Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-11

For contingent expenses of said library, one
thousand dollars. r.e
For purchase of books for said library, five
thousand dollars.
For purchase of law-books for said library,
two thousand dollars.
For paper required for the printing Of the first
session of the thirty fourth Congress, one hum
dred and ffty-six thousand four hundred and
eight dollars.
For printing required for the first session of
the thirty-fourth Congress, one hundred and fif-
teen thousand dollars: Propided, That the prin-.
ted sheets for the finer description of books au-
thorized by either house Of Congress, shall be
dry-pressed before being bound, whenever, in
the opinion of the Joint Committee on Printing,
it is deemed necessary the cost thereof not to
exceed the sum of fifty cents per ream medium.
Executive For compensation Of the Presi-
dent of the United States, twenty-five thousand
dollars.
For compensation to secretary to sign patents
for lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. i
Department of StGte-For compensation of
the Secretary Of State, and Assistant Secretary
of State, clerks, messenger, assistant messenger,
and laborers in his office, ffty-two thousand six
hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of
Said Experimentation publishing the laws in
pamphlet form, and in the newspapers of the
States and Territories and in the city of Wash
ington, nineteen thousand seven hundred and
twenty-five dollars.
For proof-reading, packing, additional COM
pensatfon to packer, and distributing laws and
documents, including cases, labor, and trans
portation, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For stationery, blank books, binding, labor,
and attendance, furniture, fixtures repairs, pain
ing and glazing, six thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For copperplate printing, books and maps,
one thousand dollars.
For newspapers, four hundred dollars.
For extra clerk hire and coDVinO two thoue.
and said clerks to be employed only during the
session of Congress, or when indispensably nee
essary, to enable the department to answer some
cali made by either house of Congress at one
session, to be answered at another.
For miscellaneous items, one thousa nd dollars.
For compiling and supervising the publication
of the Biennial Register, five hundred dollars. s
For binding books and music in the copyright
bureau, and procuring portfolios for the prints
and engravings, five hundred dollars. -
To enable the Secretary of State to purchase
of Messrs. Little. Brown and Company, five
hundred copies of their new edition of Wheat
on's Elements of International Law, to be dis
tributed to the foreign ministers and consuls,
and to the departments at home, two thousand
five hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to purchase
fifty copies each, Of volumes sixteen and seven
teen Of Howard's Reports of the Decisions Of
the Supreme Court of the United States, five
hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to purchase
of Messrs. Little, Brown and Company, two
thousand copies Of the tenth volume of the Uni
ted States Statutes at Large, for distribution,
agreeably to acts of Congress directing the dis
tribution Of the other volumes, seven thousand
dollars.
Northeast Executive Building-For compen-
sation of the superindent, four Watchmen, and
two laborers of the northeast executive building,
three thousand eight hundred and two dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz ::
For fuPI liOht Iah0r- and raOair9 III thOus.
and three hundred dollars.
Treasury Department.-For compensation Of
the Secretary of the Treasury and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, clerks, messenger,
assistant messenger, and laborers in his Office,
ffty-fiVe thousand five hundred and ssventy-two
dollars.
For compensation of the First Comptroller,
and the clerks, messenger, and laborers in his
office, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and
ninetytwo dollars.
For compensation of the Second Comptroller,
and the clerks, messenger, and laborer> in his
Office, twenty-nine thousand two hundred and
sixteen dollars. -lc
For compensation of the First Auditor, and
the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and
laborer in his Office, forty-one thousand nine
hundred and thirty-six dollars.
For compensation of the Second Auditor, and
the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and
laborer in his Office, thirty-fVe thousand four
hundred and sixteen dollars.
For compensation of the Third Auditor, and
the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger,
and laborers in his Office, one hundred and seven
| thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and
the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger
| in his office, thirty thousand two hundred dol
| lars. --.--.,= ~
For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and
the clerks, messenger, and laborer in his Office,
fifteen thousand and sixteen dollars.
For compensation of the Auditor of the Post
Office Department, and the clerks, messenger,
assistant messenger, and laborers in his Office,
one hundred and sixty-fve thousand six hundred
and twenty-four dollars.
| For compensation of the Treasurer Of the
United States, and the clerks, messenger, assis-
tant messenger land laborers in his office, twenty
five thousand four hundred and eighty dol
lars.
| For compensation of the Register Of the
Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, assistant
messengers, and laborers in his office, forty
seven thousand and fifty two dollars.
| For compensation of the Solicitor of the
| Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his
| Office, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars.
| For compensation OF the Commissioner OF
Customs, and the clerks. messenger, and labor
er in his office, twenty thousand four hundred
and sixteen dollars. z
| For compensation of the clerks and messen-
ger of the Lighthouse Board, eight thousand
nine hundred and seVenty-six dollars.
Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department
In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury
For labor, blank books, stationery, binding:
sealing ships registers, translatng foreign Ian
guages, advertising, and extra clerk hire fol
preparing and collecting information to be laid
before Congress-said clerks to be employed
only during the session of Congress, or when in
dispensably necessary to enable the department
to answer some call made by either house Of
Congress at one session, to 5e answered at an
other and no such extra clerk shall receive
more than three dollars thirty-three and one
third cents per day for the time actually and
necessarily employed; and for miseellaneou:
litems-thirteen thousand dollars. A &
In the Office Of the First Comptroller: =
1 For furniture, blank books, binding, station
cry, public documents, State and Territorial