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For salaries of the district judges of the United States, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.

For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the associate judges, and judge of the orphans' court, nineteen thousand dollars.

For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the district attorneys, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, and that the district attorney for Nevada shall receive a salary for extra services of two hundred dollars per annum, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to audit and pay out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the salaries of the present incumbent and his predecessor, R. M. Clark, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum for their services.

For compensation of the district marshals, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of section ten of an act" making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and they are hereby, extended to one additional newspaper in the District of Columbia from the date of the approval of said act, the same to be selected by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts authorizing the publication of the debates in Congress are hereby repealed from and after the fourth day of March next, and the Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized and required to invite proposals for the publication of the actual proceedings and debates in Congress, upon a plan and specifications to be previously published by them, and shall also ascertain the cost of such publication by the Superintendent of Public Printing, and shall report as soon as practicable such proposals and estimate of cost, together with a bill to provide for the publication of the debates and proceedings of Congress.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all advertisements, notices, proposals for contracts, executive proclamations, treaties, and laws to be published in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, shall be published in the papers now selected under the provisions of section ten of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," and shall also be published in the paper selected under the provisions of the second section of this act: Provided, That no advertisement to any State, District, or Territory other than the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia shall be published in the papers designated, unless at the direction first made of the proper head of a department.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each night watchman at the Treasury Department shall, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, receive a compensation of nine hundred dollars per annum, and an amount sufficient to pay said increased compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby appropriated.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That no statuary, paintings, or other articles, the property of private individuals, shall hereafter be allowed to be exhibited in the rotunda or any other portion of the Capitol building; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent in charge of the public buildings to remove all such statuary, paintings, or other articles, being the property of private individuals, now in the Capitol.

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[PUBLIC-No. 70.]

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other purposes.

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, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, viz: 靠

MISCELLANEOUS.

For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the several acts of Congress authorizing loans and the issue of treasury notes, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the said sum shall be used to pay commissions for the purchase, sale, or conversion of the bonds or notes of the United States: And provided further, That all necessary letter-press printing and book-binding, in all the departments and bureaus, shall be done and executed at the Government Printing Office, and not elsewhere, except registered bonds and written records, which may be bound as heretofore at the department. For carrying out the provisions of the acts of the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers on vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and of the acts amendatory thereof, the following sums, to wit: For the salaries of the supervising and local inspectors, eighty thousand four hundred dollars; for the travelling expenses of the supervising inspectors, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no supervising inspector shall be allowed for travel in his district in any one year a greater sum than one thousand dollars; for the travelling expenses of the local inspectors, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided further, That no local inspector shall be allowed for travel in any one year a greater sum than five hundred dollars. For the travelling expenses of a special agent of the department, one thousand five hundred dollars; for the expenses of the meeting of the board of supervising inspectors, including travel, printing of manual and report, three thousand five hundred dollars, and there shall be but one meeting annually of the said board, which shall be at the city of Washington on the second Wednesday of January in each year; for stationery, for furniture of offices and repair thereof, for repair and transportation of instruments, and for fuel and lights, fifteen thousand dollars.

For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electrical telegraph, forty thousand dollars.

For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other frauds upon the government, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

To meet expenses incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, fifteen thousand dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For supplying deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall communicate at each annual session of Congress a full and complete statement in detail of the amounts collected from seamen, and also the amount expended for sick and disabled seamen, in accordance with the provisions of the act of May third, eighteen hundred and two.

For salaries of commissioners under "An act to provide for the revision and consolidation of the statute laws of the United States," approved June twenty

seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for clerical services and other incidental expenses, the printing to be done by the Government Printing Office, seventeen thousand dollars

For payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Towards rebuilding the United States Military Asylum for disabled soldiers at Togus, near Augusta, Maine, destroyed by accidental fire, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the building shall be completed without any further appropriation by the government.

For the payment for the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twenty thousand dollars; to be taken from the appropriation heretofore made and unexpended for the purchase of one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each senator and representative who has not already received them.

SURVEY OF THE COAST.

For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For publishing the observations made in the progress of the coast survey of the United States, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, five thousand dollars.

For pay and rations of engineers for steamers used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, per act of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, ten thousand dollars.

For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the coast survey, thirty thousand dollars.

NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES.

For the survey of northern and northwestern lakes, seventy-five thousand dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

For the Atlantic, Gulf, lake, and Pacific coasts, viz:

For supplying the light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, chamois skins, whiting, spirits of wine, polishing powder, cleaning towels, brushes, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and forty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That the Light-house Board be, and hereby is, authorized to apply the amount heretofore appropriated "for building a light-house on a proper site at Trowbridge Point, in Thunder bay, in the State of Michigan," to building a light-house on a more eligible site, if such can be found in the immediate vicinity: And provided further, That the appropriation now available for rebuilding the light-house at Bailey's Harbor, Lake Michigan, be applied to the erection of a new structure between that point and North bay, and upon its completion the light at Bailey's Harbor shall be discontinued.

