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Chapter XCVII. making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty four

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Chap. XCVII.— 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. 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 are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, namely: *Legislative*.—For compensation and mileage of Senators, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars andLegislative. twenty cents.
For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives, and delegates from territories, six hundred and fifty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty cents. For compensation of the officers and clerks of both houses of Congress, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars. For the contingent expenses of the Senate, viz.: For binding, fifteen thousand dollars; For lithographing and engraving, fifteen thousand dollars; For books, twelve thousand dollars;
For stationery, eight thousand dollars; For newspapers, two thousand five hundred dollars; For Congressional Globe and binding the same, eight thousand dollars. For reporting proceedings, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars. For clerks to committees, and President *pro tempore*, draughtsman, messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carryalls, fifty-five thousand dollars; and to enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of said House of March first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, directing him to pay the usual extra compensation to the employees in and about the Capitol, a sum sufficient for that purpose is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and is hereby added to the contingent fund of said House.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the contingent expenses of the Senate, for lithographing and engraving, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twenty-four thousand dollars. 190 For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and defray the expenses of select committees of investigation appointed by the Senate, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the House of Representatives, viz.: For furniture, carpeting, and repairs, six thousand dollars. For twenty-one messengers, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars. For the messenger who has charge of the hall of the House of Representatives, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For two messengers in clerk’s office, three thousand dollars. For horses and carriages, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars. For saddle horses, six hundred dollars.
For fuel, oil, and candles, four thousand five hundred dollars. For newspapers for members, ten thousand dollars. For Capitol police, three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. For engraving and lithographing, twenty-five thousand dollars. Binding public documents.For binding documents, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of all the documents, the printing of additional copies of which may be ordered by either House of Congress, and the size of which shall not be less than two hundred and fifty pages, such additional copies shall be bound in such manner as may be directed by the respective committees on printing of each House, the cost of which shall not exceed twelve and a half cents per volume; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the Public Printing to supervise the binding of the public Superintendent of printing to supervise binding, and to secure faithful execution of contracts for maps, &c.documents, to receive said binding when executed, and see that the same is done in a neat and workmanlike manner, according to such sample as may be preserved in his office, and in proper time; and before the binder shall receive pay for the same, he shall produce the certificate of the said superintendent that his work has been executed as above required, and has been accepted by him.
And it shall also be the duty of the said superintendent to receive and preserve in his office samples of paper upon which maps, charts, diagrams, plats, or other engravings may be contracted to be furnished, and to receive from the contractor said maps, charts, diagrams, plats, or other engravings, and compare the paper upon which they may be printed with the samples so preserved, and he shall not receive any map, chart, diagram, plat, or other engraving which may not be printed on paper equal to the samples so preserved, or which may not be executed in a proper manner, and within the time specified in the contract, (unless for special reasons the superintendent may extend the time,) and which may not be in the quantity called for thereby; and said contractor shall not receive pay for the same, except upon the certificate of the superintendent that the foregoing requisites have been complied with;
For folding, ten thousand dollars; For laborers, two thousand five hundred dollars; For pages, four thousand dollars; For stationery, twenty thousand dollars; For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. Library of Congress.*Library of Congress*.—For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger, four thousand five hundred 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; Exploring expedition.Proviso.For the completion of the publication of the works of the Exploring Expedition, in pursuance of contracts already made, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall finish the publication. 191 For the preparation and publication of a general Catalogue of the LibraryCatalogue. of Congress, to be made in such manner as the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress may direct, three thousand dollars. *Executive*.—For compensation of the President of the United States,Executive. twenty-five thousand dollars;
For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, five thousand dollars; *Department of State*.—For compensation of the Secretary of State,State Department. and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars; *For the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of said Department.*Contingencies of State Department. For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, sixteen thousand and twenty-five dollars.
For proof-reading, packing, and distributing laws and documents, including cases, labor, and transportation, ten thousand dollars; For the payment of the expenses attendant upon the funeral obsequies of the late Secretary of State, one thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents. For stationery, blank-books, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars; For books and maps, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and seventy cents;
For newspapers, two hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. *North-east Executive Building*.—For compensation of the superintendentNorth-east Executive building. and four watchmen of the north-east executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For contingent expenses of said building, viz.: For fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, three thousand three hundred dollars. *Treasury Department*.—For compensation of the Secretary of theTreasury Department.Secretary and Assistant.
Treasury, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-two thousand and fifty dollars; For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks and1st Comptroller. messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and2d Comptroller. messenger in his office, twenty-four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and1st Auditor. assistant messenger in his office, twenty-three thousand dollars;
For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger,2d Auditor. and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-four thousand eight hundred dollars; For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messengers,3d Auditor. and assistant messenger in his office, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to temporary clerks, employed in the office of theTemporary clerks. Third Auditor in making out certificates of service from the muster-rolls of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the several Indian wars, and on arrearages of pay, thirty-one thousand one hundred dollars: *Provided*,Proviso.
That no clerk shall receive more than at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum under this act, except one, whose salary shall be sixteen hundred dollars per annum, and four, whose compensation shall be four dollars per day; For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger,4th Auditor. and assistant messenger in his office, twenty thousand four hundred and192 fifty dollars; the salary of the assistant messenger, per act of third of 1843, ch. 100.March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, being hereby increased to the sum of three hundred dollars per annum; 6th Auditor.For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eleven thousand four hundred dollars;
Treasurer.For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Register.For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, in his office, thirty thousand eight hundred dollars; Solicitor.For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;
Commissioner.For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks and messenger in his office, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars; Light-house Board.For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-house Board, six thousand four hundred dollars. Contingencies.*Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.*— Office of Secretary.In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For labor, blank-books, stationery, 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 Pay of extra clerks.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—eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of 1st Comptroller.In the office of the First Comptroller: For blank-books, binding, stationery, furniture, labor, and miscellaneous items, two thousand and forty dollars; Of 2d Comptroller.In the office of the Second Comptroller: For blank-books, binding, stationery, including pay for the National ? Intelligencer and the Union, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, seven hundred dollars; For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
Of 1st Auditor.In the office of the First Auditor: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, labor, and cases for records and official papers, one thousand dollars; For miscellaneous items, including subscription for the Union and National Intelligencer, to be filed for the use of the office, three hundred dollars. Of 2d Auditor.In the office of the Second Auditor: For blank-books, binding, stationery, labor, office furniture, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and miscellaneous items, one thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-four cents.
