Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26

be furnished the members of the House of Representatives
and Senate, two thousand five hundred dollars.
To provide for deficiency in the appropriation for lib
ngent expenses of the Senate, for the year ending
theh, eighteen hundred and ortyeight fifteen thoS Island
dollars.
For payment Of the first volume of the fifth series Of the
Documentary History, under contract with the Secrey of
State twenty thousand three hundred and twenty Sven
dollars.
To pay for three hundred and fly copies Of compe Of
the laws of the United States, compiled by Thomas
r. Gordon at the instance and for the Of the Treu-
ny Department. four thousand two hundred and sevety
dollars.
For furniture and fixtures for the custom house bug
including the post Office, United States courtroom and os
at Wilmington, North Carolina two thousand hunded
and fifty dollars.
For continuing the construction of the in de
city of Savannah, thirty thousand dollars
For the purchase of site for custom house in Charleston
South Carolina, hundred thousand dollars in addition b
the sum Of thirty thousand dollars already appropriated
For continuing the construction of the cusomhouse in t
city of New Orleans hundred and thirty thousand seven
hundred and fifty eight dollars.
For paying the outstanding claims account Of the nx
custom house at Boston, and for completing the work. twelve
thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing the custom house at Wscasse in the Stale
OF Maine, and for purchasing the land which stands two
thousand two hundred dollars to be expended under the d.
recton Of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
For repairing and painting the custom-house Portland
n the State Of Maine, three hundred dollars.
For reundng certain duties paid by colleges academies
schools and seminaries of learning the United States on
philosophical apparatus instruments, books MAPS and charts
agreeaby to the provisions Of act passed July heh
thousand eight hundred and ortysx, entitled An
ducng the duty imports and for other purposes" the sum
of thousand dollars and hereafter all philosophical APP
paratu instruments books maps, and charts statues
ary busts and casts OF marble, bronze, aabaste plaster
OF Paris paintings drawings engravs, etchings, specimens
of sculpture cabinets of COINS medals gems, and all coec
tons Of antiquities provided the same be specially imported in
good faith for the of any society incorporated establish
ed for philosophical literary purposes or for the encourage
ment othe fine arts orthe by the order Of any col
ege academy school, seminary Of learning in the United
States shall be imported into the United States free Of duty
any thing in the act above named to the contrary notwh
standing.
For grading and travelling Four-and- ahaf street, from
Maryland avenue to the arsenal grounds and tagging the west
side, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars
For grading and gravellng Indiana avenue from Third
street the Capitol Hill and constructing culver under the
same thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For paving the remainder of the centre space Of Pennsy
vana to Fifteenth street, four thousand dollars
For paving Fifteenth street, in front Of the Treasury De-
parmen and of the street in front of the Presidents House
Seventeenth street, TO be executed in the manner as
prescribed for the paving of Pennsylvania avenue twelve
thousand hundred dollars Provided That all the FORE
going appropriations for paving shall be laid out under the d.
recton OF the War Department; and that the Secretary OF
War shall appoint engineer TO make the necessary levels
and surveys for all the said improvements OF said streets and
Prorded That all such work be done by contract
to the lowest responsible bidder bidders, after giving thirty
days public noc notice in such newspapers shall be select
ed by the Secretary Of War in the cities OF Washington, Bal
timore, Philadelphia, and New York.
To reimburse to the city Of Washington the amount ad
vanced the Commissioner of Public Buildings finish the
repair Of the Potomac bridge, twelve hundred dollars
For expenses of the survey of the boundary line between
the United States and the British Provinces four thousand
eight hundred and thirteen dollars and seventyfve cents
For continuing the publication Of the works of the exploring
expedition, including the printing of the charts the OF the
scientific corps, salary of the horticuus and Of the
collection thirty thousand hundred and ifyhree
dollars.
direction Of the Secretary Of State, the maps showing the de-
marcaon of boundary under the treaty Of Washington Of
August NINTH eighteen hundred and orytwo, which were
destroyed by fire, the city Of Washington, the night Of
April seventeenth eighteen hundred and ryeight and Of
procuring the authorization thereof thousand dollars
For repayment Virginia Of money paid by that State
under judgments of her courts against her. revolutionary
officers and soldiers and their representatives for haay and
of half pay, not exceeding eighty
thousand hundred and seventy dollars and
Prorded hocerr, That the agent OF said State shall
first depose authenticated copies Of the acts judgments
under which the money paid by the State Of Virginia
For the payment Richard Fields Of the balance due him
the certificate Of the commissioners Of Washington city, OF
June the twenty fifth, eghte hundred and fortyseven,
awarded and decreed him under the sixteenth article OF the
treaty with the Cherokee nation of Indians Of eighteen hun
dIed and thirty five six, six hundred dollars.
To pay Samuel Walker for work done the Norfolk hos
pital, fifty dollars.
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For supplying light houses containing thousand nine
hundred and seventy amps) with OIL tube glasses, wicks
buff SKINS whiting and cotton CLOTH transportation and other
expenses the and for repairing the lighting apparatus
hundred and forty thousand three hundred and ninety
four dollars and sixty-two cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses reng, and improve
Of lighthouses and buildings connected Herewith,
thousand eight hundred and eighty nine dollars
and sixty cents.
For salaries Of hundred and sevenyhree keepers and
fifteen assistant keepers Of lighthouses seventeen OF them
charged with double and three with triple lights including
twelve hundred dollars for salary OF inspector OF lights
the Lakes hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred
and forty eight dollars and thirty three cents.
For salaries of thirty keepers Of floating lights, sixteen
thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
For seamens wages, repairs, and supplies Of hirty-one
floating lights seventynine thousand two hundred and sixty
five dollars and two cents.
For weighing mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supply
ing loss Of beacons buoys chains, and hkers thryhree
thousand four hundd and sxtysix dollars and wenyeght
cents
For expenses Of supentendens in visiting the lighthouses
annually, and examining and reporting the condition of EACH
two thousand dollars
For superintendent commissions four hundred and
sixty five thousand hundred and thirteen dollars and
nneywo CENTS at two and half per cent? eleven thousand
six hundred and forty dollars and thirty cents Provided
That pat Of the hereby appropriated shall be paid to
any person who salary officer of the customs
And from and after the first day Of July, eighteen hundred
and forty nne the said disbursement shall be made by the
collectors OF the customs without compensation
For completing the lighthouse Mnots rock, Boston
harbor, Massachusetts,, ten thousand dollars.
For completing the seawa for the protection Of the light
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