Chapter CLXXV. *mating Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and for other Purposes.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembl
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Chap. CLXXV.— An Act *mating Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and for other Purposes.* March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury 644not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, namely:— Legislative. *Legislative.—*For compensation and mileage of senators, one hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others, receiving Senate officers.an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz: Secretary of the Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars; officer charged with the disbursements of the Senate, four hundred and eighty dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in office of the Secretary of the Senate, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eight clerks in office of the Secretary of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; two messengers, one at one thousand and eighty dollars, and one at seven hundred and fifty dollars; one page, at five hundred dollars;
Sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, two thousand dollars; assistant door-keeper, one thousand seven hundred dollars; postmaster to the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail-carrier, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; two mail-boys, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of the document-room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants in document-room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of the folding-room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two messengers, acting as assistant door-keepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; fifteen messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent in charge of Senate furnaces, one thousand and eighty dollars; assistant in charge of furnaces, six hundred dollars; laborer in private passage, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; clerk or secretary to the President of the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; draughtsman, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; chaplain of Senate, seven hundred and fifty dollars;—making seventy thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars.
Senate contingencies. For the contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For binding, forty-five thousand dollars. For lithographing and engraving, forty-five thousand dollars. For books, five thousand dollars. For stationery, twelve thousand dollars. For newspapers, three thousand dollars. For Congressional Globe, and binding the same, three thousand dollars. For reporting proceedings, thirteen thousand dollars. For clerks to committees, pages, police, horses and carryalls, forty eight thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. House. For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from Territories, six hundred and ninety-four thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an House officers.annual salary, in the service of the House of Representatives, viz: clerk of the House of Representatives, three thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; seven clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Sergeant-at-arms, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; door-keeper, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; postmaster, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, at one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents; librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; reading clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to Committee of Claims, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to Sergeant-at-arms, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five messengers, at one thousand 645four hundred and forty dollars each; chaplain, seven hundred and fifty dollars;—making forty-three thousand nine hundred and six dollars and eighty cents.
For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: House contingencies. For binding documents, seventy thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs, three thousand dollars. For stationery for members, twelve thousand dollars. For twenty-one messengers, including superintendent of folding and document rooms, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty cents. For horses and carriages, four thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, oil, and candles, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For newspapers for members, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For engraving and lithographing, fifty thousand dollars. For Capitol police, five thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. For messenger in charge of hall, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. For two messengers in Clerk’s office, three thousand six hundred dollars. For saddle horses, six hundred and fifty dollars. For laborers, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For pages, five thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars. For folding documents, including pay of folders, folding-paper, twine, and paste, twenty thousand dollars. For compensation of draughtsman and clerks, par resolution of the fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, nine thousand dollars. For compensation to F. W. Lander, civil engineer, for furnishing F. W. Lander.report of his reconnoissance for a railroad route from Washington and Oregon Territory, by the way of Fort Hall, to Salt Lake, five thousand dollars. *Library of Congress.—*For compensation of librarian, three assistant Library.librarians, and messenger, nine thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of said library, one thousand dollars. For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars. For purchase of law-books for said library, two thousand dollars. For paper required for the printing of the first session of the thirty-fourth Paper.Congress, one hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and eight dollars. For printing required for the first session of the thirty-fourth Congress, Printing. one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the printed sheets for the finer description of books authorized by either house of Congress, shall be dry-pressed before being bound, whenever, in the opinion of the Joint Committee on Printing, it is deemed necessary; the cost thereof not to exceed the sum of fifty cents per ream medium. *Executive.* For compensation of the President of the United States, Executive.twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation to secretary to sign patents for lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. *Department of State.—*For compensation of the Secretary of State, State Department.and Assistant Secretary of State, clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, fifty-two thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars. *For the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of said Department.—*For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the States and Territories and in the city of Washington, nineteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For proof-reading, packing, additional compensation to packer, and distributing laws and documents, including cases, labor, and transportation, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. 646 For stationery, blank books, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting and glazing, six thousand five 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. Biennial Register. For compiling and supervising the publication of the Biennial Register, five hundred dollars. Binding. For binding books and music in the copyright bureau, and procuring portfolios for the prints and engravings, five hundred dollars. Wheaton’s International Law. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase of Messrs. Little, Brown and Company, five hundred copies of their new edition of Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, to be distributed to the foreign ministers and consuls, and to the departments at home, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Howard’s Reports. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase fifty copies each, of volumes sixteen and seventeen of Howard’s Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, five hundred dollars. Statutes at Large, vol. X. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase of Messrs. Little, Brown and Company, two thousand copies of the tenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large, for distribution, agreeably to acts of Congress directing the distribution of the other volumes, seven thousand dollars.
Northeast executive building. *Northeast Executive Building.—*For compensation of the superintendent, four watchmen, and two laborers of the northeast executive building, three thousand eight hundred and two dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For fuel, light, labor, and repairs, three thousand three hundred dollars. Office of Secretary of Treasury. *Treasury Department.—*For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, fifty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars.
Office of First Comptroller. For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and laborers in his office, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars. 2d Comptroller. For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, twenty-nine thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars. 1st Auditor. For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office, forty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars. 2d Auditor.
For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office, thirty-five thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars. 3d Auditor. For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messengers, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars. 4th Auditor. For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty thousand two hundred dollars. 5th Auditor.
For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, fifteen thousand and sixteen dollars. Auditor of Post-Office Department. For compensation of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, one hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars. Treasurer. For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, twenty-five thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars. 647 For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, Register.messenger, assistant messengers, and laborers in his office, forty-seven thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and Solicitor.messenger in his office, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks, Commissioner of customs.messenger, and laborer in his office, twenty thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-house Light-house board.Board, eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars. *Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.—* Contingencies.
Office of Secretary. In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For labor, blank 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 receive more than three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per day for the time actually and necessarily employed; and for miscellaneous items—thirteen thousand dollars.
In the office of the First Comptroller: 1st Comptroller. For furniture, blank books, binding, stationery, public documents, State and Territorial statutes, and miscellaneous items, one thousand eight 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, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.
In the office of the First Auditor: 1st Auditor. For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, and cases for records and official papers, one thousand five 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, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, 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, two newspapers, the Union and Intelligencer, preserving files and papers, expenses of bounty-land service, miscellaneous items, and arrearages, three thousand five hundred and forty 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 miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department: Auditor of Post-Office Department. For stationery, blank books, binding and ruling, ten thousand and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, file-boards, repairs, cases and desks for safe-keeping of papers, furniture, lights, washing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic dispatches, and stoves, two thousand five hundred dollars. 648 Treasurer.
In the office of the Treasurer: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred dollars. Register. In the office of the Register. For ruling and full binding twenty-eight books for recording collectors’ quarterly abstracts of the commerce and navigation, and blank abstracts for their use, three thousand dollars. For blank books, binding, stationery, cases for official papers and records, and miscellaneous items, four thousand dollars. For arranging and binding cancelled marine papers, one thousand dollars.
Solicitor. In the office of the Solicitor: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred dollars. For statutes and reports, one thousand dollars. Commissioner of customs. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs: For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. Light-house board. *Light-house Board.—*For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous expenses and postage, five hundred dollars.
Southeast executive building. *For the General Purposes of the Southeast Executive Building.—* For the continuation of the Treasury building, three hundred thousand Continuation of treasury building. Plan.dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the plan proposed by Thomas U. Walter, architect, and approved of by the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on buildings and grounds, at the last session of Congress.
Watchmen. For compensation of eight watchmen of the southeast executive building, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Laborers. For compensation of nine laborers of the southeast executive building, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars. Contingencies. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: Fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous, eight thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the department to provide a suitable protection from the weather for the fuel consumed in said buildings, and to cleanse, repair, and furnish twenty-six rooms in the third story, when they shall be vacated by the General Land-Office, seven thousand dollars.
