State of Indiana, two thousand dollars; To complete the marine hospital at San Francisco, and to enclose the site and drain the same, and for the necessary out-buildings, forty-four thousand dollars;

For the construction of a marine hospital at Vicksburg, in the State of Mississippi, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars; For prosecuting operations on the marine hospital at Portland, in the State of Maine, fifty thousand dollars; To provide a suitable building as a marine hospital at St. Marks, Florida, five thousand dollars; To provide accommodations for sick and disabled seamen, at Cincinnati, Ohio, fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use such part of said sum for the purchase of a site for a marine hospital at said place, as he may deem expedient.

Light-House Establishment.—For supplying light-houses, containing Light-House Establishment. four thousand one hundred and thirty-three lamps, with oil, lamp-glasses, wicks, buff-skins, polishing powder, whiting, and other cleaning materials; transportation and other necessary expenses on the same; repairing and keeping the lighting apparatus; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and instructions; notice to mariners of changes to aids to navigation, and lists of lights, two hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and forty-two cents;

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of four hundred and eighteen light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents; For salaries of four hundred and eighteen light-house keepers, and thirty-eight assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, one hundred and eighty-three thousand six hundred dollars;

For salaries of forty-nine keepers of light-vessels, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies of forty-nine light-vessels, one hundred and fifty-two thousand nine hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-three cents; For expenses of raising, cleaning, and repairing, remooring, and supplying losses, of floating beacons and buoys, and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, eighty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents;

For life-boats and other means of rendering assistance to wrecked mariners and others on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars; For life-boats and other means of rendering assistance to shipwrecked mariners and others, on the coast of the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. 563 For the purchase of metallic surf-boats to rescue lives and property, Surf-boats. and to be located at each of the following ports, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, viz.:

On the east side of Lake Michigan, at Michigan City, one; New Buffalo, one; St. Joseph, one; Kalamazoo, one; Manistee, one; Grand River, one; Muskegon, one; White River, one; Pier Marquette, one; and South Black River, one; and on the west side of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, two; Kenosha, one; Milwaukie, one; Sheboygan, one; Death’s Door, one; Two Rivers, one; Manitowack, one; Waukegan, one; Racine, one; Port Washington, one; Washington Harbor, one; South Manitou Island, one; Kelley’s Harbor, one; and at Calumet, one; or at such other points as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall also adopt such measures as shall be necessary for the preservation of such boats;

For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars; For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the proviso to the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act 1851, ch. 32. making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be disbursed by them, eight thousand dollars.

For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: For oil and other supplies for fifteen lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; For repairs and incidental expenses of fifteen lights, and buildings connected therewith, eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For salaries of fifteen keepers and twelve assistants, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars; For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, removing, and supplying losses of floating beacons and buoys, and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the proviso to the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled, “An act making 1851, ch. 32. appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thir[tieth,] eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be disbursed by them, four hundred dollars;

For completing the light-houses, on the coast of California and Oregon, the sum of fifty-nine thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars: *Provided,* That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors for building the light-house on Point Lema, near Pt. Lema. San Diego, what the same is reasonably worth. Intercourse with Foreign Nations.—For salaries of Ministers of the Foreign Intercourse. United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Chili, and Central America, ninety thousand dollars;

For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same places, twenty thousand dollars; For salary of a Minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars; For salary of the Dragoman to the Legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries of Chargés d’Affaires or Ministers resident to Portugal, 564 Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, New Grenada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Switzerland, sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of a Clerk to the United States Legation at London, eight hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty thousand dollars; For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dollars; For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars; For salary of the Consul at London, two thousand dollars; For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, five thousand dollars; For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the Consulates at Constantinople, Smyrnia, Candia, and Alexandria, two thousand dollars;

