Chapter LXXIII. *making Appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and additional Appropriations for the current fiscal Year.* March 2, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of t
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Chap. LXXIII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and additional Appropriations for the current fiscal Year.* March 2, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation.and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, namely: *Legislative.—*For compensation and mileage of senators, two hundred and Legislative.
Pay and mileage of senators, officers. clerks, &c.forty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz: secretary of the Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, four hundred and eighty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in the office of the secretary of the Senate, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eight clerks in office of the secretary of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; two messengers, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one page, at five hundred dollars; sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, one thousand seven hundred dollars; postmaster to the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant post-master and mail-carrier, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two mail-boys, at one thousand dollars each; superintendent of the document room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of the folding-room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; seventeen messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk or secretary to the president of the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; clerk to the committee on finance, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the committee on claims, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; clerk of printing records, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent in charge of the furnaces, one 446 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 73. 1865.Senate.thousand two hundred dollars; assistant in charge of furnaces, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer in charge of private passages, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and seventy-six dollars each; chaplain to the Senate, seven hundred and fifty dollars; mak ing seventy-nine thousand six hundred and forty-six dollars. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: Stationery. For stationery, seventeen thousand dollars.
Newspapers. For newspapers, three thousand dollars. Congressional Globe. For Congressional Globe, thirty-five thousand dollars. For reporting proceedings in the Daily Globe for the first session of the thirty-ninth congress, twenty thousand dollars. Globe and Appendix. For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars.
Sets to new senators. For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each senator in the thirty-ninth congress who has not already received them, six thousand eight hundred dollar: *Provided, however,* That any senator who has already as a member of the House of Representatives received a portion of a set of the Congressional Globe, shall only be entitled to receive as such senator the additional volumes required to complete one full set. Additional compensation to reporters.
For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the first regular session of the thirty-ninth congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars. Clerks to committees, &c. For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, eighteen thousand dollars. Capitol police. For capitol police, nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. Heating and ventilating. For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, sixteen thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. Pay and mileage of representatives, &c.; For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Rep resentatives and delegates from territories, three hundred thousand dollars. officers, clerks, &c. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, viz: clerk of the House of Representatives, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk and one assistant clerk, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eleven clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; principal messenger in the office, at four dollars and eighty cents per day, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; three messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger to the speaker, at four dollars and eighty cents per day, one thousand seven hundred arid fifty-two dollars; clerk to the committee of ways and means, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; clerk to the committee of claims, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to committee on public lands, one thousand eight hundred dollars; sergeant-at-arms, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; clerk to the sergeant-at-arms, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger to the sergeant-at-arms, one thousand two hundred dollars; postmaster, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant postmaster, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; four messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two mail-boys, at nine hundred dollars each; capitol police, nine teen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars; doorkeeper, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; superintendent of the folding-room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two messengers, at one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars each; one messenger, at one thousand seven 447hundred and forty dollars; five messengers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; six messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve messengers, to be employed during the session of congress, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum; chaplain to the House of Representatives, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making one hundred and nine thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: Contingent expenses of House. For cartage, two thousand dollars. Cartage. For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Congressional Globe and Appendix.each member and delegate of the first regular session of the thirty-ninth congress, and one hundred copies of the same for the House library, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. For the compensation of clerks to committees, and temporary clerks in Clerks to committees &c., and temporary clerks.the office of the clerk of the House of Representatives, eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, Globe and Appendix.according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, ten thousand nine hundred dollars. For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Sets to new members.each representative and delegate in the first session of the thirty-ninth congress, who has not already received the same, twenty-three thousand dollars.
For folding documents, including materials, thirty thousand dollars. Folding. For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs, Fuel, lights, &c.and materials, fifteen thousand dollars. For furniture, repairs, and packing-boxes for members, ten thousand Furniture are, &c.dollars. For horses, carriages, and saddle-horses, nine thousand dollars. Horses, carriages, &c. For laborers, eight thousand four hundred dollars. Laborers. For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. For newspapers, one thousand dollars. Newspapers. For pages and temporary mail-boys, ten thousand and eighty dollars. Pages, &c. For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, at seven Reporting, &c., in Daily Globe.dollars and fifty cents per column, twenty thousand dollars. For stationery, twelve thousand dollars. Stationery. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House Additional pay to reporters.for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the House for the first regular session of the thirty-ninth congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For completing the tiling of the floor of the old hall of representatives, Tiling of floor of old House.under the same authority that the work has already been done, three thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. *Public Printing.—*For compensation of the superintendent of the Public printing. Pay of superintendent, &c.public printing, and the clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars. For contingent expenses of his office, viz:
For stationery, postage, advertising, Contingencies.furniture, travelling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. For addition to the public printing-office and the necessary presses, Additions to printing-office.machinery, and fixtures, sixty-one thousand dollars; so much thereof to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior as may be necessary for the erection of said addition. For the public printing, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand four Public printing.hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents.
