APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, &c.

STATEMENTS, SHOWING

I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Thirty-Second 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.

MAY 20, 1853.-Prepared by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, in pursuance of the sixth section of the act of July 4, 1836, "to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, and for other purposes.'

I. APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

By the act making an appropriation for bringing

$1,638 89 4,500 00

4,414 00

1,000 00

8,000 00

2,050 00

$25,000 00

20,500 00

1,095 00

dent and Vice President of the United States.

For the payment of the sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States, as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government the vote of the electors of the said States for President and Vice President of the United States.....

nesota.

For the construction of a road from Point Douglas, on the Mississippi river, to the falls or rapids of the St. Louis river of Lake Superior, by the most direct and convenient route between those points..... For the construction of a road from Point Douglas to Fort Gaines, now Fort Ripley.. For the construction of a road from the mouth of Swan river, or the most expedient point near it, north or south of said river, to the Winnebago agency at Long Prairie..

For the construction of a road from Wabashaw to Mendota.....

For the survey and laying out of a military road from Mendota to the mouth of Big Sioux river, on the Missouri..

Equestrian Statue of Washington.

To enable the President of the United States to employ Clark Mills to erect, at the city of Washington, a colossal equestrian statue of George Washington, at such place on the public grounds in said city as shall be designated by the President of the United States.........$50,000 00

By the act to provide compensation to such persons as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and keep the public money, under the fifteenth section of the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the additional services required under that act. To meet the allowances which may be made under the provisions of this act...

.$20,000 00 By the act to establish the Territorial Government of Washington. For the erection of suitable buildings at the seat $5,000 00 of government.... For the purchase of a library, to be kept at the seat of government for the use of the Governor, Legislative Assembly, judges of the supreme court, secretary, marshal, and attorney of said Territory, and such other persons, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law.. 5,000 00 $10,000 00

By the act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians

For commutation of subsistence. For forage for officers' horses.. For repairs, fuel, and apparatus therefor, forage for public horses and oxen, postage, stationery, printing, and other incidental and contingent

.....

..$88,266 00 2,190 00 960 00

expenses....

For increase and expenses of the library........ For expenses of the Board of Visiters For completion of the new mess hall... For stable for dragoon and artillery horses. For forage for dragoon and cavalry horses.. For additional pay of fifty dollars each to the soldier employed in the adjutant's office as clerk, and to the two enlisted men employed in the philosophical and chemical departments...... For the construction of a wharf.....

two..

For compensation of five clerks, authorized to be appointed and employed by the Postmaster General, under the thirteenth section of the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two..... For compensation to an assistant day watchman of the General Post Office, from the fifteenth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, until the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three

For the payment of the amount due William Williams, under the sixteenth article of the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six, being the balance of an award of four hundred and five dollars by the commissioners under said treaty, two hundred and fifty five dollars of which was paid out of the appropriation "for carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five and six".

To pay Gregory Ennis, executor of Philip Ennis,
deceased, balance due upon a contract for fill-
ing up the low ground south of the President's
house, authorized by act of March third, eigh-
teen hundred and forty-nine.....
For expenses of the Board of Visiters at the
Military Academy

For expenses which may be incurred in acknowl-
edging the services of the masters and crews
of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens
and American vessels from shipwreck ..
For the compensation of Senators for the year
ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and

5,100 00 25,000 00

10,000 00

585 00

4,500 00

4,500 00

4,504 90

475 00

150 00

474 54

557 83

2,000 00

7,153 17 For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers...... 26,998 69 For pay of volunteers. 68,157 73 For three months' extra pay.... ..200,000 00 130 27 1,039 39 684 86

......

Fer paper used and to be used for printing for the House of Representatives for the first session of the Thirty-Second Congress.. For paper for the printing for the two Houses of Congress for the second session of the ThirtySecond Congress, being for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three..

.104,064 00

4,376 33 1,550 00

For compensation to the Superintendent of Public Printing, and the two clerks and messengers in his office For blank books, advertising for proposals for paper, postage, &c... To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay John S. Little per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John Robbins, Jr., during the Thirty-First Congress..

