Potomac bridge for lamps and machinery,

For compensation of four assistants, draw keepers at the Potomac Bridge. including oil

fire:

wood, and repairs, five thousand dollars: Provided, That the
allowance to the
two assistants employed in keeping the south-
ern draw of said bridge shall be two dollars per day.

Proviso.

Lighting Penn! avenue, etc.

For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from Capitol Square to the Treasury Department, and compensation of two lamplighters for the same, and for lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds and President's house, eleven thousand dollars. For compensation and contingent expenses of auxiliary Auxiliary Guard. guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Repairs, etc., of bridges on East

For repairs of the bridges on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, pay of two draw keepers, oil for lamps and machinery, ern Branch. and for reimbursing to the Corporation and levy court of Washington city, the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars advanced by them for repairs already done, five thousand dollars.

For completing the improvements on Indiana avenue, three thousand dollars.

For grading, graveling, repairing sidewalks, building culverts, and otherwise improving New Jersey Avenue, north of the Capitol, three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.

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For like improvements on New Jersey avenue, from the Capitol Square to public reservation, number seventeen, according to such grade as the Corporation of Washington may hereafter establish, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings."

For paying a balance due Peter Gorman, for furnishing stone for paving Pennsylvania avenue, two hundred and sixty dollars and sixty-five cents.

nue.

Indiana ave

New avenue.

Jersey

Peter Gorman. -oh basi y

⚫ street.

For completing the gravelling on Four-and-a-half street, from Four-and-a-half Maryland avenue to the Arsenal grounds, and flagging the west side, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Twelve patients Infirmary.

in Washington

Proviso.

For the support, care, and medical treatment of twelve transient pauper medical or surgical patients in the Washington Infirmary, two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings: Provided, The physicians and surgeons of the aforesaid infirmary give bonds for the maintenance of twelve pauper transient patients during one year, if application be made for their reception, and bind themselves to keep rooms for the accommodation of twelve pauper patients weekly on an average during the year. For completing the grading, planting with trees and enclos- The Mall. ing with a substantial wooden fence for their protection, the' mall from Sixth street westward, to the Potomac river, five thousand dollars.

For extending the sewers from the Executive Department and the President's house to the canal, and for further improving the grounds south of the President's house, fifteen thousand dollars.

Balance due Contractors for:

For paying a balance due the contractors for laying gas pipes between the Capitol and Fifteenth street, within the Capitol and laying gas pipes.

Continuing

sewer

under

Pennsylvania

avenue.

Extension the Capitol.

Remission

of

of

duties on books.

Proviso.

Bishop of Natchez.

Capitol grounds, and for chandeliers and burners in the President's

Iwithin the Capitol pleting the branch pipes, lamps, &c.,

grounds, thousand

For continuing the sewer under Pennsylvania avenue on the east line of Fourteenth street to the canal, three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.

For the extension of the Capitol, according to such plan as may be approved by the President of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars; to be expended under his direction by such architect as he may appoint to e execute the same.

That the duties now due the United States upon a certain importation of printed books, contained in three cases, marked one hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and ninety-five, and three, and shipped by William Crickner, from London, England, in the ship J. W. Andrews, unto Messrs. Hill and Sears, Boston, the value of said books being seventy-eight pounds four shillings and six pence sterling, be, and the same are hereby, remitted: Provided, It shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that such books have not been imported for sale, but for charitable and gratuitous circulation by certain religious societies in the United States.

For refunding to John Joseph Chance, Bishop of Natchez, the duties paid on a cathedral bell, presented to said Bishop by Prince Alexander Torlonia, of Rome, two hundred and fifty dollars. བསྟན་རྩར་འི་འདེ*

Maryland Hos

pital.

Annuities.

to

Secretary sign land patents.

Additional

watchmen, Capitol grounds.

Commissioner.

For the expenses of paupe

in the Maryland Hospital at Baltimore, eight thousand six hundred dollars. For payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of two additional watchmen on the Capitol grounds, seven hundred and thirty dollars.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings,

of Public Build- two thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the appropriation shall be drawn from the Treasury except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure.

For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand and seventy dollars.

For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of depositing public public moneys, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars.

moneys.

Incidental expenses of land offices.

For incidental expenses of the several land offices, twentyfive thousand and fifty dollars.

Assistant treas-

For salaries of assistant treasurers of the United States at Assi New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.

For additional salary of the treasurer of the mint at Philadelphia, five hundred dollars.

For salaries of ten clerks authorized by the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the twelfth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, nine thousand dol

lars.

For salary of chief clerk of assistant treasurer at New York, one thousand five hundred dollars.

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, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars; Provided, That no part of said sum of sixteen thousand five hundred dollars shall be expended for clerical services.

For compensation to special agents to examine books, accounts, and money on hand in the several depositories, under the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, five thousand dollars.

For dollars.

expenses of loans and treasury notes, twenty thousand

For supply of deficiencies in the fund for the relief of sick seamen, including the furnishing of five new marine hospitals now building, viz: Paducah, Kentucky; Chicago, Illinois; Natchez, Mississippi; Napoleon, Arkansas; St. Louis, Missou ri; two hundred thousand dollars."

For continuing the construction of the custom-house at New Orleans, two hundred thousand dollars. A

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Treasurer of nint, Phila.

Delta of the Mis

sissippi.

For the topographical and hydrographical survey of the Delta Survey of the of the Mississippi, with such investigations as may lead to determine the most practicable plan for securing it from inundation, and the best mode of so deepening the passes at the mouth of the river as to allow ships of twenty feet draught to enter the same, fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs, alterations, and furniture for the new customhouse at Portland, Maine, eight thousand dollars.

For repairs and furniture for the custom-house at Castine, in the district of Penobscot, three thousand. six hundred' dollars.

For the purchase of a site, and the erection of a custom-house in the city of Bangor, Maine, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the cost of said building shall not exceed said sum.

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Custom-house at Portland.

Custom-house

at Castine.

Custom-house at Bangor.

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Custom-house and post office at

For the purchase of a site, and the erection of a new customhouse at Mobile, to contain rooms for the Post Office in that Mobile. city, and the accommodation of its officers, and also rooms for the United States district court, and the accommodation of its officers one hundred thousand dollars, in addition to such sum as may be received for the sale of the old custom-house building: Provided, That the plan of the building shall be such,

Proviso.

Custom-house and post office at Bath.

that the whole cost both of the building and site shall in no event exceed the appropriation hereby made.

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby, authorized and required to purchase, as soon as it can be effected on reasonable terms, a site for a custom-house and post office in the city of Bath, in the State of Maine, and to cause to be erected thereon such a building as may be suitable for a custom-house and post office: Provided, The said Secretary should not deem it more expedient to have the present custom-house repaired: Provided, Further pro also, That the entire cost of such site and building, or of such repairs, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

Proviso.

viso.

Custom-house

For repairing and lining the arches and vaults of the customat Philadelphia. house building at Philadelphia, to render them proper for storing goods, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Custom-house

at Charleston.

Custom-house and post office at Norfolk.

Proviso.

Custom-house and post office at San Francisco.

Proviso.

viso.

For continuing the construction of the custom-house at Charleston, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the purchase of a site and the building of a custom-house and post office at Norfolk, Virginia, in addition to the proceeds of the sale of the present custom-house and site, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the plan of the building shall be such that the whole cost, both of the building and site, shall in no event exceed the appropriation hereby made.

For the erection of a new custom-house at San Francisco, to contain rooms for the post office in that city, and and the accommodation of its officers, and also rooms for the United States district court, the accommodation of its officers, and other Government officers in California, until the whole building is needed for custom-house purposes, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, Said building shall be exempt from all State, pro- City or other taxation: And provided further, That the whole cost of the same shall not exceed four hundred thousand dollars.

Custom-house

at Savannah.

Custom-house

Louis.

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For continuing the construction of the custom-house at Savannah, Georgia, fifteen thousand dollars.

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For purchasing a site, and commencing the erection of a and Government suitable fire-proof building in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, for custom-house and independent Treasury, and other offsun ces of the United States, the sum of fifty thousand dollars; the whole cost of the building not to exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, Provided, That said building shall be exempted from city taxes and all other taxes whatever, by act of the Legislature of Missouri.

Proviso.

Custom-house

offices at Cincin

nati.

Proviso.

For the purchase of a site, and construction of a proper and Government building at Cincinnati, for a custom-house, independent Treasury, and other offices of the United States, fifty thousand dollars, Provided, That the total cost of construction shall not exceed pro- seventy-five thousand dollars, And provided also, That said building shall be exempted from city taxes and all other taxes whatever, by act of the Legislature of Ohio.

Further

viso.

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For repairing and painting the custom-house at Providence in the State of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars.

Altering

tom-house

cusat

For finishing and altering rooms in the custom-house, Portland, Maine, for the accommodation of the federal courts, clerk Portland for acof the district and circuit courts, and marshal's office, three U. s. courts. thousand and thirty-one dollars and seventy-one cents.

For survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation to superintendent and assistants, one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars.

commodation of

Coast survey.

da coasts.

For continuation of the survey of reefs, shoals, keys, and Survey of Floricoasts of South Florida, by the superintendent of the coast survey, thirty thousand dollars.

For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, forty thousand dollars.

Western coast survey.

Purchase of 8th

can archives..

To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for one hundred and two copies of the eighth volume of the Ameri- volume of American archives, to be retained in his possession until disposed of by Congress, at sixteen dollars and eighty-three cents per volume, one thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and sixtysix cents.

To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives, to, pay for one hundred and seventeen copies of the eighth volume of the American archives, to be retained in his possession until disposed of by Congress, at sixteen dollars and eighty-three cents per volume, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eleven cents.

For reporting in the Daily

To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for reporting and publishing in the "Daily Globe" two thous Globe." and columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives, for this session, at the rate of seven dollars and fifty cents a column, fifteen thousand dollars.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for binding the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for members of the Thirty-first Congress, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required to pay for binding said volumes in strong substantial Russia leather, backs and corners,, at a price not exceeding sixty cents.

Binding "CongressionalGlobe”

Purchase

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Congressional for five thousand five hundred and ninety-two copies of the Globe," "Congressional Globe," and for five thousand five hundred and ninety two copies of the Appendix, at three dollars per copy each, thirty-three thousand four hundred and eight dollars.

To enable the Librarian of Congress to subscribe for and purchase one thousand copies of the works of John Adams, second President of the United States to be published by Little and Brown in an edition of ten volumes, Provided, The cost of the same shall not exceed two dollars and, twenty-five cents per volume, said volumes to be disposed of as Congress may hereafter direct, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars

For completing the eastern wing of the Patent Office building according to the original plan, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; and for defraying such expenses as

Purchase of the

works of Presi

dent Adams.

Proviso.

Patent Office East wing.