For paper for the public printing, six hundred and twenty-nine thousand Paper for printing.and forty dollars. For the public binding, three hundred and seventy-three thousand seven Binding.hundred and ten dollars and twenty-four cents. 448 Mapping. For mapping in cases pending in the supreme court of the United States, five thousand dollars. Lithographing and engraving. For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Library of congress. *Library of Congress.—*For compensation of librarian, three assistant librarians, messenger, and laborers, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said library, two thousand dollars. Books. For purchase of books for said library, eight thousand dollars. Law books. For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars. Enlargement of library building. For an enlargement of the library of congress, so as to include in two wings, built fire-proof, the space at either end of the present library, measuring about eighty feet in length by thirty feet in width, in accordance with a plan to be approved by the committee on the library, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Court of claims. *Court of Claims.*—For salaries of five judges of the court of claims, the solicitor, assistant solicitor, deputy solicitor, clerk and assistant clerk, bailiff, and messenger thereof, thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For stationery, books, fuel, lights, laborers’ hire, and other contingent and miscellaneous expertise, three thousand dollars. Attorneys. For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, and commissioners, one thousand dollars.
Executive. President and Vice-President. *Executive.—*For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, eight thousand dollars. Secretary, &c. For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the private secretary, steward, and messenger of the President of the United States, four thousand six hundred dollars. Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of the executive office, including stationery therefor, two thousand dollars. State Department. Pay of secretary, &c. *Department of State.—*For compensation of the Secretary of State and assistant secretary of state, chief clerk, superintendent of statistics, clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Contingent expenses. Pamphlet laws, &c. *For the incidental and contingent Expenses of the Department of State.* For publishing the laws in pamphlet form and in newspapers of the states and territories, and in the city of Washington, seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Proof-reading, &c. For proof-reading and packing the laws and documents for the various legations and consulates, including boxes and transportation of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Stationery, &c. For stationery, blank books, binding, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars. Copperplate printing, &c. Extra clerk-hire. Northeast executive building. For copper-plate printing, books, and maps, five thousand dollars.
For extra clerk-hire and copying, ten thousand dollars. For compensation of four watchmen and two laborers of the northeast executive building, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, light, repairs, and miscellaneous expenses, five thousand five hundred dollars. Capitalization of Scheldt dues. For the payment of the first annual instalment of the proportion con-tributed by the United States toward the capitalization of the Scheldt dues,—to fulfil the stipulations contained in the fourth article of the convention *Post*;
Treaties, p. 649.between the United States and Belgium, of the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the sum of fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars, in coin, and such further sum as may be necessary to carry out the stipulation of the convention providing for the 449payment of interest on the said sum and on the portion of the principal remaining unpaid. *Treasury Department.—*For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury Department. Pay of secretary and assistants.Treasury, two assistant secretaries of the treasury, chief clerk, supervising architect and assistant architect, clerks, messengers, assistant messenger, and laborers, one hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation of the first comptroller, chief clerk, and the clerks, 1st comptroller.messenger, and laborers in his office, forty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. For compensation of the second comptroller, chief clerk, and the 2d comptroller.clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office, including three clerks of class four, three clerks of class three, three clerks of class two, three clerks of class one, twelve clerks at an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty dollars each, and one laborer at an annual salary of Additional clerks authorizedseven hundred and twenty dollars, who are hereby authorized to be appointed, one hundred and thirty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation of the first auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, 1st auditor.assistant messenger, and laborer in bis office, forty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of the second auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, 2d auditor.messenger, assistant messengers, and laborers in his office, including three clerks of class four, twenty clerks of class three, forty clerks of class two, Additional clerks and laborers authorized.seventy of class one, one assistant messenger at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum, and three laborers at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, each, who are hereby authorized to be appointed, five hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation of the third auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, 3d auditor. Additional clerks, &c., authorized.messengers, assistant messengers, and laborers in his office, including five clerks of class four, fifteen clerks of class three, thirty clerks of class two, and fifty clerks of class one, who are hereby authorized to be appointed, three hundred and eighty-four thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For compensation of the fourth auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, 4th auditor.messenger, and assistant messenger, and laborer in his office, one hundred and ten thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For compensation of the fifth auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, 5th auditor.messenger, and laborer in his office, forty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For compensation of the auditor of the treasury for the Post-Office Auditor for P.-O. DepartmentDepartment, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, one hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of the treasurer of the United States, assistant Treasurer.treasurer, cashier, assistant cashier, chiefs of division, bookkeepers, tellers, assistant tellers, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and laborers in his office, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
For compensation of the register of the treasury, assistant register, Register.chief clerk, and the clerks, messengers, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, ninety-one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the solicitor of the treasury, chief clerk, and the Solicitor.clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the commissioner of customs, chief clerk, and the Commissioner of customs.clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, forty thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation of the chief clerk, clerks, messenger, and laborer of Light-house board.the light-house board, nine thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the comptroller of the currency, deputy comp-450troller, clerks, messenger, and laborer, sixty-four thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. Contingent expenses of Treasury Department; *Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.—* In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For copying, labor, binding, sealing ships’ registers, translating foreign in office of the secretary.languages, advertising, and extra clerk-hire for preparing and collecting information to be laid before congress, and for miscellaneous items, fifty thousand dollars.
