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i,owance to soldiers employed at work on for

allowance 70 soldiers employed at work on Tor.
tihcations, In surveys, In cutting roads, and
other constant labor. Of not less than ten days,
authorised by the act approved March second.
eighteen hundred and nineteen, entitled =" An
act to regulate the pay of the army when em'
ployed on fatigue duty" be increased to TWEEN
ty-fve cents per day for mon employed as
laborers and teamsters, and forty cents Per
day when employed as mechanics. at all sta
tons east of the Rocky mountains and to
thirty-fve cents AMI fifty cents per day, re-
spectively, when the men are employed at the
stations west of those mountains.
Approred August 4, 1854.
1.-THE regulations necessary to carry out
the provisions Of the Sd. 4th. and 9Th sections
of the foregoing law will be issued hereafter.
By order of the Secretary Of War:
S. COOPER, Adjutant General.
Extension Of tha Provisions Of tho Bounty
Land Laws.-0ne of the acts of Congress, at
the last session, extends bounty lands to those
who served in California under Col Fremont,
during the Mexican war, who were not en-
braced in the provisions of any previous boun-
ty land law. The same act also grants bounty
lands to all seamen, marines, and naval and
marine officers, who served on the coast of
California during tho Mexican war. These
facts are important to be known far and wide
Heretofore, only such of those last mentioned
above, who served on shore, were entitled i;
now, all who served on the California coast in
military or naval capacity.
Important Cfhcsrs soon to be Appointed
We hear that the President has now under
consideration the various applications for the
posts of Collector and Surveyor of the port Of
New Orleans, the former being held by the
late Hon. Solomon q. Downs, who resigned it
not long since, owing to ill health. Among
the Democratic politicians around US, it is
thought that by Monday next these two i'm
portsnt appointments will be made.
Geo. ". Manypenny, Esq Commissioner
OF Indian Affairs, is now absent from Wash.
ington, on his way to Wisconsin. where Indian
matters are said to require his personal at
tention. Charles E. Mix, Fsq, Chief Clerk Of
the Indian Bureau, has been commissioned by
the President as acting commissioner In the
absence of Mr. NJ.
The New York Assay cffce According to
information which tho Treasury Department
have, the asaaying operations will be com.
menced in the New York establishment by the
LIST proximo. Tho necessary apparatus is be-
ing put up with all desirable dispatch.
The Surveys Of Pacific Railroad Routes
All the parties Of Government engineers re-
Gently engaged In running experimental
routes for Pacific railroad, are now in Wash
iugton, busily engaged in bringing up their
several reports, which are to be ready for pro.
mitigation by the meeting of Congress.
The Current Operations Of the Treasury
Dapartment.-Cn yesterday, the 10th of Aug,
there were of Treasury Warrants entered on
the books of tho Department
For the payment of Treasury debts $l04 ,342 20
For tho Customs ................ 80 90
For the War Department. ....... los ,62S 10
Fn- tho Interior Department. 3,042 Is
Appropriation warrant for the War
Department received and en-
toIeQ. III, S9l 0SJ Oh
For the Navy Department. 5000 OO