The true Democrat., 1855-07-31
BY AUTHORITY. Public Acts of the Thirty-Third Congress


 BY AUTHORITY. FuDllc Acts of the Thirty-Third Congress
 of the United States. at the second session. which begun and held Monday the 4th day December ls54 and ended on sa , turday the Sd day of March, 1855.
 fRASkIN Ras pIERcE President JESSE D. BRIGHT, Pre- soent oi the Senate, tempore LINN BoYD Speak. of the House of Representatives.
 AN ACT making Appropriations for the Support of the Army, for the year ending the 3Oth of June 1856, and for other Purposes.
 De 1t enected by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatlves of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money m the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the support of the army for the year ending the SOth of June, l056:
 For Contingent Expenses, ,ie:--For rent of rooms, stationery, engraving plates for bounty land war rants, paper, and printing the same, binding books blank books for registers, office furniture and mscel laneous items $20 ,000.
 For expenses of the current fiscal year on account ot military bounty lands, $50 900.
 For clerk hre patents, records stationery and mis- celaneous items in the General Land Office on &C., count of the military bounty lands, S7o OOo Pro- 0aded hoWerer, That the Secretary of the Interior at his discretion shall oe and he is hereby authoriz ed to any portion of said appropriation for piece work. or by the day, week, monCh or year, at such rate or rates, as he may deem just and fair.
 For compensation of ten clerks of class one to be employed temporarily ill the office of the Third Au- dtor, on account of military bounty lands, Sl2 00O; and that the Secretary of the Interior be- and hereby IS, au horzed and directed to pay to Jacob P Chase the usual compensation for the services of his two sons, as clerks in the Pension Office for the time they were engaged as such, and the necessary to pay the same be- and the same is hereby, appropriated. And the Secretary of War be. and he hereby is. directed t. to be constructed on such site in central position on the public grounds, in the city of Washington, as may be selected by the President of the United States, suitable building for the care and preservation of the ordnance, and arms. and accou~ rements of the United States required for the use of the volunteers and militia Of the District of Colun ba and for the and preservation of the military trophies of the revolutionary and other wars, and for the deposit of newl y-nvented and model arms, for the military service, the said ordnance and arms and the building to be used by the volunteers and malltla Of the District of Columbia, under such re- gulatons as may be prescribed by the President and for the purpose of carrying this act into effect the sum of S30,000 be, and the same hereby is appro- ptaed out of any money in the treasury not other wise appropriated.
 ?. And be t fuyther enacted That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deciences in the appropriations for the ser vice of the fiscal year. ending the 30th of June, 1855 ont of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro prated, namely:-
 For additional to the appropriations by the act of 4th of August 1854, for the contingent expenses o1 the Senate. viz
 For binding, s30,00o.
 For lithographing and engraving, S25, GOO.
 For the House of Representatives, viz
 For twenty-tour copies of '' Globe" for each mem- Der and delegate of the second session of the thirty third Congress, Sl7 ,352.
 For binding 24 copies of Globe for each member and delegate of the second session of the thirty third Congress- 6.940 50
 For reporting the debates of the second session of the thirty third Congress, s7,5o0.
 To enable John C. Rves, to pay to the reporters of tbaf ('1ol,a W. Curran, William Hincks, Francis H. Smith, J oh J. McEIhone Theodore F. Andrews Charles E. Col lar, and Henry c. Hayes, the same amount of addi- tonal compensation for reporting the debates of the House for the present session of Congress, has been heretofore paid them $500 each $500: And for the payment of like sum to each of the reporters of the Senate. namely: Richard Sutton D. F. Murray ID. F. Murphy, R. Nj. Patterson, Henry Pardon James J Murphy, and David W. Brown, s4,S00.
 To pay for twenty four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix of the first session of the pre- sent Congress for each of ts delegates from Nebras ka and Kansas, being forty fight copies at s6 per copy, s20o; and for binding the same, l92 volumes at sixty cents volume, Sll5 20.
 For additional amount required for binding dOcu- ments, $3o00O.
 For additional amount required for engraving and lithographing, S30,000.
 For the payment of salaries and other expenses of the Census Bureau until the completion of the mor- tay statistics, $5000 to be expended under the di- rectlon of the Secretary of the Interior.
 For supplying deficiency in the appropriation fo1 the printing of the executive departments S32 S75 For the completion of the printing of the Senate ordered at the present session. and paper for the ,000.
 For the completion of the printing of the House ordered at the present session. and paper for tho $60 ,00O.
 To Norman R. Haskell of Michigan. the sum of $550 56 in full of charges custodian of public pro- perty.
 To pay the draughtsman and clerks employed upor the maps of the public lands for the House of Repre- sentaves and the committee of public lands for the balance of the present fiscal year, s4,OOO.
 And the draughtsmen employed on the maps oi the public lands under the charge of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, shall be paid the con- pensaton as is paid to the draughsmen similarly en- ployed under the direction of the Senate.
 For amount equal to drafts, checks, and deposits awaitin gdecisions in certain applications for appro val of sales of Indian reserves, including $500 col lected by, and deposited with the late firm of Seden WitherS and Company, by former disbursng officer of government, 400: Provided That such portion of this sum as may be recovered from said firm anc dsbursng officer shall be reimbursed to the treasury of tine United States.
 Contingent Expenses 0 Depart'nent of State- -Fol publishing the laws in pamphlet form, and in the newspapers in the States and Territories and in the District of Columbia, in addition to any balance that may remain of former appropriations, S2l ,396:
 Territory Of Oreg0n.-FOr compensation of chief justice two associate judges and secretary, $5, ,000
  Joseph Lane, for and on account of his disburse- ments in lS49 and 50, for the necessary contingent expenses of his office. $l ASA 25.
 Territory of Washington For compensation o chiet justice, two associate judges and secretary, SS 504 Il.
 7erritory9f Minnesota-For compensation of chie justice. and two associate judges, $500.
 Territory of Utah.--For compensation of chiefjus- tice, two associate judges and secretary g., 300.
 For contingent expenses of the Territory of Utah $l16S S7, to discharge such sums the accounting officers, subject to the approval of the Secretary o the Interior may deem to have been necessarily ex pended by the executive of said Territory during tho years 1852, '53 and '54:
 Territory q New 1Ne1ico- For compensation o governor chief ustice two associate judges, and se cretary, $2,Soo.
 lSupprt of tue A,my.-For clothing for the army camp and garrison equipage, and horse equipments $125O6 03.
 Nint ct Philadelp1saa.--For increased compensa tion of clerks by the thirteenth section of act of 4t August, 1854, SS,OOo. For supplying deficiency in the appropriations, ir the current fiscal year. made for the mint in Pha-