Of 3d Auditor.In the office of the Third Auditor: For blank-books, binding, stationery, office furniture, including carpeting, two newspapers—the Union and Intelligencer—to be filed, labor, and miscellaneous items, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-nine cents; For expenses of arranging document rooms and preserving files and papers, one thousand dollars; For contingencies incident to the bounty-land service, and arrearages, one thousand four hundred dollars; 193 In the office of the Fourth Auditor:Of 4th Auditor.
For stationery, hooks, and binding, six hundred dollars; For labor, one hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. In the office of the Fifth Auditor:Of 5th Auditor. For blank-books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars; For hire of laborers, one hundred and seventy-five dollars; For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Treasurer:Of Treasurer. For blank-books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars.
In the office of the Register:Of Register. For blank-books, binding, and stationery, including one thousand five hundred dollars for ruling and full binding twenty-three books for recording the collectors’ quarterly abstracts of the commerce and navigation, and blank abstracts for their use, two thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars; For labor and other miscellaneous items, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the First and Fifth Auditors, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, two thousand dollars;
For arranging and binding cancelled marine papers, returned by the collectors of the customs, one thousand dollars. In the office of the Solicitor:Of Solicitor. For blank-books, binding, stationery, and for labor, nine hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars; For statutes and reports, including those of the several States, one thousand dollars. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs: For blank-books, binding, stationery, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, two hundred and twenty-five dollars. *Light-house Board*.—For blank-books, binding, and stationery, twoLight-house Board. hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and fifty dollars. *South-east Executive Building*.—For compensation of the SuperintendentSouth-east Executive building. and eight watchmen of the south-east executive building, four thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said building, viz. for labor, fuel, and lights, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars;
For rent of additional buildings, in part occupied by the Secretary of the Interior, and part by the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars; For fuel, watching, and miscellaneous items for the same, four thousand dollars. *Department of the Interior*.—For compensation of the Secretary ofDepartment of the Interior. the Interior, and the clerks, messengers, and laborers in his office, twenty-four thousand seven hundred dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and packers in his office, ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and six dollars;
For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-six thousand two hundred dollars; For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks and messengers in his office, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars; 194 Temporary clerks in Pension Office.Proviso.For compensation to temporary Clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, forty-two thousand and forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents: *Provided*, That no clerk shall receive more than at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per day, except two, whose compensation shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum.
Contingencies of Department of the Interior.Secretary.*Contingent Expenses of the Department of the Interior.—* In the office of the Secretary of the Interior: For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, three thousand seven hundred dollars; For library, books, and maps, one thousand dollars. General Land Office.In the General Land Office: For compensation of laborers, two thousand dollars; For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patent and other records, tractbooks, blank-books, for the district land offices; binding plats, field notes, &c.; stationery, office furniture, and repairs of same, and miscellaneous items, thirty-six thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars:
Land Offices may be annexed to adjacent districts in certain cases.*Provided*, That whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands in any United States land district shall be as much as one third of the whole amount of revenue collected in such district, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, if, in his opinion, not incompatible with the public interest, to discontinue the land office in such district, and to annex the said district to some other adjoining land district or districts of the United States;
For parchment, maps, records, letter and other records, required under the swamp land act of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred 1850, ch. 84.and fifty; military bounty acts of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred 1850, ch. 85.and fifty, and twenty-second of March, eighteen hundred and 1852, oh. 19.fifty-two, and for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants, per act of 1852, ch. 114.thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; printing plate and engraving scrip, authorized to be issued by act of thirty-first of August, 1852, ch. 114.eighteen hundred and fifty-two, including form, &c., under said act, and other miscellaneous expenses, thirty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, one thousand dollars; For labor, two hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars; Commissioner of Pensions.In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions: For stationery, three thousand dollars; For binding books, one thousand dollars; For Furniture, five hundred dollars; For engraving bounty land warrants, four thousand five hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Patent Office building.Contingent expenses of east wing Patent Office building, viz.: For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses, two thousand two hundred dollars. War Department.*War Department*.—For compensation of the Secretary of War and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, eighteen thousand and fifty dollars; For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General, one thousand five hundred dollars;
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant-General, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster-General, twelve thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That it shall be the duty of the Quartermaster-General to have prepared in his office, out of the above appropriation, books of transfer for the use of the Third Auditor’s office; 195 For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of Clothing and Equipage, in Philadelphia, four thousand and forty dollars;
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster-General, nine thousand nine hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary-General of Subsistence, seven thousand three hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer, five thousand nine hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon-General, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, four thousand nine hundred dollars. *Contingent Expenses of the War Department*.—Contingencies of War Department. In the 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 clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the Commanding General: For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Adjutant General: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, including office furniture, five hundred dollars. In the office of the Quartermaster-General, including the office at Philadelphia: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, seven hundred dollars;
For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, four hundred dollars; For office rent at Philadelphia, five hundred dollars. In the office of the Commissary-General of Subsistence: For blank-books, binding, stationery, advertising, and labor, two thousand nine hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Chief Engineer: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, including subscription to two daily Washington newspapers, four hundred dollars.
In the office of the Surgeon-General: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, two hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance: For blank-books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the Bureau of Topographical Engineers: For blank-books, binding, stationery, and labor, twelve hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. *North-west Executive Building*.—For compensation of the Superintendent,North-west Executive building. and four watchmen, of the north-west executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz.: For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars. *Building corner of F and Seventeenth Streets*.—For rent of house onBuilding corner of F and 17th streets.196 north-west corner of F and Seventeenth streets, and warming all the rooms in it, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; For compensation of Superintendent, and four watchmen, of the building corner of F and Seventeenth streets, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building: For miscellaneous items, including labor, one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy Department.*Navy Department*.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand dollars; For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his Qualifications of Chief of bureau, of Construction, &c.office, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the Chief of the Bureau be a “skilful naval constructor,” as required by the act approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-two, instead of a captain in the navy;
For compensation of the Chief Naval Constructor, and the Engineer-in-chief, six thousand dollars; For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his office, nine thousand four hundred dollars; For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks, and of the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, seven thousand three hundred dollars;
For compensation to the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the assistant to chief, clerks, and messenger in his office, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Contingencies of Navy Department.*Contingencies of the Navy Department*.— For contingencies of the Navy Department, and all the Bureaus connected therewith, viz.: For-blank books, binding, stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, newspapers and periodicals, incidental and miscellaneous items, six thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.
South-west Executive building.*South-west Executive Building*.—For compensation of the Superintendent and four watchmen of the south-west executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For contingent expenses of said building, viz.: For labor, three hundred and twenty-five dollars; For fuel and lights, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Post-Office Department.*Post-Office Department*.—For compensation of the Postmaster-General, three Assistant Postmasters-General, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department, one hundred and eight thousand nine hundred dollars;
For compensation of the Superintendent of the Post-Office building, two hundred and fifty dollars. Contingencies.*Contingent Expenses of the Post-Office Department*.— For blank-books, binding, stationery, fuel for the General Post-Office building, including the Auditor’s office, oil, gas, and candles, labor, day watchman, and for miscellaneous expenses, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars; For repairs of the General Post-Office building, for office furniture, glazing, whitewashing, and for keeping the fireplaces and furnaces in order, one thousand five hundred dollars. 197 *Auditor of the Post-Office Department*.—For compensation of theAuditor.
Auditor of the Post-Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, one hundred and three thousand two hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said office, viz.: For labor, three thousand and eighty dollars; For stationery, two thousand three hundred dollars; For blank-books, one thousand two hundred dollars; For binding and ruling, six hundred and twenty dollars; For miscellaneous items, viz.: For file-boards, repairs, cases and desks for safe-keeping of paper, new furniture, lights, washing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic despatches, stoves, etc., one thousand five hundred dollars. *Mint of the United States*.—Mint.
At Philadelphia.Philadelphia. For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter, and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and six clerks, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, seventy-two thousand dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other availableProfits to be paid and account rendered. funds, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the mint to cause to be paid annually into the Treasury of the United States the profits of the mint, and to present a quarterly account of the expenditures of the mint to the Secretary of the Treasury;
For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars. At Charlotte, North Carolina.Charlotte. 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 wastage of gold, fuel, materials, stationery, and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. At Dahlonega, Georgia.Dahlonega. For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars;
For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage, in addition to other available funds, one thousand four hundred dollars. At New Orleans, Louisiana.New Orleans. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter and refiner, and clerks, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds, sixty-eight thousand dollars. *Government in the Territories*.—Territories.
Territory of Oregon.Oregon. For salaries of Governor, three judges, and secretary, ten thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars. Territory of Minnesota.Minnesota. For salaries of Governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars 198 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, nine thousand seven hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars; For payment of expenses of the board of commissioners to prepare Code of Laws.and compile a code of laws for the better government of the Territory of New Mexico, authorized by the act of the legislative assembly approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the sum of eighteen hundred and fifty-five dollars;
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars; and it is hereby provided that the appropriation made by the act approved thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred Public buildings.1850, ch. 90.and fifty, “for public buildings for the Territory of New Mexico,” is continued and made applicable to the object originally contemplated, notwithstanding the provisions of the tenth section of the act of August thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Utah.Territory of Utah. For salaries of Governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars; For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars; Penitentiaries in Utah and New Mexico.Proviso.To enable the President to cause a site to be purchased and a suitable building to be erected for a penitentiary in each of the Territories of Utah and New Mexico, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the entire cost of the site and the completion of said buildings shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated.
Judiciary.*Judiciary*.—For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and eight Associate Judges, forty-one thousand dollars; For salaries of the District Judges, seventy thousand seven hundred dollars; For salaries of the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia, the assistant judges, and the judges of the criminal court and the orphans court, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars; For salaries of the Attorney-General, and the clerks and messenger in his office, ten thousand three hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars; For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars; For compensation of the district attorneys, eight thousand eight hundred dollars; For compensation of the marshals, seven thousand four hundred dollars; 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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, 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, six hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred dollars; 199 That the Secretary of the Interior be and he is hereby directed to examineClaim of Lee County,
(Iowa)to be audited and paid. the claim presented by the county of Lee, in the State of Iowa, for the expenses of the United States District Court, which were paid by said county prior to the admission of said State into the Union; and if, upon such examination, he is satisfied that, prior to said time, the said county lias paid money which, in accordance with the instructions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, dated December nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-three, should have been paid by the marshal of the United States for said Territory, he is directed to audit and allow the same: *Provided*, That the amount thus allowed shall not exceed the sumProviso. of fourteen thousand four hundred dollars, which is hereby appropriated for that purpose, out of any money in the Treasury. To aid the directors of the Washington Infirmary to enlarge their accommodationsInfirmary at Washington. for the benefit of sick transient paupers, twenty thousand dollars. *Surveyors-General and their Clerks*.—For compensation of the Surveyor-GeneralSurveyors-General and their clerks. north-west 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 to 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, six thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of the Surveyor-General of California, and the clerks in his office, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars; For clerks in the offices of the Surveyors-General, including the offices in Oregon and California, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and to be employed in transcribing fieldnotes of surveys for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, forty thousand dollars. *Light-house Establishment*.—For supplying light-houses, containingLight-house Establishment. three thousand two hundred and seventy-two lamps, with oil, lampglasses, wicks, buff-skins, polishing powder, whiting, and other cleaning materials; transportation, and other necessary expenses on the same; repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and instructions; notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, and of lights, &c., one hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-eight cents. For supplying forty-nine light-houses, to contain five hundred and sixty-one lamps, with oil, &c., &c., as above, authorized by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one1851, ch. 37.1852, ch. 112. thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, thirty thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-four cents. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of three hundred and forty-nine light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of forty-nine light-houses and buildings connected therewith, provided for by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and1851, ch. 37.200 1852, ch. 112.thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-one cents. For salaries of three hundred and twenty-one light-house keepers, and twenty-four assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, one hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-three cents. For salaries of forty-nine keepers, and six assistants, for the lighthouses 1851, ch. 37.1852, ch. 112.authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at the average legal rate per annum for each keeper, twenty-two thousand dollars. For salaries of forty-two keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand dollars. For salaries of five keepers of light-vessels, authorized by acts of the 1851, ch. 37.1852, ch. 112.third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies for forty-two light-vessels, one hundred and three thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-two cents. For seamen’s wages, supplies, and incidental expenses for five light-vessels, 1851, ch. 37.1852, ch. 113.authorized by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, thirty-three thousand and four dollars and seventy-two cents. For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons and buoys, chains, sinkers, &c., for light-vessels, fifty-nine thousand and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents. For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of two hundred and forty-five dumb beacons and buoys, and their 1852, ch. 112.appendages, authorized by act of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. For expenses of coloring, numbering, &c., all of the buoys and beacons 1850, ch. 77.provided for by the act of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, twelve thousand dollars. Life boats, &c.For life-boats and other means of rendering assistance to wrecked mariners and others on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of visiting and reporting the condition of 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 March 1851, ch. 33.third, 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. In California.Coasts of California and Oregon: For oil and other supplies, cleaning materials of all kinds, transportation of supplies, keeping lamps and machinery in good repair, and the towers and buildings in a proper state of preservation, superintendence, and inspection of thirteen lights, replacing, cleaning, painting, and preserving all the buoys in the waters of California and Oregon, and all incidental expenses connected with the aids to navigation on these coasts, twenty-nine thousand and thirty-five dollars. For salaries of thirteen keepers and eleven assistants, at an average not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. 201 *Light-houses*.—For rebuilding light-house on Chandeleur Island, Louisiana,Light-houses. destroyed in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, fifteen thousand dollars; For restoring the light-house buildings, sea-walls, &c., which were injured or destroyed during the late gales on the southern coast, twenty-five thousand dollars; For fitting Cape Hatteras light with first order of illuminating apparatus and lantern, and elevating the light, fifteen thousand dollars; For removing the iron light-house tower, at the junction of south-west and north-east passes of the Mississippi to Pass a l’Outre, and substituting a small beacon light in its stead, six thousand dollars. *Independent Treasury*.—For salaries of the Assistant Treasurers ofIndependent Treasury. the United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; For additional salaries of the Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia, of one thousand dollars, and of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, of five hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at San Francisco, four thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries of ten additional clerks, authorized by the acts of August1846, ch. 90.1848, ch. 106.1861, ch. 32.1852, ch. 108. sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; For salary of Chief Clerk to the Assistant Treasurer at New York, one thousand six hundred dollars; For salary of a Clerk for the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses under the act for the safe-keeping, collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue of sixth August, eighteen1846, ch. 90. hundred and forty-six, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum of sixteen thousand five hundredProviso. dollars shall be expended for clerical services; For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand in the several depositories, under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five thousand dollars; For the compensation of an additional Appraiser-General, to be appointedAdditional Appraiser-General on the Pacific. by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be employed on the Pacific coast, six 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,) one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, (excluding the pay and emoluments of the officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed on the work,) one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (excluding the pay and emoluments of the officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy, employed on the work,) thirty thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the northern and north-western lakes, including Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That a surveySurvey between Lake Huron and the Saut Ste. Marie. of so much of the communication between Lake Huron and the Sault Ste. Marie as may be necessary to ascertain what part thereof requires to be deepened, shall be made without delay, and plans and estimates of the nature and expense of the work shall be laid before Congress at its next session. 202 For printing and distributing charts of lake surveys, fifteen hundred dollars. Custom-Houses.Charleston.*Custom-Houses*.—For continuing the construction of the Custom-House at Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars. New Orleans.For continuing the construction of the Custom-House at New Orleans, Louisiana, three hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars; subject to 1851, ch. 37.*Post*, p. 722.the limitations and restrictions imposed on the appropriation made for the same object at the second session of the hist Congress, as respects the plan after which the building is to be erected; Bath.To complete the Custom-House at Bath, Maine, twelve thousand dollars; Bangor.To complete the foundation of the Custom-House in Bangor, and to connect the same with the shore, fifteen thousand dollars; St Louis.For continuing the construction of the Custom-House at St. Louis, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; Louisville.For proceeding with the construction of the Custom-House at Louisville, Kentucky, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars; Cincinnati.For the completion of the Custom-House at Cincinnati, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars; Providence.For the purchase of land additional to the present Custom-House lot at Providence, Rhode Island, sixteen thousand dollars; and for the erection of a new Custom-House at said port, which shall be so constructed and arranged as to furnish a suitable room for the United States Circuit and District Courts, writh the necessary offices for District Judge Proviso.Clerk, Marshal, etc., thirty-four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the entire cost of such additional site and building shall in no event exceed the sum hereby appropriated. Wilmington.For the construction of the Custom-House at Wilmington, Delaware, in addition to the sum appropriated by the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, three thousand five hundred dollars. Richmond.It is hereby provided that the limitations upon the cost of the site and building of the Custom-House in Richmond, Virginia, imposed by the 1852, ch. 108.act of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, are hereby removed and repealed. In general.For annual repairs and office fixtures of the Custom-Houses of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. Norfolk.For the construction of a Custom-House at Norfolk, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars, which, in addition to the sum heretofore prescribed as the whole amount to be expended for that purpose, shall constitute the entire cost of the purchase of the site and the completion of the building. Salary of collector at Chicago.To equalize the salary of the Collector of Chicago, and to make it equal to that of Detroit, twelve hundred and fifty dollars; and the salary of the Collector of Chicago be and the same is hereby established at that sum annually. The salary of the Collector of Chicago shall be, from and after the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twelve hundred and fifty dollars. Marine Hospitals at Napoleon and Vicksburg.For completing and finishing the Marine Hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas, four thousand dollars; and that the further time of one year be allowed for the expenditure of the money heretofore appropriated to the marine hospital at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In general.For annual repairs and office fixtures of the Custom-Houses of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. Marine Hospitals at EvansvilleFor the completion of the Marino Hospital at Evansville, Indiana, twenty thousand dollars. and NatchezFor the Marine Hospital at Natchez, four thousand dollars. and St. Louis.For continuing the construction of the Marine Hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. 203 *Intercourse with Foreign Nations*.—For salaries and outfits of MinistersForeign Intercourse. of the United Stated to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chili, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars; For salary and outfit of a Minister to Central America, to be accredited to such one or more of the Governments included in that name as the President of the United States may designate, eighteen thousand dollars; For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same places, twenty thousand dollars; For salary of the Minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars; For salary of the Dragoman to the Legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries and outfits of Chargés des Affaires or Ministers resident to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, New Grenada,Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Switzerland, and Nicaragua, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Ministers resident hereinProviso. authorized shall not receive more compensation than is now allowed to a chargé des affaires; For salary of Clerk to the United States Legation at London, eightSalaries. hundred dollars; For the payment of Theodore S. Fay of the difference between theT. S. Fay. salary of a Secretary of Legation and a Chargé d’Affaires, during the time, on several different occasions, he discharged the duties of the latter office at Prussia, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy-three and two-ninth cents, the same to be in lieu of all former appropriation; and also, if received, in full for all diplomatic services rendered in that capacity; For compensation of Edward Kent, for one quarters salary as ChargéEdward Kent d’Affaires at the legation at Rio de Janeiro, during the absence of the Minister, and under the instructions of the Department of State, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To reimburse David Tod, late Minister of the United States at Brazil,David Tod. a sum of money advanced by him to William E. Anderson, who was sent by the Minister from Rio de Janeiro to the United States in the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-one as a witness against two persons engaged in the slave trade, seventy-five dollars; For payment of Buckingham Smith, late Secretary of Legation inBuckingham Smith. Mexico, the difference between his salary as Secretary of Legation and that of Chargé d’Affaires from the twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the eighth of October following, during which period he discharged the duties of Chargé d’Affaires in Mexico, in the absence of the Minister of the United States, who had returned home on leave, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-five cents; the same, if he received, to be in full for all charges during the period aforesaid. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty thousand dollars; For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dollars For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars; For salary of the Consul at London, two thousand dollars; For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, five thousand dollars; For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the Consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, and Alexandria, two thousand dollars; For office rent of the consul at Basle, in Switzerland, one hundred dollars; 204 For salary and outfit of a Commissioner to reside in China, including 1848, ch. 150.the additional compensation under the act to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte, eighteen thousand dollars; For salary of the interpreter and secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation to the Consuls at the five ports in China, viz. Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning Po, and Shanghai, five thousand dollars; For salary of the Consul-General at Alexandria, five thousand dollars; American seamen.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the Consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For salary of the Consul at Beiront, five hundred dollars. Public Lands.*Public Lands*.—For compensation for Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri, five hundred dollars; Payments by receivers.For salaries and commissions of Registers of Land Offices and Receivers of Public Moneys, one hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred Proviso.dollars: *Provided*, That whenever the amount received at any United 1853, ch. 10.States land office under the third section of an act entitled “An act to make land warrants assignable, and for other purposes,” approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, has exceeded or shall exceed the amount which the registers and receivers at any such office are entitled to receive under said third section, the surplus which shall remain, after paying the amount so due as aforesaid to said registers and receivers, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as other Change of location of Land Offices.public moneys: *And provided further*, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to change the location of the several land offices, and to establish the same from time to time, at such other place in the district as he may deem expedient; For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; For incidental expenses of the several land offices, thirty-seven thousand and forty dollars. Surveys of public Lands.*Surveys of the Public Lands*.—For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses and special surveys, demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, (the part to he applied to the resurveys required by the location and survey of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile,) in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For resurveys and examinations of the surveys of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyors-general have been or shall be closed under the acts of twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed on this special service in the General Land Office, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; For correcting defective and fraudulent surveys in the upper peninsula o of Michigan, including the expenses of a field inspector of surveys, five thousand dollars; To defray the expenses of examining and correcting old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan, three thousand dollars; 205 For the survey of township and section lines in Wisconsin, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, twenty-five thousand dollars; For the survey of standard, correction, township, and section lines in Minnesota, in conformity with the instructions recently issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for similar surveys in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, forty-five thousand 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, including office work, two thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation of surveyors and other agents required in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Arkansas, to carry into effect the act of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, granting swamp lands, fourteen thousand dollars; For detached and unfinished surveys, and resurveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars; For correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per mile, six thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars; For surveying in Louisiana at augmented rates, including salary and expenses of surveyor, to locate private land claims, nine thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars; For the survey of private land claims in Florida, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, including the work now under contract, ten thousand dollars; For completing certain surveys in Florida, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, in consequence of the peculiar difficulties attending the execution of the same, on account of swamps, lakes, marshes, &c., and for scrap work, ten thousand dollars; For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida coast, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, twenty thousand dollars; For surveying standard, parallel, township, and section lines in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, nearly equal to six thousand four hundred miles, seventy-six thousand four hundred dollars; For extending the principal meridian line in Oregon, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, four thousand dollars; For rent of Surveyor-General’s office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, &c., two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; To defray the expenses incurred of a geological reconnoissance in Oregon, undertaken in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, under instructions from the Department of the Interior, and intrusted to Doctor J. Evans, eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; For completing the geological reconnoissance in Oregon, five thousand dollars; For rent of Surveyor-General’s office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messengers, &c., eleven thousand four hundred dollars; For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of California, under act of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,1862, ch. 108. thirty thousand dollars; For surveying standard lines in California, meandering and surveying irregular and river lots, &c., amounting to two thousand miles, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile, thirty thousand dollars; For subdividing into townships, equal to one thousand two hundred miles of surveying, at a rate not exceeding fourteen dollars per mile, in California, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars; 206 For sectioning one hundred townships, equal to six thousand miles of surveying, in California, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, seventy-two thousand dollars. Public buildings.*Public Buildings*.—For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, two thousand dollars; For compensation of the clerk in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, one thousand dollars; Capitol.For the extension of the United States Capitol, six hundred thousand dollars; For compensation, in part, of the messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; For compensation of the public Gardener, one thousand two hundred dollars;—and the management of the grounds attached to the Capitol, and surrounding the Executive Mansion, shall be under his control, subject only to the supervision and control of the Secretary of the Interior; For compensation of sixteen laborers employed in the public grounds and President’s garden, at the rate of forty dollars per month each, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars; To supply a deficiency for the purchase of trees and the hire of laborers on the improvements of reservation number two, or public mall, between Seventh and Twelfth streets west, five thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-two cents; For compensation of the keeper of the western gate of the Capitol Square, seven hundred and thirty dollars; For compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the Capitol Square, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars; For compensation of the door-keeper at the President’s House, at five hundred dollars, and of assistant door-keeper at the same, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars; For compensation of two night watchmen at the President’s House, one thousand dollars; Bridge across the Potomac.For a bridge across the Potomac at Little Falls, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars; Supply of water.To be expended under the direction of the President of the United States for the purpose of bringing water into the city of Washington, upon such plans and from such places as he may approve, one hundred Proviso.