For office rent of the Consul at Basle, in Switzerland, one hundred dollars; For salary of a Commissioner to reside in China, nine thousand dollars; For salary of the Interpreter and Secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of a Consul-General at Alexandria, five thousand dollars; For compensation to the Consuls at the five ports in China, viz. Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning Po, and Shanghai, five thousand dollars; For the relief and protection of American seamen, and seamen belonging Seamen. to American vessels in foreign countries, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the Consul at London. Consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars; That the Consul at Beirout, Syria, is hereby allowed a salary of two Beirout. thousand dollars per annum; and, the said Consulate shall comprehend both Syria and Palestine, and two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the salary of said consul. For office rent of the Consul at Zurich, in Switzerland, one hundred Zurich. dollars;

That the Secretary of the Treasury audit and settle the accounts of R. C. Schenck.*Post,* p. 659.J. S. Pendleton. Robert C. Schenck, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil, and of John S. Pendleton, late Chargé d’Affaires of the United States to the Argentine Confederation, for additional compensation and for expenses incurred by them in the performance of special services, not pertaining to their respective missions, and at points distant from those to which they were originally accredited, in compliance with instructions from the Department of State in settling which accounts the certificate of the parties shall be regarded as sufficient evidence as to the amount of expenses incurred, where no regular voucher can be produced, and a compensation at the rate of twenty-five dollars per diem shall be allowed to each of them for the time they were so employed, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated;

For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of Rewards for services in case of wrecks. the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens and vessels of the United States from shipwreck, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the same shall be expended under the direction of the President of the United States; For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United Books, &c. States, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, for the Consuls of the United States, ten thousand dollars; 565 To enable the Secretary of State to defray the expense of releasing Crew of the Queen Charlotte. from captivity among the Indians of Queen Charlotte’s Island, the crew and passengers of the American sloop Georgiana, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;

To defray expenses incurred, and to be incurred, in complying with Commercial Statistics. the resolution of the House of Representatives of the fourteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, calling for a statement of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with all foreign nations, and a table exhibiting a comparative statement between the tariff of other nations and that of the United States, ten thousand dollars;

To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the persons employed to Guard at San Juan. protect the property and persons of citizens of the United States at San Juan de Nicaragua, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray the expenses so incurred; For the payment of James B. Holmans for services rendered as Secretary J. B. Holmans. of Legation at Santiago, in the discharge of clerical duties left unperformed by his predecessors, five hundred dollars.

Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from Lands.—Collection of land revenue. To meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from the sale of public lands in the several land States, and Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the balances of former appropriations: For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, fifty thousand dollars;

For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, including new offices, not heretofore provided for, forty thousand dollars; For salaries of registers and receivers in Oregon and Washington Territories, or so much thereof as may be necessary, per act of seventeenth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, nine thousand dollars; For office rent, fuel, and labor, for said offices, four thousand dollars; For iron safes for receivers, and for books, stationery, and furniture, three thousand dollars.

Survey of the Public Lands.—For surveying the public lands, (exclusive Land Surveys. of California and Oregon,) including island surveys in the interior and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands, and the compensation and expenses to surveyor to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations for the same objects, one hundred and ten thousand dollars;

For continuing the examinations and corrections of old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the lower peninsula of Michigan, north of the third correction parallel, and east and west of the meridian, being forty-eight townships, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; For the correction of erroneous and defective lines of the public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand five hundred dollars;

For preparing the unfinished records of public and private surveys to be transferred to the State authorities under the provisions of the act of 1840, ch. 86. the twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, in those districts where the surveys are about being completed, fifteen thousand dollars; For resurveys and examinations of the survey of the public lands in those States, where the offices of the surveyors-general have been or shall be closed under the acts of the twelfth of June, one thousand eight hun-566dred and forty, and the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight 1840, ch. 36.1853, ch. 24. hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed to this special service in the General Land-Office, five thousand dollars;

For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida coast, twenty thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of California, thirty thousand dollars; For surveying the public lands and private land claims in California, including office expenses incident to the survey of claims, and to be disbursed at the rates prescribed by law for the different kinds of work, three hundred thousand dollars; For rent of surveyor-general’s office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messengers, eighteen thousand three hundred dollars;

For compensation of draughtsmen and clerks, in addition to the amount heretofore estimated, the same being required in consequence of the increased amount of field-work proposed to be executed, twenty-one thousand dollars. For Surveys in Oregon and Washington Territories:For office rent for the surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars; For surveying standard, parallel and meridian lines, over coast mountain and along the coast—an estimated distance of two hundred and fifty miles—five thousand dollars;

For surveying township and subdivision lines, (estimated at four thousand nine hundred and twenty miles) in Oregon Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, and including office work, sixty-five thousand four hundred and ninety dollars; For surveying standard, parallel and meridian lines in Washington Territory, (an estimated distance of five hundred miles) ten thousand dollars; For surveying township and subdivision lines, (estimated at four thousand nine hundred and twenty miles) in Washington Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, and including office work, sixty-five thousand four hundred and ninety dollars;

For salaries and incidental expenses of the commission appointed under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, for settling land claims in California, one hundred and five thousand five hundred dollars; For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard parallels, townships, and section lines in New Mexico, thirty thousand dollars; For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard parallels, township, and section lines in Kansas and Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars;

For salary of surveyor-general of New Mexico, and clerks in his office, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska, two thousand dollars; For office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses in New Mexico, three thousand dollars; For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses in Kansas and Nebraska, (six thousand dollars being allowed for office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses,) fourteen thousand three hundred dollars;

For office rent for the surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.—For books voted to the members of the Thirty-third Miscellaneous.Books. Congress, by the joint resolution of twenty-fourth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and the resolution of the House of the twentieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and ten dollars and eighty-seven cents. 567 To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to purchase from the publishers, Lippincott, Grambo and Company, two hundred copies each of the second and third volumes of Schoolcraft’s History, etc., of the Schoolcraft’s History.

Indian tribes of the United States, to complete the sets of the new members of the House of Representatives, at three dollars and fifty cents per volume, fourteen hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the said volumes shall be of the same style and quality of those heretofore furnished. For the completion of the printing of the first session of the Thirty-third Printing and paper. Congress, twenty thousand dollars; For the purchase of paper for the completion of the printing of the first session of the Thirty-third Congress, forty-three thousand dollars;

For deficiency in the estimates heretofore submitted for the printing of the second session of the Thirty-third Congress, ten thousand dollars; For rent of waveroom for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two hundred and fifty dollars; For cartage and labor in storing and transportation of paper from waveroom and office of superintendent, to the offices of the public printers, five hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to draughtsman and clerks employed upon the maps Maps. of the public lands, under the resolution of the House of Representatives of fourth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For the collection of agricultural statistics, and the procurement and Agricultural statistics. distribution of cuttings and seeds, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; For compensation of the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, assistant Penitentiary. keepers, guards, and porter, of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eight thousand six hundred dollars; For compensation of three inspectors of said penitentiary, three hundred dollars;

For the support and maintenance of said penitentiary, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars; For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts 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 the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and previous years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, seven hundred thousand dollars;

For payment to the city of Norfolk, for rent of rooms in the City Norfolk. Hall for the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, from the thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, to the thirtieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, nine hundred dollars; For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers Insane Paupers. of the District of Columbia, at such places as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem proper, ten thousand dollars;

For additional messenger to the post-office of the House of Representatives, Messenger. allowed by the Committee on Accounts at the beginning of the present session, one thousand dollars; To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the hospital for Insane Hospital. the insane of the District of Columbia, and of the army and navy of the United States, as it is now in process of construction where the foundations are laid, eighteen thousand two hundred and nine dollars;

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the external improvements necessary to carry into successful operation the said hospital, 568 according to the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars; For arrearages of necessary travelling and personal expenses due employees N. E. Boundary Survey. on the north-eastern boundary survey, during the years eighteen hundred and forty-four, eighteen hundred and forty-five, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and eighteen hundred and forty-seven, two thousand and sixteen dollars;

For running and marking the boundary line between the United States Boundary with Mexico. and the Republic of Mexico, under the treaty concluded at the city of Mexico, on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, the sum of one hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided,* There shall be allowed and paid to the Salaries. commissioner, surveyor, and astronomer appointed, or to be appointed, for the purpose aforesaid, each a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, and that if the duties of either have been, or shall be, performed by an officer of the army, his pay, including emoluments, during the time of such employment, shall be increased to that sum.

