In the office of the General-in-Chief, one of class two.

In the office of the Adjutant General, two of class one, five of class two, one of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Quartermaster General, three of class one, five of class two, two of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Paymaster General, two of class one, three of class two, two of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Commissary General, two of class one, two of class two, one of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Surgeon General, one of class one, one of class two, and one of class four.

In the office of the Colonel of Engineers, one of class one, two of class two, one of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers, one of class one, two of class two, one of class three, and one of class four.

And in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance, two of class one, four of class two, one of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Secretary of the Navy, four of class two, six of class three, and one of class four.

In the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, one of class one, seven (including the draughtsman) of class two, and one of class four.

In the Bureau of Yards and Docks, one of class one, four (including the draughtsman) of class two, and one of class four.

In the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, four of class two, and one of class four.

In the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, four (including the draughtsman) of class two, and one of class four.

And in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, two of class two, and one (the assistant) of class four.

In the office of the Secretary of the Interior, four of class two, three of class three, and three of class four.

In the office of the Commissioner of Pensions, ten of class one, thirty of class two, five of class three, and four of class four.

In the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, forty of class one, forty of class two, twenty-three of class three, and three of class ' four.

In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, six of class two, six of class three, and three of class four.

And in the office of the Commissioner of Patents, eight of class two, twelve (including the six assistant examiners) of class three, and one of class four.

In the office of the Postmaster General, ten of class one, thirty-three of class two, twenty-nine of class three, and six (including the topographer) of class four.

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time after this section has been executed by a classification of the clerks as it prescribes. There shall be a disbursing clerk for each of the Departments of War, Navy, and the Post Office; not more than three for the Treasury Department, at the discretion of the Secretary thereof; and not more than three for the Department of the Interior, at the discretion of the Secretary thereof. The said clerks to be appointed out of class four by the heads of the respective Departments, and to receive such sum in addition to their regular salaries as may amount in all to two thousand dollars per annum. But it shall be their further duty, when designated by the head of the Department for that service, to superintend the buildings, and they shall give bonds as required by the Independent Treasury act: Provided, That the clerks when distributed and arranged as required by this section, shall be paid according to its provisions, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall constitute the whole of the permanent clerical force of the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, with the exception of the Census Bureau, which is not included in this arrangement, and the clerks temporarily employed in the office of the Third Auditor on bounty land service, and on arrearages of pay: And provided further, That each head of the said Departments may alter the distribution herein made of the clerks amongst the various bureaus and offices in his departments, if he should find it necessary and proper to do so.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the annual compensation of the Vice President, Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, and the Postmaster and Attorney General, shall be eight thousand dollars each.

required to establish in the city of New York an office for the receipt and for the melting, refining, parting, and assaying of gold and silver bullion and foreign coin, and for casting the same into bars, ingots, or disks. The assistant treasurer of the United States in New York shall be treasurer of the said assay office, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall, with the approbation and consent of the President of the United States, appoint such other officers and clerks, and authorize the employment of such assistants, workmen, and servants as shall be necessary for the proper conduct and management of the said office and of the business pertaining thereto, at such compensation as shall be approved by the President: Provided, That the same shall not exceed that allowed for corresponding services under existing laws relating to the Mint of the United States and its branches.

And

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the owner or owners of any gold or silver bullion, in dust or otherwise, or of any foreign coin, shall be entitled to deposit the same in the said office, and the treasurer thereof shall give the receipt, stating the weight and description thereof in the manner and under the regulations that are or may be provided in like cases or deposits at the Mint of the United States with the treasurer thereof. such bullion shall, without delay, be melted, parted, refined, and assayed, and the net value thereof, and of all foreign coins deposited in said office, shall be ascertained; and the treasurer shall thereupon forthwith issue his certificate of the net value thereof, payable in coins of the same metal as that deposited, either at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States, in New York, or at the Mint of the United States, at the option of the depositor, to be expressed in the certificate, which certificates shall be receivable at any time within sixty days from the date thereof in payment of all debts due the United States at the port of New York for the full sum therein certified. All

