Agricultural statistics. Scientific works for Patent Office. Librarian. Documentary History. Boundary line Dtween U.S. and Mexico. may have been incurred by materials procured or labor applied towards the west wing, prior to the fifteenth of May last, and for such materials or labor as may have been since procured or applied for the security of the old building, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund, if so much of said fund remains unappropriated, and if not, the excess out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. For the collection of agricultural statistics, four thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund. For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, one thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund. For compensation of Librarian, five hundred dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund. For payment of the second and third volumes of the fifth series of the Documentary History', under contract with the Secretary of State, thirty five thousand dollars. For expenses in running and marking the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, marking the examinations contemplated by the sixth article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and paying the salaries of the officers of the commission, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Penitentiary of For the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, two assistant keepers, four guards, and porter of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. the District of Columbia. Inspectors. Taking Seventh Census. James D. Doty, Taxes on the Philadelphia mint. George Thom. Expenses of reconstructing on the northern For three inspectors of said penitentiary, three hundred dollars. For discharging the expense of taking the seventh enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, one million one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. For the payment of a balance certified by the First Comptroller of the Treasury to be due to James D. Doty, as governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the Territory of Wis consin, one thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars and nine cents. 19 For the payment of taxes due on the mint in Philadelphia, for which a judgment has been obtained, ten thousand dollars. For compensation due Lieutenant George Thom, of the United States corps of Topographical Engineers, while acting upon the northeastern boundary during the years eighteen hundred forty-three, eighteen hundred forty-four, and eighteen hundred forty-five, for his necessary travelling and other personal expenses as authorized by the Secretary of State, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars. For the pay of draftsmen and assistants to the head of the maps; and mak- Scientific Corps, employed under the direction of the Departing examinations ment of State, in the reconstruction of the maps of the boundfrontiers of Ver ary under the treaty of Washington, and in copying and recording, seven thousand dollars; the rent of rooms employed for assistants to the head of the Scientific Corps engaged in recording, copying, &c., including fuel for the same, five hun mont and New York. em dred dollars; attendance on office rooms, and expenses offe ploying messengers, five hundred dollars; purchase of drawing paper, and other necessary drawing materials and office furni ture, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; stationery for office use, one hundred dollars; mileage and expense of officers employed in examinations required on the frontiers of Vermont and New York, eight hundred and forty dollars; for survey and examination of that portion of the line lying on the →northern frontiers of Vermont and New York, embracing hire of men and their transportation and subsistence, hire of horses and baggage wagons, camp equipage and its transportation, purchase of instruments and all contingencies, five thousand water, at dollars; and compensation of two private soldiers, for their services as draftsmen in re-constructing maps, eleven hundred and fifteen dollars, making in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and thirty dollars., Jose Yznardy. For paying a balance found by the accounting officers to be due to José Yznardy, formerly consul at Cadiz, in Spain, the sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eight cents; and said accounting officers are to ascertain how much of said sum is due by descent or devise, or in any other manner, to the late Joseph M. Yznardy, or to his heirs, former consul of the United States at Havana, who is indebted to the United States; and so much of this appropriation as shall so be found due to said Joseph M. Yznardy, or to his heirs, shall be applied on said indebtedness; and the remainder of this approa priation to be paid to the other heirs of the said José Yznardy, sor to his representatives, Thomas For payment of compensation to Doctor Thomas O. Edwards, for his services as examiner into the practical operation Edwards. of the law for the prevention of the importation of spurious and adulterated drugs and medicines, under appointment from the Secretary of the Treasury, October, tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, two hundred and fifty dollars. bh For salaries for examiners of drugs for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty one, at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, and New Orleans, per act twenty-sixth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, seven thousand dollars, 91% For salary of clerk to examiner at New York, one thousand dollars. Examiners drugs. of Clerk at New York. executor of Dan For the payment to W. J. Duane, of Philadelphia, execu-W. J. Duane, tor of Daniel Parker, deceased, late Paymaster General, and iel Parker. agent for paying salaries in his office, a balance found due the said Parker, by the accounting officer of the Treasury, eight hundred and eighty-six dollars. For the payment to Major W. H. Chase of the corps of engineers, in pursuance of the decision of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, of the second and fifteenth of November, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, one thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-eight cents. Richard Rush. Proviso. Charles Hawke. Lease of rooms in City Hall of Utica. Proviso. Office of as For the payment to Richard Rush of a balance ascertained to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury, for his salary as Attorney General of the United States, and for the satisfaction of which there is no appropriation, two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents: Provided however, That hereafter the proper accounting officers of the Treasury or other pay officers of the United States, shall in no case allow any pay to one individual the salaries of two different offices on account of having performed the duties thereof at the same time. But this prohibition shall not extend to the superintendents of the executive buildings. For the payment to Corporal Charles Hawke, as ascertained to be due him by the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, one cents. hundred and seventy-six dollars and thi to take a perpetual To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take a perpetual lease to the United