For rent of building occupied in part by the Attorney-General, and in part by the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel and miscellaneous items for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of four watchmen for said building, two thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of four laborers for said building, two thousand three hundred and four dollars. For rent of the building occupied by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, six hundred dollars.
For fuel and other miscellaneous items for the same, two thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of two watchmen for said building, one thousand two hundred dollars. For rent of building occupied by the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, eight hundred dollars. For fuel and other miscellaneous items for the same, two thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of two watchmen for said building, one thousand two hundred dollars. 649 *In Department of the Interior.—*For compensation of the Secretary of Home Department.the Interior, and the clerks, messengers, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty thousand and eighty dollars.
For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, General Land-Office.and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, packers, and laborers, in his office, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars. For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Indian affairs.clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks, Pensions.messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, one hundred and seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For the repairs of the Potomac, navy-yard, and upper bridges, and to Potomac bridges and navy-yard. Washington.refund to the Commissioner of Public Buildings three thousand dollars, advanced to him by the corporation of Washington, in eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and expended on the Potomac bridge, ten thousand dollars. *Contingent Dispenses Department of the Interior.—* Contingencies.
Office Secretary of the Interior: Secretary. For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For library, books, and maps, one thousand dollars. General Land-Office: General Land Office. For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patents and other records, tract-books, and blank books, for this, and the district land-offices; binding plats and field-notes; stationery, furniture, and repairs of same, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, thirty-three thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For contingent expenses in addition, under swamp-land act of twenty-eighth 1850, ch. 85.September, eighteen hundred and fifty; military bounty acts of twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twenty-second March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and act thirty-first August, 1852, ch. 19. 1852, ch. 114.eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the satisfaction of Virginia land war rants, twenty-six thousand one hundred dollars. For tract and other books for new land-offices, created during the first session of the thirty-third Congress, including blanks for the same, six thousand dollars.
To enable the register and receiver of the land-office at Indianapolis, Land-office of Indianapolis.Indiana, to rent suitable rooms for the preservation of the records and papers of the several land-offices in said State, which have been discontinued, and the books and papers thereof transferred to the said land-offices at said city of Indianapolis, the sum of five hundred dollars. For amount required to enable the Secretary of the Interior to execute Graduation act of 1854, ch. 244.the provisions of the “act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators,” approved fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, thirty thousand dollars: *In Provided, however,* That in all cases where lands have been or shall hereafter be sold under the act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, “to Excess of price to be refunded.graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators,” at a higher rate than authorized by that act, the Secretary of the Interior shall be, and is hereby authorized, to direct the receivers of public money for the proper land district, to refund the excess out of any money in his hands derived from the sales of public lands; and the Instructions of land-office confirmed.periods and principle of graduation, fixed by the instructions of the General Land-Office, of thirtieth October, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, shall be, and they are hereby confirmed. 650 Indian affairs.
Office of Indian Affairs: For rent of building on Seventh Street, for office, one thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of four watchmen, two thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of laborer, five hundred and seventy-six dollars. For fuel and lights, six hundred and sixteen dollars. For blank-books, binding, and stationery, nine hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, eight hundred dollars.
Pension-office. Pension Office: For engraving and printing bounty-land certificates, five thousand dollars. For stationery, three thousand dollars. For binding books, two thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture, five hundred dollars. For compensation of laborers, one thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, five thousand dollars. For the general purposes of the Department of the Interior:
For compensation of four night watchmen and one day watchman for the eastern wing of the Patent-Office, occupied by the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. Explorations in the territories. John Evans. For expenses incurred by Dr. John Evans, in geological explorations in Oregon, Washington, etc., and for the completion of those explorations in Washington Territory, and on Goose Bay, twenty-three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Eastern wing of Patent-Office building. *For Contingent Expenses of the Eastern Wing of the Patent-Office Building.—*For fuel, lights, and incidental expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of three laborers, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight 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, two hundred dollars. Surveyors-General and their clerks. *Surveyors-General and their Clerks.—*For compensation of the surveyor-general northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For 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, thirty-nine 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 compensation of the surveyor-general of New Mexico, and the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars. 651 For compensation of the surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of clerks in the offices of the surveyors-general, 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, sixty-one thousand dollars.
For salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri, five hundred dollars. Recorder in Mo. For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, and the Commissioner of Buildings.clerk in his office, three thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of the Superintendent of the Public Printing, and Office of Superintendent of Printing.the clerks and messenger in his office, eleven thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars. And the superintendent and the clerks and messenger in his office, and the librarian, and assistants and messenger in the Library of Congress, shall be entitled to, and shall receive the benefits of Pay of persons in that office and in library.the joint resolution, approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, fixing the compensation of the legislative employees of the government in the same manner and to the same extent as officers of the same grade in the legislative department.
For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For blank-books, stationery, postage, advertising for proposals for paper, and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. For rent of wareroom, two hundred and fifty dollars. For cartage and labor in storing and transportation of paper, five hundred and fifty dollars. *War Department.—*For compensation of the Secretary of War, and War Department.the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office, twenty-two thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant-General, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster-General, sixteen thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster-General, twelve thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the office of the Commissary-General of Subsistence, nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer, eight thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon-General, five thousand dollars. For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the office of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers, six thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, twelve thousand dollars. *Contingent Expenses of the War Department.—* Contingencies.
Office of the Secretary of War. For blank books, stationery, and labor, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars. For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars. For extra clerk hire, one thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the Adjutant-General. For blank books, binding, and stationery, six hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including office furniture, six hundred dollars. Office of the Quartermaster-General.
For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars. For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars. 652 For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars. Office of the Commissary-General: For blank books, binding, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the Chief Engineer: For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including two daily Washington papers, five hundred dollars.
Office of the Surgeon-General: For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. Office of the Colonel of Ordnance: For blank books, binding, and stationery, six hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. Office of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers: For blank books, binding, and stationery, seven hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. Northwest executive building. *For the General Purposes of the Northwest Executive Building.* For compensation of four watchmen of the northwest executive building, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation of two laborers of the northwest executive building, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. For fuel and light, two thousand four hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars. Building corner of F and 17th Streets. *For the General Purposes of the Building corner of F and Seventeenth Streets.* For compensation of superintendent, four watchmen, and two laborers, for said building, three thousand eight hundred and two dollars. For repairs and improvements, ten thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty cents.
For fuel and compensation of firemen, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents. For contingent expenses, one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy Department. Office of secretary. *Navy Department—*For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office, twenty nine thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. Bureau of ordnance and hydrography. For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer, in his office, twelve thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars.
Bureau of navy-yards and docks. For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Navy-Yards and Docks, and the civil engineer, clerks, messenger, and laborers, in his office, seventeen thousand and ninety-two dollars. Bureau of construction, &c. For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and of the engineer-in-chief, and the clerks, messenger and laborers, in his office, twenty thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars. Bureau of clothing and provisions.
For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, eight thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars. Bureau of medicine and surgery. For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, nine thousand and sixteen dollars. Contingencies. *Contingent Expenses of the Navy Department.—* Office Secretary of the Navy: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous items, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography: For blank books and stationery, five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, two hundred and fifty dollars. 653 Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Yards and Docks: For stationery, books, plans, drawing, and incidental labor, eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For blank books and stationery, three hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars. *For the General Purposes of the Southwest Executive Building.—*For Southwest executive building.compensation of four watchmen of the southwest 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-five dollars. *Post-Office Department.—*For compensation of the Postmaster-General, Post-Office Department.three Assistant Postmasters-General, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, watchmen, and laborers of said department, one hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars.
