33D CONG....2D Sess. SARDINIA. Spezzia, seven hundred and fifty dollars. GREECE. Athens, one thousand dollars. TURKEY. Candia, one thousand dollars; IONIAN ISLANDS. Zante, one thousand dollars. AFRICA. Monrovia, one thousand dollars; Zanzibar, one thousand dollars. NEW ZEALAND. Bay Islands, one thousand dollars. HAYTI. Cape Haytien, one thousand dollars; Aux Cayes, five hundred dollars. MEXICO. Mexico, one thousand dollars; Tehuantepec, one thousand dollars; CENTRAL AMERICA. Omoa and Truxillo, one thousand dollars; San José, five hundred dollars. NEW GRANADA. Carthagena, five hundred dollars; Sabanillo, five hundred dollars. VENEZUELA. Ciudad Bolivar, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Puerto Cabello, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Maracaibo, seven hundred and fifty dollars. ECUADOR. Guayaquil, seven hundred and fifty dollars. BRAZIL. Maranham Island, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Para, one thousand dollars. URUGUAY. Montevideo, one thousand dollars. CHILI. Talcahuano, one thousand dollars. PERU. Paita, five hundred dollars; SANDWICH ISLANDS. Lahaina, one thousand dollars; NAVIGATOR'S ISLAND. Apia, one thousand dollars. SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahiti, one thousand dollars. FEJEE ISLANDS. Lanthala, one thousand dollars. HOLLAND. Batavia, one thousand dollars. (Commercial agent.) Paramaribo, five hundred dollars. (Commercial agent.) Padang, five hundred dollars. (Commercial agent.) St. Martin, five hundred dollars. (Commercial agent.) Curacoa, five hundred dollars. (Commercial agent.) Consuls and commercial agents authorized to charge the following fees, for the specified services : For receiving and delivering ships' papers, half cent on every ton, registered measurement, of the vessel for which the service is performed. For every seaman who may be discharged or shipped at the consulate or commercial agency, or in the port in which they are located, one dollar; which shall be paid by the master of the vessel. Appropriations. Temporary clerks authorized to be appointed by the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars appropriated for their compensation. By the act to establish Columbus, in the State of Mississippi, Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee, and Hickman, in the State of Kentucky, ports of delivery. A surveyor of the customs authorized to be appointed at each of those ports, to receive the compensation and emoluments prescribed in the act of Congress approved March 2, 1831. By the act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1856, and for other purposes. An additional Indian agent authorized to be appointed, for the Kansas Indians, at an annual salary of one thousand dollars. An additional Indian agent authorized to be appointed, for the Kickapoos, at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. An additional Indian agent authorized to be appointed, for the Delaware Indians, at an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. Four additional Indian agents authorized to be appointed, for Indians in the State of New York; in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Seminoles west of Arkansas; and Indians in the Territory of Utah; whose annual salaries shall be one thousand dollars each. By the act to establish an additional land district in the Territory of Oregon. A register and receiver authorized to be appointed, for a district lying south of the fourth standard parallel, whose compensation, &c., shall be the same as those prescribed by the act of July 17, 1854. By the act to amend an act to establish a land district in the State of Florida, to be called the district of Tampa. The President of the United States authorized to appoint. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver for the land district called Tampa, whose compensation, &c., shall be the same as that prescribed by law for other land officers in said State. By the act to improve the laws of the District of Columbia, and to codify the same. Two persons, learned in the law, authorized to be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to revise, simplify, digest, and codify the laws of the District of Columbia, who shall each receive for their services at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum. The said code to be submitted to a board, consisting of five persons from the city of Washington, two from the city of Georgetown, and one person in behalf of the county of Washington, and approved by them; and each member of the board shall receive from the Treasury of the United States a reasonable compensation for their services. By the act to organize an institution for the insane of the Army and Navy, and of the District of Columbia, in said District. A board of visitors, consisting of nine persons; the office to be honorary and without compensation. A superintendent or chief executive officer, who shall be a well educated physician, at an annual salary of two thousand dollars. By the act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1856. Two clerks or assistants in the naval astronomical expedition, at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum while employed. III. THE OFFICES, THE SALARIES OF WHICH HAVE BEEN INCREASED, WITH THE AMOUNT OF SUCH INCREASE. The salary of the judge, assigned to the northern district, increased to twenty-five hundred dollars per annum. By the act to increase the compensation of the registers of the land offices and receivers of public moneys, under the act entitled "An act to graduate and reduce the price of