States from the city of Utica, New York, free of taxes or other charges of any sort, so many rooms in the City Hall in said city, about to be erected, as may be necessary for the proper accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, holden in said city, and their officers, twelve thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be paid until it shall be certified by the justices of said circuit court that the said rooms are provided, and the said lease made. For making alterations in the office of the assistant treasurer sistant treasurer of the United States at New York, and for furniture for the said office, four hundred and fifty-five dollars. New York. Alteration of For making alterations in the approaches of the building bebuilding occupied by U. s. longing to the United States, in the city of Detroit, now occucourts in Detroit. pied by the courts of the United States and their officers, under order of the Common Council of Detroit, and for repairing and renovating said building, five hundred and thirty-five dollars. Subscription to annals the Congress. To pay the amount of subscription under the joint resolution of of the third of March eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for one thousand copies of the annals of Congress to the end of the fourth Congress, and to include the first Congress, as well as the second, third, and fourth Congress, thirty-thousand dollars. For continuing the publication of the works of the Explor Works of the bling Expedition, including the printing of the charts, the pay of the scientific corps, salary of the horticulturist, and care of the collections, twenty-five thousand dollars. Publishing the Ex ploring Expedi⚫tion. Funeral of To defray the expenses incurred under the authority of the President Taylor. Committee of Arrangement for the funeral of General Zachary Taylor, deceased, late President of the United States eight thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-three cents, to be disbursed by the marshal of the District of Columbia. Transporting remains of Gen ! To defray the expenses of transporting the remains of General Taylor to eral Taylor from the cemetery in Washington, to Kentucky, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, four thousand dollars. Kentucky, Examination with reference to To enable the War Department to make such examinations and surveys as may be necessary to determine upon the best, supplying Washand most available mode of supplying the city of Washington ington with pure with pure water, and to prepare a plan and estimate of the probable cost of the same, to be reported to Congress at its next. session, five hundred dollars, water. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after Laborers on the the passage of this act, the compensation of the laborers on the public grounds. public grounds, under the public gardener, in Washington city, shall be forty dollars per month, to be paid monthly, without reduction for time lost in consequence of sickness. And the compensation of the watchmen in the various Departments of Government, shall be five hundred dollars per an Watchmen in the Departments. M. Clark. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the accounting Accounts of M. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized, in settling the accounts of Captain M. M. Clark, superintendent in erecting barracks and quarters at Savannah, Georgia, to allow him credit for whatever amount was properly disbursed by him, beyond the sums which he disbursed under the laws making specific appropriations for the work.. 3001 a former act. SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That the third section of Continuation of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes," approved the tenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. ** SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to adjust and settle the claim submitted by the legal representatives of Lieutenant Robert L. Browning, late of the United States Navy, deceased, for a share of the proceeds of the sale of the schooner Oregon and cargo, seized and confiscated in the month of April, eigh teen hundred and forty-eight, under the President's regulations of the first March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at the port of Tampico, during the war with Mexico, and to pay the amount of said claim out of any moneys in the treasury arising from military contributions collected in Mexico in pursuance of the regulations of the President before referred to: Provided, That before any money is paid in this case, any claim submitted by the owners of the vessel before mentioned for remission of the penalty and payment of the proceeds under the confiscation, shall first be duly examined and decided by the Secretary of the Treasury, under the directions of the President of the United States. ཝཱ to be appraised, of SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be law Steamer Dallas ful for the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the revenue steamer Dallas, now lying in the port of New York, together with the machinery placed therein, under and by virtue of a contract by and between R. J. Walker, late Secretary of the I Treasury, and Ethan Campbell, dated hundred and forty-eight, to bgust twenty-fif eighteen Indian De CHAP. 91.-AN ACT making appropriations for the current and conting expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations various Indian tribes, for the year ending June the thirtieth, one thous eight hundred and fifty-one. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R resentatives of the United States of America in Congress Appropriations sembled, That the following sums be, and they are here appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, not otherw appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and cont gent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling tre stipulations with h the various Indian tribes. for partment. Superintendent at St. Louis, ands agents. For the current and contingent expenses of the Indian 1 partment, viz: For the pay of superintendent of Indian affairs at St. Lo and the several Indian agents, as provided by the acts of Ju thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and March thi eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of June twenty-seven eighteen hundred and forty-six, eighteen thousand dollars. For the pay of sub-agents authorized by the act of Ju thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, twelve thousa seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the pay of interpreters authorized by the same act, th teen thousand dollars. For the pay of clerk to the superintendent at St, Louis, auth ized by the act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred a forty-six, one thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of clerk to acting superintendent of the western t ritory by the same act, one thousand dollars." For buildings at agencies and repairs thereof fifteen hund dollars. 91 ་་ For the erection and repairs of buildings for the Choct Agency, five thousand dollars. For the erection of buildings for the Creek Indian Agen four thousand five hundred dollars." For the erection of buildings for the Agency, (to be located according to treaty thousand five hundred dollars. Cherokee Indi stipulations) fo |