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BY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Public, No. 242.
AN ACT making Appropriations for the Civil and Diplo
matic Expenses of Government for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
five, and for other purposes.
[in continuation.]
MISCELLANEOUS.
For annuities and grants, seven hundred and fifty dollars
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the United
States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis,
eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional salaries of the treasurer of the mint at
Philadelphia of one thousand dollars, and of the treasurer
of the branch mint at New Orleans of five hundred dollars,
one thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of six of the additional clerks, authotized
by the ach of August sixth, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-six, August twelfth, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-eight, March third, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty one, and August thirty-first, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty two, six thousand dollars.
For one additional clerk in the office of the assistant
treasurer at Boston, Massachusetts, one thousand two hun
dred dollars.
For clerks, messenger, and watchmen in the office of the
assistant treasurer at New York, thirteen thousand nine
hundred dollars.
For salary of a clerk for the treasurer of the branch mint
at San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For contingent expenses under the act for the safe keep
ing, collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public re
venue of August sixth, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-six,sixteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided,
That no part of said sum of sixteen thousand five hundred
dollars shall be expended for clerical services.
For compensation to special agents to examine the books,
accounts, and money on hand, of the several depositories,
under the act of August sixth, one thousand eight hundred
and lorty-six, five thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims not other
wise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of set
tlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars: Provided,
that no part of the appropriation shall he drawn from the
treasury except in pursuance of some Jaw or resolution of
Congress, authorizing the expenditure.
To supply a deficiency in the fund lor the relief of sick
and disabled seamen, two hundred thousand dollars.
To enablo the Secretary of the Treasury to compensate
the agent employed in paying annuities to Cherokee In
dians remaining inr North Carolina, three hundred dollars.
For salaiies of nine supervising und fifty local inspectors,
appointed under the act of August thirtieth, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the
Jives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other
expenses incurred by them, eighty thousand dollars.
SURVEY OF TIIE COAST.
For survey of the coast of the United States, (including
compensation to superintendent and assistants, and excluch
ing pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy,
and petty officers and men of tho navy, employed on the
work,) two hundred and six thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey es the western coast of the
United States, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys,
(excluding pay and emoluments of ofiicers of the army and
navy, and petty officers and men of the navy, employed
on the work,) thirty thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in the progress of
the survey of the ceast of the United States, twenty thou
sand dollars.
CUSTOM-HOUSES.
For completing the custom-house at St, Souis, Missouri,
one hundred thousand dollars :
For Completing the custom-house at Mobile, Alabama,
sixty-five thousand dollars:
For completing the custom house at Cincinnati, Ohio,
forty thousand dollais:
for completing the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky,
forty thousand dollars:
For completing the custom-house at Bangor, Maine,
twenty thousand dollars :
For completing the custom house at Bath, Maine, twenty
thousand dollars.
For completing the custom house at Wilmington, Dela
ware, twelve thousand dollars.
To purchase a site for custom-house at Providence, Rhode
I-lana, twenty-four thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,
authorized to contact lor the construction of a custom-house
on said site, to include accomodations lor a post office and
United States court room, at a cost not exceeding two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For purchasing a site for a custom-house at San Francis
co, California, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
For tho rebuilding of the custom-house, Portland, Maine,
including accommodations for a post office and rooms lor
the United States courts, two hundred thousand dollars.
For extinguishment of private claims to the possession of
the whole or any part of the custom-house lot in San Fran
cisco, ten thousand dollars.
Provided, That none of the moneys appropriated by this
act for any custom house or marine hospital snail be used or
applied for the purposes mentioned, until a valid title to the
land for the site of such building, in each case shall be ves
ted in the United States ; and until the State in which such
building is to be completed shall in due form, and in a man
ner that shall bind such State, release and surrender to the
United States jurisdiction over the site of such building and
shall, also, duly release and relinquish to tiie United States
the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the proper
ty of the United States that may be thereon during the time
that the said United States shall be or remain the owner
thereof: That none ot the said moneys appropriated for
said buildings by this act, or heretofore appropriated ior the
purposes mentioned, shall be used or applied for the purpos
es ior which they are appropriated, unless the same shall bo
sufficient in each case to complete the building in such case
iully, and entirely accomplish tho object for which the ap
propriation in this act is made. And the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby prohibited from using or applying any
of the moneys aforesaid m any one case, until he shall have
made a contract with such security as he shall approve ior
the completion of the entiie building and work in such case,
at a sum not exceeding the sum ofitie moneys appropriated
and unexpended in such case. And the said Secretary ot
the Treasury shall enter into no contract, either conditional
or final for the purposes mentioned which shall involve an
expenditure in any one case beyond the sums appropriated
and remaining unexpended for such case ; and in ail cases
where such unexpended appropriations shall be insufficient
to complete the entire work in such case, the said Secretary
of the Treasury shall suspend all action in ref-rence thereto,
and shall report to Congress on the first day of its session
the condition of the work, in such ease, and shall at the
same time lay befoie Congress such plans and estimates as,
in his judgment, shall be proper for the completion of the
building and work is such case.
