[PUBLIC-No. 69.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

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, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, namely:

LEGISLATIVE

SENATE,

For compensation and mileage of senators, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, in addition to any unexpended balance of appropriation for that purpose in the treasury.

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz: Secretary of the Senate, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, five hundred and seventy-six dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in the office of the Secre tary of the Senate, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each; eight clerks in office of the Secretary of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; two messengers, at one thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars each; one page, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; Sergeant-at-arms and Doorkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand and forty dollars; Postmaster to the Senate, two thousand one hundred dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars; two mail boys, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of the document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; superintendent of the folding-room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seventeen messengers, at one thou sand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk or secretary to the President of the Senate, two thousand one hundred and two dollars and forty cents; clerk to the Committee on Finance, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Printing Records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent in charge of the furnaces, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; assistant in charge of furnaces, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; laborer in charge of private passages, eight hun dred and sixty-four dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and sixty-four dol lars each; chaplain to the Senate, nine hundred dollars; one special policeman, one thousand dollars; making one hundred thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars and eighty cents.

For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz

For stationery, ten thousand dollars.

For newspapers and stationery for seventy-four senators, to the amount of one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

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For Congressional Globe and Appendix, twenty thousand dollars. For reporting and printing the proceedings in the Daily Globe for the third session of the fortieth Congress, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the third session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars.

For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding fifteen hundred, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, ten thousand dollars.

For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, including coal, wood, and labor, twenty thousand dollars.

For plumbing, gas-fitting and labor, five thousand dollars.
For packing boxes for senators, one thousand dollars.

For furniture and carpets, ten thousand dollars.

For additional laborers and messengers, five thousand dollars.
For folding documents and materials, twenty thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand dollars.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from Territories, one million one hundred thousand dollars.

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For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, viz: Clerk of the House of Representatives, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; chief clerk and one assistant clerk, at two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars each, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars; twelve assistant clerks, (including the librarian,) at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; one chief messenger, and clerk to the Speaker, at five dollars and seventy-six cents per day each, four thousand two hundred and four dollars and eighty cents; for three messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; one engineer, eighteen hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars six firemen, at two dollars and forty cents each per day, five thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars; for clerk to Committee of Ways and Means, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to Committee on Appropriations, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; clerk to Committee on Claims, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; Sergeantat-arms, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; clerk to the Sergeant-at-arms, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; messenger to the Sergeant-at-arms, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; Doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; first assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; Postmaster, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; first assistant postmaster, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; five messengers, at one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars each; two mail boys, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; chaplain of the House, nine hundred dollars; two stenographers, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars each; superintendent of folding-room, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; superintendent and assistant

of the document room, at five dollars and seventy-six cents per day each, four thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents; eleven messengers, five at eighteen hundred dollars, and six at fourteen hundred and forty dollars; twelve messengers during the session, at the rate of fourteen hundred and forty dollars per annum, six thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

CAPITOL POLICE.

For one captain, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; two lieutenants, at eighteen hundred dollars each, thirty-six hundred dollars; thirty privates, at fifteen hundred and eighty-four dollars each, forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; twelve watchmen, at one thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars; one superintendent in the crypt, fourteen hundred and forty dollars; uniforms, forty-six hundred dollars; contingent expenses, five hundred dollars; making in all, seventy-one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; one-half to be paid into the contingent fund of the Senate and the other half into the contingent fund of the House of Representatives: Provided, That after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, members of the Capitol police shall furnish at their own expense each his own uniform, which shall be in exact conformity to that required by regulations; and all provisions of law requiring an appropriation for such uniforms are hereby repealed. For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: For cartage, three thousand eight hundred dollars.

For clerks to committees and temporary clerks of the House of Representatives, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the third session of the fortieth Congress, and one hundred copies of the same for the House library, twenty-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding fifteen hundred, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, nine thousand five hundred dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase of Messrs. Little, Brown and Company two thousand copies of the fourteenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large, for distribution agreeably to the acts of Congress directing the distribution of the other volumes, seven thousand dollars.

For folding documents, including materials, forty-two thousand dollars.

For fuel and lights,including plumbing, gas fitting, repairs, and materials, fifteen thousand dollars.

For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes, thirty thousand dollars.

For horses and carriages for the transportation of mails and for the use of messengers, ten thousand dollars.

For laborers, eight thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, seventy thousand dollars.

For stationery and newspapers for two hundred and fifty members and delegates, to the amount of one hundred and twenty-five dollars each, thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For twenty-five pages and three temporary mail boys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, sixteen thousand dollars.

For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster of the House shall account to the Clerk of the House, at the end of each session of Congress, for all stationery by him received and distributed.

For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for the

. Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the House for the third session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

For compensation of the Congressional Printer, and the clerks and and messengers in his office, twelve thousand five hundred and fourteen dollars: Provided, That the salary of the foreman of binding in the Government Printing Office shall hereafter be eighteen hundred dollars per annum.

For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For stationery, postage, advertising, furniture, travelling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, fifteen hundred dollars.

For the public printing, three hundred and ninety-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-seven cents.

For paper for the public printing, four hundred thousand dollars.

For the public binding, three hundred and sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-two cents.

For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the female employees in the Government Printing Office shall be entitled to twenty per centum additional upon their present pay, and the necessary amount is hereby appropriated to pay the

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

For compensation of the librarian, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars.

For three assistant librarians, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.

For two assistant librarians, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one at one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars, two thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For one messenger, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For three laborers, at eight hundred and sixty-four dollars each, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars.

For three assistant librarians, at fourteen hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said library, two thousand dollars.

For purchase of books for said library, eight thousand dollars.

For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars.

For purchase of files of periodicals and newspapers, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For botanic garden, grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, and purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, five thousand four hundred dollars.

For pay of superintendents and assistants in botanic garden and greenhouses, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, eleven thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars.

For the expenses of exchanging public documents for the publications of foreign governments, as provided by resolution ap proved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, fifteen hundred dollars.

COURT OF CLAIMS.

For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, the solicitor, assistant solicitor, deputy solicitor, chief clerk and assistant clerk, bailiff, and messenger thereof, thirty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, and commissioners, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For payment of judgments which may be rendered by the court in favor of claimants one hundred thousand dollars.

EXECUTIVE.

For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation to the Vice-President of the United States, from March fourth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents.

For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand.

five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the private secretary, assistant secretary, who shall be a short-hand writer, two clerks of class four, steward and messenger of the President of the United States, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That so much of the fourth section of the act of July twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, making appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as authorizes the President of the United States to appoint a clerk of pardons, and one clerk of the fourth class, is hereby repealed. For contingent expenses of the executive office, including stationery therefor, three thousand dollars.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

For salary of the warden of the jail in the District of Columbla, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For compensation of four laborers in the Capitol, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

For compensation to the public gardener, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For compensation of a foreman and twenty-one laborers employed in the public grounds, nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars.

For compensation of two watchmen at the President's House, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President's House, one thousand dollars.

For compensation of five watchmen in reservation number two, five thousand dollars.

For compensation of draw-keepers at the Potomac bridge, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, five thousand dollars.

For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and for fuel, oil and lamps, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.

For compensation of furnace-keeper under the old hall of the House of Representatives, eight hundred and sixty four dollars.

For compensation of furnace-keeper at the President's House, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For clerk in the office of Public Buildings, one thousand two hundred dollars. For messenger in the same office, one thousand dollars.

For two policemen at the President's House, two thousand six hundred and forty dollars.