Chapter LX. to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, and for other purposes
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Chap. LX.— An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, and for other purposes. May 31, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, To supply deficiences for 1854. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the apppropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. State Department. Secretary of State.For the increased compensation of the Secretary of State, from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty seven cents; Assistant Secretary of State.For compensation of the Assistant Secretary of State, from the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, three thousand six hundred and nine dollars and ninety cents;
Publishing laws.For publishing the laws, in pamphlet form and in the newspapers of the States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; Extra clerk hire and copying.For extra clerk hire and copying, four 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 qt one session to be answered at another;
Clerk employed in recess of Congress.For payment of a clerk, necessarily employed in the recess of Congress to bring up the arrearages of the Disbursing Agent of the Department of State, four hundred and thirty-two dollars; Publication of Biennial Register.For compiling and supervising the publication of the Biennial Register, five hundred dollars; Charge d’affaires to Denmark.For outfit of a Charge d’Affaires to Denmark, four thousand five hundred dollars; Allowance for ministers returning from certain countries.For the usual return allowance for Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and Chili, eighteen thousand dollars; 291 For the usual return allowance of Charge d’Affaires, or Ministers residentAllowance for ministers or charge d’affaires returning from certain countries. to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, New Grenada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;
For the usual return allowance of the Minister resident to Turkey, oneMinister to Turkey, return allowance, outfit. thousand five hundred dollars; For the outfit of the Minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars; For outfits of Charges d’Affaires, two thousand four hundred and thirty-nineOutfits of charge d’affaires. dollars and two cents; For an outfit for the late Charge d’Affaires to Austria, four thousandCharge to Austria. five hundred dollars; For salary of the Dragoman to Turkey, one hundred and twenty-twoDragoman to Turkey. dollars and eighty-three cents;
For salary of the Assistant Dragoman to Turkey, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirteen cents; For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, six thousandBarbary powers. one hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-nine cents; For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, fifteenContingencies. thousand dollars; For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and three cents; For payment of a balance due the agent employed for purchasing,Cemetery near the city of Mexico. walling, and ditching a piece of land near the city of Mexico for a cemetery or burial ground, four hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-seven cents;*Ante*, p. 21.
To pay expenses incurred by Edward Cunningham, acting Consul atEdward Cunningham. Shanghai, for a police force for the preservation of the peace by American citizens, five hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty cents; For payment of the claim of Thomas N. Johnson for his services asThomas N. Johnson. Marshal at the port of Shanghai, from the ninth of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-four cents;
For payment to John Bozman Kerr, in addition to his salary andJohn Bozman Kerr. allowances as Charge d’Affaires to Nicaragua, the amount of his expenses on the journey to San Salvador and Guatemala, and of his expenses at those capitals under bis commissions to the governments of those republics, together with a full outfit as Charge d’Affaires to the national representation of Central America. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. For the increased compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury fromSecretary of Treasury. the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents;
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to compensate the agentCherokee Indians.1848 ch. 118. employed in paying annuities to Cherokee Indians remaining in North Carolina, under the act of the twenty-ninth of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, five hundred dollars; For contingencies, including rent, fuel, labor, light, and watching, forContingencies.Third Auditor of the Treasury. the building occupied by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, from the first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, three thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents;
For contingencies, including rent, fuel, labor, light, and watching, forContingencies. the building occupied by the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, from the first of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. 292 Auditor of Post-Office Department.For contingent expenses of the office of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department, viz:
Miscellaneous and printing before the 4th of March, 1853.For miscellaneous and printing prior to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, three thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-eight cents; Printing, &c., since 4th of March, 1853.For printing, furniture, and labor since the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, two thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fourteen cents; Mint at San Francisco, salaries of officers, clerks, and workmen.For salaries of officers and clerks in Branch Mint at San Francisco, California, twelve thousand six hundred and seventy dollars;
