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

twenysr eighteen hundred and Afiy-thres concerning
lees and costs for copying records and attending courts
sEe ls And E Il further enacted That there be al
lowed and paid TO the late commissioners for settling pr
yae land claims In California appointed under the act Of
March third eighteen hundred and hyone and acts add
ona thereto months salary for services rendered sub
sequent TO March third eighteen hundred and Hftysix
and to the several disbursng agents for said commission
the same compensation for the receipt and disbursement OF
monies allowed TO other discussing officers OF the
government in California the TO be paid out Of the
balance of monies heretofore appropriated for
the salaries and expenses OF said eommission.)
SEC IA And be further enacted That the Secretary of
the Interior ascertain the number of Cherokees east of the
Mississippi that were omitted in the census taken by D.
Siler in eighteen hundred and ty-one and pay the FIVE
thousand dollars appropriated by the eighth section OF the
act making appropriations for the and contingent
expenses Of the Indian department approved July thirty
eighteen hundred and -four to said Indians
cording to the per capita distribution made by the De-
partmen OF the Interior in pursuance of the principles
contained in the opinion of the Attorney General OF the
United States that subject of April sixteenth eighteen
hundred and ffty-one
SEC. Is And Be further enacted That the annual com
pensaon of the chaplain the United States Penenary
shall be five hundred dollars and twenty per cent on the
from July first eighteen hundred and fftythree.
SEC. l6 And be further enacted That there shall be
paid to John O. Rves by the Secretary of the Senate and
Clerk Of the House of Representatives out of the conn
gent funds of the houses according the number of
copies of the Congressional G!3be and Appendix tat
by each one cent for every five pages of that Axceed
ing three thousand pages for long session or fifteen hun
aea pages for short including the indexes and the
laws OF the United States commencing with this session
SEC H. And be further enacted that the Secretary Of
the treasury be and he m hereby authorized and required
appoint suitably qualified person special examiner Of
drugs chemicals medicines nc at Sanfrancsep in Caor-
mia whose annual salary shall be two thousand dollars
SEC 10. Amd be urthsr enacted That the Secretary of
the Treasury be and he hereby authorized and directed
to Gauge to be constructed the following buildings:
AT Portsmouth, New Hampshire for the accommodation
OF the eustom-house post Office and United States courts
building of stone with freproof floors of iron beams
end erckwork, iron roof shutters, ss &c eighty live
iee long by sixty wide, and sixty feet high to cost not
more than eighty -eight thousand dollars.
At Nashville Tennessee, for the accommodation Of the
customhose post office United States courts and steam
boat inspectors building of like materials eghtyfve
feet long by sixty deep and sixty feet high to cost not
more than ninety-fve thousand dollars.
At Ogdensburg, New York, for the accommodation of
the custom-house and post Office building of like mate
rails sixty feet long, by foryfve Deep and thirty two feet
high, to cost not more than fifty thousand dollars
At Georgetown, in the District of Columbia for the
ing of like materials sixty feet long by ortyve deep and
thrtytwo feet high, to cost not more than fifty thousand
dollars
At Dubuque Iowa. for the accommodation of the custom
house. post office and United States courts building of
like materials eghyfve feet long by sixty deep and sixty
feet high to cost not more than eighty thousand dollars
At Knoxville Tennessee for the accommodation of the
custom-house post office and United States courts build
ing of like Materials eghyfve feet long by sixty Deep
and sixty feet high to cost not than Lightweight
thousand dollars.
At Galena, Illinois, for the accommodation of the custom
house. and post Office building of like materials sixty
feet long by orty-ye deep and thirt-two feet high to
cost not more than fifty thousand dollars
At Springfield Illinois, for the accommodation of the
United States courts and post Office building of like
feet high, cost not than fifty thousand dollars
At Rutland and at Windsor Vermont suitable buildings
for the accommodation of the circuit and district of
the United States and the several Offices connected there
with aad the post Offices said Rutland Windsor the
Of which shall not exceed the Of twenty FIVE thou
sand dollars each, Provided That money shall be
pended under this for the erection OF customhouse
where the duties collected do not equal the expense of col
lection.
SEC TO- And be further enacted That the several sums
mentioned the preceding section OF this the cost
of the buildings therein authorized be constructed
gher with ten cent thereon the compensation
of architects superntendence advertising and other con-
ngent expenses and so much be required to
chase suitable sites for said buildings be and the
hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid out of
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated Pro
vided That money hereby appropriated shall be used
applied for the purposes mentioned until valid title to
the land for the site of such buildings in each shall be
vested in the United States and until the State shall also
duly release and renquish the United States the right
in any way said site the property of the
United States that may be thereon during the time that
the said United States shall be or remain the owner there
Of
SEC 90 And be further enacted That to authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury TO enlarge the building in
progress Of construction 10 be used custom house and
post-oce at Sandusky Ohio by the addition of another
story and otherwise and said Secretary may deem expe
dent the of nineteen thousand FIVE hundred dollars
thereon for contingencies Provided, That the money
hereby appropriated shall not be expended until said Sec
rotary shall have contracted upon such security he may
approve for the completion of said building enlarged
equal less than the amount heretofore aud
hereby appropriated,
SEC 81 And be further enacted That the President of
the United States be constructed at Key West
Florida suitable building for the accommodation Of the
district court Of the United States for the southern district
OF Florida and that the Of eight thousand dollars be-
and the hereby appropriated for this purpose out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated
Approved August 49, 1856.
Public Sc
AN ACT making appropriations for the service Of the
Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the
thirtieth OF June eighteen hundred and hfty-seven.
BE enacted BY he Senate and House Of RepreScntattes
Of the United States Of America Congress dSsembed
That the following sums be, and the hereby, APP
proprated for the service Of the Post Office Department for
the year ending the hireth Of June thousand eight
hundred and yseven out Of any In the treasury
arising from the Of the said department in con-
formity the act Of the second Of July thousand
eight hundred and thirty.six:
For transportation Of the nails nland six million one
hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For compensation to posmasters, two million hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat and way letters twenty thousand
dollars.
For wrnppingpaper, yeight thousand Eve hundred