Chapter CVIII. making Appropriations for certain Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight
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Chap. CVIII.— An Act making Appropriations for certain Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, viz: *Survey of the Coast*.— For survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coast of theCoast Survey.
United States, (including compensation to superintendent and assistants, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers, and men of the navy employed on the work,) two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers, and men of the navy employed on the work,) forty thousand dollars.
For running a line to connect the triangulation on the Atlantic coast with that on the Gulf of Mexico, across the Florida peninsula, fifteen thousand dollars. For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and alterations of steamer "Walker" and of sailing vessels employed in the coast survey, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel and quarters and for mileage and transportation for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army serving in the coast survey, in cases no longer provided by the quartermaster’s department, ten thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims not otherwise providedMiscellaneous claims. for as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure. To supply the deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabledDeficiency for seamen. seamen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing the Treasury extension, five hundred thousand dollars.Treasury extension. For the continuation of the custom-house at Charleston, South, Carolina,Custom-houses at Charleston and New Orleans. four hundred thousand dollars. For the continuation of the custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana, three hundred thousand dollars. For the compensation of an additional appraiser-general to be appointedAdditional appraiser general authorized. by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be employed in the districts or ports of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, twenty-five hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of marine hospitals, twenty-five thousand dollars.Marine hospitals. For annual repairs of custom-houses, thirty thousand dollars.Custom-houses. For enclosing, grading, and draining the lot of land recently purchasedHospital, at Mobile. to enlarge the site of marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama, five thousand four hundred dollars. For iron shutters and bars for the windows of the custom-house atCustom-houses.At Wilmington. Wilmington, Delaware, one thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses incident to the construction of the customhouse at Ellsworth, Maine, one thousand five hundred dollars.Ellsworth. 222 Belfast.For grading and fencing grounds of the new custom-house at Belfast, Maine, five thousand dollars. For the purpose of adding an additional story to the custom-house and Petersburgh.post-office building at Petersburgh, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the said sum of money hereby appropriated shall be expended for the construction of a portico to said building.
Hospitals.At Paducah.For finishing, repairing, refitting, and refurnishing the marine hospital at Paducah, Kentucky, five thousand dollars. Evansville.For fencing and grading the site of the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana, and for erecting stable, supplying water for kitchen and other fixtures of same, five thousand five hundred dollars. For fencing and grading the grounds belonging to the marine hospital Portland.at Portland, Maine, and for introducing water, erecting stables, removing and repairing old building, for pest-house, and putting in kitchen-ranges, sixteen thousand dollars. *Lighthouse Establishment*.— Lighthouse establishment.For supplying five hundred and eleven light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, whiting and cleaning materials, transportation and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of all the lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-one cents. For salaries of five hundred and forty-three keepers of lighthouses and light-beacons and their assistants, two hundred and seventeen thousand two hundred dollars. For salaries of fifty-two keepers of light-vessels, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of fifty-two light-vessels, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and eighty-nine dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day-beacons, and tor chains and sinkers tor the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, one hundred and seven thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars.
For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same under the proviso to the act of third March, 1861, ch. 32.Vol. ix. p. 608.eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be disbursed by them, eight thousand dollars. *For the Coasts of California, Oregon and Washington*.— For Pacific Coast.For oil and other supplies for twenty-three lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, forty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty-three lights, and buildings connected therewith, twenty-four thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars. For salaries of forty-six keepers and assistant keepers of lighthouses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring, and supplying223 losses of floating beacons and buoys, and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same under the proviso to the act of third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act making appropriations1861, ch. 32.Vol. ix. p. 608. 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, one thousand dollars. For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the act of eighteenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for inspection and transportation1856, ch. 160.*Ante*, p. 100. purposes, thirty thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse destroyed by the gale of September,Lighthouses, &c. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, at Cape St. Blas, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and fitting with first-order apparatus the lighthouse at Fire Island, to mark the approach to the harbor of New York, forty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and fitting with first-order apparatus the lighthouse at Cape May, entrance to the Delaware Bay, New Jersey, forty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and fitting with suitable lens apparatus the lighthouse at Body’s Island, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rebuilding and fitting with first-order apparatus the lighthouse at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, forty-five thousand dollars. For completing the lighthouse at or near the north pier-head at Chicago, Illinois, and for protecting the same in addition to the balances of previous appropriations made prior to the thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and two cents. For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on lighthouseArmy officers. duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the quartermaster’s department, six thousand five hundred and eight dollars and eighty-two cents.