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay Hendrick B. Wright per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of Henry M. Fuller during the ThirtySecond Congress

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of the House of Representatives, passed on the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, to pay John Taliaferro per diem and mileage while contesting the seat of John P. Hungerford during the Twelfth Congress...

For salary of an assistant dragoman and secretary to the legation to Turkey. For clerk hire at the legation of the United States at London for one year..

For relief of such of the Cuban prisoners, not citizens of the United States, as were pardoned by the Queen of Spain and sent out of her dominions by the United States Minister at Madrid, and the American Consul at Gibraltar, For extra clerk hire and copying in the Department of State.....

2,376 00

1,939 20

222 00 1,500 00 880 00

713 34 2,000 00

For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, lights, and stationery, for the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon....

2,400 00

12,000 00

For traveling expenses of Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon, and agents therein.... 2,000 00 For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the Territory of Utah... For payment of the second of ten installments in provisions, merchandise, &c., and the transportation of the same to certain tribes of Indians, per seventh article of the treaty of Fort Laramie of seventeenth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one......... 60,000 00 For the service of the Post Office Department, to supply a deficiency in the revenues of said Department, to meet the appropriations therefor for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three...

....505,000 00

For the reappropriation of the following sums, carried to the surplus fund per warrant number seven, dated twentieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, under the provisions of the tenth section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," approved thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and

For survey from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean....

For subsistence of ten regiments of regular troops For the payment of such sums as may be due to individuals under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for property destroyed by the burning of the navy yard in the city of Washington, in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen....

For the purpose of completing the pedestal of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, in Lafayette Square, and the erection of a suitable iron railing around the same... For salaries of nine supervising and fifty local inspectors appointed under act approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with traveling and other expenses incurred by them... To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of the east wing of the Patent Office Building..... For deficiency in the appropriation heretofore made to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, to enable said bureau to pay to Loriston Averil an account due him... For compensation of the acting Secretary of the Territory of Utah, from the fourteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the twenty sixth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two....

To pay James S. Buckley for services as keeper of the navy-yard Eastern Branch bridge, from fourth December, eighteen hundred and fortyeight, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty, For payment of arrearages due to David Finch as superintendent of the painting the exterior walls of the Patent Office and Treasury Buildings... For repairs of vessels employed in the Coast Survey To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.. For the repair of damages to, and the improvement of, Lafayette Square.. For compensation of the United States assayer at San Francisco, California, from the first of January, eighteen hundred and fifty two, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty. three...

750 00

3,000 00

53,870 50

44,000 00

314 30

1,859 16

708 00

117 50 10,000 00

4,550 00 1,278 00

1

For temporary clerk hire in the office of the Au-
ditor of the Post Office Department...
For arrears of compensation due A. J. Downing
for services as rural architect at the time of his
death......

For laying out and graveling the roads and walks,
purchasing manure and trees, and seeding down
in grass the square south of the President's
House, and for paying any balance which may
be due for work done and performed.......... 12,000 00
For providing proper foundations for the custom-
house at San Francisco, authorized by the sixth
section of the act entitled "An act to supply
deficiencies in the appropriations for the service
of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,'
and in addition to the sum heretofore appropri-
ated...

For fuel and quarters for officers of the Army serving on light house duty, the payment of which is no longer made by the Quartermaster Department....

For deficiency in the fund for purchasing lighthouse supplies..........

25,000 00

2,341 27 6,200 00

For the reappropriation of seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty cents, being a portion of the amount heretofore appropriated for the erection of a custom house at Eastport, Maine, and carried to the surplus fund on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fiftytwo; the unexpended balance of the appropriation by the act of June nineteen, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, "for payment of the Georgia militia," etc., which has passed by subsequent acts into the surplus fund, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated.. For balance due Levi Johnson for the site for marine hospital at Cleveland, Ohio.. For payment of salaries of deputy surveyors at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans..

..[Indefinite.]

To pay Walter S. Burges (late district attorney of the State of Rhode Island) for his services and money paid out in defending Captain Simonds, of the brig Casket, by order of John Y. Mason, late Secretary of the Navy.... For additional allowance to E. S. Norris and George R. Stuntz, made to them as deputy surveyors under the surveyor-general of Wisconsin and Iowa.........

