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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For fuel and quarters for officers of the Army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer made by the quartermaster depar ment, four thousand and fifty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents.

For fuel and quarters, and for mileage or transportation for officers and enlisted men of the Army serving on the coast survey in cases no longer provided for by the quartermaster department, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the annual coast survey report shall be submitted to Congress during the month of December in each year, and shall be accompanied by the general chart of the whole coasts of the United States, on as large a scale as convenient and practicable, showing, as near as practicable, the configuration of the coasts, and showing, by lines, the probable limits of the gulfstream, and showing, by lines, the probable limit to which the soundings of the coast will extend, and showing, by the use of colors and explanations, the exact portions of our coasts of which complete charts have been published by the coast survey; also, showing such other parts of the coasts of which the triangulation, the topography, and the soundings have been completed, but not published; and also, such parts of the coasts of which the triangulation and topography, or the triangulation only, have been completed.

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

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entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three;" and that the Secretary of War be authorized to distribute the arms provided for by the act of Congress of eighteen hundred and eight to the State of Iowa according to her representation in Congress.

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

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

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

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

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to employ such portion of the corps of topographical engineers, and such other persons as he may deem necessary, to make such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean, and that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of such explorations and surveys.

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

teers for the Mexican war.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That in the adjustment of the account of the State of Virginia, under the twelfth section of the act approved thirtyfirst August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to follow the provisions of the act of second of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, providing for the refunding to the several States the amounts SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the pro-expended by them in raising regiments of volunvisions of the first section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one," approved September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, granting extra pay to the officers and enlisted men of the army serving in Oregon and California, be extended to the officers and men of two companies of regiment of mounted riflemen that garrisoned the post of Fort Laramie, Oregon route, during the time they occupied said post; and the amount which may be found due them under this act shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That for the settlement of the remaining unpaid claims of the States of Georgia and Alabama, for advances made in suppressing Indian hostilities, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the State of Georgia her claims now remaining unpaid for moneys paid by the State in suppressing hostilities of the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indians, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and since, upon proof that the same was paid by the State; and that the provisions of the act of Congress relative to the settlement of the claims of Georgia for military services, approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be extended to the payments to be made under this act. And that the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the State of Alabama, under the provisions of the acts of Congress of sixteenth August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the balance due the said State growing out of the Creek Indian hostilities of eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven: Provided, Proof is made that said State advanced in good faith the amount claimed.

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

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

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

PUBLIC, XXXVII.-An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four:

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

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

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thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall extend to and include all naval storekeepers who were stationed on the Pacific coast; and the additional compensation authorized by the foregoing provision, and by the navy appropriation act of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall be paid to the legal representatives of all deceased persons who would have been entitled to receive the same if living.

And there shall be allowed to Lieutenants William Lewis Herndon and Lardner Gibbon, officers of the United States Navy, who were engaged upon the exploration of the Amazon, the same pay as has been allowed to the superintendent of the naval astronomical expedition in Chili, by the act making appropriations for the naval service, approved March third, eighteen hundred and fiftyone, during the period of their service as aforesaid, which period shall be reckoned from the date on which each officer left the United States until the final return of the exploring party.

For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navyyards and stations, one hundred and eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. And the first and second clerks to the commandants of the principal navy-yards, viz: Boston, New York, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, shall receive the same pay that the two lowest classes of clerks in the bureaus of the Navy Department now receive respectively; and each clerk of the yard in said navy-yards shall receive the same compensation as is herein provided for the first clerks to commandants.

For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service, six hundred and eighty thousand two hundred dollars.

For the completion of a scientific investigation and experiments upon the character of alimentary substances, used as subsistence in the navy, and means to prevent their deterioration, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy.

For surgeons' necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the navy, including the marine corps, thirty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.

For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, including fuel and purchase of hemp, one million nine hundred and forty-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For ordnance and ordnance stores and small arms, including incidental expenses, two hundred thousand dollars.

For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For purchase of nautical instruments required for the use of the navy, for repairs of the same, and also of astronomical instruments, eleven thousand dollars.

For the purchase of nautical books, maps, and charts, and for backing and binding the same, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For printing and publishing sailing directions, hydrographical surveys, and astronomical observations, five thousand five hundred dollars.