Public Buildings and Grounds.—For compensation, in part, for the Public buildings and grounds. messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol, three hundred and fifty dollars; For painting and repairs inside of the Capitol, new furnaces under the Senate Chamber, and Supreme Court room, five thousand dollars; For furnishing and putting up new furnaces and repairing old furnaces, rebuilding and ventilating air chambers for the House of Representatives, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For repair and renewal of the gas pipes through the Capitol, three thousand five hundred dollars; To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for two hundred and twenty feet and five inches of granite coping, used in the improvement of the triangular square at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, five hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-seven cents; For compensation to the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, three hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For compensation of the public gardener, one thousand two hundred dollars; For compensation of sixteen laborers, employed in the public grounds and President’s garden, at forty dollars per month each, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; For compensation of the keeper of the western gate, Capitol Square, seven hundred and thirty dollars; For compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the Capitol Square, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars; For compensation of two night watchmen, employed at the President’s house, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars;

For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President’s house, five hundred dollars; For compensation of assistant doorkeeper, at the President’s house, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; For compensation of four drawkeepers, at the Potomac bridge, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars; For compensation of two drawkeepers at the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand dollars; For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard, fuel, and oil for lamps, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars;

For support, care, and medical treatment of eighteen transient paupers, medical and surgical patients in Washington Infirmary, three thousand dollars; 569 For purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars; For hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand dollars; For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, five hundred dollars; For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace, where necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds, five thousand dollars;

For the Capitol extension, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars:Capitol extension. *Provided,* That any officer of the army or navy who has been or may be appointed hereafter to disburse the money which is now or may hereafter be appropriated for the erection, alteration, or repair of any of the edifices, structures, or works for which appropriations are made in this act, shall be subject to all the pains, penalties, and liabilities contained in the provisions of the act entitled “An act to provide for the better The disbursing officers to be subject to act of 1846, ch. 90. organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue,” approved sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six;

For completing the bridge over the Potomac River, near the Little Bridges. Falls, fifteen thousand dollars; For compensation of one night watchman, employed for the better protection of the buildings lying south of the Capitol, and used as public stables and carpenter’s shop, five hundred dollars; For permanent repair of the roof of the Capitol, with copper, two thousand dollars; For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, water-pipes, pavements and other walks within the Capitol Square, broken glass, and locks, five thousand dollars;

For annual repairs of the President’s house, improvement of grounds, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and making hotbeds therein, six thousand dollars; For lighting the President’s house and Capitol, the public grounds Avenues. around them, and around the executive offices and Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-two thousand dollars; For completing the improvement of Maryland Avenue, from Seventh Street to the Potomac River, two thousand five hundred dollars; For furnishing lamps and lamp-posts from Sixteenth to Seventeenth Streets, on Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars;

For completing the improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, west of Seventeenth Street, nine thousand dollars; To reimburse the expenditure made by the Commissioner of Public Buildings for the repair of the Potomac bridge when injured by fire, four thousand five hundred dollars; For continuing the repairs of the two bridges across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, four thousand dollars; For completing the west wing of the patent office building, two hundred thousand dollars; For altering the streets and repairing in front of the east wing of the Patent Office, putting up iron railings, flagging, footway, putting in order yards, painting new saloons of the Patent Office in fresco, fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For iron railing and flagging in front of the old portion of the Patent Office building, for altering the windows in the rear and dressing off the granite to make it conform to the front, and for private stairway in the building, five thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; For enlarging the culverts, and openings into the same, across Pennsylvania Avenue, to prevent overflow of the avenue, four thousand dollars; For repairing or renewing the water-fixtures at the President’s house, including the bath-room, two thousand dollars; 570 For Public Reservation Number Two, and Lafayette Square, three thousand dollars;

For grading done by order of Ignatius Mudd, late Commissioner of Public Buildings, in Reservation Number Seventeen, between Third Street east and New Jersey Avenue, four hundred eighty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents; For compensation of commissioner and surveyor employed upon the Mexican boundary. boundary between the United States and Mexico, and their assistants, including office rent and incidental expenses, thirty-eight thousand one hundred dollars; For payment of the Annals of Congress for the House Library of the Annals of Congress.

House of Representatives, under resolution of said House of September twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, one hundred sets of each volume from the twenty-third to the fortieth, both included, in all seventeen hundred volumes, at five dollars per volume, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For payment of the Annals of Congress, for one hundred and forty-three members of the thirty-second Congress, entitled to them under the resolution of the House of Representatives of July twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, one hundred and forty-three sets of twenty-four volumes each, from the sixteenth to the fortieth inclusive, in all three thousand four hundred and thirty-two volumes, at five dollars per volume, seventeen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;

For reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe two thousand eight Reporting and Publishing. hundred and sixty-five columns of the proceeding of the House of Representatives, for the first session of the thirty-third Congress, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, twenty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for Globe and Appendix. the first session of the thirty-third Congress, for each member and delegate of the House of Representatives, making an aggregate of five thousand seven hundred and twelve copies, at six dollars a copy, thirty-four thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars;

For binding the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for the first session of the thirty-third Congress, thirteen thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty cents; For reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe, one hundred and Reporting and Publishing. fifty-one columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives for the second session of the thirty-second Congress, at seven dollars and fifty cents a column, one thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents;

To pay a deficiency in the appropriation for eight hundred copies of Documentary History. the Documentary History purchased for the new members of the House of Representatives, from the twenty-sixth to the thirty-second Congress inclusive, being at seventeen dollars twenty-seven cents and two mills a volume, six hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty cents; For payment of a balance due, for the second and third volumes of the fifth series of the Documentary History, under contract with the Secretary of State, four hundred and seventy-three dollars;

For one hundred copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, Globe and Appendix. for the first session of the thirty-third Congress, for House Library, six hundred dollars, and for binding the same two hundred and forty dollars; for one hundred copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for the second session of the thirty-third Congress, for House Library, three hundred dollars, and for binding the same one hundred and twenty dollars; To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the House, for the John C.

Rives. Congressional Globe, the same amount of additional compensation for reporting this session as was paid them at the last, the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, and the clerk of this House is here-571by authorized to pay the same to said Rives, to be applied by him for that purpose. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Public Buildings, in different cities and towns. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed the following buildings:

At Ellsworth, Maine, for the accommodation of the custom-house and post-office, a building of brick, with fireproof floors, constructed of iron beams and brick work, iron roof, shutters, sills, &c., twenty-five feet by thirty, and twenty-five feet in height from the foundation, to cost not more than ten thousand dollars; At Belfast, Maine, for the accommodation of the custom-house and post-office, a building of like materials, forty-five feet by thirty-two, and thirty-two feet high and to cost not more than twenty thousand dollars;

At Gloucester, Massachusetts, Toledo, Ohio, Burlington, Vermont, and Sandusky, Ohio, for the accommodation of the custom-house and post-office, a building of like materials, sixty feet by forty-five feet, and thirty-two feet from the foundation, and to cost not more than forty thousand dollars for each building; At Milwaukie, Wisconsin, for the accommodation of the *Post,* p. 604. custom-house, post-office, and United States courts, a building of like material, sixty feet by forty-five feet, forty-eight feet in height from the foundation, to cost not more than fifty thousand dollars;

At New Haven, Connecticut, Newark, New Jersey, Buffalo, New York, Oswego, New York, Wheeling, Virginia, Chicago, Illinois, and Detroit, Michigan, each for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, United States courts, and steamboat inspectors, a building of stone, of like floors, beams, roofs, shutters, &c., eighty-five feet by sixty feet, sixty feet in height from the foundation, to cost not more than eighty-eight thousand dollars for each building; the *Post,* p. 674. building at Detroit to be erected upon a water lot, belonging to the United States;

At Galveston, Texas, for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, and United States courts, a building of brick, of like floors, beams, roofs, shutters, &c., forty-five feet by seventy feet, forty-eight feet high from the foundation, with a portico on two sides, and to cost not more than one hundred thousand dollars; At Petersburg, Virginia, for the accommodation of the custom-house and post-office, a building of stone, of like floors, beams, roofs, shutters, &c., sixty feet by forty-five feet, thirty-two feet high from the foundation, to cost not more than sixty-two thousand dollars.

Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums mentioned in Provisions respecting erecting said buildings. the preceding section of this act, as the cost of the buildings therein authorized to be constructed, together with ten per cent. thereon, to cover the compensation of architects, superintendents, advertising, and other contingent expenses, and so much as may be required to purchase suitable sites for said buildings, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the purposes aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That no money hereby appropriated Proviso as to sites. shall be used or applied for the purposes mentioned, until a valid title to the land for the sites of such buildings, in each case, shall be vested in the United States, and until the State shall also duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax, or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the said United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.

Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Marine Hospitals. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed the following buildings: At New Orleans, Louisiana, a marine hospital, to cost not more than two hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars; and when said hospital shall have been completed, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the old hospital at New Orleans to be sold, and the proceeds thereof to be placed in the Treasury of the United States. 572 At Detroit, Michigan, a marine hospital, to cost not more than seventy- five thousand dollars.

At Pensacola, Florida, a marine hospital, to cost not more than twenty thousand dollars. At Burlington, in the State of Iowa, a marine hospital, to cost not more than fifteen thousand dollars. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums mentioned Provisions as to building said Hospitals. in the preceding section, as the cost of the buildings therein authorized to be constructed, together with ten per cent. thereon to cover the compensation of architects, superintendents, advertising, and other contingent expenses, and so much as may be required to purchase suitable sites for said buildings, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the purposes aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That no money hereby appropriated shall be used or applied Proviso as to sites. for the purposes mentioned, until a valid title to the land for the site of such building, in each case, shall be vested in the United States, and until the State shall also duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site or the property of the United States, that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.

Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That there be appropriated out of Compensation of clerks and employees. any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay to the clerks and employees of the government, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, such additional compensation as they may be entitled to receive, under the act of twenty-second April, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An 1845, ch. 62. act to amend the third section of the act, making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and for other purposes,” and, where additional compensation is not otherwise provided for: *Provided,* That all laborers in the employment of the Executive departments of the government in the city of Washington, shall receive an annual salary of four hundred and eighty dollars each: *Provided, further,*Salary of laborers.

That the Postmaster-General be allowed, in addition to his present number, three clerks of class two and two of class three; That the Attorney-General Additional clerks. be allowed in addition to his present number, one clerk of class one, two of class two, and one of class three; That the Secretary of the Treasury be allowed in the First Auditor’s office, in addition to the present number, two clerks of class one: in the Sixth Auditor’s office, in addition to the present number, seven clerks of class one, and one shall be taken from class three and put in class four; and, in the Treasurer’s office, one clerk shall be taken from class two, and one from class three, and put in class four; and that the Secretary of State be allowed in addition to his present number of clerks, two at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars each, one at an annual salary of fourteen hundred dollars, and one at an annual salary of sixteen hundred dollars; and the money necessary to pay the compensation and increased compensation under this section be, and the same is hereby appropriated.

Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the librarian of Congress Librarians and messenger. shall receive eighteen hundred dollars; the assistant librarians fifteen hundred dollars each, and the messenger twelve hundred dollars per annum, and the money is hereby appropriated to pay the same. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the collections of the exploring Collections of exploring expedition, custody and care of; officer for that purpose. expedition, now in the Patent-Office, be placed under the care and management of the Commissioner of Patents, who is hereby authorized to employ one principal keeper of said collections at an annual salary of nine hundred dollars, one assistant keeper at an annual salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars, one night watchman at an annual salary of six hundred dollars, and two laborers at an annual salary each of three hundred and sixty-five dollars. 573THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

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