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BY AUTHORITY.
LAWg OF THE UMTEI) STATES.
CHAPTER CLXXV.
IN CONTINUATION.
AN ACT making Appropriations for the Civil and Dip’o*
matic Expenses of Government, for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and
for other Purposes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For annuities and grants, seven hundred and tiity dollars.
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
For salaries oi the assistant treasurers of the United
States,at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis,
thirteen thousand live hundred dollars ; and hereafter the
annual salaries of the assistant treasurers at Boston and St.
Louis shall be four thousand dollars each.
For acidiiional salaries of the treasurer of the mint at
Philadelphia, ot one thousand dollars, and of the treasurer
of the branch mint at New Orleans, of five hundred dol
lars, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of six of the additional clerks, authorized by
the acts of August sixth, one thousand eight hundred and
for.y six, August twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and
forty eight, March 3d, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
one, and August thirty first, one thousand eight hundred and
liltv two, and August fourth, one thousand eight hundred
and fifty four, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of additional clerk in office of assistant trea
surer at Boston, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For salary of a clerk to the treasurer of the branch mint
at San Francisco, California, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen, in the
office of the assistant treasurer at New’ York, thirteen thou
sand nine hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses under the act for the safekeeping,
collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue,
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 forty six, five thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not oth
erwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of
settlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars: Provided,
That no pait of the appropriation shall be drawn from the
treasury, except in pursuance ot some law or resolution of
Congress authorizing the expenditure.
For salaries of nine supervi-ing and fi'ty local inspectors,
appointed under the act of August thirtieth, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty two, for the better protection of the
lives of passengers by steamboats, with travelling and other
expenses incurred by them, eighty thousand dollars.
SURVEY OF THE COAST.
For survey of the coast of the United States, (including
compensation to superintendent and assistants, and
ing pay and emoluments of officers ol the army and navy,
and petty officers and men of Uio navy, employed on the
work,) two hundred and ritcy thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of 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 offieere of the army and
navy, and petty officers and men of the navy, employed on
the work,) forty thousand dollars.
i 1 or publishing the observations made in the orogress of
the survey of the coast of the United States, fifteen thou
sand dollars.
For fuel and quarters, and for mileage and transportation
for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army, serving in the
coast survey, in cases no longer provided tor by the quar
termaster’s department, ten thousand dollars.
LIGHT HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For supplying five hundred and ten light houses and bea
con lights, with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins,
polishing powder, whiting, and cleaning materials, trans
portation, and other necessary expenses of the same, re
pairing and keeping the lighting apparatus, two hundred j
and eighty-seven thousand two hundred and forty dollars !
and fifty cents.
lor repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and im
provements of all the light houses, and buildings'connected
therewith, one hundred and forty two thousand four hundred
and eighty nine dollars and twenty one cents.
For salaries of five hundred and forty three keepers of
light houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, and
including one-thousand two hundred dollars for salary of
superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, two hundred
and eighteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For salaries of forty nine keepers of light vessels, “twenty
seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental ex
penses, of forty nine light vessels, one hundred and eighty ‘
six thousand eight hundred and sixty one dollars and twenty I
three cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, re
mooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day beacons,
and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring
and numbering ali the buoys, eighty nine thousand three
hundred and fifty seven dollars and thirty two cents.
Fcr 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 disburs
ed by them, eight thousand dollars.
For the Coasts of California, Oregon and Washington :
For oil and other supplies for twenty one lights, cleaning
m aterials ol all kinds, and transportation of the same, ex
penses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publish
ing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation |
thirty eight thousand and twenty lour dollars and twenty i
five cents. J :
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty one lights I
and buildings connected therewith, twelve thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars.
For salaries of forty one keepers and assistant keeper? ofj
light houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred
dollars per annum, thirty two thousand eight hundred dol
lars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring
and supplying losses of floating beacons, and buoys, and
chains, and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and num
bering all the buoys, eleven thousand five hundred dollars*
For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such t
superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the pro- I
viso to the act < f the third of March, one thousand eight I
hundred and fifty one, entitled “An act making appropna- i
tions for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government i
for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred fifty two >
and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be dis- I
bursed by them, eight hundred dollars.
For continuing the construction of the light house near !