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That an officer shall be appointed in the Department of State, to be called the Assistant Secretary of State, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as that of the Secretary of State, who shall perform all such duties in the office of Secretary of State belonging to that Department, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State, or as may be required by law,

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to cancel any outstanding debenture bonds given previously to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon the importation of foreign coals: Provided, That the said coals have been exported to a foreign port or consumed upon the outward voyage, and shall not have been consumed in the United States.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the third section of the act entitled "An act making appro

No clerk shall be appointed in either of the four classes until after he has been examined and found qualified by a board, to consist of three examiners, one of them to be the chief of the bureau or office into which he is to be appointed, and the two others to be selected by the head of the Department to which the said clerk will be assigned. Nor shall any clerk in the Departments herein named receive any other salary or money for extra services than the sum or sums specified in this section, at any

Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes," approved August tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same,s hereby, revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase at the current market price any of the outstanding stocks of the United States as he may think most advisable, from any surplus funds in the Treasury: Provided, That the balance in the Treasury shall not at any time be reduced below six millions of dollars.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and

melted, parted, refined, or assayed, as aforesaid, shall, at the option of the depositor, be cast in the said office into bars, ingots, or disks, either of pure metal or of standard fineness, (as the owner may prefer,) with a stamp thereon of such form and device as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, accurately designating its weight and fineness: Provided, That no ingot, bar, or disk shall be cast of less weight than five ounces, unless the same be of standard fineness, and of either one, two, or three ounces in weight. And all gold or silver bullion and foreign coin intended by the depositor to be converted into the coins of the United States, shall, as soon as assayed and its net value certified as above provided, be transferred to the Mint of the United States, under such directions as shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and at the expense of the contingent fund of the Mint, and shall then be coined. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, with the approval of the President of the United States, to make the necessary regulations for the adjustment of the accounts between the respective officers, upon the transfer of any bullion or coin between the assay office, the Mint, and assistant treasurer of New York.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the operations of melting, parting, refining, and assaying in the said office shall be under the general directions of the director of the Mint, in subordination to the Secretary of the Treasury; and it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations and to order such tests as shall be requisite to insure faithfulness, accuracy, and uniformity in the operations of the said office.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the laws of the United States for the government of the Mint and its officers in relation to the receipt, payment, custody of deposits, and settlement of accounts, the duties and responsibilities of officers and others employed therein, the oath to be taken, and the bond and sureties to be given by them (as far as the same may be applicable) shall extend to the assay office hereby established, and to its officers, assistants, clerks, workmen, and others employed therein.

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bars, ingots, or disks, and for alloy, as ore, or shall be made and demanded at the Mint; and no other charges shall be made to depositors than by law are authorized to be made at the Mint; and the amount received from the charges hereby authorized shall be accounted for and appropriated for defraying the contingent expenses of the said office.

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sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

For the pay of the army, one million eight hundred and fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars: Provided, That the salary of the military storekeepers of the Ordnance Department in Oregon, California, and New Mexico, shall dollars per annum.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the salary of assistant treasurer of the United States in New York, from and after the time that the said office shall be opened and in operation, shall be six thousand dollars per annum, instead of the sum now allowed.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That under the act for the benefit of Amos Proctor, approved the seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, the legal representatives of said Proctor are entitled to one half of one moiety, being one fourth of the appraised value of the goods therein mentioned, as having been seized and libeled on his information.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That there be placed at the disposal of the President of the United States the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to enable him to compensate Clark Mills for the execution of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, recently placed upon the public square in the city of Washington, north of the Executive Mansion, and to make the same the property of the United States, and that said sum be paid under the direction of the President out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, when a clear and satisfactory title to said statue shall be vested in the United States: Provided, That_the sum of ten thousand dollars thereof be invested for the family of said Mills, and after his death to be given to such children of said Mills as may survive him.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That whenever the land office at Pontotoc, Mississippi, shall be discontinued, the records and files thereof shall be placed in the possession of the clerk of the United States district court for the northern district of Mississippi, who is hereby made keeper of the same, and authorized to perform all the duties now conferred upon the register and receiver, and shall receive for his services therefor a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum.

SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That in settling the accounts of Daniel S. McCauley, late consul general at Alexandria, in Egypt, there shall be allowed for office rent at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum, during the time he acted in that capacity, to be paid to his widow.

For salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, attorney, and marshal of Washington Territory, from the time of their appointment to the end of the fiscal year terminating June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, an amount sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

For compensation and mileage of the members of Legislative Assembly, officers, clerk, and contingent expenses of the Assembly, and to defray the expenses of taking the census of said Territory, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated.

For the contingent expenses of the Territory, including the salary of a clerk of the executive department, fifteen hundred dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

For the remounting of the four companies of light artillery, authorized by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the same be expended at the discretion and by direction of the President of the United States. For the defense of San Francisco, California, five hundred thousand dollars.

For continuing the defenses at the following forts, viz:

Florida. Fort Jefferson, at Gardon Keys, or Tortugas Islands, one hundred thousand dollars. Fort Taylor, Key West, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Georgia. Fort Pulaski, including barracks and quarters, twenty thousand dollars.

South Carolina.-Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Maryland-Fort Carroll, Sollers's Point, more harbor, fifty thousand dollars. Delaware.-Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware river, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Maine.-Fort Knox, Penobscot river, fifty-five thousand dollars.

Massachusetts.-Fort Warren, Boston harbor, forty-five thousand dollars.

Fort Winthrop, Governor's Island, Boston, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and seventythree dollars.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, six hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and four thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, thirty-six thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

For expense of recruiting, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars.

For three months' extra pay for non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, on reënlistment, ten thousand dollars.

For subsistence in kind, one million and twentyeight thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars

For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, three hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and fortythree dollars and fifty-six cents.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermaster's department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and also for the authorized number of officers' horses when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers' bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster's departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, one million and fifty thousand dollars.

For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judges advocate, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the

protection of cannon, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for rent of quarters and offices for officers, and barracks and hospitals for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; for storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments, three hundred thousand dollars.

For erecting barracks and quarters at the Republican Fork of the Kansas river, sixty-five thousand dollars.

For erecting barracks and quarters for a military post on Minnesota river, forty thousand dollars.

For mileage or allowance made to officers for the transportation of themselves and baggage, when traveling on duty without troops, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, from the depôt at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depôts; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms, from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depôts; freights, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing vessels and boats, for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance, one million five hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital departments, fiftytwo thousand dollars.

For cannon, gun-carriages, and projectiles for sea-coast defense, two hundred thousand dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To make good damages at Harper's Ferry, caused by the flood of nineteenth and twentieth of

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April, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, twenty thousand dollars.

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper's Ferry, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, forty-six thousand and ninety-four dollars: Provided, That, from and after the first day of July next, the act of Congress approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, be so modified that the President may, if in his opinion the public interest demands it, place over any of the armories a superintendent who does not belong to the army; and in order to enable him to decide to his satisfaction, is hereby authorized to cause the necessary and proper inquiries to be instituted, through the medium of a commission of civilians and military men, with a view of ascertaining which of the two systems is the more economical, efficient, and safe for the management of the public armories, that formerly existing under the superintendence of civil officers, or that now existing under the superintendence of officers of the ordnance department.

For arsenals, forty-one thousand and seventyone dollars; and that the Secretary of War be and is hereby authorized to abolish such of the arsenals of the United States as in his judgment may be useless or unnecessary.

For arrearages prior to July first, eighteen hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May first, eighteen hundred and twenty, in addition to an unexpended balance of seven thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars remaining in the treasury on the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For arrearages of pay, subsistence, and clothing due to Captain Richard McRae's company of Virginia volunteers, which served in the war with Great Britain in eighteen hundred and twelve and thirteen, the sum of ten thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-one cents; to be paid out to the officers and soldiers of said company, or their legal representatives, under the order of the Secretary of War, upon the production of such proofs as satisfies him as to the identity of said officers and soldiers, and that they have not been paid.

For bridges and establishing communications between Fort Leavenworth and the Republican Fork of the Kansas river, eleven thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.

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, four thousand and fifty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents.

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ded further, That no officer shall be promoted before those who rank him in his corps.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Sec

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be directed to report to Congress whether, in his opinion, it would not be more economical, proper, and advisable to cause all the arms of the United States to be made by contract.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That such portion of the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars appropriated for the discharge of claims for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida by the act of twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as shall remain unexpended on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, is hereby reappropriated for that

purpose.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the seventh section of the act approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fiftytwo, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three," shall be construed to extend to all persons who are engaged as receivers of military contributions in Mexico or California, during the war with Mexico.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the first section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one," approved September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, granting extra pay to the officers and enlisted men of the army serving in Oregon and California, be extended to the officers and men of two companies of regiment of mounted riflemen that garrisoned the post of Fort Laramie, Oregon route, during the time they occupied said post; and the amount which may be found due them under this act shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War cause to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Richard B. Lee, late commissary of the Pacific division of the army, the sum of eleven hundred and seventy-five dollars, with interest from the ninth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, being for money lost in being transported from Honolulu to San Francisco, under his charge, and for which he has accounted to the Department, and which sum includes the expenses incurred in efforts to recover the same.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That for the settlement of the remaining unpaid claims of the States of Georgia and Alabama, for advances made in suppressing Indian hostilities, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the State of Georgia her claims now remaining unpaid for moneys paid by the State in suppressing hostilities of the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and since, upon proof that the same was paid by the State; and that the provisions of the act of Congress relative to the settlement of the claims of Georgia for military services, approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be extended to the

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be and they are hereby authorized to adjust and settle the claims of the State of Florida for the services of her troops under the act of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fiftyone, by the provisions stated for the settlement of the claims of the State of Georgia for like services, as prescribed by the act approved thirtyfirst of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two,

the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the State of Alabama, under the provisions of the acts of Congress of sixteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the balance due the said State growing out of the Creek Indian hostilities of eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven: Provided, Proof is made that said State advanced in good faith the amount claimed.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever any lieutenant of the corps of engineers, corps of topographical engineers, or ordnance corps, shall have served fourteen years continuous service as lieutenant, he shall be promoted to the rank of a captain: Provided, That the whole number of offcers in either of said corps shall not be increased beyond the number now fixed by law: And provi

under the direction of the President of the United States, to employ such portion of the corps of topographical engineers, and such other persons as he may deem necessary, to make such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, and that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of such explorations and surveys.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the engineers and other persons employed in said explorations and surveys shall be organized in as many distinct corps as there are routes to be surveyed, and their several reports shall be laid before Congress on or before the first Monday in February, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That in the adjustment of the account of the State of Virginia, under the twelfth section of the act approved thirtyfirst August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to follow the provisions of the act of second of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, providing for the refunding to the several States the amounts expended by them in raising regiments of volunteers for the Mexican war.

SEC. 13. And be further enacted, That the lot of land in the town of New Castle, in the State of Delaware, upon which an arsenal has been erected, and the said arsenal be, and the same are hereby, reconveyed and granted to the trustees of the said town and their successors.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of enabling the commissioners of the military asylum to purchase a suitable site with the view of establishing thereat a Western military asylum, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in addition to the sum in the hands of the commissioners, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXVII.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight 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 they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four:

For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, two million eight hundred and eighty thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars: Provided, That the salary of the assistant observer or astronomer at the National Observatory shall be two thousand dollars, and the salary of the principal clerk at said observatory shall be twelve hundred dollars.

And the pay of a purser when attached to and doing duty at the naval station of California shall be four thousand dollars per annum, and he shall be allowed a clerk at a compensation not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum. And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be and they are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the officers, petty officers, and seamen of the United States navy, to the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the marine corps, and to the officers and men of the revenue service who served in the Pacific ocean, on the coast of California, and Mexico, during the late war with Mexico, and since the conclusion of the war up to the twentyeighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, the same additional compensation as has been by law directed to be paid to the officers and soldiers of the army who served in California; and that this provision allowing extra pay, as well as that contained in the navy appropriation act of August

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shot and protection of shells, for powder magazine, new floor, and for repairs of all kinds, four thousand seven hundred dollars.