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 watchman, and for miscellaneous items, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For the continuation of the Post-Office building, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the plan submitted by Thomas U. Walter, architect, to the Postmaster-General, and approved of by the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, at the present session of Congress.
For repairs of the General Post-Office building, for office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fireplaces and furnaces in order, four thousand dollars. For the renewal of the furnaces in the General Post-Office building, and for repairing the mantels and fireplaces therein, two thousand dollars. For paper and printing for the executive departments, including the Paper and printing. Biennial Register.annual statement of commerce and navigation, the Biennial Register, and annual estimates of appropriations, one hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* All blank books, binding, and ruling the same for the several executive departments herein appropriated for, shall be furnished under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of Public Printing. *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-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, fifty 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 Bullion for coinage to be in form of refined bars.States mint, for coinage, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all bullion required by law to be transmitted from said office to the mint for coinage, shall, if practicable, be in the form of refined bars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, 654stationery, water-rent, gas, wastage, freight on bullion, in addition to other available funds, sixty thousand dollars. New Orleans. At New Orleans. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter and refiner, and three clerks, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, thirty-seven thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, wastage, in addition to other available funds, forty-two thousand three hundred dollars.
Charlotte. At Charlotte, North Carolina. For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars. For wages of workmen, four thousand one hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, wastage, in addition to other available funds, one thousand five hundred dollars. Dahlonega. At Dahlonega, Georgia. 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, wastage, in addition to other available funds, two thousand five hundred dollars. San Francisco. At San Francisco, California. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and five clerks, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred thousand dollars. For ordinary expenses, including wastage, in addition to other avail able means, twenty thousand dollars.
Assay office (N. Y.) Assay Office, New York. For salaries of officers and clerks, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to Salaries of clerks.fix the salaries of such officers and clerks, so as not to exceed those allowed by law to like officers and clerks in the mint or its branches. For wages of workmen, in addition to an available balance of former appropriations, forty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs, including fuel, and materials, and wastage on gold and silver, in addition to other available means, seventy thousand dollars.
Territories. Oregon. *Government in the Territories.—* Territory of Oregon. For salaries of Governor, three judges, and secretary, twelve 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. Minnesota. Territory of Minnesota. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, ten thousand three 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. New Mexico. Territory of New Mexico. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars. 655 For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Utah. Utah. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, twelve thousand 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. For the construction of a warden’s house, and outer yard, and twelve cells and fixtures for the penitentiary in the Territory of Utah, thirteen thousand dollars.
Territory of Washington. Washington. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, twelve 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 as sembly, 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, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; and the accounting officers of the treasury shall audit and pay out of the said sum the amount expended by acting Governor Cumming, in removing the remains of the late Governor Burt from Nebraska, to his late residence in South Carolina. For expenses of taking the census, authorized by fourth section of act May thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand 1864, ch. 69.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 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 as sembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of taking the census, authorized by fourth section of act 1854, ch. 59.May thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars. For the expenses of the election of a delegate to the House of Representatives of the United States, second session of the thirty-third Congress, seven hundred dollars. *Judiciary.—*For salaries of the chief justice of the Supreme Court and Judiciary. Salaries of justices of Supreme Court.eight associate judges, fifty-four thousand five hundred dollars; and from and after the passage of this act, the annual salaries of the several justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, shall be as follows, to wit:— Of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Of the associate justices of the Supreme Court, six thousand dollars each. And hereafter the messengers attending the Supreme Court, be Pay of messengers.allowed the sum of three dollars per day each during their attendance, commencing with the present term of the court, and that the marshal of 656the District of Columbia pay the same out of any moneys of the United States in his hands. For salary of the circuit judge for California, four thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the district judges, inclusive of the deficiency for the year ending thirtieth June next, one hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
For salaries of the chief judge of the District of Columbia, the assist ant judges, and the judges of the criminal court, and the orphans’ court, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. Attorney-General’s office. For salaries of the Attorney-General and the clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand and forty dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney-General, one thousand dollars. For purchase of law books for the office of the Attorney-General, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Reporter. For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars. Howard’s Reports. For one hundred and fifty copies of volume sixteen of Howard’s Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, furnished by the reporter thereof to the State Department, for distribution according to existing laws, thirteen hundred dollars. District attorneys. For compensation of the district attorneys, ten thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; and the district attorney of the Territory of Utah shall receive the same fees as is now allowed by law to the district attorney of the Territory of Oregon.
Marshal of southern district of New York for court rooms. For the marshal of the southern district of New York, for repairs made in, and furniture supplied for, the court-rooms and offices of the circuit and district judges, district attorney, and marshal of the southern district of New York, rendered necessary in consequence of the destruction of the court buildings by fire, seven thousand one hundred and forty eight dollars and eighty-one cents: *Provided,* That the vouchers shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, and the expenditure approved by him.
Marshals. For compensation of the marshals, eight thousand six hundred dollars. Miscellaneous. *Miscellaneous.—*For annuities and grants, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Independent Treasury. *Independent Treasury.—*For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the United States, at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; and hereafter the annual salaries of the assistant treasurers at Boston and St. Louis shall be four thousand dollars each.
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 1846, ch. 90. 1848, ch. 166. 1851, ch. 32. 1852, ch. 108.August sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, 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, and August fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of additional clerk in office of assistant treasurer at Boston, one thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of a clerk to the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen, in the office of the assistant treasurer at New York, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars. 1846, ch. 90. For contingent expenses under the act for the safekeeping, collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, of August sixth, one 657thousand 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 1846, ch. 90.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 Miscellaneous.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.
For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors, appointed Steamboat inspectors.under the act of August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, 1852, ch. 106.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.(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 fifty 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,) forty thousand dollars. For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel and quarters, and for mileage and transportation for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army, serving in the coast survey, in cases no longer provided for by the quartermaster’s department, ten thousand dollars. *Light-House Establishment.—*For supplying five hundred and ten Light-house establishment.light-houses and beacon-lights, with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, whiting, and cleaning materials, transportation, and other necessary expenses of the same; repairing and keeping the lighting apparatus, two hundred and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of all the 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 five hundred and forty-three keepers of light-houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, two hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For salaries of forty-nine keepers of light-vessels, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses, of forty-nine light-vessels, one hundred and eighty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty-three cents. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day beacons, and for 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 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 6581861, ch. 82.of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act 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 twenty-one 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, thirty-eight thousand and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty-one lights, and buildings connected therewith, twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For salaries of forty-one keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, 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, eleven 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 1861, ch. 82.of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act 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 hundred dollars.
Coffin’s Patches. For continuing the construction of the light-house near Coffin’s Patches, off Dry Bank, on the Florida Reef, between Cary’s Fort Reef and Sand Key light-houses, sixty-five thousand dollars. Minot’s Ledge. For continuing the construction of the light-house on Minot’s Ledge, one of the Cohasset rocks, Boston Bay, Massachusetts, seventy-five thousand dollars. Ship Shoal. For continuing the construction of the light-house on Ship Shoal, Louisiana, to take the place of the light-vessel at that point, thirty thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to replace lost light-vessel, Nantucket Shoals.to mark the dangerous New South shoals, off Nantucket, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the appropriation of the third of March, eighteen Sabine River. 1853, ch. 140. Shipwrecks.hundred and fifty-three, for a first-class light-house at the mouth of the Sabine River, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the system of protecting human life from shipwreck as heretofore established, by life-boats and other means, on the coast of Massachusetts, the sum of ten thousand dollars; said money to be expended Boston Humane Society.by the Boston Humane Society, under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury.
