Southern shield., 1850-11-30
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For continuing the publication of the works of the Exploring Expedition, including the prin- salary of the hortculturist and care of the col lections, twenty-five thousand dollars.
 To defray the expenses incurred under the authority of the Committee of Arrangement for the funeral of General Zachary Taylor, deceas- ed, late President of the United States, eight thousand one hundred and forty-sx dollars and seventy-three cents, to be dsbursed by the marshal of the District of Columbia.
 To defray the expenses of transporting the remains of General Taylor from the cemetery in Washington, to Kentucky, to be expended under the direction of the President of the Uni ted States, four thousand dollars.
 To enable the War Department to make such examinations and surveys as may be necessary to determine upon the best and most available mode of supplying the city of Washington with pure water, and 10 prepare plan and estimate of the probable cost of the same, to be report ed to Congress at its next session, five hundred dollars.
 SEC. ?. And De t further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the com pensatiOn ofthe laborers, on the public grounds under the public gardener, in Washington City, shall be forty dollars per month, to be paid monthly, without reduction for time lost i'll con- sequence of sickness.
 And the compensation of the watchmen in the various Departments of Government, shall be five hundred dollars per anum.
 Sec. 3. .Rad De ufirther enacted, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized, in settling the accounts of Captain M. M. Clark, superintendent in erecting barracks and quarters,at Savannah Georgia, to allow him credit for whatever amount was properly disbursed by him, be. yond the sums which he disbursed under the laws making specific appropriations fol the work.
 SEC. 4. find De t fuvher enacted, Tha the third section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and di- plomatic expenses of Government for the year ending the thi7tieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other pur- poses" approved the tenth of August, eigh- teen hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force fol the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and ffty-one.
 SEC. 5. Aud De it ,fWther enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authoriz- ed and directed to adjust and settle the claim submitted by the legal representatives of Lieutenant Robert L. Browning, late ot the United States Navy, deceased, for a share of the proceeds of the sale of the schooner Oregon and cargo, seized and con- fiscated in the month of April, eighteen hun I,.oJ llo .l, regulations of the first March, eighteen hundred and torty-seven, at the port of Tampico, during the war with Mexico, and to pay the amount of said claim out of any moneys in the treasury arising from military contributions collected in Mexico in pursu- ance of the regulations of the President be- fore referred to: PrOUided, That before any money is paid in this case, any claim sub- mitted by the owners of the vessel before mentioned, for remission of the penalty and payment of the proceeds under the confs- cation, shall first be duly examined and decided by the Secretary of the Treasury under the directions of the President of the United States.
 SEC. 6. And 6e further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury 10 cause the revenue steamer Dallas, now lying in the port of New York, together with the machinery placed there in, under ard by virtue of a contract by and between R. J. Walker, late Secretary of the Treasury, and Ethan Campbell, dated August twenty-ffth, eighteen hun dred and forty-eight, to be appraised by one or more good and sufficient appraisers, and to sell If the said Secretary shall think the public interests will be thereby promoted) the said steamer and machinery to said Campbell at said appraised value, and to annul, by and with his assent, said contract: ProUided, That the said Secretary shall, on selling said steamer and machinery to said Campbell, take from him release or dis charge of the United States from all claims and demands under and by virtue of said contract.
 HOWELL COBB,
 Speaker ofthe House Of Representations.
 WILLIAM R. KING.
 President of the Senate pro tempore.
 Approved September 30, 1850.
 WILLARD LIMORT