For models, drawing and copying, postage, stationery, freight, and transportation; for pay of lithographer and for working lithographic press, including chemicals; for keeping grounds and buildings in order; for fuel and lights; for repairs of buildings, and for all other contingent expenses of the Hydrographical Office and United States Observatory, seven thousand two hundred and forty dollars.

For continuing the publication of the wind and current charts, and for defraying all the expenses connected therewith, ten thousand dollars.

For pipes for carrying gas to and fixtures for lighting with it the National Observatory, twentyfive hundred dollars.

For the wages of persons employed at the Observatory and Hydrographical Office, viz: one lithographer, one instrument maker, two watchmen and one porter, three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

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chase and repair of fire engines and machinery, repairs of and attending to steam engines in navyyards, purchase and maintenance of horses and oxen, and driving teams, carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of workmen's tools, postage of public letters, furniture for Government houses, fuel, oil, and candles for navy-yards and shore stations, pay of watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation, labor attending the delivery of stores on civil stations, wharfage, dockage, and rent, traveling expenses of officers and others under orders, funeral expenses, store and office rent, stationery, fuel, commissions and pay of clerks to navy agents and storekeepers, flags, awnings, and packing boxes, premiums and other expenses attending courtsmartial and courts of inquiry and other services authorized by law, pay to judges-advocate, pilotage and towage of vessels and assistance to vessels in distress, bills of health and quarantine expenses of the United States navy in foreign ports, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.

For improvement and repair of buildings and grounds and support of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, forty-six thousand and fifty

nine dollars.

For purchase of land, extending walls, making new roads and wharf, building and furnishing hospital, and changing the fronts of houses, at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, thirtyeight thousand dollars.

For meteorological observations, to be conducted under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to settle all existing controversies as to the title to any portion of Salt marsh, near the lands of the Naval Hospital in Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to sell and convey the right, title, and interest of the United States in!! so much of said marsh as he may deem expedient, upon the terms and conditions recommended in a report from the Bureau of Navy-Yards and Docks upon the subject, dated January seventeen, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

For construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, and for contingent expenses at the several navy-yards, viz:

Portsmouth, New Hampshire.-For coopers' shop and watchman's quarters, dredging in front, ånd painting and puddling stone basin, boiler-room, boilers, engine and machinery, reservoir for engine-house, pipes, gutters, drains, and cisterns, grading yard near timber shed, and for repairs of all kinds, including care of floating-dock, fifty-three thousand one hundred and seven dollars.

Boston, Massachusetts.—For rebuilding smithery, cooperage, and packing-house, coal-house for ropewalk, engines, stone wall west of timber dock, rebuilding battery, grading and paving timber shed number thirty-one, and for repairs of all kinds, eighty-one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.

New York, New York.-For completing commander's house, smithery, timber shed; lime, pitch, and coal-house; continuing quay-wall, muster office, cob wharf; dredging channel and piers; completing engine-house, culvert, and removing piles in front of dock; filling in timber pond and low places; paving gutters and flagging, and for repairs of all kinds, two hundred and fortynine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars: Provided, That no part of the appropriation shall be expended until the State of New York shall cede the jurisdiction over the navy-yard to the United States, and until the title to said land is settled, excepting so much of the appropriation as may be needed for completing engine-house, and for repairs of all kinds."

For extending

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. wharf number four, and dredging, completing, paving, and for repairs of all kinds, including floating dock, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars.

repairs of all kinds, one hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred and twelve dollars. Norfolk, Virginia. For extending quay wharves, completing timber dock, machinery for engine, machine and armorer's shops, dredging, filling in low grounds, grading, completing magazine and keeper's house, Fort Norfolk, hauling up slips and mud scows, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.

Pensacola, Florida. -For permanent wharf, paint shops, and cooperage, construction of deep basin and dredging, rebuilding of central wharf and machine shops, mooring anchors, cables and fixwharves J and C, smoke stack, and extending tures for mooring and operating floating dock, and for repairs of all kinds, two hundred and twentyfive thousand eight hundred dollars.

Memphis, Tennessee.-For completing hemp house, completing blacksmith shop and office building, cisterns for rope-walk, culvert from ropewalk to river, and for repairs of all kinds, fortythree thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars.

For completion of railing for vertical wall, eight hundred dollars.

For the purchase of iron railing for the ropelaying machinery of the rope-walk, four thousand

dollars.

