32D CONG....2D SESS. For rent of additional buildings, in part occupied by the Secretary of the Interior, and part by the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. For fuel, watching, and miscellaneous items for the same, four thousand dollars. Department of the Interior. For compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, and the clerks, messengers, and laborers in his office, twenty-four thousand seven hundred dollars. For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and packers in his office, ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and six dol lars. For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-six thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, and the clerks and messengers in his office, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation to temporary clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, forty-two thousand and forty-six dollars and sixtysix cents: Provided, That no clerk shall receive more than at the rate of three dollars thirty-three and one third cents per day, except two, whose compensation shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum. Contingent expenses of the Department of the Interior. In the office of the Secretary of the Interior: For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For library, books, and maps, one thousand dollars. In General Land Office: For compensation of laborers, two thousand dollars. For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patent and other records, tractbooks, blank books, for the district land offices; binding plats, field-notes, &c.; stationery, office furniture, and repairs of same, and miscellaneous items, thirty-six thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars: Provided, That whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands in any United States land district shall be as much as one third of the whole amount of revenue collected in such district, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest, to discontinue the land office in such district, and to annex the said district to some other adjoining land district or districts of the United States. For parchment, maps, records, letter and other records, required under the swamp land act of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty military bounty acts of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twentysecond of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants, per act of thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; printing plate and engraving scrip, authorized to be issued by act of thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, including form, &c., under said act, and other miscellaneous expenses, thirty-two thousand seven hundred dollars. In the office of the Commissioner of Indian For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand dollars. For labor, two hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. For engraving bounty land warrants, four thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of east wing of Patent Office Building, viz: For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses, two thousand two hundred dollars. Laws of the United States. War Department. For compensation of the Secretary of War and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, eighteen thousand and fifty dollars. For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General, one thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant General, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster General, twelve shall be the duty of the Quartermaster General to thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That it have prepared in his office, out of the above appropriation, books of transfer for the use of the Third Auditor's office. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of clothing and equipage, in Philadelphia, four thousand and forty dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Subsist ence seven thousand three hundred dollars. the office of the Chief Engineer, five thousand nine For compensation of the clerks and messenger in hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in six hundred and fifty dollars. the office of the Surgeon General, three thousand For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, four thousand nine hundred dollars. Contingent expenses of the War Department. In the office of the Secretary of War: For blank books, stationery, and labor, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred and fifty dollars. For books, maps, and plans, one thousand dollars. For extra clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the Commanding General: For miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars. In the office of the Adjutant General: For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including office furniture, five hundred dollars. In the office of the Quartermaster General, including the office at Philadelphia: For blank books, binding, and stationery, seven hundred dollars. For labor, one hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Commissary General of For blank books, binding, stationery, advertising, and labor, two thousand nine hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Chief Engineer: For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including subscription to two daily Washington newspapers, four hundred dollars. In the office of the Surgeon General: For blank books, binding, and stationery, two hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars. In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance: For blank books, binding, and stationery, four hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. In the Bureau of Topograpical Engineers: For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor, twelve hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. Northwest Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent, and four watchmen, of the Northwest Executive Building, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, and light, two thousand four hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand six hundred dollars. Building corner of P and Seventeenth streets. For rent of house on northwest corner of F and Seventeenth streets, and warming all the rooms in it, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. For compensation of superintendent, and four watchmen, of the building corner of F and Seventeenth streets, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said building: For miscellaneous items, including labor, one thousand four hundred dollars. Navy Department. For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, twenty-two thousand dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his office, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That the chief of the Bureau be a "skillful naval constructor,' as required by the act approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fortytwo, instead of a captain in the Navy. For compensation of the chief naval constructor, and the engineer-in-chief, six thousand dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his office, nine thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Navy-Yards and Docks, and of the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his office, twelve thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, seven thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation to the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the assistant to chief, clerks, and messenger in his office, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. Contingencies of the Navy Department. For contingencies of the Navy Department, and all the bureaus connected therewith, viz: For blank books, binding, stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, newspapers and periodicals, incidental and miscellaneous items, six thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. Southwest Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the southwest executivebuilding, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. For fuel and lights, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Post Office Department. For compensation of the Postmaster General, three Assistant Postmasters General, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department, one hundred and eight thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation of the superintendent of the Post Office building, two hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses of the Post Office Department. For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel for the General Post Office building, including the Auditor's office, oil, gas, and candles, labor, day watchman, and for miscellaneous expenses, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs of the General Post Office building, for office furniture, glazing, whitewashing, and for keeping the fire-places and furnaces in order, one thousand five hundred dollars. Auditor of the Post Office Department: For compensation of the Auditor of the Post 32D CONG.....2d Sess. Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, one hundred and three thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, viz: For labor, three thousand and eighty dollars. For stationery, two thousand three hundred dollars. For blank books, one thousand two hundred dollars. For binding and ruling, six hundred and twenty dollars. For miscellaneous items, viz: For file-boards, repairs, cases, and desks, for safe-keeping of paper, new furniture, lights, washing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic dispatches, stoves, &c., one thousand five hundred dollars. Mint of the United States at Philadelphia. For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and six clerks, twenty-two thousand two hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, seventy-two thousand dollars. Laws of the United States. For payment of the expenses of the board of commissioners to prepare and compile a code of laws for the better government of the Territory of New Mexico, authorized by the act of the Legislative Assembly approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the sum of eighteen hundred and fifty-five dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars; and it is hereby provided that the appropriation made by the act approved thirteenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, for public buildings for the Territory of New Mexico," is continued and made applicable to the object originally contemplated, notwithstanding the provisions of the tenth section of the act of August thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. 66 TERRITORY OF UTAH. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said Territory, on thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars. To enable the President to cause a site to be For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars; and shall be the duty of the superintendent of the mint to cause to be paid annually into the Treas-purchased and a suitable building to be erected for ury of the United States the profits of the mint, and to present a quarterly account of the expenditures of the mint to the Secretary of the Treas For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars. For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage, in addition to other available funds,|| one thousand four hundred dollars. At New Orleans, Louisiana. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter, and refiner, and clerks, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, thirty-five thousand seven hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds, sixty-eight thousand dollars. Government in the Territories. TERRITORY OF OREGON. For salaries of governor, three judges, and secretary, ten 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, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, twenty thousand dollars. TERRITORY OF MINNESOTA. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three 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, twenty thousand dollars. TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. For salaries of governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars. a penitentiary in each of the Territories of Utah and New Mexico, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That the entire cost of the site and the completion of said buildings shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated. Judiciary. For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and eight Associate Judges, forty-one thousand dollars. For salaries of the district judges, seventy thousand seven hundred dollars. For salaries of the chief judge of the District of Columbia, the assistant judges, and the judges of the criminal court and the orphans' court, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. For salaries of the Attorney General, and the clerks and messengers in his office, ten thousand three hundred dollars. Surveyors General and their Clerks. For compensation of the surveyor general northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general of Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general of Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general of Arkansas, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred 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 California, and the clerks in his office, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For clerks in the office of the surveyors general, including the offices in Oregon and California, 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, forty thousand dollars. Light-House Establishment. For supplying light-houses, containing three thousand two hundred and seventy-two lamps, with oil, lamp-glasses, wicks, buff-skin, polishing