For payment of the amount due Thomas W. Lane upon three several drafts drawn in his favor by G. W. Barbour, Indian agent in California, upon R. McKee, disbursing agent for transportation, supplies, and labor furnished said agent upon special contract while treating with the Indians in said State....

For the services of a striker in the shop of the Delaware Indians, from August first, eighteen hundred and twenty three, to August thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; and for the services of a smith and striker in the shop of the Senecas and Shawnees of Lewistown, from seventeenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to fifteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, deducting all amounts paid for such service during said period; and for balance due for services on Seneca mill dam, as estimated for by the proper department.....

3,396 00

2,500 00

584 80

4,218 84

3,825 00

*2,229 00

For compensation of five members of the House of Representatives appointed a committee of investigation upon all facts touching the connection of Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, with the Gardiner claim, and authorized to sit during the recess between the first and second sessions of the present Congress.. 3,840 00 To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Peter Force and John C. Rives for one hundred and two copies of the third volume of the fifth series of the " American Archives," or "Documentary History of the United States," for the new members of the House of the Twenty-Sixth Congress; one hundred and seventeen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-Seventh Congress; one hundred copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-Eighth Congress; one hundred and one copies of the same volume for the new members of the Twenty-Ninth Congress; one hundred and sixteen copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirtieth Congress; one hundred and thirty-four copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-First Congress; and one hundred and thirty copies of the same volume for the new members of the Thirty-Second Congress; in all eight hundred volumes, at sixteen dollars forty-five cents and six mills per volume.... To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for reporting and publishing eight hundred and fifty columns of the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the second session of the Thirty Second Congress in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column...

13,169 40

6,375 00

3,000 00

467 54

To enable the said John C. Rives to pay the re-
porters of this House for this session the sum
of seven dollars per column instead of four for
the reports of the Congressional Globe........
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives to pay a balance due for reporting and
publishing the proceedings of the House during
the first session of the Thirty-Second Congress,
being sixty-five columns and one line, at the
rate of seven dollars and fifty cents per column,
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives to pay for twenty-four copies of the Con-
gressional Globe and Appendix of the second
session of the Thirty-Second Congress for
each member and delegate of the House.......... 17,064 00
For binding the same, being five thousand six
hundred and eighty-eight volumes, in strong
and substantial half binding, with Russia backs
and corners, at a rate not exceeding sixty cents
per volume.....

For this amount of money appropriated, and
goods purchased under treaty stipulations for
the Lake Chippewa Indians, lately destroyed
by fire at the agency of said Indians..
For paying expenses of David Dale Owen's Geo-
logical Report, from Philadelphia to Washing-
ton, for one hundred and seventeen boxes, and
porterage....

Appropriations.

Northeast Executive Building.

For compensation of the superintendent and four
watchmen of the northeast executive building, $2,250 00
For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For fuel, labor, oil, and repairs

Treasury Department.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office..... For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office...

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office

3,300 00

32,050 00 22,150 00 24,650 00

For labor and other miscellaneous items, and for additional cases for filing the accounts of the First and Fifth Auditors, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office.. For arranging and binding canceled marine papers, returned by the collectors of the customs, In the office of the Solicitor : For blank books, binding, stationery, and for Jabor.......

2,000 00

1,000 00

900 00

For the contingent expenses of the Senate, viz:

For binding...

15,000 00

For lithographing and engraving.

15,000 00

For books

12,000 00

For stationery..

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office... For compensation to temporary clerks, employed in the office of the Third Auditor in making out certificates of service from the muster rolls of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the several Indian wars, and on arrearages of pay For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office....

For blank books, binding, and stationery. For miscellaneous expenses

250 00

350 00

8,000 00

For newspapers..

2,500 00

For Congressional Globe and binding the same.. For reporting proceedings..

For clerks to committees, and President pro tempore, draughtsman, messengers, pages, laborers, police, horses, and carry-alls To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to comply with the resolution of said House of March first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, directing him to pay the usual extra compensation to the employees in and about the Capitol... To supply a deficiency in the appropriations heretofore made for the contingent expenses of the Senate, for lithographing and engraving, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty three.......

