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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.