For wages of workmen in Branch Mint at San Francisco, California, thirty-three thousand three hundred dollars; Contingent expenses at the mint.For incidental and contingent expenses of the Branch Mint at San Francisco, California, four thousand two hundred dollars; Assay office, New York.For salaries of officers and clerks in Assay Office, New York, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars; For wages of workmen in Assay Office, New York, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses in Assay Office, New York, twenty-one thousand dollars;
Mint at San Francisco.For the employment of workmen, materials, and other expenses necessary to put the Branch Mint at San Francisco, California, in operation, forty thousand dollars; Agricultural statistics.Distribution of seeds.For the collection of agricultural statistics and the procurement and distribution of seeds and cuttings, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Patents, ten thousand dollars; New Mexico.To complete the public buildings in New Mexico, fifty thousand dollars;
Territory of Minnesota.For finishing the Capitol and Territorial Prison in the Territory of Minnesota, and grading and fencing the grounds of same, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Department of Interior. Secretary of Interior.For the increased compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents;
Surveyor-General of Oregon.For the increased compensation of the Surveyor-General of Oregon, from the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, one thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents; Surveyor-General’s office in California.For rent of Surveyor-General’s office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, and pay of messengers, four thousand dollars;
For compensation of a Draughtsman and Clerks for the office of the Surveyor-General of California, ten thousand dollars; Contingent expenses of office of Commissioner of Pensions.For contingent expenses in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions: For stationery, one thousand dollars; for binding books, one thousand dollars; for office furniture, one thousand dollars; for printing and engraving bounty-land certificates, one thousand five hundred dollars; for miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin.For continuing the surveys in the northern portions of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, at the rates now authorized by law, forty thousand dollars; Pensions, under Act 1853, ch. 41.For paying pensions, under the act of the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars; Pensions of those wounded in last war with Great Britain.For paying pensions of invalids who were wounded on board of private armed vessels during the last war with Groat Britain, from the first of293 July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, eight thousand four hundredPension Office at Boston abolished. dollars; and the office for paying privateer pensions in Boston is hereby abolished, and the said pensioners shall be paid as privateer pensions are paid at other places;
For the President’s house and grounds, for fuel for the President’sPresident’s house and grounds. house, and for iron fences, three thousand eight hundred dollars; For repairs of the Capitol, and improving the grounds around it, sixCapitol and grounds around it. thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs of water-pipes, two hundred dollars; To pay two draw-keepers, on the Long Bridge, up to the. first of July,Long Bridge. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, four hundred dollars;
For trees, tree-boxes, and repairs of pavements, five hundred dollars;Trees, &c. For lamps and lamp-posts on Pennsylvania Avenue, between SeventeenthPennsylvania Avenue. street and Georgetown, and between the Capitol and Navy-yard, one thousand two hundred dollars; For completing and keeping in order the grounds south of the President’sGrounds south President’s house. house, nine thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars; For furnishing an additional number of iron settees for the President’sIron settees. and Capitol grounds, one thousand dollars;
For completing the pedestal and enclosure of the equestrian statue ofAndrew Jackson’s statue. Andrew Jackson, five hundred dollars; For the payment of laborers employed in shovelling snow from thePayment of laborers. walks, to and around the Capitol, the President’s house, and other public buildings, four hundred and twenty dollars; For furnishing the rooms of the new wing of the Patent Office buildingPatent Office.*Post*, p. 552. with furniture, and providing the saloon therein with cases for models, forty-five thousand dollars;
For fulfilling treaties with the Sioux of the Mississippi;Sioux Indians. For the third of fifty instalments of interest, at the rate of five per cent,Payment of interest to fulfil treaties.*Post*, p. 950. per annum, on one million three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, stipulated in the fourth article of the treaty of twenty-third July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, sixty-eight thousand dollars; For the third of fifty instalments of interest, at the rate of five per cent, per annum on one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, being the amount in lieu of the reservation set apart in the third article of the treaty of twenty-third July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, per Senate’s amendment thereof, five thousand six hundred dollars;
For the third of fifty instalments of interest, at the rate of five per cent, per annum on one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, stipulated*Post*, p. 955. in the fourth article of the treaty of fifth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, fifty-eight thousand dollars; For the third of fifty instalments of interest, at the rate of five per cent, per annum on sixty-nine thousand dollars, being the amount in lieu of the reservation set apart in the third article of the treaty of fifth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, per Senate’s amendment thereof, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;
To pay clerks for services performed on Chickasaw Indian business, inServices performed by clerks on Chickasaw Indian justness. pursuance of the regulations of the President of the United States, and in conformity with the decision of the late Secretary of the Interior, six thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in New MexicoExpenses of Indian service in New Mexico. for the present fiscal year, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior;