For miscellaneous items

...[Indefinite.]

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, and to defray the expenses of select committees of investigation appointed by the Senate........ For the expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office.... For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the clerks and messenger in his office.........

20,450 00 11,400 00

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for labor, fuel, and lights..... For rent of additional buildings, in part occupied by the Secretary of the Interior, and part by the First Auditor of the Treasury. For fuel, watching, and miscellaneous items for the same....

14,500 00

3,500 00

4,000 00

13,750 00

55,000 00

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers in his office. For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, For compensation of the Commissioner of Customs, and the clerks and messenger in his of fice 16,500 00 For compensation of the clerks and messenger of the Light-House Board........ 6,400 00

30,800 00 13,850 00

24,000 00 20,000 00

18,000 00

In the office of the Second Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, office furniture, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and miscellaneous items.... 1,332 84 In the office of the Third Auditor: For blank books, binding, stationery, office furniture, including carpeting, two newspapersthe Union and Intelligencer-to be filed, labor, and miscellaneous items......... For expenses of arranging document rooms and preserving files and papers....

Contingent expenses of the Treasury Depart

ment.

In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury: For labor, blank books, stationery, sealing ships' registers, translating foreign languages, advertising, and extra clerk hire for preparing and collecting information to be laid before Congress-said clerks to be employed only during the session of Congress, or when indispensably necessary to enable the department to answer some call made by either House of Congress at one session to be answered at another; and no such extra clerk shall receive more than three dollars and thirty-three and one third cents per day for the time actually and necessarily employed.....

In the office of the Second Comptroller: For blank books, binding, stationery, including pay for the National Intelligencer and the Union, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office......

700 00 800 00

For compensation to temporary clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions.. 42,046 66 Contingent expenses of the Department of the

Interior.

In the office of the Secretary of the Interior: For books, stationery, furniture, and other contingencies

For library, books, and maps..

In the General Land Office: For compensation of laborers..

For cash system and military patents, under laws prior to thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; patent and other records, tract books, blank books, for the district land offices; binding plats, field notes, &c.; stationery, office furniture, and repairs of the same, and miscellaneous items.. For parchment, maps, records, letter and other records, required under the swamp land act of twenty-eighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty; military bounty acts of twentyeighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, and twenty-second of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for the satisfaction of Virginia land warrants, per act of thirtyfirst of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; printing plate and engraving scrip, authorized to be issued by act of thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, including form, &c., under said act, and other miscellaneous expenses...

In the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs:

1,894 79

1,000 00

33,700 00

For contingencies incident to the bounty land service, and arrearages......

1,400 00

Contingent expenses of east wing of Patent

Office Building, viz:

In the office of the Fourth Auditor: For stationery, books, and binding.. For labor...

600 00

For miscellaneous items......

100 00 200 00

For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses.. 2,200 00 War Department.

16,025 00

10,000 00

In the office of the Fifth Auditor: For blank books, binding, and stationery. For hire of laborers...

For the payment of the expenses attendant upon the funeral obsequies of the late Secretary of State........ For stationery, blank-books, binding, labor, and attendance, furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing....

For miscellaneous expenses..

250 00 175 00 300 00

For books and maps...................................... For newspapers...

For miscellaneous items..

890 70 200 00 1,000 00

In the office of the Register: For blank books, binding, and stationery, including one thousand five hundred dollars for ruling and full binding twenty-three books for

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General..........

For compensation of the clerk and messenger in the office of the Commanding General.. 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 Clothing and Equipage, in Philadelphia.....

1,500 00

10,450 00 12,300 00

4,040 00

9,900 00

In the office of the Adjutant General:

For blank books, binding, and stationery.
For miscellaneous items, including office furni

500 00

ture.........

500 00

In the office of the Quartermaster General, including the office at Philadelphia:

For blank books, binding, and stationery.. For labor.....

378

32D CONG.....2D SESS.

For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence...

For books, maps, and plans..

For extra clerks....

For miscellaneous items.........

ment.

