APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, ETC. STATEMENTS, SHOWING I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Thirty-Third Congress. II. Offices created and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period. APRIL 19, 1855.-Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in compliance with the sixth section of the "Act to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, and for other purposes," approved July 4, 1836. 1. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. By the act to provide for the extinguishment of the title of the Chippewa Indians to the lands owned and claimed by them in the Territory of Minnesota and State of Wisconsin, and for their domestication and civilization. To enable the President to cause negotiations to be entered into with the Chippewa Indians, for the extinguishment of their title to all the lands owned and claimed by them in the Territory of Minnesota and State of Wisconsin...........$10,000 00 By the act to provide for the contingent expenses of the Territory of Nebraska. To defray the contingent expenses for the government of the Territory of Nebraska for the remainder of the present fiscal year.......... $1,000 00 By the act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish an auxiliary watch for the protection of public and private property in the city of Washington," approved August twenty-three, eighteen hundred and forty-two. To pay the auxiliary watch an annual compensation of six hundred dollars each, commencing with the present fiscal year..........................................[ .[Indefinite.] By the act making appropriations for the construction of certain military roads in the Territories of Nebraska and Washington. For the construction of a military road from the Great Falls of the Missouri river, in the Territory of Nebraska, to intersect the military road now established leading from Walla Walla to Puget's Sound........... For the construction of a military road from the Dalles of the Columbia to Columbia City Barracks.... For the construction of a military road from Columbia City Barracks to Fort Steilacoom, on Puget's Sound $30,000 00 For cutting out the timber on the road from Fort 8,800 00 By the act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and for other purposes. By the act to refund to the officers of the customs and others, of the district of Passamaquoddy, certain moneys. To pay to the late officers of the customs of the district of Passamaquoddy, and informers, their proportion of the net proceeds of sale, by virtue of existing laws, arising from the condemnation of the schooners L'Etang and Josephine, and the bark Phenix, for a violation of the revenue laws in the district of Maine; the same having been wrongfully paid into the Treasury of the United States through mistake... ........Indefinite. For completing the penitentiary, according to the provisions of the act of the Legislative Assembly relating to the public buildings of the Territory of Oregon..... 27,000 00 ..$40,000 00 30,000 00 $85,000 00 By the act changing the appropriation for the erection of a building in the city of Milwaukie, for a custom-house, post office, and the United States courts. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be constructed at the said city of Milwaukie, for the accommodation of the custom-house, $514,600 00 For invalid pensions, under various acts.. 78,150 00 For pensions under special acts of Congress.... 9,750 00 For pensions to widows, under the acts of seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, second of February and twenty-ninth July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight...... ....338,000 00 For pensions and half pay to widows and orphans, under the act of the third of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three...456,000 00 By the act to provide for the payment of such creditors of the late republic of Texas as are comprehended in the act of Congress of September nine, eighteen hundred and fifty. To pay to the creditors of the late republic of Texas, who hold such bonds or other evidences of debt for which the revenues of that republic were pledged, as were reported to be within the provisions of the said act of September the ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, by the report of the late Secretary of the Treasury to the President of the United States, and approved by him on the thirteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, or which come within the provisions of said act, according to the opinion upon the Texas compact of the present Attorney General of the United States, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, under date of September twenty-sixth, eighteen bundred and fifty-three.... $7,750,000 00 By the act authorizing the purchase or construction of four additional revenue cutters. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be built or purchased, in such mode as he may deem best for the public interest, four vessels of suitable size and construction, to be employed as revenue cutters on such stations as the said Secretary may designate..........$60,000 00 11,500 00 By the act to amend "An act to carry into effect a treaty between the United States and Great Britain," signed on the fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. $78,500 00 By the act making appropriations for improving certain military roads in the Territory of Min nesota. For cutting out the timber on the territorial road from the Falls of St. Anthony to Fort Ridgely....... **** $5,000 00 To refund to the several persons entitled thereto such sums of money as shall have been collected as duties on "fish of all kinds, the products of fish, and of all other creatures living in the water," imported into the United States from and after the eleventh day of September, By the act to provide for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Kansas. For the continuation and erection of public buildings for the use of the Legislature of the Territory of Kansas, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of said Territory....... $25,000 00 By the act to provide for the erection of public buildings in the Territory of Nebraska. For the construction of public buildings in the Territory of Nebraska, to be expended under the direction of the Governor of said Territory, $50,000 00 By the act making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and for other purposes. For pay of the army. $2,600,806 00 For pay, supplies, and traveling expenses of six companies of Texas volunteers, called into service by the Governor of Texas, and mustered into the service of the United States..........137,755 38 For commutation of officers' subsistence.......628,168 00 For commutation of forage for officers' horses..104,832 00 For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' ser vants...... 