For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the quarter master’s department, five thousand and sixty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents. Post-Office Department. To supply deficiences in the revenue of the Post-Office Department, one million one hundred and six thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Custom-houses. For the continuation of the custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. 659 To complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine, ten thousand dollars. For the completion of the custom-house at Mobile with granite facing, in place of brick, ninety-five thousand dollars. *Intercourse with Foreign Nations.—*For salaries of envoys extraordinary Foreign intercourse.and ministers plenipotentiary of the United States, two hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, six thousand dollars. For the dragoman to the mission to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the interpreter to the mission to China, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the salaries of consuls of the United States, two hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, or so much thereof as may be necessary, ninety-six thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, six thousand dollars. For office rent of the commercial agent at St. Martin, from the twelfth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the end of the present fiscal year, at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, the same being allowed because of unexpected losses sustained at said consulate.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed James Keenan.to pay to James Keenan, consul at Hong Kong, in China, the sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents, expended by him for the relief of American citizens shipwrecked in Chinese waters in August last: *Provided,* That the account and vouchers shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the claim be first approved by him. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Seamen.one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses which maybe incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens and Rescues from wrecks.vessels of the United States from shipwreck, two 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 States, Consuls.presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages for the consuls of the United States, ten thousand dollars.
For compensation of a consul-general, to reside at Simoda, in Japan, Consul-general at Simoda.at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. To reimburse Commodore M. C. Perry, of the United States navy, M. C. Perry.the extraordinary expenses incurred by him on his recent mission to Japan, and as a consideration for his eminent public service in effecting a treaty of amity and commerce with that power, twenty thousand dollars, to be received in full of all expenses or other charges incurred by him on that mission.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, Robert C. Schenck.for his full compensation while employed as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States on special mission to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the sum of nine thousand dollars; and for his full compensation as 660envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States on special mission to the Argentine Confederation, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the sum of nine thousand dollars, such payment to be in lieu of the per diem compensation provided for said Robert C. 1864, ch. 242.Schenck, in the “act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government,” approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
Edward Riddle. To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse to Edward Riddle, such sums as shall be satisfactorily shown to have been expended by him, or which said Riddle may have obligated himself to pay, on account of his official position at the Industrial Exhibition at London, England, or so much as shall be necessary, twenty-six thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no portion of the payments made pro rata, by contributors at said exhibition, shall be regarded as within this appropriation.
Collection of land revenue. *Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from Lands.—* 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, three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, one hundred thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, seventy-four thousand three hundred dollars. Land surveys. *Survey of the Public Lands.—*For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska,) including incidental expenses, and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying 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 fifteen thousand dollars.
For the resurvey and correction of thirty townships in Michigan, situated north of the first correction line, and west of the meridian, averaging sixty miles each, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For the resurvey and correction of townships forty-four, to forty-eight north, inclusive of ranges eighteen, nineteen, and twenty west, situated in the upper peninsula of Michigan, estimated at thirteen full townships, averaging sixty miles each, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For correcting erroneous and defective lines of public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand dollars. For the resurvey and correction of old erroneous surveys in Arkansas, discovered since the last report by the surveyor-general, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, nine thousand five hundred and four dollars. For the renewal and correction of old, erroneous, and defective surveys in Arkansas, discovered since the last estimate by the surveyor-general, where the marks have become obliterated by time, accident, and other causes, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates, now authorized by law, twenty-three thousand and ninety-one dollars. For retracing and renewing old, obliterated, imperfect, and defective surveys in the State of Florida, and making relocations of the lines of private land claims therein; and for locating private land claims under 661the act of twenty-eighth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight; 1848, ch. 83.also for detached and unfinished surveys, and for the execution of surveys rendered difficult by reason of swamps and lakes, and to be expended at rates not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand 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 the twelfth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, in those districts 1840, ch. 89.where the surveys are about being completed, twenty 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 hundred and forty, and the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred 1840, ch. 39. 1853, ch. 24.and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed to this special service in the General Land Office, three thousand dollars. *For Surveys in California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska.—* 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, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, and pay of messengers, eighteen thousand dollars. For continuing the surveys of standard parallels in Oregon, over the coast range of mountains to the Pacific, estimated at one hundred and fifty miles, three thousand dollars. For surveying township and subdivision lines in Oregon Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. For surveying township and subdivision lines in Washington Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, thirty thousand dollars. For office rent for the surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. For rent of surveyor-general’s office in New Mexico, fuel, books, Stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of a translator in the office of the surveyor-general of New Mexico, two thousand dollars. For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard parallels, and section lines, in Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines of Indian reservations, one hundred and one thousand dollars. For rent of surveyor-general’s office in Kansas and Nebraska, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, six thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the keys off the coast of Florida, by the officers of the coast survey, thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the islands off the coast of California, forty thousand dollars. For running and marking the boundary line between the United States and the Republic of Mexico, under the treaty concluded at the city of Mexican boundary.Mexico on the thirtieth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, seventy-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Utah Territory, three thousand dollars.
For clerks in his office, four thousand dollars. For office rent for the surveyor-general of Utah Territory, fuel, books, stationery, furniture, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. For surveying the base, principal meridian, correction parallels, town-662ship and section lines, in the Territory of Utah, at augmented rates, fifty thousand dollars. Penitentiary. *Penitentiary.—*For compensation of the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, assistant keepers, guards, and porter, of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand two hundred and twenty-nine Additional salaries.dollars and thirty-one cents; and twenty per centum additional salary is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the said officers of the penitentiary, which per centum shall commence from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three: *Provided,* That the same shall not extend to the chaplain.
For compensation of three inspectors of said penitentiary, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the present fiscal year, four hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the sum already appropriated. Pay of chaplain. For the support and maintenance of said penitentiary, six thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents. And the annual compensation of the chaplain of the penitentiary, shall be five hundred dollars, to commence from the present fiscal year. Courts in District of Columbia.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, 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, eight hundred thousand dollars.
Insane. For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane of the District of Columbia, and of the army and navy at the asylum in said District, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Hospital. For finishing and furnishing the two last sections of the hospital building, which comprises all that has been commenced, twenty-two thousand five hundred and twelve dollars. And for the erection of a lodge for the colored insane, fences, repair of the farm-houses, for ten cows for use of the asylum, for a carriage and harness for the patients, and for ditching, grading, and setting out trees, twelve thousand and twenty dollars.
Public buildings and grounds. *Public Buildings and Grounds.—*For compensation, in part, for the messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol, four hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation to the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For removing fences, grading streets, &c., preparatory to the extension of the Capitol Square, in accordance with the plan submitted by the Commissioner of Public Buildings, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended except upon property now owned by the United States.
For compensation of the public gardener, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For compensation of sixteen laborers, employed in the public grounds and President’s garden, at forty-eight dollars per month each, nine thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars. For compensation of the keeper of the western gate, Capitol Square, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. For compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the Capitol Square, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation of two night watchmen, employed at the President’s house, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President’s house, six hundred dollars. For compensation of assistant doorkeeper at the President’s house, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars. 663 For compensation of four draw-keepers at the Potomac-bridge, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, three thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars. For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard, fuel, and oil for lamps, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars. For support, care, and medical treatment of eighteen transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in Washington infirmary, three thousand dollars. 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 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, six hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, waterpipes, 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 removing the stone wall which now forms the southern boundary of the park at the President’s, in accordance with the recommendation and plan submitted by the Commissioner of Public Buildings, fifteen thousand dollars. For removing the old engine-house of the Franklin Fire Company from the triangular space on Pennsylvania Avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets, and inclosing said space with an iron fence, and improving it, six thousand dollars. For removing the present dome over the central portion of the Capitol, Dome of the Capitol.and the construction of one upon the plan as designed by Thomas U.
