The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-05-28

sloner OF ratents, at salary oil fourteen
hundred dollars each, the sum oftwenty
eight hundred dollars, to be paid out of
the Patent Office fund.
For establishing the branch of the U.
States mint at San Francisco, Califor-
MIA, in accordance with the provisions
of the law approved the third day of
July, eighteen hundred and fifty two,
the sum of three hundred thousand dol
lars: Provided, That no contract for
materials, or for the purchase, lease,
rent, or erection of buildings shall be
made, except to the lowest bidder, af.
ter sixty days advertisement in at least
three newspapers, two Of which shall
be published in the state of California:
And, prOgided further, That nothing
herein contained shall prevent the trans
fer of machinery and materials from the
United States mint or branches to tho
branch mint at San Francisco at a fair
valuation: PrOwded, tuther, That said
contract or contracts for the building
and machinery for said branch mint
shall not in the whole for the compile
ton, exceed the sum of three hundred
thousand dollars.
For the payment of the balance due
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
under the fifth article of the treaty of
Washington, for balance of expenses in.
Cured by said state in protecting the
north eastern frontier, the same having
been heretofore settled at the Treasury
of the United States, but unpaid for
want of an appropriation, three hundred
and five dollars and eighty one cents.
For payment Of the balance found due
by the Comptroller of the Treasury to
; the state of Maine, under the fifth arli-
Gle of the treaty of Washington, for ex-
pcnses on account of the north eastern
boundary over and above the appropri-
ations made, two thousand two hundred
and twelve dollars and seventy eigh,
cents. =-
And the accounting officers of the
Treasury are hereby directed, in the
settlement of the claims under the act
of March third, eighteen hundred and
fifty one, "authorising the payment OI
interest upon the advances made by the
state of Maine for the use of the United
States Government in the protection ol
the northeastern frontier" to embrace
the interest, whether paid or lost, prol
or subsequentto the years eighteenhun.
dred and thirty nine, eighteen hundred
and forty, and eighteen hundred and
forty one, named in said act, upen the
sums expended by said state and refun-
ded by the United States, according to
the terms of said act, as well as during
said years.
That the library committee be auth
oriScd to sell any works in the library
which were rendered imperfect by the
f late fire, and appropriate the proceeds
of said sale TO the purchase Of Other
works.
To enable the Secretary of State tC
! purchase one hundred copies of the Sy.
r noptical Index, to complete the serie,
, Of Statutes at Large heretofore author
: sed by law, at three dollars and ff,
/ cents per volume, three hundred ant
. fifty dollars.
Sec. 2. and be 1t .farther enacted
: That the clerks, messengers, watchmen
, and employed at an annual salary, or il
temporary positions, in the Executiv,
, and Legislative Departments Of the Go
! vcrnment in the city of Washington
: whose annual compensation does no
exceed twelve hundred dollars, shall, il
{ addition thereto, be allowed m increa
Sed compensation of twenty per cent
= all whose compensation shall excee'
t twelve hundred dollars, and shall be les
!. than sixteen hundred dollars, shall re
I ceive an additional compensation Of ,e
!, per cent. upon the amount of their sala
ries: Provided, That no salary shall b
= increased TO more than sixteen hundre
dollars by the per cent. or additions
e compensation herein provided for, an
# that the same shall be paid out of an
: money in the Treasury not olherwis
S appropriated; Prorided, That this sec
n ton Shall not extend to mare than on
IL salary of any person receiving a salar
for dlscharging the duties of more tha
e one Office at the same time, or to an
e person who does not actually discharg
d the duties OF the Office for which he re
: ceives such salary, or to any person er
e gagged in prosecuting any claim othe
o than bis own, before any of the Depar,
q ments or Conoress: and that in case an