Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-09

the United states, ten tnouSand collars;
/ To enable the Secretary Of State to pay to the
persons employed to protect the property and
persons of citizens Of the United States at San
Juan de Nicaragua, twelve thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary to defray
the expenses so incurred;
For the payment of James B. Holmans for
services rendered as Secretary Of Legation at
Santiago in the discharge Of clerical duties left
unPerformed by his predecessors, five hundred
dollars.
| Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from
Lands.
To meet the expenses Of collecting the reven-
| ue from the sale of public lands in the sever
al land States, and Territory Of Minnesota,
| in addition to the balances of former appro-
| priations:
For salaries and commissions of registers of
land-ofices and receivers of public moneys, one
hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
For expenses of depositing. public moneys by
receivers Of public moneys, fifty thousand dol
| lars;
For incidental expenses of the several land
offices, including new Offices. not heretofore pro-
Vided for, forty thousand dollars;
For salaries of registers and receivers in Or
egon and Washington Territories, much
| thereof as may be necessary, per act of seven
teenth of July, eighteen hundred and ffty-four,
nine thousand dollars;
For Office rent, fuel, and labor, for said offices,
four thousand dollars;
For iron safes for receivers, and for books,
Surrey of the Public Lands. For surveying the
public lands, Exclusive of California and ORR
gon. including island surveys in the interior
and all other special and difficult surveys deman-
ding augmented rates, to be applied and appor-
toned to the several districts, according to the
exigencies of the public service, including ex-
pensessof selecting swamp lands, and the COM
pensatlon and expenses to surveyor to locate
private land claims in Louisisna, in addition to
the unexpended balances of all former appropri-
latI fnr fho nh1o h1p 1raIo or,lf for
| thousand dollars;
For continuing the examinations and correc-
tions OF old, imperfect. and defective surveys in
the lower peninsula of Michigan, north of the
third correction parallel, and east and west of
the meridian, being forty-eight townships, at a
rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, twenty
thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;
| For the correction of erroneous and defective
lines OF the public and private surveys in Illinois
and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dol
| lars per mile, three thousand five hundred dol
| lars;
For preparing the unfinished records of public
and private surveys to be transferred to the State
authorities under the provisions of the act of the
twelfth Of June, one thousand eight hundred and
forty, in those districts where the surveys are
about being completed, fifteen thousand dollars;
| For resuryeyS and examinations of the survey
of the public lands in those States, where the
| offices oil the surveyors-general have been or
shall be closed under the acts of the twelfth of
June, one thousand eight hundred and forty. and
| the twentysecond of January, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand
dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed to
this special service in the General Land Office,
FIVE thousand dollars;
For continuing the survey of the keys on the
Florida coast, twenty thousand dollars;
| For continuing the survey of the islands on
the coast of California, thirty thousand dollars;
For surveying the public lands and private land
claims in California, including Office expenses
incident to the survey Of claims, and to be dis
bursed atthe rates prescribed by law for the diff
erent kinds Of work three hundred thousand dol
| lars;
Torrent of surveyor-generaPs Office in Cali
fornia, purchase of instruments, records, draw
ing materials, furniture, fuel pay of messengers:
eighteen thousand three hundred dollars;
For compensation Of draughtsmel and clerks,
| in addition to the amount heretofore estimated,
| the same being required in consequence Of the
increased amount Of feld-work proposed to be
executed, twentyone thousand dollars.
| For Surveys in Oregon and Washington Terri
tories.-For office rent for the surveyor-general,
fuel, books, stationery, and other Incidental ex-
penses, three thousand dollars;
For surveying standard, parallel and meridian
lines, over coast mountain and along the coast
an estimated distance of two hundred and fifty
miles-ive thousand dollars;
| For surveying township and subdivision lines.
! ESTIMATED at four thousand nine hundred and
twenty miles) in Oregon Territory, at rate not
exceeding twelve dollars per mile, and inc luding
office work, sixy-five thousand four hundred and
ninety dollars;
For surveying standard, parallel and meridian
lines in Washington Territory, Gan estimated
distance of five hundred miles,) ten thousand
dollars;
For Surveying township and subdivision lines,
| ESTIMATED at four thousand nine hundred and
twenty miles) in Washington Territory, at a
rate not exceeding twelve dollars per mile, and
including Office work, sixty-five thousand four
| hundred and ninety dollars;
| For salaries and incidental expenses of the
commission appointed under the act of March
third, eighteen hundred and ffty-one, for settling
| land claims in California, one hundred and five
thousand five hundred dollars.
| For surveying the necessary base, meridian,
standard parallels, townships, and section lines
in New Mexico, thirty thousand doll.rs;
For surveying the necessary base, meridian,
standard parallels, township, and section lines
in Kansas and Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars;
For salary of surveyor-general of New Mexi-
co, and clerks in his Office, seven thousand five
hundred dollars;
| For salary of surveyor-general Of Kansas and
Nebraska, two thousand dollas;
For office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses
in New Mexico, three thousand dollars;
For clerk hire, Office rent, fuel, and Incidental
| expenses in Kansas and Nebraska, (six thousand
dollars being allowed for Office rent, fuel, and
incidental expenses,) fourteen thousand three
| hundred dollars,
For Office rent for the surveyor-general of
Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery,
and other incidental expenses, five thousand dol
lars.
Mscellaneous.-For books voted to the mem
bers of the Thirty-third Congress, by the joint
resolutions of ftwenty-fourth February, eighteen
hundred and ffty-four, and the resolutions OF the
House OF the twentieth June, eighteen hundred
and fifty -four, one hundred and ninety-nine thou
sand five hundred and ten dollars and eighty
| seven cents.
To enable the Clerk of the House of Represen-
tatires to purchase from the publishers, Lippin-
colt Grambo and Company, two hundred copies
| each OF the second and third volumes of School
crafts History, etc., of the Indian tribes of the
! United States, to complete the sets of. the new