Coffin’s Patches, off Dry Bank, on the Florida Reef, be- <
tween Cary’s Fort Reef aud Sand Key light houses sixty
five thousand dollars. ~ ’ ‘ •
For continuing the construction of the light house on
Minot’s Ledge, one of the C-ohaseet rocks, Boston Bay
Massachusetts, seventy five thou?and dollars. ’
For continuing the construction of the light house on
Ship Shoal, Louisiana, to take the place of the light-vessel
at that point, thirty thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to replace lot
light vessel, to mark the dangerous New South shoals off
Nantucket, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. ‘
For continuing the appropriation of the third of March
eighteen hundred and fifty three, for a first class light house’
at the mouth ol ttie Sabine River, thirty thousand dollars’
h or continuing the system of protecting human fife from j
shipwreck as heretofore established, by life boats and other !
means, on the coast of Massachusetts, the sum of ten thou- !
sand dollars; said money to be expended by the Boston
Humane bociety, under the direction and control of the :
Secretary of the Treasury. * I
lor fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on L
light house duty, the payment of which is no longer provi- I
cod for by the quarter master’s department, five thousand I
*ino sixty three dollars und seventy seven cents
To supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Office
Department one m llion one hundred and six thousand one
hundred and eighty seven dollars.
For the continuation of the custom house at Charleston
South Carolina, two hundred thousand dollars
tor the continuation of the custom house at New Or
doibre ° U,SlaUai tW ° hundred and fceveD *y five thousand
s h = Maine, ten thou- j
For the completion of the custom house at Mobile with j
granite taung, in place ot brick, ninety five thousand dol- I
l&rs. j
INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
tor salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers pleni
potentiary of tho United States, two hundred and sixty seven
thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, fortv four thousand
five hundred dollars.
For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands
six thou?and dollars. * *
end°fiv^hundied’dollara. the mie “'° n ‘° T “ rkey ’ ,wo ,hisu
-10 lhe 10 China - ,hoas * o<i
For the salaries of consuls of the United States, two
hundred and seventy one thousand seven hundred and fitly
dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, ninety six thousand five
hundred and forty three dollars and seventy five cents. j
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty
thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, six ;
thousand dollars.
For office rent of the commercial agent at St. Martin, j
from the twelfth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty j
two, to the end of the present fiscal year, at the rate of one :
hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty three
dollars and thirty three cents, the same beiug allowed be
cause of unexpected losses sustained at said consulate. _
And the .Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
and directed to pay to James Keenan, consul at Hong
Kong, in China, the sum of five hundred and eignty one
dollars and fifty eight cents, expended by him for the relief
of American citizens shipwrecked in Chinese waters in Au
gust last: Provided, That the account and vouchers shall
be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the claim
be first approved by him.
F or the relief and protection of American seamen in for
eign countries, one hundred and twenty five thousand dol
lars.
For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging
the services of the masters and crew’s of foreign vessels in
rescuing citizens and vessels of the United States from ship
wreck, two thousand dollars: Provided, That the same
shall be expended under the direction of the President of the
United States.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the
j United States, presses, and flags, and for tiie payment of
| postages for the consuls of the United States, tea thousand
j dollars.
For compensation of a consul general, to reside at Simo
-1 da, in Japan, at the rate of five tnousand dollars per aa
• mtm, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
To reimburse Commodore M. C. Perry, of the United
I States navy, the extraordinary expenses incurred by him on
| his recent mission to Japan, and as a consideration for his
! eminent public service in effecting a treaty of amity and
commerce with that power, twenty thousand dollars, to be
received in full of ail expenses or other charges incurred by
him on that mission.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to
, pay, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to Ilo
! bert C. Schenck, of Ohio, for his full compensation while
employed as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary of the United States on special mission to the Oriental
Republic of Uruguay, in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty two,thesurn of nine thousand dollars; and for his full
i compensation as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo
! tentiarx of the United States on special mission to the Ar-
I gentine Confederation, in the year eighteen hundred and
! fifty three, the sum of nine thousand dollars, such payment
j to be in lieu of the per diem compensation provided for said
j Robeit G. Schenck, in the “act making appropriations for
i the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government,” ap
i proved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty four,
j ‘I o enable the Secretary of State to reimburse to Edward
! Riddle, such sums as shall bo satisfactorily shown to have
: been expended by him, or which said Riddle may have ob
! ligated himself to pay, on account of his official position at
| the Industrial Exhibition at London, England, or so much
i as shall be necessary, twenty six thousand dollars: Provided,
j That no portion of the payments made pro rata, by contri
| bntors at said exhibition, shall be regarded as within this
| appropriation.
EXPENSES OF COLLECTION OF REVENUE
FROM LANDS.
I To meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from the
! sale of public lands in the several land States, and
i Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the balances of
former appropriations:
For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices
and receivers of public moneys, three hundred and eighteen
thousand dollars.
For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of
public moneys, one hundred thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses of the several land offices, seven
ty four thousand three hundred dollars.
SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS.
