Southwest executive building.

Rent of additional offices for

Navy ment.

For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, and labor, four thousand dollars.

For newspapers and periodicals, two hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous, items, one thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of superintendent and three watchmen of the southwest executive building, one thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For the rent of additional offices, and fuel, for the use of the Depart. Navy Department, three thousand dollars.

Post Office De

partment.

Postmaster Gen. eral and officers.

Clerks under

For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For payment of expenses of frigate Macedonian whilst employed under a resolution of Congress, in carrying provisions to Ireland, such sum (not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars) as the accounting officers of the Treasury charged with settling the accounts of the navy, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, may find to have been actually paid by the commander, making no allowance for his pay, which he declines to receive, and deducting from the whole amount paid by him the earnings of the ship.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

For compensation of the Postmaster General, three assistant postmasters general, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and watchmen of the said department, seventy-four thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of four clerks, under the act of nineteenth the act of May May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for six months, at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum, two thousand dollars.

19, 1848.

clerks.

Temporary

Superintendent Post Office De

partment.

Contingencies.

Miscellaneous.

Auditor

Post

ment, and officers.

For compensation to temporary clerks, two thousand dollars.

For compensation of the superintendent of the post office building, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For the contingent expenses of said department, viz: For blank books, binding, stationery, fuel, oil, labor, printing, and day watchmen, six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.

For repairs of the post office building, repairs of the furnaces, whitewashing, glazing, casing fireplaces, and mending office furniture, five hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Auditor of the Post Office DeOffice Depart partment, and the clerks and messenger, and assistant messenger in his office, eighty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation to Robert B. Boyd, in lieu of his present compensation, the sum of forty dollars per month, as a watchman in the Post Office Department.

For contingent expenses of said office, viz:

For labor, blank books, binding, stationery, printing blanks and circulars, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

SURVEYORS AND THEIR CLERKS.

Contingencies.

Surveyors and clerks

Ohio,

For compensation of the surveyor general north west of the Northwest of the Ohio, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of the surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.

For compensation of the surveyor general of Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars.

Illinois
Missouri,

Louisiana,

Florida,

For compensation of the surveyor general of Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of the surveyor general of Wisconsin Wisconsin. and Iowa, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings in Washington, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to four assistants, drawkeepers, at the Potomac bridge, including oil for lamps and machinery, firewood and repairs, four thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.

and

Commissioner Public Buildings.

Potomac bridge.

MINT OF THE UNITED STATES.

At Philadelphia, viz:

For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, assayer, melter and refiner, engraver, assistant assayer, and four clerks, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.

For wages of workmen, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs and wastage, in addition to available funds on hand, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars.

For specimens of ores and coins to be reserved at the mint, one hundred dollars.

At Charlotte, North Carolina, viz:

For salaries of superintendent, assayer, coiner, and clerk, six thousand dollars.

For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Mint of the United States.

Officers.

Contingencies. E

At Charlotte, North Carolina.

Officers.

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, Contingencies. materials, stationery, repairs and wastage, two thousand one hundred dollars.

At Dahlonega, Georgia, viz:

For salaries of superintendent, assayer, coiner, and clerk, six thousand dollars.

For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, and wastage, two thousand five hundred dollars.

At New Orleans, viz :

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, repairs, and wastage, together with an estimated excess of expenses over means for the previous year, of nine thousand two hundred dollars, and in addition to available funds oh hand, twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars.

JUDICIARY.

For salaries of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, and the eight associate judges, forty-one thousand dollars.

For salaries of the district judges, sixty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.

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

For salaries of the Attorney General and the clerk and messenger in his office, six thousand one hundred dollars.

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, being two hundred dollars each, as prescribed by law, seven thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation of the marshals, as prescribed by law, six thousand six hundred dollars.

