Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-04-27
WHOLE NO. al.

tieth of June. eighteen hundred and forty nine,
under the provision OF The first section of the
act of seventeenth af June, eighteen hundred
and forty -four
Miscellaneous.---For furnishing the Presi-
dent house. after the third day of March,
eighteen hundred and forty nine. in addition to
such sum as may be realized from the sale Of
such articles furnished for tbs same by the
United States. as may be decayed or out of re-
pair, or unfit for use, and the President may
direct to be sold, sum not exceeding fourteen
thousand dollars, TO be expended under the
direction of the President of The United States;
For annual repairs of the Capitol, and atien.
dance on furnaces in the crypt, attendance on
water closets, for public gardener and laho-
rers. and carriage on The Capitol grounds !;
tools, wire, leather. nails, stakes, boxes, straw
for grounds, and embarrassing, gravelling the
walks in the Capitol grounds, manure and
trees for ground repairs of public stables.
tagging, enclosures, &c excepting in order the
iron pipes that convey water to the Capitol
and public Offices, and repairing the damage
by freshets hrooms, brushes, wooden spades.
shovelling snow; repairing abutments at Tiber
creek, and building protecting walls enclo-
sing and improving the puoiic grounds at the
north. south, and west of the Capitol, and the
open triangular spaces on Pennsylvania ave-
nue., seventeen thousand dollars
For annual repairs of Presidents house,
gardener, and laborers. gravelling the walks
in Presidents square, manure, leather, nails,
tools, &C.; and repairs of fence at Lafayette
square, Fountain square, Presidents square,
and Presidents garden. ca:tage, &c three
thousand FIVE hundred dollars;
For Lighting Pennsylvania avenue from Cap
itol square to the Treasury Department, and
compensation for one lathp-lighter for the
same. and for lighting Capitol and Capitol
grounds, and Presidents house, six thousand
dollars, to be expended under the direction of
the Commissioner of Public Buildings;
To reimburse the corporation of Washing
ton the cost of erecting the half of the City
Hall building. granted to. and occupied by.
the government for the circuit, district, and
criminal courts of the United States, thirty
thousand dollars, the same to be expended by
the said corporation in finishing the exterior
Of the said building, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Treasury: Prorided, That
rooms enough be set apart for the use of the
United States in the District of Columbia, the
Secretary of the Treasury to be the Judge as
TO the suficiency of the rooms so provided;
For compensation and contingent expenses
of the auxiliary guard, six thousand seven
hundred and seventy-fve dollars;
For survey of the coast OF the United States,
including compensation to superintendent and
assistants, one hundred and eighty-six thou
sand dollars
For printing two thousand charts of the
bay of San Francisco and river Sacramento,
under resolution of the House of Representa-
lives of the fifteenth of January, eighteen
hundred and forty mine, two hundred and six
ty dollars;
For completing the centre strip of Pennsyl-
vania avenue to fifteenth street west, one
thousand two hundred dollars;
For publishing an atlas of charts, of the
surveys of the northern and northwestern
lakes. made under various appropriations, un-
der the direction of the Secretary of War, five
thousand duilare ,--s
For continuing the survey of the northern
and northwestern lakes, ten thousand dollars ;
For the discharge of such miscellaneous
claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall
be admitted in due course of settlement al 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 author.
izing the expenditure;
For salaries of special examiners of drugs,
medicines. and chemicals, eight thousand dol
lars; hereafter the salary of examiner of drugs,
medicines, and chemicals, at New York, shall
be Two thousand dollars instead of bis present
salary of eighteen hundred dollars; and that he
be allowed clerk at one thousand dollars per
annum;
For salary of the recorder of land titles in
Missouri, heretofore paid out of the survey of
public lands. five hundred dollars;
For the expenses that may be incurred in the
further execution of the act of first July, eigh-
teen hundred and forty eight, for the relief of
the bona flde settlers under the acts for the
armed occupation of Florida-the provisions
of said act being continued and extended till
the first day of October, eighteen hundred and
forty-nine, fifteen hundred dollars;
For salaries of Assistant Treasurers OF the
United States, at New York, Boston, Charles
ton, and ST. Louis, eleven thousand five hun.
dred dollars;
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 the sixth of August, eighteen hundred
and forty-six, and of the twelfth of August,
eighteen hundred and forty EIGHT, nine thou
sand dollars;
For salary of chief clerk to Assistant Trea.
surer, New York, one thousand five hundred
dollars
For contingent expenses under the act for
the safe-keeping. collection, transfer, and dis
bursement OF the public revenue, Of sixth Au-
gust, eighteen hundred and forty-six, fifteen
thousand dollars Provided, That no part of
said sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall be
expended for clerical services;
For compensation to special agents 10 ex-
anime 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 support, clothing, and medical treat
ment of insane paupers of the District of CO.
Iumbia, six thousand four hundred dollars
For the support, care, and medical treat
ment of twelve transient pauper medical or
surgical patients in the Washington Infirmary,
two thousand dollars, to be expended under
the direction of the Commissioner of Public
Buildings: Provided, That the physicians and
surgeons OF the aforesaid infrmary give bonds
for the maintenance of twelve pauper tran
sient patients during one year, if application
be made for their reception, or bind them
selves 10 keep rooms for the accommodation
OF twelve pauper patients weekly on an aver
age during the year;
For the warden, clerk, physicians chaplain,
three assistant keepers, five guards. and mes.
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