I For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California, ;
Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas,and Nebraska,)
including incidental expenses, and island surveys in the in- j
terior, and all other special and difficult sarveys demanding 1
augmented rate.3 to be apportioned and applied to the severe 1
al surveying districts according to the exigencies of the pub
lie service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands, I
and the compensation and expenses to'survey or to locate i
private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unex- I
pended balancdPof ail former appropriations for the same j
objects, one hundred and fifteen tnousand dollars. i
For the survey and correction of thirty townships in ■
Michigan, situated north of the first correction line, and
west of the-meridian, averaging sixty miles each, at a rate !
not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand eight hund I
red dollars. t
For the survey and correction of townships forty four, to I
forty eight north, inclusive of ranges eighteen, nineteen and 1
twenty, west, situated in the upper peninsula of Michigan, j
estimated at thirteen full townships, averaging sixty miles 1
each, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, four thou- ;
sand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For correcting erroneous and defective lines of public !
and private surveys m Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not j
exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand dollars.
For the resurvej and correction of old erroneous surveys !
in Arkansas, discovered since the last report by the surveyor
general, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, nine j
thousand five hundred dollars.
For the renewal and coirection of old, erroneous, and de- ‘
fective surveys in Arkansas, discovered since the last esti- j
mate by the surveyor general, where tho marks have be- j
come obliterated by time, accident, and other caase?, at a
rate not exceeding four dollars per mile, four thousand eight j
hundred and ninety six dollars.
For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates, now au- I
thorized by law, twenty three thousand and ninety one dol- j
lars.
For retracing aud renewing old, obliterated, imperfect, |
and defective surveys in the btate of Florida, and making j
relocations of the lines of private land claims therein ; and !
for locating private land claims under the act of twenty ‘
eighth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight ;
also for detached and unfinished surveys, and lor the execu- j
tion of surveys rendered difficult by reason of swamps and i
lakes, and to he expended at rates not exceeding six dollars
per mile, ten thousand dollars. j
For preparing the unfinished records of public and private
surveys, to be transferred to the State authorities under the j
provisions of the act of the twelfth June, one thousand
eight hundred and forty, in those districts where the surveys j
are about being completed, twenty thousand dollar.?.
For resurvey Sand examinations ot’ the survey of the pub
lic lands in those States where the offices of the surveyors
general have been, or shall be, closed under the acts 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 for the salary
of the clerk detailed to this special service in the General
Land Office, three thousand dollar*.
For Surveys in California, Oregon, Washington, New
Mexico, Katinas and Nebraska.
For surveying the public lands and private land claims
in California, including office expenses, incident to the sur
vey of claims, and to be disbursed at the rates prescribed
by law lor the different kinds of work, one hundred and
filly thousand dollars.
For rent of surveyor general'a office in California, pur
chase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture,
fuel, and p ry of messengers, eighteen thousand dollars.
For continuing the surveys of standard parallels in Ore- !
gon, over the coast range of mountains to the Pacific, esti
mated at one hundred and fifty miles, three thousand dol
lars.
For surveying township and subdivision lines in Oregon !
Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, I
twenty five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. j
For rent of surveyor general’s office in Oregon, f'd,
books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three thou
sand dollars.
For surveying township and subdivision lines in Wash- !
ingten Territory, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars
per mile, thirty thousand dollars.
For office rent for the surveyor general of Washington
Territory, luei, books, stationery, and other incidental ex- ;
penses, three thousand dollars.
For rent of surveyor general’s office in New Mexico, fuel, :
i books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, three
thousand dollars.
For compensation of a translator in the office of the sur
veyor general of New Mexico, two thousand dollars.
For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard
parallels, and section tines, in Kansa-- and Nebraska, also
outlines of Indian reservations, one hundred and one thou- i
sand dollars.
For rent of surveyor general’s office in Kansas and Ns
braska, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expen
ses, six thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the keys off the coast of
Florida, by the offices of the coast survey, thirty thousand
dollars, _
For continuing the survey of the islands off the of !
California, forty thousand dollars.
For running and marking the boundary line between the
United Slates and the Republic of Mexico, under the treaty i
concluded at the city of Mexico on the thirtieth of Decem
ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, seventy i
one thousand four hundred and fifty dollar?, to be disburs- !
ed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
For compensation of the surveyor general cf Utah Ter
ritory, three thousand dollars.
For clerk* in his office, foot thousand dollars.
For office rsm lor the surveyor genera! cfUuth Territory,
fuel, books, stationery, furniture, and other incidental j
expenses, three thousand dollars.
For surveying the base, principal meridian, correction i
parallels, township and section lines, in the Territory of j
Utah, at augmented rates, fifty thousand dollars.
PENITENTIARY.
For ecin{*ensation of the warden, clerk, physician, chap
lain, assistant keepers, guards, and porter, of the peniten
tiary of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand two
| hundred and twenty nine dollars and thirty one cents ; and
twenty per centum additional salary is hereby appropria
! ted, to be paid to the said officers of the penitentiary,
; which per centum shall commerce from the first day of Ju
i ly eighteen hundred and fifty-three: Provided, That the
: eame shall not extend to the chaplain.