For restoring the lighthouse works near Coffin’s Patches, Florida, to their condition prior to the hurricane of twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty-nine thousand and fifty-three dollars and eighty-one cents. For compensation of two superintendents for the life stations on theLife stations. coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, two thousand and sixty-one dollars and fourteen cents. For compensation, of fifty-four keepers of stations, seven thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty cents.
For contingencies of life stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars. *Survey of the Public Lands*.— For surveying the public lands, (exclusiveLand surveys of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah.) including incidental expenses, and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands and the compensation and expenses to survey or to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations, one hundred thousand dollars.
For completing the survey of towns and villages in Missouri, two 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, two thousand dollars. 224 For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates, now authorized by law, four thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars. For surveying the public lands and private land claims in California, including office expenses, incident to the survey of claims, and to be disbursed at the rates prescribed by law for the different kinds of work, one hundred thousand dollars.
For surveying standard, parallel, and meridian lines in Washington Territory, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For surveying township and subdivisional lines in Washington Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of base, meridian, standard parallels, township, and section lines in New Mexico, fifty thousand dollars. For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard parallels, township and section lines in Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines of Indian reservations, fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the base, meridian, correction parallels, township and section lines in the Territory of Utah, fifty thousand dollars. For preparing the unfinished records of public and private surveys to be transferred to the State authorities, under the provisions of the act of 1840, ch. 86.Vol. v. p. 384.twelfth June, eighteen hundred and forty, in those districts where the surveys are about being completed, twelve thousand dollars. For resurvey and examination of the survey of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyor-general have been, or 1840, ch. 86.1853, ch. 24.Vol. x. p. 152.shall be closed, under the acts of the twelfth June, eighteen hundred and forty, and twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed to this special service in the General Land-Office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For continuing the survey of the keys off the coast of Florida by the Coast survey.officers of the coast survey, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the islands off the coast of California by the officers of the coast survey, forty thousand dollars. Drawings.For drawings to illustrate the report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, six thousand dollars. Patent Office building.For flooring the basement rooms in the old portion of the Patent Office building to make them fit for business purposes, painting the interior of said building, repairing roof; and for other incidental repairs, eight thousand dollars.
For preparing the saloon of the west wing of the Patent Office for the reception of models for patents, and for fitting up and furnishing the same with suitable cases, fifty thousand dollars. Insane persons.For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane of the District of Columbia, and of the array and navy at the asylum in said District, including five hundred dollars for books and incidental expenses, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. Insane Asylum.For purchase of agricultural and horticultural implements, and for the improvement of the grounds of the Insane Asylum of the District of Columbia, including farm and garden, five thousand dollars.
Patent Office building.For casual repairs of the Patent Office building, three thousand dollars. For continuing the erection of the north front of the Patent Office building, for the accommodation of the Department of the Interior, two hundred thousand dollars. Washington Infirmary.For support, care, and medical treatment of transient paupers, medical and surgical patients in Washington Infirmary, three thousand dollars. Public grounds.For purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, five hundred dollars. 225 For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace where necessary such as have been planted by the United States, and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds, five thousand dollars. For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, water-pipes,Capitol. pavements and other walks within the Capitol Square, broken glass and locks, six thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the President’s house and furniture, (includingPresident’s house. the painting of the east room and entire wood-work of the interior, fitting up the water-closets and cisterns, and making other necessary improvements,) improvement of grounds, purchasing trees and plants for garden and making hot-beds therein, and contingent expenses incident thereto, eleven thousand 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 as may be decayed and unfit for use, twenty thousand dollars.
For fuel in part for the President’s house, one thousand eight hundredFuel and light. dollars. For lighting the President’s house and Capitol, the public grounds around them and around the Executive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For purchase of books for library at the executive mansion, to be expendedBooks. under the direction of the President of the United States, two hundred and fifty dollars. For erecting cast-iron lamp-posts and lighting the same with gas fromLighting Pennsylvania Avenue with gas. the western terminus of Pennsylvania Avenue, through Bridge and High streets, in Georgetown, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, the cost of the same shall not exceed the price paid for those now in use by the government on Pennsylvania Avenue.