For the payment for the printing of the returns of the Seventh Census,Seventh Census. and the paper purchased for said printing, under the provisions of the “joint resolution providing for the printing and binding of the returns of*Ante*, p. 263. the Seventh Census,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three—that is to say: 294 Printing returns.For the printing of the returns before mentioned, the sum of fifteen thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and ninety-three cents;
Paper.For the paper purchased for said printing, the sum of twenty-seven thousand one hundred and six dollars and sixty-eight cents: *Provided*, Proviso.That the sums hereinbefore mentioned be paid to the printer who executed the printing, and to the contractor who furnished the paper, respectively, at the Treasury of the United States; Clerks in office of Sup. of public printing.For compensation of two additional clerks in the office of the Superintendent of Public Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars;
Printing of Executive Departments for 1855.For the printing of Executive Departments, including paper and printing the annual estimates of appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and for printing, paper, and binding twenty Printing report of Sec. Treasury.thousand copies of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on Commerce and Navigation for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, nine thousand and eighty-five dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT.
Department of War. Secretary of War.For the increased compensation of the Secretary of War from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents; House at corner of F and 17th streets.For rent of house on northwest comer of F and Seventeenth streets, and warming all the rooms in it, three hundred and eighty-five dollars; Compensation of civilians and military men appointed under act 1853, ch. 98.For the compensation and expenses of the commission of civilians and military men appointed under the provisions of the first section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four,” approved third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to determine matters connected with the management of the national armories, five thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars and Proviso.sixty-one cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That in the payment of such officers of the army as may have served .on that commission, their pay, as such officers, shall be deducted;
Volunteers in Kentucky regiment.For arrearages of pay for services of volunteers in the Kentucky regiment called into service in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one thousand dollars; Block Hawk war.For arrearages of pay for services rendered by volunteers or militia in the Black Hawk War, one thousand dollars; Losses by wreck of steamer San Francisco.For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, to supply the place of losses sustained by the wreck of the steamer San Francisco, twenty-six thousand five hundred and ninety dollars;
Railroad surveys west of Mississippi River.For deficiencies for the railroad surveys between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, forty thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Secretary of Navy.For the increased compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, from the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-one cents;
Contingent expenses of southwest executive building.For contingent expenses of the Southwest Executive Building, viz: For fuel and lights, seven hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the navy, that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: freight and transportation, printing and stationery, advertising in newspapers, books, maps, models and drawings, purchase and repair of fire-engines and machinery, repairs of and attending to steam-engines in navy-yards, purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and295 driving teams, carts, timber-wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen’s tools, postage of public letters, furniture for government houses, fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations, pay of watchmen, and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor attending the delivery of stores on civil stations, wharfage, dockage, and rent, travelling expenses of officers and others under orders, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery, fuel, commissions and pay of clerks to navy agents and store-keepers, flags, awnings and packing-boxes, premiums and other expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters, per diem pay to persons attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law, pay to judges advocate, pilotage and towage of vessels, and assistance to vessels in distress, bills of health and quarantine expenses of the United States navy in foreign ports, seventy-two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
For continuing the publication of wind and current charts, for printingWind and current charts. and publishing sailing directions, hydrographical surveys, and other expenses of the hydrographical office, ten thousand dollars; For reappropriation of the following sums, carried to the surplus fund,Navy Yards. and for the objects mentioned; For dry dock at Kittery, two thousand nine hundred dollars and eighty-fiveKittery. cents; For dry-dock at Pensacola, eleven thousand one hundred and nineteenPensacola. dollars and thirteen cents;
For magazine at Norfolk, two thousand and sixty-eight dollars andNorfolk. forty-two cents; For magazine at Boston, four hundred and eighty dollars and sixty-threeBoston. cents; For magazine at New York, six hundred and thirty-one dollars andNew York. thirty-two cents; For magazine at Washington, one thousand six hundred dollars;Washington. For hospital at Philadelphia, two thousand four hundred and forty-twoPhiladelphia. dollars and forty-two cents. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department.