Pay of temporary clerks. Clerks may be dassitied, &c. For compensation to temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, and for additional compensation to clerks in same department: *Provided,* That the temporary clerks herein provided for may be classified according to the character of their services; *And provided further,* That the Secretary Additional pay prior to July 1 1866., of the Treasury may award such additional compensation to clerks as in his judgment may be deemed just and may be required by the pub lic service, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but the said secretary shall not have the authority to award any such additional compensation to such clerks after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Contingent expenses in office of 1st comptroller; In the office of the first comptroller: For furniture, public documents, state and territorial statutes, postage, and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. of 2d comptroller; In the office of the second comptroller: For furniture and miscellaneous items, including subscription to one city newspaper, to be bound and preserved for the use of the office, four thousand dollars. of 1st auditor; In the office of the first auditor:
For office furniture and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. of 2d auditor; In the office of the second auditor: For office furniture and miscellaneous items, including two of the city newspapers, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, twenty-five thousand dollars. of 3d auditor; In the office of the third auditor: For office furniture, carpeting, two newspapers, preserving files and papers, bounty-land service, and miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars. of 4th auditor;
In the office of the fourth auditor: For contingent expenses of the office, three thousand dollars. of 5th auditor; In the office of the fifth auditor: For postage, furniture, and miscellaneous expenses, in which are in cluded two daily newspapers, two thousand dollars. of treasurer; In the office of the treasurer: For contingent expenses of the office, ten thousand dollars. of register; In the office of the register: For arranging and binding cancelled marine papers, cases for official papers and records, and miscellaneous items, including office furniture, eight thousand dollars. of solicitor;
Office of the solicitor of the treasury: For labor and miscellaneous items, and for statutes and reports, two thousand two hundred dollars. of commissioner of customs; Office of the commissioner of customs: For miscellaneous items and office furniture, three thousand dollars. of comptroller of currency. Office of the comptroller of the currency: Furniture. For furniture and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. Stationery. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, one hundred thousand dollars.
Southeast executive budding. *For the general purposes of the Southeast Executive Building, includ ing the extension.—*For compensation of twelve watchmen and eleven laborers of the southeast executive building, sixteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. 451 For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, light, labor, and miscellaneous items, seventy-five thousand dollars. *Department of the Interior.—*For compensation of the Secretary of the Department of Interior.
Pay of secretary, &c.; Interior, assistant secretary, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assist-ant messengers, watchmen, and laborers in his office, forty-eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of the commissioner of the general land-office, chief of commissioner of general land-office;clerk, recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, packers, watchmen, and laborers in his office, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation of additional clerks in the general land-office, under of additional clerks; 1855, ch. 207. Vol. x. p. 701. Proviso.the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, granting bounty land, and for laborers employed therein, fifty-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Inte-rior, at his discretion, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to use any portion of said appropriation for piece-work, or by the day, week, month, or year, at such rate or rates as he may deem just and fair, not exceeding a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum.
For compensation of the commissioner of Indian affairs, chief clerk, and of commissioner of Indian affairs;the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, watchmen, and laborer in his office, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation of the commissioner of pensions, chief clerk, and the of commissioner of pensions;clerks, messengers assistant messengers, watchman, and laborers in his office, two hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For additional clerks in the pension office, twenty-one thousand dollars: additional clerks;
Proviso.*Provided,* That the Secretary of the Interior, at his discretion, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to use any portion of said appropriation for piece-work, or by the day, week, month, or year, at such rate or rates as lie may deem just and fair, not exceeding a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum. For compensation of the commissioner of public buildings, and the of commissioner of public buildings.clerk and messenger in his office, four thousand two hundred dollars. *Contingent Expenses—Department of the Interior.—* Contingent expenses.
Office of the Secretary of the Interior: For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and Office of Secretary.maps for the library, seven thousand dollars. For repairs of the patent-office building, twelve thousand five hundred Patent office.dollars. For expenses of packing and distributing congressional journals and Distributing documents. Vol. xi. p. 253. 1859, ch. 22. Vol. xi. p. 379.documents, in pursuance of the provisions contained in the joint resolution of congress, approved twenty-eighth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and act fifth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, six thousand dollars.
