Kansas weekly herald., 1854-10-20

land-ofice established at such point therein
as the President shall select.
SEC. q. And be it futher enacted, That
the President, by and with the advice and
tconsent of the Senate, shall appoint one reg
ister and one receiver of the land Office In
said district, who shall reside at the place
designated for the land office, receive such
compensation, give security and discharge
all duties pertaining to such office, as are
prescribed by law. @
:. APPROVED, April 90, 1854.
CHAP. XLVI.-An Act to authorize the School
+ Commissioners of fractional Township Num-
1 Der One, of range Number Ten East, in Ala
| bama, to locate One half Section OF Land for
School Purposes.
| Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
school commissioners of fractional township
number one, OF range number ten east, sit
uated in the district of land subject to sale
at Lebanon, Alabama, be, and is hereby
authorized to enter, free of charge, in lieu
of the lands to which they are entitled by
any existing law, one half section of land
i in legal subdivision, anywhere in said town.
ship, with view to the ultimate conve-
nience of the citizens of said township, and
the quality of soil for school purposes, and
said lands thus located shall be governed by
the same laws, rules, and regulations, as is
the school sixteenth section in said State of
| Alabama.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty Of said school commits
sioners to locate and report, within two
years, what lands they have entered, to the
Commissioner of the General Land Office
at Washington, and it shall be his duty,
upon the receipt of such report of location,
to withdraw from sale the said lands, and
the title thereto shall be valid as In SIX
teenth sections heretofore granted In the
new States.
APPROVED, April 30, 1854.
CHAP. LIT-An Act to amend the third section
of the ssAct making Appropriations for the
Civil and diplomatic Expenses OF Govern
ment for the year ending the thirtieth of June,
eigteen hundred and fifty-four," and for other
purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That Of
the clerks authorized by the third section OF
the act approved March third. eighteen
hundred and fifty-three, entitled can act
making appropriations for the civil and di-
plomatic expenses of government for the
year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen
hundred and fifty-four," those of the first
class shall receive salary of twelve hun
dred dollars per annum; those of the Sc
cond class, a salary of fourteen hundred dol
lars per annllm; those of the third class, a
salary of sixteen hundred dollars per annum;
and all clerks not provided for in this act,
performing the same or similar duties with
any one of the classes, shall receive the
same compensation as is allowed to such
class; and the clerks employed in the Cen
sus Bureau shall be paid, during the present
fiscal year, the same as is hereby allowed
to clerks Of the second class.
SEC. g And be 1t further enacted, That
the stamp and blank agent for the Post Of
flee Department receive the same salary as
clerks Of the second class, provided for in
the first section of this act; and an addition
of twenty per cent. is hereby added to the
pay now authorized by law to each of the
messengers, packers, laborers, and watch
men of the different executive departments
OF the government in Washington; to the
clerks employed at the navy-yard and ma
rine barracks at Washington; to the clerk,
messenger and laborer in the Office of Com
missioner Of Public Buildings, doorkeeper
and assistant doorkeeper at the Execu-
tive Mansion; public gardener, laborers
employed in the public grounds and Presi-
dents garden; two additional watchmen
and the police at the Capitol; watchmen
employed at the Presidents House and Re-
servation number two, lamplighter, the gen
eral superintendent; the draw-keepers of
the bridges across the Eastern Branch and
Potomac and that the provisions ofthe Sc
cond section of the act of August thirty-frst,
eighteen hundred and ffty-two, ssmaking
appropriations for the civil and diplomatic
expenses of the government for the year
ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hum
dred and flty-three," &C., be, and is here
by extended to such persons herein emu
merated who were In employment during
the fiscal year, and were excluded from the
benefit of said act by the decision of the
Comptroller of the Treasury.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
instead of the salaries now alloHed by law
to the Superintendent of the Census. and
to the Assistant Postmasters General, they
shall each receive the same salary that is
paid to the Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury.
SEC. d. And be it further enacted, That
the increased compensation provided for in
this act shall commence from the first day
of July. eighteen hundred and ffty-three,
and the necessary money to carry this act
into effect is hereby appropriated out of
any money In the treasury not otherwise
appropriated: Provided, That nothing here
in contained shall be construed as making
an appropriation for any period beyond the
tIa;r,tiath of Iune eiohte,n hundred and