For improving and repairing the room in the custom
house at .Savannah, use as a post office, one thousand dol
lars.
For continuing operations on custom house at New Or
leans, Louisiana, three hundred and ninety-five thousand
dollars.
For continuing operations on custom-h~ use at Charleston,
South Carolina, two hundred and seventy-three thousand
dollars.
For the annual repairs and fixtures of custom-houses of
the United States forty-three thousand and one dollars and
fifty-nine cents, and lor alterations and repairs ot tne cus
tom house at Baltimore heretofore made, and for rent ot
rooms during the repairs of said building, such sum as may
by the Secretary of the Treasury be deemed reasonable and
proper ot said amount, not to exceed five thousand five
hundred and one dollars and fifty-nine cents.
To complete the. custom-house at Richmond, Virginia,
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That
none ot the moneys appropriated for this building m and by
this act, or by any former act, and now remaining unexpen
ded, shall be used or applied ior the purposes mentioned in
this act by the Secretary of the Treasury, until a valid title
to the land for the site of such building shall be vested in
the United States, and until the State of Virginia shall in
due form, and in a manner that shall bind said State, release
and surrender to the United States jurisdiction over the site
of sueli building ; and shall also duly release and relinquish
to the United States the right to tax or in any way as ess
said site, or the property of the United States that may be
thereon, during the time that the said United States shall
be, or remain the owner thereoi: And provided further,
‘1 hat none of the said money appropriated for said pudding
by this act, or heretofore appropriated for the purposes men
tioned, and now remaining unexpended, shall be used or
applied for the purpose tor which they are appropriated, un
less the same sh.nli be sufficient to complete tiie building fully
and entirely accomplish the object tor which theappropria,
tioii in this act is made. And the Secretary of the Trea.
sui y is hereby prohibited from using or supplying any of
moneys aforesaid until lie shall have made a contract, with
such s eunty as he shall approve, for the completion of tne
enure building and work, at a sum uot exceeding iho sum
ot the moneys appropriated and unexpended ; and the said
Secretary of the i'rvasu.y shall enter into no contract, eith
er conditional or final, for the purpose mentioned which
shad involve an expenditure beyond tiie sums appropriated
and remaining unexpended ; and should such expended ap
propriations be insufficient to complete the entire work, the
said Secietary of the Treasury shall suspend all action in
reference thereto, and shall report to Congress, on the first
clay of its session in December, eighteen hundred and fifty
four, the condition of the work, and shall at the same time
lay before Congress such plans and estimates as, in his judg
ment, shall be prope r for die completion of the building and
work : And provided further, That the Secretary of the
Treausury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to
go on and construct, or cause to be constructed, completed,
and finished, the building mentioned and provided for, sub
ject in all things to the limitations and restrictions contain
ed herein.
To complete the custom-house at Waldoborough, in the
State of Maine, the sum of thirteen thousand dollars,
which, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, shall
constitute the entire cost of the purchase ol the site, and the
erectiou and completion of the buildings.
That the Secretary ot the Treasury be, aud he is hereby,
directed, out of any mouey in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to apply such sum as, in his opinion, may be
necessary to complete the building for the custom-house,
post office, and court-house in the city ot Pittsburg, Peosyl
vania, and to furnish such building in a manner appropriate
to its uses, and to improve the grounds attached to said
building: and also to pay to the two commissioners who
superintended the construction of said building such com
pensation as the said Secretary shall deem just, not to ex
ceed three dollars a day each : Provided, That the sum so,
us aforesaid, to be expended by the Secretary ot the Trea
sury,shall not exceed the sum now remaining unexpended
of appropriations heretofore made for the said building.
For buildings for the nso of the courts of the United
States at Pontotoc, Mississippi, four thousand dollars: Pro
vided, Said sum shall complete said buildings. Andjalso
the sum of five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may
necessary be, and the same is hereby appropriated to enable
the Secretary ot the Interior to make a contract with the
proper authorities for furnishing a suitable building for the
permanent use and accommodation of the United States
! district court in holding its session at Marietta, Georgia.
: which contract the said Secretary is hereby authorized to
| make : Provided, It can be made for the sum aforesaid or
less : And provided, Said contract shall be made with suffi
cient guarantees to secure to the said court a suitable build
ing for holding said court so long as its sessions may be held
at that place without further charge on the United States.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase, for
the use of the United States, the land and buildings thereon,
constituting the boarding station at the southwest pass of
the Mississippi river, three thousand five hundred dollars:
Provided, ‘That no part of said sum shall be expended until
the title to said land be secured to the U. States, and the
consent of the legislature of the State of Lousisiana obtain
ed to the release of said land from taxation or assessment
ot any kind.