For fuel and lights for the patent-office building, including the salaries Fuel and lights.of engineer and assistant engineer of the furnaces, eighteen thousand dollars. Office of Indian Affairs: Office of Indian affairs; For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, four thousand dollars. Office of the Commissioner of Pensions: of commissioner of pensions;
For stationery, engraving, and retouching plates for bounty land warrants, and binding the same, office furniture, and repairing the same, and miscellaneous items, including two city daily newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, fifteen thousand dollars. Office of the Commissioner of Public Buildings: of commissioner of public buildings. For stationery, blank books, plans, drawings, and other contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars. *Surveyors-General and their Clerks.—*For compensation of the sur-452veyor-general Surveyors-general and their clerks.of Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor general of Minnesota, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of the Territories of Dakota and Montana, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of the Territories of Colorado, Utah and Idaho, and the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of New Mexico and Arizona, and the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of California and Nevada, and the clerks in his office, fourteen thousand 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 Washington Territory, and the clerks in his office, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the clerks in the offices of the surveyors-general, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and to be employed in transcribing field-notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, ten thousand dollars. Recorder of land-titles in Missouri. Translator. For compensation of recorder of land-titles in Missouri, five hundred dollars. For compensation of translator in the office of surveyor-general of New Mexico and Arizona, two thousand dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, seven hundred dollars. For rent of the surveyor-general’s office in California, fuel, books, sta-tionery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, six thousand dollars. For office-rent for the surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For office-rent of the surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska, fuel, and incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in the Territory of Dakota, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, six hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho Territories, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For the pay of the wages of one clerk in the consolidated land-office at Des Moines, Iowa, one thousand dollars. Expenses of courts of the United States, safe-keeping of prisoners, and prosecution of crime. [*Expenses of Courts of the United States.]—*For defraying the expenses of the supreme court and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, in the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and previous years, and like-wise 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, seven hundred thousand dollars, and the unexpended balances of appropriations for the judiciary fund shall return into the treasury.
War Department. Pay of secretary, &c. *War Department.—*For compensation of the Secretary of War, assist-ant secretaries of war, solicitor, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and laborer in his office, sixty-four thousand and sixty dollars. 453 For compensation of the clerks and messengers in the office of the adjutant-general, Office of adjutant-general;two hundred and twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and of quartermaster-general;laborers in the office of the quartermaster-general, three hundred and ninety-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation of the clerks and messengers in the office of the of paymaster-general;paymaster-general, two hundred and nine thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborers in the office of of commissary-general;the commissary-general, eighty-six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the office of of surgeon-general;the surgeon-general, forty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation of the clerks, messengers, and laborer in the office of chief engineer;of the chief engineer, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the colonel of colonel of ordnance;of ordnance, one hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. For compensation of the clerks in the office of military justice, seven of military justice.thousand two hundred dollars. *Contingent Expenses of the War Department.—* Contingent expenses.
Office of the Secretary of War: For blank books, stationery, labor, books, maps, extra clerk-hire, and Office of Secretary of War:miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. Office of the Adjutant-General: of adjutant-general; For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand dollars. Office of the Quartermaster-General: of quartermaster-general; For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. Office of the Paymaster-General: of paymaster-general;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. Office of the Commissary-General: of commissary-general; For blank books, stationery, and binding, including rent of office and hire of watchmen, twenty thousand dollars. Office of the Chief Engineer: of chief engineer; For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars. Office of the Surgeon-General: of surgeon-general; For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, including rent of office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the Chief of Ordnance: of chief of ordnance; For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. Office of Military Justice: of military justice. For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. *For the general purposes of the Northwest Executive Building.—*For Northwest executive building.compensation of superintendent, four watchmen, and two laborers of the northwest executive building, four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
For labor, fuel, light, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. Labor, fuel, &c *For the general purposes of the Building corner of F and Seventeenth Streets.—*Building corner F and Seventeenth Streets.For compensation of superintendent, four watchmen, and two laborers for said building, four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. For fuel, compensation of firemen, and miscellaneous items, six thousand dollars. 454 Building corner F and Fifteenth Streets. *For the general purposes of the Building corner of F and Fifteenth Streets.—*For superintendent, watchmen, rent, fuel, lights, and miscella-neous items, fifteen thousand dollars.