For compensation of three, inspectors of said penitentiary.
I seven hundred and fifty dollars ; and for the present fiscal
year, fair hundred and fifty dollars, in addiiion to the sum
| already appropriated.
For the support and maintenance of said penitentiary
; six thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty
cents. And the afinuai compensation of the chaplain of
the penitentiary, shall be five hundred dollars, to commence
f from the present fiscal year.
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
i funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred
j in the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand
i eight hundred and fifty-six, and previous years; and like
wise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the Uni
ted States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences
; committed against tiie United States, and sot. the safe keep*
j ing of prisoners, eight hundred thousand dollars.
For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the
■ insane of the District of Columbia, and of the army and
I navy at the asylum in said District, sixteen thousand eight
! hundred dollars.
For finishing and furnishing the two last sections of the
hospital building, which compiisies all that has been com
menced, twenty two thousand five hundred and twelve
dollars. And lor the erection of a lodge tor the colored in
sane, fences, repair of the farm houses, for ten cows for
j u*e of the asylum, for & carriage and h iruess for the pa
j fients, and for ditching,grading, and settin ;out trees, twelve
thousand and twenty dollars.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS A>D GROUNDS.
For compensation, in part, for the messenger in charge o
the main furnace in the Capitd, lour hundred and twenty
dollars.
For compensation to the laborer in chvrae of the water
closets in the Capitol, four hundred and thirty eight dollars.
F'or removing fences, grading streets, <fcc., preparatory to
the extension oi the Capitol Square, in accordance with the
plan submitted by the Commissioner of Public Buildings,
fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this
appropriation shall be expended except upon property now
owned by the United Slates.
For compensation of the public gardener, one thousand
four hundred and forty dollars.
For compensation of sixteen laborers, employed in the
public grounds and President’s garden, at foity eight dol
; lars per month each, nine thousand two hundred and
sixteen dollars.
For compensation of the keeper of the western gate,
Capitol Square, eight hundred and seventy six dollars.
F’or compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the
Capitol Square, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For compensation of two night watchmen, employed at
! tiie President’s house, at six hundred dollars each, one
thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President's
house, six hundred dollars.
For compensation of assistant doorkeeper at the Presi
dent’s house, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
F'or compensation of four draw keepers at the Potomac
| bridge, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, three thousand two
’ hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For compensation of two draw keepers at the two bridg
| es across tiie eastern branch of the Potomac, and fuel, oil,
| and lamps, one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard, fuel, and oil
for lamps, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For support, care, and medical treatment, of eighteen
transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in Wash
ington infirmary, three thousand dollars.
F’or purchase of manure for the public grounds, one thou
sand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds, one thousand
dollars
F’or purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds,
five hundred dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree boxes, to replace, where
necessary, such as have been planted by the United States,
and the repair of pavements in front of the public grounds,
five thousand dollars.
For compensation of one night watchman employed for
the better protection of the buildings lying south oi the
Capitol, and used as public stables and carpenter’s shop,
six hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water closets, public
stables, water pipes, pavements, and other walks within
the Capitol square, broken glass, and locks, five thousand
dollars.
F’or annual repairs of the President’s house, improvement
of grounds, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and
making hotbeds therein, six thousand dollars.
For removing the stone wall wliich now forms the south
ern boundary of the park at the President’s, in accordance
wish the recommendation and plan submitted by the Com
missioner es Public Buildings, fifteen thousand dollars.
< F’or removing tlie old engine house of the Franklin Fire
Company from the triangular space on Pennsylvania Ave
nue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets, and in
closing said i-paee with an iron fence, and improving il, six
thousand dollars.
For removing the present dome over the central portion
of the Capitol, and the construction of one upon the plan
as designed by Thomas U. Walter, architect of the Capitol
extension, under the direction of the President of the Uni*
ted States, one hundred thousand dollars.
Fori üblicreservation number two, and Lafayette Square,
three thousand dollars.
For inclosing the circle at the intersection of Pennsylva-
I nia Avenue with New Hampshire Avenue, and K and
I Twenty Third Streets, and improving the space within said
j circle, three thousand doilars.
j For inclosing the triangular space, upon which the wes
. tern market-house recently stood, with an iron fence, and
| improving the same, five thousand doilars.
For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand dol
j lars.
1 For footway on north front of the President!? house, in
: lien of the brick pavement now much broken, containing
| seventeen thousand onehundred and seventy-six square feet,
at twenty-eight cents per foot, three thousand eight hund
j red and nine dollars and twenty eight cents.
For finishing the brick pavement on the south front of
j Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars.