For the construction of an appraiser’s store on a portion
of the square selected for the custom-house at San Francis
co, California, including the expense of piling for the foun
dation thereof, by contract or otherwise, as ihe Secretary ol
tho Treasury may deem best, one hundred thousand dol
lars ; Provided, That the same restrictions regarding the
completion of said work with the sum hereby appropriated
as are contained in this act concerning the erection and
completion of custom-houses and marine hospitals shall be
applicable thereto.
For the purchase of the lots or parcels of land, with the
appurtenances and the buildings thereon, belonging the one
thereof to the Bank of Commerce, and the o.her thereof to
tho Bank of the State of New York, and particularly refer
red to and described in two contracts; one with each of
said banks, for the leasing and right to purchase the same,
bearing date the nineteenth of August, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-three, five hundred ar.d thirty thousand
dollars, with interesi thereon at the rate of six per centum
per annum, from the fifteenth day of September eighteen
hundred and fifty-three, until said purchases shall be com
pleted : Provided, That the same be so completed within
one year from the day such interest is hereby authorized to
be paid.
And the Secretary of the) Treasury, at his discretion, is
hereby further authorized to purchase, for the use of the
United States, such property adjoining thereto, situated on
Pine street, on which the United States now hold a mort
gage, as may be sold to satisfy tho same, at a price not ex
ceeding the amount of said lien.
MARINE HOSPITALS.
To complete the marine hospital at Cleveland, in the
State of Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars.
To complete the marine hospital at St. Louis, in the
State of Missouri, ten thousand dollars.
To complete the marine hospital at Chicago, in the State
of Illinois, eight thousand dollars.
To complete the marine hospital at Louisville, in the
State of Kentucky, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
To complete the marine hospital at Paudcah, in the said
State of Kentucky, five thousand dollars.
‘To complete the marine hospital at Evansville, in the
State of Indiana, two thousand dollars.
To complete the Marine hospital at San Francisco, and
to enclose the site and drain the same, and for the necessary
out-buildings, forty-four thousand doliais.
For the construction of a marine hospital at Vicksburg,
in the State of Mississippi, the sum of fifty-five thousand
dollars.
For prosecuting operations on the Marine Hospital at
Portland, in the State of Maine, fifty-thousand dollars.
To provide a suitable building as a Marine Hosgital at St.
Marks, Florida, five thousand dollars.
To provide accomodations for sick and disabled seamen
at Cincinnati, Ohio, fifty thousand dollars ; and the Secre
tary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to use such part
of said sum for the purchase of a site for a Marine Hospital
at said place as ho may deem expedient.
LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For snpplying light-houses, containing fonr thousand one
hundred and thirty-tnree lamps, with oil, lamp-glasses,
wicks, buff-skins, polishing powder, whiting, and other
cleaning materials ; transportation, and other necessary ex
penses on the same ; repairing and keeping the lightning ap
paratus ; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and in
structions; notice to mariners of changes to aids to naviga
tion, and lists of lights, two hundred and thirty thousand
six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and forty-two cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and im
provements of four hundred and eighteen light-liouses, and
buildings connected therewith, one hundred and forty-two
thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty
one cents.
For salaries of four hundred and eighteen light-house
keepers, and thirtv-eight assistants, and including one thou
sand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of
supplies on the upper Jakes, one hundred and eighty-three
thousand six hundred dollars.
For salaries of forty-nine keepers of light-vessels, tweniy
six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For Seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies of forty-nine
light-vessels, one hundred and fifty-two thousand nine hun
dred and iorty-one dollars and twenty-three cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, and repairing, remoor
ing, and supplying losses, of floating beacons and buoys,
and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and
numbering all the buoys, eighty-nine thousand three hun
dred agd fifty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents.
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 life-boats, and other means of rendering assistance to
shipwrecked mariners and others, on the coast of the Uni
ted States, to be expended under the direction of the Secre
rary ot the Treasury, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of metallic surf-boats to rescue lives and
property, and to be located at each ot the following ports,
twelve thousand five hundred dollars, viz : On the east side
of Lake Michigan, at Michigan City, one ; New Buffalo,
one; St Joseph, one; Kalamazoo, one; Manistee, one ;
Grand River, one; Muskegon, one; White River, one ;
Pier Marquette, one ; aud South Black River, one ; and on
the west side of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, two; Keno
sha, one ; Milwaukie, one ; Sheboygan, one; Death’s Door,
one; Two Rivers, one; Manitowack, one; Waukegan,
one; Rachine, one; Port Washington, one; Washington
Harbor,one, South Manitou Island,one; Kalley’s Haibor,
one ; and at Calumet, one ; or at such other points as shill
be designated by the Secretary of the Tieasury, to be ex
pended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury,
who shall also adopt such measures as shall be necessary
for the preservation of such boats.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other
aids to navigation, two thousand dollars.