For the necessary repairs and incidental expenses, improving and refitting light-houses and buildings connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars.

For salaries of five hundred and eighty-nine keepers of light-houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For salaries of keepers of light-vessels, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars.

For seamen's wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses, of twentyfour light-vessels, two hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of beacons and buoys, and for chains and sinkers for the same, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For repairs and incidental expenses of refitting and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars.

For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars.

For a lighted beacon on Rose island, Narraganset bay, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs and renovations at Watch Hill, North Dumpling, and Saybrook light station, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars.

For a fog signal at Eaton's Neck light station, three thousand dollars.

For the erection of a permanent buoy on Success Rock, Long Island sound, three thousand dollars.

For repairs and renovations at Brockway's Reach and Bordeo's Flats beacons, eleven thousand four hundred dollars.

For protecting the light-house site at Barnegat, New Jersey, seven thousand dollars.

For a new lantern at Delaware Breakwater light station, two thousand dollars. For range lights on Sullivan's island, Charleston harbor, fifteen thousand dollars.

For day beacons on Oyster Rocks, mouth of Savannah river, two thousand dollars.

For rebuilding the light-house at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and fitting it up with a first-order catadioptric light, in addition to former appropriations, thirty thousand dollars.

For reimbursing the keepers at Timbalier light-house the loss of their private property, destroyed with the light-house, four hundred dollars.

For range lights at Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin, six thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Beaver Island light station, five thousand dollars.

For renovating and relighting the light-house on Michigan island, Lake Superior, six thousand dollars.

For a range of lights for Copper Harbor, Lake Superior, with a fog bell or such other ear-signal as the Secretary of the Treasury on the recommendation of the Light-house Board may adopt, in addition to former appropriations, five thousand dollars.

For a first-order light-house at Point Año Nuevo, or vicinity, California, ninety thousand dollars.

For a steam light-house tender for the twelfth district, to replace the one wrecked on the coast of California, ninety thousand dollars.

For one buoy and light-house tender for service on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, forty thousand dollars.

For enabling the Light-house Board to experiment with new illuminating apparatus and fog-signals, in addition to former appropriations, one thousand dollars.

For enabling the Light-house Board to re-establish lights and other aids to navigation on the southern coast, in addition to former appropriations, one huudred thousand dollars.

For compensation of two superintendents of the life-saving stations on the coast of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars.

For a life-boat and station at the south end of Narraganset beach, Rhode Island, two thousand dollars.

For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

For contingencies of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars.

REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

For pay of officers and pilots, four hundred and eight thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That hereafter no expenses of the revenue marine shall be paid out of any other fund than that herein specified.

For rations for officers and pilots, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars.

For pay of petty officers and crew, three hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For rations for petty officers and crew, one hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars.

For fuel, one hundred thousand dollars.

For repairs and outfits, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For supplies of ship chandlery, fifty thousand eight hundred dollars.
For commutation for quarters, five thousand dollars.

For travelling expenses, five thousand dollars: Provided, That five of the six steam revenue cutters stationed upon the northern and northwestern lakes and their tributaries shall be laid up, and that no more of the money appropriated by this act shall be paid on their account than so much as may be necessary for their safe and proper care and keeping; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to lay up and withdraw from commission every revenue cutter off the Atlantic coast, bays, [and] gulfs, not actually required and needed for constant service.

CONSTRUCTION BRANCH OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

For the construction of a custom-house at Portland, Maine, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the construction of a building, to be used as custom-house and post office, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, fifty thousand dollars.

For the construction of a barge office at New York, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of a building, to be used as a court-house and post office, at Portland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars.

For the construction of appraisers' stores at Philadelphia, fifty thousand dollars.

For the construction of a public building at Des Moines, Iowa, for a courthouse, post office, and the accommodation of officers of the United States, eightynine thousand and eight dollars.

For the construction of a public building at Madison, Wisconsin, for a courthouse, post office, and the accommodation of officers of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.

For construction of a public building for a custom-house, United States courtroom, and post office, at Portland, Oregon, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That said building, when completed, shall not cost more than one hundred thousand dollars.

For the construction of a public building at Springfield, Illinois, for a courthouse, post office, and the accommodation of officers of the United States, twentyfive thousand dollars.

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