Walter, architect of the Capitol extension, under the direction of the President of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. For public reservation number two, and Lafayette Square, three thousand dollars. For inclosing the circle at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue with New Hampshire Avenue, and K and Twenty-Third Streets, and improving the space within said circle, three thousand dollars. For inclosing the triangular space, upon which the western market-house recently stood, with an iron fence, and improving the same, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand dollars. For footway on north front of the President's house, in lieu of the brick pavement now much broken, containing seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-six square feet, at twenty-eight cents per foot, three thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and twenty-eight cents. For finishing the brick pavement on the south front of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For purchase of books for library at the executive mansion, to be President’s library.expended under the direction of the President of the United States, two hundred and fifty dollar’s.
To complete and revise the grades of the city of Washington, and Washington.to determine the plans for the drainage and sewerage thereof, per act 6641862, ch. 108.of August thirty-one, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, five thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvements of the same, and keeping them in order, three thousand dollars. For the completion of the east wing of the Patent-Office building, and the improvements connected therewith, ten thousand seven hundred dollars.
For lighting the President’s house and Capitol, the public grounds around them, and around the executive offices and Pennsylvania Avenue, East Capitol Street to Second Street, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel for the President’s house, one thousand dollars. For furnace keeper at the President’s house, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. To complete the furnishing of the rooms of the new wing of the Patent-Office building, with furniture, and providing the saloon therein with cases for models, fifteen thousand dollars.
Agricultural statistics. For the collection of agricultural statistics, and procuring and distributing cuttings and seeds, twenty-five thousand dollars. Washington aqueduct. For continuing the work on the Washington aqueduct, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For completing the engravings and illustrations of the Mexican boundary survey, ten thousand dollars. To meet the expenses of the transportation of certain persons from San Diego to San Francisco, California, charged with a violation of the neutrality laws of the United States, and who surrendered themselves to the military authorities, one thousand two hundred dollars.
California land commission. 1851, ch. 41. For salaries and incidental expenses of the commission appointed under the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, for settling land-claims in California, from third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, in addition to unexpended balance, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Temporary clerks in pension office. For compensation of thirty clerks of class one, ten of class two, nine of class three, and one at two thousand dollars per annum, one messenger at eight hundred and forty dollars, one messenger at six hundred dollars, two laborers at five hundred and seventy-six dollars each, and four watchmen at six hundred dollars each per annum, for temporary service at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, in the Pension-Office on account of bounty lands, seventy-one thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.
Contingencies. *For Contingent Expenses, viz.—*For rent of rooms, stationery, engraving plates for bounty-land warrants, paper, and printing the same, binding books, blank books for registers, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of the current fiscal year on account of military bounty lands, thirty thousand dollars. For clerk hire, patents, records, stationery, and miscellaneous items in the General Land-Office, on account of military bounty lands, seventy thousand dollars: *Provided, however,* That the Secretary of the Interior, at his discretion, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to use any portion of said appropriation for piece work, or by the day, week, month, or year, at such rate or rates, as he may deem just and fair.
For compensation of ten clerks of class one, to be employed temporarily 3d Auditor.in the office of the Third Auditor, on account of military bounty lands, twelve thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of the Interior be, Jacob P. Chase.and hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Jacob P. Chase, the usual compensation for the services of his two sons, as clerks in the Pension Office, for the time they were engaged as such, and the sum necessary to pay the same be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. 665 And the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to Building in Washington for preservation of trophies, &c. and of arms of troops of District of Columbia.be constructed on such site, in a central position on the public grounds, in the city of Washington, as may be selected by the President of the United States, a suitable building for the care and preservation of the ordinance, and arms, and accoutrements of the United States, required for the use of the volunteers and militia of the District of Columbia, and for the care and preservation of the military trophies of the revolutionary and other wars, and for the deposit of newly-invented and model arms, for the military service, the said ordnance and arms, and the building to be used by the volunteers and militia of the District of Columbia, under such regulations as maybe prescribed by the President, and for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and Deficiency appropriations.the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deficiences in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year, ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:— For additional to the appropriations by the act of fourth August, eighteen 1854, ch. 108hundred and fifty-four, for the contingent expenses of the Senate, viz:
For binding, thirty thousand dollars. For lithographing and engraving, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the House of Representatives, viz:— For twenty-four copies of “Globe” for each member and delegate of Globe and reporting.the second session of the thirty-third Congress, seventeen thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars. For binding twenty-four copies of Globe for each member and delegate of the second session of the thirty-third Congress, six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars and eighty cents.
For reporting the debates of the second session of the thirty-third Congress, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the House for the Reporters.Congressional Globe, viz: William W. Curran, William Hincks, Francis H. Smith, John J. McElhone, Theodore F. Andrews, Charles B. Collar, and Henry G. Hayes, the same amount of additional compensation for reporting the debates of the House for the present session of Congress, as has been heretofore paid them, eight hundred dollars each, five thousand six hundred dollars:
And for the payment of a like sum to each of the reporters of the Senate, namely: Richard Sutton, D. F. Murray, [D. F. Murphy,] R. M. Patterson, Henry Pardon, James J. Murphy, and David W. Brown, four thousand eight hundred dollars. To pay for twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the first session of the present Congress, for each of the delegates from Nebraska and Kansas, being forty-eight copies, at six dollars per copy, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; and for binding the same, one hundred and ninety-two volumes, at sixty cents a volume, one hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty cents.
For additional amount required for binding documents, thirty thousand Binding, &c.dollars. For additional amount required for engraving and lithographing, thirty thousand dollars. For the payment of salaries and other expenses of the Census Bureau, Census bureau.until the completion of the mortality statistics, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For supplying a deficiency in the appropriation for the printing of the Printing.executive departments, thirty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For the completion of the printing of the Senate, ordered at the present session, and paper for the same, thirty thousand dollars. 666 For the completion of the printing of the House, ordered at the present session, and paper for the same, sixty thousand dollars. N. R. Haskell. To Norman R. Haskell, of Michigan, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-six cents, in full of charges as custodian of public property. Maps. To pay the draughtsman and clerks employed upon the maps of the public lands for the House of Representatives and the committee of public lands, for the balance of the present fiscal year, four thousand dollars.
And the draughtsmen employed on the maps of the public lands under the charge of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, shall be paid the same compensation as is paid to the draughtsmen similarly employed under the direction of the Senate. For amount equal to drafts, checks, and deposits, awaiting decisions in certain applications for approval of sales of Indian reserves, including eight hundred dollars collected by, and deposited with, the late firm of Selden, Withers, and Company, by a former disbursing officer of government, four thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided,* That such portion of this sum as may be recovered from said firm and disbursing officer, shall be reimbursed to the treasury of the United States.
State Department. *Contingent Expenses of Department of State.—*For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers in the States and Territories, and in the District of Columbia, in addition to any balance that may remain of former appropriations, twenty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars. Oregon. *Territory of Oregon.—*For compensation of chief justice, two associate judges, and secretary, five thousand dollars. For amount ascertained to be due to Governor Joseph Lane, for and on account of his disbursements in eighteen hundred and forty-nine and fifty, for the necessary contingent expenses of his office, one thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.
Washington. *Territory of Washington.—*For compensation of chief justice, two associate judges, and secretary, three thousand five hundred and four dollars and eleven cents. Minnesota. *Territory of Minnesota.—*For compensation of chief justice, and two associate judges, six hundred dollars. Utah. *Territory of Utah.—*For compensation of chief justice, two associate judges, and secretary, two thousand three hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory of Utah, one thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents, to discharge such sums as the accounting officers, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may deem to have been necessarily expended by the executive of said Territory, during the years one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, fifty-three, and fifty-four.
New Mexico. *Territory of New Mexico.—*For compensation of governor, chief justice, two associate judges, and secretary, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Army. *Support of the Army.—*For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, one hundred and twenty-five thousand and sixty-nine dollars and three cents. Mint. *Mint at Philadelphia.—*For increased compensation of clerks, by the thirteenth section of act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, 1864, ch. 108.three thousand dollars.
