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sor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President, and who shall execute all processes issuing from the said courts when exercising their jurisdiction as circuit and district courts of the United States; he shall perform the duties, be subject to the same regulation and penalties, and be entitled to the same fees, as are provided by law for the marshal of the Territory of Oregon, and shall, in addition, be paid the sum of two hundred dollars annually as a compensation for extra services.

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appropriations, nor beyond the sums thus appro-
priated for such objects.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the laws
now in force in said Territory of Washington by
virtue of the legislation of Congress in reference
to the Territory of Oregon, which have been enact-
ed and passed subsequent to the first day of Sep-
tember, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, applica-
ble to the said Territory of Washington, together
with the legislative enactments of the Territory of
Oregon, enacted and passed prior to the passage
of, and not inconsistent with, the provisions of this
act, and applicable to the said Territory of Wash-
ington, be and they are hereby, continued in force
in said Territory of Washington until they shall
be repealed or amended by future legislation.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington shall hold its first session at such time and place in said Territory as the governor thereof shall appoint and direct; and at said first session, or as soon thereafter as they shall deem expedient, the legislative assembly shall proceed to locate and establish the seat of government for said Territory at such place as they may deem eligible; which place, however, shall thereafter be subject to be changed by said legislative assembly. And the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated and granted to said Territory of Washington, to be there applied by the gov ernor to the erection of suitable buildings at the seat of government.

cuit courts established by this act as aforesaid: Provided, That no right of action whatever shall accrue against any person for any act done in pursuance of any law heretofore passed by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oregon, and which may be declared contrary to the Constitution or laws of the United States.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That all justices of the peace, constables, sheriff's, and other judicial and ministerial officers, who shall be in office within the limits of said Territory of Washington when this act shall take effect, shall be and they are hereby authorized and required to continue to exercise and perform the duties of their respective offices, as officers of said Territory, until they or others shall be duly elected or appointed, and qualified, to fill their places in the manner herein directed, or until their offices shall be abolished.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, by and under the direction of the governor of Washington, in the purchase of a library, to be kept at the seat of government for the use of the governor, legislative assembly, judges of the supreme court, secretary, marshal, and attorney of said Territory, and such other persons and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That, until otherwise provided for by law, the governor of said Territory may define the judicial districts of said Territory, and assign the judges who may be ap

and also appoint the times and places for holding courts in the several counties or subdivisions in each of said judicial districts by proclamation, to be issued by him; but the legislative assembly, at their first or any subsequent session, may organize, alter, or modify such judicial districts, and assign the judges, and alter the times and places of holding the courts, as to them shall seem expedient and proper.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That a dele-pointed for said Territory to the several districts, gate to the House of Representatives of the United States, to serve for the term of two years, who shall be a citizen of the United States, may be elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative assembly, who shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges as have been heretofore exercised and enjoyed by the delegates from the several other Territories of the United States to the House of Representatives; but the delegate first elected shall hold his seat only during the term of the Congress to which he shall be elected. The first election shall be held at such time and places, and be conducted in such manner, as the governor shall appoint and direct; of which, and the time, place, and manner of holding such elections, he shall give at least sixty days' notice by proclamation; and at all subsequent elections the time, places, and manner of holding the elections shall be prescribed by law. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be de

