Chapter XCVI. to Supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred, and fifty-three
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Chap. XCVI.— 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-three. March 3, 1853. *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 to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, oneVice-President. thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents; For outfit of a Chargé d’Affaires to Denmark, four thousand five hundredForeign Intercourse. dollars; For salary to the Commissioner at the Sandwich Islands, from the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to make the same equal to the sum now provided for by law, four thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars;
For the contingent expenses of the office of the Treasurer of the UnitedTreasurer. States, one thousand dollars; For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receiversLand registers and receivers. of public moneys, eight thousand dollars; For expenses of depositing public moneys, by receivers of public moneys, two thousand and fifty dollars; For incidental expenses of the several land offices, three thousandLand offices. eight hundred dollars; For the extension of the United States Capitol, four hundred thousandCapitol, extension of.Proviso. dollars: *Provided*, That so much of former appropriations for the extension of the Capitol as remains unexpended, and the appropriation now made, or which may hereafter be made for that object, shall be disbursedHow disbursed. under such regulations as the President of the United States may prescribe; the accounts for such disbursement to be audited and paid at the Treasury in the same manner as the accounts of other civil officers charged with the disbursement of public money.
And said disbursing agent shall report to the President his disbursements and proceedings, in time to be presented to Congress at the commencement of each annual session, and at any other time when required; For the completion of the repairs of the Congressional Library Room,Library room.1852, ch. 16. authorized by the act approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, twenty thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of three men, at one dollar per day each, for oneLafayette Square. year, to finish and keep in order Lafayette Square, one thousand and ninety-five dollars;
For enclosing Lafayette Square with an iron fence, five thousand one hundred dollars; For completing the work of the seventh census, and to prepare theSeventh census. same for publication, twenty-five thousand dollars; For stationery, printing blank forms and regulations, furniture, bindingPension Office. books, and miscellaneous items in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, ten thousand dollars; For engraving for fifty-one thousand five hundred and twenty copiesPatent Office Report. of the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and fifty-one-two, (1851–2,) five hundred and eighty-five dollars;
To pay for the Congressional Globe and Appendix and the Annals ofCongress. Globe and Appendix and Annals of Congress. Congress, ordered for the use of the Library of the House of Representatives, under the resolution of the House, of September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, four thousand five hundred dollars; To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish,Books. pay for, and deliver the same books to five new members of the present Congress, as per resolution of said House, passed twenty-182sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, four thousand five hundred dollars;
Clerks in Post-Office Department.1852, ch. 108.For compensation of five clerks, authorized to be appointed and employed by the Postmaster-General, under the thirteenth section of the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, four thousand five hundred and four dollars and ninety cents; Watchman in Post-Office Department. For compensation to an assistant day watchman of the General Post-Office, from, the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, until the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, four hundred and seventy-five dollars;
William Williams.For the payment of the amount due William Williams, under the sixteenth article of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six, being the balance of an award of four hundred and five dollars by the commisioners under said treaty, two hundred and fifty-five dollars of which was paid out of the appropriation “for carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six,” one hundred and fifty dollars; Gregory Annie.To pay Gregory Ennis, executor of Philip Ennis, deceased, balance due upon a contract for filling up the low ground south of the President’s house, authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the sum of four hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-four cents;
Board of visitors.For expenses of the Board of Visitors at the Military Academy, five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents; Reward for rescuing from shipwreck.Proviso.For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens and American vessels from shipwreck, two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the money shall be expended under the direction of the President of the United States;
Pay of senate.For the compensation of Senators for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in addition to appropriations heretofore made, and including that for the special session commencing fourth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingencies of senate.For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For binding, twenty thousand dollars; For lithographing and engraving,, twenty thousand dollars; For books, two thousand three hundred dollars;
For Congressional Globe, and binding the same, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars; For messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carryalls, ten thousand dollars; For clerks of President of the Senate and committees, draughtsmen, firemen in crypt, and other miscellaneous items, thirty-six thousand six hundred dollars; Printing.For the printing of the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars;
For the printing of the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, twenty-five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars; For the printing of the Senate for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars. For the printing of the House of Representatives for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, fifty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars:—the same having been executed and to be executed by the public printer under the provisions of the act entitled “An act to provide for executing the public printing and establishing the 1852, ch. 91.prices thereof, and for other purposes,” approved, August twenty-six, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; 183 For contingent expenses of House of Representatives, viz.:Contingencies of House of Representatives and Senate.