36,350 00 For expenses of recruiting, transportation of re- For subsistence in kind.... .......890,000 00 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, blauk forms for the pay and quartermaster's departments, and for the printing of division and department orders, rmy regulations, and reports... 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 soldiers employed, under the direction of the quartermaster's department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals; the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and Angust fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to payinasters, 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 fifth, eighteen hundred and thirtyeight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expeuses 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, viz: for the purchase of horse equipments, as saddles, bridles, saddle-blankets, uose-bags, iron combs, curry-combs, spurs, and straps; of traveling forges, blacksmiths' and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of inedicines for horses and Inules, shoeing horses of mounted corps, and repairing dragoon and rifle equipments.......375,368 60 For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it may be necessary to occupy during the year, and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the established posts, Appropriations. including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of store-houses for the safe keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations... .$490,458 00 For mileage to officers of the army, for transportation of themselves and baggage when traveling on duty, without troops or escorts...100,000 00 For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving either by laud or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage and horse equipments, from the depôt 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 fouuderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depôts; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing vessels and boats for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of the transportation of funds for the pay 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, and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier...... .................1,200,000 00 For the purchase of horses for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the mounted riflemen, and such infantry as the commanding officers at the frontier posts may find it necessary to mount..200,000 00 For contingencies of the army.. 6,000 00 For the medical and hospital departments 52,500 00 For contingent expenses of the Adjutant General's department, at division and department headquarters... For armament of fortifications. 400 00 .125,000 00 For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies....100,000 00 For the current expenses of the ordnance service, 100,000 00 For the manufacture of arms at the national armories................... ..250,000 00 For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper's Ferry... ....... 32,673 00 For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory..... 54,000 00 For new machinery at Harper's Ferry armory.. 20,000 00 For repairs, preservation, and contingencies of arsenals....... $50,000 00 For continuing the construction of the arsenal at Benicia, California................... 40,000 00 For the annual compensation of the civil superintendents of the national armories, without perquisites, allowances, or additions of any kind, quarters excepted. 5,000 00 For continuing the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, 50,000 00 For surveys for military defenses of the sea and inland frontier...... For printing a new system of light infantry and 15,000 00 30,000 00 2,000 00 300 00 For arrearages prior to July first, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May the first, one thousand eight hun-N9522 dred and twenty, in addition to the balance und awn in the Treasury....... For the Capitol extension... 2,000 00 ..325,000 00 To complete the road from Point Douglas, on the Mississippi river, to the mouth of the St. Louis river, of Lake Superior, in Wisconsin, 34,213 50 To complete the road from Point Douglas to Fort Gaines, now Fort Kipley...... 13,494 09 To complete the road from Swan river to the Winnebago agency............ 2,535 39 To complete the road from Wabashaw to Mendota................ ........................................ 13,871 76 To complete the road from Mendota to the Big Sioux river....... 27,475 68 16,000 00 ...... For the improvement of the road from Fort Union to Santa Fé.... For the improvement of the road from Secalote to Albuquerque, via Cañon Blanco and Cañon Carnue......... .................. For the improvement of the road from Canada to Abiquea.... By the act for the construction of certain military roads in the Territory of Kansas. For the construction of a road from Fort Riley to such point on the Arkansas river as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be most expedient for military purposes....... $50,000 00 For the construction of a road from Fort Riley to Bridger's Pass, in the Rocky mountains... 50,000 00 $100,000 00 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-six, and for other purposes. 10,000 00 6,000 00 dollars each.. Officer charged with the disbursements of the Senate.. Principal clerk and principal executive clerk in office of the Secre ary of the Senate, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each, 4,320 00 Eight clerks in office of the Secretary of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred and fif y 3,600,00 480 00 14,800 00 1,792 00 For the purchase and importation of camels and dromedaries, to be employed for military purposes... To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the provisions of so much of this act as relates to the employment of an additional military force...... $30,000 00 One page... Keeper of the stationery Two messengers.. Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper......... Assistant Doorkeeper .... For miscellaneous items.. Superintendent in charge of Senate furnaces.... Assistant in charge of furnaces...... 