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the governor, secretary, chief justice, and associate justices, attorney, and marshal, shall be nominated, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed by the President of the United States. The governor and secretary to be appointed as aforesaid shall, before they act as such, respectively take an oath or affirmation before the district judge, or some justice of the peace in the limits of the said Territory duly authorized to administer oaths and affirmations by the laws in force therein, or before the chief justice or some associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices, which said oaths, when so taken, shall be certified by the person before whom the same shall have been taken; and such certifi cates shall be received and recorded by the said secretary among the executive proceedings; and the chief justice and associate justices, and all other civil officers in said Territory, before they act as such, shall take a like oath or affirmation before the said governor or secretary, or some judge or justice of the peace of the Territory who may be duly commissioned and qualified, which said oath or affirmation shall be certified and transmitted by the person taking the same to the secretary, to be by him recorded as aforesaid; and afterwards the like oath or affirmation shall be taken, certified and recorded in such manner and form as may be prescribed by law. The governor shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars as governor, and fifteen hundred dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs. The chief justice and associate justices shall each receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars. The Secretary shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. The said salaries shall be paid quarter-yearly, from the dates of the respective appointments, at the Treasury of the United States; but no such payment shall be made until said officers shall have entered upon the duties of their respective appointments. The members of the legislative assemblyclared shall be entitled to receive three dollars each per day during their attendance at the session thereof, and three dollars each for every twenty miles' travel in going to and returning from said session, estimated according to the nearest usually-traveled route. And a chief clerk, one assistant clerk, a sergeant-at-arms, and doorkeeper, may be chosen for each house; and the chief clerk shall receive five dollar per day, and the said other officers three dollars per day, during the session of the legislative assembly; but no other officers shall be paid by the United States: Provided, That there shall be but one session of the legislative assembly annually, unless on an extraordinary occasion the governor shall deem it expedient and proper to call the legislature together. There shall be appropriated annually the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended by the governor, to defray the contingent expenses of the Territory, including the salary of a clerk of the executive department; and there shall also be appropriated annually a sufficient sum, to be expended by the secretary of the Territory, and upon an estimate to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to defray the expenses of the legislative assembly, the printing of the laws, and other incidental expenses; and the governor and secretary of the Territory shall, in the disbursement of all moneys intrusted to them, be governed solely by the instructions of the Secretary of the Treas ury of the United States, and shall, semi-annually, account to the said Secretary for the manner in which the aforesaid sums of money shall have been expended; and no expenditure, to be paid out of money appropriated by Congress, shall be made by said legislative assembly for objects not specially authorized by the acts of Congress making the

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by the governor to be duly elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given accordingly. The delegate from said Territory shall be entitled to receive the same per diem compensation and mileage at present allowed the delegate from the Territory of Oregon.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That all suits,
plaints, process, and proceedings, civil and crimi-
nal, at law and in chancery, and all indictments
and informations, which shall be pending and un-
determined in the courts established within and
for said Territory of Oregon, by act of Congress
entitled "An act to establish the territorial gov-
ernment of Oregon," approved August fourteen,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight,
wherein the venue in said cases, suits at law, or in
chancery, or criminal proceedings, shall be inclu-

ded within the limits hereinbefore declared and
established for the said Territory of Washington;
then, and in that case, said actions so pending in
the supreme or circuit courts of the Territory or
Oregon shall be, by the clerks of said courts, duly
certified to the proper courts of said Territory of
Washington; and thereupon said causes shall, in
all things concerning the same, be proceeded on,
and judgments, verdicts, decrees and sentences ren-
dered thereon, in the same manner as if the said
Territory had not been divided. All bonds, recog-
nizances, and obligations of every kind whatsoever,
valid, under the existing laws, within the limits
of said Territory of Oregon, shall be held valid
under this act, and all crimes and misdemeanors
against the laws now in force within the said limits
of the Territory of Washington, may be prose-
cuted, tried, and punished in the courts established
by this act, and all penalties, forfeitures, actions,
and causes of action, may be recovered and en-
forced, under this act, before the supreme and cir-

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That all officers to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the Territory of Washington, who by virtue of the provisions of any law of Congress now existing, or which may be enacted during the present session of Congress, are required to give security for moneys that may be intrusted with them for disbursement, shall give such security at such time and place, and in such manner, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That when the lands in said Territory shall be surveyed, under the direction of the Government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, or otherwise disposing thereof, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to common schools in said Territory. And in all cases where said sections sixteen and thirty-six, or either or any of them, shall be occupied by actual settlers prior to survey thereof, the county commissioners of the counties in which said sections so occupied as aforesaid are situated, be and they are hereby authorized to locate other lands to an equal amount in sections or fractional sections, as the case may be, within their respective counties in lieu of said sections so occupied as aforesaid.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the Territory of Oregon and the Territory of Washington shall have concurrent jurisdiction over all offenses committed on the Columbia river, where said river forms a common boundary between said Territories.

APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXII.-An Act authorizing the Selectmen of the Town of Chelsea, in the State of Massachusetts, to lay out and make a way on Lands of the United States in said town.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the selectmen of the town of Chelsea, in the State of Massachusetts, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to lay out and make a way or street, not exceeding fifty feet in width, over the lands of the United States, situa

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ted in Chelsea, in said Commonwealth, north of the marine hospital; said way or street to connect the east end of Third street with the west end of Middlesex street, in the village of Chelsea: Provided, That said right of way can, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be granted without prejudice to the public interests; and if hereafter said way shall be discontinued, the right hereby granted shall revert to the United States. APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

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expended under the direction of the President of the United States.

For the compensation of Senators for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in addition to appropriations heretofore made, and including that for the special session commencing fourth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz:
For binding, twenty thousand dollars.
For lithographing and engraving, twenty thou-
sand dollars.

For books, two thousand three hundred dollars. For Congressional Globe, and binding the same, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollars.

For messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carry-alls, ten thousand dollars.

For incidental expenses of the several land offices, three thousand eight hundred dollars. For the extension of the United States Capitol, || four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That so much of former appropriations for the extension of the Capitol as remains unexpended, and the apPUBLIC, XXXIII.-An Act providing for adminis-propriation now made, or which may hereafter be tering the Oath of Office to William R. King, Vice made for that object, shall be disbursed under such President elect of the United States of America. regulations as the President of the United States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- may prescribe; the accounts for such disbursement sentatives of the United States of America in Congress manner as the accounts of other civil officers charged to be audited and paid at the Treasury in the same assembled, That William L. Sharkey, who was appointed Consul of the United States at Havana, with the disbursement of public money; and said be and he is hereby authorized to administer at disbursing agent shall report to the President his Havana, or any other place in the island of Cuba, disbursements and proceedings, in time to be pre-mittees, draughtsman, fireman in crypt, and other to William R. King, Vice President elect of the sented to Congress at the commencement of each miscellaneous items, thirty-six thousand six hunUnited States of America, the oath of office pre- annual session, and at any other time when re- dred dollars. scribed by the sixth article of the Constitution quired. thereof, on the fourth day of March next, or some For the completion of the repairs of the Consubsequent day, in the following terms, to wit:gressional Library room, authorized by the act "1, William R. King, do solemnly swear that I approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and will support the Constitution of the United States." fifty-two, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. Which oath, when thus administered, it shal! be the duty of the said William L. Sharkey, and he is hereby required, to certify under his hand to the Congress of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That any judge or magistrate in the United States of America may administer the oath o office aforesaid to the Vice President elect on the fourth of March next, or on some day subsequent thereto. And the officer before whom the same

shall be taken is hereby required to certify the

For compensation of three men at one dollar per day each for one year, to finish and keep in order Lafayette square, one thousand and ninety five

dollars.

fence, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For inclosing Lafayette square with an iron

For completing the work of the seventh census,
and to prepare the same for publication, twenty-
five thousand dollars.

For stationery, printing blank forms and reguad-lations, furniture, binding books, and miscellaneous items in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, ten thousand dollars.

ministration of the said oath as is herein before provided.

APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXIV —An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act to settle and adjust the Expenses of the People of Oregon from attacks and hostilities of Cayuse Indians in the years eighteen hundred and forty-seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight," approved August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

For engraving for fifty-one thousand five hundred and twenty copies of the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and fifty-one-two, (1851-’2,) five hundred and eightyfive dollars.

To pay for the Congressional Globe and Ap-
pendix and the Annals of Congress, ordered for
the use of the Library of the House of Represent
atives, under the resolution of the House of Sep-
tember twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty,
four thousand five hundred dollars.

atives to furnish, pay for, and deliver the same
To enable the Clerk of the House of Represent-
books to five new members of the present Con-
gress, as per resolution of said House, passed
twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
thousand five hundred dollars.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of the appropriation mentioned in the act "to settle and adjust the expenses of the people of Oregon from attacks and hostilities of Cayuse Indians in the years eighteen hundred and forty-four seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the sums found due and allowed by Commissioners Wait and Rice, and by the Governor of Oregon.

APPROVED, March 2, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXV.-An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:

For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, one thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty nine cents.

For outfit of a chargé d'affaires to Denmark,

four thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary to the commissioner at the Sandwich Islands from the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and to make the same equal to the sum now provided for by law, four thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the office of the Treasurer of the United States, one thousand dol

lars.

For salaries and commissions of registers of land

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For clerks of President of the Senate and com

For the printing of the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, fourteen thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars.

For the printing of the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, twenty-five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.

For the printing of the Senate for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, thirtyseven thousand four hundred and sixty-three dol

lars.

For the printing of the House of Representatives for the second session of the Thirty-second Congress, fifty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars; the same having been executed and to be executed by the public printer under the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for executing the public printing and estab. ishing the prices thereof, and for other purposes," approved August twenty-six, eighteen hundred land fifty-two.

For contingent expenses of the House of
Representatives, viz:

For newspapers for members, five thousand dol

lars.

For horses and carriages, one thousand one hun dred dollars.

For clerks, messengers, pages, and laborers, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerks on maps for the use of the Committee on Public Lands, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For folding documents for members, four thousand dollars.

For clerks on index of private claims, twentyeight thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.

For compensation of five clerks, authorized to
be appointed and employed by the Postmaster
General, under the thirteenth section of the act of
thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine hundred and fifty-one dollars.
two, four thousand five hundred and four dollars
and ninety cents.

For miscellaneous items, twenty-four thousand

For compensation to an assistant day watchman
September, eighteen hundred and fifty two, until
of the General Post Office, from the fifteenth of
three, four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-

For the payment of the amount due William
Williams, under the sixteenth article of the Cher-
okee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five
and six, being the balance of an award of four
hundred and five dollars by the commissioners
under said treaty, two hundred and fifty-five dol-
lars of which was paid out of the appropriation
"for carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty of
eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six," one
hundred and fifty dollars.

To pay Gregory Ennis, executor of Philip Ennis, deceased, balance due upon a contract for filling up the low ground south of the President's House, authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the sum of four hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-four cents.

For expenses of the Board of Visiters at the Military Academy, five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-three cents.

For paper used and to be used for printing for the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents.

For paper used and to be used for printing for the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-second Congress, sixteen thousand four hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents.

For paper for the printing for the two Houses of Congress for the second session of the Thirtysecond Congress, being for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, one hundred and forty thousand and sixtyfour dollars.

For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messenger in his office, four thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-three cents.

For blank books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, &c., one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, to pay John S. Littell per diem and mileage For expenses which may be incurred in ac- while contesting the seat of John Robbins, Jr., knowledging the services of the masters and crews during the Thirty-first Congress, two thousand of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens three hundred and seventy-six dollars; to pay and American vessels from shipwreck, two thou-Hendrick B. Wright per diem and mileage while sand dollars: Provided, That the money shall be contesting the seat of Henry M. Fuller during the

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Thirty-second Congress, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty cents; to pay John Taliaferro per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John P. Hungerford during the Twelfth Congress, two hundred and twentytwo dollars.

For salary of an assistant dragoman and secretary to the legation to Turkey, fifteen hundred dollars: Provided, That the said office be discontinued on and after the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

For clerk hire at the legation of the United States at London for one year, eight hundred dollars.

For relief of such of the Cuba prisoners, not citizens of the United States, as were pardoned by the Queen of Spain and sent out of her dominions by the United States Minister at Madrid and the American Consul at Gibraltar, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents.

Laws of the United States.

For sea-wall at Buffalo creek, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and five cents.

For harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, forty-two dollars and sixty-four cents.

For harbor at Milwaukie, Wisconsin one hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-four cents. For repairs, roads, &c., for armies in the field, five thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and five cents.

For surveys with armies in the field, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and forty cents. For survey from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, five thousand dollars.

For arrearages of pay due Florida militia under General Read, seven thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-three cents.

For traveling allowance to volunteers, one hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and four dollars and forty-four cents.

For pay of Louisiana and Texas volunteers,

For extra clerk hire and copying in the Depart-eighteen thousand and sixty dollars and forty-nine ment of State, two thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, lights, and stationery for the superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For traveling expenses of superintendent of Indian affairs in Oregon, and agents therein, two thousand dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the Territory of Utah, twelve thousand dollars.

For payment of the second of ten installments in provisions, merchandise, etc., and the transportation of the same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of seventeenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That the same shall not be paid until the said tribes of Indians shall have assented to the amendments of the Senate of the United States to the above recited treaty.

For the service of the Post Office Department, a sum not exceeding five hundred and five thou sand dollars, to supply a deficiency in the revenues of said department, to meet the appropriations therefor for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

For the reappropriation of the following sums, carried to the surplus fund per warrant number seven, dated twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the provisions of the tenth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," approved thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to be applied to the payment of all expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the following heads, viz:

For military stations on route to Oregon, three thousand two hundred and three dollars.

For secret service money in Mexico, nineteen thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents.

For Mexican hostilities, ten thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and six cents.

For contingencies of the army,four thousand eight hundredand four dollars and seventy-fivec ents. For transportation, supplies, etc., in Quartermaster's Department, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents.

For pay of Florida militia, on account of Quartermaster's Department, four thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eight cents.

For repressing Seminole hostilities, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and forty-three cents. For arrearages prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventeen cents.

cents.

For pay of ten regiments of regular troops, eight thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.

To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty three, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For the repair of damages to and the improvement of Lafayette square, one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For compensation of the United States assayer at San Francisco, California, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the thirtieth of Jane, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For temporary clerk hire in the office of the Auditor of the Post Office Department, one thousand dollars.

For arrears of compensation due A. J. Downing for services as rural architect at the time of his death, six hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For laying out and graveling the roads and walks, purchasing manure and trees, and seeding down in grass the square south of the President's House, twelve thousand dollars; and for paying any balance which may be due for work done and performed.

For pay of volunteers under resolution of the For providing proper foundations for the cuseighth of August, one thousand eight hundred and tom-house at San Francisco, authorized by the forty-six, seven thousand one hundred and fifty-sixth section of the act entitled "An act to supply three dollars and seventeen cents.

deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one ninety-thousand eight hundred and fifty-two," and in addition to the sum of forty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and sixty-nine cents.

For pay of volunteers, sixty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventythree cents.

For three months'extra pay, two hundred thousand dollars.

For services of private physicians, one hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For pay of Florida militia on account of subsistence, one thousand and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents.

For subsistence of ten regiments of regular troops, six hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-six cents.

For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which | is no longer made by the Quartermaster Department, ten thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents.

For deficiency in the fund for purchasing lightnouse supplies, six thousand two hundred dollars.

For the reappropriation of seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents, being a portion of the amount heretofore appropriated for the erection of a custom-house at Eastport, Maine, and carried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth of June,

For the payment of such sums as may be due to individuals under the act of March third, eigh-eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and that the unteen hundred and fifteen, for property destroyed by burning of the navy-yard in the city of Washington, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, the amount to be ascertained by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the purpose of completing the pedestal of the Equestrian Statue of Andrew Jackson, in Lafayette square, and the erection of a suitable iron railing around the same, three thousand dollars.

For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors appointed under the act approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other expenses incurred by them, fifty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and fifty

cents.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office Building, the sum of forty-four thousand dollars.

For deficiency in the appropriation heretofore made to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, three hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty cents, to enable said bureau to pay to Loriston Averill an account due him not exceeding that

sum.

For compensation of the acting secretary of the Territory of Utah, from the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the twenty-sixth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixteen cents.

To pay James S. Buckley, for services as keeper of the navy-yard Eastern Branch bridge, from

For arrearages of expenses of Indian service in Texas, one thousand and fifteen dollars and sixty-fourth December, eighteen hundred and fortyeight cents.

For subsistence of eleven regiments of volunteers, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and eight

cents.

For improvement of the Genesee river, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and ten cents.

For removing obstructions at harbor of Cleveland, Ohio, one hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents.

eight, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty, at four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, seven hundred and eight dollars.

For payment of arrearages due to David Finch, as superintendent of the painting the exterior walls of the Patent Office and Treasury Buildings, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents.

For repairs of vessels employed in the coast survey, ten thousand dollars.

expended balance of the appropriation by the act of June nineteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, "for payment of the Georgia militia," &c., which has passed by subsequent acts into the surplus fund, be and the same is hereby reappropriated.

For balance due Levi Johnson for the site for marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, three thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.