the public land to actual settlers and cultivators." Each register and receiver to receive the same amount of pay for every entry, under said act, as such officer is entitled to receive for similar entries of land at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; provided, that the whole amount received by each officer shall not exceed the limitation fixed by existing laws. By the act to regulate the salaries of the district judges of the United States. The Judges of the districts of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Iowa, and Wisconsion, to receive two thousand dollars each per annum. The judge of the northern district of Florida, to receive two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The judges of the western district of Virginia, North Carolina, eastern, western, and middle districts of Tennessee, northern and southern districts of Mississippi, western district of Pennsylvania, western district of Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, eastern and western districts of Arkansas, Illinois, and Michigan, to receive two thousand five hundred dollars each per annum. The judges of the districts of Georgia, South Carolina, eastern district of Virginia, northern district of New York, northern and southern districts of Alabama, to receive two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The judges of the districts of Maryland, Massachusetts, eastern district of Pennsylvania, southern district of Florida, and southern district of California, to receive three thousand dollars per annum. The judge of the eastern district of Louisiana, to receive three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The judge of the southern district of New York, to receive three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The judge of the northern district of California, to receive five thousand dollars per annum. By the act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the 30th of June, 1856, and for other purposes. The Superintendent of Public Printing and the clerks and messenger in his office; the librarian and assistants, and messenger in the Library of Congress, shall be entitled to receive the benefits of the joint resolution, approved July 20, 1854, fixing the compensation of the legislative employees of the Government, in the same manner and to the same extent as officers of the same grade in the legislative department. The salary of the chief justice of the supreme court raised from five thousand dollars to six thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The salaries of the associate justices of the supreme court raised from four thousand five hundred dollars to six thousand dollars per annum. The annual salaries of the assistant treasurers of Boston and St. Louis raised from two thousand five hundred dolJars to four thousand dollars each. The annual compensation of the chaplain of the penitentiary shall be five hundred dollars. The envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, who shall be continued without reappointment after the 30th of June, 1855, to receive the same compensation as the newly-appointed envoys and ministers for the respective countries after that time. The clerks in the Department of State to be placed on the same footing, in regard to compensation, as the clerks in the other executive departments by the provisions of the third section of the act "making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government, approved 3d of March, 1853," and to be classified accordingly. The salary of the principal clerk in the National Observatory at Washington increased to fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and twenty per cent. on former salary allowed from 1852. Twenty per centum additional salary to be paid to the officers of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, to commence from the 1st of July, 1853. The fees and costs allowed to the clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the circuit and district courts of the United States in the Territories of Minnesota and Utah to be the same as those allowed to the same officers in the several States by the act of February 26, 1853. The clerks in the branch Mint of the United States at New Orleans, to receive eighteen hundred dollars per annum salary each from July 1, 1854. The first assistant examiners in the Patent Office to be rated as of the fourth class of clerks, and the second assistant examiners, machinist and librarian, as of the third class. The salaries of the Indian agents for the Kansas, Great Nemaha, and Osage river Indians, raised from their present salaries respectively to fifteen hundred dollars per annum each. The compensation of the collector of the customs at Sandusky, Toledo, and Cleveland, to be same as that of the collector at Detroit. By the act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending June 30, 1856. The yearly allowance of the Professor of the French and Spanish languages and the Professor of Drawing made equal to that of the other professors. By the act making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending June 30, 1856. For compensation of the chiefs of bureau of construction, equipment, and repair, made equal to that allowed to the other chiefs of bureaus of the Navy Department. The purser of the navy-yard at Washington to receive the same pay allowed by law to the pursers at Boston, New York, Norfolk, and Pensacola. The salary of the surveyor of the customs at the port of Cairo, Illinois, to be eight hundred dollars per annum, instead of that heretofore allowed. |