For purchase of books for library at the executive nsan
; eion, to he expended under the direction of the President
; of the United estates, two hundred and fifty dollars.
To complete and revise the grades of the ciiy of Wash
ing, and to determine the plans for the drainage and sewer
j thereof, per act of August thirty-one, eighteen hund
; red and fifty-two, five thousand dollars.
For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s
i house, continuing the impiovements of the same, and keep
i ine them iri order, three thousand dollars.
For the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office
I building, and the improvements connected therewith, ten
; thousand seven hundred dollars.
j For lighting the President’* house and Capitol, the pub*
; lie grounds around them, and around the executive offices
j and Pennsylvania Avenue, East Capitol Street to Second
! Street, twenty-five thousand dollars,
i For fuel for tlie President’s house, one thousand dollars,
•; For furnace keener at the President’s house, three hund
red and sixty five dollar*.
! To complete the furnishing of the rooms of the new wing
i of the Patent Office building, with furniture, and providing
the saloon therein with o sen for models, fifteen thousand
! dollars.
For the cuMe-clion of agricultural statistics, and procur
; inland distributing cuttings and seeds, twenty five thou
• sand dollar*.
For continuing the work on the Washington aqueduct,
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For completing the engravings and illustrations of the
Mexican boundary survey, ten thousand dollars.
i To meet the expenses of the transportation of certain j
persons from San Diego to Sari Francisco, California, charg- j
sd with a violation of the neutrality Jaws of the United ’
States, and who surrendered themselves to the military au
thorities, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For salaries and incidental expenses ot the commission ’
appointed under the act ©f third March, eighteen hu>. ded j
and fifty one, for settling land claims in California, :rom ;
’ third March, eighteen hundred and fifty five, to third March,
; eighteen hundred and fifty six, in addition to unexpended
j balance, one bunded ar.d twenty thousand dollars.
For compensation of thirty clerks of class one, ten of
: class two, nine of class three, and one at two thousand dol
’ Jars per annum, one messenger at eight hundred and fortv
dollars, one messenger at six hundred dollars, two laborers
at five hundred and seventy six dollars each, and four
watchmen at six hundred dollar# each per annum, for tern*
porary service at the discretion of the Secretary of the In
terior, in the Pension office on account of bounty lands
seventy one thousand three hundred and ninety dollar?. ’
For Contingent Expenses tix :
For rent of rooms, stationery, engraving plate* fur boun
ty land warrants, paper, and printing the same, binding
books, blank books fur registers, office furniture, and mis
cellaneous item?, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of the current fiscal year on accoun* of
military bounty lands, thirty thousand dollar*.
For clfflt patents, stationery, and tpUpelfa
neous items in the General Land Office, on account of mili
tary bounty lands, seventy thousand dollars: Provided,
however , Thu the Secretary of the Interior, at Ins discre
tion,shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to use any por
tion of said appropriation for piece work, or by the day,
week, month, or year, at such rate or rates, as he may
deem just and fair.
For compensation of ten clerks of class one, to be employ
ed temporarily in the office of tiie Third Auditor, on ac
count of military bounty lands, twelve thousand dollars ;
and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is,
authorized and directed to pay to Jacob P. Chase, the usu
al compensation for the service* of his two sons, as clerks
in the Pension Office, for the time they were engaged as
such, and the sum necessary to pay the same, is hereby ap
propriated.
And the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed
to cause to be constructed on such site, in a central position
on the public grounds, in the city of Washington, as may
be selected by the President of the United S’ates, a suita
ble building for the care and preservation of the ordinance,
and arms, and accoutrements of the United States, requir
ed for the use of the volunteers and militia of the District
of Columbia, and for the cars and preservation of the mili
tary trophies of the revolutionary and other wars, and for
the deposit of newly invented and model arms, for the mili
tary service, the said ordnance and arms, and the building
to be used by the volunteers and militia of the District of
Columbia, under such regulaiions ns may be prescribed by
the President, and for the purpose of carrying this act into
effect, the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same
hereby is, appropriated out cf any money in the treasury
not ot her w ise a ppropriaied.
Sec. 2. And be it. further enacted, That tho following
sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply
deficiencies in tiie appropriations for the service of the fis
cal year, vnd'ng the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty five, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated namely :
For additional to the appropriations by <he act of fourth
August, eighteen hundred and fifty four, for the contingent
expenses of the Senate, viz:
For binding, thirty thousand dollars.
For lithrographing ami engraving, twenty five thousand
dollars.
F'or the House of Representatives, viz:
F'or twenty four copies of ‘ Globe” for each member and
drlsate of the second session of the thirty third Congress,
seventeen thousand three hundred and fifty two dollars.
F'or binding twenty four copies of Globe for each member
and delegate of the second session of the thirty third Con
gress, six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars and
eighty cents.
F'or reporting the debates of the second session of the
thirty third Congress, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the
House tor the Congressional Globe, viz: William W. Cur
ran, William Dinks, F'raneis H. Smith, John J. McElhone,
Thodore F. Andrews, Charles B. Collar, and Henry G.
Hayes, the same amount of additional compensation for
reporting the debates of the Flouse for the present session
of Congress, as has been heretofore paid them, eight hund
red dollars each, five thousand six hundred dollars: And
for the payment of a like sum to each of the reporters of
the Senate, namely: Richard Sutton, D. F\ Murray, [D.
! F. Murphy,] R. M. Patterson, Flenry Pardon. James J.
j Murphy, and David W. Brown, four thousand eight hund
! red dollars.
To pay for twenty four copies of the Congressional Globe
and Appendix of the first session of the present Congress,
for each of the delegates from Nebraska ar.d Kansas, being
forty eight, copies, at six dollars per copy, two hundred and
eighty eight dollars, and for binding tiie same, one hund
red and ninety two volumes, at sixty cents a volume, one
hundred ami fifteen dollars and twenty cents.
For additional amount required for binding documents,
thirty thousand doilars.
For additional amount required for engraving and litho*
graping, thirty thousand dollars.
F'or the payment of salaries and other expenses of the
Census Bureau, until the completion of the mortality sta
tistics. five thousand dollars, to be expended under the di
rection of the Secretary of the Interior.
For supplying a deficiency in the appropriation for the
printing of the executive departments, thirty two thousand
eight hundred and seventy five dollars.
For tiie completion of the printing of the Senate, order
ed at tiie present session, and paper for the same, thirty
thousand dollars.
For the completion of the printing of the Flouse, ordered
at the present Session, and paper fr the same, sixty thou
sand dollars.
To Nortnan R. Haskell, of Michigan, the sum of three
hundred and fifty dollars and fifty six cents, in full of
charges as custodian of public pioperty.
To pay tho draughsmen and clerks employed upon the
maps of the public lands for the House of Representatives
and tiie committee of public lands, for the balance of the
present fiscal year, four thousand dollars.
And the draughtsmen employed on the maps of the pub
lic lands under the charge of the Clerk of the House of
Representatives, shall be paid the same compensation as is
paid to the draughtsmen similarly employed under tiie direc
tion of the Senate.
For amount equal to drafts, checks, and deposits, await,
ing derisions in certain applications for approval of sales of
Indian reserves, including eight hundred dollars collected
by, and deposited with, the late firm of Selden, Withers,
and Company, by a former disbursing officer of govern
ment, four thousand four hundred dollars : Provided, That
such portion of this sum as may be recovered from said
firm and disbursing officer, shall be reimbursed to the trea
sury of the United States.
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF DEPARTMENT OF
STATE.
For publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the
j newspapers in the States and Territoriss, anil in the Dis
; triet of Columbia, in addition to any balance that may re
j main of former appropriations, twenty one thousand three
hundred and ninety six dollars.
Territory of Oregon.
For compensation of chief justice, two associate judges,
and secretary, five thousand dollars.
For amount ascertained to he due to Governor Joseph
Lane, for and on account of his disbursements in eighteen
hundred and forty nine and fifty, for the necessary contin
gent expenses of his office, one thousand four hundred and
thirty four dollars and twenty five cents.
Territory of Washington.
For compensation of chief .justice, tw o associate judges,
and secretary, three thousand five hundred and four dollars
and eleven cents.
Territory of Minnesota.
F<>r compensation of chief justice, and two associate
judges, six hundred dollars.
Territory of Utah.
For compensation of cliiet justice, two associate judges,
and secretary, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Territory of Utah,
one thousand one hundred and sixty eight dollars
and thirty-seven cents, to discharge such sums as the ac
counting officers, subject to the approval of the Secretary
of the Interior, may deem to have been necessarily expend
ed by the executive of said Territory, during the years one
thousand eight hundred and fifty two, fifty three and fifty
four.
Territory of New Mexico.
For compensation of governor, chief justice, two assooi |
ate judges, and secretary, two thousand eight hundred dol- !
lars.
SUPPORT OF THE ARMY.
For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage,
and horse equipments, one hundred and twenty five thou
sand and sixty-nine dollars and three cents.
MINT AT PHILADELPHIA.
| For increased compensation of clerk?, by the thirteenth
j section of act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty
j four, three thousand dollars.
For supplying deficiency in the appropriation, in the eur
| rent fiscal year, made for the mint in Philadelphia, thirty
i seven thousand dollars, if so much be necessary.
For supplying deficiency in the appropriation, in she cur
i rent fiscal year, for the branch mint in San Francisco, sixty
1 six thousand dollar?, if so much be necessary,
j For increased compensation of the chief clerk of the
branch mint at New Orleans, by the thirteenth section of
the act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty four,
j four hundred dollars.
For const ruction of new roof to branch mint at Charlotte,
| North Carolina, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty
i dollars.
INDEPENDENT TREASURY,
: Fer additional compensa’ion of the assistant treasurer at
New York, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation of clerk to treasurer of mint
at Phdaueipnia, as depositary, per art fourth August, eigh
teen hundred and fiity four, five hundred dollars.”
CUSTOM HOUSES.
For furnishing the custom house, post office, and United
States court room, at Bangor, Maine, one thousand five
hundred dollars for each, making four thousand five hund
red dollar*; the appropriation for the custom house, to be
expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Trea
sury ; that for the pest office, under the Postmaster General •
and that for the court room, under the Secretary of the In
terior.
For the completion of the custom house at San Francisl
- t aijfornia, one hundred and fir ty one th'.nsand two
hundred and seventy one dollars and nine cents.
MISCELLANEOUS.
To complete the penitentiary in Utah Territory, twelve ;
thousand dollar?.
For lighting and ventilating the upper story of the Trea
sury building, and for giving additional security to treasu
ry vault, twenty lour thousand tii hundred and forty dol
lars. t •
To render ih* mint et Philadelphia fir* proof, and to
additional security to the funds de osited in its vau’t*
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. ‘ * one
To enable the Secretary of State to pay to Messrs T•.
tie, Brown and Company, for one hundred and ninet*
seven pages of additional post office routes in the pamnl.U
volume of the United States Statutes at Large, first session
of the thirty third Congress, four thousand one hundred -iS
twenty five dollars.
To defray expenses incurred, and to be incurred, in com
plying with the resolution of the House of Representatives’
twenty sixth December, ore thousand eight hundred and
fifty four, five thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to pay Blythe and
Company, of Port Louis, in the island of Mauritius, the
amount ot two bills oi exchange drawn upon the Depart
ment of State, by George M. farntmt, commercial agent,
in payment of the expenses incurred in relieving destitute
American citizens, which drafts were cashed by said Blythe
and Company, seven thousand sight hundred and fifty four
dollars and fifty cents.
For professional services additional to his regular and
ordinary official duties, rendered by the United States at
torney for the notthern district of California, on behalf of
the United States, in the district court of San Francisco,
} in appeals from the land commissioner, to ascertain and
settle the private land claims in California, from the first
of June, eighteen hundred and fifty time?, to first of June,
eighteen bundled and fifty live, the sum of ten thousand
dollars.
To enable the Commissioner cf Indian Affairs to pay the
amount due George R. Herrick, for arrears of pay for servi
ces from first of April, eighteen hundred and forty six, to
the eighteenth of July, eighteen hundred and forty nine,
in the business of reservations and grants under Indian
treaties, as provided for. one clerk, at fourteen hundred dol
lars per annum, by the act of ninth May, eighteen hundred
and thirty six, entitled “An act providing for the salaries of
certain officers therein named, and lor other purposes,”
eleven hundred and nine dollars and seventy nine cents.
F'or payment of clerks temporarily employed in the office
of tiie Postmaster General, from first of July to tenth Au
gust, eighteen hundred and fifty four, three hundred and
eighty seven dollars and thirty eight cents.
For compensation and expenses of the commissioner and
the agent of the United States under the convention for
the adjustment of claims between the United States and
Great Britain, at twelve thousand dollars each for the en
j tire service, twenty fourthousand dollars: Provided, That
i this sum shall include what has already been paid to either
j of them under the said convention.
! That the Secre*ary of State cause the accounts of Jo*ph
| Five deceased, late charge d’nffiurs of the United States to
| the late Republic of Texas, to be audited and adjusted by
I tiie proper accounting officers of the government, and that
! the amount found due thereon be paid to Betsy W. Five,
1 w'dow of said Joseph Eve, out of any money in the trea
! sury not otherwise appropriated.
F'or salaries of the three judges of the court of claims,
twelve thousand dollars.
For salary of solicitor of said court, three thousand fivs
hundred dollars.
F'or salaries of the two clerks, three thousand rive hund
red dollars.
For contingent expenses of said court, two thousand dol
lars.
For the salaries of the judges, solicitor, and clerks of said
| court, and for other expenses thereof, prior to tiie first day
; of July, eighteen hundred and fifty five, or so much thereof
j as may he required, five thousand dollars.
F’or outfit of minister of the United States to Spain, nine
I thousand dollars.
For outfit of charges des affairs, or minister resident to
; New Granada, four thousand rive hundred dollars,
j For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of
| public moneys, forty one thousand dollars.
For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices,
| and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and ten thou
• sand dollars.
For incidental expenses of the several land offices, eleven
: thousand dollars.
j To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to
; purchase for the new members from Virginia, Kentucky,
and New York, and the delegates from Kansas and Nebras
ka, the same books as have been furnished the other mem
bers of the present House of Representatives, seven thou*
> sand four hundred and fifty two dollars.
I For the contingent expenses of tho House of Kepresenta
! fives:
| For stationery for mernbe s, four thousand nine hundred
i and ten dollars , and that the allowance to memhers of the
| House, for the present session, shall be thirty five dollars,
\ instead of twenty five, as heretofore,
i For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
For oil for light houses, being the difference between the
! estimated and the actual cost of that article, eighty two
i thousand and thirty four dollars and seventeen cents.
For compensation of cornmi-sioner provided in tiie first
i article of the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, two
! thousand dollars.
For boats and other inci iental expenses connected with
j the duties of the commissioner provided in tiie first article
| of the reciprocity treaty with Gteat Britain, three thousand
I do.lirs.
j F’or completing the publications of the works of the ex
: ploring expedition, twenty nine thousand three hundred
, and twenty dollars.
To enable the Committee on the Library to pay to Wil*
! liam II Powell two thousand dollars, in full for the pic
’ ture painted by him for the United States, in addition to the
I sums heretofore appropriated by law
! And the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby
| directed to settle and pay the account es C. W. Ilmman,
! third assistant librarian, from tiie first day of July, eighteen
i hundred and fifty four, at the rate of fifteen hundred dol
’ lars per annum.
For the erection of a suitable house for the plants recent
| !y brought from Japan for tiie United States, fifteen hund
• red dollar?, to be expended under the direction of the Com*
! missioner of Public Buildings.
; For tiie support of tiie pubiic greenhouses, including the
pay of horticulturist and assistants, three thousand dollars.
To enable tiie Commissioner of Public Buildings to pro
| vide additional furnaces for the Library of Congress, four
j thousand dollars.
! To construct suitable iron railing* in front of the alcoves
j of the library, and other repairs, in addition to the balance
i of appropriations unexpended for the repairs of tiie Con
: gressiona! Library, under the direction of the architect,
! three thousand five hundred dollars.
GREAT EXCITEMENT!!
To tixo
DO you know that^
-Everybody desiring to
.Purchase life-like and
Enduring likenesses of thoir
W ives, Husbands, Children, Brothers,
Sisters and Friends, are making a
Grand rueh, to by far the best,
And only place in Columbus, where
Likenesses, which seem to breathe and
Live, can be got up, at short notice, in
Endless variety of style, and possessing that
ISiehness of finish, which has uever
Yet been equalled or approached, at any
Other establishment in the State of Georgia.
Forget it not, and whenever you want a
(Jem of a Picture,call at C. I. DEPEW’S
Excelsior Gallery—Woodbridge’s old stand.
Many thousands of Pictures, in Columbus,
•Speak for themselves, and testify to the above.
March 31, 1855. twtf.
RIDDLE’S
Pashionable Daguerrean Gallery.
THE Proprietor has the largest, neatest, and most frthiona
b!y arranged GALLERY tortheArtin the State.
He uses the best material, and allows nothing but first class
Pictures to leave his Rooms.
8o forget not, ye levers of the Fine Arts, when ye sally forth
to obtain those imperishable ‘gems, to call on RIDbLEi
He will give you a Handsome Picture and a Good I)agu*rreo
tjpe. As for takin? children,- famriy groups, Steriscopes, out
door views, &c., he defies any Artist in the country to surpass
him. Rooms on Broad Street, over C. Mygatt’s Dry Goods
Store, Columbus, Ga. mar3l—t w 9m.
OPENING “DAT 7“
| FOR TIIE
i raa
j r r*HE subscriber respectfully announces to his patrons aod
| JL the public, that he will re-open his Btore on the
20th OF
| with hie fresh importations and manufactures for the pre&-
! ent season, embracing the finest assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES,
j and ail articles appertaining to gentlemen’s wearing ap
i parel ever offered to the public. They have been personal
ly selected from the most distinguished Emporiums in the
country, and are warranted to be of a very superior quality.
Call ana see them.
J. SMEETON.
Columbus, Sept 13—twtf Enquirer copy
FLOUR! FLOUR!
JtTfT received on consignment and for sale Seventy*
Five Barrels, A. No. 1. Purchase and ir> it.
m*rS7—H. f!. PH *■ —*
npWO mouths afterdate application v> ill be mace to tbe court
JL of Ordinary of Karty county tor leave tosffiihe lands be
loaglngto the estate of William Harrell, deceased, by
BURULLLL ECHO Ad'ro.
Perl? county. Marcp jfcA, msrvna.