Washington telegraph., 1851-01-01

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of Arkansas, per act Of eighth of August
eighteen hundred and forty six, two thou
sand dollars.
For compensation of clerks in his Office,
per act of eighth of August, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, six thousand three
hundred dollars.
For re-surveying and correcting errone-
Gus surveys in Michigan, at rate not
exceeding six dollars per mile, twenty
thousand dollars.
MINT OF THE UNITED STATES.
At Philadeka,l,ia.
For salaries of the director. treasurer,
chief coiner, assayer, melter and rehner,
engraver, assistant assayer, and their
clerks, lwenty-one thousand dollars, and
the employment of an additional clerk at
twelve hundred dollars per annum, is
hereby authorized
For wages of workmen, thirty-two
thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
including fuel materials, stationery, water
rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to
available funds on hand, twenty-five
thousand dollars. ProUided, That to en-
able the President of the United States
to obtain for the United States, If he
shall deem it expedient to do so. the right
to use the improved methods of refining
argentiferous gold bullion, recently dis
covered and being patented 10 h >. Nc
Culloch and James G. Boothe, or the
right to use any other method OF accom-
plishing the same object which may be
hereafter discovered and patented, there
be appropriated the sum of twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For specimens of ores and coins, to be
reserved at the Mint, three hundred dol
lars
The Secretary of the Treasury be, and
he is hereby, authorized and directed TO
contract, upon the most reasonable terms,
with the proprietors of some well-estab-
lished assaying works, now in successful
operation III California. upon satisfactory
security, to he judged by the Secretary
of the Treasury, who shall. under the
supervision of the United States Assayer
to be appointed by the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
perform such duties i'll assaying and fixing
the value of gold i'll grain and Jumps, and
in forming the same into bars, as shall be
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and that the said United States As
sayer shall cause the stamp of the United
States, indicating the degree Of hneness
and value, to be affixed to each bar or
ingot of gold that may be issned from
the establishment. Provided, That the
United States shall not be held response
BILE for the loss of any gold deposited
with said proprietors for assay. and
prouided further, That the salary of said
Assayer shall be fixed by the Secretary OF
the Treasury, not 10 exceed five thousand
dollars.
At ChurZotte, North Carolina.
For salaries Of superintendent. colner,
assayer, aud clerk, six thousand dollars.
For wages of workmen, three thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
including fuel, materials, stationery, re-
pairs, and wastage, two thousand one
hundred dollars. For repairing the wall
of the ditch in front of the Mint and for
making other repairs in snd about the
lot, aud for painting, one thousand dol
lars.
AT Dahl0negG, Georgia, US.:
For salaries of superintendent coiner,
assayer and clerk, six thousand dollars.
For wages of workmen, three thou
sand six hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses,
including fuel, material, stationery, re-
pairs, and wastage, two thousand dol
lars.
at Ne,0 orleans.
For salaries of superintendent, treasur-
err, assayer, colner, melter, and rehner,
and clerks, seventeen thousand three
hundred dollars-the salary of the Treas
urer being hereby increased from first
July, eighteen hundred and fifty, to four
thousand dollars; the salary OF chief clerk
to eighteen hundred dollars; of the other
clerk TO fifteen hundred dollars; and the
employment of an additional clerk at fif-
teen hundred dollars, is hereby authoriz-
ed.
For wages of workmen, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For Incidental and contingent expenses,
in addition to available funds on hand,
twenty-three thousand seven hundred and
seventy-seveE dollars.
For new machinery, thirteen thousand
dollars.
GOVERNMENTS IN THE TERRITORIES OF
OREGON AND MINNESOTA.
Territory Of Oregon.
For salaries of Governor, three Judges,
and secretary, ten thousand five hundred
dollars.
For salary of Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, three Indian agents, and for office
rent wood, lights, stationery and clerk
hire, ten thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses OF SAID Ter
ritory, one thousand five hundred dol