For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such
superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the proviso
to the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty one, entitled “An act making appropriations for
the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty two,
and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be dis
bursed by them, eight thousand dollars.
For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.
For oil and other supplies for fifteen lights, cleaning ma
terials of all kinds, and transportation of trio same, expen
ses ot keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing
notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, twen
ty six thousand nine hundred and e:ghiy-six dollars and
twenty-five cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses of fifteen lights, and
buildings connected therewith, eight thousand rive hundred
dollars.
For salaries of fifteen keepers and twelve assistants, at
an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum
each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars.
Tor expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring,
and supplying losses ol floating beacons and buoys, and
chains and sinkers for the same, and top coloring and num
bering all the buoys, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
Tor commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such
superintendents us are entitled to the same,under the proviso
to the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hund
red and fifty one, entitled, “An act making appropriations 1
for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the
year ending June thir[t’eth,l eighteen hundred and fifty-two,
and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be dis- |
bursed by them, lour hundred dollars.
For completing the light-houses, on the coast ot Califor- 1
nia and Oregon, the sum of fifty-nine thousand four hundred i
and thirty-four dollars: Provided, That it shall be the du- j
tyol the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors
tor building the light-house on Point Lema, near San Diego,
what the same is reasonably worth.
INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS
For salaries of Ministers of the United States to Great
Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Peru, Mexi
co, Chili, and Central America, ninety thousand dollars.
For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same pla
ces. twenty thousand dollars.
For salary of a Minister resident to Turkey, six thousand
dollars.
For salary of the Dragoman to the Legation to Turkey,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of Charges d’Affairs or Ministers resident to
Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium,
Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, New Grenada, Venezu
ela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Switzerland,
sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of a Clerk to the United States Legation at
London, eight hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, foity
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 dol
lars.
For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Is
lands, five thousand dollars.
For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the Con
sulates at Constantinople, Smyrnia, Candia, and Alexandria,
two thousand dollars.
For office rent of the Consul at Basle, in Switzerland,
one hundred dollars.
For salary of a Commissioner to reside in China, nine
thousaud dollars.
For salary of the Interpreter and Secretary to said mis
sion, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of a Consul-General at Alexandria, five thou
sand dollars.
For compensation to the Consuls at the five ports in Chi
na, viz. Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning Po, and
Shanghai, five thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen, and
seamen belonging to American vessels in foreign countries,
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office
of the Consul of the United States at London, two thou
sand eight hundred dollars.
That the Consul at Beirout, Syria, is hereby allowed a
salary of two thousand dollars per annum ; and, the said
Consulate shall comprehend both Syria and Palestine, and
two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the salary
of said consul.
For office rent of the Consul at Zurich, in Switzerland,
one hundred dollars.
That the Secretary of the Treasury audit and settle the
accounts of Robert C. Sehenck, late Envoy Extraordiary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Bra
zil, and of John S. Pendleton, late Charged’Affaires of the
United States to the Argentine Confederation, for addition
al compensation and for expenses incurred by them in tiie
performance of special services, not pertaining to their res
pective missions, and at points distant from those to which
they were originally accredited, in compliance with instruc
tions from the Department of State: in settling which ac
counts the certificate ot the parties shall be regarded as suf
ficient evidence as to the amount of expenses incurred,
where no regular voucher can be produced, and a compen
sation at tire rate of twenty-live dollars per diem shall be
allowed to each of them for the time they were so employ
ed, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated.
For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging
the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in
rescuing citizens and vessels of the United States from ship
wreck, five thousaud dollars: Provided, That the same
shall be expended under tiie direction of the President of
the United States.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the
United States, presses, and flags, and for the payment of
postages, for tiie Consuls of the United States, ten thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to defray the expenses
of releasing from captivity among the Indians of Queen
Charlotte’s Island, the crew and passengers of the American
sloop Georgiana, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much there
of as may be necessary.
To defray expenses incurred, and to be incurred, iu com
plying with the resolution of the House of Representatives
ot the fourteenth of December, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty three, calling for a statement of the privileges and
restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United
States with all foreign nations, and a table exhibiting a
comparative statement between the tariff’ of other nations
and that of the United States, ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the persons
employed to protect the property and persons of citizens of
the United States at San Juan de Nicaragua, twelve thou
sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to de
fray the expenses so incurred.
Tor the payment of James B. Holmans for services ren
dered as Secretary of Legation at Santiago, in the discharge
of clerical duties left unperformed by his predecessors, five
hundred dollars.
EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVE
NUE FROM LANDS.
To meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from the
sale, of public lands in the several laud States, and Ter
ritory of Minnesota, in addition to the balances of the
former appropriations:
For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices
and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars.
For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of
public moneys, fifty thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, inclu
ding new offices, not heretofore provided for, forty thousand
dollars.
For salaries of registers and receivers in Oregon and
Washington Territories, or so much thereof as may be ne
cessary, per act of seventeenth of July, eighteen hundred
and fifty-four, nine thousand dollars.
For office rent, fuel, and labor, for said offices, four thou
sand dollars.
For iron safes for receivers, and for books, stationery, and
furniture, three thousand dollars.
SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California
and Oregon), including island surveys in the interior and all
other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented
rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts,
according to the exigencies of the public service, including
expenses of selecting swamp lands, and the compensation
and expenses to surveyor to locate private land claims in
Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all
former appropriations for the same objects, one hundred and
ten thousand dollars.
For continuing the examinations and corrections of old,
imperfect, and defective surveys in the lower peninsula of
Michigan, north of the third correction parallel, and east
and west of the meridian, being forty-eight.townships, at a
rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, twenty thousand
one hundred and sixty dollars.
For the correction of erroneous and defective lines of the
public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate
not exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand five hund
red dollars.
For preparing the unfinished records of public and pri
vate surveys to be transferred to the State authorities under
the provisions of the act of the twelfth of June, one thou
sand eight hundred and forty, in those districts where the
surveys are about being completed, fifteen thousand dollars.
For resurveys and examinations of the survey of the pub
lic lands in those States, where the offices of the surveyors
general have been or siiali be closed under the acis of the
twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and
the twenty-second of January, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars tor the sala
ry of the clerk detailed to this special service in the General
Land Office, five thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida
coast, twenty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of
California, thirty thousaud dollars.
For surveying the public lands and private land claims in
California, including office expenses incident to the survey
of claims, and to be disbursed at the rates prescribed by
law for the different kinds of work, three hundred thousand
dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in California, pur- j
chase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, !
fuel, pay of messengers, eighteen thousand three hundred j
dollars.
For compensation of draughtsmen and clerks, ij addition ■
to the amount heretofore estimated, the same being requir- ;
ed in consequence of the increa ed amount of field work
proposed to be executed, twenty-one thousand dollars.
FOR SURVEYS IN OREGON AND WASHING
TON TERRITORIES.
Tor office rent tor the surveyor-general, fuel, books sta
tion* ry, aud other incidental expenses, three thousand dol
lars.
Tor surveying standard, parallel and meridian lints, over
coast mountain and along the coast—an estimated distance
of two hundred and fifty miles—five thousand dollars.
Tor surveying township aud subdivision lilies, (estimated
at fonr thousand nine hundred and twenty miles,) in Ore
gon Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per
mile, and including office work, sixty-five thousand four
hundred and ninety dollars.
For surveying standard, parallel and meridian lines in
Washington Territory, (an estimated distance of five hund
red miles,) ten thousand dollars.
For surveying township and subdivision lines, (estimated
at four thousand nine hundred and twenty miles) in W ash
ington Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per
mile, and including office work, sixty-five thousand four
hundred and ninety dollars.
For salaries and incidental expenses of the commission
appointed under the act of March thirty eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, for settling land claims in California, one
hundred and five thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard pa
rallels, townships, and section lines in New Mexico,
thirty thousand dollars.
For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard,
parallels, township, and section lines in Kansas and Nebras
ka, fifty thousand dollars. .
For salary of surveyor general ot New Mexico, and
clerks in his office, sewn thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska,
two thousand dollars. .
For office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses in New
Mexico, three thousand dollars.
For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses
in Kansas and Nebraska, (six thousand dollars being allow
ed for office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses tourteen
thousand three hundred dollars.
For office rent for the surveyor-general of Washington
Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental ex
penses, five thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For books voted to the members of the Thirty-third Con
gress, by the Joint resolution of twenty-fourth Feburary,
eighteen hundred ami fifty-four, and the resolution of the
House of the twentieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty
four, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred
and ten dollars and eighty-seven cents.
To enable the Clerk of the Hou*e of Representatives to
purchase from the publishers, Lippincott, Gramboand Com
pany, two hundred copies each of the second and third vol
umes of Schoolcraft’s History, etc., of the Indian tribes of
United States, to complete the sets of the new members of
the House of Representatives, at three dollars and fifty
cents per volume, fourteen hundred dollars : Provided,
That the said volumes shall be of the same style and quali
ty of those heretofore furnished.
For the completion of the printing, of the first session of
the Thirty-third Congress, twenty thousand dollars;
For the purchase of paper for the completion of the print
ing of the first session of the Thirty-third Congress, forty
three thousand dollars; .
