Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-15

HOSPITALS
For the construction and completion OF works. ana 'of
current repairs OF The several naval h'sp''aS'
Fyr building and completing surgeons house a%e m "a
repairs of all kinds, sixteen thousand se'e" n"" "
fifty dollars
Fol brick building, machinery, and fixtures Ior warming
and venatng hospital for filling and grading cemetery,
repairs Of laboratory buildings repairs Of all kinds TWEEN
ty thousand six hundred anu fifty dollars
For repairs of all kinds, six thousand dollars
For wall aronnd burial sosud steam boiler pump and
reservoir draining and filling ponds and for general re-
pairs, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars
For the construction and completion work. and for the
current repairs at the several naval magazines
For ordnsnce building she'll house for loaded Shells gun
skids and shot beds, forty thousand nsnni dollars
For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars
YORK $50
For altering gnners house, shot BEDS skids
powder boat dredging and repairs OF att kinds, sixteen
thousann dollars
For building and completing iron shed for ordnance pur-
poses, twenty two thousand dollars
NORFOLK
For repairs of wall at Fork Norfolk. short BIDS. gun
skds ond crane machinery and TOOLS aleven thousand
dollars
For brick wall around shell house and fer current re-
pairs, two thousand six hendred dollars ~
For pay of superintendent naval Constructors an" m
the civil establishments at the several navy YARDS ana M
TONS hundred and twenty-five do lars seven
and eighty two dollars
For the purchase nautical instruments required for the
the navy for repairs of The and also OF asro
nomca' Instruments and for the purchase ct Ian' th
books and charts and for backing ana onohs 'he
same twenty thou and dollars
printing and publishing sailing directions hydro
graphical SURVEYS and astronomical observaona hfteen
thousand dollars Provided That The charts shall be sold
When crmpfeed and the instruments used be OF American
manufacture
charts defrayng all the expenses connect
ed Herewith eighteen thousand dollars
For models drawings, and dopyng postage freight and
transportation working photographic press including
chemicals oI keeping grounds in order for e and lights
and for all other contingent OF the United States
Naval Observatory and photographed Office twelve thou
sand dollars
For the wages of persons employed rhe United States
Naval observa and biographical office viz: ode lIt
ographer instrument maker two watchmen aud one
dort three thousand hundred and sixty dollars
Fer erection improvement and repairs OF buildings ana
grounds and support of the Naval Academy at Annapolis
Maryland hiry-nne thousand five hundred and ninety
For preparing the American Nautical Almanac twenty
tyfve thousand hundred and thrtywo dollars and
For Stevens wnr steamer: eghty-sx thousand
hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty four cents
For completing basin and roway at tine navy yard at
San francisco, three hundred and five thousand dollars
For completing coal depot at Key West Forido, twenty
SEC And be further enacted. That of the
of thirty thousand five hundred dollars. appropriated
T tor na'"I an
fifty approved third March eighteen hundred and fit
ty six. approved third March eighteen hundred and fifty
owey and paid expenses which have been incurred
for the purpose of introducing gas into the quarters aud
hospital head quarters and for lightn & The
Approved August IT, 1856
AN ACT to regulate the compensation of members of Con-
: greSs
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tves of the United States of America Congress
bed, That the compensation of each senator, representa-
tive and delegate in Congress shall be six thousand dollars
for each Congress- and mileage provided by law for
two sessions only, to be paid in following to wit
the first day Of each regular session each senator repre-
sentative and delegate shall receive his mileage for
sion and the fiji day of each month thereafter during
such session, compensation at the of three thousand
dollars per dung the continuance of such session.
and at the end Of such session he shall receive the residue
of his salary due him such time the aforesaid
still unpaid and the beginning of the second regular
session Of the Congress each SENATOR and
delegate shall his mileage for such second session
of thres thousand dollars per till the fourth day of
March terminating the Congress and on that day dach
senator and delegate shall be entitled
ceve any balance of the six thousand dollars there
tofore paid in the said monthly instruments above dir
! ected
the Senate pro cmpore when there shall be Vice Pre-
sdent the Vice President shall have become President
of the United Sares shall receive the compensation prov
ded law for the Vice President and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives shall receive double tile
and the above provided payment the
compensation of representatives
SIC B.. And be it further enacted That this law shall
apply the Congress- and each senator representa-
tue and delegate shall be entitled 10 receive the difference
only between their dim compensation already received
under the law i'll force and the compensation provided
Sec. And be it further enacted, That the event OF
the death of SENATOR representative or delegate proi
tohe OF the first session of the Congress
he shall be neither entitled mileage compensation and
in the death the of
his shall be entitled to receive muck
Of his compensation computed at the OF three
dollars per annum may have received and any
mileage that may have actually accrued and be due and
Spc s. And be it further enacted That if any books
Shallh he fO and
Congress by resolution of either both houses of Con
gres the price paid for the same shall be deducted from
members: Provided, however, That this shall not
tend books ordered to be printed by the public prne
during the Congress for which the said member shall hav
SEC s. And be it further enacted That it shall be tn
duty of the SergeanaArms OF the BOuse and Secretar
of The Senate respectively to deduct from the monthly
of members herein provided for the amount
his compensation for each day that such member shall
absent the House Senate respectively unless
representative delegate shell assign the
for such absence the sickness OF himself OF som
member of his family
SEC And be further enacted Thst all acts Or part
of inconsistent with rcpugnant ito the provisions
this act, be and the same are hereby repead
Approved August IL, 1856.
AN ACT to amend the acts regulating the fees costs
Territories and District of Columbia, aud for other pu
Be enacted by the Senate and House of
of the Unit States Of America in Congress assemblies
That hereafter, before the accounts of the United Stat
nlarshals district attorneys, and clerks presented
the accounting officers of the Treasury Department
ement they shall be examined and certified by the di
rict Judge Of the United States in the district in which
officers presenting the accounts ofcate whether in Il
States or Territories and the shall be subjec to
vision upon their merits by said accounting officers
case of other public accounts; Provided however, That
accounts of fees costs paid to witness
the order of judge commissioner shall be
mined to charge any marshal for taxat
of such fees costs .--, -
. SEC And be it further enacted That the accounts
the commissioners of the United States circuit courts
De examined and certified to by the district judge Of
trlct which they appointed previous their