Navy Department. Pay of secretary, &c. Additional clerks, &c., authorized. *Navy Department.—*For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, assistant secretary of the navy, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, including four clerks of class four, and one laborer, at an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, which are hereby authorized to be appointed, fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. Bureau of yards and docks;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of navy-yards and docks, and the civil engineer, chief clerk, clerks, messenger, and laborers in his office, nineteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. of equipment and recruiting; For compensation of the chief of the bureau of equipment and re-cruiting, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, including one clerk of class three, and one clerk of class one, which are Additional clerks authorized.hereby authorized to be appointed, sixteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. of navigation;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of navigation, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, ten thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. of ordnance; For compensation of the chief of the bureau of ordnance, and the as-sistant, chief clerk, clerks, draughtsman, messenger, and laborers in his office, nineteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars. of construction and repair; For compensation of the chief of the bureau of construction and repair, chief clerk, and the clerks, draughtsman, messenger, and laborer in his office, including one additional temporary clerk of class two, which is Additional clerk authorized.hereby authorized to be appointed, eighteen thousand and twenty dollars. of steam engineering;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of steam engineering, chief clerk, and the clerks, draughtsmen, messenger, and laborer in his office, eleven thousand and twenty dollars. of provisions and clothing; For compensation of the chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, and laborers, twenty-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. of medicine and surgery. For compensation of the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, assistant, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office, ten thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Contingent expenses. *Incidental and contingent e xpenses of the Navy Department.—* Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Office of Secretary of Navy. For stationery, labor, newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. Bureau of yards and docks; Bureau of Yards and Docks: For stationery, books, plans, drawings, and incidental Libor, one thousand eight hundred dollars. of equipment and recruiting; Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting: For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. of navigation;
Bureau of Navigation: For stationery, blank books, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. of ordnance; Bureau of Ordnance: For stationery and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. of construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair: For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. of steam engineering; Bureau of Steam Engineering: For stationery and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars. of provisions and clothing. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing;
For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. 455 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Bureau of medicine and surgery. For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. *For the general purposes of the Southwest Executive Building.—*For Southwest executive building.compensation of five watchmen and two laborers of the southwest execu-tive building, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, six thousand five hundred dollars. *Post-Office Department.—*For compensation of the Postmaster-General, Post-Office Department.three assistant postmasters-general, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, watchmen, and laborers of said department, one hundred and sixty thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of twenty-five additional clerks, twenty thousand dollars. *Contingent Expenses of the Post-Office Department.—*For blank Contingent expenses of Post-Office Department.books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the general post-office building, including the auditor’s office, oil, gas, and candles, printing, repair of the general post-office building, office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fireplaces and furnaces in order; for engineer for steam-engine, laborers, watchmen, repairs of furniture, and for miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars. *Money-Order Bureau.—*For compensation of superintendent and the Money-order bureau.clerks in his office, seven thousand five hundred dollars. *Department of Agriculture.—*For compensation of commissioner of Department of agriculture.agriculture, chief clerk, and the clerks and employees in his office, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingencies, viz: For stationery, purchase of library, laboratory, Contingencies.rent, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For collecting agricultural statistics, twenty thousand dollars. Agricultural statistics. For purchase and distribution of new and valuable seeds, viz: For purchase of cereal, vegetable, and flower seeds, and for labor in putting Seedsup seeds, seed-bags, and miscellaneous items, sixty-one thousand dollars. For employees in seed-room, five thousand two hundred dollars.
For propagation and distribution of plants, cuttings, and shrubs, fourteen Plants, cuttings, &c. Proviso.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the propagation of plants, cuttings, and shrubs shall be confined to such aa are adapted to general cultiva-tion and to promote the general interests of horticulture and agriculture throughout the United States. For experimental garden in reservation number two, eight thousand dollars. Experimental garden. *Mint at Philadelphia.—*For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, Mint at Philadelphia.melter and refiner, chief coiner and engraver, assistant assayer, and seven clerks, twenty-six thousand four hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. For specimens of ores and coins to be preserved in the-cabinet of the mint, three hundred dollars. *Branch Mint at San Francisco, California.—*For salaries of superintendent, Branch at San Francisco.treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and six clerks, thirty thousand five hundred dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs, and wastage, fifty thousand dollars. *Assay Office, New York.—*For salaries of superintendent, assayer, and Assay office, New York.melter and refiner, assistant assayer, officers, and clerks, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars. 456 For wages of workmen, forty-eight thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars. Branch mint at Denver. *Branch Mint at Denver.—*For superintendent, assayer, melter, refiner, coiner, and clerks, thirteen thousand dollars.
For wages of workmen, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. Governments in the territories. governments in the territories. New Mexico. *Territory of New Mexico.—*For salaries of governor, chief-justice and two associate judges, and secretary, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand dollars. For interpreter and translator in the executive office, 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. Utah. *Territory of Utah.—*For salaries of governor, chief-justice, two associate judges, and secretary, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the territory, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars.
Washington. *Territory of Washington.—*For salaries of governor, chief-justice, two associate judges, and secretaiy, twelve 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, clerk, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars. Nebraska. *Territory of Nebraska.—*For salaries of governor, chief-justice and two associate judges, and secretary, ten thousand five 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 contiugent expenses of the assembly, Eighteen thousand dollars. Colorado. *Territory of Colorado.—*For salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs, chief-justice and two associate 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, eighteen thousand dollars.
Nevada. *State of Nevada.—*For salary of superintendent of Indian affairs, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Dakota. *Territory of Dakota.—*For salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs, chief-justice and two associates judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the territory, one thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of the member's of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars.
Arizona. *Territory of Arizona.—*For salaries of governor, chief-justice and two associate judges, and secretary, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the territory, one thousand dollars. For interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative as-457sembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty Governments in the territories.thousand dollars. *Territory of Idaho.—*For salaries of governor and superintendent of Idaho.Indian affairs, chief-justice and two associates judges, and secretary, twelve thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of the 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. *Territory of Montana.—*For compensation of governor and superintendent Montana.of Indian affairs, chief-justice and two associate judges, and sec retary, twelve thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the territory, one thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars. judiciary.
Judiciary. *Office of the Attorney-General.—*For salaries of the Attorney-General, Office of Attorney-General.assistant attorney-general, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand four hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney-General, namely: For fuel, labor, furniture, stationery, and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of law and necessary books for the office of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars.
For legal assistance and other necessary special and extraordinary Land-claims in California.expenses in the disposal of private land-claims in California, ten thousand dollars. *Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.—*For salaries of Justices of supreme court.the chief-justice and nine associate justices, sixty thousand five hundred dollars. For travelling expenses of the judge assigned to the tenth circuit for attending session of the supreme court of the United States, two thousand dollars.
For salaries of the district judges of the United States, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred District judges.and fifty dollars. For salaries of the chief-justice of the supreme court of the District Courts in District of Columbia.of Columbia, the associate judges, and judge of the orphans’ court, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court Reporter of decisions.of the United States, one thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the district attorneys, nineteen thousand one hundred District attorneys.dollars. For compensation of the district ma r shals, twelve thousand dollars. Marshals. *Independent Treasury.—*For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the Independent treasury.United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. For additional salary of the treasurer of the mint at Philadelphia, one thousand dollars. For additional salary of the treasurer of the branch mint at New Orleans, five hundred dollars.
For additional salary of the treasurer of the branch mint at Denver, five hundred dollars. For salaries of the clerks and messengers in office of assistant treasurer at Boston, eight thousand one hundred dollars. For salaries of additional clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer Additional clerks at Boston.at Boston, which are hereby authorized, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen, in office of the 458Independent treasury.assistant treasurer at Philadelphia, eighteen thousand three hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen, in office of assistant treasurer at New York, one hundred and five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For salaries of clerks, messenger, and watchmen, in the office of the assistant treasurer at St. Louis, nine thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For additional salaries to the messenger at four hundred dollars per annum, and to the four watchmen at one hundred dollars per annum each, which increase is hereby authorized, in the office of the assistant treasurer at St.
Louis, eight hundred dollars. Increase of salaries to clerks st St. Louis. For salaries of clerks, porter, and watchmen, in the office of the assistant treasurer at New Orleans, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation of the depositary at Santa Fé, and the clerk, watchman, and porter in his office, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of the clerk to the acting assistant treasurer at Denver, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries of additional clerks, and additional compensation of officers 1846, ch. 90.
Vol. ix. p. 69. 1853, ch. 97, § 10. Vol. x. p. 212.and clerks, under act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the better organization of the treasury, and tenth section of act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at such further rates as the secretary may deem just and reasonable, fifty thousand dollars.
Designated depositaries. For compensation to designated depositaries, under fourth section of act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, eight thousand dollars. Special agents. For compensation to special agents under act of sixth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, eight thousand dollars. Inspectors of steamboats. 1852, ch. 108. Vol. x. p. 61. For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors, appointed under act thirtieth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with travelling and other expenses incurred by them, eighty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses under the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, in addition to premium which may be received on transfer drafts: *Provided,* That no part of said sum shall be expended for clerical services, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of treasury notes. For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the several acts of congress authorizing loans and the issue of treasury notes, two million dollars Accounts of Stuart Gwynn to be adjusted, &c.*Provided,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to examine and adjust the accounts of Stuart Gwynn for printing-presses, machinery, material, and labor furnished and supplied to the Treasury Department, and for expenditures under the authority of the secretary, and to report to him such sum as Contract price.may be equitably due to said Gwynn: *Provided, further,* That for items furnished or supplied under contract, no greater sum than the contract Gwynn to make certain conveyance to the United Spites before receiving payment.price shall be allowed: *And provided, further,* That before any payment shall be made, the said Stuart Gwynn shall, in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, fully convey and secure to the United States the right to use the said presses, and any additional number thereof, with their machinery and future improvements in the treasury building, or any other buildings directed by the secretary for any and all Dies, stamps, and expenses under internal revenue act.printing the government may desire for its own use and purposes.
For procuring dies, stamps, adhesive stamps, paper, printing forms and regulations, advertising, and other expenses of carrying into effect the 1854, ch. 173. *Ante,* p. 223.internal revenue act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one million one hundred thousand dollars. 459 For paper, special dies, and the printing of circulating notes, and Paper, dies, and printing notes.expenses necessarily incurred (including express charges) in procuring the same, in the office of the comptroller of the currency, six hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars. *Commissioners of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts.—*For compensation Commissioner of direct taxes.of thirty-three commissioners, at three thousand dollars each, and eleven clerks at twelve hundred dollars each, one hundred and twelve thousand two hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses, advertising, and surveying, forty thousand dollars. For compensation to the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Laborers.capitol, five hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty cents. For compensation of four laborers in capitol, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For compensation to the public gardener, one thousand four hundred Public gardener.and forty dollars. For compensation of a foreman and twenty-one laborers employed in the public grounds, sixteen thousand and eighty dollars.
For compensation of the keeper of the western gate, Capitol Square, Gate-keeper.one thousand dollars. For compensation of two day watchmen employed in the Capitol Watchmen.Square, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President’s house, seven Doorkeepers.hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of assistant doorkeeper at the President’s house, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of one night watchman at the public stables and Watchmen.carpenters’ shops south of the capitol, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of watchman in reservation number two, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of eight draw-keepers at the Potomac Bridge, and Draw-keepers.for fuel, oil, and lumps, seven thousand five hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents. For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars. For compensation of furnace-keeper under the old hall of the House Furnace-keepers.of Representatives, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation of furnace-keeper at the President’s house, seven hundred and twenty dollars. *Metropolitan Police.—*For salaries and other necessary expenses of Metropolitan police.the metropolitan police for the District of Columbia, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. And the compensation of said metropolitan police force, officers, and clerks, is hereby increased fifty per centum, upon the amount Increase of pay.hereby appropriated, commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, said increase to be borne by the cities of Washington and How allotted.Georgetown, and the county of Washington in the District of Colum-bia, in proportion to the number of patrolmen allotted severally to the city of Washington, to the city of Georgetown, and the county of Washington, and the levy court of said county are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax not exceeding one quarter of one per centum Special tax.for the purpose aforesaid.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, to enable the Secretary of the Temporary accommodations for State Department and clerks of the treasury.Treasury to provide temporary accommodations for the State Department, and for the accommodation of such of the clerks of the Treasury Department as cannot he accommodated in the present building, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, and for the purpose of furnishing and fitting up suitable rooms fur the office of the Attorney-General, if it shall be necessary for him to remove from the Treasury 460Department, the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Nevada included in surveying district of California. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the passage of this act, the public lands in the State of Nevada shall, for surveying pur-poses, be attached to and included in the surveying district of California. Salaries of assistant secretaries, attorney-general, and postmasters-general. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the commencement of the next fiscal year, the salary of each of the assistant secretaries of the executive departments, the assistant attorney-general, and the three assistant postmasters-general, shall be three thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
Pay of certain inspectors of customs. 1864, ch. 71. Ante, p. 61. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the provisions of the act ap-proved April twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, “increasing the compensation of inspectors of customs in certain ports,” be extended to July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. No payment for constructive mileage. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That no part of the money appropriated either by this act or former acts, shall be applied to the payment of any claim for constructive mileage on account of any extra session of either house of congress.
Condition to appropriations for Congressional Globe. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the appropriations hereinbefore made for the Congressional Globe shall be upon the condition that hereafter the proceedings of congress shall be published in the Daily Globe of the day subsequent to the day such proceedings were had, and delivered to both houses at their time of meeting—this to take effect at the next session of congress; but the publishers of the Congressional Globe shall not, however, be required to publish daily more than forty columns of the proceedings of the two houses of congress, and any speeches not actually delivered in either house shall be postponed until the same can be publis h ed without increasing the extent of the proceedings beyond forty columns.
Deficiencies for 1865. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: 3d auditor’s ofliee. For office furniture, carpeting, preserving files, and miscellaneous items in the office of the third auditor, five thousand dollars. Stationery in Treasury Department.
For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fuel, &c. For fuel, labor, light, and miscellaneous items for the treasury building, including the extension, twenty thousand dollars. Disbursement, &c., of public revenue. 1846, ch. 90. Vol. ix. p. 59. For contingent expenses under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, provided that no part of said sum shall be expended for clerical services, fifty thousand dollars.
Clerks in office of surveyor-general of California. For compensation to clerks in office of the surveyor-general in California for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Public grounds. For hire of carts on the public grounds, two hundred and thirty-two dollars. Insane of the army and navy. For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane of the army and navy and the revenue-cutter service, and of the District of Columbia, at the hospital for the insane in said district, thirty thousand dollars.