For deficiency in the estimates heretofore for
the printing of the second session of tlie Thirty-third Con
gress, ten thousand dollars ;
For rent of wareroom for the year ending the thirtieth of
June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two hundred and fif
ty dollars;
For cartage and labor in storing and transportation of
paper from wareroom and office of superintendent, to the
offices of the public printers, five hundred and fifty dol
lars ;
For compensation to draughtsman anil clerks employed
upon the maps of the public lands, under the resolution of
the House of Representatives of fourth of May. eighteen
hundred and forty-eight, seven thousand five hundred dol
lars;
For the collection of agricultural statisticts, and the pro
curement and distribution of cuttings and seeds, twenty
five thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated ;
For compensation of the warden, clerk, physician, chap
lain, assistant keepers, guards, and porter, of the penitenti
ary of the District of Columbia, eight thousand six hundred
dollars ;
For compensation of three inspectors of said penitentiary,
three hundred dollars ;
For the support and maintenance of said penitentiary,
two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five 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 the thirtieth of June, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five, and previous years; and like
wise for defraying ihe expenses of suits in which the United
States are concerned,and of prosecutions for offences com
mitted against the United States, and for the safe keeping
of prisoners, seven hundred thousand dollars ;
For payment to the city of Norfolk, for rent of rooms in
the City Hall for the District Court of the United S'ates for
the Eastern District of Virginia, from the thirtieth of May,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty to the flhirteenth of
May, one thou and eight hundred and fifty-three, nine hun
dred dollars;
For the support,clothing, ard medical treatment of insane
paupers of the District of Columbia, at such places as the
Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, dee n prop
per, ten thousand dollars ;
For additional messenger to the post-office of the House
of Representatives, allowed bv the Commiitee on Accounts
at the beginning of the p esent session, one thousand dol
lars ;
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the
hospital for the insane of the Distnct.of Columbia, and of
the army and navy of the Unite ! States, as it is now in the
process of construction where the foundations are laid, eigh
teen thousand two hundred and nine dollars.;
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the ex
ternal improvements necessary to carry into successful ope
ration the said hospital, according to the recommendation
of the Secretary ol the Interior, eighteen thousand six hun
dred dollars ;
For arrearages of necessary traveling u n d personal ex
penses due employees on tke nort h-eastern boundary survey,
during the years eighteen hundred and forty -four, eighteen
bun ired and forty five, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, two thousand and six
teen dollars ;
For running and marking the boundary line between the
United States and the Republic of Mexico, under the trea
ty concluded at the city of Mexico, on the thirtieth ofDe
cetnber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, the sum
of one hundred and sixty-eight thousand one hundred and
thirty dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior : Provided, There shall be allow
ed and paid to the commissioner, surveyor, and astronomer
appointed, or to be appointeJ, for the purpose aforesaid,
each a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per an
num, and that if the duties of either have been, or shall be,
performed by ari officer of the army, his pay, including
emolument, during the time of such employment, shall be
increased to that sum.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
For compensation, in part, for the messenger in charge
of the main furnace in the Capitol, three hundred and fifty
dollars ;
For painting and repairs inside of the Capitol, new fur
naces under tiie Senate Chamber, and Supreme Court room,
five thousand dollars ;
For furnishing and putting up new furnaces and repairing
old furnaces, rebuilding and ventilating air chambers for
the House of Representatives, four thousand five hundred
dollars ;
For repair and renewal of the gas pipes through the Cap
itol, three thousand five hundred dollars ;
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for two
hundred and twenty feet and five inches of granite coping,
u.-ed in the improvement of the triangular square at the cor
ner of Thirteenth Street, and Penjisylvama, Avenue, five
hundred and fifteen dulla's a.id forty-seven cents ;
For compensation to 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 ;
For compensation ofsixteen laborers, employed in the pub
lic grounds and President’s garden, at forty dollars per
month each, seven thousand six hundred and eighty dol- 1
for*;
For compensation of the keeper of the western gate,Cap- j
itol Square, seven hundred and thirty dollars;
Ft r compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the |
Capitoi Square, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand j
dollars ;
For compensation of two night watchmen, employed at j
the President’s house, at five hundred dollars each, one
thousand dollars ;
For compensation of the door keeper at the President’s j
house, five hundred dollars ;
For compensation of assistant doorkeeper, at the Presi
dens’s house, three hundred and sixty-iivedollars j
For compensation of fo.tr drawkeepers, at the Potomac
bridge, and tor fuel, oil, and lamps, two thousand seven
hundred and fifty-five dollars ;
For compensation of two drawke o pere at the two bridges
across the eastern branch of the P itomac, and fuel, oil and
lamps, One thousand dollars ;
For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard, fuel, and oil
for *amps, sixteen thousand four hundred dollars;
For sitpport, care and medical treatment of eighteen tran
sienf pauper-, mei ica! and surgical patients in Washing
ton Infirmary, three thousand dollars ;
For purchase of manure for the public grounds one thou
sand dollars;
Fir hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand
dollars ;
For purchase an 1 repair of tools used if! tiie public
grounds, five, hundred dollars ;
For purchase of trees and tree boxes, to replace, where
acress*.y, Mich as have been planted by the United Slates,
and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds,
five thousand dollars;
For the Capitol extension,seven hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars; Provided, Than any officer of the army or
navy who has been or may lie appointed hereafter to dis
burse the mor.ey which is now or may hereafter hs appro
priated for the erection, alteration, or repair of any of the
edifices, structures, or works for which appropriations are
made in this act, shall be subject to all the pains, penal
ties, and liabilities contained in the provisions of the act en
titled “An act to provide for the better organization of the
treasury, and for tbe collection, safe keeping, transfer, and
disbursement of the public revenue,” approved sixth of Au
gust, eighteen hundred and forty six ;
For completing the bridge over the Potomac River, near
the Little Falls, fifteen thousand dollars ;
For compensation of one night w atchman, employed for
the better protection of the buildings lying south of the Cap.
