32D CONG.....2D SESS. .... 1,000 00 the Department having changed the site after said materials were delivered at the site first selected..... To the officers appointed to assist the Superintendent of the Naval Astronomical Expedition in Chili, directed by the act of third of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, increased compensation in a ratable proportion, according to pay and rank, at the time of departure from the United States, to the allowance made to the said Superintendent by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one...................[Indefinite.] $2,353,909 56 By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Legislative. For compensation and mileage of Senators....$187,999 20 Appropriations. Northeast Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent and four Treasury Department. For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office.... For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office.. For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office.. For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office. For compensation to temporary clerks, employed in the office of the Third Auditor in making out certificates of service from the muster-rolls of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the several Indian wars, and on arrearages of pay........ For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office.. 3,300 00 32,050 00 For labor and other miscellaneous items, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the First and Fifth Auditors, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office.... For arranging and binding canceled marine papers, returned by the collectors of the customs, In the office of the Solicitor : For blank books, binding, stationery, and for labor.... 2,000 00 1,000 00 900 00 22,150 00 24,650 00 For miscellaneous items....... 200 00 In the office of the Second Auditor: For Blank books, binding, stationery, labor, office furniture, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and miscellaneous items.... 1,332 84 In the office of the Third Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, including carpeting, two newspapersthe Union and Intelligencer-to be filed, labor, and miscellaneous items.. For expenses of arranging document rooms and preserving files and papers..... 1,894 79 1,000 00 For furniture.. 500 00 1,000 00 33,700 00 For contingencies incident to the bounty land service, and arrearages..... 1,400 00 Contingent expenses of east wing of Patent In the office of the Fourth Auditor: For stationery, books, and binding.. For labor... Office Building, viz: 600 00 100 00 For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses.. 2,200 00 War Department. For miscellaneous items... 200 00 16,025 00 10,000 00 In the office of the Fifth Auditor: For blank books, binding, and stationery. For hire of laborers...... 250 00 175 00 For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General.. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Adjutant General.... For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Quartermaster General.. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of Clothing and Equipage, in Philadelphia........ 1,500 00 10,450 00 12,300 00 4,040 00 For clerks to committees, and President pro tempore, draughtsman, messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carry-alls. To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of said House of March first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, directing him to pay the usual extra compensation to the employees in and about the Capitol..... To supply a deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the contingent expenses of the Senate, for lithographing and engraving, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.. In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For labor, blank books, stationery, sealing ships' registers, translating foreign languages, advertising, and extra clerk hire for preparing and collecting information to be laid before Congress-said clerks to be employed only during the session of Congress, or when indispensably necessary to enable the department to answer some call made by either House of Congress at one session to be answered at another; and no such extra clerk shall receive more than three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per day for the time actually and necessarily employed...... In the office of the Second Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, including pay for the National Intelligencer and the Union, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office.... For labor, office furniture, and miscellaneous items..... 700 00 800 00 In the office of the First Auditor: For blank books, binding, and stationery, labor, and cases for records and official papers...... 1,000 00 For miscellaneous items, including subscription for the Union and National Intelligencer, to be filed for the use of the office..... Department of the Interior. For compensation of the Secretary of the Inte- For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian For compensation to temporary clerks employed In the office of the Secretary of the Interior: For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies. For library, books, and maps.. In the General Land Office: For compensation of laborers.. For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patent and other records, tract books, blank books, for the district land offices; binding plats, field notes, &c.; stationery, office furniture, and repairs of the same, and miscellaneous items.. For parchment, maps, records, letter and other records, required under the swamp land act of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; military bounty acts of twentyeighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twenty-second of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants, per act of thirtyfirst of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; printing plate and engraving scrip, authorized to be issued by act of thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, including form, &c., under said act, and other miscellaneous expenses.... In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: 36,325 00 32,700 00 For blank books, binding, and stationery........ 1,000 00 For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, 13,850 00 For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks and messenger in his office 16,500 00 For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-House Board... 6,400 00 For books, maps, and plans... 1,450 00 550 00 1,000 00 For extra clerks........ In the office of the Commanding General: In the office of the Adjutant General: For blank books, binding, and stationery....... For miscellaneous items, including office furni 500 00 For blank books, binding, stationery, advertising, and labor.... For miscellaneous items....... In the office of the Chief Engineer: For blank books, binding, and stationery. For miscellaneous items, including subscription to two daily Washington newspapers.. In the office of the Surgeon General: For blank books, binding, and stationery ....... For miscellaneous items..... In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance: For blank books, binding, and stationery... For miscellaneous items ......... ............ In the Bureau of Topographical Engineers: For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor.. For miscellaneous items. Northwest Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northwest executive building For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, and lights........ For miscellaneous items.................. ............................... Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets. For rent of house on northwest corner of F and Seventeenth streets, and warming all the rooms in it....... For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the building corner of F and Seventeenth streets....... For file-boards, repairs, cases, desks for safe. keeping of paper, new furniture, lights, washing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic dispatches, stoves, Mint of the United States. For salaries of director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter, and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and six clerks.... 32D CONG.....2D SESS. For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Chief Engineer.... For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Surgeon General... For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance.... For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers....... Contingent Expenses of the War Department. In the office of the Secretary of War: For blank books, stationery, and labor.......... For miscellaneous items.. For miscellaneous items.... For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel for the for office furniture, glazing, whitewashing, and For compensation of the Auditor of the Post 3,080 00 2,300 00 1,200 00 620 00 For salary of the Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court... For compensation of the District Attorneys..... For compensation of the Marshals For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty four, and previous years, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners.... 1,300 00 8,800 00 7,400 00 &c..... 1,500 00 To aid the Directors of the Washington Infirmary to enlarge their accommodations for the benefit of sick transient paupers.. 20,000 00 22,200 00 For wages of workmen.. ... 72,000 00 Surveyors General and their Clerks. For compensation of the Surveyor General northwest of the Ohio, and clerks in his office.. 8,300 00 For compensation of the Surveyor General of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office........ 5,820 00 2,900 00 150 00 For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds 500 00 For specimens of ores and coins, to be preserved at the Mint... 41,500 00 300 00 For compensation of the Surveyor General of 4,500 00 5,500 00 8,300 00 At Charlotte, North Carolina: For compensation of the Chief Naval Constructor and the Engineer-in-Chief.... For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his office.... For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Navy-Yards and Docks, and the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his of fice... For compensation of the clerks and messengerin the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing........ For compensation to the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the assistant to chief, clerks, and messenger in his office..... 7,700 00 Contingencies of the Navy Department. For contingencies of the Navy Department and all the bureaus connected therewith, viz: For blank books, binding, stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, newspapers and periodicals, incidental and miscellaneous items..... 6,430 00 Southwest Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent and four For contingent expenses of said Territory.. For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly......... 20,000 00 Territory of Minnesota: 1,000 00 For salaries of Governor, Superintendent of In- For salaries of Governor, Superintendent of In- 9,700 00 1,000 00 1,855 00 20,000 00 9,700 00 1,000 00 20,000 00 20,000 00 325 00 1,550 00 1,150 00 For compensation of the Postmaster General, three Assistant Postmasters General, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department... ..108,900 00 For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme 41,000 00 70,700 00 11,700 00 For compensation of the Surveyor General of Arkansas, and the clerks in his office...... For compensation of the Surveyor General of Oregon, and the clerks in his office.... For compensation of the Surveyor General of California, and the clerks in his office... For clerks in the offices of the Surveyors General, including the offices in Oregon and California, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government..... Light-House Establishment. For supplying the light-houses, containing three thousand two hundred and seventy-two lamps, with oil, lamp glasses, wicks, buff-skins, polishing powder, whiting, and other cleaning materials; transportation, and other necessary expenses on the same; repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and instructions; notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, and of lights, &c... .136,718 33 For salaries of forty-nine keepers, and six assistants, for the light-houses authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty two......... 22,000 00 For salaries of forty-two keepers of light-vessels, 23,000 00 For salaries of five keepers of light-vessels, authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and thirty first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.. For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies for forty-two light vessels.. For seamen's wages, supplies, and incidental expenses for five light-vessels, authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and thirty first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, 33,004 72 For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons, and buoys, chains, sinkers, &c., for light vessels.... 59,057 32 For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of two hundred and forty-five dumb beacons and buoys, and their appendages, authorized by act of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.... 