Navy-yard bridge. For repairs of the navy-yard bridge, to enable the commissioner of public buildings to erect a new draw, one thousand dollars. Bureau of military justice. For compensation of clerks in the bureau of military justice, viz: one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, and two of class one, seven thousand two hundred dollars. Office of commissary-general. For stationery, rent of office, hire of watchmen, and miscellaneous items in the office of the commissary-general, five thousand dollars. 461 For stationery and miscellaneous items in the office of the paymaster-general, Miscellaneous. six thousand dollars.
For stationery, blank books, and miscellaneous items in the office of the bureau of military justice, one thousand five hundred dollars. For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items in the Wai-Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel, compensation of firemen, and miscellaneous items for the building corner of F and Seventeenth Streets, six thousand dollars. For reimbursing the appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue Collection of revenue.from customs, the amount heretofore transferred from that fund to the appropriation for expenses of a national loan, under act of March third, eighteen hundred and nine, two million dollars.
For supplying a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled Sick, &c., seamen.seamen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For refunding to the treasury extension the amount of payments made Furniture.for furniture, sixteen thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-three cents. For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items for the treasury build ing, fifteen thousand dollars. For deficiency for pay of physician, blacksmith and assistant, farmer, Reservations in California.and carpenter for each of the four reservations in California, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For armament of fortifications, nine hundred thousand dollars. Armament of fortifications. For current expenses of the ordnance department, and for ordnance service, six hundred thousand dollars. Ordnance. For national armory, six hundred thousand dollars. Armory. For gunpowder and lead, four hundred thousand dollars. Gunpowder and lead. For contingencies of fortifications, eight hundred thousand dollars. For tool and siege trains, one hundred thousand dollars. Tool, &c., trains.
For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Taylor. For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Florida, seventy-five thousand dollars. Fort Jefferson. For the medical and hospital department, three million two hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars. Hospital department. For the quartermaster’s department, viz:— For purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, seven million six hundred thousand dollars. Cavalry, &c., horses. For transportation of the army, nineteen million eight hundred and Transportation.fifty-six thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
For regular supplies, twenty million dollars. For barracks and quarters, two million dollars. Barracks. For incidental and contingent expenses, one million dollars. For military telegraph, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Telegraph. For supplies and the expenses of providing for prisoners of war, two million dollars. Prisoners of war. For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, thirty million dollars. Clothing and camp equipage. For pay of the capitol police, three thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-two cents.
Capitol police To supply deficiencies in the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:— Contingent expenses of House of Representatives. For folding documents, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel and lights, including pay of engineer, ten thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, twenty-four thousand four hundred and five dollars and fifty-two cents. For stationery, six thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of salaries Comptroller of currency.in the bureau of the comptroller of the currency, twelve thousand dollars.
To supply deficiency in the appropriation for capitol police, to be added Capitol police. 462to the contingent fund of the Senate, two thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents. Public printing. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Paper. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for paper for the public printing, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Binding. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the public binding, ninety thousand dollars.
Reporters. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for compensation to the reporters of the Congressional Globe, eight hundred dollars. Branch mint at Denver; To supply a deficiency for compensation of clerks in the Denver branch mint, four hundred and fifty dollars. at San Francisco. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the branch mint at San Francisco, one hundred and thirty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents. Navy Department. *Navy Department.—* Bureau of navigation.
Bureau of Navigation: For binnacles, binnacle lamps, and alidades; for hunting, muslin, and sewing materials; for ensigns, jacks, distinctive flags and marks, signal flags and foreign flags, and for making flags of all kinds; for logs, log-lines, log-reels, log-slates, log-paper, log-books, and sand glasses; for leads, lead-reels, lead-lines, arming for leads, and sounding cups, and for signal apparatus other than signal flags, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For freight and transportation of navigation materials, instruments, books, and stores; for postage on public letters; for telegraphing for proposals; for packing-boxes and materials; for blank books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices; for maps, drawing, and models; and for incidental expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, three thousand dollars.
Nautical instruments. For the purchase of nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, and charts, and for repairs of instruments, and for binding and backing books and charts, one hundred thousand dollars. Equipment and recruiting. Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting: For fuel for the navy, and for the transportation and expenses thereof, five million three hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. For equipment of vessels, five hundred thousand dollars.
Provisions and clothing. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: For provisions, one million five hundred thousand dollars. For clothing, seven hundred thousand dollars. Gold medal to Cornelius Vanderbilt. *Ante,* pp. 401, 402. For a gold medal to Cornelius Vanderbilt, pursuant to a joint resolution approved January twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, three thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of House of Representatives. And the sum of forty-three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to be added to the contingent fund of the House of Representatives for the purpose of paying such contingent expenses as may be directed by reso lution of the House.
Approved, March 2, 1865.