San Francisco, California.-For blacksmith shop, carpenters' shop, storehouse, and wharf, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That before this sum shall be expended, the Attorney General of the United States shall decide that the United States have good title to the land upon which the buildings are to be erected.

And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to complete and carry into execution the verbal contract for a basin and railway in California, in connection with the floating dock, as made by the late Secretary in pursuance of authority for that purpose, given by the act of September the twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "An act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone," and as stated in the letter of the said late Secretary, addressed to the Hon. Howell Cobb, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and dated the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, toward the execution of which one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated: Provided, That in the judgment of the Secretary such basin and railway are necessary and will be useful to the public service.

dollars.

For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars. At Norfolk.-For wall to inclose a grave-yard, including excavation, six thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents. communicating with the navy hospital grounds at For the purchase of land, to be used as a road Norfolk, Virginia, twenty-five hundred dollars.

For repairs of all kinds, two thousand five hundred dollars.

At Pensacola. For wall around hospital grounds, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For draming and filling ponds, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For repairs of all kinds, eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For magazines:

At Boston, Massachusetts.-For beds to stow shot, for arrangements for bouching, filling, and unloading shells, and for repairs of all kinds, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For contingencies, viz: freight, tonnage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensation to judges-advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house-rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, apprehension of deserters, oil, candles, forage, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, picks, shovels, carpenter's

tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital headquarters, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the purpose of paying the lien existing on the lands recently purchased as an addition to the navy-yard at Brooklyn, twelve thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and five cents, to be paid by the Secretary of the Navy, if upon examination he shall find the same to be due as a lien on the purchase of the said land, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby empowered and directed to sell and convey to any purchaser all that part of the navy-yard lands at Brooklyn between the west side of Vanderbilt avenue and the hospital grounds, containing about twenty-six and a half acres, including Vanderbilt and Clinton avenues: Provided, That said lands shall not be sold at less

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PUBLIC, XXXVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, out of any moneys in the Treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and for other purposes, viz:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For the erection of a light-house and keeper's house on or near the breakwater at Bass river, being a reappropriation of the same sum appro

For advertising, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.

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

For mail depredations, and special agents, fifty thousand dollars.

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

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, fifty

five thousand dollars.

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

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

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That section three of the act entitled "An act making appro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For a fog-bell or whistle, to be worked by ma

interest with all assessments and charges: And provided further, That, prior to the sale of said lands, exclusive jurisdiction shall be ceded to the United States of all the remaining lands connected with the said navy-yard, belonging to the United States: Provided, That the sale be made at public auction, after thirty days' notice in at least three daily newspapers published in the cities of New York and Brooklyn.

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

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

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, ment during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of and for other purposes," and approved the thirtyfirst of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

light-house at Buffalo, two thousand five hundred dollars;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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the work executed, under the direction of the Top-|| ographical Bureau.

Ohio.-For a beacon of solid masonry, to be placed on a reef lying in the track of vessels at the west end of Lake Erie, near the south shore, off Bois Blank and near Touissaint river, three thousand dollars.

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plan for distinguishing lights by occultation, submitted by Charles Babbage, esq., and which was communicated to Congress at its last session, five thousand dollars.

the

For buoys to be placed in the Potomac river, as follows: Lower end of "Jones's Point,' 996 Occoquan Flats," off "Marlow's Creek," lower part of" Wade's Bay," off" Jenifer's Quarter," "Matthias Point," and "Dent's Shoal," five hundred and sixty dollars;

For a small light at "Stingery Point," Rappahannock, two hundred and fifty dollars;

For a beacon at Naylor's Hole, Rappahannock, one hundred and fifty dollars;

For twelve buoys for Rappahannock river, six hundred dollars.

South Carolina. -For six large iron buoys for Charleston bar and channels, three thousand dollars;

For a large bell buoy for the entrance over Charleston bar, five thousand dollars;

For a buoy to be placed on Middle Ground shoal, Charleston harbor, five hundred dollars;

For a light vessel to be placed on Rattlesnake shoal, twenty thousand dollars;

For building beacon on Morris Island, Charleston harbor, three thousand dollars;

Brooksville, may be applied to the erection of a harbor light on the northern extremity of Pumpkin Island, in conformity to the recommendation of the Coast Survey.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the location of the two beacon lights, authorized by the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to be placed near Fort Hamilton, be changed to the other end of the range line of the main channel, on the New Jersey shore.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to select, instead of the outer "Minot Ledge," any more suitable site amongst the Cohasset rocks, at the entrance of Boston harbor, on which to erect the light-house authorized by the first section of the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter one hundred and twelve, if in his judgment, and on further surveys, if necessary, any more suit

able site can be found.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, out of any moneys in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six:

For transportation of the mails in two steamships from New York, by Southampton, to Bremen and back, at one hundred thousand dollars for each ship; and in two steamships from New York, by Cowes, to Havre and back, at seventyfive thousand dollars for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of New York, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, under the contract with M. C. Mordecai, fifty thousand dollars.