powder, whiting, and other cleaning materials; transportation, and other necessary expenses on the same; repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and instructions; notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, and of lights, &c., one hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-eight cents. For supplying forty-nine light-houses, to contain five hundred and sixty-one lamps, with oil, &c., &c., as above, authorized by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first August, one thousand eight hunFor contingent expenses of the office of the At-dred and fifty-two, thirty thousand four hundred torney General, five hundred dollars. and sixty dollars and thirty-four cents. For salary of the reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars. For compensation of the district attorneys, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation of the marshals, seven thousand four hundred dollars. For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and previous years, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, six hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to examine the claim presented by the county of Lee, in the State of Iowa, for the expenses of the United States district court, which were paid by said county prior to the admission of said State into the Union; and if, upon such examination, he is satisfied that prior to said time the said county has paid money which, in accordance with the instructions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, dated December nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-three, should have been paid by the marshal of the United States for said Territory, he is directed to audit and allow the same: Provided, That the amount thus allowed shall not exceed the sum of fourteen thousand four hundred dollars, which is hereby appropriated for that purpose, out of any money in the Treasury. To aid the directors of the Washington Infirmary to enlarge their accommodations for the benefit of sick transient paupers, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of three hundred and forty-nine light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of forty-nine light-houses and buildings connected therewith, provided for by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, twenty-four thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-one cents. For salaries of three hundred and twenty-one light-house keepers, and twenty-four assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, one hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and thirtythree cents. For salaries of forty-nine keepers, and six assistants, for the light-houses authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, at the average legal rate per annum for each keeper, twenty-two thousand dollars. For salaries of forty-two keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand dollars. For salaries of five keepers of light-vessels, authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred nnd fiftytwo, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies for forty-two light-vessels, one hundred and three thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-two cents. For seamen's wages, supplies, and incidental expenses for five light-vessels, authorized by acts of third of March, one thousand eight hundred 32D CONG....2D SESS. and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, thirty-three thousand and four dollars and seventy-two cents. For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons and buoys, chains, sinkers, &c., for light-vessels, fifty-nine thousand and fifty-seven dollars and hirty-two cents. For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of two hundred and forty-five dumb beacons and buoys, and their appendages, authorized by act of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. For expenses of coloring, numbering, &c., all of the buoys and beacons provided for by the act of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, twelve thousand dollars. For life-boats and other means of rendering assistance to wrecked mariners and others on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For expenses of visiting and reporting the condition of lights and other aids to navigation, two Coasts of California and Oregon: For oil and other supplies, cleaning materials of all kinds, transportation of supplies, keeping lamps and machinery in good repair, and the towers and buildings in a proper state of preservation, superintendence, and inspection of thirteen lights, replacing, cleaning, painting, and preserving all the buoys in the waters of California and Oregon, and all incidental expenses connected with the aids to navigation on these coasts, twenty-nine thousand and thirty-five dollars. For salaries of thirteen keepers and eleven assistants, at an average not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. Light-Houses. For rebuilding light-house on Chandeleur Island, Louisiana, destroyed in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, fifteen thousand dollars. For restoring the light-house buildings, seawalls, &c., which were injured or destroyed during the late gales on the southern coast, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fitting Cape Hatteras light with first order of illuminating apparatus and lantern, and elevating the light, fifteen thousand dollars. For removing the iron light-house tower, at the junction of south west and northeast passes of the Mississippi to Pass a l'Outre, and substituting a small beacon light in its stead, six thousand dollars. dollars. Laws of the United States. For annual repairs and office fixtures of the custom-houses of the United States, twenty-five thou For contingent expenses under the act for the For compensation to special agents to examine For the compensation of an additional appraiser general, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be employed on the Pacific coast, six thousand dollars. Survey of the Coast. For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to superintendent and assistants, (and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy, employed on the work,) one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, (excluding the pay and emoluments of the officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy, employed on the work,) one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs For continuing the survey of the northern and Custom-Houses. For continuing the construction of the customhouse at Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the customhouse at New Orleans, Louisiana, three hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars; subject to the limitations and restrictions imposed on the appropriation made for the same object at the second session of the last Congress, as respects the plan after which the building is to be erected. To complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine, twelve thousand dollars. To complete the foundation of the custom-house in Bangor, and to connect the same with the shore, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the customhouse at St. Louis, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For proceeding with the construction of the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. For the completion of the custom-house at Cincinnati, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. For the purchase of land additional to the present custom-house lot at Providence, Rhode Island, sixteen thousand dollars; and for the erection of a new custom-house at said port, which shall be so constructed and arranged as to furnish a suitable room for the United States Circuit and District Courts, with the necessary offices for District Judge, Clerk, Marshal, &c., thirty-four thousand dollars: Provided, That the entire cost of such additional site and building shall in no event exceed the sum hereby appropriated. dred dollars. For the construction of a custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars, which, in addition to the sum heretofore prescribed as the whole amount to be expended for that purpose, shall constitute the entire cost of the purchase of the site and the completion of the building. To equalize the salary of the collector of Chicago, and to make it equal to that of Detroit, twelve hundred and fifty dollars; and the salary of the collector of Chicago be and the same is hereby established at that sum annually. The salary of the collector of Chicago shall be, from and after the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, twelve hundred and fifty dollars. For completing and finishing the marine hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas, four thousand dollars; and that the further time of one year be allowed for the expenditure of the money heretofore appropriated to the marine hospital at Vicksburg, Mississippi. For annual repairs and office fixtures of the custom-houses of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the completion of the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana, twenty thousand dollars. For the marine hospital at Natchez, four thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the marine hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, twenty thousand dollars. Intercourse with Foreign Nations. For salaries and outfits of ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chili, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. For salary and outfit of a minister to Central America, to be accredited to such one or more of the Governments included in that name as the President of the United States may designate, ighteen thousand dollars. For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, twenty thousand dollars. For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars. For salary of the dragoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries and outfits of chargés des affaires or ministers resident to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, New Granada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Switzerland, and Nicaragua, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars: Provided, That the ministers resident herein authorized shall not receive more compensation than is now allowed to a chargé d'affaires. For salary of clerk to the United States legation at London, eight hundred dollars. For the payment of Theodore S. Fay, of the difference between the salary of a secretary of legation and a chargé d'affaires, during the time, on several different occasions, he discharged the duties of the latter office at Prussia, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy-three and two ninth cents, the same to be in lieu of all former appropriation; and also, if received, in full for all diplomatic services rendered in that capacity. For compensation of Edward Kent, for one quarter's salary as chargé d'affaires at the legation at Rio de Janeiro, during the absence of the minister, and under the instructions of the Department of State, one thousand one hundred and twentyfive dollars. To reimburse David Tod, late minister of the United States at Brazil, a sum of money advanced by him to William E. Anderson, who was sent by the minister from Rio de Janeiro to the United States in the spring of eighteen hundred and fiftyone as a witness against two persons engaged in the slave trade, seventy-five dollars. For salaries of ten additional clerks, authorized by the acts of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, eighteen hundred and For the construction of a custom-house at Wilforty-eight, March third, eighteen hundred and|mington, Delaware, in addition to the sum approfifty-one, and thirty-first of August, eighteen hun- priated by the act of thirty-first August, eighteen For payment of Buckingham Smith, late secredred and fifty-two, ten thousand eight hundred hundred and fifty-two, three thousand five hun-tary of legation in Mexico, the difference between his salary as secretary of legation and that of chargé d'affaires from the twenty-sixth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the eighth of October following, during which period he discharged the duties of chargé d'affaires in Mexico, in the absence of the minister of the United States, who had returned home on leave, one thousand For salary of chief clerk to the assistant treasurer at New York, one thousand six hundred dollars. For salary of a clerk for the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred dollars. It is hereby provided that the limitations upon the cost of the site and building of the customhouse in Richmond, Virginia, imposed by the act of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, are hereby removed and repealed. 32D CONG.....2D SESS. seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-five cents; the same, if he received, to be in full for all charges during the period aforesaid. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars. For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars. For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, five thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, and Alexandria, two thousand dollars. For office rent of the consul at Basle, in Switzerland, one hundred dollars. Laws of the United States. General Land Office, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. For correcting defective and fraudulent surveys in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including the expenses of a field inspector of surveys, five thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of examining and correcting old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan, three thousand dollars. For the survey of township and section lines in Wisconsin, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the survey of standard, correction, township, and section lines in Minnesota, in conformity with the instructions recently issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for similar surveys in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding For salary and outfit of a commissioner to re-five dollars per mile, forty-five thousand dollars. side in China, including the additional compensa- For correcting erroneous and defective lines of tion under the act to carry into effect certain pro-public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, visions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte, eighteen thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter, and secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the consuls at the five ports in China, viz: Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning Po, and Shanghai, five thousand dollars. For salary of the consul general at Alexandria, five thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars. For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of the consul at Beirout, five hundred dollars. Public Lands. For compensation for secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri, five hundred dollars. at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, including office work, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of surveyors and other agents required in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Arkansas, to carry into effect the act of twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, granting swamp lands, fourteen thousand dollars. For detached and unfinished surveys and resurveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, fifteen thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. For correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per mile, six thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars. For surveying in Louisiana at augmented rates, including salary and expenses of surveyor, to locate private land claims, nine thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars. For the survey of private land claims in Florida, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, including the work now under contract, ten thousand dollars. For completing certain surveys in Florida, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, in consequence of the peculiar difficulties attending the execution of the same, on account of swamps, lakes, marshes, &c., and for scrap work, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida coast, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying standard, parallel, township, and section lines in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, nearly equal to six thousand four hundred miles, seventy-six thousand hundred dollars. For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided, That whenever the amount received at any United States land office, under the third section of an act entitled "An act to make land warrants assignable, and for other purposes,' approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, has exceeded or shall exceed the amount which the registers and receivers at any such office are entitled to receive under said third section, the surplus which shall remain, after pay-four ing the amount so due as aforesaid to said registers and receivers, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as other public moneys: And provided further, That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to change the location of the several land offices, and to establish the same from time to time, at such other place in the district as he may deem expedient. For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land offices, thirty-seven thousand and forty dollars. Surveys of the Public Lands. For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses and special surveys, demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, (the part to be applied to the resurveys required by the location and survey of private claims in Florida to be disbursed at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile,) in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For resurveys and examinations of the surveys of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyors general have been or shall be closed, under the acts of twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed on this special service in the For extending the principal meridian line in Oregon, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, four thousand dollars. For rent of surveyor general's office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, &c., two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. To defray the expenses incurred of a geological reconnoissance in Oregon, undertaken in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, under instructions from the Department of the Interior, and intrusted to Dr. J. Evans, eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and twentyfive cents. For completing the geological reconnoissance in Oregon, five thousand dollars. For rent of surveyor general's office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messengers, &c., eleven thousand four hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of California, under the act of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, thirty thousand dollars. For surveying standard lines in California, meandering and surveying irregular and river lots, &c., amounting to two thousand miles, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile, thirty thou sand dollars. For subdividing into townships, equal to one thousand two hundred miles of surveying, at a rate not exceeding fourteen dollars per mile, in California, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For sectioning one hundred townships, equal to six thousand miles of surveying, in California, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, seventy-two thousand dollars. Public Buildings. For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, two thousand dollars. For compensation of the clerk in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, one thousand dollars. For the extension of the United States Capitol, six hundred thousand dollars. For compensation, in part, of the messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol, three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For compensation of the public gardener, one thousand two hundred dollars; and the management of the grounds attached to the Capitol, and surrounding the Executive Mansion, shall be under his control, subject only to the supervision and control of the Secretary of the Interior. For compensation of sixteen laborers employed in the public grounds and President's garden, at the rate of forty dollars per month each, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. To