Chapter CX. to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven
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Chap. CX.— An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiency appropriation. That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
Officers, &c., of Senate.For the compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz: For an additional messenger from first February to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, at twelve hundred dollars per annum, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-six cents. For increase of compensation of the superintendent in charge of the Senate furnaces, from fourteenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum in addition to former salary, one hundred and four dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: Globe.For the Congressional Globe and binding the same, three thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-two cents. *For the Contingent Expenses of the Senate*.— Senate contingencies. For clerks to committees, pages, police, horses and carryalls, fourteen thousand seven hundred and one dollars. For stationery, four thousand dollars. For reporting proceedings, sixteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty-four cents.
For miscellaneous items, two thousand and six hundred dollars. Army clothing and equipage.For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, three hundred and thirty-two thousand and fifty-six dollars and eighteen cents. Quartermaster’s department.For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospital storehouses and offices, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such companies of infifntry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, two hundred thousand dollars.
Clerks in assay office, New York.1855, ch. 175.Vol. x. p. 654.For the increased compensation of clerks in the assay office in Now York, authorized by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars. Mint expenses at San Francisco.For the incidental and contingent expenses of the branch mint at San Francisco, California, forty thousand dollars. Surveyor-Gen. of Utah.For the salary of the surveyor-general of Utah Territory, for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, fifty dollars.
Hospital at Vicksburg.For amount due for the construction of the marine hospital at Vicksburg, Mississippi, seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. 241 For amount necessary to complete the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky,Custom-houses at Louisville and Bath. forty thousand dollars. For amount necessary to complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine, five thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of two clerks in the Department of State, authorizedClerks in Stats Department.1856, ch. 170, § 3.*Ante*, p. 139. by the act of Congress approved eighteenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and forty-three cents; being from the eighteenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. *For Contingent Expenses of the House of Representatives, viz*:
ForContingencies of House of Representatives. folding documents, including folding paper, envelopes, and other folding materials, twenty thousand dollars. For furniture, repairs, and boxes for members, two thousand dollars. For laborers, three thousand dollars. To indemnify the clerk for such sums as he may have expended for books under resolution of the House of Representatives of July seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and to enable him under said resolution to furnish for each member and delegate of the House of Representatives who has not heretofore received the same the following enumerated books, viz:
Gales & Seaton’s Register of Debates, Congressional Globe and Appendix, Public Land Laws, Instructions and Opinions, Elliott’s Debates, Diplomatic Correspondence, Opinions of the Attorneys-General, in five volumes, Finance Reports, Gales and Seaton’s Annals of Congress, John Adams’ works, Jefferson’s works, to be supplied from the numbers of said work now in charge of the librarian. Hickey’s Constitution, and Mayo and Moulton’s Pension and Bounty Land Laws, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
Provided they be furnished at prices not exceeding those for which they were heretofore supplied, and provided also that said books be forwarded by the clerk to such public library in the district of each of said members and delegates as may be designated by said member or delegate. Contingent expenses House of Representatives: For stationary, eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. For the purchase one hundred and forty-two copies of the first and tenth volumes of the works of John Adams for the members of the thirty-second Congress, six hundred and thirty-nine dollars.
For the reappropriation of five hundred and eighty-five dollars heretofore carried to the surplus fund, being the amount appropriated for the engraving of fifty-one thousand five hundred and twenty copies of the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and fifty-one-two. To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for books for membersBooks of members of 33d Congress. of the thirty-third Congress, three thousand dollars. For Capitol police, two hundred dollars.Capitol police.
To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to John C. Rives the additional compensation for the Congressional Globe andGlobe and Appendix. Appendix provided in the sixteenth section of the act making appropriation for certain civil expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-nine cents. To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the House theReporters. usual additional compensation for reporting the debates of the present session, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars.
For the completion of the printing heretofore ordered by the SenatePrinting. and House of Representatives, and paper for the same, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 242 Witnesses and agents or attorneys in court of claims.For fees of witnesses in behalf of the government in the court of claims, and of agents or attorneys to be appointed by the solicitor thereof to attend to the taking of depositions, five thousand dollars. *Army*.— Army, Nurses, &c.1856, ch. 125.*Ante*, p. 51.To meet the expenses of nurses and attendants, authorized by the third section of the act of sixteenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An act providing for a necessary increase and better organization of the medical and hospital department of the army,” from the date of said act to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a reappropriation of fifty thousand dollars of the balance of the Claims on medical and hospital department.appropriation for the medical and hospital departments, which was carried to the surplus fund thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, for the payment of claims applicable to said department, accruing during the war with Mexico, & not yet settled by the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. Transportation.For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and array depots, horse equipments, and of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent, of ordnance or ordnance stores and small arms, from the foundries and arsenals to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and array depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and forages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing vessels, and boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments, the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific, and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance, seven hundred thousand dollars.
Mint at New Orleans.For completing the repairs of the branch mint at New Orleans and rendering the same fire-proof, one hundred and twenty thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars. Light-vessels.For seamen’s wages, repairs, and incidental expenses of light-vessels, occasioned by damages, loss of moorings, and for necessary expenses in recovering said vessels broken adrift during the late storms and freshets, and by floating ice, forty thousand one hundred and five dollars and sixty-two cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and Buoys, &c.supplying losses of buoys, and for chains and sinkers, occasioned by damage, losses, and for necessary expenses in recovering and restoring buoys and their appendages during the late storms and freshets, and by floating ice, thirty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty cents. For restoring spindles and repairing day beacons destroyed or damaged by the late storms, freshets, and floating ice, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Defence of suits at San Francisco.For defraying expenses of the defence of suits against the United States for lands occupied by marine hospitals, lighthouses, and fortifications at the harbor of San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars. To defray expenses incurred in preparing plans and estimates of cost Jail in District of Columbia.of a new jail for the District of Columbia, and of a building for the proper accommodation of the Department of the Interior, five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. Extra compensation to officers and employees of Congress bow to be paid.*And be it further enacted*, That the extra compensation given by each of the two houses of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to its officers and employees, shrill be paid by its dis-THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 111. 1857.243 burning officer out of the contingent fund, and his accounts therefor shall*Ante*, pp. 145, 146. be allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.
But, nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal the joint resolutionJoint resolution of 1854 prohibiting extra compensation declared in force vol. x. p. 594. of twentieth of July, eighteen hundred arid fifty-four, “to fix the compensation of the employees in the legislative department of the government, and to prohibit the allowance of the usual extra compensation to such as receive the benefits hereof,” which said resolution is hereby declared to be in full force and effect, except so far as herein provided for.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the provisions of the thirteenth section of “An act making appropriation for certain civil expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six,” allowing to the several disbursing agents for thePay of disbursing agents of California land commission.1856, ch. 129, § 13. late California Land Commission the same compensation for the receipt and disbursement, of moneys as are allowed to other disbursing officers of the government in California, was intended to apply and is hereby declared to apply, and give said compensation as well when the disbursing agent was a member of said commission as in other cases.*Ante*, p. 92.
Approved, March 3, 1857.