For newspapers for members, five thousand dollars; For horses and carriages, one thousand one hundred dollars; For clerks, messengers, pages, and laborers, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For clerks on maps for the use of the Committee on Public Lands, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For folding documents for members, four thousand dollars; For clerks on index of private claims, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; For miscellaneous items, twenty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars;
For paper used and to be used for printing for the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents; For paper used and to be used for printing for the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, sixteen thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents; For paper for the printing for the two Houses of Congress for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, being for the fiscal year, ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and four thousand and sixty-four dollars;
For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messenger in his office, four thousand, three hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-three cents; For blank-books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, etc., one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay John S.
Littell per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of JohnJohn S. Littell. Robbins, Jr., during the Thirty-first Congress, two thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars; to pay Hendrick B. Wright per diem andH. B. Wright. mileage while contesting the seat of Henry M. Fuller during the Thirty-second Congress, one thousand nine hundred and thirty nine dollars and twenty cents; to pay John Taliaferro per diem and mileage while contesting John Taliaferro. the seat of John P.
Hungerford during the Twelfth Congress, two hundred and twenty-two dollars. For salary of an Assistant Dragoman and Secretary to the legation toForeign Intercourse. Turkey, fifteen hundred dollars: *Provided*, That said office be discontinued on and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundredAssistant Dragoman, &c., discontinued. and fifty-three; For clerk hire at the legation of the United States at London for one year, eight hundred dollars; For relief of such of the Cuban prisoners, not citizens of the UnitedCuban prisoners.
States, as were pardoned by the Queen of Spain and sent out of her dominions by the United States Minister at Madrid, and the American Consul at Gibraltar, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents; For extra clerk hire and copying in the Department of State, twoState Department. thousand dollars; For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, lights, and stationery, for the SuperintendentSuperintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon. of Indian Affairs in Oregon, two thousand four hundred dollars;
For travelling expenses of Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, and agents therein, two thousand dollars. For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the TerritoryIndians. of Utah, twelve thousand dollars; For payment of the second of ten instalments in provisions, merchandise, etc., and the transportation of the same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of seventeenth of184 September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, sixty thousand Proviso.dollars: *Provided*, That the same shall not be paid until the said tribes of Indians shall have assented to the amendments of the Senate of the United States to the above recited treaty;
Post-Office Department.For the service of the Post-Office Department, a sum not exceeding five hundred and five thousand dollars, to supply a deficiency in the revenues of said department, to meet the appropriations therefor for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Reappropriations.For the reappropriation of the following sums, carried to the surplus fluid per warrant number seven, dated twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the provisions of the tenth 1852, ch. 109.section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes,” approved thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to be applied to the payment of all expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the following heads, viz.:
Route to Oregon.For military stations on route to Oregon, three thousand two hundred and three dollars. Secret service in Mexico.For secret service money in Mexico, nineteen thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents. Mexican hostilities.For Mexican hostilities, ten thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and six cents. Army.For contingencies of the army, four thousand eight hundred and four dollars and seventy-five cents. For transportation, supplies, etc., in Quarter-masters Department, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents.
For pay of Florida militia, on account of Quarter-masters Department, four thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eight cents. For repressing Seminole hostilities, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-three cents. For arrearages prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventeen cents. For arrearages of expenses of Indian service in Texas, one thousand and fifteen dollars and sixty-eight cents. For subsistence of eleven regiments of volunteers, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty cents.
Genese E river.For improvement of the Genesee River, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and ten cents. Cleveland.For removing obstructions at harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, one hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. Buffalo creek.For sea-wall at Buffalo Creek, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and five cents. Ashtabula.For harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, forty-two dollars and sixty-four cents. Milwaukie.For harbor at Milwaukie, Wisconsin, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-four cents.
Army.For repairs, roads, etc., for armies in the field, five thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and five cents. For surveys with armies in the field, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty cents. Survey.For survey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, five thousand dollars. Army and volunteers.For arrearages of pay due Florida militia under General Read, seven thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-three cents. For travelling allowance to volunteers, one hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and four dollars and forty-four cents. 185 For pay of Louisiana and Texas volunteers, eighteen thousand and sixty dollars and forty-nine cents.
For pay of ten regiments of regular troops, eight thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents. For pay of volunteers under resolution of the eighth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, seven thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventeen cents. For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty nine cents. For pay of volunteers, sixty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents.
For three months’ extra pay, two hundred thousand dollars. For services of private physicians, one hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-seven cents. For pay of Florida militia on account of subsistence, one thousand and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents. For subsistence of ten regiments of regular troops, six hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-six cents. For the payment of such sums as may be due to individuals under theProperty destroyed at Washington.1815, ch. 84. act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for property destroyed by burning of the navy-yard in the city of Washington, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, the amount to be ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purpose of completing the pedestal of the equestrian statue ofStatue of Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson, in Lafayette Square, and the erection of a suitable iron railing around the same, three thousand dollars. For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors appointedSteamboat inspectors. under act approved 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, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of thePatent Office building. east wing of the patent office building, the sum of forty-four thousand dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation heretofore made to the Bureau ofLoriston Averill. Topographical Engineers, three hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty cents, to enable said bureau to pay to Loriston Averil, an account due him not exceeding that sum. For compensation of the Acting Secretary of the Territory of Utah, fromSecretary of Utah. the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the twenty-sixth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixteen cents.
To pay James S. Buckley, for services as Keeper of the Navy-yardJames S. Buckley. Eastern Branch Bridge, from fourth December, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty, at four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, seven hundred and eight dollars; For payment of arrearages due to David Finch, as superintendent ofDavid Finch. the painting the exterior walls of the Patent Office and Treasury buildings, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents;
For repairs of vessels employed in the coast survey, ten thousandCoast survey. dollars. To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the office of theSecretaries of Treasury. Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For the repair of damages to, and the improvement of, Lafayette Square,Lafayette Square. one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars. For compensation of the United States Assayer at San Francisco, Cali-Assayer at San Francisco.186fornia, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty three, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Auditor of Post Office.For temporary clerk hire in the office of the Auditor of the Post-Office Department, one thousand dollars; A. J. Downing.For arrears of compensation due A. J. Downing for services as rural architect, at the time of his death, six hundred and twenty-five dollars; President’s house.For laying out and gravelling the roads and walks, purchasing manure and trees, and seeding down in grass, the square south of the President’s House, twelve thousand dollars, and for paying any balance which may be due for work done and performed.
Custom-house at San Francisco.1852, ch. 66.For providing proper foundations for the custom-house at San Francisco, authorized by the sixth section of the act entitled “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 two,” and in addition to the sum of forty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars. Army.For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quarter-master Department, two thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Light house supplies.For deficiency in the fund for purchasing light-house supplies six thousand two hundred dollars. Custom house at Eastport.For the re-appropriation of seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents, being a portion of the amount heretofore appropriated for the erection of a custom-house at Eastport, Maine, and carried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; Georgia Militia.1834, ch. 59.and that the unexpended balance of the appropriation by the act of June nineteen, eighteenth hundred and thirty-four, “for payment of the Georgia militia,” etc., which has passed by subsequent acts into the surplus fund, be and the same is hereby reappropriated.
Levi Johnson.For balance due Levi Johnson for the site for marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, three thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars. Deputy surveyor’s salary.For payment of salaries of deputy surveyors at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the salary of said officers shall be two thousand dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; Waiter S. Burges.To pay Walter S.
Burges (late District Attorney of the State of Rhode Island,) the sum of five hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty cents, being in full for his services and money paid out in defending Captain Simonds, of the brig Casket, by order of John Y. Mason, late Secretary of the Navy; E. S. Norris.For additional allowance to E. S. Norris, the sum of two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-four cents; and to George R. Stuntz, Geo. R. Stuntz.the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents, additional allowance made to them as deputy surveyors under the Surveyor-General of Wisconsin and Iowa, and in accordance with the recommendations and estimates of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior, dated respectively on the eleventh and fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three;
Thos. W. Lane.For payment of the amount due Thomas W. Lane upon three several drafts drawn in his favor by G. W. Barbour, Indian Agent in California, upon R. McKee, disbursing agent for transportation, supplies, and labor furnished said agent upon special contract, while treating with the Indians in said State, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; Delawares.For the services of a striker in the shop of the Delaware Indians, from August first, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; and for the services of a smith and187 striker in the shop of the Senecas and Shawnees of Lewistown, fromSenecas and Shawnees. seventeenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, deducting all amounts paid for such service during said period; and for balance duty for services on Seneca milldam, as estimated for by the proper department, two thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
For compensation of five members of the House of RepresentativesCommittee of House of Representatives. appointed a committee of investigation upon all facts touching the connection of Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, with the Gardiner claim, and authorized to sit during the recess between the first and second sessions of the present Congress, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the said members respectively eight dollars per day for the period they were detained at Washington in discharge of the duties of their appointment;
To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay PeterAmerican Archives and Documentary History. Force and John C. Rives for one hundred and two copies of the third volume of the fifth series of the “American Archives,” or Documentary History of the United States, for the new members of the House of the Twenty-sixth Congress; one hundred and seventeen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-seventh Congress; one hundred copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-eighth Congress; one hundred and one copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-ninth Congress; one hundred and sixteen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirtieth Congress; one hundred and thirty-four copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-first Congress; and one hundred and thirty copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-second Congress; in all eight hundred volumes, at sixteen dollars forty-five cents and six mills per volume, thirteen thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty cents;
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for reportingReports in Globe. and publishing eight hundred and fifty columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the second session of the thirty-second Congress in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars; and to enable the said John C. Rives to pay the reporters of this House for this session the sum of seven dollars per column instead of four for the reports of the Congressional Globe, the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary for that purpose, and the Clerk of this House be authorized to pay the same to said Rives for that purpose;
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay a balance due for reporting and publishing the proceedings of the House during the first session of the thirty-second Congress, being sixty-five columns and one line, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per column, four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents; To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for twenty-fourCongressional Globe and Appendix. copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the second session of the thirty-second Congress for each member and delegate of the House, seventeen thousand and sixty-four dollars; and for binding the same, being five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight volumes, in strong and substantial half-binding, with Russia back and corners, at a rate not exceeding sixty cents per volume, three thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eighty cents.