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 the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and previous years; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the apprehension and safekeeping of

taking and certi

prisoners, four hundred and forty-three thousand dollars: Provided, however, That hereafter, in lieu of all fees, emoluments, and receipts now allowed for taking and certifying the fying depositions. depositions of witnesses in civil causes, the clerk, commissioner, or other officer taking and certifying the same, shall be entitled to receive no greater sum whatever than two dollars for each and every deposition so taken and certified, and for all services connected therewith; and when the taking of such deposition shall require more than six hours, then for every additional six hours the like rate of compensation: And provided further, That all books in the offices of the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the United States, containing the docket or minute of the judgments or decrees of said courts, shall, during office hours, be open to the inspection of any person desiring to examine the same, without any fee or charge therefor.

Books in the offices of clerks of

courts to be open

for

inspection without charge.

house, Detroit.

For repairs of the United States court-house at Detroit, Repairs of courtheretofore made by William R. Noyes, under the direction of the marshal, such amount as the treasury decide is due.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

Miscellaneous.

Annuities and grants

Purchase of bridges over the

For the purchase of one or both of the bridges over the Eastern Branch, near the city of Washington, at a valuation Fastern Brangh to be made in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, which bridge or bridges, when purchased, shall be free of tol to all persons whomsoever, under such regulations as are now in force, or as the same may be legally modified, or added to, in relation to the Potomac bridge opposite said city.

For compensation and contingent expenses of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

AuxMary

Contingencies for the Capitol

For annual repairs of the Capitol, attendance on furnaces in the crypt, attendance on water-closets, cleaning rotundo; and grounds. for public gardener and laborers, and cartage on the Capitol grounds; tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, chains and posts, boxes, straw, white washing, manure, and trees for grounds; attendance at the western gate of the Capitol; repairs of public stables; flagging, enclosures, &c.; keeping in order the iron pipes that convey water to the Capitol and public offices, and repairing damage by freshets; brooms, brushes, wooden spades, and shovelling snow; erecting a suitable building for the keeper of the western gates, repairing western front of the Capitol, repairing abutments of Tiber creek bridge, and building protecting walls; painting exterior wood work of the Capitol and iron fences around the same; altering and enclosing wooden stairway from the roof of the Capitol to the opening in the dome; erecting iron fence on Penn

Lighting Pennsylvania avenue,

Capitol and grounds, and Pre

sident's House.

Contingencies

for President's

grounds.

sylvania avenue enclosing a part of the public grounds at the President's House; for enclosing public grounds at the north and south of the Capitol, at the western front of the Capitol, and the public grounds at the south front of the President's House, with wooden fences; grading said grounds; for suitable trees for planting nursery, seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents.

For lighting Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol square to the Treasury Department, and compensation for one lamplighter for the same, and for lighting Capitol and Capitol grounds, and President's House, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.

For annual repairs and painting of President's House; House, and gardener and laborers, manure, leather, nails, tools, cartage, &c., for the grounds about the same; repairs of the fence at La Fayette square, Fountain square, President's garden, and repairs of gardener's house, eight thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents.

Painting the Capitol.

Compensation to

For grading, draining, planting, and enclosing with wooden fence the grounds south of the President's House, and extending to the canal, six thousand dollars.

For sprinkling Pennsylvania avenue during the session of Congress, one thousand dollars.

For painting the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars.

For compensation to James Crutchet for extra work done. James Crutchet. in making the necessary fixtures for lighting the Capitol with gas, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eighteen cents.

Removing mast

and lantern above

Capitol.

For pay for removing the mast and lantern above the dome the dome of the of the Capitol, three hundred and twenty-three dollars; and for the purchase and erection of lamps and lamp posts of iron, and for the laying of gas pipes, and for other necessary fixtures for lighting the Capitol grounds with gas, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

Lamps, posts, and pipes.

lamp

For laying gas pipes from the main gas pipe at the Capitol. gas to the foot of Fifteenth street, on both sides of Pennsylvania avenue, and for one hundred lamp posts and lamps and other necessary fixtures, and for work and materials rendered and supplied in establishing the same, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Public Buildings to have the pipes. fully and sufficiently tested and proved before they are received.

For laying eight hundred feet of gas pipe from the foot of Fifteenth street to the President's House, and sixteen hundred feet of branch pipe through the house, thirty single burners, pendents and brackets in the kitchen and passages below, twenty brackets in the bedrooms, fifty double brackets in the other rooms, five four-light chandeliers, four six-light: