Chapter XXIX. *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Sear ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* May 15, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,
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Chap. XXIX.— An Act *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Sear ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* May 15, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be, Appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:— Senate.For the compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate:— 11 For the chief clerk and clerk to the Committee on Finance, two thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-four cents.
For contingent expenses of the Senate:— For binding, eleven thousand dollars. For lithographing and engraving, twenty-five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives:—Representatives. For the completion of the binding of documents ordered to be printed for the use of the House, eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-six cents. For the completion of the engraving ordered at the second session of the thirty-third Congress, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the engraving of maps, charts, and other plates accompanying documents ordered to be printed at the first session of the thirty-fourth*Post*, p. 43S. Congress, nineteen thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs, three thousand five hundred dollars. For stationery for members, four thousand dollars. For the pay of clerks upon the land maps for the use of the Committee on Public Lands, six thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and eighty cents. For the pay of nine clerks to committees of the House under resolutions of the present session, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Clerk to purchase the Statutes at Large for the use ofStatutes at Large. members of the House of Representatives, per resolution of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, five thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars. To pay John C. Rives a balance due for reporting and publishing inReporting, &c. the Daily Globe the proceedings of the House of Representatives for the second session of the thirty-third Congress, one thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents.
To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay John C. Rives for reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe the proceedings of the House of Representatives for the first session of the thirty-fourth Congress, prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, seventeen thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for oneAnnals of Congress. hundred copies of the continuation of the Annals of Congress for the library of the House of Representatives during the present fiscal year, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for the continuation of the Annals of Congress, for the members of the thirty-second Congress, three thousand dollars. *Public Printing.—*To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for printingPublic printing. and paper ordered at the first session of the thirty-third Congress, fifty-seven thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for printing of the second session of the thirty-third Congress, which deficiencies were transferred to*Post*, p. 105. the account of the first session of the thirty-fourth Congress, in virtue of the joint resolution approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred*Post*, p. 142. and fifty-six, two hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents.
To provide for the engraving of the maps and drawings accompanying the reports of explorations and surveys to determine a Pacific railroad route, forty-nine thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the said maps and drawings shall be engraved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War. For compensation of ten clerks of class one, employed temporarily in the office of the Third Auditor, on account of military bounty lands, three thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-six cents. 12 Post-office department.*Contingent Expenses of Post-Office Department.—*For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the General Post-Office building, including the Auditor’s office, oil, gas, and candles, printing, labor, day watchman, and for miscellaneous items, three thousand dollars.
Assay-office, N.Y.*Assay-Office, New York.—*For wages of workmen, seven thousand dollars. Surveyor-gen. of Utah.For salary of the surveyor-general of Utah, eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. Judiciary.For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court and eight associate judges, one thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-one cents. For salary of the circuit judge of California, fourteen hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For compensation of the district attorneys, four thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-six cents. For compensation of the marshals, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-nine cents. Assistant treasurers.For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the United States at Boston and St. Louis, three thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. Seamen.To supply a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
P. O. department.To supply a deficiency in the revenue of the Post-Office Department, one million one hundred and eighty-eight thousand one hundred and eighty-one dollars. Reciprocity treaty.For arrearages, purchase of vessel and outfit, and for field service, Provided in the first article of the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls.For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States, presses, flags, and for the payment of postages, for the consuls of the United States, ten thousand dollars.
For expenses of the consulates in Turkey, viz: interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, and Alexandria, two thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulate at Beirout, five hundred dollars. For expenses incurred by consuls of the United States in procuring information required by the circulars of eighth October, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and fifteenth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, on queries propounded by the State and Treasury Departments, and for information called for by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the fourteenth December, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and twenty-sixth December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, eight thousand dollars.
For compensation for clerical services performed in the office of the United States legation at London, from December, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to August, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, one thousand dollars. Clerk of district court in Conn.To compensate the clerk of the United States district court for the State of Connecticut for making certified copies of all copyrights recorded in bis office between January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and February, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, ninety dollars and twenty-five cents.
State department.*Contingent Expenses of the Department of State.—*For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. Court of claims.For fitting up and furnishing the court rooms and conference room, and offices for the solicitor and clerk of the court of claims, three thousand dollars. Custom-house, Norfolk.For filling up and grading the grounds belonging to the Custom-House Building, Norfolk, Virginia, one thousand dollars. 13 For transportation of officers, and for fuel and quarters, the paymentArmy. of which is no longer made by the quarter-master’s department, two thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents.
For contingencies of the army, five thousand dollars. For the regular supplies of the quarter-master’s department, consistingSame subject. of fuel, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quarter-master’s department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and also 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 tor discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quarter-master’s departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the incidental expenses of the quarter-master’s department, consistingSame subject. of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge-advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth,1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 186. eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the quarter-master’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576.
March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers, and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quarter-master’s department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerk to officers of the quarter-master’s department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen1888, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 357. hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit.; the various expenditures required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: for the purchase of horse equipments, as saddles, bridles, saddle blankets, nose-bags, iron combs, currycombs, and spurs and straps; of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, shoeing horses of mounted corps, and repairing dragoon and rifle equipments, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troopsSame subject. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; 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, ordnance stores and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going 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 14Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance, and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, one million dollars.
Judiciary.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 the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, 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, two hundred thousand dollars.
Agricultural statistics.For the collection of agricultural statistics, investigations for promoting agriculture and rural economy, and the procurement and distribution of cuttings and seeds, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of patents, thirty thousand dollars. Minnesota.For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly for the Territory of Minnesota, six thousand dollars. New Mexico.For contingent expenses of the Territory of New Mexico, and to enable the governor to employ an interpreter or translator, five hundred dollars.
Botanic Garden.For filling up and draining the grounds in the vicinity of the national green-houses, known as the Botanic Garden, and for walling the creek which passes through the same, five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Public grounds.For continuing the grading and planting with trees the unimproved portions of the mall, ten thousand dollars. For construction of a sewer in Judiciary Square, six thousand dollars. For placing the sewer openings along Pennsylvania Avenue under the footway, and trapping the same, eight thousand dollars.
Public buildings.For repairing old portion of the Patent-Office Building, constructing water-closets therein, and casual repairs of the east wing of said building, four thousand dollars. For an additional furnace erected for the library of Congress, five hundred dollars. For finishing the portico and exterior of the west wing of the Patent-Office Building, to pay the reservations due, put up iron railing, and lay down the necessary flagging and pavements, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Pay of officers of library. *And be it further enacted,* That the joint resolution of Congress “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 thereof,” approved the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and the provision in the act of Vol. x. p. 694.1856, ch. 175.Vol. x. p. 651.1854, ch. 212. § 7Vol. x. p. 572.third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, which authorizes the application of the benefits of said resolution to apply to the librarian and assistants and messenger in the library of Congress, be so construed as to allow them twenty per centum upon the compensation provided by the seventh section of the act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government; and the said joint resolution shall not be construed to apply Pay of printer.to the public printer for either branch of Congress; and that so much of the act approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, as Blank books, &c., for departments.requires all blank books, binding, and ruling for the several executive departments shall be furnished under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of Public Printing he, and the same is hereby, repealed.
THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 30, 31. 1856. 15 Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the provision in the act ofSalary of governor of New Mexico.1854, ch. 107. July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An act to increase the salaries of executive and judiciary officers in Oregon, New Mexico, Washington, Utah, and Minnesota,” which declares that the salary of the governor of New Mexico be, and the same is hereby, increasedVol. x. p. 311. to the sum of three thousand dollars, shall be construed by the accounting officers of the treasury to be the full salary of that officer as governor and as superintendent of Indian affairs.
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*to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Sear ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.* May 15, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,
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