For compensation to Alfred L. Rives, civil engineer, and paying theAlfred L. Rives. incidental expenses in milking surveys, drawings, specifications, and estimates for a bridge across the Potomac, under and act of Congress, six thousand four hundred and ten dollars and seventy-seven cents. For repairs of the Potomac, Navy Yard, and Upper bridges, six thousandBridges. dollars. For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, three thousand dollars.Public grounds and streets. For public reservation number two, and Lafayette Square, three thousand dollars.
For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvements of the same, and keeping them in order, three thousand dollars. For the erection of stables and conservatory at the President’s house,Stables and conservatory. to replace those about to be taken down to make room for the extension of the Treasury building, twenty thousand dollars. For the preservation and improvement of the Circle at the intersectionPublic streets. of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire Avenue, and K and Twenty-third streets, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing the grading and gravelling New Jersey Avenue from North D street to New York Avenue, the sum of seven thousand dollars. For the payment of laborers employed in shovelling snow from the walks to and around the Capitol, the President’s house, and other public buildings, five hundred dollars. For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars.Water-pipes. For continuing Washington aqueduct, one million of dollars.Washington aqueduct. For continuing the improvement of Judiciary Square, repairingJudiciary Square. fences, and completing the pavement around the same, six thousand dollars.
For completing the improvement of the grounds of the Botanic GardenBotanic Garden. one thousand dollars. 226 Mall.For continuing the grading and planting with trees the unimproved portion of the mall, ten thousand dollars. Furnaces.For repairs of the furnaces under the Senate Chamber and Supreme Court rooms, five hundred dollars. Capitol extension.For United States Capitol extension, nine hundred thousand dollars. Dome.For continuing the work of the new dome of the Capitol, five hundred thousand dollars.
General P. O. extension.For extension of the General Post-Office, two hundred thousand dollars. Buildings at Buffalo.For enlarging the building for a custom-house, post-office, and courtroom at Buffalo, New York, one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars, including the ten per cent, for incidentals, and for the like purpose at Chicago, Illinois, two hundred thousand dollars, with the ten per cent, for incidental expenses. Cairo.For the construction of a custom-house, United States court-rooms, and post-office at Cairo, Illinois, fifty thousand dollars.
For the construction of warehouses at Quarantine Station on the Mississippi River, Warehouses at quarantine station, La.below New Orleans, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be expended, until the State of Louisiana shall pass a law ceding jurisdiction over the site of such warehouse to the Jurisdiction to be first obtained.United States, and shall grant to the United States the use of so much land as may be necessary for the construction of such warehouse, with water front and privilege of the wharf now built or hereafter to be built at said station.
For the continuation and completion of the custom-house, post-office, Buildings at Dubuque.&c., at Dubuque, Iowa, twenty thousand dollars, with ten per cent, for . contingencies; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to take possession and pay for the land and prosecute the work, conditioned upon the city of Dubuque entering into a bond in its corporate capacity, with good and sufficient individual security for twice the amount of the appropriations, that the legislature of Iowa will, at its next session, pass an act ceding exclusive jurisdiction over the site to the United States, and forever exempting the property from all taxation.
Congressional burying-ground.For flagging footway in the congressional burying-ground, from the entrance of the same to the government vault, two thousand two hundred dollars. Agricultural statistics; cuttings and seeds.For the collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement and distribution of cutting and seeds, sixty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of patents; and to enable the commissioner of Report on consumption of cotton.patents to collect and report information in relation to the consumption of cotton in the several countries of the world, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Superintendent of building of home department.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the superintendent of the building occupied by said Secretary and his department from the first day of January, eighteen hundred thirty-five to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred thirty-eight, the allowance to be made to such superintendent with his salary as clerk not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum, the sum of seven hundred dollars. Botanic Garden.For flagging the main avenue in the Botanic Garden, and for stone gutter for same, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Maine avenue.For the construction of a wooden bridge with a double track across the canal in the line of Maine avenue, fifteen hundred dollars. Hospital at Vicksburg.For amount due the contractors on the construction of the marine hospital at Vicksburg, Mississippi, seventeen hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. Buildings at Indianapolis.For the continuation and completion of the United States court-house and post-office at Indianapolis, Indiana, sixty-seven thousand dollars, (with ten per cent, for contingencies.) 227 For the continuation and completion of the buildings for the UnitedRutland.Windsor.
