Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-03-21

to the United States and shall grant the United Sta
the Of much land may be necessary for the cot
sructon of such warehouse with water front and priv
lege of the wharf now built hereafter to be built
said station
For the continuation and completion of the custom
house, post Office sc. at Dubuque Iowa, twenty thou
sand dollars, with ten per cent for contingencies
the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
take possession and pay for the land and prosecute
work, conditioned upon the city Of Dubuque enterin
into bond in its corporate capacity, with good and
fcent individual security for twice the amount Of Il
appropriations, that the Legislature of Iowawil st
next session pass'an act cedng exclusive ursdctio
over the site to the United States and forever exempti
the property from all taxation.
For tagging footway in the Congressional buryine
ground from the entrance of the to the Government
vault, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For the collection of agricultural statistics nvestiga
tons for promoting agriculture and rural economy
the and distribution of cuttings and seed
sixty thousand dollars, to be expended under the dire<
ton of the Commissioner of Patents and to enable ii
Commissioner of Patents to collect and report informs
ton in relation to the consumption of cotton in the
raj countries of the world three thousand five hundo
dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the
perntendent of the building occupied by said Secreta
and his department from the first day of January egh
teen hundred and to the thireth June eghtee
hundred and thirty eight the allowance to be made
such superintendent with his salary clerk not to
coed two thousand dollars per annum, the of
hundred dollars.
For tagging the main avenue in the Botanic Garden
and for stone gutter for same three thousand hun
dred and sixty dollars.
For the construction of a wooden bridge with kdaI
track ACROSS the canal in the line of Maine ayent
hundred5l 3lars.
For drine h0spta & vioEs burg, The oSH ssa
teen hundred and sixtytwo dollars and fty-eght tenE
Fer the continuation and completion of the Jn;fsd
States courthouse and post Office at IndanaDois e
diana sixty-seyen thousand dollars, with ten her b.
for contingencies. It.
For the continuation and completion of the bnlsAcs
for the United States courts and post office Ru(snd
and Windsor Vermont forty thousand dollars each b
ten per cent. for contingencies
For completing aud fitting up the post office il he
building erected for custom house and post ofes At
CINCINNATI four thousand three hundred and thirty
dollars and ninety cents.
For completing the custom-house at Belfast Mae
and for furnishing the same three thousand five huned
dollars, with ten per cent. for contingencies
For completing the custom-house at Bath, Maineiye
thousand five hundred dollars.
For fencing and grading the site of the eusom-h V
at Bath, Maine, ten thousand dollars i
For charging the custom-house at Ogdensburgtyew
ork ana providing for the of the United htes
courts and their federal officers fifty thousand drs
with ten per cent. on the same for contingencies
For repaving Pennsylvania avenue at the intersion
OF Seventh street the width of said street. on th(1an
known as Belgian pavement" the sum of FIVE thdlnd
dollars, or so much thereof may be necessary foat
purpose
For furnishing lamp-poss and lamps on the Eth
east and west side of Lafayette Square and for ting
up and reaying the footways the south side csd
square, and undertaking the same, the sum Of
thousand three hundred and fifty dollars
For expenses of packing and distributing the Cong
slonal Journals and documents in pursuance of the
visions contained in the joint resolution Of Congress
proved twenty eighth January eighteen hundred i
hfty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars ii n
For small class revenue cutter, to be located in II
Of
dollars.
TO enable the Secretary of the Treasury to cause
experiments and analyses of different beds of ore as
test whether any of such ores, in their native ST
sess alloys that will resist the tendency to o.
create extent than others, and to ascertain/
circumstances they are found, and whs
facilitate the proper selections of iron
two thousand five hundred dollars.
Forcompleting and furnishing
of thu Bank of Pennsylvania to =
post-f6ce in the city of Phad
sand pllars.
much mount Of such 3ppfdpl(5
yl5l NJ de as Wa FRIED to the surplus fun
on the June, eighteen hundred and ffty-sx
which 5eappropriatsk
into the act of Congress of the third March, eighties
hundrSd and nineteen, and any subsequent acts now
force the suppression of the slave trade eight thou
sand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to pay for the service
of Dr. James Morrow agricuurst to the Japan expe
diton under Commodore Perry such sum as shall b
found due under the for his relief approved eghteen
February, eighteen hundred and yseven, i've thousan
nine hundred and nnetyve dollars and sixty cents,
much thereof as may be necessary.
For the erection of temporary capitol for Washing
ton Territory thirty thousand dollars and for pent
tiary in the Territory, twenty thousand dollars,
elusive of the sites of the buildings Provided That
building shall be finished for the herein approx
ated.
To enable the Committee on the Library to contr
with Mr. Heay for series of portraits of the Preside
of the United States for the Executive mansion Pod
ed The of the same shall not exceed thousAnt
dollars for the fulength portraits the of 1--WE thou
sand dollars hereby appropriately in the discretion
of the committee to purchase such of Stuars portr
of the Presidents shall be for SALE
For building courthouse and post-ofice at Raleigh
North Carolina, fifty thousand dollars
For building courthouse and post Office at Columb q
South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars
For building courthouse at Madison, Wisconsin
fifty thousand dollars. ai
For courthouse and post office at Memphis, in IA,
State of Tennessee, Fifty thousand dollars.
For building at Tallahassee, Florida to accomn,.
date the United States courts and post Office, fifty tho
sand dollars.
To supply deficiency in the appropriation for tns
salaries of the judges of the circuit and orphans courts
for the District of Columbia for the year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fftyeght, four tu
sand and fifty dollars.
For the completion of United State courthouse nG
post Office at Key West Florida thirty thousand dollrs
with ten per cent for contingencies, and muck as
may be necessary for the purpose of suitable site bl
the same.
sec 2. And Be further enacted That the Presden Of
the United States be and he is hereby authorized to
point employ in his official household the following
officers, to wit private secretary at ankuS
ry of two thousand five hundred dollars stewart
annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, who san
under the direction of the President have charge ond
be responsible for the plate and furniture of the PHs
dents mansion, and shall discharge such other dus
the President may assign him; and one messenger an