For payment of salaries of deputy surveyors at Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans, two thousand five hundred dollars; and the salary of said officers shall be two thousand dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

To pay Walter Burges (late district attorney of the State of Rhode Island) the sum of five hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty cents, being in full for his services and money paid out in defending Captain Simonds, of the brig Casket, by order of John Y. Mason, late Secretary of the Navy.

For additional allowance to E. S. Norris, the sum of two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars and thirty-four cents; and to George R. Stuntz, the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents, additional allowance made to them as deputy surveyors under the surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa, and in accordance with the recommendations and estimates of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Secretary of the Interior, dated respectively on the eleventh and fourteenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

For payment of the amount due Thomas W. Lane on three several drafts drawn in his favor by G. W. Barbour, Indian agent in California, upon R. McKee, disbursing agent for transportation, supplies, and labor furnished said agent upon special contract while treating with the Indians in said State, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For the services of a striker in the shop of the Delaware Indians, from August first, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and for the ser

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vices of a smith and striker in the shop of the Senecas and Shawnees of Lewistown, from seventeenth November, eighteen hundred and thirtythree, to fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, deducting all amounts paid for such service during said period, and for balance for services on Seneca milldam, as estimated for by the proper department, two thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars.

For compensation of five members of the House of Representatives appointed a committee of investigation upon all facts touching the connection of Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, with the Gardiner claim, and authorized to sit during the recess between the first and second session of the present Congress, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the said members respectively eight dollars per day for the period they were detained at Washington in discharge of the duties of their appointment.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Peter Force and John C. Rives for one hundred and two copies of the third volume of the fifth series of the "American Archives," or Documentary History of the United States, for the new members of the House of the Twentysixth Congress; one hundred and seventeen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-seventh Congress; one hundred copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-eighth Congress; one hundred and one copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-ninth Congress; one hundred and sixteen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirtieth Congress; one hundred and thirty-four copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-first Congress; and one hundred and thirty copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-second Congress; in all eight hundred volumes, at sixteen dollars fortyfive cents and six mills per volume, thirteen thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty

cents.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for reporting and publishing eight hundred and fifty columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the second session of the thirty-second Congress in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars; and to enable the said John C. Rivea to pay the reporters of this House for this session the sum of seven dollars per column instead of four for the reports of the Congressional Globe, the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary; and the Clerk of this House be authorized to pay the same to said Rives for that purpose.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That hereafter no books shall be distributed to members of Congress except such as are ordered to be printed, as public documents, by the Congress of which they are members: Provided, That this section shall not prohibit or interfere with the distribution to members who have heretofore received books under an order of either House, of the remaining volumes or parts, so as to complete the sets of which they have received part.

For paying expenses of David Dale Owen's geological report, from Philadelphia to Washington, for one hundred and seventeen boxes, and porterage, ninety-nine dollars and forty-five cents; for insurance, ninety dollars; for freight on one hundred and seventeen boxes, one hundred and forty-six dollars; total, three hundred and thirtyfive dollars and forty-five cents.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the second section of the act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, approved thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as provides that "no portions of the moneys appropriated by this act shall be applied to the payment of any expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two," be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to the appropriation for light-houses contained in said act, except as to the light-houses which have been contracted for to be erected upon the Pacific coast.

And that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to John McC. Reynolds the sum of one thousand dollars for expenses incurred by him in removing materials for the construction of a light-house in the State of Michigan, the department having changed the site after said materials were delivered at the site first selected.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the offi cers appointed to assist the superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition in Chili, directed by the act of the third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be allowed an increased compensation in a rateable proportion, according to pay and rank, at the time of departure from the United States, to the allowance made to the said superintendent by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the time for receiving bids under the act of third of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the erection of a mint in California, be extended to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and that the sum of three hundred thousand dollars appropriated by said act, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be ap

a mint in California, and not to the purchase of any building for that purpose.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay a balance due for reporting and pub-plied only to the erection and putting in operation lishing the proceedings of the House during the first session of the thirty-second Congress, being sixty-five columns and one line, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per column, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the second session of the Thirty-second Congress for each member and delegate of the House, seventeen thousand and sixty-four dollars; and for binding the same, being five thousand six hundred and eighty-eight volumes, in strong and substantial half-binding, with Russia backs and corners, at a rate not exceeding sixty cents per volume, three thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eighty cents.