250 00

.103,200 00

3,080 00 2,300 00 1,200 00 620 00

1,500 00

700 00

20,000 00

150 00

Mint of the United States.

5,820 00

For miscellaneous items.......

2,900 00 150 00

41,500 00

For miscellaneous items, including subscription
to two daily Washington newspapers...
In the office of the Surgeon General:
For blank books, binding, and stationery
For miscellaneous items.......

400 00

300 00

4,500 00

5,500 00

8,300 00

At Charlotte, North Carolina:

200 00

150 00

In the office of the Colonel of Ordnance: For blank books, binding, and stationery... For miscellaneous items

In the Bureau of Topographical Engineers: For blank books, binding, stationery, and labor.. For miscellaneous items...

400 00

350 00

At Dahlonega, Georgia:

Northwest Executive Building.

..............

For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northwest executive building.

2,250 00

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, and lights.......

2,400 00 1,600 00

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds

For miscellaneous items..........
Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets.
For rent of house on northwest corner of F and
Seventeenth streets, and warming all the rooms
in it...

For compensation of superintendent and four watchmen of the building corner of F and Seventeenth streets........

For contingent expenses of said building: For miscellaneous items, including labor

Navy Department.

For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office.

22,000 00

For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his of...... 13,600 00 fice... For compensation of the Chief Naval Constructor 6,000 00 and the Engineer-in-Chief.. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his office..... 9,400 00 For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Navy-Yards and Docks, and the civil engineer, draughtsman, clerks, and messenger in his of fice.....

12,600 00 7,300 00

For compensation of the clerks and messengerin the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.. For compensation to the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and the assistant to chief, clerks, and messenger in his office..... 7,700 00 Contingencies of the Navy Department. For contingencies of the Navy Department and all the bureaus connected therewith, viz: For blank books, binding, stationery, books, plans, drawings, labor, newspapers and periodicals, incidental and miscellaneous items..... 6,430 00

Southwest Executive Building.

For compensation of the superintendent and four
watchmen of the southwest executive building, 2,250 00
For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For labor.........

For salaries of Governor, three Judges, and Secretary..... For contingent expenses of said Territory....... For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and ...... 20,000 00 contingent expenses of the Assembly..... Territory of Minnesota: For salaries of Governor, Superintendent of In9,700 00 dian Affairs, three Judges, and Secretary..... 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 New Mexico:

..182,330 78

For supplying the light-houses, containing three thousand two hundred and seventy-two lamps, with oil, lamp glasses, wicks, buff-skins, polishing powder, whiting, and other cleaning materials; transportation, and other necessary expenses on the same; repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus; publishing necessary rules, regulations, and instructions; notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, and of lights, &c.... For supplying forty-nine light-houses, to contain five hundred and sixty one lamps, with oil, &c., &c., as above, authorized by acts of third March, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyone, and thirty first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two....... For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of three hundred and forty-nine light-houses, and buildings connected therewith....

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of forty-nine light-houses and buildings connected therewith, provided for by aets of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fiftyFor salaries of three hundred and twenty-one light house keepers, aud twenty four assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes.... For salaries of forty-nine keepers, and six assistants, for the light-houses authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty two........ 22,000 00 For salaries of forty-two keepers of light-vessels, 23,000 00 For salaries of five keepers of light-vessels, authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two..... For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies for forty-two light-vessels... For seamen's wages, supplies, and incidental expenses for five light-vessels, authorized by acts of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and thirty first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, 33,004 72 For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons, and buoys, chains, sinkers, &c., for 59,057 32 light vessels...

For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying fosses of two hundred and forty-five dumb beacons and buoys, and their appendages, authorized by act of the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two...

3,150 00

.103,664 52

12,300 00

68,000 00

10,500 00 1,500 00

For annual repairs and office fixtures of the custom-houses of the United States.......

29,035 00

14,400 00

For rebuilding light-house on Chaudeleur Island, Louisiana, destroyed in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.... For restoring the light-house buildings, sea-walls, &c., which were injured or destroyed during the late gales on the southern coast.... For fitting Cape Hatteras light with first order of illuminating apparatus and lantern, and elevating the light.. For removing the iron light-house tower at the junction of the Southwest and Northeast Passes of the Mississippi to Pass a l'Outre, and substituting a small beacon light in its stead........ 6,000 00 Independent Treasury.

