The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-21


AN ACT making appropriations for certain civil expenses
OF the government for the year ending the thrteh
June, eighteen hundred and ffty-seyen.
BE enacted BY The Senate and House Of Representatives.
che Utcd States Q Anaieu IN Congress assembled That the
following be- and the hereby appropriated
for the objects hereafter expressed for the fiscal year end
ing the reth Of june thousand eight hundred and
hfty-seyen, viz:
SURVEY OF THE COAST
For survey Of the Atlantic and Gulf coast of the Uni
ted States ncuding compensation to superintendent and
assistants and excluding pay and emoluments Of officers
of the army and navy and petty officers and men Of the
navy employed the work two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
United States hundred and thirty thousand dollars
For continuing the survey Of the Florida reefs and keys
teIcuding pay and emoluments Of officers of the army
az navy and petty officers and men Of the navy employed
on the wo.k,l forty thousand dollars
For running line to connect the trangulation the
Atlantic coast with that the Gulf Of Mexico the
Florida peninsula fifteen Thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in the progress
of the survey OF the OF the United States fifteen
thousand dollars
For repairs and alterations of steamers Hetze" and
Vixen and OF sailing vessels employed in the coast sur
vey, fifteen thousand dollars
For fuel and quarters and for mileage and Transports
ton for officers and enlisted soldiers Of the army serving in
the coast survey in longer provided by the quar-
termaser's department, ten thousand dollars
For the discharge Of such miscellaneous claims not other
wise provided for shall be admitted in due course
~,
pided That part of this appropriation shah be drawn
from the treasury except in pursuance of lEw OF
resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure
To supply the deficiency in the fund for the relief of
sick and disabled seamen two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For supplying five hundred and eleven lighthouses and
beacon lights with OIL glass ehimneys, wcks chamois-
skins polishing powder whiting and cleaning materials
transportation and other necessary expenses of the same
repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus
hundred and ninetythree thousand three hundred
and ffty-seven dollars and ffty-fve cents.
For repairs and incidental expenses, rettng and i'm
provemens of all the lighthouses and buildings
nected Herewith, hundred and seventyhree thou
sand twc hundred and eighy-nine dollars and twenty
one cents
For salaries of Eve hundred and fortyhree keepers Of
lgbt-houses and p beacons and their assistants and
including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary OF
superintendent of supplies on the upper aKes Two nun
For salaries OF ffy-one keepers of twenty
nine thousand and fifty dollars.
For seamens wages repairs supplies and incidental
penses Of ffyone light vessels hundred and ninety
four thousand six hundred and thirty four dollars.
For expenses of raising cleaning painting repairing
remoorng and losses of buoys and day beacons
and for chains and snker for the same and for colorng
and numbering all the buoys, hundred and
thousand two hundred and twenyght dollars and seven
ty-eight cents.
For expenses OF visiting and inspecting lights and other
aids TO navigation, two thousand dollars
lFor commissions at two and half per centum TO such
snperintendens entitled 70 the under the pro-
yso the Of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty
one entitled AN act making appropriations for the civil
and diplomatic expenses Of government for the year end
ing June thrteth eghtsen hundred and fywo and for
other puposes the that may be disbursed by
them, eight thousand dollars
FOR THE COASTS OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON AND WASHINGTON
For oil and other supplies for twentythree lights clean
ing materials OF all kinds and transportation Of the
expenses Of keeping lamps and machinery in repair pub
fishing notices mariners Of changes Of aids TO
bup Anl-
lars and seyenty-fve cents
For repairs and ncdentAls expenses Of twenty-three
lights and buildings connected herewith, twentyour
thousand Eve hundred and sKty-three dollars
For salaries Of keepers and assistant keepers Of
lighthouses al average not exceeding eight hundred
dollars per annum thrtsix thousand eight hundred dol
lars.
For expenses Of raising cleaning repairing remooring
and supplying losses Of floating beacons and buoys and
chains and snkers for the and for coorng and
berng all the buoys tweny-one thousand FIVE hundred
dollars.
For commissions at two and half per centum to such
superntendsnts entitled 70 the under the pro-
viso 70 the Of third March, eighteen hundred and hy
one entitled An act making appropriations for the civil
and diplomatic expenses Of government for the year end
ing June hireth eighteen hundred and ty-two and for
other purposes the amount that may be discussed BY
them, one thousand dollars.
For completing the lighthouse Cofu's Patches Of
Dry Bank the Florida reef between Carysfort Rec
and Sand Key lighthouse tWenyour thousand one hun
dred and FIVE dollars and sixty cents
For completing the hthouse Ship shoAl Louisiana
take the place OF the ght-vessel that point thirty
eight thousand and nineteen dollars and seventy cents
For continuing the construction Of the lighthouse on
the rocks called the Sow and Pigs" the entrsnct
70 BuArds bay in Massachusetts, twenty thousand dol
lars
For continuing the construction Of the lighthouse on
Minots Ledge, Of the Cohassct Rocks Boston bay
Massachusetts, seventy-fve thousand dollars
For restoring the bracng and repairing injuries TO h'
iron screv-pie lighthouse Brandywine sboal, BY
the breaking up Of the ice In the Delaware river and bay
thousand three hundred and hfywo dollars and
three cents
dies destroyed injured by the breaking mp Of the ice
the Of Maine and Massachusetts, IN Long Island
sound and in Newark New York, Delaware and Chesa
peake bays oryone thousand eight hundred and seventy
four dollars
For restoring lost oorings and repairing injuries Il
ightyesse by the breaking mp Of the ice in Vineyard
sound Boston and Chesapeake hays fourteen thousand
seven hundred and twentyseven dollars and ffy-fou
| cents
For the erection Of q boarding station" at Pass
r0utre in Louisiana twelve thousand dollars
For fue and quarters for officers Of the army serving
lighthouse duty, the payment Of which is no longer pro
vded for by the Quartrmasters department Eve thou
sand eight hundred and sfynine dollars and thirtyegh
cent?
For enlarging the mint Al San Francisco California
| forty-fve thousand dollars
For the purchase money agreed by the Secretary Of th
Interior TO be paid the part Of the United States fo
the purchase Of LOT and building for the of the Unite
States courts Of Philadelphia In The Safe Of Pennsylvania
seventyeigbt thousand dollars, 10 be raid ont of an,
meneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriately bu
said payment not 10 be paid until the Attorney Genera
certificate Is produced the Secretary Of the Treasury ha
valid unencumbered title s become vested in the Unite
States.
For the purchase Of the lot or parcel Of land with tn
Appurtenanoes and buildings thereon belonging to th
Bank Of Pennsylvania and particularly referred TO and de
scrbed IN articles Of agreement bearing dste the twe