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if the plan adopted by the President of the United States should require water to be drawn from any source within the limits of Maryland, the assent of the legislature of that State should first be obtained; For compensation of two draw-keepers and a watchman at the Potomac Bridge, and for fuel and oil for lamps, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for repairing the Long Bridge across the Potomac River, twenty thousand dollars; For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, and for fuel and oil for lamps, one thousand dollars; Auxiliary guard pay.1855, ch. 23.For compensation of auxiliary guard, and for fuel and oil for lamps, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars; and each of the auxiliary guards shall hereafter receive the same annual compensation, to wit, five hundred dollars per annum; Paupers.For the support, care, and medical treatment, in the Washington Infirmary, of twelve transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, two thousand dollars; 207 For the purchase of manure for the publie grounds, one thousand dollars; For cart hire on the public grounds, one thousand dollars; For the purchase and repair of tools upon the public grounds, five hundred dollars; For the purchase of trees and tree-boxes to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, and for repairs of pavements in front of the public grounds, two thousand three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That no more alanthus trees be purchased or planted;Alanthus trees. For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, waterpipes,Capitol. pavements, and other walks within and around the Capitol Square, painting the interior of all the committee-rooms, cleaning out and paving the vaults under the crypt, extending gas pipes through the vaults, cleaning and whitewashing the ceiling of the rotundo, replacing broken glass, locks, &c., six thousand eight hundred dollars; For annual repairs of the President’s House, furniture, improvement ofPresident’s house. grounds, painting and repairing roof; cleaning, painting, and whitewashing inside of the house; extending east wing of offices for carriage-house, blinds for the west front of the house, flooring large room in basement, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and for making hot-beds therein, wire fence, &c., six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For refurnishing the President’s House, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of such of the furniture and equipage of the said house as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; For painting the exterior of the President’s House below the cornice, one thousand and fifty dollars; For heating and ventilating the Executive Mansion, painting the exterior thereof, and painting the walls, ceilings, &c. of the rooms on the first floor, and making other improvements and repairs, and for the purchase of books for the President’s library, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars; For erecting lamp posts and lamps on both sides of PennsylvaniaLamp posts and lamps. Avenue, from Seventeenth street to Georgetown, and from the Capitol to the Navy Yard, three thousand seven hundred dollars; For completing the grading and paving of the carriage-way of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania Avenue. Avenue, from Seventeenth street to Rock Creek, and for setting the curbstone and paving the footway six feet wide on each side of said Avenue, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the sum requiredProviso. for paving said footway shall not be expended unless the owners of property opposite thereto be required, under the direction of the authorities of the city of Washington, to pave at least ten feet in width of the space allotted for a sidewalk, in continuation and adjoining the same; For enclosing with an iron fence and otherwise improving the triangular space on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the Markethouse, and between Seventh and Eighth streets, four thousand five hundred dollars; For a deficiency for surveying, levelling, and measuring the triangular square on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, forty-two dollars; For supplying a deficiency in the appropriation made March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for completing the room under the Senate Post-Office, four hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-one cents; For lighting the Capitol and President’s House, the public grounds around them and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-two thousand dollars; 208 Patent Office building.Towards the erection of the west wing of Patent Office building, two hundred thousand dollars; For completing the repairs of the two bridges across the Eastern Branch, four thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.California Land Commission.*Miscellaneous*.—For salaries and incidental expenses of the Commission appointed under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, for settling land claims in California, seventy-five thousand dollars; and that the proviso to the appropriation for this object contained in the act approved thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, shall not be so construed as to reduce the salary of the Secretary of said Commission as fixed by the second section of the above recited Salaries.act: *And provided further*, That out of said sum herein appropriated there shall be paid to each commissioner appointed under the act of the 1851, ch. 41.third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, the sum of eight thousand dollars, in lieu of the compensation heretofore allowed; Annuities and grants.For annuities and grants, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Loans, &c.For expenses of loans and treasury notes, twenty thousand dollars; Pensions.1853, ch. 41.For pensions to widows and orphans under the act entitled “An act to continue half-pay to certain widows and orphans,” approved February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars; Claims.For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, five Proviso.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; Books.To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish, pay for, and deliver the same books to the delegates from Oregon, New Mexico, and Utah, for the thirty-second Congress, as per resolution of said House, passed twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, two thousand and seven hundred dollars; J. T. Mudd.To pay to J. T. Mudd for services in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, from the day of the death of the late Commissioner to the appointment of the present incumbent, sixty-five dollars; Penitentiary.For compensation of the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, two assistant keepers, four guards, and porter, of the Penitentiary of the District of Columbia, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation of three inspectors of said Penitentiary, three hundred dollars; For the support and maintenance of said Penitentiary, one thousand two hundred and forty dollars; Paupers.For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers of the District of Columbia, at such places as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem proper, ten thousand dollars; Statutes at Large and Index.For the purchase of two hundred and fifty copies of the Statutes at Large of the United States, and of the Synoptical Index thereto, at the contract price paid by Congress, to be distributed, under the direction of the Department of State, among the several consulates and commercial agents, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Agricultural statistics.For the collection of agricultural statistics and purchase of seeds, to be paid out of the patent fund, five thousand dollars; Steamboat inspectors.1852, ch. 106.For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local Inspectors, appointed under the act approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with travelling and other expenses incurred by them, seventy thousand dollars; Paper.For paper required for the printing of Congress for the first session of the thirty-third Congress, one hundred and four thousand and sixty-four dollars; 209 For paper required for the printing of the Executive Departments, ten thousand three hundred dollars; For the printing of the Senate for the first session of the thirty-third Congress, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars; For the printing of the House of Representatives for the first session of the thirty-third Congress, fifty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars; For the printing of the Executive Departments, including for paper and printing the annual estimates, and for paper, printing, binding the Biennial Register, and the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on commerce and navigation, twenty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and four cents; For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messenger in his office, six thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars; For blank books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, &c., one thousand one hundred and two dollars; For compensation of the Librarian of the Patent Office, to be paid outPatent Office Library. of the patent fund, one thousand two hundred dollars; For the purchase of books for the library of the Patent Office, to be paid out of the patent fund, one thousand five hundred dollars; *Mexican Boundary Commission*.—For completing the survey of theMexican Boundary Commission. Rio Grande, and for office work for one year, eighty-three thousand five hundred and twelve dollars; For arrears due Major William H. Emory’s party, twenty thousand dollars; For expenses attending Lieutenant Whipple’s party from the Gila, six thousand dollars; For pay of Commissioner and Secretary, mid for personal and travelling expenses of the Commissioner, nine thousand five hundred dollars; And that the period limited for the appointment of Commissioner,Extension of time. Surveyor, and Chief Astronomer, by the act of May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall be, and the same is hereby extended to the first of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. For carrying into effect the provisions of this act establishing an assayAssay office in New York. office in the city of New York, in addition to the charges *to the charges* therein authorized to be received, one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and that there be paid to James B. Smallwood and Martin LaJ. B. Smallwood, M. La Fruite. Fruite, boys attending upon the mail wagons of the Senate, the sum of one hundred and forty-six dollars each, being twenty per cent, in addition to their pay for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the salary of the SuperintendentSalary of Superintendent of Coast Survey.Report respecting coast survey. of the Coast Survey shall be six thousand dollars per annum; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury annually to report to Congress, during the first month of each regular session, the number and names of the persons employed during the last preceding fiscal year upon the coast survey and business connected therewith; the amount of compensation of every kind respectively paid them, for what purpose, and the length of time employed; and further, to report a full statement of all other expenditures made under the direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That from and after the thirtiethClassification of clerks in the departments and their pay. of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the clerks in the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post-Office, shall be arranged into four classes, of which class number one shall receive an annual salary of nine hundred dollars each, class number two an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars each, class number three an210 annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each, and class number four an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars each. In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, four of class one, six of class two, six of class three, and five of class four. In the office of the Solicitor, one of class one, two of class two, three of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the First Comptroller, two of class one, five of class two, and seven of class three. In the Office of the Second Comptroller, three of class one, four of class two, and seven of class three. In the office of the First Auditor, three of class one, six of class two, and nine of class three. In the office of the Second Auditor, two of class one, six of class two, and eleven of class three. In the office of the Third Auditor, three of class one, forty-one of class two, and eight of class three. In the office of the Fourth Auditor, one of class one, four of class two, and nine of class three. In the office of the Fifth Auditor, two of class one, three of class two, and two of class three. In the office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, twenty of class one, fifty of class two, twenty-six of class three, and five of class four. In the office of the Register, five of class one, eighteen of class two, and four of class three. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs, three of class one, four of class two, and three of class three. In the office of the Treasurer, two of class one, five of class two, and five of class three. And in the office of the Light-house Board, one of class one, one of class two, and two of class three. In the office of the Secretary of War, one of class one, two of class two, two of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the General-in-Chief, one of class two. In the office of the Adjutant-General, two of class one, five of class two, one of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Quartermaster-General three of class one, five of class two, two of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Paymaster-General, two of class one, three of class two, two of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Commissary-General, two of class one, two of class two, one of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Surgeon-General, one of class one, one of class two, and one of class four. In the office of the Colonel of Engineers, one of class one, two of class two, one of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers, one of class one, two of class two, one of class three, and one of class four. And in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, two of class one, four of class two, one of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Secretary of the Navy, four of class two, six of class three, and one of class four. In the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, one of class one, seven, including the draughtsman, of class two, and one of class four. In the Bureau of Yards and Docks, one of class one, four, including the draughtsman, of class two, and one of class four. In the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, four of class two, and one of class four. 211 In the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, four, including die draughtsman, of class two, and one of class four. And in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, two of class two, and one, the assistant of class four. In the office of the Secretary of the Interior, four of class two, three of class three, and three of class four. In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, ten of class one, thirty of class two, five of class three, and four of class four. In the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, forty of class one, forty of class two, twenty-three of class diree, and three of class four. In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, six of class two, six of class three, and three of class four. And in die office of the Commissioner of Patents, eight of class two, twelve, including the six assistant examiners, of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the Postmaster-General, ten of class one, thirty-three of class two, twenty-nine of class three, and six, including the topographer, of class four. And there shall be a chief clerk for each of the offices of the Solicitor,Chief clerks and their pay. First Comptroller, Second Comptroller, First Auditor, Second Auditor, Third Auditor, Fourth Auditor, Fifth Auditor, Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department, Register, Commissioner of Customs, Treasurer, Light-house Board, Commissioner of Pensions, Commissioner of the General Land Office, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Commissioner of Patents, who shall be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars each; and there shall be a chief clerk for each of the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, and General Post-Office, who shall be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand two hundred dollars each. No clerk shall be appointed in either of the four classes until after heAppointment of clerks. has been examined and found qualified by a Board, to consist of three examiners, one of them to be the Chief of the Bureau or office into which he is to be appointed, and the two others to be selected by the head of the Department to which the said clerk will be assigned. NorNo extra salaries to be paid. shall any clerk in the Departments herein named receive any other salary or money for extra services than the sura or sums specified in this section, at any time after this section has been executed by a classification of the clerks as it prescribes. There shall be a disbursing clerk for each of the Departments of War, Navy, and the Post-Office; not moreDisbursing clerks. than three for the Treasury Department, at the discretion of the Secretary thereof; and not more than three for the Department of the Interior, at the discretion of the Secretary thereof. The said clerks to be appointed out of class four by the heads of the respective Departments, and to receive such sum, in addition to their regular salaries, as may amount in all to two thousand dollars per annum. But it shall be their further duty, when designated by the head of the Department for that service, to superintend the buildings, and they shall give bonds as required by the Independent Treasury act: *Provided*, That the clerksProviso. when distributed and arranged as required by this section shall be paid according to its provisions, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall constitute the whole of the permanent clerical force of the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post-Office, with the exception of the Census Bureau, which is not included in this arrangement, and the clerks temporarily employed in the office of the Third Auditor on bounty land service, and on arrearages of pay: *And provided further*, That each head of theDistribution of clerks may be changed. said Departments may alter the distribution herein made of the clerks amongst the various bureaus and offices in his departments, if he should find it necessary and proper to do so. 212 Sec. 4. Compensation of Vice-President and Heads of Departments and Attorney-General.*And be it further enacted*, That hereafter the annual compensation of die Vice-President, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, and the Postmaster and Attorney-General, shall be eight thousand dollars each. Sec. 5. Refining of gold in private establishments.*And be it further enacted*, That when private establishments shall be made to refine gold bullion, the Secretary of the Treasury, if he shall deem them capable of executing such work, is hereby authorized and required to limit the amount thereof, which shall be refined in the Mint at Philadelphia, from quarter to quarter, and to reduce the same progressively as such establishments shall be expended [extended ?] or multiplied, so as eventually, and as soon as may be, to exclude refining from the mint, and to require that every deposit of gold bullion made therein for coinage shall be adapted to said purpose, without need of refining: Proviso as to advances on bullion.*Provided*, That no advances in coin shall be made upon bullion after this regulation shall be carried into effect, except upon bullion refined as herein prescribed. Sec. 6. Assistant Secretary of State.