itol, and used as public stables and carjienter’s shop, five
hundred dollars ;
For permanent repair of the roof of the Capitol, with cop
per, two thousand dollars;
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water closets, public
stables, waterpipes, pavements and other w alks within the
Capitol Square, broken glass, and locks, five thousand dol
lars ;
For annual repairs of the President’s house, improvement
of ground*, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and ma
king hot beils therein,six thousand dollars ;
I For lighting the President’s house and Capitol, the public
f;rounds around them, and around the executive offices and
’ennsylvania Avenue, twenty-two thousand dollars;
For completing the improvement of Maryland Avenue,
from Seventh Street to tiie Pontomac River, two thousand
five hundred dollars ;
For furnishing lamps and lamp-posts from Sixteenth to
Seventeenth Streets,on Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of
Lafayette Squre, five hundred dollars ;
For completing the iinp r ovement of Pennsylvania Aven
ue, west of Seventeenth Street, nine thousand dollars ;
To reimburse the expenditure made by the Commission
er of Puhlic Buildings for the repair of the Potomac bridge
when injured by fire, four thousand five hundred dollars ;
For continuing the repairs of the two bridges across
the Eastern Branch of tire Potomac, four thousand dol
lars ;
For completing the west wing of the patent office build
ing, two hundred thousand dollars ; ,
For altering the streets and repairing in front of the east
wing of the Patent Office, putting up iron railings, flogging,
footway, put-ring in order yards, painting new saloons of the
Patent Office in fresco, fourteen thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars ;
For iron railing and flagging in front of the old portion of
the Patent Office building, for altering the windows in the
rear and dressing offtlte granite to n ake it conform to the
front, and for private stairway in the building, five thousand
seven hundred and thirty dollars ;
For enlarging the culverts, and openings into the same, a
cross Pennsylvania A venue, to prevent overflow of the ave
nue, four thousand dollars ;
For repairing or renewing the water-fixtures at the Presi
dent’s house, including the bath-room, two thousai and dol
lars ;
For Public Reservation Number Two, and Lafayette
Square, I lire** thousand dollars ;
For grading done by order of Ignatius Mudd, late Com
missioner of Public Buildings, in Reservation Number Sev
enteen, between Third Street east and New Jersey Aven
ue, four hundred eighty-four dollars and eighty nine cents ;
Tor compensation of commissioner and surveyor employ
ed upon the boundary between the United States and Mex
ico, and their assistants, including office rent and inciden
tal expenses, thirty-eight thousand one hundred dollars ;
For payment of the Annals of Congress for the House
Library of the House of Representative, under resolution of
said House of September twenty-eighth, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, one hundred sets of each volume from
the twenty-third to the fortieth, both included, in all seven
teen hundred volumes, at five dollars per volume, eight
thousand five hundred dollars;
For payment of the Annals of Congress, for one hun
dred and forty three members of the thirty-second Congress,
entitled to them under the resolution of the House of Rep
resentatives of July twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-two, one hundred and forty-three sets of
twenty-four voluntas each, from the sixteenth to the forti
eth inclusive, in all three thousand four hundred and thirty
two volumes, at five dollars per volume, seventeen thou
sand one hundred and sixty dollars ;
For reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe two thou
sand eiglit hundred and sixty-five columns of the proceed
ing of tho House of Representatives, for the first session of
the thirty-third Congress, at seven dollars and fifty cents
per column, twenty-one thousand four hundred and eighty
seven dollars and fifty cents;
For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and
Appendix, for the first session of the thirty-third Congress,
for each member and delegate of the House of Represen
tatives, making an aggregate of five thousand seven hun
dred and twelve conies, at six dollars a copy, thirty-four
thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars;
For binding the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for
the first session of the thirty-third Congress, thirteen thou
sand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty cents ;
For reporting and publishing in the Daily Globe, one hun
dred and fifty-one columns of the proceedings of the House
of Representatives for the second, session of ihe thirty-sec
ond Congress, at seven dollars and fifty cents a column, one
thousand one hundred and thirty two-dollars and fifty
cents ;
To pay a deficiency in the appropriation for eight hun
dred copies of the Documentary History purchased for the
new members of the House of Renresentatives, from the
twenty-sixth to the thirty-second Congress inclusive, be
ing at seventeen dollars twenty-seven cents and two mills
a volume, six hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty
cents ;
For payment of a balance due, for the second and third
volumes of the fifth series of the Documentary History, un
dercontract with the Secretary of the State, four hundred
and seventy-three, dollars ;
For one hundred copies of the Congressional Globe and
Appendix, for the first session of the thity-tbird Con
gress, for House Library, six hundred dollars, and for bind
ing the same two hundred and forty dollars; for one hun
dred copies of the Congressional Globe, and Appendix, for
‘he second session of the thirty-third Congress, for House
Library, three hundred dollars, and ior binding the same
one hundred and twenty dollars ;
To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the
House, for the Congressional Globe, the same amount of ad
ditional compensation for reporting this session as was paid
them at the last, the surn of three thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated, and the clerk of tit is House is hereby author
ized to pay tiie same to said Rives, to be applied by him for
that purpose.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secreta
ry of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and
directed, to cause to be constructed the following
buildings : at Ellsworth, Maine for the accomodation
of the custom-house and post-office, a building of brick,
with fire-proof floors, constructed of iron beams anti
brick work, iron roof, shutters, sills, &c.,‘twenty-five feet
by thirty, and twenty-five feet in height from the foun
dation, to cost not more than ten thousand dollars ; At
Belfast, Maine, for the accommodation of the custoni
nouse and post-office, a building of like materials, for
ty-five feet by thirty-two, and thirty-two feet high
and to cost not more than twenty thousand dollars ; At
* loucesler, Massachusetts, Toledo, Ohio, Buriirgton,
V ermont, and Sandusky, Ohio, for the accomodation of
tiie custom-house and” post-office, a building of like
materials, sixty feet by forty-five feet, and thirty-two
feet from the foundation, and to cost not more than for
ty thousand dollars for each building , At Milwaukie,
Wisconsin, for the accomodation of the custom-house,
i post-office, and United States courts, a building of like
material, sixty feet by forty-live feet, forty-eight feet in
height from tiie foundation, to cost not more than fifty
thousand dollars; At New Haven, Connecticut, New
ark, New Jersey, Buffalo, New York, Oswego, New
York, Wheeling, Virginia, Chicago, Illinois, arid De
troit, Michigan, each for the accommodation of the cus
tom-house, post-office, United Mates courts, and steam
boat inspectors, a building of stone,"of like floors,
beams, roofs, shutters, &c., eighty-five feet bv sixty feet,
sixty feet in height from tho foundation, to cost not more
than eighty-eight thousand dollars for each building ; the
building at Detroit to be erected up n a water lot, be
longing to the United States; At Galveston, Texas, for
the accomodation of tiie e ustom-house, post-cffice, and
United Mates courts, a buifoir.gof brick, of like floors,
beams, roofs, shutters, &c., fortv five feet bv seventy 3
feet, forty eight feet high from the foundation, with a
portico on two sides, and to cost not more than one
hundred thousand dol'ars : At Petersburg, Virginia, for
tiie accomodation of the custom-house and post-office,
a building of stone, of like floors, beanie, roofs, shut
ters, &c., sixty feet by fo“ty-fivc feet, thirty-two feet
high from the foundation, to cost not more sixty-two
thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several
euin3 mentioned in tiie preceding section of this act, as
the cost of the buildings therin authorized to be con
structed, together with ten per cent, thereon, to cover
the compensation of architects, superintendents, adver
tising, and other contingent expenses, and so much as
may be required to purchase suitable sites for said buil
dings, he, and the same are hereby, appropriated ior
the purposes aforesaid , Put of .i uy money m the treasury
not otherwise appropriated : Provided , That no money
hereby appropriated shall be used or applied, tor tiie
purposes mentioned until a valid title to the land fur
the sites of such buildings, in each case, shall he ves
ted in the United Mites, and until the Mate shall also
duiy release and relinquish to the United States the
right to tax, or in any way assess said site, or the prop
erty of the United States that may he thereon, during
the time that the said United States shall be or remain
the owner thereof.