Southern shield., 1850-11-30

hooks have not been lnPol t0u io L for charitable and gratuitous clrcula1on py certain religious societies in the Ohi'eo
 For ref1nding to John Joseph Chance, Rishon of Natchez, the duties paid on cathedral bell, presented to said Bishop by Prince Alexander Torlonia, of Rome, two hundred and fifty dollars
 For the expenses of pauper lunatics in the Maryland Hospital at Baltimore, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
 For payment of annulties and grants by special acts of Congress, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
 For compensation of Secretary 10 sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.
 For compensation of two additional watchmen on the Capital grounds, seven hundred and thirty dollars.
 For compensation of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, two thousand dollars.
 For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, five thousand dollars: PrOUa- ded, That no part of the appropriation shall be drawn from the Treasury except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure,
 For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public mo- neys, one hundred and twenty-eight thou sand and seventy dollars.
 For expenses of depositing public mo- neys by receivers of public moneys, seven- teen thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars.
 For incidental expenses of the several land offices, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars.
 For salaries of assistant treasurerS ot the United States at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
 the mint at Philadelphia, five hundred dollars. For salaries of ten clerks authorized by the act of sixth 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 of assistant trea- surer at New York, one thousand five hun dred dollars.
 For contingent expenses under the act for the safekeeping, collecting, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, ofSixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-sx, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars: Pro- Uided, That no part of said sum of sixteen thousand five hundred dollars shall be eX- pended for clerical services. For compensation to special agents to examine books, accounts, and money on hand in the several Repositories, under the act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and l forty-six, five thousand dollars. For expenses of loans and treasury notes, twenty thousand dollars. For supply of deficiencies in the fund for l the relief of sick seamen, including the fur nishing of five new marine hospitals now building, viz: Paducah, Kentucky; Chicago, Illinois; Natchez, Mississippi; Napoleon, Arkansas; St. Louis, Missouri; two hundred | thousand dollars.
 For continuing the construction of the custom house at New Orleans, two hundred thousand dollars.
 For the typographical and hydrograph- ical survey of the Delta of the Mississippi, with such investigations as may lead to de- termine the most practicable plan for secur- ing it from inundation, and the best mode of so deepening the passes at the mouth of the river as to allow ships of twenty feet draught to enter the same, fifty thousand dollars,
 For repairs, alterations, and furniture for | the new custom-house at Portland, Maine, | eight thousand dollars.
 For repairs and furniture for the custom | house at Castine, in the district of Penob- scot, three thousand six hundred dollars For the purchase of site, and the erec- ton ofa custom-house in the city of Bangor, Maine, fifty thousand dollars, to be expend- under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the cost of said building shall not exceed said sum.
 | For the purchase of site, and the erec- 1 ton of new custom-house at Mobile, to contain rooms for the Post Office in that city and the accommodation of its officers, and al so rooms for the United States district cour, and the accommodation of it's officers, one hundred thousand dollars, in addition tc such sum as may be received for the sale o the old custom-house building: ProUided That the plan of the building shall be such that the whole cost both of building and site shall in no event exceed the appropriation hereby made.
 The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to purchase, as soor as 1t can be effected on reasonable terms a site for custom-house and post office ir the city of Bath, in the State of Maine, anG to cause to be erected thereon such bull ding as may be suitable for custom house and post office: ProUided, The said Secre tary should not deem it more expedient te have the present custom-house repaired l Pl,QrldeR aLSa That the entira coct ac