Chapter LII. to amend the third section of the “Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government far the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,” and for other purposes
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Chap. LII.— An Act to amend the third section of the “Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government far the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,” and for other purposes. April 22, 1854.1853, ch. 97. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Salary of the clerks in departments. That of the clerks authorized by the third section of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,” those of the first class shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum; those of the second class, a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum; those of the third class, a salary of sixteen hundred dollars per annum; and all clerks not provided for in this act, performing the same or similar duties with any one of the classes, shall receive the same compensation as is allowed to such class; and the clerks employed in the Census Bureau shall be paid, during the present fiscal year, the same as is hereby allowed to clerks of the second class.
Sec. 2. Salary of stamp agent in Post Office Department.Twenty per cent, added to the pay of certain messengers, clerks, laborers, watchmen, lamp-lighters, draw-keepers, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That the stamp and blank agent for the Post Office Department receive the same salary as clerks of the second class, provided for in the first section of this act; and an addition of twenty per cent, is hereby added to the pay now authorized by law to each of the messengers, packers, laborers, and watchmen of the different executive departments of the government in Washington; to the clerks employed at the navy-yard and marine barracks at Washington; to the clerk, messenger and laborer in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, doorkeeper and assistant doorkeeper at the Executive Mansion; public gardener, laborers employed in the public grounds and President’s garden; two additional watchmen and the police at the Capitol; watchmen employed at the President’s House and Reservation number two, Lamplighter, the general superintendent; the draw-keepers of the Second section of 1852, ch. 108, extended to certain persons.bridges across the Eastern Branch and Potomac; and that the provisions of the second section of the act of August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, “making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three,” &c., be, and is hereby extended to such persons herein enumerated who were in employment during the fiscal year, and were excluded from the benefit of said act by the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury.
Sec. 3. Salary of Sup. of Census, and Assistant Post-masters General.*And be it further enacted*, That instead of the salaries now allowed by law to the Superintendent of the Census, and to the Assistant Postmasters General, they shall each receive the same salary that is paid to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 4. When the increased pay commences.*And be it further enacted*, That the increased compensation provided for in this act shall commence from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and the necessary money to carry this act into effect is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not Proviso.otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as making an appropriation for any period beyond the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
Approved, April 22, 1854.