APPROPRIATIONS, NEW OFFICES, ETC. 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." .$20,000 00 10,000 00 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.... 5,000 00 5,000 00 5,000 00 $45,000 00 By the act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. For invalid pensions under various acts.......$480,000 00 For pensions to widows and orphans under the acts of July the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and July the twentyfirst, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight......... For pensions to widows under the act of seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight..... 28,000 00 For pensions to widows under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and fortythree....... 90,000 00 ................. 30,000 00 By the act making an appropriation for the payment of Navy pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. For invalid pensions................ By the 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-three. For compensation of the Vice President of the $1,638 89 4,500 00 10,000 00 $910,000 00 4,414 00 1,000 00 .$25,000 00 For the extension of the United States Capitol..400,000 00 For the completion of the repairs of the Congressional Library Room, authorized by the act approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.... 20,500 00 For inclosing Lafayette Square with an iron fence... For compensation of three men, at one dollar per day each, for one year, to finish and keep in order Lafayette Square... 1,095 00 For completing the work of the Seventh Census, and to prepare the same for publication.. For stationery, printing blank forms and regulations, furniture, binding books, and miscelJaneous items in the office of Commissioner of Pensions... For engraving for fifty one thousand five hundred and twenty copies of the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report for eighteen hundred and fifty-one two.... To pay for the Congressional Globe and Appendix, and the Annals of Congress, ordered for the use of the Library of the House of Representatives, under the resolution of the House of September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty...... To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to furnish, pay for, and deliver the same books to five new members of the present Congress, as per resolution of said House passed twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty 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". 5,100 00 25,000 00 10,000 00 585 00 4,500 00 4,500 00 4,504 90 475 00 29,660 00 1,000 00 3,000 00 3,500 00 150 00 8,000 00 8,640 00 To pay Gregory Ennis, executor of Philip Ennis, deceased, balance due upon a contract for filling up the low ground south of the President's house, authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine.... For expenses of the Board of Visiters at the Military Academy....... 474 54 557 83 150 00 4,330 00 $149,696 00 For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging 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 2,000 00 13,234 40 For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers..... For pay of volunteers.. For three months' extra pay.. 16,411 50 For services of private physicians.. ence 7,153 17 26,998 69 68,157 73 ..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. 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 twen ty-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.... 104,064 00 4,376 33 1,550 00 2,376 00 1,939 20 222 00 1,500 00 880 00 713 34 2,000 00 2,400 00 12,000 00 For clerk hire, office rent, fuel, lights, and stationery, for the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon...... 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....... 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... For survey from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean.... For traveling allowance to volunteers.. For pay of Louisiana and Texas volunteers..... For pay of ten regiments of regular troops.... For pay of volunteers under resolution of the eighth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six...... 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, eigh teen 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.. 750 00 3,000 00 For the purpose of completing the pedestal of For deficiency in the appropriation heretofore To pay James S. Buckley for services as keeper To supply a deficiency in the contingent expen- For temporary clerk hire in the office of the Au- For fuel and quarters for officers of the Army For deficiency in the fund for purchasing lighthouse supplies...... 44,000 00 314 30 1,859 16 708 00 117 50 10,000 00 4,550 00 1,278 00 7,500 00 1,000 00 625 00 12,000 00 25,000 00 2,341 27 6,200 00 .[Indefinite.] 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. 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 Ca-ket, by order of John Y. Mason, late Secretary of the Navy. For additional allowance to E. S. Norris aud George R. Stuntz, made to them as deputy surveyors under the surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa... .3,396 00 2,500 00 584 80 4,218 84 3,825 09 2,229 00 For payment of the amount due Thomas W. Lane upon three several drafts drawn in his favor by G. W. Barbour, Indian agent in Cali fornia, 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 fitteenth 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.. 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 09 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... 1 To enable the said John C. Rives to pay the reporters of this House for this session the suin of seven dollars per column instead of four for the reports of the Congressional Globe...... To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives 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 Representatives 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.... 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 Geological Report, from Philadelphia to Washington, for one hundred and seventeen boxes, and porterage...... Appropriations. Northeast Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent and four 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 For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger in his office....... 3,300 00 32,050 00 For the contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For binding...... 15,000 00 For lithographing and engraving.. 15,000 00 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.. Southeast Executive Building. 8,000 00 For newspapers.. 2,500 00 8,000 00 24,500 00 55,000 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 thou sand eight hundred and fifty three, and to defray the expenses of select committees of investigation appointed by the Senate ........................ 24,000 00 20,000 00 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 Contingent expenses of the Treasury Depart 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 For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant mes sengers in his office.. 30,800 00 13,850 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..... ........ For miscellaneous items......................................... 1,000 00 200 00 800 00 For stationery.. For binding books.. 3,000 00 1,000 00 1,894 79 For furniture.. 1,000 00 33,700 00 For contingencies incident to the bounty land service, and arrearages....... For engraving bounty land warrants....... For miscellaneous items... 500 00 4,500 00 1,000 00 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 00 100 00 For labor, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses.. 2,200 00 War Department. For compensation of the Secretary of War, and 10,000 00 In the office of the Fifth Auditor: For blank books, binding, and stationery.. For hire of laborers.... For miscellaneous expenses.. 250 00 175 00 300 00 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.............. 12,300 00 For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of Clothing and Equipage, in Philadelphia..... 1,500 00 10,450 00 4,040 00 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 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 forin, &c., under said act, and other miscellaneous expenses... In the office of the Commissioner of Indian For blank books, binding, and stationery......... Department of the Interior. For compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, and the clerks, messengers, and laborers in his office... For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and packers in his office 24,700 00 32D CONG.....2D SESS. For compensation of the clerks and messenger 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 and messenger in the office of the Colonel of Ordnance.... For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers....... Contingent Expenses of the War Department. In the office of the Secretary of War: For blank books, stationery, and labor...... For miscellaneous items... For books, maps, and plans.. ............. 