For this amount of money appropriated, and goods purchased under treaty stipulations for the Lake Chippewa Indians, lately destroyed by fire at the agency of said Indians, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized to purchase said goods in open market, without the usual notice in such cases required by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the seventh section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," approved August thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That when gold or silver shall be cast into bars or ingots or formed into disks at the mint of the United States, or any of the branches thereof, or at any assay office of the United States, the charge for refining, casting, or forming said bars, ingots, or disks shall be equal to but not exceed the actual cost of the operation, including labor, wastage, use of machinery, materials, etc., to be regulated from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the sizes and devices of the new silver coin, authorized by an act entitled "An act amendatory of existing laws relative to the half dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime," passed at the present session; and that, to procure such devices, as also the models, moulds, and matrices or original dies for the coins, disks, or ingots authorized by said act, the director of the mint is empowered, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to engage temporarily for that purpose the services of one or more artists, distinguished in their respective departments, who shall be paid for such services from the contingent appropriation for the mint. And that hereafter the three cent coin now authorized by law shall be made of the weight of three-fiftieths of the weight of the half dollar, as provided in the said act, and the same standard|| of fineness. And the said act entitled "An act amendatory of existing laws relative to the half

dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime," shall take effect and be in full force from and after the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, anything therein to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That in the settlement of his accounts the late Collector of the port of San Francisco, in the State of California, be allowed credit for five thousand dollars advanced to J. Neely Johnson for taking the seventh census. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXVI.—An Act making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic Expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the jects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the obthe thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftyfour, namely:

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For Congressional Globe and binding the same, eight thousand dollars.

For reporting proceedings, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For clerks to committees and President pro tempore, draughtsman, messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses and carry-alls; fifty-five thousand dollars; and to enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of said House of March first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, directing him to pay the usual extra compensation to the employees in and about the Capitol, a sum sufficient for that purpose is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and is hereby added to the contingent fund of said House.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the contingent expenses of the Senate, for lithographing and engraving, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and defray the expenses of select committees of investigation appointed by the Senate, eighteen thousand dollars.

For the expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: For furniture, carpeting, and repairs, six thousand dollars.

For twenty-one messengers, twenty-one thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars.

For the messenger who has charge of the Hall of the House of Representatives, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For two messengers in clerk's office, three thousand dollars.

For horses and carriages, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars.

For saddle-horses, six hundred dollars. For fuel, oil, and candles, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For newspapers for members, ten thousand dollars.

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For capitol police, three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.

For engraving and lithographing, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For binding documents, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That of all the documents, the printing of additional copies of which may be ordered by either House of Congress, and the size of which shall not be less than two hundred and fifty pages, such additional copies shall be bound in such manner as may be directed by the respective committees on printing of each House, the cost of which shall not exceed twelve and a half cents per volume; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the Public Printing to supervise the binding of the public documents, to receive said binding when executed, and see that the same is done in a neat and workmanlike manner, according to such sample as may be preserved in his office, and in proper time; and before the binder shall receive pay for the same, he shall produce the certificate of the said superintendent that his work has been executed as above required, and has been accepted by him. And it shall also be the duty of the said superintendent to receive and preserve in his office samples of paper upon which maps, charts, diagrams, plats, or other engravings may be contracted to be furnished, and to receive from the contractor said maps, charts, diagrams, plats, or other engravings, and compare the paper upon which they may be printed with the samples so preserved, and he shall not receive any map, chart, diagram, plat, or other engraving which may not be printed on paper equal to the samples so preserved, or which may not be executed in a proper manner, and within the time specified in the contract, (unless for special reasons the superintendent may extend the time,) and which may not be in the quantity called for thereby; and said contractor shall not receive pay for the same, except upon the certificate of the superintendent that the foregoing requisites have been complied with.

For folding, ten thousand dollars.

For laborers, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For pages, four thousand dollars.
For stationery, twenty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Library of Congress.

For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of said library, one thousand dollars.

For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars.

For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars..

For the completion of the publication of the works of the Exploring Expedition in pursuance of contracts already made, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall finish the publication.