For the marine hospital at Natchez... For continuing the construction of the marine hospital at St. Louis, Missouri...... Intercourse with Foreign Nations. For salaries and outfits of Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and

For expenses of visiting and reporting the condition of 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 March third, 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......

Coasts of California and Oregon:

For oil and other supplies, cleaning materials of all kinds, transportation of supplies, keeping lamps and machinery in good repair, and the towers and buildings in a proper state of preservation, superintendence and inspection of thirteen lights, replacing, cleaning, painting, and preserving all the buoys in the waters of California and Oregon, and all incidental expenses connected with the aids to navigation on these coasts..... For salaries of thirteen keepers and eleven assistants, at an average not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum...... Light-Houses.

12,000 00

10,000 00

2,000 00

8,000 00

Appropriations.

For proceeding with the construction of the custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky

For the completion of the custom-house at Cincinnati..

For the purchase of land additional to the present custom-house lot at Providence, Rhode Island, For the erection of a new custom-house at said port, which shall be so constructed and arranged as to furnish a suitable room for the United States circuit and district courts, with the necessary offices for district judge, clerk, marshal, &c.... For the construction of the custom-house at Wilmington, Delaware, in addition to the sum appropriated by the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two... For annual repairs and office fixtures of the custom houses of the United States For the construction of a custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia................

To equalize the salary of the collector of Chicago, and to make it equal to that of Detroit... For completing and finishing the marine hospital at Napoleon, Arkansas

For the completion of the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana.......

Surveys of Public Lands. For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses and special surveys, demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, (the part to be applied to the resurveys required by the location and survey of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile,) in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations

..115,000 00

For resurveys and examinations of the surveys of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyors general have been or shall be closed under the acts of twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed on this special service in the General Land Office, 15,000 00 For correcting defective and fraudulent surveys in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including the expenses of a field inspector of surveys... To defray the expenses of examining and correcting old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan.......

5,000 00

3,500 00 25,000 00 30,000 00 1,250 00 4,000 00 25,000 00 20,000 00 4,000 00 20,000 00

3,000 00

15,000 00

25,000 00

Chili

For salary and outfit of a Minister to Central America, to be accredited to such one or more of the Governments included in that name as the President of the United States may designate

162,000 00

15,000 00

For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the saine
places....
For salary of the Minister Resident to Turkey..
For salary of the Dragoman to the legation to
Turkey...

18,000 00 20,000 00 6,000 00 2,500 00

For the survey of township and section lines in Wisconsin, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile...... For the survey of standard, correction, township, and section lines in Minnesota, in conformity with the instructions recently issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for similar surveys in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile.. For correcting erroneous and defective lines of public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, including office work For compensation of surveyors and other agents required in Illinois, Missouri, Florida, and Arkansas, to carry into effect the act of twentyeighth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty, granting swamp lands.. For detached and unfinished surveys and resurveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile.............. For correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per mile....

25,000 00

45,000 00

2,500 00

14,000 00

15,230 00

6,286 00

For salaries of the Assistant Treasurers of the United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis.. For additional salaries of the Treasurer of the Mint at Philadelphia, of one thousand dollars, and of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, of five hundred dollars....... For salary of the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at San Francisco... For salaries of ten additional clerks, authorized by the acts of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, August twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two... For salary of chief clerk to the Assistant Treasurer at New York... For salary of a clerk for the Treasurer of the Branch Mint at San Francisco, California... 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.... For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand in the several depositories, under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six,.... 5,000 00 For the compensation of an additional appraiser general, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be employed on the Pacific coast...... 6,000 00 Survey of the Coast.