States courts and post-office at Rutland and Windsor, Vermont, forty-thousand dollars each, (with ten per cent, for contingencies.) For completing and fitting up the post-office in the building erected for a custom-house and post-offices at Cincinnati, four thousand three hundredCincinnati. and thirty-eight dollars and ninety cents. For completing the custom-house at Belfast, Maine, and for furnishingBelfast. the same, three thousand five hundred dollars, with ten per cent, for contingencies.
For completing the custom-house at Bath, Maine, five thousand fiveBath. hundred dollars. For fencing and grading the site of the custom-house at Bath, Maine, ten thousand dollars. For enlarging the custom-house at Ogdensburg, New York, and providingOgdensburg. for the uses of the United States courts and their federal officers, fifty thousand dollars, with ten per cent, on the same for contingencies. For repaving Pennsylvania Avenue at the intersection of SeventhPennsylvania Avenue. street, the width of said street, on the plan known as “Belgian pavement,” the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose.
For furnishing lamp-posts and lamps on the north, east, and west sidesLafayette Square of Lafayette Square, and for taking up and relaying the footways on the south side of said square, and underdraining the same, the sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of packing and distributing the Congressional Journals,Packing, &c. documents.Post, pp. 252, 379. and documents, in pursuance of the provisions contained in the joint resolution of Congress, approved twenty-eighth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For a small class revenue cutter, to be located in the collection districtRevenue cutter at Key West. of Key West, five thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to cause such experimentsExperiments on ores. and analyses of different beds of ore, as to test whether any of such ores, in their native state, possess alloys that will resist the tendency to oxidise to a greater extent than others, and to assertain under what circumstances they are found, and where, in order to facilitate the proper selections of iron for public works, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For completing and furnishing the building purchased of the Bank ofPost-office in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania to adapt it to the uses of a post-office in the city of Philadelphia, one hundred thousand dollars. For expenses of loans and treasury notes, five thousand dollars; beingLoans and notes. so much of the amount of such appropriation heretofore made as was carried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, which is hereby reappropriated. To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect theSuppression of slave-trade. act of Congress of the third March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and any subsequent acts, now in force for the suppression of the slave-trade, eight thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to pay for the services of Dr. JamesDr. James Morrow. Morrow as agriculturist to the Japan expedition under Commodore Perry, such sum as shall be found due under the act for his relief, approved eighteenth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five thousand1857, ch. 52.*Post*, p. 506. nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the erection of a temporary capitol for Washington Territory, thirtyCapitol and penitentiary for Washington Territory. thousand dollars, and for a penitentiary in the same Territory, twenty thousand dollars, inclusive of the sites of the buildings: *Provided*, That each building shall be finished for the sums herein appropriated.
To enable the committee on the library to contract with Mr. Healy forPortraits of Presidents a series of portraits of the Presidents of the United States for the exec-228utive mansion: *Provided*, The cost of the same shall not exceed one thousand dollars for the full-length portraits, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated; or, in the discretion of the committee, to purchase such of Stuart’s portraits of the Presidents as shall be for sale. Buildings at Baleigh.For building a court-house and post-office at Raleigh, North Carolina, fifty thousand dollars.
Columbia.For building a court-house and post-office at Columbia, South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars. Madison.For building a court-house at Madison, Wisconsin, fifty thousand dollars. Memphis.For a court-house and post-office at Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, fifty thousand dollars. Tallahassee.For a building at Tallahassee, Florida, to accommodate the United States courts and post-office, fifty thousand dollars. Judiciary in the District or Columbia.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the salaries of the judges of the circuit and orphans’ courts of the District of Columbia, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, four thousand and fifty dollars.
Buildings at Key WestFor the completion of a United States court-house and post-office at Key West, Florida, thirty thousand dollars, with ten per cent, for contingencies, and so much as may be necessary for the purpose of a suitable site for the same. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the President of the United President authorized to appoint a private secretary and a steward and messenger.States be and he is hereby authorized to appoint or employ, in his official household, the following officers, to wit: one private secretary at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; one steward at an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, who shall, under the direction of the President, have charge of and be responsable for the plate and furniture of the President’s mansion, and shall discharge such other duties as the President may assign him; and one messenger at an annual salary of Their pay.nine hundred dollars; and such sum as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this section, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
And that for contingent expenses of the Executive contingencies.executive office, including stationery therefor, to be expended under the direction of the President, from the date of this act to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the Treasury Buildings at Galveston.be and he hereby is authorized to increase the length of the building for the custom-house, post-office, and court-rooms at Galveston, Texas, as many feet as the appropriation heretofore made will admit of being done.
Sec. 4. Boston Humane Society.*And be it further enacted*, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and the same hereby is appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for continuing the system of protecting human life from shipwreck, as heretofore established, by life-boats and other means, on the coast of Massachusetts; the said sum to be expended by the Boston Humane Society, under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That the President of the United Steam revenue cutter.States be and he is hereby authorized to construct the steam revenue cutter provided for by the act of Congress, approved February sixth, eighteen 1857, ch. 32.*Ante*, p. 157.hundred and fifty-seven, entitled “An act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be procured, by purchase or otherwise, a suitable steamer as a revenue cutter,” by contract or otherwise, in any manner which in his judgment may seem best for the public interests.
Sec. 6. Disposition of the stone not wanted for the Capitol.*And be it further enacted*, That it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior, in executing the improvements around the Capitol ordered, in this or in any other act, to sell either the railing, coping, or229 rubble stone now in use on the capitol grounds, but shall, when they are superceded, use so much thereof as may be necessary in enclosing Judiciary Square, and the remainder shall be used in enclosing such public grounds as the President may direct.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted*, That the provisions of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, fixing the salary of theSalary of collector at Chicago.1853, ch. 97. collector of the port of Chicago, Illinois, at twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum, shall not be so construed as to deprive the said collectorVol. x. p. 202. of the per centum allowed by the sixth section of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to such officers as may have been1849, ch. 100, § 6.1846, ch. 90.Vol, ix. pp. 59, 370. designated as depositaries under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and the benefits of said sixth section are hereby extended to said collector.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, That the provisions of the fifth sectionPay of surveyors acting as collectors. of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year eighteen hundred and forty-one,” approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one,1841, ch. 35, § 5.Vol. v. p. 432. which established and limited the compensation of collectors of customs, shall be construed to apply to surveyors performing or having performed the duties of collectors of the customs, who shall be entitled to the same compensation as is allowed to collectors for like services in the settlement of their accounts.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted*, That the President of the United States may enlarge the area of the reservation Mendocino by extendingPresident may enlarge Mendocino reservation. its boundary northward along the coast of the Pacific Ocean to the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, embracing sufficient territory for the colonization of the Indians in the coast range of mountains north of the Bay of San Francisco, and also those in the valley of the Sacramento River, but such extension shall not interfere with the preemption claims of settlers.
Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryCourt-house at Boston. be and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be constructed at the city of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, a suitable fire-proof*Post*, p. 269. building for the accommodation of the circuit and district court of the United States, and for this purpose the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the InteriorTemporary clerks in office of Indian affairs. be authorized to employ in the office of Indian Affairs, five temporary clerks during the fiscal year; and for their compensation the sum of seven thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be in lieu of the five temporary clerks heretofore authorized to be employed in said office. Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted*, That the proper accounting officersSettlement of account with Maryland.1826, ch. 39.Vol. iv. p. 161. of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to re-examine the account between the United States and the State of Maryland, as the same was, from time to time, adjusted under the act passed on the thirteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act authorizing the payment of interest due to the State of Maryland,” and on such reexamination to assume the sums expended by the State of Maryland for the use and benefit of the United States, and the sums refunded and repaid by the United States to the said State, and the times of such payments as being correctly stated in the account as the same has heretofore been passed at the Treasury Department; but in the calculation of interests due under the act aforesaid, the following rulesInterest how to be reckoned. shall be observed, to wit:
Interest shall be calculated up to the time of any payment made. To this interest the payment shall be first applied, and if it exceed the interest due, the balance shall be applied to diminish the principal; If the payment fall short of the interest, the balance of interest shall not be added to the principal so as to produce interest.230THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 109. 1857. Second; interest shall be allowed the State of Maryland on such sums only on -which the said State either paid interest or lost interest by the transfer of an interest bearing fund.
Sec. 13. Appropriation therefor.*And be it further enacted*, That if, upon such reexamination of the account and application of the above rules, any money shall be found to be due to the State of Maryland, the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1857.