Contingencies.

For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars;

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage of gold, three thousand dollars.

At N. Orleans. At New Orleans, viz:

Officers, &c.

Contingencies.

Judiciary.

Chief justice &

For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, and two clerks, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars;

For wages of workmen, nineteen thousand dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, and wastage, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars;

For machinery and machinists, three thousand dollars.

JUDICIARY.

For salaries of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and associate judges the eight associate judges, forty-one thousand dollars; For salaries of the district judges, sixty-one thousand seven hundred dollars;

District judges.
Addition'l com-

For additional compensation at two hundred dollars each pensationtocer- to the district judges of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mistain judges. sissippi, and Alabama, under the provisions of the first section of the act of seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, one thousand dollars: Provided, That so much of the aforesaid act as authorizes the additional compensation to the said judges shall, from and after the first day of October next, be, and the same is hereby, repealed;

Proviso.

For salaries of the chief justice of the District of Columbia, the associate judges, the judges of the criminal and orphans' courts of said District, ten thousand seven hundred dollars;

Attorney Gen- For salaries of the Attorney General, and the clerk and eral & officers. messenger in his office, including an increase of the salary of his clerk, at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, six thousand seven hundred dollars;

Contingencies.

Reporter of Supreme Court.

District attorneys.

Marshals.

For contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney General, five hundred dollars.

For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of the district attorneys, including one in the Territory of Wisconsin, being two hundred dollars each, as prescribed by law, seven thousand two hundred dollars;

For compensation of the marshals, including one in the Territory of Wisconsin, as prescribed by law, six thousand four hundred dollars;

For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and Contingencies. district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and previous years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and for prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safekeeping of prisoners, four hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

WISCONSIN TERRITORY.

Wisconsin Ter. ritory.

es, & secretary.

For salaries of governor, three judges, and secretary, nine Governor, judgthousand one hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said Territory, three hundred Contingencies. and fifty dollars;

members of le

For compensation and mileage of the members of the le- Compensation gislative assembly, pay of officers and attendants, printing, and mileage of stationery, fuel, and other incidental and contingent expen- gislative assem ses, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided, Bly. That only so much of the foregoing appropriation for Wis- Proviso. consin Territory shall be drawn from the treasury as may be necessary to defray the expenses of said Territory until the formation of a State government therein, and the admission of said State into the Union.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Miscellaneous..

For payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Annuities, &c. Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol square Lighting Penn. to the Treasury Department, seven hundred and seventy-five avenue. dollars.

For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxili- Auxiliary guard ary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five

dollars.

For completing indices to the papers of Washington and Indexing Wash. of the Confederation, in the Department of State, one thou- ington papers. sand two hundred and fifty-six dollars.

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

Charleston.

Thirty thousand dollars in addition to the sum heretofore Custom-houses appropriated for the construction of a custom-house in the at Savannah & city of Savannah, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in the construction of the same, and the purchase of a lot therefor, any portion of which may be expended during the current fiscal year, and a like sum for a custom-house at Charleston.

Custom-house For the purchase of a site and the erection of a customat Eastport,&c. house at Eastport, in the State of Maine, to be expended for the said purposes under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of threefourths of the building now used as a custom-house in Castine, and for three-fourths of the lot of land on which it stands, and for the repairs of said building, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, eleven hundred dollars.

Compensation For salaries of assistant treasurers of the United States, of assistant per act of the sixth August, eighteen hundred and fortytreasurers. six, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.

surer, N. York.

Chief clerk to For a chief clerk to the assistant treasurer at New York, assistant trea- who is hereby authorized to be appointed by him, and for whose acts he shall be responsible, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per year, to commence on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.

Additional clerks.

Salaries of trea

For salaries of ten additional clerks, under act of the sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, eight thousand dollars.

For additional salaries of treasurers of the mint at Phila

surers of mint. delphia, and branch mint at New Orleans, under act of the sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one thousand dollars.

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

Repairs of Po- For the repairs of the Potomac bridge, to be expended tomac Bridge. under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, twenty-two hundred dollars.

Contingencies For contingent expenses, under the act for the collection, under the trea- safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public reveAugust, 1846. nue, of the sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten

sury act of 6th

Books for mem

gress.

thousand dollars.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to bers of Con- pay for the books furnished to the members of the House of Representatives of this Congress, who had not received them, by the order of the House of the third day of August last, and for books furnished under former resolutions to members of this House, seventy-two thousand two hundred and five dollars and twenty-seven cents.

Biennial Regis

ter.

Loan office &

For compiling, printing, and binding the Biennial Regis ter, in addition to an unexpended balance of former appropriations, one thousand dollars.

