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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.