For the increased compensation of the Postmaster-General from thePostmaster General. fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents j For compensation of two temporary clerks employed in the Post-OfficeTwo temporary clerks. Department, viz: One from the first of April to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at the rate of twelve hundredCompensation. dollars per annum; and one from the nineteenth of May to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; and from the first of July to the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum; five hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-three cents;
To supply a deficiency in the revenues of the Post-Office DepartmentSupply deficiency in revenues tor year 1858. for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, five hundred and forty-five thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-three cents. ATTORNEY-GENERAL. For the increased compensation of the Attorney-General, from theAttorney-General. fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, two thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and nineteen cents;
For the purchase of Spanish and Mexican law-books for the LibraryPurchase Spanish and Mexican law books. of Congress, seventeen hundred dollars. 296 MISCELLANEOUS. Miscellaneous. Senate expenses.For the contingent expenses of the Senate, viz.: For lithographing and engraving, twenty thousand dollars; For binding, thirty thousand dollars; For books, twelve thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars; For clerks to committees and President *pro tempore*, draughtsman, messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carryalls, four thousand four hundred dollars;
R. M. Young.For miscellaneous items: To replace this amount, drawn by order of the Senate from that head of appropriation, in a payment to R. M. Young, as commissioner to investigate charges against Hon. A. Ramsey, late superintendent of Indian affairs, Minnesota, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty cents; Maps of public lands.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay for the maps of the public lands authorized by the resolution of the Senate of the third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to be printed under the direction of the Committee on Public Lands, five thousand one hundred and filly dollars;
House of Representatives.For the expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: For horses and carriages, eight hundred and forty dollars; Newspapers.For newspapers for members, two thousand dollars; For pages, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars; Binding documents.For binding documents, seventy-seven thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty cents; For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars; Congressional Globe and Appendix.For binding the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the Second Session of the Thirty-second Congress five thousand and eighty-eight volumes, at sixty cents per volume three thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eighty cents;
Library of Congress.For continuing the preparation and publication of a stereotyped catalogue of the Library of Congress, five thousand dollars; For the messenger to the Speaker, three hundred and twelve dollars; Annals of Congress.For pay for Annals of Congress, ordered by the House for tire House library, being one hundred copies of each of the following volumes: first, second, and third volumes Tenth Congress, and first, second, and third volumes Eleventh Congress, in all six hundred volumes, at five dollars per volume, three thousand dollars;
Printing index to private claims.For printing index to private claims, ordered to be printed by resolution of the House of Representatives of the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, twenty thousand dollars; For binding index to private claims, five thousand seven hundred dollars; Rent of paper wareroom.For rent of paper wareroom from the first of January to thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, one hundred and twenty-five dollars;
Carting printing-paper.For cartage of printing-paper from wareroom and office of the Superintendent of Public Printing, to the printing offices, and labor, from the first[of]January to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at five hundred and fifty dollars per annum, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; Boundary line between United States and New Mexico.Vol. ix. p. 922.For arrearages incurred prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, for running and marking the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, fifty thousand dollars;
Time for appointment of certain members of commission extended.1850, ch. 10.And that the period limited for the appointment of Commissioner, Surveyor, and Chief Astronomer, by the act of May fifteen, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall be, and the same is hereby, extended to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; 297 For engraving maps, views, sections, and natural history, of the surveyEngravings. of the boundary between the United States and Mexico, ten thousand dollars; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior;