3,150 00 .103,664 52 12,300 00 10,500 00 1,500 00 32D CONG....2D SESS. ..... For expenses of coloring, numbering, &c., all of the buoys and beacons provided for by the act of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty.... For life-boats and other means of rendering assistance to wrecked mariners and others on the coast of the United States..... For expenses of visiting and reporting the condition of lights and other aids to navigation..... 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 March third, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone, 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 disbursed by them..... Coasts of California and Oregon: For oil and other supplies, cleaning materials of all kinds, transportation of supplies, keeping lamps and machinery in good repair, and the towers and buildings in a proper state of preservation, superintendence and inspection of thirteen lights, replacing, cleaning, painting, and preserving all the buoys in the waters of California and Oregon, and all incidental expenses connected with the aids to navigation on these coasts.... For salaries of thirteen keepers and eleven assistants, at an average not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum...... Light-Houses. 12,000 00 10,000 00 2,000 00 8,000 00 Appropriations. For proceeding with the construction of the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky.......... For the completion of the custom-house at Cincinnati............ For the purchase of land additional to the present custom-house lot at Providence, Rhode Island, For the erection of a new custom-house at said port, which shall be so constructed and arranged as to furnish a suitable room for the United States circuit and district courts, with the necessary offices for district judge, clerk, marshal, &c.. For the construction of the custom-house at Wilmington, Delaware, in addition to the sum appropriated by the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.... ... For annual repairs and office fixtures of the custom houses of the United States.... For the construction of a custom-house at Nerfolk, Virginia....... To equalize the salary of the collector of Chicago, and to make it equal to that of Detroit... For completing and finishing the marine hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas For annual repairs and office fixtures of the cus- 87,745 00 87,745 00 16,000 00 34,000 00 3,500 00 25,000 00 30,000 00 1,250 00 4,000 00 25,000 00 20,000 00 4,000 00 20,000 00 14,400 00 For rebuilding light-house on Chaudeleur Island, Louisiana, destroyed in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.... For restoring the light-house buildings, sea-walls, &c., which were injured or destroyed during the late gales on the southern coast... For fitting Cape Hatteras light with first order of illuminating apparatus and lantern, and elevating the light... For removing the iron light-house tower at the junction of the Southwest and Northeast Passes of the Mississippi to Pass a l'Outre, and substituting a small beacon light in its stead........ 6,000 00 Independent Treasury. For salaries of the Assistant Treasurers of the United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis...... For additional salaries of the Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia, of one thousand dollars, and of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, of five hundred dollars...... For salary of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at San Francisco..... For salaries of ten additional clerks, authorized by the acts of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two..... For salary of chief clerk to the Assistant Treasurer at New York..... For salary of a clerk for the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at San Francisco, California.... For contingent expenses under the act for the safe-keeping, collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty six .... 15,000 00 25,000 00 For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same places..... 18,000 00 20,000 00 6,000 00 2,500 00 11,500 00 1,500 00 4,500 00 10,800 00 1,600 00 2,500 00 16,500 00 • For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand in the several depositories, under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six,.... 5,000 00 For the compensation of an additional appraiser general, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be employed on the Pacific coast...... 6,000 00 Survey of the Coast. For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to superintendent and assistants, (and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the Army and Navy, and petty officers and men of the Navy, employed on the work)...... For salaries and outfits of Chargé d'Affaires or Ministers Resident to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, New Granada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Switzerland, and Nicaragua..... For salary of clerk to the United States legation at London..... For the payment of Theodore S. Fay of the difference between the salary of a Secretary of Legation and a Chargé d'Affaires, during the time, on several different occasions, he discharged the duties of the latter office at Prussia..... For the compensation of Edward Kent, for one quarter's salary as Chargé d'Affaires at the Legation at Rio de Janeiro, during the absence of the Minister, and under the instructions of the Department of State........ To reimburse David Tod, late Minister of the United States at Brazil, a sum of money advanced by him to William E. Anderson, who was sent by the Minister from Rio de Janeiro to the United States in the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as a witness against two persons engaged in the slave trade........... For payment of Buckingham Smith, late a Secretary of Legation in Mexico, the difference between his salary as Secretary of Legation and that of Chargé d'Affaires, from the twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the eighth of October following, during which period he discharged the duties of Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico, in the absence of the Minister of the United States, who had returned home on leave..... Surveys of Public Lands. For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses and special surveys, demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, (the part to be applied to the resurveys required by the location and survey of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile,) in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations.. For resurveys and examinations of the surveys of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyors general have been or shall be closed under the acts of twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed on this special service in the General Land Office, 15,000 00 For correcting defective and fraudulent surveys in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including .115,000 00 the expenses of a field inspector of surveys.... 5,000 00 To defray the expenses of examining and correcting old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan..... For the survey of township and section lines in 3,000 00 25,000 00 45,000 00 2,500 00 14,000 00 For surveying in Louisiana at augmented rates, including salary and expenses of surveyor, to locate private land claims... For the survey of private land claims in Florida, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, including the work now under contract.... For completing certain surveys in Florida, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, in consequence of the peculiar difficulties attending the execution of the same on account of swamps, lakes, marshes, &c., and for scrap work.... For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida coast, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight..... 20,000 00 For surveying standard, parallel, township, and section lines in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, nearly equal to six thousand four hundred miles.... 10,000 00 76,400 00 For extending the principal meridian line in Oregon, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, 4,000 00 For rent of Surveyor General's office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, &c....... 2,250 00 To defray the expenses incurred of a geological reconnoissance in Oregon, undertaken in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, under instructions from the Department of the Interior, and intrusted to Doctor J. Evans..... 11,984 25 For completing the geological reconnoissance in Oregon.... 5,000 00 For rent of Surveyor General's office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messengers, &c. 11,400 00 For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of California, under act of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty two..... 30,000 00 For surveying standard lines in California, meandering and surveying irregular and river lots, &c., amounting to two thousand miles, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile......... 30,000 00 For subdividing into townships, equal to one thousand two hundred miles of surveying, at a rate not exceeding fourteen dollars per mile, in California... 1,756 95 For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad 40,000 00 For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.. 40,000 00 For expenses of intercourse with Barbary....... 9,000 00 For salary of the Consul at London... 2,000 00 For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands..... 5,000 00 .186,000 00 For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates of Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, and Alexandria... For office rent of the Consul at Basle, in Switzerland.. 2,000 00 100 00 For salary and outfit of a Commissioner to reside in China, including the additional compensation under the act to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte...... 18,000 00 For salary of the Interpreter and Secretary to said mission..... 30,000 00 2,500 00 For continuing the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, 50,000 00 For printing and distributing charts of lake surveys.... 1,500 00 Custom-Houses. For continuing the construction of the customhouse at Charleston, South Carolina.........100,000 00 For continuing the construction of the custom house at New Orleans, Louisiana............324,000 00 To complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine.. 12,000 00 To complete the foundation of the custom house in Bangor, and to connect the same with the shore 15,000 00 For continuing the construction of the customhouse at St. Louis .......115,000 00 For salary of the Consul at Beirout.... 16,800 00 For sectioning one hundred townships, equal to six thousand miles of surveying, in California, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, 72,000 00 Public Buildings. 2,000 00 For compensation of the clerk in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings.... 1,000 00 For the extension of the United States Capitol...600,000 00 For compensation, in part, of the messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol..... For compensation of the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol...... For compensation of the public gardener........ 350 00 365 00 1,200 00 32D CONG.....2D SESS. For compensation of sixteen laborers employed in the pubife grounds and President's garden, at the rate of forty dollars per month each.... To supply a deficiency for the purchase of trees and the hire of laborers on the improvements of reservation number two, or public mall, between Seventh and Twelfth streets west..... For compensation of the keeper of the western gate of the Capitol square.. For compensation of two day watchmen, employed in the Capitol square, at five hundred dollars each For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President's House, at five hundred dollars, and of assistant doorkeeper at the same, at three hundred and sixty five dollars per annum.... For compensation of two night watchmen at the President's House.... For a bridge across the Potomac at Little Falls, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.. For the purpose of bringing water into the city of Washington, upon such plans and from such places as the President of the United States may approve.... For compensation of two draw-keepers and a watchman at the Potomac Bridge, and for fuel and oil for lamps..... For repairing the Long Bridge across the Potomac river... For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, and for fuel and oil for lamps.... For compensation of the Auxiliary Guard, and for fuel and oil for lamps..... For the support, care, and medical treatment, in the Washington Infirmary, of twelve transient paupers, medical and surgical patients.... For the purchase of manure for the public grounds.. 7,680 00 5,276 52 730 01 1,000 00 865 00 1,000 00 30,000 00 .....100,000 00 1,800 00 20,000 00 1,000 00 16,400 00 2,000 00 For cart bire on the public grounds... For the purchase and repair of tools upon the public grounds... 1,000 00 1,000 00 500 00 For the purchase of trees and tree boxes to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, and for repairs of pavements in front of the public grounds...... For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, water pipes, pavements, and other walks within and around the Capitol Square, painting the interior of all the committee rooms, cleaning out and paving the vaults under the crypt, extending gas-pipes through the vaults, cleaning and whitewashing the cening of the rotunda, replacing broken glass, locks, &c.. For annual repairs of the President's House, furniture, improvement of grounds, painting and repairing roof, cleaning, painting, and whitewashing inside of the house, extending east wing of offices for carriage-house, blinds for the west front of the house, flooring large room in basement, purchasing trees and plants for garden, and for making hot-beds therein, wire fence, &c.... For refurnishing the President's House, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of such of the furniture and equipage of the said house as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use... For painting the exterior of the President's House below the cornice... For heating and ventilating the Executive Mansion, painting the exterior thereof, and painting the walls, ceilings, &c., of the rooms on the first floor, and making other improvements and repairs, and for the purchase of books for the President's library..... For erecting lamp-posts and lamps on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, from Seventeenth street to Georgetown, and from the Capitol to the Navy Yard..... For completing the grading and paving of the carriage way of Pennsylvania Avenue, from Seventeenth street to Rock Creek, and for setting the curb stone and paving the footway six feat wide on each side of said Avenue, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object....... For inclosing with an iron fence, and otherwise improving, the triangular space on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the market house, and between Seventh and Eighth streets... For a deficiency for surveying, leveling, and measuring the triangular square on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets....... For supplying a deficiency in the appropriation made March third, eighteen hundred and fortynine, for completing the room under the Senate post office...... .... For lighting the Capitol and President's House, the public grounds around them and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania Ave 2,300 00 6,800 00 For expenses of loans and treasury notes....... For compensation of three inspectors of said pen- For the support, clothing, and medical treatment 65 00 7,350 00 300 00 1,240 00 10,000 00 8,750 00 5,000 00 For the collection of agricultural statistics and purchase of seeds, to be paid out of the patent fund... For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors, appointed under the act approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other expenses incurred by them..... 70,000 00 For paper required for the printing of Congress for the first session of the Thirty-Third Congress.. For paper required for the printing of the Execu- For the printing of the Senate for the first session For the printing of the Executive departments, 104,064 00 10,300 00 37,463 00 45,000 09 Fort Winthrop, Governor's Island, Boston...... 29,573 00 For commutation of officers' subsistence........615,847 00 For commutation of forage for officers' horses...104,928 00 For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants........ 36,320 00 For expenses of recruiting.. 43,200 00 22,000 00 .200,000 00 4,000 00 .100,000 00 For carrying into effect the provisions of the act establishing an assay office in the city of New York, in addition to the charges therein authorized to be incurred... To pay James B. Smallwood and Martin La Truite, boys attending upon the mail wagons of the Senate, being twenty per cent. in addition to their pay for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.... 292 00 To pay the clerks of the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy, the Interior, and the Post Office, when distributed and arranged as required by the third section of this act according to its provisions.... ..[Indefinite.] The Secretary of the Treasury to purchase at the current market price any of the outstanding stocks of the United States as he may think most advisable, from any surplus funds in the Treasury.... ...........[Indefinite.] The President of the United States to compensate Clark Mills for the execution of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, recently placed upon the public square in the city of Washington north of the Executive Mansion, and to make the same the property of the United States To pay Daniel S. McCauley, the late Consul General at Alexandria, in Egypt, for office rent at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum, during the time he acted in that capacity....[Indefinite.] For salaries of Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, three judges, attorney, and marshal of Washington Territory, from the time of their appointment to the end of the fiscal 20,000 00 .352,143 56 For subsistence in kind. For clothing for the Army, camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments... For the regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen, of the Quartermaster's Department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and also for the authorized number of officers' horses when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers' bedding; and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster's Departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports.. ..1,050,000 00 For the incidental expenses of the Quartermas ter's Department, consisting of postage on letters and packets received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judges-advocate, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to sol diers employed, under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the construction of roads and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers, and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster's Department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerk to officers of the Quartermaster's Department; compensation of forage and wagon-masters, authorized by the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various expenditures required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, including the purchase of traveling forges, blacksmith's and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron, hire and veterinary surgeons, and medicine for horses and mules... 300,000 00 32D CONG.....2D SESS. For constructing, repairing, and enlarging barracks, quarters, hospitals, storehouses, stables, wharves, and ways, at the several posts and army depôts; for temporary cantonments, and the authorized furniture for barrack rooms of non commissioned officers and soldiers; gunhouses for the protection of cannon, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for rent of quarters and offices for officers, and barracks and hospitals for troops, where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; for storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments and encamp ments...... .300,000 00 65,000 00 40,000 00 ..120,000 00 For erecting barracks and quarters at the Republican fork of the Kansas river......... For erecting barracks and quarters for a military post on Minnesota river........ For mileage or allowance made to officers for the transportation of themselves and baggage, when traveling on duty without troops... For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, and horse equipments, from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depôts; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depôts; freights, tolls, and ferriage; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other sea-going vessels and boats, for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance.... ..1,500,000 00 For the purchase of horses required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted. .180,000 00 For the medical and hospital departments...... 52,000 00 For cannon, gun-carriages, and projectiles for sea-coast defense. ...200,000 00 For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies....100,000 00 For the current expense of the ordnance service, 100,000 00 For the manufacture of arms at the national armories..... .250,000 00 To make good damages at Harper's Ferry, caused by the flood of nineteenth and twentieth of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-two......... 20,000 00 For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper's Ferry........ 43,500 00 For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield Armory................................. 46,094 00 For arsenals.... 41,071 00 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..... 3,500 00 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... 10,334 31 For bridges, and establishing communications between Fort Leavenworth and the Republican fork of the Kansas river.... 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's Department..... 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's Department..... 10,000 00 For the discharge of claims for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida....[Indefinite.] To extend the provisions 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, to the officers and men of the two companies of regiment of mounted riflemen that garrisoned the post of Fort Laramie, Oregon route, during the time they occupied said post...........[Indefinite.] To pay 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... 1,367 70 By the act making appropriations for the Naval service 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.. $2,880,148 00 To pay to the officers, petty officers, and seamen of the United States Navy, to the officers, noncommissioned 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 twenty-eighth 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. [Indefinite.] To allow to Lieutenant 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 fifty-one, 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 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . [ Indefinite.] For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navy-yards and stations...... For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including engineers and marines attached to vessels for sea service,686,200 00 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.... For surgeons' necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of the Navy, including the Marine Corps... .108,650 00 5,000 00 37,300 00 1,941,450 00 For repair of vessels in ordinary, and for wear and tear of vessels in commission, including fuel and purchase of hemp.. 19,000 00 For ordnance and ordnance stores, and smallarms, including incidental expenses...... ..200,000 00 For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac For the purchase of nautical instruments required for the use of the Navy, for repairs of the same, and also of astronomical instruments... 11,000 00 For the purchase of nautical books, maps, and charts, and for backing and binding the same.. 12,500 00 For printing and publishing sailing directions, hydrographical surveys, and astronomical observations 5,500 00 7,240 00 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. For continuing the publication of the Wind and Current Charts, and for defraying all the expenses connected therewith.. 10,000 00 For pipes for carrying gas to, and fixtures for lighting with it, the National Observatory..... 2,500 00 For the wages of persons employed at the Observatory and Hydrographical Office, viz: one lithographer, one instrument maker, two watchmen, and one porter.. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: freight and transportation, printing and stationery, advertising in newspapers, books, maps, models, and drawings, purchase and repair of fire-engines and machinery, repairs of, and attending to steam-engines in navy-yards, 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, la bor 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, preiniums and other expenses of recruiting, apprehending deserters, per diem pay to persons attending courtsmartial and courts of inquiry, and other services authorized by law, pay to judges-advocate, pilotage and towage of vessels and as 3,160 00 sistance to vessels in distress, bills of health and quarantine expenses of the United States Navy in foreign ports.. For improvement and repair of buildings and grounds, and support of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland .527,840 00 46,059 00 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.. 38,000 00 For meterological observations, to be conducted under the directions of the Secretary of the Navy....... For construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, and for contingent expenses at the several navy-yards, viz: Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For cooper's shop and watchman's quarters, dredging in front, and pointing 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.... Boston, Massachusetts. 2,000 00 53,107 00 For extending quay-wharves, completing timber dock, machinery for engine, machine and armorers' shop, 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............114,600 00 Pensacola, Florida. For permanent wharf, paint-shops, and cooperage, construction of deep basin and dredging, rebuilding central wharf, and wharves J and C, smoke-stack, and extending machine-shops, mooring anchors, cables, and fixtures for mooring and operating floating dock, and for repairs of all kinds................ 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 of the Navy 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 fifty-one," 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..... FOR HOSPITALS.-At Boston. For repairs of all kinds |