Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-13
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[BY AUTHORITY
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Paced at tie third session Of the 7zirtyoHrh o"gres'
Chap CIXAn Act to establish certain in the
United States and the Territories thereof
for sbeGs Of he three
dollars.
For Capitol police two hundred dollars To
To enable the clerk of the House OF Representative
pay to John c. Rives the additional ccmPensa G ~. &
Congressional Globe and Appendix provided IN the
Of Of the act maang E ending
June eighteen hundred and hftyseven eleven .n"us ,
one hundred and dollars aha anorers Of the
House the usual additional compensation ior reP1g %
debates Of the present session. eight hundred
For the completion of the printing heretofore ordered by
the Senate and House Of ana 0f Tue
For fees of witnesses behalf of the government IN the
court of claims and agents to be appointed
by the solicitor thereof to attend 10 Tue taxing Vi aepos
ArmvTo meet the expenses of nurses and attendants
authorized by the third section of the act of sixteenth Au
gust eighteen hundred and tysix, entitled An act pro
Tdine r necessary and better organization Of
the medical and hospital department of the army from
the date of said to rteth Jnne hundred and
ffty-seven, twenty-five Thousand dollars.
For re-apI ropration of fifty Thousand dollars Of the
balance Of the appropriation for the medical and has.a
departments which carried to the surplus fund THIRTEEN
june eighteen hundred and ythree for the payment OF
claims applicable to said department accrung during the
war with Mexico, and no, yet settled Oy the treasury
For transportation of the including the baggage oil
the troops when moving either by land water OF cloth
depha to the several posts and army depos horse equip
men and Of subsistence from the places OF purchase ano
from the places of delivery under contract to such places
the circumstances of the service may require 70 De
sent of ordnance ordnance and small arms from
the foundres and arsenas TO the arsenas
frontier posts and army depos; IS as
and oxe and the purchase and repair OF wagons CARTS
drays ships other seaong vessels and boats for the
mS be 1l
transportation of funds for the and other dlsburng
the Of sailing public tansp1lss Gn
and Pacific and for procuring water at such posts as from
their situation require that it be brought from distance,
seven hundred thousand dollars
For completing the repairs of the branch mint at New
Orleans rendering the reproof hundred and
twenty thousand six hundred and sxty-one dollars
ghvesse occasioned by damages loss of moorngs and
for expenses in recovering said vessels broken
adr during the late storms and eShets and by floating
forty thousand hundred and five dollars and sixty
two cents.
For expenses of raising cleaning painting repairing
moorng and supplying losses of buoys and for chains and
snkers by damage losses and for necessary
expenses recovering and restoring buoys and their
pendages during the late and freshes and by float
ing ice thrtyseven thousand five hundred and sixtywO
For restoring spndes and repairing day beacons destroy
ice fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars
For defaying expenses OF the defence of suits against
the United States for lands occupied BY marine hospitals
lighthouses and Notifications at the harbor Of San Fran
cisco, California, thirty thousand dollars
To deay expenses incurred in preparing plans and est
mates of cos, of Jail for the district of Columbia
and of building for the proper Of the De-
partment of the Interior, five hundred dollars.
nv each u" he o honses Of in
the eighteen hund ed and ySx to its officers and
employees shall be paid by its discussing officer out Of the
no
by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department
But nothing herein contained shall be construed to
repeal the joint resolution of twentieth of July eighteen
hundred and ftyfour, "to fix the compensation of The
employees in the legislative department of the
and prohibit the allowance of the usual extra
sation to such receive the benefits thereof which said
resolution is hereby declared be in full force and effect
exceptso far as herein provided for.
Sec g. And be further enacted That the provisions of
the thirteenth section of can making appropriation for
certain civil of the for the year end
ing the hrtesh of June eighteen hundred and hy-six
allowing to the several diSbnrsng agents for the late Cali
forna Land Commission the same compensation for the
receipt and disbursement of allowed to 9TH
intended to apply and hereby declared apply give
said compensation we'll when the dsbursng agent
member of said commission as in other cases.
Approved, March 8, 1857
c Gx Acct ae s ] Of 5a hs S sxs
teen hundred and fifty eight.
Bel the and House of Representatives
of the United States Of America in Congress assembled
ated to be paid out of money in the MT 9th
erwise appropriated for the ending the thrteth Of
June eighteen hundred and ffty-eght:
For of commission, warrant and petty officers and
seamen including the engineer corps Of the navy three
million eight hundred and ftyfve thousand four hundred
and fifty dollars And the Secretary of the Navy be and
he hereby authorized to enlist eight thousand i've
ded for the navy instead of thousand five hum
dred and to expend much of this in his
from Panama, to relieve the officers and Of ships in
the Pacific.
For provisions for commission warrant and petty officers
and seamen including engineers and marines attached to
vessels for service, eight hundred and fifty Thousand
four hundred and fifty dollars.
For increase repair armamant, and equipment of the
navy including the and Of vessels in commission,
fuel for steamers and purchase O hemp for the navy two
million eight hundred and .eveuty-sevsn thousand dollars
For ordnance and ordnance and small
Guiding incidental Expenses three huadrd and four thou
sand dollars
contingent expenses Thar may fr e follow
ing purposes, freight ard rrasporraau printing and
stationary advertising spapsrs books maps. models
and drawings, purchase and # ars engines ard
chnery, repairs If attending 10 STEFAN sns IN nav
yards purchase and maintenance Of hrsss and and
drawing teams CARTS timber wheels and the purchase and
repairs of Worknens ioI p.taze rf public letter. fuel
watchmen and incidental labor cbargeabe any h.
er appropriation transportation to and labor attending the
delivery OF provisions and stores foreign stations wharf
age dockge and rent travelling expenses of officers and
others under ORDERS funeral expenses store and Office rent
stationary, fuel commissions and pay of clerks navy
agents and storekeepers flags awnings and packing
premiums and other expenses of recruiting experimenting
deserter per diem pay persons attending
ta and courts of INJURY and other services nv
law pay to judges advocate potage and towge of vessels
and assistance to vessels in distress bills of health and
in hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Provided That the expenditures under the foreign appro-
praons shall be so accounted Cor show the dsburse
aton
TO enable the Secretary of the Navy and man the
ordnance ship Plymouth at the Washington navy yard
with view to the improvement of ordnance and eunpery
practice forty-nine Thousand dollars.
Marine Corps For pay of the officers commission
ed ohcers musicians and privates clerks, messengers
stewards ard servants ratons and clothing
subsistence and additional ratons for five service
Officers for undrawn clothing and raons. bounes for
vice. three hundred and tynne thousand six hundred
and nney-one dollars and sixty-eight cents.