3,000 00 18,000 00 1,080 00 600 00 Laborer in private passage...... 600 00 Two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each... 960 00 Clerk or secretary to the President of the Senate, Draughtsman. For clerks to committees, pages, police, horses and carry-alls... For miscellaneous items.. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary, in the service of the House of Representatives, viz: Appropriations. For compiling and supervising the publication of the Biennial Register.. For binding books and music in the copyright bureau, and procuring portfolios for the prints and engravings.. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase of Messrs. Little, Brown and Company five hundred copies of their new edition of Wheaton's Elements of International Law, to be distributed to the foreign ministers and consuls, and to the departments at home... To enable the Secretary of State to purchase fifty copies each of volumes sixteen and seventeen of Howard's Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.............. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase of Messrs. Little, Brown and Company two thousand copies of the tenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large, for distribution, agreeably to acts of Congress directing the distribution of the other volume..... 48,000 00 20,000 00 ..694,976 00 For blank books, binding, stationery, cases for official papers and records, and miscellaneous items.... 3,000 00 4,000 00 1,000 00 .............. 3,802 00 For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For fuel, light, labor, and repairs....... In the office of the Solicitor: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items... 300 00 Clerk of the House of Representatives......... Two clerks at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each..... Beven clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each... For statutes and reports.............................................................. In the office of the Commissioner of Customs: For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items. 1,200 OC 1,0OJ OG 2,000 06 12.600 00 55,572 00 For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and laborers in his office.... 2,160 0J 29,492 00 1,756 00 1,800 00 For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office.. 1,800 00 29,216 00 Clerk to Committee of Claims................................... Clark to Sergeant-at-Arms................ 1,800 00 1,800 00 For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, assistaut messenger, and laborer in his office.. 41,936 OU For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, víz: For binding documents. 70,000 00 For furniture and repairs.......... 3,609 00 For stationery for members. 12,000 00 For twenty one messengers, including superin For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office.... For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messengers, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office... .107,532 00 For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office.. 35,416 00 30,200 00 tendent of folding and document rooms...... 28,413 20 For horses and carriages ............. For fuel, oil, and candles... For newspapers for members.. For engraving and lithographing. For Capitol police .............. For miscellaneous items. For messenger in charge of Hall For two messengers in Clerk's office......... For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office.... 15,016 00 For compensation of the Auditor of the Post Office Department, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, 165,624 00 For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks, messenger, assistant niessenger, and laborers in his othice' For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, and laborers in his office...... For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office..... Light-House Board. For blank books, binding, and stationery....... For miscellaneous expenses and postage........ For the general purposes of the Southeast Executive Building. For the continuation of the Treasury building, under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the plan proposed by Thomas U. Walter, architect, and approved of by the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on bui dings and grounds, at the last session of Congress..... For compensation of eight watchmen of the Southeast executive building.......... For compensation of nine laborers of the southeast executive building............ For contingent expenses of said building, viz: Fuel, lights, repairs and miscellaneous......... To enable the department to provide a suitable protection from the weather for the fuel consumed in said buildings, and to clense, repair, and furnish twenty-six rooms in the third story, when they shall be vacated by the General Land Office.. For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office... For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-House Board......................... For compensation of four laborers for said building.... For fuel and miscellaneous items for the same.. For compensation of four watchmen for said building.... 3,500 00 2,500 00 2,400 00 2,304 00 20,416 00 8,976 00 For rent of the building occupied by the Third Auditor of the Treasury.... For fuel and other miscellaneous items for the same.......... 600 00 2,200 00 Contingent expenses of the Treasury Depart 5,000 00 ment. For rent of building occupied by the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury.. 800 00 Library of Congress. ury: For compensation of two watchmen for said building.... For fuel and other miscellaneous items for the same.... 2,200 00 1,200 00 In the office of the Secretary of the Treas 1,800 00 For labor, blank books, stationery, binding, sealing ships' registers, translating foreign languages, advertising, and extra clerk hire for preparing and collecting information to be laid before Congress, and for miscellaneous items.. 13,000 00 In the office of the First Comptroller: For furniture, blank books, binding, stationery, public documents, State and Territorial stat utes, and miscellaneous items........ In the office of the Second Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, pay for the National Intelligencer and Union, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, office furniture, and miscellaneous items.... In the office of the First Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, and cases for records and official papers, 1,500 00 For miscellaneous items, including subscription for the Union and National Intelligencer, to be filed for the use of the office... In the office of the Second Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office........ In the office of Third Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, office furni. ture, carpeting, two newspapers, the Union and Intelligencer, preserving files and papers, expenses of bounty-land service, miscellaneous items, and arrearages......... 1,500 00 300 00 For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, packers, and laborers in his office.... For compensation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office... For compensation of the Commissioner of P. nsions, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office.... For the repairs of the Potomac, Navy Yard, and upper bridges... To refund to the Commissioner of Public Buildings the amount advanced to him by the Corporation of Washington, in eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and expended on the Potomac bridge........ Contingent expenses of the Department of the 29,840 00 .107,840 00 7,000 00 3,000 00 15,200 00 For extra clerk bire and copying... For copperplate printing, books and maps...... For newspapers..... For stationery, blank book-, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting and glazing... 3,540 00 6,500 00 1,000 00 400 00 In the office of Fourth Auditor: For stationery, books, and binding..... For labor........ 2,000 00 600 00 100 00 200 00 For library, books, and maps...... For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patents and other record, tract books and blank books, for this and the district land offices; binding plats and field 30,000 00 1,200 00 2,400 00 576 00 616 60 900 00 800 00 For compensation of the Secretary of War, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office... 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 the Paymaster General.. For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and Jaborer 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, messenger, and Jaborer in the office of Colonel of Topographical Engineers...... For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance...... Contingent Expenses of the War Department. Office of the Secretary of War: For blank books, stationery, and labor....... For miscellaneous items... For books, maps, and plans.. For extra clerk hire For furniture.... 500 00 For compensation of laborers.. 1,500 00 Office of the Adjutant General: For miscellaneous items, including two of the For compensation of four night watchmen and For expenses incurred by Dr. John Evaus, in For compensation of keepers, watchmen, and For contingent expenses Surveyors General and their Clerks. For compensation of the surveyor general northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, 8,300 00 For compensation of the surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office.... For blank books, binding, and stationery.. Office of the Quartermaster General : For blank books, binding, and stationery.................... For labor..... 33D CONG....2D SESS. notes; stationery, furniture, and repairs of same, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office........$33,525 00 For contingent expenses in addition, under swamp land act of twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty; military bounty acts of twenty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twenty-second March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and act thirtyfirst August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants. 26,100 00 For tract and other books for new land offices, created during the first session of the ThirtyThird Congress, including blanks for the same, 6,000 00 To enable the register and receiver of the land office at Indianapolis, Indiana, to rent suitable rooms for the preservation of the records and papers of the several land offices in said State which have been discontinued, and the books and papers thereof transferred to the said land offices at said city of Indianapolis ........... To enable the Secretary of the Interior to execute the provisions of the" Act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators," approved fourth August, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour........ Office of Indian Affairs: For rent of building on Seventh street, for office, For blank books, binding, and stationery....... For compensation of four watchmen of the southwest executive building .... 2,400 00 For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items.. 3,865 00 Post Office Department. For compensation of the Postmaster General, three assistant Postmasters General, and the clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, watchmen, and laborers of said department...150,552 00 Contingent expenses of said department: For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the General Post Office building, including the Auditor's office, oil, gas, and candles, printing, labor, day watchman, and miscellaneous items, 9,500 00 For the continuation of the Post Office building, under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the plan submitted by Thomas U. Walter, architect, to the Postmaster General, and approved of by the committees of the Senate and House of Represent. atives, at the present session of Congress.....300,000 00 For repairs of the General Post Office building, for office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fire-places and furnaces in order... $500 00 250 00 For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items............ .... 800 00 Bureau of Yards and Docks: $1,000 00 250 00 550 00 For stationery, books, plans, drawing, and inetdental labor..... 800 00 Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscelJaneous items... 700 00 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: 22,348 00 13,400 00 16,200 00 12,440 00 For blank books and stationery ...... For miscellaneous items........ 350 00 100 00 For the general purposes of the Southwest Executive Building. For compensation of the surveyor general of For compensation of four watchmen of the northwest executive building... For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter and refiner, and three clerks.... 17,700 00 2,400 00 For wages of workmen..... 37,000 00 864 00 2,400 00 8,300 00 For miscellaneous items................................. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, wastage, in ad dition to other available funds... 42,300 00, 6,000 co For wages of workmen... 