do., six eight-light do., two twelve-light do., altering chandeliers in the east room, and for all other necessary fixtures for completing the same, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars.

Washington

tol and grounds.

For paying the Washington Gas Company for lighting the Gas Company, for Capitol and Capitol grounds, including fixtures furnished, to lighting the Capithe thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to be paid under the direction of the Committee on Public Buildings, two thousand dollars.

For grading, planting with trees, and enclosing with a substantial wooden fence for their protection, the public mall from Seventh street westward to the Potomac river, three thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

For necessary repairs of the public property at the lazaretto, at Philadelphia, eight hundred and thirty-two dollars.

and

Grading planting the pub

Repairs at lazaretto,, Philadel

phia.

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

For the further prosecution of the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For payment to clerks of the district courts of the United States, for statements of the proceedings under the bankrupt act, made in pursuance of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the twenty-fifth March, eighteen hundred and forty-four, at the rate of fifteen cents for each application for relief under said act, six thousand one hundred and sixtysix dollars and twenty cents: Provided, That no clerk shall receive any portion of the money hereby appropriated until he shall have settled his account with the proper department, as required by the act of Congress in such case made and provided: Provided, also, That no part of such compensation shall be paid to clerks whose annual compensation has exceeded three thousand dollars.

Payment

to

clerks of district ing statements of cases of bankrupt

courts for prepar

cy.

Proviso.

Miscellaneous

Proviso.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of set- claims. tlement at the treasury, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury, except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure.

Marshal northern district Flori

For services rendered by the marshal of the northern district of Florida in removing intruders from the military reser- da vation, and from within the Indian boundary in Florida, three hundred and four dollars and five cents.

For salaries of assistant treasurers of the United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thou

sand five hundred

For additional salaries of treasurers of the mint at Philadelphia and branch mint at New Orleans, one thousand dollars.

For salaries of ten clerks, authorized by the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, including an increase

Assistant trea

surers.

Chief clerk to treasurer, New York.

Contingencies under the Inde

pendent Treasury act.

of one hundred dollars per annum to the salary of each of said clerks from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, nine thousand dollars.

For salary of chief clerk to the assistant treasurer, New York, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses under the act for the safekeeping, collection, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, fifteen thou sand dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall be expended for clerical services.

un

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

Insane paupers of District of Columbia.

Penitentiary of District of Colum

bia.

ries of inspectors reduced.

For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane paupers of the District of Columbia, fiye thousand seven hundred dollars.

For the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, three assistant keepers, five guards, messenger, and three inspectors of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, six thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty cents: Provided, Proviso; sala That the inspectors shall hereafter receive one hundred dollars each per annum, instead of the sum they now receive, and that they shall perform the duties now performed by their clerk without any additional compensation; and so much of the act of February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and all other acts, or parts of acts, as are inconsistent with this provision, are hereby repealed.

Support, &c., of pauper patients in

For the support, attention, and medical treatment of twelve twelve transient transient pauper medical or surgical patients in the WashingWashington In ton Infirmary, two thousand dollars, to be expended under

firmary.

Proviso.]

Bringing to seat of government

-sident.

the supervision of the Commissioner of Public Buildings: Provided, The physician and surgeons of the aforesaid infirmary give bonds for the maintenance of twelve pauper transient patients during one year, if application be made for their reception, or bind themselves to keep rooms for the accommodation for twelve pauper patients weekly, on an average, during the year.

For bringing to the seat of government the votes for Presivotes for President and Vice President of the United States, nine thousand dent and Vice Pre- dollars: Provided, That from and after the passage of this act, the person appointed by the electors of any State to deliver to the President of the Senate a list of the votes for President and Vice President shall be allowed, on delivery of said list, twelve and an half cents for every mile of the estimated distance, by the most usual route, from the place of meeting of the electors for such State to the seat of govern ment for the United States, going and returning; and all laws, and parts of laws, inconsistent with this proviso, are hereby repealed.

of For expenses of loans and treasury notes, fifteen thousand

Expenses loans and trea- dollars.

sury notes. :

To make good a deficiency in the fund for the relief of Deficiency in sick seamen, twelve thousand dollars.

fund for relief of

seamen.

Globe and Appen

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for two thousand seven seven hundred and sixty copies Congressional of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for the second dix. session of the twenty-ninth Congress, delivered to the members of the House of that Congress, under the resolution of first March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eight thousand two hundred and eight dollars.

To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for two thousand seven hundred and sixty copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the present session, under the resolution of first March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, when they shall have been delivered to the members of the House of Representatives, sixteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.

James A. Hous

ton for reports of

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay James A. Houston for three hundred and fifty bound copies of the debates, &c. proceedings and debates of the Senate, for the present session, as published by him, and for an analytical index to the same, to be furnished to the members of the House of Representatives and Senate, two thousand five hundred dol

lars.

in

Deficiency appropriation for

To provide for a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of the Senate, for the year ending June contingencies of thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.

For payment of the first volume of the fifth series of the Documentary History, under contract with the Secretary of State, twenty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

Senate.

Documentary

History.

enue laws.

To pay for three hundred and fifty copies of a compend T. F. Gordon for of the revenue laws of the United States, compiled by compend of revThomas F. Gordon, at the instance and for the use of the Treasury Department, four thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.

For furniture,

construction, and

repairs of custom

For furniture and fixtures for the custom house building, including the post office, United States court room and offi- houses, viz ces, at Wilmington, North Carolina, two thousand two hun-Wilmington, N. dred and fifty dollars.

Carolina.

For continuing the construction of the custom-house in Savannah. the city of Savannah, thirty thousand dollars.

For the purchase of a site for a custom-house in Charleston, Charleston, S. South Carolina, one hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of thirty thousand dollars already appropriated. For continuing the construction of the custom-house in the city of New Orleans, one hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars.

For paying the outstanding claims on account of the new custom-house at Boston, and for completing the work, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairing the custom house at Wiscasset, in the State

New Orleans.

Boston.

Wiscasset.

Portland.

Refunding cer

colleges, academies, &c.

of Maine, and for purchasing the land on which it stands, two thousand two hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For repairing and painting the custom-house at Portland, in the State of Maine, three hundred dollars.

For refunding certain duties paid by colleges, academies, tain duties paid by schools, and seminaries of learning in the United States, on philosophical apparatus, instruments, books, maps, and charts, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed July thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, entitled "An act reducing the duty on imports, and for other purposes," the sum of seven thousand dollars; and hereafter all philosophical apparatus, instruments, books, maps, and charts; statues, statuary, busts, and casts, of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, specimens of sculpture, cabinets of coins, medals, gems, and all collections of antiquities, provided the same be specially imported in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by the order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States, shall be imported into the United States free of duty, anything in the act above named to the contrary notwithstanding.

Grading, gravelling, &c. streets Washington city.

and avenues in

Repairs of Potomac bridge.

Survey of north

For grading and gravelling Four-and-a-half street, from Maryland avenue to the arsenal grounds, and flagging the West side, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For grading and gravelling Indiana avenue, from Third street to the Capitol hill, and constructing culvert under the same, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For paving the remainder of the centre space of Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street, four thousand dollars.

For paving Fifteenth street, in front of the Treasury Department, and of the street in front of the President's House to Seventeenth street, to be executed in the same manner as was prescribed for the paving of Pennsylvania avenue, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars: Provided, That all the foregoing appropriations for paving shall be laid out under the direction of the War Department; and that the Secretary of War shall appoint an engineer to make the necessary levels and surveys for all the said improvements of said streets and avenues: Provided, That all of such work be done by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, or bid. ders, after giving thirty days' public notice in such newspapers as shall be selected by the Secretary of War in the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

To reimburse to the city of Washington the amount advanced to the Commissioner of Public Buildings to finish the repair of the Potomac bridge, twelve hundred dollars.

For expenses of the survey of the boundary line between eastern boundary the United States and the British provinces, four thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents.

line.

lication of works

For continuing the publication of the works of the explor- Continuing pub. ing expedition, including the printing of the charts, the pay of explosing aof the scientific corps, salary of the horticulturist, and care pedition. of the collection, thirty thousand seven hundred and fiftythree dollars.

Reconstructing

For the purpose of restoring, by reconstruction under the direction of the Secretary of State, the maps showing the maps which were demarcation of boundary under the treaty of Washington, destroyed by fire. of August ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-two, which were destroyed by fire, at the city of Washington, on the night of April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and of procuring the authentication thereof, ten thousand dollars.

Virginia of mojudgments to her

revolutionary offers and

diers.

and sol

For repayment to Virginia of money paid by that State, Repayment to under judgments of her courts against her, to revolutionary ney paid under officers and soldiers, and their representatives, for half-pay and commutation of half-pay, a sum not exceeding eightyone thousand two hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventeen cents: Provided, however, That the agent of said State shall first deposite authenticated copies of the acts or judgments under which the money was paid by the State of Virginia.

Richard Fields for balance due

For the payment to Richard Fields of the balance due him on the certificate of the commissioners of Washington city, him. of June the twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, awarded and decreed to him under the sixteenth article of the treaty with the Cherokee nation of Indians of eighteen hundred and thirty-five-'six, six hundred dollars.

Το pay Samuel Walker for work done at the Norfolk hospital, fifty dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

Light-house establishment.

For supplying light-houses (containing two thousand nine Supplies. hundred and seventy-six lamps) with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buff skins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation, and other expenses, on the same, and for repairing the lighting apparatus, one hundred and forty thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-two cents.

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improve- Repairs. ments of light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents.

For salaries of two hundred and seventy-three keepers and fifteen assistant keepers of light-houses, (seventeen of them charged with double and three with triple lights,) including twelve hundred dollars for salary of an inspector of lights on the lakes, one hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.

For salaries of thirty-one keepers of floating lights, sixteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For seamen's wages, repairs and supplies of thirty-one

Keepers.

Floating lights.