For supplying deficiency in the appropriation, in the current fiscal year, made for the mint in Philadelphia, thirty-seven thousand dollars, if so much be necessary. For supplying deficiency in the appropriation, in the current fiscal year, for the branch mint in San Francisco, sixty-six thousand dollars, if so much be necessary. For increased compensation of the chief clerk of the branch mint at 667New Orleans, by the thirteenth section of the act of fourth August, eighteen 1854, ch. 108.hundred and fifty four, four hundred dollars.
For construction of new roof to branch mint at Charlotte, North Carolina, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. *Independent Treasury.—*For additional compensation of the assistant Independent treasury.treasurer at New York, two thousand dollars. For additional compensation of clerk to treasurer of mint at Philadelphia, as depositary, per act fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, 1854, ch. 108.five hundred dollars. *Custom-Houses.—*For furnishing the custom-house, post-office, and Custom-houses.
BangorUnited States court-room, at Bangor, Maine, one thousand five hundred dollars for each, making four thousand five hundred dollars; the appropriation for the custom-house, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; that for the post-office, under the Postmaster-General; and that for the court-room, under the Secretary of the Interior. For the completion of the custom-house at San Francisco, California, San Francisco.one hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and nine cents. *Miscellaneous.—*To complete the penitentiary in Utah Territory, Miscellaneous.twelve thousand dollars.
For lighting and ventilating the upper story of the Treasury building, and for giving additional security to treasury vault, twenty-four thousand six hundred and forty dollars. To render the mint at Philadelphia fire-proof, and to give additional security to the funds deposited in its vaults, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to pay to Messrs. Little, Brown and Little, Brown and Co.Company, for one hundred and ninety-seven pages of additional post-office routes in the pamphlet volume of the United States Statutes at Large, first session of the thirty-third Congress, four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
To defray expenses incurred, and to be incurred, in complying with the resolution of the House of Representatives, twenty-sixth December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to pay Blythe and Company, of Port Blythe and Co.Louis, in the island of Mauritius, the amount of two bills of exchange drawn upon the Department of State, by George M. Farnum, commercial agent, in payment of the expenses incurred in relieving destitute American citizens, which drafts were cashed by said Blythe and Company, seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty cents.
For professional services additional to his regular and ordinary official Northern district attorney in California.duties, rendered by the United States attorney for the northern district of California, on behalf of the United States, in the district court of San Francisco, in appeals from the land commissioner, to ascertain and settle the private land claims in California, from the first of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to first of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to pay the amount due George K. Herrick, for arrears of pay for services from first of April, George E. Herrick.eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the eighteenth of July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties, as provided for, one clerk, at fourteen hundred dollars per annum, by the act of ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled 1836, ch. 60.“An act providing for the salaries of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes,” eleven hundred and nine dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For payment of clerks temporarily employed in the office of the Clerk of Postmaster-General.Postmaster-General, from first July to tenth August, eighteen hundred 668and fifty-four, three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-eight cents. Commissioner and agent under treaty with Great Britain. For compensation and expenses of the commissioner anti the agent of the United States under the convention for the adjustment of claims between the United States and Great Britain, at twelve thousand dollars each for the entire service, twenty-four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this sum shall include what has already been paid to either of them under the said convention.
That the Secretary of State cause the accounts of Joseph Eve deceased, Betsey W. Eve.late chargé d’affaires of the United States to the late Republic of Texas, to be audited and adjusted by the proper accounting officers of the government, and that the amount found due thereon be paid to Betsey W. Eve, widow of said Joseph Eve, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Court of claims. For salaries of the three judges of the court of claims, twelve thousand dollars.
For salary of solicitor of said court, three thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the two clerks, three thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said court, two thousand dollars. For the salaries of the judges, solicitor, and clerks of said court, and for Other expenses thereof, prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, or so much thereof as maybe required, five thousand dollars. Minister to Spain. For outfit of minister of the United States to Spain, nine thousand dollars.
New Granada. For outfit of chargés des affaires, or minister resident to New Granada, four thousand five hundred dollars. Land-officers. For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, forty-one thousand dollars. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices, and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, eleven thousand dollars. Books. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to purchase for the new members from Virginia, Kentucky, and New York, and the delegates from Kansas and Nebraska, the same books as have been furnished the other members of the present House of Representatives, seven thousand four hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives:— House contingencies. For stationery for members, four thousand nine hundred and ten dollars; and that the allowance to members of the House, for the present session, shall be thirty-five dollars, instead of twenty-five, as heretofore. Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. Oil for lighthouses. For oil for light-houses, being the difference between the estimated and the actual cost of that article, eighty-two thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventeen cents.
Commissioner and other expenses under reciprocity treaty. For compensation of commissioner provided in the first article of the reciprocity treaty with-Great Britain, two thousand dollars. For boats and other incidental expenses connected with the duties of the commissioner provided in the first article of the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, three thousand dollars. Exploring expedition. For completing the publications of the works of the exploring expedition, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Wm. H. Powell for a picture. To enable the Committee on the Library to pay to William H. Powell two thousand dollars, in full for the picture painted by him for the United States, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law. And the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby directed to settle C. W. Hinman.and pay the account of C. W. Hinman, third assistant librarian, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. 669 For the erection of a suitable house for the plants recently brought from House for plants from Japan.Japan for the United States, fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
For the support of the public greenhouses, including the pay of horticulturalist Greenhouses, &c.and assistants, three thousand dollars. To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to provide additional Library rooms.furnaces for the Library of Congress, one thousand dollars. To construct suitable iron railings in front of the alcoves of the library, and other repairs, in addition to the balance of appropriations unexpended for the repairs of the Congressional Library, under the direction of the architect, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the salaries to which envoys Salaries of foreign ministers under act of 1855, ch. 133, to be allowed to such as are then in office. Secretaries may be dispensed with.extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary shall be entitled on the first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, may be allowed to such as may be in office on that day without reappointment, nor shall such envoys extra ordinary and ministers plenipotentiary be required to take with them secretaries of legation, unless they should be allowed by the President of the United States.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the Secretary of State be, and he is Clerks in Department of State, their classification and number.hereby, authorized and required to cause the examination, classification, and distribution, of the clerks in the Department of State, in the same manner as directed in other executive departments by the provisions contained in the third section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, who shall be paid annual salaries 1853, ch. 97.according to the act amendatory thereof, approved twenty-second April, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
And the whole permanent clerical force 1854, ch. 62.in said department shall consist of three clerks of class one, two of class two, eight of class three, eight of class four, and one chief clerk, in lieu of those now authorized by law; and one of the said clerks of class four shall give bonds as required by the Independent Treasury Act, and make the disbursements for the department, and superintend the northcast executive building, and shall receive therefor two hundred dollars per annum, in addition to his salary as clerk of class four: *Provided,* That the increased salary hereby allowed the chief clerk, shall be construed to take effect from the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and be paid accordingly.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That upon the tract so to be selected Marine hospital at Chelsea, (Mass.)* * Sections 5 and 6 were probably meant to be transposed.and set apart, there shall be erected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a marine hospital for said district, of faced brick exterior walls, upon a hammered granite underpinning, one hundred and forty feet long, fifty-two feet deep in the centre, and one hundred feet deep at the wings, and forty-five feet high from top of entrance-story floor to the eaves, with verandahs to each story on each side between the wings, and on each end of the building; for the construction of which a sum equal to the proceeds of the sale hereinafter directed, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That a tract of ten acres of the land Part of naval hospital lands at Chelsea set apart for a marine hospital.heretofore purchased by the United States for the purposes of the naval hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, be selected and set apart under the direction of the President of the United States, for the use of the marine hospital of the district of Boston and Charlestown. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Sale of land and buildings of marine hospital at Chelsea.is hereby authorized to sell and convey the land with the buildings thereon belonging to the United States, now occupied as the marine hospital at Chelsea, as may seem to be most advantageous to the United States; and he is hereby empowered to execute valid title deeds of the same to 670the purchaser or purchasers; and that the proceeds of such sales shall be paid into the treasury of the United States.
Mode of preparing the estimates for the appropriation bills. 1844, ch. 105. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the provisions contained in the second section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government,” approved the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, be required to be carried into effect in all particulars, any act in conflict therewith being hereby repealed; and all estimates for the compensation of officers of the government authorized by law to be employed shall be based upon the expressed provisions of law, and not upon the authority of executive distribution thereof; and the act, and section authorizing the same, with the volume and page where such authority may be found, shall be cited in each and all estimates respectively.
Settlement of accounts of T. Bulter King. Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to credit T. Butler King, late collector and depositary at San Francisco, in the sum of twelve thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents, being the amount of money proved to have been lost by the destruction of the custom-house building and vault at San Francisco, by the fire of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.
Additional examiners and assistant examiners in Patent-Office. Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted,* That there shall be appointed and paid in the manner now provided by law, four principal examiners and four assistant examiners of patents, in addition to the examining force now authorized by law, to be so employed in the Patent-Office; and should the necessities of the public service, in the estimation of the Commissioner of Patents, require any additional examining force to that herein provided, previous to the next session of Congress, there may also be appointed and paid in the manner now provided by law, in addition to the foregoing, not exceeding two principal and two assistant examiners, who shall not so continue to be employed subsequent to the expiration of said next session of Congress, without further provision of law.
Salary of principal clerk of National Observatory. 1802, ch. 108. That the second section of the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, which provides “that the clerks, messengers, watch men, and laborers, employed at an annual salary, or in temporary positions, in the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government in the City of Washington, whose annual compensation does not exceed twelve hundred dollars, shall, in addition thereto, be allowed an increase compensation of twenty per cent.,” shall be construed to include the principal clerk at the National Observatory at Washington; and that hereafter the salary of said clerk shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum.
Deficiency appropriation for steam dredge boats on the lakes. And one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifteen cents to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for building four steam dredge boats, in use by the War Department, on Lakes “Champlain,” “Erie,” “Michigan,” and Ontario, to be applied for materials, machinery, tools, and labor furnished in painting said boats. Marine hospital. Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be constructed the following buildings:— Burlington, (Vt.
) At Burlington, Vermont, a marine hospital, to cost not more than thirty-five thousand dollars. Wilmington, (N. C.) At Wilmington, North Carolina, a marine hospital, including a pest-house for the separate accommodation of patients with contagious and infective diseases, to cost not more than forty thousand dollars. Sites for said Hospitals. Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums mentioned 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 Contingencies.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 arc hereby, appropriated for the pur-671poses aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That no money hereby appropriated shall be used or Proviso.applied for the purposes mentioned, until a valid title for 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 property Taxes.of the United States that may be thereon during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.
That the compensation of the collector of customs at Sandusky, Toledo, Compensation of collector at Sandusky, Toledo, and Cleveland.and Cleveland, be hereafter the same as is now allowed by law to the collector at Detroit. That the provisions of the act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen [hundred] and fifty-three, “to regulate the fees and costs to be allowed Fees of officers of courts in territories. 1853, ch. 80.clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the circuit and district courts of the United States, and for other purposes,” are hereby extended to the Territories of Minnesota, New Mexico, and Utah, as fully, in all particulars, as they would be, had the word “Territories” been inserted in the sixth line after the word “States,” and the same had read, “in the several States and in the Territories of the United States.
” This clause to take effect from and after the date of said act, and the accounting officers will settle the accounts within its purview, accordingly. For the building of a light-house on the government reservation at Light-house at Minnesota Point.Minnesota Point, near the head of Lake Superior, in the Territory of Minnesota, fifteen thousand dollars. And for the construction of two lighthouses in California, one at Two lighthouses in California.Crescent City, and one at Trinity Bay, fifteen thousand dollars each, should the Secretary of the Treasury decide that said light-houses were necessary, after proper examination and surveys.
Sec. 13. *And be it further enacted,* That Franklin, in the collection Franklin (Texas) made a port of entry, instead of Frontera.district of Paso del Norte, Texas, be and the same is hereby made the port of entry for said district, instead of Frontera; and the collector shall reside thereat. Sec. 14. *And be it further enacted,* That the treaties made during Indian treaties to be published in the papers in the territories.the present Congress, with the Indian tribes, and those to be made in future, shall be published as the laws and other treaties in the news papers of such States and Territories as the Secretary of the Interior may think expedient.
That in the settlement of the accounts of E. F. Beale, late superintendent Settlement of accounts of E. F. Beale.of Indian affairs in California, the accounting officers of the treasury be authorized to allow him the amount actually paid to an interpreter, during the years eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and eighteen hundred and fifty-four, upon producing satisfactory vouchers therefor. Sec. 15. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of seven hundred Payment to J. F. Miller and Pyney-ohte-mah.and sixty-five dollars, the balance of two thousand two hundred dollars directed to be paid James F.
Miller, and Pyney-ohte-mah, or either of them, by the Senate amendment to the treaty with the Miama Indians, made in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be, and the same is hereby, directed to be paid to the said Miller and Pyney-ohte-mah, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. To pay this amount for interest due to the Chickasaws, at the rate of Chickasaws.five per cent, per annum, in pursuance of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, on the sum of one hundred and twelve thousand, forty-two dollars and ninety-nine cents, improperly charged to said nation, according to the decision of the proper accounting officer’s of the treasury, from the first September eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, until the ninth March, eighteen hundred and fifty, seventy-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-five cents.
Sec. 16. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury Appropriation for buildings.be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be constructed the following buildings:— 672 Bristol, ( K. I.) At Bristol, Rhode Island, for the accommodation of the custom-house and post-office, a building of brick, with fire-proof floors, constructed of iron beams, and brick work, iron roof, shutters, sills, Ac., twenty-five feet by thirty, and twenty-five feet high, to cost not more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Pensacola, (Fa.) At Pensacola, Florida, for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, and United States court, a building of like materials, thirty-five by fifty feet, and forty feet high, to cost not more than thirty-five thousand dollars. Cleveland, (Ohio.) At Cleveland, Ohio, for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, and United States court, a building of stone, eighty-five by sixty feet, and sixty feet high, of like floors, beams, roof, shutters, &c., to cost not more than eighty-eight thousand dollars.
Plattsburgh, (N. Y.) At Plattsburgh, New York, for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, and United States court, a building of brick, of like floors, roof, beams, shutters, &c., forty-five feet by sixty, and forty-eight feet high, to cost not more than fifty thousand dollars. Alexandria, (Va.) At Alexandria, Virginia, to accommodate the custom-house, post-office, and United States court, a building of brick, of like floors, beams, roof, shutters, &c., forty-five feet by sixty, and forty-eight feet high, to cost not more than fifty thousand dollars.
Barnstable, (Mass.) At Barnstable, Massachusetts, for the accommodation of the custom-house and post-office, a building of brick, of like floors, beams, roof, shutters, &c., forty-five feet by thirty-two, and thirty-two feet in height, and to cost not more than twenty thousand dollars. Sites for said buildings and contingencies. Sec. 17. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums mentioned in 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 shall be used or applied for the purposes mentioned, until a valid title to the land for the site of such buildings, in each case, shall be vested in the United States, and until the State shall also duly release and relinquish Tax.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.