4,100 00 For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, wastage, in addition to other available funds.. 1,500 00 At Dahlonega, Georgia: 7,500 00 61,000 00 500 00 For compensation of the surveyor general of New Mexico, and the clerks in his office..... 7,000 00 For compensation of the surveyor general of Kansas and Nebraska, and the clerks in his office............ ........... 8,300 00 For compensation of clerks in the offices of surveyors general, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and to be employed in transcribing fieldnotes of surveys for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government For salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri...... 11,517 00 For compensation to the Commissioner of Public Buildings, and the clerk in his office........ 3,200 00 For compensation of the Superintendent of the Public Printing, and the clerks and messenger in his office... To entitle the superintendent and the clerks and messenger in his office, and the librarian, and assistants and messenger in the Library of Congress, to the benefits of the joint resolution, Navy Department. For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborer in his office... For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office...... For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Navy Yards and Docks, and the civil engineer, clerks, messenger, and laborers in his office... 17,092 00 For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and of the engineer-in chief, and the clerks, messenger, and laborers in his office...... 20,792 00 For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. 9,016 00 8,816 00 For compensation of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his office......................................... Contingent Expenses of the Navy Department: Office of the Secretary of the Navy: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor,newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous items.. 2,840 00 For wages of workmen, in addition to an available balance of former appropriations........ 40,000 00 For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs, including fuel, and materials, and wastage on gold and silver, in addition to other available means.... .................................. 70,000 00 Government in the Territories. Territory of Oregon: For salaries of Governor, three judges, and secretary mikkelithia din 12,500 00 For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk,..... 6,000 00 For wages of workmen... 3,600 00 29,296 00 For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, wastage, in ad dition to other available funds........ At San Francisco, California: ..... 2,500 00 12,316 00 For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and five clerks.... ..... 28,000 00 For wages of workmen and adjusters..........100,00J 00 For ordinary expenses, including wastage, in addition to other available means... Assay Office, New York: For salaries of officers and clerks.. ...... 20,000 00 14,400 00 For salaries of Governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary....... 12,500 00 For contingent expenses of said Territory.. 1,000 00 For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly..... 20,000 00 Territory of Utah: For salaries of Governor, superintendent of In ..20,000 00 dian affairs, three judges, and secretary...... 12,000 00 For contingent expenses of said Territory....... 1,000 00 For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly... For the construction of a warden's house and outer yard, and twelve cells and fixtures for the penitentiary in the Territory of Utah..... 13,000 00 Territory of Washington: For salaries of Governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, three judges, and secretary...... 12,500 CO For contingent expenses of said Territory.. 1,500 00 For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly..... 20,000 00 Territory of Nebraska: For salaries of Governor, three judges, and sec- For contingent expenses of said Territory.. 10,500 00 3,125 00 2,000 00 20,000 00 10,500 00 For contingent expenses of said Territory....... 1,500 00 For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly.... 20,000 00 For expenses of taking the census, authorized by fourth section of act of May thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four........ For the expenses of the election of a Delegate to the House of Representatives of the United States, second session of the Thirty-Third Con. gress.... Judiciary. For salaries of the Chief Justice of the Supreme 2,000 00 700 00 54,500 00 4,500 00 For salaries of the chief judge of the District of Columbia, the assistant judges, and the judges of the criminal court, and the orphans' court.. 11,700 00 For salaries of the Attorney General and the clerks and messengers in his office... For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney General.. 111,608 00 18,040 00 For purchase of law books for the office of the Attorney General.... 1,600 00 1,500 00 For salary of the reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court... 1,300 00 For one hundred and fifty copies of volume sixteen of Howard's Reports of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, furnished by the reporter thereof to the State Department, for distribution according to existing laws.... 1,300 00 For compensation of the District Attorneys..... 10,150 00 For the marshal of the southern district of New York, for repairs made in, and furniture supplied for, the court rooms and offices of the circuit and district judges, district attorney, and marshal of the southern district of New York, rendered necessary in consequence of the destruction of the court buildings by fire..... For compensation of the marshals..... Miscellaneous. For annuities and grants.... Independent Treasury. For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the United States, at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis....... For additional salary of the treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia............... For additional salary of the treasurer of the branch Mint at New Orleans....... For salaries of six of the additional clerks, authorized by the acts of August sixth, one thou sand eight hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight, March third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and August thirty first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and August fourth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four......... 7,148 81 8,000 00 700 00 13,500 00 1,000'00 500 00 6,500 00 For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury... 5,000 00 For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors, appointed under the act of August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fiftytwo, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other expenses incurred by them............. 