The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-05-31

gent expenses Of the commission under
the convention with Spain, eight thou
sand two hundred dollars
To authorize the President Of the Uni.
ted States to procure new dies to renew
The medal directed to be made in honor
Of Brigader General Daniel Morgan, by
the act of the second day of July 1886,
IN case the original dies for the said
medal cannot be found, one thousand
dollars
For improving the crypt of the Capt.
tol, ny closing the openings on the east
front with sash doors, making double
doors to the outer entrances, and repair
ing furnaces, eleven hundred and fifty
dollars;
For making the post office, documents Is
folding, and library rooms of the House
of Representatives fire pi oof three thou
sand one hundred and fifty dollars
10 complete the enclosing the maga-
zine and marine hospital, one hundred
dollars
For conducting water along the Penn
sylvanIa avenue from the pipes at the
Capitol to the Treasury and General
Post Office buildings, with the necessary
fire plugs to water the avenue, ten thou
sand dollars;
For the purchase Of fire engine, ap-
paratus, and engine house for the War
and Navy Departments, seven thousand
two hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For the purchase of fire engine and
apparatus for the Treasury building, and
the enlargement of the engine house, five
thousand five hundred and twenty dol
lars;
For paying William V. Elliott, for
drawings of the Treasury building and
Patent Office, three hundred dollars
For constructing dwarf wall and
fence from tho southwest corner of the
Presidents house to intersect the new
fence near the north corner of the Navy
Department one thousand three hundred
dollars
For the support of the penitentiary for
the District of Columbia, for the year
eighteen hundred aud thirty-seven, for
pay of officers and agents for repairs to
buildings; for purchase of raw mate
rials tor rations, clothing, beds, and
bedding OF prisoners for purchase of
fuel for purchase of hospital stores and
medicines for purchase of books and
stationery; for purchase of horse feed;
Tor allowance to discharge convicts, and
Tor other contingent expenses, the sum of
;weye thousand five hundred and five
dollars aud thirty-ninc cents, to be paid
out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, and to be cxpen-
ded under the direction of the Board of
Inspectors
For the erection of plain substantial
fence around the burying ground at Fort
Gibson, IN the State of Arkansas, five
hundred dollars;
For surveys of the public lands in the
District composed of the States of ILL.,
nois and Missouri, in addition to the ap-
preparation herein before made for the
surveys OF The public lands, thirly-six
thousand dollars
For the compensation of additional
clerks and topographer to be employed
in the Post Office Department, ten
thousand two hundred dollars
For the compensation of additional
clerks to be employed in the Office ofthe
Auditor OF the Treasury for the Post Of
lice Department, six thousand dollars;
For law books for the library of Con-
gress, five thousand dollars, to be expen-
ded in the purchase of such books, n cat
alogue of which shall be furnishe by the
Chief Justice of the United States.
SEC. :. And be it further enacted,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be,
and he Is hereby, authorized to pay to the
collectors, deputy collectors, Eaval Off
GERS, surveyors, and their respective
clerks, together with the weighers, gua-
gers, measurers, and markers of the sew.
era! ports of the United States, out ofany
many IN the Treasury not otherwise np-
proprated, such sums as will give to the
sa'a officers, respectively, the same COM
pensa'ion IN the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-sevcn, according to
'"e inportations oi that year, as they
would have been entitled to receive if the
act OF the fourteenth of July, one thou.
sand eight hundred aud thirty.two had
not gone INTO effect: Provided: That
no officer shall receive, under this act. n
greater annual salary or compensation
'han was paid to officer for the year ono
thousand eight hundred and thIr,v.,wo.
r'' '''a' III no case shall the compeps,.
''oh OF any other officers than coll.c,ors
""'", oihcers, surveyors, and clerks,
whether by salaries, fees, or otherwise
exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
eaeh per annum; nor shall the union of
any two or more of those offices in one
person entile him to receive more ,L,n
,nat ,,,, sum per annum: Prorided further
mat The said collectors, naval officer,
ana surveyors shall render an accom-,
quarterly to the Treasury, and the other
officers herein named or referred to. shall
render an account quarterly to the re-
spec'ife collectors of the custom where
lhey are employed, to be forwarded 10
ihe Treasury, of all the fees and emolu.