supply a deficiency for the purchase of trees and the hire of laborers on the improvements of reservation number two, or public mall, between Seventh and Twelfth streets west, five thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-two cents. For compensation of the keeper of the western gate of the Capitol square, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the Capitol square, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand. For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President's House, at five hundred dollars, and of assistant doorkeeper at the same, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. For compensation of two night watchmen at the President's House, one thousand dollars. For a bridge across the Potomac at Little Falls, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars. To be expended under the direction of the President of the United States for the purpose of bringing water into the city of Washington, upon such plans and from such places as he may approve, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That if the plan adopted by the President of the United States should require water to be drawn from any source within the limits of Maryland, the assent of the Legislature of that State should first be obtained. For compensation of two drawkeepers and a watchman at the Potomac bridge, and for fuel and oil for lamps, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and for repairing the Long Bridge across the Potomac river, twenty thousand dollars. For compensation of two drawkeepers at the two bridges across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, and for fuel and oil for lamps, one thousand dollars. For compensation of auxiliary guard, and for fuel and oil for lamps, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars; and each of the auxiliary guard shall hereafter receive the same annual compensation, to wit: five hundred dollars per annum. For the support, care, and medical treatment, in the Washington Infirmary, of twelve transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, two thousand dollars. For the purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thousand dollars. For cart hire on the public grounds, one thousand dollars. For the purchase and repair of tools upon the public grounds, five hundred dollars. For the purchase of trees and tree-boxes to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, and for repairs of pavements in front of the public grounds, two thousand three hundred dollars: Provided, That no more alanthus trees be purchased or planted. For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, 32D CONG.....2D SESS. public stables, water pipes, pavements, and other walks within and around the Capitol square, painting the interior of all the committee-rooms, cleaning out and paving the vaults under the crypt, extending gas-pipes through the vaults, cleaning and white-washing the ceiling of the rotundo, replacing broken glass, locks, &c., six thousand eight hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the President's House, furniture, improvement of grounds, painting and repairing roof; cleaning, painting, and white-washing inside of the house; extending east wing of offices for carriage-house, blinds for the west front of the house, flooring large room in basement, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and for making hot-beds therein, wire fence, &c., six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For refurnishing the President's house, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of such of the furniture and equipage of the said house as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. For painting the exterior of the President's house below the cornice, one thousand and fifty dollars. For heating and ventilating the Executive mansion, painting the exterior thereof, and painting the walls, ceilings, &c., of the rooms on the first floor, and making other improvements and repairs, and for the purchase of books for the President's library, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. For erecting lamp posts and lamps on both sides of Pennsylvania avenue, from Seventeenth street to Georgetown, and from the Capitol to the Navy Yard, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For completing the grading and paving the carriage-way of Pennsylvania avenue, from Seventeenth street to Rock creek, and for setting the curbstone and paving the footway six feet wide on each side of said avenue, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided, That the sum required for paving said footway shall not be expended unless the owners of property opposite thereto be required, under the direction of the authorities of the city of Washington, to pave at least ten feet in width of the space allotted for a sidewalk, in continuation and adjoining the same. For inclosing with an iron fence and otherwise improving the triangular space on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, opposite the market house, and between Seventh and Eighth streets, four thousand five hundred dollars. For a deficiency for surveying, leveling, and measuring the triangular square on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, forty-two dollars. For supplying a deficiency in the appropriation made March third, eighteen hundred and fortynine, for completing the room under the Senate post office, four hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-one cents. For lighting the Capitol and President's house, the public grounds around them and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania avenue, twenty-two thousand dollars. Towards the erection of the west wing of the Patent Office building, two hundred thousand dollars. For completing the repairs of the two bridges across the Eastern Branch, four thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. For salaries and incidental expenses of the commission appointed under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, for settling land claims in California, seventy-five thousand dollars; and that the proviso to the appropriation for this object contained in the act approved thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, shall not be so construed as to reduce the salary of the secretary of said commission as fixed by the second section of the above-recited act: And provided further, That out of said sum herein appropriated there shall be paid to each commissioner appointed under the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, the sum of eight thousand dollars, in lieu of the compensation heretofore allowed. For annuities and grants, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Laws of the United States, For expenses of loans and treasury notes, twenty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows and orphans under the act entitled "An act to continue