To reimburse the owners the principal specie value of loan final settlement office and final settlement certificates which may be produced and exhibited, the sum of five thousand dollars: Provided,

certificates.

Proviso.

That no part of the sum so appropriated shall be carried to
the surplus fund, as in ordinary cases, but shall remain sub-
ject to the direction of the accounting officers of the Trea-
sury to meet the claims that may arise from time to time:
And provided, That no greater amount of interest be allow-
ed on the said certificates than would have been allowed had
they been funded under the act of the fourth of August,
seventeen hundred and ninety.
For furniture for the custom-house at Boston, twenty-five
thousand dollars.

Furniture for

Boston custom house.

Repairs, con

for Capitol and

For annual repairs of the Capitol; lamp lighters, oil for lamps, wicks, and repairs of lamps and lamp posts; attend- tingencies, &c., ance on furnaces of the crypt; attendance on water closets; grounds. cleaning the rotundo and crypt; brushes and brooms; laborers and cartage on the Capitol grounds; tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, manure, and straw, for grounds; spent ashes, lime and plaster, for grounds, trees; attendance at the western gates of the Capitol, enlarging watch-box at the northwestern gate of the Capitol, repairs of public stables, flagging, and enclosures; keeping in order iron pipes that convey the water to the Capitol and public offices; for repairs of the western front of the Capitol to prevent the cracking of the wall over the windows in the basement story; to necessary repairs of the southern abutment of the bridge across Pennsylvania avenue and Second street, over Tiber creek; new basin at fountain, and repairing jet d'eaux; shovelling snow, and wooden spades, gardener's salary, ten thousand three hundred eighty-one dollars and fifty cents.

For taking up and relaying the floor of the Senate cham- Floor of Senate ber, to increase the number of seats, making flues, building Chamber, &c. fire-proof and ventilating apparatus, and other work, the sum

of four thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars.

for extra work.

For payment of bill of John Skirving for extra work done John Skirving, in the Capitol during the year eighteen hundred and fortysix, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and eighty-two

cents.

gencies, &e. of

For annual repairs of President's house; gardener's salary; Repairs, continlaborers, and cartage; tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, President's stakes, straw for plants, and oil for lamps; manure for gar- house and den and grounds and La Fayette square; repairs for fence grounds. at Fountain square, La Fayette square, and President's garden, three thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-five cents.

For the completion of the new marine hospital of the Marine hospital United States now building in New Orleans, in the State of at N. Orleans. Louisiana, to be expended under the superintendence of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty-one thousand six hundred

and ninety-six dollars.

Custom-house

For the construction of a custom-house in the city of New at New Orleans. Orleans, to be erected on a square of ground on which stands the building now used as a custom-house in said city, or the land in front of the custom-house square embraced within the public road, Custom-house, Canal, and Genois streets, on condition that the corporate authorities of said city relinquish and convey to the United States an absolute and unconditional title in and to such portion of said ground as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be necessary and convenient for the erection and use of such custom-house; and so soon as said relinquishment and conveyance is made as stated, that then and in that case the United States release to the said city of New Orleans all claim on their part to the residue of the ground included within said square, one hundred thousand dollars.

Penitentiary

For the support and maintenance of the Penitentiary of District Colum- the District of Columbia, seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-six cents.

bia.

Improvement

For completing the paving and improvement of PennsylPennsylvania vania avenue, agreeably to the estimate of the Topographical Engineer, made at the last session of Congress, sixteen thousand dollars.

avenue.

Insane paupers

For support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane of District Co-paupers of the District of Columbia, five thousand seven

lumbia.

hundred dollars.

Historical For the execution of an historical painting for the rotundo painting for ro- of the Capitol, by William H. Powell, in place of the one tundo of the contracted for with Henry Inman, deceased, under the joint Capitol. resolution of the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, six thousand dollars; and the Library Committee are hereby directed to contract with the said William H. Powell to execute the said painting on the same terms as were made with the said Inman.

Swan & Pal

To pay Swan & Palmer for work executed by them at mer for work "Twin Island," on the river Ohio, above the falls, six thoudone on Ohio sand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and twenty-five cents: Provided, The account be first settled by the proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department.

river. Proviso.

Deficiency in To make good a deficiency in the fund for the relief of fund for sick & disabled seamen sick and disabled seamen, twelve thousand dollars. For payment for one thousand copies of the seventh and umes laws U. S. eighth volumes of the statutes at large of the United States, seven thousand dollars.

7th & 8th vol

Continuing of For continuing the publication of the works of the exworks of Exploring expedition, including the printing of the charts, the ploring Expedition. pay of the scientific corps, salary of the horticulturist, and care of the collections, fifteen thousand dollars.

Refunding certain duties.

For refunding certain duties collected under the act of thirtieth August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled