Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-10-11

the Commissioner OF Public Buildings to hay
the piPesfaily aud sufficiently tested and prove
before they are received.
For laying eight hundred feet Of gas pipe fron
the foot Of Fifteenth street 10 the President
House, and sixteen hundred feet Of branch pip
through the house, thirty single burners, pen
dents and brackets In the kitchen and passage
below, twenty brackets in the bedrooms, ift,
double brackets in the other rooms, Eve four
light chandeliers, four sx-lght do, six eight
light do, two twelve-light do, altering chande
liers in the east room, and for all other necessa
~ fixtures for completing the same, TO be ex
pended under the direction Of the Commissions
OF Public Buildings a sum not exceeding iy
thousand dollars.
For paying the Washington Gas Company 70
lighting the Capitol and Capitol grounds, in
Guiding fixtures furnished, TO the thirty-irst o
August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, 10 b.
paid under the direction of the Committee o,
Public Buildings, two thousand dollars.
For grading. planting with trees, and enclos
ing With substantial wooden fence for thei
protection, the public mall from Seventh stree
westward to the Potomac river, three thousan,
elk hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
For necessary repairs OF the public propert,
af the lazeretto, at Philadelphia, eight hundret
end thirty-two dollars.
For survey VI the coast Of the Unitel States
including compensation to snoerintc ndent an
assistants, one hundred and sixty i've Thousand
dollars.
For the further prosecution Of the survey O
1ne northern and northwestern lakes. twenty.
i've thousand dollars.
For payment 10 clel Ks Of the district courts o
the United States. for statements Of the proceed
'ngs uu Ter the bankrupt act, made in pursulnc.
OF the resolution Of the House of Representative.
Of the twenty. fifth Of March, eighteen hundred
and forty-fonr, at the rate OF fifteen cents FL
each application for relief under said act, 81,
thonsanl one hundred aud sixty.,ix dollars and
twenty cents: Provided, that no clerk shall re
celve any portion OF the m ,ney hereby app,0
priated until he shall have settled his account
with the proper department, as required by &C,
OF Congress in such case made and provided
Provided, also, That no part ofsuch compensa.
ton shall be paid to clerks whose annual com.
pensafion has exceeded three thousand dollars
For the discharge Of such miscellaneous
CLAIMS, not otherwise provided for, az shall be
admitted in due course Of settlement at the trea-
sury, 1--WE thousand dollars: Provided. That ne
part Of this appropriation shall be drawn from
the treasury, except in pursuance OF some law
Or resolution Of Congress authorizing the ex.
penditure.
For service rendere by the marshal Of the
northern district Of Florida in removing intrud-
ers from the military reservation. and from with.
in the Indian bound ~ in Florida, three hun
drei and four dollars and Ave cents.
For salaries Of assistant :reasurers OF the Uni
ted states at New York, Boston, Charleston. and
u. Louis. eleven thousand FIVE hundred dollars.
For additional salaries of treasnrers of the
mint at Philadelphia and branch mint at New
orleans, one thousand dollars.
For salaries of ten clerks, authorized by the
2Ck o 0in h,n
ty-s'x, including an increase of one hundred .o..
lars per annum 10 the salary of each of said
clerks from the first day Of July, eighteen hun
dred and forty-eight. nine thousand dollars.
For salary OF chief clerk to the assistant trea-
cnrer, New York, one thousand five hundred
,aollers.
Fer contingent expenses under the act for the
safekeePing, collection, transfer, and dlsburse-
ment OF the public revenue Of sixth August.
eighteen hundred and forty-sx, fifteen thousand
dollar: Provided, That no part If said sum Of
nteen thousand dollars shall be expended for
clerical services.
For eempensa'ion to special agents to exa-
mine books, accounts, and money on hand in
the several repositories, under the act of sixth
AUGUST, eighteen hundred and forty six, FIVE
thousand dollars.
For the support, clothing, and medical treat
ment OF insane paupers the District of Column
6sa, ave thousand seven hundred dollars.
:. FOR the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain.
mree assistant Keepers, FIVE guards, messenger,
and three inspectors Of the penitentiary Of the
District OF Columbia, SIX thousand two hundred
ana e'gnty-three dollars an eighty cents: Pro-
vided, That the inspectors shall hereafter re-.
ceive one hundred dollars each per annum. in
stead OF the sum they now receive, and that thew
shal! perform the duties now performed by their
clerk without any additional compensation: and
20 much OF the act Of February twenty-fifth,
eightesn hundred and thirty-one, and ali other
aets, or parts 81 acts, as are inconsistent with
this provision, are hereby repealed.
Tor the support, attention, and medical treat
nent OF twelve transient pan per medical or sur.
slcal patient: IN the Washington Infirmary, two
Thousand dollors, 10 be expended under the su
Pervision Of the Commissioner Of Public Build
angs Provided, The physicians and SURGEONS
maintenance oftwelve paaper TRANSIENT patients
during one year, ifappIication te made for their
recept'on. 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 tor President and Vie Pres dent of the
United States, nine thousand dollars: Provided.
inst 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 list Of
the votes for President and Vice President shall
be allowed, on delivery of said list, twelve and
An hall cents for every mile Of the estimate |
distance, by the most usual route. from the place
OF meeting OF the electors for such State 10 the
seat Of government for the United States. yoina
And returning; and all laws, and parts of law,
mconsistent with this proviso, are hereby re-
pealei.
For expenses Of loans and treasury notes, ff-
teen thousand dollars.
10 make good deficiency in the fund for the
relief OF sick seame.,, twelve thousand dollars.
10 enable the Clerk Of the House of Repre.
eentsfives to paw for two ihous md seven SEVEN
hundred and sixty copies Of the Congressional
GLOBE and appendix for the second cess; n Of
the twenty ninth Congress, delivered to the nem-
oers OF the House OF that Congress, under the re-
solution Of first March, eight zen hundred and
,orty -seven, eight thousand two hundred eight
TO enable the Clerk Of the House Of Repre,en-
sauses 70 pay for two thousand seven hundred
ana sixty copies OF the Congressional Globe and
.Append.x OF the P' escnt session, under the reso-
Isuon o. nrst March eighteen hundred and forty
eeven, wnen they shall have been delivered to the
memoers o. the House Of Represen. atives, six
ven thousand hve hundred and sixty dollars.
10 enable the Secretary Of the Senate TO nav
ssmes q. houston for three hundred and fifty
oounr copies OF the proceedings and debates Of
sne senate, tor the presen, session, as published
ey him. and for analytical index to the same. tn
De furnished to the members of the House Of Re.
presensatises and Senate, two thousand Eve hun-