For transportation of the mails across the Isthmus of Panama, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General shall cause the facts to be investigated in relation to the contract of A. G. Sloo, for the transportation of the mail in ocean steamers from New York to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres and back, per act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty

Florida. For an iron pile light-house to take the place of the light-vessel stationed near Key West, twelve thousand dollars;

For making permanent the signals placed by the Coast Survey along the Florida reef, ten thousand dollars;

For the erection of a first-class light-house, and fitting the same with a first order illuminating apparatus, near Jupiter inlet, thirty-five thousand dollars.

vation and protection of the light house on Brandywine shoal, in such manner as may best secure the object.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to apply the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, section one, chapter one hundred and twelve, for a light-house on the Nubble, Cape Neddick, York, to the erection of a light-house at the entrance of York harbor, if that location will best subserve the interests of commerce.

such a sum as, under the circumstances, he deems reasonable, and to pay the same out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

Texas. For third-class iron buoys to be placed at "Brazos Santiago bar," mouth of "Grand River bar," and the entrance to Matagorda bay, two thousand dollars;

For a first-class light-house at the mouth of the Sabine river, thirty thousand dollars.

California-For a buoy to mark Commission ledge, in Mare Island straits, five hundred dollars; For a buoy to mark "Middle Ground," in Suison bay, five hundred dollars;

For largest class buoy, to mark entrance to bar at San Francisco, eight hundred dollars;

For buoys to mark the channel of the Sacramento river, two thousand dollars;

For buoys for Humboldt harbor, five hundred dollars;

For buoys for Umpqua, five hundred dollars; For a second class light-house at Point Boneta, San Francisco bay, twenty-five thousand dollars; For the erection of a light-house in San Pedro bay, ten thousand dollars;

Oregon. For additional buoys at Columbia river, one thousand five hundred dollars;

To test the adaptation of Jabez Stone's patent buoy, as a guide to river and other narrow channels, two hundred and fifty dollars;

To enable the Light-House Board to procure the necessary machinery, and test practically the

PUBLIC, XL.-An Act making appropriations for the Transportation of the United States Mail by Ocean Steamers and otherwise, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four:

For transportation of the mails from New York to Liverpool and back, eight hundred and fifty. eight thousand dollars.

For transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres and back, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

For transportation of the mails from Panama to California and Oregon and back, three hundred and forty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For carrying out the contract entered into by the Post Office Department under the law passed at the last session of Congress, establishing a trimonthly mail by steam-vessels between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, via Tampico, seventy thousand dollars.

contract corresponds with the original bids, and shall report to Congress at the next session the facts and circumstances connected with the said contract, and also for what amount the said mail service could be performed if a new contract should be made, and whether the ships furnished under said contract are built according to its terms. The Postmaster General is further directed by this act to ascertain and report to Congress at its next session for what amounts the service now performed under the several contracts with the Navy and Post Office Department for carrying the mail in ocean steamers can be hereafter performed, upon the supposition that the United States shall take the steamers according to contract and sell or transfer them.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That upon the application of either of the companies contracting to carry the mail in ocean steamers from New York to Havre, or from New York to Bremen, the Postmaster General is hereby authorized to discharge such company from said contract: Provided, That no further compensation shall be paid to either of said companies after such discharge from its contract.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XLI.-An Act making appropriations for the Current and Contingent Expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling Treaty stipulations with various Indian Tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes.

For the current and contingent expenses of the
Indian department, viz:

For the pay of superintendents of Indian affairs, per acts of fifth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty, twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and third March, eighteen hundred fifty-two, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For the pay of the several Indian agents, per acts of fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty, twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the pay of interpreters, per acts of the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

For the pay of clerk to superintendent at St. Louis, Missouri, per act of twenty-seventh June,