1,450 00 550 00 1,000 00 For extra clerks.... 1,500 00 For stationery In the office of the Adjutant General : For blank books, binding, and stationery. For miscellaneous items, including office furni ture.. For blank books.. For binding and ruling.. In the office of the Quartermaster General, including the office at Philadelphia: For blank books, binding, and stationery.. For miscellaneous items. For office rent at Philadelphia........... In the office of the Commissary General of Subsistence: For file-boards, repairs, cases, desks for safekeeping of paper, new furniture, lights, washing towels, ice, horse for messenger, telegraphic dispatches, stoves, &c. For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel for the For compensation of the Auditor of the Post .103,200 00 3,080 00 2,300 00 1,200 00 620 00 For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and 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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty four, and previous years, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners..... 1,500 00 700 00 To aid the Directors of the Washington Infirmary to enlarge their accommodations for the benefit of sick transient paupers.. 20,000 00 150 00 Mint of the United States. For blank books, binding, stationery, advertising, and labor.... For salaries of director, treasurer, chief coiner, melter, and refiner, engraver, assayer, assistant assayer, and six clerks.... For wages of workmen.. ................ For miscellaneous items....... 2,900 00 150 00 For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to other available funds.. 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......................... For specimens of ores and coins, to be preserved at the Mint... 41,500 00 300 00 400 00 For compensation of the Surveyor General of 4,500 00 5,500 00 8,300 00 At Charlotte, North Carolina: 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... Northwest Executive Building. For compensation of the superintendent and four watchmen of the northwest executive building For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, and lights............................. For miscellaneous items............... .......................... Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets. 400 00 ......... 350 00 For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage of gold, fuel, materials, stationery, and repairs.... ........ 2,250 00 2,400 00 1,600 00 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 compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office.. For compensation of the Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, and the clerks, draughtsman, and messenger in his of fice........ For compensation of the Chief Naval Constructor 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.... 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..... 22,000 00 13,600 00 6,000 00 9,400 00 12,600 00 7,300 00 For compensation of the clerks and messenger in For compensation of the superintendent and four For fuel and lights... For miscellaneous items......... Post Office Department. 9,700 00 1,000 00 For salaries of Governor, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, three Judges, and Secretary............. For contingent expenses of said Territory....... 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: For salaries of Governor, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, three Judges, and Secretary..... 9,700 00 For contingent expenses of said Territory.. 1,000 00 For payment of expenses of the Board of Com missioners to prepare and compile a code of laws for the better government of the Territory of New Mexico, authorized by the act of the Legislative Assembly, approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty one.... For compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly. Territory of Utah: 325 00 1,550 00 1,150 00 For compensation of the Surveyor General of Arkansas, and the clerks in his office..... For compensation of the Surveyor General of Oregon, and the clerks in his office.... For compensation of the Surveyor General of California, and the clerks in his office....... For clerks in the offices of the Surveyors General, including the offices in Oregon and California, to be apportioned to them according to the exigencies of the public service, and to be employed in transcribing field notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of Government...... Light-House Establishment. 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 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 bea cons, and buoys, chains, sinkers, &c., for light vessels... 59,057 32 ..103,664 52 For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, mooring, and supplying losses 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..... 12,300 00 8,300 00 6,000 00 4,100 00 1,500 00 6,000 00 3,600 00 .... 40,000 00 32D CONG....2D Sess. For expenses of coloring, numbering, &c., all of the buoys and beacons provided for by the act of the twenty-eighth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. For life-boats and other means of rendering assistance to wrecked mariners and others on the coast of the United States... 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. For rebuilding light-house on Chaudeleur Island, Louisiana, destroyed in August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.... 12,000 00 10,000 00 2,000 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... 87,745 00 87,745 00 16,000 00 34,000 00 8,000 00 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 annual repairs and office fixtures of the custom-houses of the United States.. 3,500 00 25,000 00 30,000 00 1,250 00 4,000 00 25,000 00 For the completion of the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana..... 20,000 00 4,000 00 20,000 00 For restoring the light-house buildings, sea-walls, &c., which were injured or destroyed during the late gales on the southern coast.......... 25,000 00 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........ Independent Treasury. For salaries of the Assistant Treasurers of the United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis...... 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 For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same places..... 15,000 00 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 6,000 00 11,500 00 1,500 00 4,500 00 10,800 00 1,600 00 2,500 00 . 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- For continuing the survey of the western coast 16,500 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...... 153,000 00 800 00 4,034 73 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 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.. 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 ..115,000 00 in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including the expenses of a field inspector of surveys.... 5,000 00 To defray the expenses of examining and correcting old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan........ For the survey of township and section lines in 3,000 00 25,000 00 45,000 00 2,500 00 14,000 00 15,230 00 6,286 00 9,142 00 10,000 00 For correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per mile............. For surveying in Louisiana at augmented rates, including salary and expenses of surveyor, to locate private land claims...... For the survey of private land claims in Florida, under the act of twenty-eighth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, including the work now under contract.... 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... 10,000 00 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... ..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 .......150,000 00 30,000 00 For salary and outfit of a Commissioner to reside in China, including the additional_compensation under the act to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte...... 18,000 00 For salary of the Interpreter and Secretary to said mission..... 2,500 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 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 ...... 15,000 00 For continuing the construction of the customhouse at St. Louis .......115,000 00 30,000 00 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. 2,000 00 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....... For compensation of the public gardener........ 350 00 365 00 1,200 00 |