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 continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States. For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the Army and Navy, and petty offi. cers and men of the Navy employed on the work)..... For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States..... For fuel and quarters, and for mileage and transportation for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army, serving in the coast survey, in cases no longer provided for by the quartermaster's department..... 80,000 00 .250,000 00 130,000 00 40,000 00 15,000 00 10,000 00 Light House Establishment. For supplying five hundred and ten light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, whiting, and cleaning materials, transportation, and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping the lighting apparatus..287,240 50 For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of all the light-houses, and buildings connected therewith. For salaries of five hundred and forty-three keepers of light-houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes........... ....218,400 00 For salaries of forty nine keepers of light-ves27,650 00 For expenses of visiting and inspecting 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 third of March, 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.. ....... 8,000 00 For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: For oil and other supplies for twenty-one lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps, and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation..... 38,024 25 For repairs and incidental expenses of twentyone lights and buildings connected therewith.. 12,750 00 For salaries of forty-one keepers and assistant keepers of light houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum...... 32,800 00 For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons and buoys, and chains, and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys....... ...... 11,500 00 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 the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, entitled "An act making appropri nations 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 dis-,. bursed by theia.. 800 00 For continuing the construction of the lighthouse near Coffin's Patches, off Dry Bank, on the Florida reef, between Cary's Fort reef and Sandy Key light houses. 65,000 00* For continuing the construction of the lighthouse on Minot's ledge, one of the Cohasset rocks, Boston bay, Massachusetts.. For continuing the construction of the lighthouse on Ship shoal, Louisiana, to take the place of the light-vessel at that point.......... To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to replace lost light-vessels, to mark the dangerous New South shoals, off Nantucket, Massachusetts....... For continuing the appropriation of the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, for a first-class light house at the mouth of the Sabine river..... $75,000 00 30,000 00 30,000 00 1 30,000 00 For continuing the system of protecting human life from shipwreck as heretofore established, by life-boats and other means, on the coast of Massachusetts For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the quartermaster's department. To supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Office Department.... ...1,106,187 CO For the continuation of the custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina.... For the continuation of the custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana...... .200,000 00 ...275,000 00 To complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine.. 10,000 00 For the completion of the custom-house at Mo bile, with granite facing in place of brick..... 95,000 00 Intercourse with Foreign Nations. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and minis. 44,500 00 ters plenipotentiary of the United States......267,500 00. For salaries of secretaries of legation...... For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands............ 6,000 CO For the dragoman to the mission to Turkey..... 2,500 00 For the interpreter to the mission to China...... 2,560 60 For the salaries of consuls of the United States, 271,750 00 For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, or so much thereof as may be necessary.. 96.543 75 For contingent expense of foreign intercourse... 60,000 00 For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers..... For office rent of the commercial agent at St. Martin, from the twelfth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the end of the present fiscal year, at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum.. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to James Keenan, consul at Hong Kong, in China, the sum expended by him for the relief of American citizens shipwrecked in Chinese waters in August last.... 6,000 00 263 33 581 58 .125,000 00 For the relief and protection of American sea- For compensation of a cousul general, to reside For his full compensation as envoy extraordinary To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse to Edward Riddle such sums as shall be satisfactorily shown to have been expended by him, or which said Riddle may have obligated himself to pay, on account of his official position at the Industrial Exhibition at London, England.... 26,000 00 Expenses of the collection of revenue from Lands. To meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from the sale of public lands in the several land States, and Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the balances of former appropriations: For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys........318,000 00 For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys... ..100,000 00 For incidental expenses of the several land offices, 74,300 00 Survey of the Public Lands. For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska,) ineluding incidental (expenses and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned. and applied to the several surveying districts caccording to the exigencies of the public ser |