For wood-cuts purchased by the Commissioner of Patents, for illustratingWood-cuts for Patent Office report. the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and fifty-three-four, ordered by the House of Representatives, one thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries and incidental expenses of the commission appointedExpenses of settling land claims in California.1861, ch. 41.Proviso.Robert Greenhow. under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, for settling land claims in California, forty-two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That there be allowed to the legal representatives of Robert Greenhow such sum, in addition to that received by him, as together will make his salary for the time he was employed as assistant law agent equal to that authorized to be paid to the land commissioners by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, “making appropriations for the civil1853, ch. 97. and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four;
” That the First Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby directed,Expense of United States District Court paid by certain counties of the Territory of Iowa. to examine the claims presented by certain counties of the late Territory of Iowa, for expenses of the United States District Court, which were paid by said counties prior to the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State; and if, upon such examination, be is satisfied that prior to said time the said counties have paid money which, in accordance with the instructions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, dated nineteenth of December, eighteen hundred and forty-three, as construed in the report of said First Comptroller to the Secretary of the Interior, under date of thirteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in reference to said subject, should have been paid by the Marshal of the United States for said Territory, he is directed to audit and settle the same;
For compensation of the Judge of first instance in civil cases for theJudge in civil cases for district of San Francisco. District of San Francisco, California, per appointment, dated twenty-first of September, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, by the late General B. Riley, while Governor of that country, from first October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the first April, eighteen hundred and fifty, seven hundred and fifty dollars; For the payment of a draughtsman and clerks, employed under theMaps of public lands. resolution of May four, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, upon the maps of the public lands, five thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That all books, papers, documents,Books, &c., in Department of Interior to be copied and certified same as those of other departments. and records, in the Department of the Interior, may be copied and certified, under the seal of that department, (which is hereby recognized as legal,) in the same manner as those in the other Executive Departments may now by law be, and with the same force and effect; and in all cases where a seal is necessary by law to any commission, process, or other instrument provided for by the laws of Congress, it shall be lawful to affixSeal—how may be affixed. the proper seal by making an impression therewith directly on the paper to which such seal is necessary, which shall be as valid as if made on wax or other adhesive substance;
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That hereafter the commissions ofCommissions of officers of Secretary of the Interior—where made and recorded.Proviso. all officers, under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be made out and recorded in the Department of the Interior, and the seal of the said department affixed thereto, any laws to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided*, That the said seal shall not be affixed to any such commission before the same shall have been signed by the President of the United States;
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the compensation of thePost-Office Department in California. special Mail Agent of the Post-Office Department in California shall be298THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 61. 1854. five thousand dollars per annum; such rate to take effect in virtue of this 1853, ch. 97.provision from July first, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; Sec. 5. Additional clerks in the offices of Register of Treasury and Commissioner of Pensions.*And be it further enacted*, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be, in addition to the clerks authorized by the third section of the act of 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,” in the office of the Register of the Treasury, three clerks of class three, to include the clerk now authorized to take charge of the redemption of stocks, and in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, in lieu of the temporary clerks now employed therein, five clerks of class two, and fifteen clerks of class three; and said clerks How paid.shall be paid, according to the provisions of said section, until the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated;
Sec. 6. Part of section 7, ch. 91, 1852, repealed.*And be it further enacted*, That the portion of the seventh section of the act of twenty-sixth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, entitled “An act to provide for executing the public printing and establishing the prices thereof, and for other purposes,” which provides “that when any documents shall be ordered to be printed by both houses of By which printer the printing is to be done.Congress, the entire printing of such documents shall be done by the printer of that house which first ordered the same,” is hereby repealed; and when there are different printers for the respective houses, each shall do the printing which may hereafter be ordered by the house electing him.
Approved, May 31, 1854.