At Norfolk.-For foundations of guns and shells, for machinery for bouching shells, and preparing, filling, and tank-houses, and for repairs of all kinds, four thousand five hundred dollars.

At Pensacola. For preparing platform for saluting battery, and for repairs of all kinds, nine hundred and fifty dollars."

Marine Corps.-For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, musicians, clerks, messengers, stewards, and servants serving on shore, for rations and clothing for servants, subsistence for officers, and pay for undrawn clothing and rations, bounties for reënlistment and pay for unexpired terms of previous service, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and forty-four cents.

For provisions for marines serving on shore, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and eightyfour dollars and seventy-five cents.

For clothing, fifty-two thousand and sixty-four dollars.

For fuel, fourteen thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-cents.

For military stores, repair of arms, pay of armorers, accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and musical instruments, eight thousand dollars.

For transportation of officers and troops, and expenses of recruiting, twelve thousand dollars.

For repairs of barracks and rent of temporary barracks and offices, where there are no public buildings for that purpose, six thousand dollars.

For contingencies, viz: freight, tonnage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensation to judges-advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house-rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, forage, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, picks, shovels, carpenter's tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital headquarters, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the purpose of paying the lien existing on the lands recently purchased as an addition to the navy-yard at Brooklyn, twelve thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and five cents, to be paid by the Secretary of the Navy, if upon examination he shall find the same to be due as a lien on the purchase of the said land, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby empowered and directed to sell and convey to any purchaser all that part of the navy-yard lands at Brooklyn between the west side of Vanderbilt avenue and the hospital grounds, containing about twenty-six and a half acres, including Vanderbilt and Clinton avenues: Provided, That said lands shall not be sold at less price than they cost the Government, including interest with all assessments and charges: And provided further, That, prior to the sale of said lands, exclusive jurisdiction shall be ceded to the United States of all the remaining lands connected with the said navy-yard, belonging to the United States: Provided, That the sale be made at public auction, after thirty days' notice in at least three daily newspapers published in the cities of New York and Brooklyn.

That the sum of one thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and ten cents, being part of the appropriation made for the service of continuing the survey of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, from Appalachicola bay to the Mississippi river, by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and which has been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, be and is hereby reappropriated to pay for the services of the officer or officers employed in that survey.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit the medical officers of the navy, who, by order of the department, served with a detachment of marines in Mexico during the late war with that Republic, in addition to the pay to which they are entitled as medical officers of the navy, respectively, the same allowance for rations and forage, in proportion to the time they so served, as are allowed to officers of the army of similar standing.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

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PUBLIC, XXXVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight 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 the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred arising from the revenues of the said department, and fifty-four, out of any moneys in the Treasury in conformity to the act of the second of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes, viz:

For transportation of the mails, five million and twenty-nine thousand dollars.

For compensation to postmasters, two million and twenty-six thousand dollars.

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, thirty thousand dollars.

For wrapping-paper, fifty-two thousand dollars. For office furniture, in the offices of postmasters, eight thousand dollars.

For advertising, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.

For mail-bags, fifty-one thousand dollars. For blanks, fifty-five thousand dollars. For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, twenty thousand dollars.