For the preparation and publication of a general catalogue of the Library of Congress, to be made in such manner as the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress may direct, three thousand dollars.

Executive.

For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, five thousand dollars.

Department of State.

For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.

For the Incidental and Contingent expenses of said Department.

Laws of the United States.

For stationery, blank-books, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing, four thousand four hundred dollars. For books and maps, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and seventy cents.

For newspapers, two hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
Northeast Executive Building,

For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northeast executive building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, three thousand three hundred dollars.

Treasury Department.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-two thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twentyfour thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-three thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, thirty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messengers, and assistant messenger in his office, fifty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of temporary clerks, employed in the office of the Third Auditor in making out certificates of service from the muster-rolls of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the several Indian wars, and on arrearages of pay, thirty-one thousand one hundred dollars: Provided, That no clerk shall receive more than at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum under this act, except one, whose salary shall be sixteen hundred dollars per annum, and four whose compensation shall be four dollars per day.

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; the salary of the assistant messenger per act of third of March, eighteen hundred and fortynine, being hereby increased to the sum of three hundred dollars per annum.

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eleven thousand

four hundred dollars.

In the office of the First Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, furniture, labor, and miscellaneous items, two thousand and forty dollars.

In the office of the Second Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, including pay for the National Intelligencer and the Union, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, seven hundred dollars.

items, eight hundred dollars. For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous

In the office of the First Auditor:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, labor, and cases for records and official papers, one thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, including subscription for the Union and National Intelligencer, to be filed for the use of the office, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Second Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, office furniture, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and miscellaneous items, one thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-four cents.

In the office of the Third Auditor:

For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, including carpeting, two newspapers-the Union and Intelligencer-to be filed, labor and miscellaneous items, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-nine cents.

For expenses of arranging document rooms and preserving files and papers, one thousand dollars. For contingencies incident to the bounty land service, and arrearages, one thousand four hundred dollars.

In the office of the Fourth Auditor: For stationery, books, and binding, six hundred dollars.

For labor, one hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars.

In the office of the Fifth Auditor: For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For hire of laborers, one hundred and seventyfive dollars.

For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred dollars.

In the office of the Treasurer:

For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars.

In the office of the Register:

cluding one thousand five hundred dollars for For blank books, binding, and stationery, inruling and full binding twenty-three books for re

For compensation of the Treasurer of the Uni-cording the collectors' quarterly abstracts of the ted States, and the clerks and messenger in his commerce and navigation, and blank abstracts for office, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. their use, two thousand nine hundred and forty-six

dollars.

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, in his office, thirty thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messengers in his office, thirteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks and messenger in his office, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-House Board, six thousand four hundred dollars.

Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.

In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For labor, blank books, stationery, sealing ships' registers, translating foreign languages, advertising, and extra clerk hire for preparing and collecting information to be laid before Congress -said clerks to be employed only during the session of Congress, or when indispensably neces

For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the United States and Territories and in the city of Washington, sixteen thousary to enable the Department to answer some sand twenty-five dollars.

For proof-reading, packing, and distributing laws and documents, including cases, labor, and transportation, ten thousand dollars.

For the payment of the expenses attending upon the funeral obsequies of the late Secretary of State, one thousand two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents.

For labor and other miscellaneous items, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the of the General Land Office, two thousand dollars. First and Fifth Auditors, and the Commissioner

For arranging and binding canceled marine papers, returned by the collectors of the customs, one thousand dollars.

In the office of the Solicitor: For blank books, binding, stationery, and for labor, nine hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous items, two hundred dollars. For statutes and reports, including those of the several States, one thousand dollars.

In the office of the Commissioner of Customs: For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Light-House Board. For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous expenses, three hundred and fifty dollars.

Southeast Executive Building.

call made by either House of Congress at one
session to be answered at another; and no such
extra clerk shall receive more than three dollars For compensation of the superintendent and
thirty-three and one third cents per day for the eight watchmen of the southeast executive build-
time actually and necessarily employed-eighting, four thousand five hundred dollars.
thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For miscellaneous items, two thousand eight for labor, fuel and lights, fourteen thousand five
hundred dollars.
hundred dollars.

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