The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-10-27

hat oil contracts of every description
which have been made without public no.
ice having been given, where notice was
shall be cancelled after sixty
days notice having been given in the
newspapers Of this city: Provided, also,
That good and sufficient security shall
be given to twice the amount of money
at any time to be advanced to the con
tractor, under any contract ; and that
bids shall be opened in presence of the
bidders, if they, or any one of them
should be present, and that notice to
that effect shall be given in the adver
tiscment for proposals, to be published |
agreeably to this proviso. And all con-
tracts made without an appropriation of
money for an object, the subject of a
contract, are hereby cancelled and de-
clared void
For finishing the front Of the base
mcnt of the centre building of the Patent
Office and making it conform to the de-
sign Of the wings, three thousand two
hundred dollars.
For the erection of the west wing Of
the patent Office building, and compile
ting the drains for said building and of
the Post Office building, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars
For taking up, repairing and rclaying
the steps of the cast portico of the Cap
itol, and for taking up, dressing, supply
ing new tagging, and relaying the same
in the arcade under the portico, one
thousand five hundred dollars
For grazing and paving with round
stone the carriage-way of Pennsylvania
avenue from Seventeenth street west to
Rock Creek setting curb-stone on each
side thereof, at the distance of twenty
five feet from the building line, and re-
laying the flag footways at the intersec-
ton of the cross streets, twenty thousand
dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS.
For salaries and incidental expenses
of the commission appointed under the
act of March third, eighteen hundred
and fifty-one for settling land claims in
California, fifty thousand dollars Pro-
vided, That said board be authorized to
appoint and employ one secretary and
three clerks, in lieu Of the number provi-
dcd for in the above recitcd act, whose
annual compensation shall be two thou
sand dollars each For annuties and
grants, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of loans and treasury
notes, twenty thousand dollars.
To carry into effect the act approved
September the twcnty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and fifty, for tho purchase of a
cemetery near the city of Mexico, and
the interment therein of the remains of
the American officers and soldiers who
fell in battle or otherwise died in or near
the city of Mexico, the sum of throo
thousand dollars, which, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary, shall be
expended for this purpose under the di-
rection of the President Of the United
States And intermcnts of citizens OF
the United States who have heretofore
died or may hereafter die in Mexico,
may be made in said cemetery under
such regulations as may be prescribed by
the President of the United States
For the discharge Of such miscellanc
Gus claims not otherwise provided for
as shall be admitted in due course o
settlement at the treasury, five thousanC
dollars Provided, That no part of tn,
appropriation shall be drawn from tn,
Treasury except in pursuance of SOM
law or resolution of Congress authoriz
ing the expenditure
To supply the deficiency in the fun'
for the relief of sick and disabled sea
men, one hundred thousand dollars
AS indemnity to Jonathan Elliot
commercial agent Of the United State
at Santo Domingo, for amount expend
ed by him in maintaining refugees il
the late revolution at that place, 81.
hundred dollars.
There shall be allowed and paid t
each of the following persons, Charlie
Ii. Sherman, Lewis Il. Jackson. Henr
Taylor, Frederick Morris. and John Da
vics, mariners sent into the port of Ne,
York and detained there as witnessc
, for the United States, one dollar AM
twenty five cents for each day nccessari
|, ly occupied on the voyage and arriving
at New York and the judge of the dis
trict court of the United States in whicl
the said witnesses have been detained t
testify shall allow and cause the same t
be paid as other witnesses fees are paid
For compensation ofthc warden, clerk
physician, chaplain, two assistant keep
ers. four guards, and porter, of the peni
tentiary Of the District of Columbia
seven thousand three hundred and fit,
dollars.
For compensation of three inspector
of said penitentiary, three hundred dol
lars.
For the support and maintenance O
said Icnitcnliary, fifteen hundred an
sixty dollars
For clerk hire, stationery, rent, fue
and contingencies in the completion q
the census of eighteen hundred and fifty
forty-nine thousand dollars.
For the support, clothing and mcdi
cal treatment of insane paupers of tn
District of Columbia, at such place
as the Secretary of the Interior may
in li'discretion, deem proper, nineteel
thousand dollars.
For running and marking the bound
AIRY line between the United State:
and Mexico, under the treaty of eau
dalupe Hidalgo, one hundred an,
twenty thousand dollars: Provided
That no part of this appropriation shal
BE- used or expended until it shall b
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