For mail depredations, and special agents, fifty

thousand dollars.

dred and fifty-six thousand dollars. For clerks in the offices of postmasters, five hun

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, fifty five thousand dollars.

and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum dollars, to supply any deficiency that may arise in not exceeding one million eight hundred thousand the revenues of the Post Office Department, to meet the foregoing appropriations, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the Postmaster General shall be satisfied that either money or property, stolen from the United States mail, shall have been exchanged for other money or property, and has been, upon the conviction of the thief, received at his Department, that the same justly belonged to any individual, he shall have authority, upon satisfactory evidence firm, or corporation, to pay over and deliver such money or property to the owner thereof.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That section three of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," and approved the thirtyfirst of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to make such arrangement as he may deem advisable, by causing letters sent to California and Oregon to be advertised free of expense to the United States, and by the issuing of circulars to postmasters, and causing the same to be published, to insure as far as possible the delivery of letters sent by mail from the Atlantic States to California, to the individuals to whom they are directed.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XXXIX.-An Act making appropriations for Light Houses, Light-Boats, Buoys, &c., and providing for the erection and establishment of the same, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following appropiations be, and the same are hereby, made and directed to be paid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry the provisions of this act into effect: Provided, however, If a good title to any land which it may be necessary to use cannot

be obtained on reasonable terms, or the exclusive right to such land cannot be acquired by cession, when the interest of the United States demands it, before the appropriation would by law fall into the surplus fund, in any and all such cases the appropriations shall be applicable to the objects for which they are made at any time within two years' after the first meeting of the Legislature in any State wherein such land may be situated subsequent to the passage of this act, to wit:

Maine.-For buoys, beacons, and spindles, to be placed at the channels of Wascongas Bay, and at other important points in the waters of said State, in addition to the sum appropriated by the act of August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, three thousand dollars.

Massachusetts.-For buoys to mark the channel of Taunton river, five hundred dollars;

For a beacon in "Deep Hole Rock," in Vineyard sound, six hundred dollars;

For the erection of a light-house and keeper's house on or near the breakwater at Bass river, being a reappropriation of the same sum appropriated by an act of September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, four thousand dollars;

Towards the erection of a light-house on the rocks called the "Sow and Pigs," near the entrance of Buzzard's bay, to take the place of the light-vessel now stationed there, being a reappropriation of the same sum appropriated by the act of September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, thirty thousand dollars;

For a light vessel to be moored off Minot's Ledge, in addition to the sum appropriated at the last session of Congress, six thousand dollars.

Rhode Island.-For buoys to be placed on the following points: "Old Newton," "The Sisters," ("Narragansett bay,") "Sandy Point," (" Block Island,") and Taursett Point, (near Wickford,) five hundred dollars;

For erecting a beacon light at "Seine rock," Newport harbor, one thousand dollars.

Connecticut. For buoys in New Haven harbor, two hundred dollars;

For buoy on Penfield reef, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For beacon on Race rock, Long Island sound, seven thousand dollars;

For the erection of one or more beacon lights below Middletown, on the Connecticut river, and for the erection of buoys and spindles, three thousand dollars;

For the erection of a fog-bell or whistle, as the Light-House Board shall determine, on Pine Island, in Fisher's Island sound, one thousand dollars.

New York.-For a small light on or near Carlton Head, and for repairing or rebuilding Tibbit's Point light-house, five thousand dollars;

For a fog-bell or whistle, to be worked by machinery, to be placed on the south pier, near the light-house at Buffalo, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For a new light vessel, to take the place of that now moored off Sandy Hook, in addition to the sum appropriated at the last session of Congress, two thousand dollars.

New Jersey. For buoys to be placed on Absecum bar, and in the inlet, (a harbor refuge,) eight hundred dollars.

Delaware.-For beacons and buoys for Delaware Bay, to complete the necessary beaconage and buoyage in the lower part of the river and bay, five thousand dollars.

Michigan. For a light-house on Point Betsey, Lake Michigan, five thousand dollars;

For a light-house at Grand Island harbor, Lake Superior, five thousand dollars;

For a light-house at Rock harbor, Isle Royal, Lake Superior, five thousand dollars;

For a fog bell, to be worked by machinery, for Thunder Bay Island light-house, Lake Huron, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For erecting a light-house at the mouth of Portage river, five thousand dollars;

For the erection of a light-house at Point Iroquois, or on the Island of Point Auxchous, as the Light-House Board shall determine, five thousand dollars;

For making the foundations of two light-houses, one to be a beacon light, on the Saint Clair flats, ten thousand dollars; the places to be selected, and