Settlement of accounts of Secretary of Minnesota. Sec. 18. *And be it further enacted,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury of the United States, be and they are hereby authorized and required to credit the secretary of the Territory of Minnesota, in the settlement of his accounts, with the sum of eight hundred and eighty-five dollars, the amount paid by the said secretary for collating, indexing, and superintending the printing of the statutes of said Territory, for the years eighteen hundred and forty-nine, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and eighteen hundred and fifty-three; and for arranging, indexing, and in part reporting the decisions of the supreme court of said Territory, under joint resolution of the legislative assembly of said Territory, passed in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three.
Settlement of accounts of John Random. Sec. 19. *And be it further enacted,* That the proper accounting officer of the Department of the Interior be authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of John Random, deceased, a friendly Creek Indian (of the half-blood,) for losses sustained and property destroyed by the hostile Creek Indians, in the war of eighteen hundred and fourteen, in such manner and upon such terms as may be just and equitable; the amount, when so ascertained, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the heirs and legal representatives of the said 673John Bandon: *Provided,* That the amount shall not exceed the sum of five thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 20. *And be it further enacted,* That there shall be appointed a Consul-general in the British America provinces.consul-general to reside in the British North American provinces, with a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, and the sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for that object. For the reimbursement of the Patent-Office fund for moneys heretofore Patent-office for seeds, &c.paid out by appropriations of acts of Congress, for seeds, and the collection of agricultural statistics, forty thousand and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For filling up and draining the grounds in the vicinity of the national Botanic garden.greenhouses, known as the Botanic Garden; and for walling with brick the creek which passes through the same, twelve thousand dollars. Sec. 21. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of twenty-five Pay of Texas volunteers.thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the necessary expenses of six companies of volunteers called into the service of the United States, by Brigadier-General Smith, in the State of Texas, to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of War.
That the President be authorized to appoint, during the recess of Congress, Register and receiver for Umpqua land district. 1865, ch. 109.to be nominated to the Senate for confirmation at the next session, the register and receiver of the land-office for the Umpqua land district, in the Territory of Oregon, established by the act of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to take effect on the seventeenth of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Sec. 22. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Interior Temporary clerks in Department of Indian Affairs.be authorized, in his discretion, the employment of temporary clerks by superintendents of Indian affairs, on such occasions and for such periods of time as he may deem necessary to the public service; for which purpose there is hereby appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars.
Sec. 23. *And be it further enacted,* That the seventh section of the Salaries of clerks in mint at New Orleans. 1837, ch. 8.act of eighteenth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An act supplementary to an act establishing the mint, and regulating the coins of the United States,” be so amended as to extend the allowance for the annual salary of the clerks in the branch mint of the United States at New Orleans, to eighteen hundred dollars each, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at the discretion of the officers authorized by law to appoint, with the approbation of the President of the United States.
That the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized to Allowance to secretary of Nebraska.allow to the secretary of the Territory of Nebraska the difference between the salary of the governor of said Territory, and his salary as secretary, during the period he acted as governor after the decease of, and until the arrival in the Territory of the successor of the late Governor Burt, which amount after being ascertained is payable out of the appropriation “for 1854, ch. 242.salaries of governor, three judges and secretary” of said Territory, as made by Congress, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.
Sec. 24. *And be it further enacted,* That the tenth section of the act Payments to Cherokees.making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be 1854, ch. 167.carried into effect by paying the valuations, ascertained and reported by Messrs. Upton and Summey, and other official assessors, as ordered by the commissioners, under the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with interest on said valuations respectively from the date of the said commissioners’ orders for assessment; and that the Secretary of the Interior be further directed to 674fill the blanks in such awards as are on his files, with such amounts respectively as may be established by proof of value satisfactory to him, and pay the same.
Public grounds. For taking up and relaying and renewing so much as has washed away at the sewer along Fifteenth Street west, contiguous to the public grounds south of the President’s, three thousand dollars. Rates of officers in Patent-Office. Sec. 25. *And be it further enacted,* That the first assistant examiners in the Patent-Office, shall be rated as of the fourth class of clerks, and the second assistant examiners, machinist and librarian, as of the third class. Accounts of John Adair.
That the Secretary of the Treasury he authorized and required to settle and adjust the accounts of John Adair, collector of customs at Astoria, Oregon, upon fair and equitable principles, taking into consideration the particular circumstances of the case. Pay of surveyor-general of Washington Territory. Sec. 26. *And be it further enacted,* That there shall be paid to the surveyor-general of Washington Territory and the officers employed under him, the same amount of compensation as is allowed to the surveyor-general of New Mexico, and the officers employed under him.
Sec. 27. *And be it further enacted,* That, in accordance with the memorial of the Menominee Indians to the President and Congress, dated the fourth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and executed in general council of the nation, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Payment to Richard W. Thompson.Richard W. Thompson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one half of the amount stipulated in said memorial, and in an agreement of said Indians with said Thompson dated the fifteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty one, for his services as attorney for said Indians in the prosecution of a claim in their behalf for additional compensation for lands ceded by them to the United States by the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and that the sum so paid be deducted from the annuities when due and payable, that are to be paid to the said Indians under the treaty of the twelfth of May, eighteen hundred and fifty four, and the amendments thereto.
Branch mint at New Orleans. For rebuilding and repairs of the building for the branch mint at New Orleans, fifty-five thousand dollars. Public buildings at Indianapolis. For the erection of a building for a court house, post-office, and other public purposes, at Indianapolis, Indiana, fifty thousand dollars. Appropriation for a work of art by Hiram Powers. Sec. 28. *And be it further enacted,* That to enable the President of the United States to contract with Hiram Powers, for some work of art executed or to be executed by him, and suitable for the ornament of the Capitol, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sale of proposed site for buildings at Detroit, and purchase of another. Sec. 29. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to sell the United States court-house and the water-lot belonging to the United States, at Detroit, Michigan, on which the custom-house, post-office, and court-house was directed to be constructed, under the pro-visions of the second section of the act approved fifth [fourth] August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; and to apply so much of the proceeds as may be necessary to the purchase of a suitable site for said building as is therein provided for, and on which the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to erect said building.
Indian treaties. For fulfilling treaty with the Chippewa Indians, negotiated February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. For fulfilling treaties with the Winnebagoes, per articles of twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, seventy-three thousand seven hundred dollars. For fulfilling the articles with the Umpquas and Calapooias of the Umpqua Valley, Oregon, of the twenty-ninth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
For fulfilling the articles negotiated November eighteenth, eighteen THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 198. 1855. 675hundred and fifty-four, with certain bands of Chasta, Scoton, and Umpqua Indians, thirty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For fulfilling treaty with the Rogue River Indians, per articles of fifteenth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For fulfilling the articles negotiated December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with certain bands of Indians of Puget’s Sound Washington Territory, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For fulfilling the articles negotiated January tenth, eighteen bundred and fifty-five, with certain confederated bands of Calapooia, Molala, and Clackamas Indians, of Oregon, sixty two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For the increased pay of Indian agents and pay of additional agents authorized Appropriation for pay of Indian agents.by the act passed the first March, eighteen hundred and fifty five, six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the increase of pay to Indian sub-agents, authorized by the act passed March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
For pay of three Indian agents in California, per act twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and act passed March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twelve thousand dollars. For expenses of the reconnoissance of the boundary line between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, one thousand dollars. For fulfilling treaty with the Wyandott Indians of thirty-first January, Appropriation for Wyandots. Former appropriations repealed. 1855, ch. 204. eighteen hundred and fifty-five: *Provided,* That the appropriations made for said Indians by the Indian appropriation bill passed at this session of Congress are hereby repealed: one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For arrearages due the Choctaw Indians under various treaty stipulations, Arrearages to Choctaws.as per report on statement of the proper accounting officer of the treasury, transmitted by the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the tenth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to be paid over or expended for the benefit of the Choctaw nation, as may be requested by the authorized delegation thereof now in Washington, ninety-two thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
Approved, March 3, 1855.