For survey of the coast of the United States, in-
cluding 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, (excluding the pay and
emoluments of the officers of the Army and
Navy, and petty officers and men of the Navy,
employed on the work)....
For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and
keys, (excluding the pay and emoluments of
the officers of the Army and Navy, and petty
officers and men of the Navy, employed on
the work)

10,800 00 1,600 00 2,500 00

16,500 00

For continuing the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, 50,000 00 For printing and distributing charts of lake surveys... 1,500 00

For salaries and outfits of Chargé d'Affaires or Ministers Resident to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, New Granada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Switzerland, and Nicaragua.. For salary of clerk to the United States legation at London..... For the payment of Theodore'S. Fay of the difference between the salary of a Secretary of Legation and a Chargé d'Affaires, during the time, on several different occasions, he discharged the duties of the latter office at Prussia... For the compensation of Edward Kent, for one quarter's salary as Chargé d'Affaires at the Legation at Rio de Janeiro, during the absence of the Minister, and under the instructions of the Department of State...

To reimburse David Tod, late Minister of the United States at Brazil, a sum of money advanced by him to William E. Anderson, who was sent by the Minister from Rio de Janeiro to the United States in the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as a witness against two persons engaged in the slave trade.. For payment of Buckingham Smith, late a Secretary of Legation in Mexico, the difference between his salary as Secretary of Legation and that of Chargé d'Affaires, from the twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the eighth of October following, during which period he discharged the duties of Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico, in the absence of the Minister of the United States, who had returned home on leave.....

1,125 00

75.00

1,756 95 For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad 40,000 00 For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse.. 40,000 00 For expenses of intercourse with Barbary....... 9,000 00 For salary of the Consul at London.. 2,000 00 For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands..... 5,000 00

10,000 00

For completing certain surveys in Florida, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, in consequence of the peculiar difficulties attending the execution of the same on account of swamps, lakes, marshes, &c., and for scrap work..... For continuing the survey of the keys on the Florida coast, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight..... 20,000 00 For surveying standard, parallel, township, and section lines in Oregon, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, nearly equal to six thousand four hundred miles..

76,400 00

For extending the principal meridian line in Oregon, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, 4,000 00 For rent of Surveyor General's office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, &c....... 2,250 00 To defray the expenses incurred of a geological reconnoissance in Oregon, undertaken in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, under instructions from the Department of the Interior, and intrusted to Doctor J. Evans..... 11,984 25 For completing the geological reconnoissance in Oregon...

5,000 00

For rent of Surveyor-General's office in California, purchase of instruments, records, drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messengers, &c. 11,400 00 For continuing the survey of the islands on the coast of California, under act of the thirty-first

of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two..... 30,000 00 For surveying standard lines in California, meandering and surveying irregular and river lots, &c., amounting to two thousand miles, at a rate not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile........ For subdividing into townships, equal to one thousand two hundred miles of surveying, at a rate not exceeding fourteen dollars per mile, in California....

30,000 00

.186,000 00

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates of Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, and Alexandria..

For office rent of the Consul at Basle, in Switzerland....

2,000 00 100 00

For compensation to the consuls at the five ports in China, viz: Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning Po, and Shanghai... 5,000 00 For salary of the Consul General at Alexandria, 5,000 00 For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries.. ..125,000 00 For clerk bire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the Consul of the United States at London.....

For salary of the Consul at Beirout..

2,800 00 500 00

For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings......

Public Lands.

15,000 00 For continuing the construction of the customhouse at St. Louis.......................................... .......115,000 00

For compensation for Secretary to sign patents for public lands...... For salary of Recorder of land titles in Missouri.. For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys......... ....141,700 00

1,500 00 500 00

2,000 00 For compensation of the clerk in the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings........... 1,000 00 For the extension of the United States Capitol...600,000 00 For compensation, in part, of the messenger in charge of the main furnace in the Capitol... For compensation of the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol.......

Custom-Houses.

For continuing the construction of the customhouse at Charleston, South Carolina ......... ..100,000 00 For continuing the construction of the customhouse at New Orleans, Louisiana.. .324,000 00 To complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine.. 12,000 00 To complete the foundation of the custom-house in Bangor, and to connect the same with the shore

16,800 00 For sectioning one hundred townships, equal to six thousand miles of surveying, in California, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, 72,000 00 Public Buildings.

350 00 365 00 For compensation of the public gardener........ 1,200 00