Chapter LVI. *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty.* May 24, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Appr
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Chap. LVI.— An Act *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty.* May 24, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Appropriationand the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz.: Chaplain of Senate. Contingent expenses of Senate and House. For the Chaplain of the Senate, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of the Senate and House of Representatives, miscellaneous items, viz.: For expenses of select committees, nine thousand dollars; and for the payment of expenses of the several investigating committees of the House of Representatives, forty-eight thousand dollars; and also for the payment of the expenses of witnesses summoned or to be summoned before the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives during the present session, twelve thousand dollars; and that the said sums shall be added to the miscellaneous item of the contingent fund of the House. 18 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 56. 1860. For expenses of the heating and ventilating apparatus, including pay of engineers, fireman, laborers, fuel, oil, tools, three thousand four hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of the House. *Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.—*For furniture, repairs, and boxes for members, ten thousand dollars. For horses, carriages, and saddle-horses, four thousand dollars. For stationery, six thousand dollars. For laborers, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For folding documents, ten thousand dollars. For the compensation of the draughtsman and clerks employed on the land maps, clerks to committees, and temporary clerks in the office of the Employment of draughtsman and clerks on land maps to cease &c.House of Representatives, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That from and after the thirtieth of June next all employment of draughtsman and clerks upon land maps shall cease. For additional pages authorized by the House of Representatives, three thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars.
For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. For new carpet on the hall of the House of Representatives, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars and six cents. For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars. For binding twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, thirteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty cents.
For reporting debates of the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, twenty-three thousand dollars. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House and Senate for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the House and Senate for the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for printing, dry-pressing, inserting maps and plates, and binding documents ordered during the Thirty-third, *Thirty-third,* Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses, nineteen thousand three hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety-eight cents.
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for paper required for the printing of the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, fifty thousand dollars. To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for printing required for the first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, forty thousand dollars. To provide for the blanks and other printing, and the paper for the same, required preliminary to taking the eighth census, twenty-nine thousand dollars. For payment of the unpaid expenses incurred in altering the arrangements of the hall of the House of Representatives, under the order of the House, three thousand seven hundred dollars; and the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby directed to Accounts of Capt.
Meigs to be settled.settle the accounts of Captain Meigs, late superintendent of the Capitol extension, for his expenditures in altering the arrangements and seats of the ball of the House of Representatives according to the order of the House, and paid by him, according to his vouchers, for such expenditures, not to exceed the sum of fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-seven cents. Department of State. Mission to Japan. *Department of State.—*For compensation to the interpreter to the mission to Japan, from the first January to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 56, 57, 60. 1860. 19 For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, American seamen.seventy-five thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of such delegates as may be appointed by the Delegates to International Statistical Congress.President of the United States, on the part of this government, to attend a meeting of the International Statistical Congress, which is to meet in London in July, eighteen hundred and sixty, five thousand dollars. *War Department.—*For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous War Department.items in the office of the Surgeon General, two hundred dollars. *Navy Department.—*For the charter of the Toey-wan, used in the Navy Department.transportation of the minister to China, to ascend the Peiho River, forty-five thousand dollars.
For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, five thousand dollars. *For Survey of the Public Lands.—*For surveying liabilities incurred by Survey of Public Lands.the late surveyor general of Oregon during the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying liabilities incurred by the late surveyor general of Kansas and Nebraska during the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, twenty thousand dollars.
For surveying liabilities incurred by the late surveyor general of California prior to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, fifty-eight thousand dollars. To pay George G. Durham for twenty-two months’ service as a clerk Payment to George G. Durham.in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the sum of twenty-five hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-two cents. To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for payment of the late Indian agents in Utah.Indian agents in Utah, (Hurt, Armstrong, Rose, and Bedell,) upon settlement of their accounts, fifty-three thousand and seven dollars and thirty-five cents.
Approved, May 24, 1860.