The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-20

-cecdings of the House during the frs
session of the Thirty-second Congress
being sixty-ive columns aud enc line, a
the rate of seven dollars and fifty cent
per column, four hundred and eighty
seven dollars and iifty-four cents
To enable the Clerk of the House o
Representatives to pay for twenty.foul
copies of the Congressional Globe anC
Appendix of the session of the Thirty
second Congress for each member ant
delegate of the House, seventeen thou
sand and sixty.four dollars; and for bind
ing the same, being five thousand six hun
dred and lightweight volumes, in strong
and substantial half-bindihg, with Rus
STA back and corners, at a rate not ex'
cocding sixty cents per volume, three
thousand four hundred and twelve dol
lars and eighty cents
For this amount of money a%ppropria-
ted, and goods purchased under treaty
stipulations for the Lake Chippewa In
dams. lately destroyed by fire, at the
agency of said Indians, fifteen thousand
dollars Provided, That the Commits.
s%ioners of Indian Affairs is hereby au-
thoiized to purchase said goods in open
market without the usual notice in such
cases required by law.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted,
That the seventh section of the act en-
titled " An act making appropriations
for the civil and diplomatic expenses of
the Government for the year ending the
thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
fifty-three aud for other purposes ap-
proved August thirty-frst, eighteen hun
dred and ffty-two, be, and the same is
hereby, repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That hereafter no books shall be distrib-
utcd to members of Congress except
such as are ordered to be printed as
public documents by the Congress of
which they are members Provided,
That this section shall not prohibit or
interfere with the distribution to mem
bCrs who have heretofore received books
under an order of either House of the
remaining volumes, or parts, 50 as to
complete the sets Of which they have re-
ceivcd part.
For paying expenses of David Dale
Ovens geological report, from Phila-
delphia to Washington, for one hundred
and seventeen boxes and porterage, nine
ty-nine dollars and forty-fve cents for
insurance, ninety dollars for freight
on one hundred and seventeen boxes, one
hundred and forty six dollars. Total,
three hundred and thirty-fve dollars and
forty.fivc cents.
Sec. A. And be it further enacted,
That so much of the second section of
the act making appropriations for the
support of the army for the year ending
thirticth of June, eighteen hundred and
fifty-three, approved thirty-frst August,
eighteen hundred and ffty-two, as pro-
vides that . no portions Of the moneys
appropriated by this act shall be applied
to the payment o. any expenses incurred
prior to the first day of July. ono thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-two," be,
and the same is hereby, repealed, so far
as it relates to the appropriation for
lighthouses which have been contracted
for, to be erected upon the Pacific coast;
and that the Secretary of the Treasury
be. and he is hereby. authorized to pay
to John McReynolds the sum one thou
sand dollars for expenses incurred by
him in removing materials for the con-
struction of Il lighthouse in the State of
Michigan, the Department having chang
ed the site after said materials were de-
livered at the site first selected.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That the Off GERS appointed to assist the
superintendent of the naval astronomi-
cal expedition in Chill, directed by the
act of the third of August, eighteen hun
dred and forty-eight, shall be allowed an
increased compensation in a rateable
proportion, according to pay and rank,
at the time of departure from the Uni
ted States, to the allowance made to the
said superintendent by the act of March
third; eighteen hundred and ffty-one, to
be paid out of any moneys in the treasu-
ry not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted.
That the time for receiving bids under
the act of third of July, n thousand
eight hundred and fifty two, for the
erection of a mint in California. be ex-
tended to the first of April. one thou
sand eight hundred and ffty-three, and
that the sum of three hundred thousand
dollars appropriated by said act. or so
much thereof as may be necessary. shall
be applied only to tile erection and put
ting in operation a mint in California,
and not to the purchase of any building
for that purpose.