half pay to certain widows and orphans," approved February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement of the Treasury, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the appropriation shall be drawn from the Treasury except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish, pay for, and deliver the same books to the Delegates from Oregon, New Mexico, and Utah, for the Thirty-second Congress, as per resolution of the said House, passed twentysixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, two thousand seven hundred dollars. To pay to J. T. Mudd for services in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, from the day of the death of the late Commissioner to the appointment of the present incumbent, sixty-five dollars. Mexican Boundary Commission. For completing the survey of the Rio Grande, and for office work for one year, eighty-three thousand five hundred and twelve dollars. For arrears due Major William H. Emory's party, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses attending Lieutenant Whipple's party from the Gila, six thousand dollars. For pay of commissioner and secretary, and for personal and traveling expenses of the commissioner, nine thousand five hundred dollars. And that the period limited for the appointment of commissioner, surveyor, and chief astronomer, by the act of May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first of April, eighteen hundred and fiftyfour. For carrying into effect the provisions of this act establishing an assay office in the city of New York, in addition to the charges therein authorized to be received, one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and that there be paid to James B. Smallwood and Martin La Truite, boys attending upon the mail wagons of the Senate, the sum of one hundred and forty dollars each, being twenty per cent. in addition to their pay for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. For compensation of the warden, clerk, physi-six cian, chaplain, two assistant keepers, four guards, and porter, of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation of three inspectors of said penitentiary, three hundred dollars. For the support and maintenance of said penitentiary, one thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers of the District of Columbia, at such places as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem proper, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of two hundred and fifty copies of the Statutes at Large of the United States, and of the Synoptical Index thereto, at the contract price paid by Congress, to be distributed, under the direction of the Department of State, among the several consulates and commercial agents, eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the collection of agricultural statistics, and purchase of seeds, to be paid out of the patent fund, five 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, seventy thousand dollars. For paper required for the printing of Congress for the first session of the Thirty-third Congress, one hundred and four thousand and sixty-four dollars. For paper required for the printing of the executive departments, ten thousand three hundred dollars. For the printing of the Senate for the first session of the Thirty-third Congress, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey shall be six thousand dollars per annum; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury annually to report to Congress, during the first month of each regular session, the number and names of the persons employed during the last preceding fiscal year upon the coast survey and business connected therewith; the amount of compensation of every kind respectively paid them, for what purpose, and the length of time employed; and further, to report a full statement of all other expenditures made under the direction of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, the clerks in the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, shall be arranged into four classes, of which class number one shall receive an annual salary of nine hundred dollars each, class number two an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars each, class number three an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each, and class number four an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars each. In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, four of class one, six of class two, six of class three, and five of class four. In the office of the Solicitor, one of class one, two of class two, three of class three, and one of class four. In the office of the First Comptroller, two of class one, five of class two, and seven of class three. In the office of the Second Comptroller, three of class one, four of class two, and seven of class three. In the office of the First Auditor, three of class one, six of class two, and nine of class three. In the office of the Second Auditor, two of class one, six of class two, and eleven of class For the printing of the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-third Congress, fifty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-three. four dollars. For the printing of the Executive departments, including for paper and printing the annual estimates, and for paper, printing, binding the Biennial Register, and the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury on commerce and navigation, || twenty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and four cents. For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messenger in his office, six thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. For blank books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, &c., one thousand one hundred and two dollars. For compensation of the librarian of the Patent Office, to be paid out of the patent fund, one thousand two hundred dollars. For the purchase of books for the library of the Patent Office, to be paid out of the patent fund, one thousand five hundred dollars. In the office of the Third Auditor, three of class one, forty-one of class two, and eight of class three. In the office of the Fourth Auditor, one of class one, four of class two, and nine of class three. In the office of the Fifth Auditor, two of class one, three of class two, and two of class three. In the office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, twenty of class one, fifty of class two, twenty-six of class three, and five of class four. In the office of the Register, five of class one, eighteen of class two, and four of class three. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs, three of class one, four of class two, and three of class three. In the office of the Treasurer, two of class one, five of class two, and five of class three. And in the office of the Light-House Board one of class one, one of class two, and two of class three. |