For this amount of money appropriated, and goods purchased underChippewas. treaty stipulations for the Lake Chippewa Indians, lately destroyed by fire at the agency of said Indians, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*,Proviso. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized to purchase said goods in open market, without the usual notice in such cases required by law. 188 Sec. 2. Act of 1852, ch. 108, § 7, respecting absence of territorial officers repealed.*And be it further enacted*, That the seventh section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirteenth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes,” approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. Distribution of books to members of Congress.*And be it further enacted*, That hereafter no books shall be distributed to members of Congress except such as are ordered to be printed, as public documents, by the Congress of which they are members: *Provided*, That this section shall not prohibit or interfere with the distribution to members who have heretofore received books under an order of either House, of the remaining volumes or parts, so as to complets the sets of which they have received part.
Geological report.For paying expenses of David Dale Owen’s Geological Report, from Philadelphia to Washington, for one hundred and seventeen boxes and porterage, ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents; for insurance, ninety dollars; for freight on one hundred and seventeen boxes, one hundred and forty-six dollars—total, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty-five cents. Sec. 4. Act of 1852, ch. 110, § 2, respecting lighthouses, repealed in part.*And be it further enacted*, That so much of the second section of the act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, approved thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as provides that “no portions of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be applied to the payment of any expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,” be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to the appropriation for light-houses contained in said act, except as to the light-houses which have been contracted for to be erected upon the Pacific coast;
John McReynolds.And that the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized to pay to John McReynolds the sum of one thousand dollars, for expenses incurred by him in removing materials for the construction of a light-house in the State of Michigan, the Department having changed the site after said materials were delivered at the site first selected. Sec. 5. Pay of officers in the astronomical expedition, to Chili.*And be it further enacted*, That the officers appointed to assist the Superintendent of the Naval Astronomical Expedition in Chili, directed by the act of the third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be allowed an increased compensation in a ratable proportion, according to pay and rank, at the time of departure from the United States, to the allowance made to the said superintendent by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 6. Extension of time for bids for a mint in California.*And be it further enacted*, That the time for receiving bids under the act of third of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the erection of a Mint in California, be extended to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and that the sum of three hundred thousand dollars appropriated by said act, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied only to the erection and putting in operation a Mint in California, and not to the purchase of any building for that purpose.
Sec. 7. Charge for casting silver into disks, bars, or ingots.*And be it further enacted*, That when gold or silver shall be cast into bars or ingots or formed into disks at the Mint of the United Slates, or any of the branches thereof, or at any assay office of the United States, the charge for refining, casting, or forming said bars, ingots, or disks shall be equal to, but not exceed, the actual cost of the operation, including labor, wastage, use of machinery, materials, etc., to be regulated Size and devices of the silver coins authorized by act of 1853, ch. 79.from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the size and devices of the new silver coin, authorized by an act entitled “An actTHIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1853.189 amendatory of existing laws relative to the half dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime,” passed at the present session; and that, to procure such devices, as also the models, moulds, and matrices or original dies for the coins, disks, or ingots authorized by said act, the director of the mint is empowered, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury,Additional officers in the mint. to engage temporarily for that purpose the services of one or more artists, distinguished in their respective departments, who shall be paid for such services from the contingent appropriation for the mint:
AndWeight of the three cent coin. that hereafter the three cent coin now authorized by law shall be made of the weight of three fiftieths of the weight of the half dollar, as provided in said act, and of the same standard of fineness. And the said act, entitled “An act amendatory of existing laws relative to the half dollar, quarterAct of 1853, ch. 79, to take effect April 1, 1853. dollar, dime, and half dime,” shall take effect and be in full force from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, That, in the settlement of his accounts,Settlement of accounts of T. B. King. the late Collector of the Port of San Francisco, in the State of California, be allowed credit for five thousand dollars advanced to J. Neely Johnson for taking the seventh census. Approved, March 3, 1853.