*And be it further enacted*, That an officer shall be appointed in the Department of State, to be called the Assistant Secretary of State, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as that of the Secretary of State, who shall perform all such duties in the office of the Secretary of State, belonging to that Department, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State, or as may be required by law. Sec. 7. Outstanding debenture bonds for coal to be cancelled.Proviso.*And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to cancel any outstanding debenture bonds given previously to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon the importation of foreign coals: *Provided*, That the said coals have been exported to a foreign port or consumed upon the outward voyage, and shall not have been consumed in the United States. Sec. 8. Act of 1846, ch. 175, §3, respecting continuing certain offices in the departments, revived.*And be it further enacted*, That the third section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes,” approved August tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Sec. 9. Purchase of United States stock.*And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized to purchase at the current market price any of the outstanding stocks of the United States as he may think Proviso.most advisable, from any surplus funds in the Treasury: *Provided*, That the balance in the Treasury shall not at any time be reduced below six millions of dollars. Sec. 10. Assay office to be established in New York.*And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to establish in the city of New York an office for the receipt and for the melting, refining, parting, and assaying of gold and silver bullion and foreign coin, and for casting Treasurer.Officers and assistants.the same into bars, ingots, or disks. The Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York shall be Treasurer of the said assay office, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, with the approbation and consent of the President of the United States, appoint such other officers and clerks, and authorize the employment of such assistants, workmen, and servants as shall be necessary for the proper conduct and management of the said office and of the business pertaining thereto, at such Proviso.compensation as shall be approved by the President: *Provided*, That the same shall not exceed that allowed for corresponding services under existing laws relating to the Mint of the United States and its branches. Sec. 11. Receipt to be given for bullion.*And be it further enacted*, That the owner or owners of any gold or silver bullion, in dust or otherwise, or of any foreign coin, shall be entitled to deposite the same in the said office, and the Trea-213surer thereof shall give a receipt, stating the weight and description thereof, in the manner and under the regulations that are or may be provided in like cases or deposits at the Mint of the United States with the Treasurer thereof. And such bullion shall, without delay, be melted, parted, refined, and assayed, and the net value thereof, and of all foreign coins deposited in said office, shall be ascertained; and the TreasurerCertificate of value of deposit, when receivable for public dues. shall thereupon forthwith issue his certificate of the net value thereof, payable in coins of the same metal as that deposited, either at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in New York, or at the Mint of the United States, at the option of the depositor, to be expressed in the certificate, which certificates shall be receivable at any time within sixty days from the date thereof in payment of all debts due to the United States at the port of New York for the full sum therein certified. All gold or silver bullion and foreign coin deposited, melted, parted,In what form to be cast. refined, or assayed, as aforesaid, shall, at the option of the depositor, be, cast in the said office into bars, ingots, or disks, either of pure metal or of standard fineness, (as the owner may prefer,) with a stamp thereon of such form and device as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, accurately designating its weight and fineness: *Provided*, ThatProviso. no ingot, bar, or disk shall be cast of less weight than five ounces, unless the same be of standard fineness, and of either one, two, or three ounces in weight. And all gold or silver bullion and foreign coin intended by the depositor to be converted into the coins of the United States, shall, asAfter assay the metal to be transferred to the mint and coined. soon as assayed and its net value certified as above provided, be transferred to the Mint of the United States, under such directions as shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and at the expense of the contingent fund of the Mint, and shall there be coined. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, with the approval of the President of the United States, to make the necessary regulations for theAccounts. adjustment of the accounts between the respective officers, upon the transfer of any bullion or coin between the assay office, the mint, and Assistant Treasurer in New York. Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted*, That the operations of melting,Regulations of operations. parting, refining, and assaying in the said office shall be under the general directions of the Director of the Mint, in subordination to the Secretary of the Treasury; and it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations and to order such tests as shall be requisite to insure faithfulness, accuracy, and uniformity in the operations of the said office. Sec. 13. *And be it further enacted*, That the laws of the United StatesLaws respecting the mint to apply to said assay office. for the government of the mint and its officers in relation to the receipt, payment, custody of deposits, and settlement of accounts, the duties and responsibilities of officers and others employed therein, the oath to be taken and the bond and sureties to be given by them (as far as the same may be applicable) shall extend to the assay office hereby established, and to its officers, assistants, clerks, workmen, and others employed therein. Sec. 14. *And be it further enacted*, That the same charges shall beCharges for assaying, &c. made and demanded at the said assay office for refining, parting, casting into bars, ingots, or disks, and for alloy, as are, or shall be made and demanded at the mint; and no other charges shall be made to depositors than by law are authorized to be made at the mint; and the amount received from the charges hereby authorized shall be accounted for and appropriated for defraying the contingent expenses of the said office. Sec. 15. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryBuildings for said assay office. is authorized to procure, by rent, lease, or otherwise, a building or apartments in the city of New York suitable for the operations of said office, unless he shall be of opinion that suitable apartments in the custom-house in that city may be assigned for this purpose. And he is also hereby authorized and directed to procure the necessary machinery and214THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 98. 1853. implements for the carrying on the operations and business of the said office. Sec. 16. Salary of Assistant Treasurer at New York.*And be it further enacted*, That the salary of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York, from and after the time that the said office shall be opened and in operation, shall be six thousand dollars per annum, instead of the sum now allowed. Sec. 17. Amos Proctor.1844, ch. 168.*And he it further enacted*, That under the act for the benefit of Amos Proctor, approved the seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, the legal representatives of the said Proctor are entitled to one half of one moiety, being one fourth of the appraised value of the goods therein mentioned, as having been seized and libelled on his importation. Sec. 18. Equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson.*And be it further enacted*, That there be placed at the disposal of the President of the United States the sum of twenty thousand dollars to enable him to compensate Clark Mills for the execution of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, recently placed upon the public square in the city of Washington, north of the Executive Mansion, and to make the same the property of the United States, and that said sum be paid under the direction of the President out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, when a clear and satisfactory title Proviso.to said statue shall be vested in the United States: *Provided*, That the sum of ten thousand dollars thereof be invested for the family of said Mills, and after his death to be given to such children of said Mills as may survive him. Sec. 19. Land office at Pontotoc, Mississippi.*And be it further enacted*, That whenever the land office at Pontotoc, Mississippi, shall be discontinued, the records and files thereof shall be placed in the possession of the clerk of the United States district court for the northern district of Mississippi, who is hereby made keeper of the same, and authorized to perform all the duties now conferred upon the register and receiver, and shall receive for his services therefor a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 20. Settlement of accounts of D. S. McCauley.*And be it further enacted*, That in settling the accounts of Daniel S. McCauley, late Consul-General at Alexandria, in Egypt, there shall be allowed for office rent at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum, during the time he acted in that capacity, to be paid to his widow. Washington Territory.For salaries of Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, three Judges, Attorney, and Marshal of Washington Territory, from the time of their appointment to the end of the fiscal year terminating June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerk, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, and to defray the expenses of taking the census of said Territory, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated. For the contingent expenses of the Territory, including the salary of a clerk of the Executive Department, fifteen hundred dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1853.
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