Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-06-26
By Authority.
Law OF THE UNITED STATES.
Pub4q

Be enacted 1yls aae AID House Of eDresatasfges Of
the United States Of Aecq IN Congress aassa5zsd That the
following and the same are hereby appropriated
objects hereIter expressed for the fiscal year ending tbirtieh
June, eighteen hundred and ffty-nine, viz;
SURVEY OF THE COAST
For continuing the survey Of the Atlantic and Gulf Of the
United states unc@ng compensation to superintendent and
assistants and excluding and emouments officers Of the
on tie work. two hundred and 6ftv fbo1sanJ 5oiIars
For continuing the survey Of the Of the United
States one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey Florida reefs and keys lex
Guiding and emolumeuts officers Of the army and navy
petty oeer and men Of the navy employed the york forty
For running line connect the triangulaon on the Atlantic
coast with that on the Gulf of Mexico the Florida pen
repairs Of the Crawford Madison Mason and George NJ
Daehe and other sailing vessels used in the coast survey, ten
For pay and rons Of engineers for seven steamers used in the
Department thousand eight HUNDRED dollars PToried
That the Secretary Of the Treasury such the
survey service for subsistence in addition to their compen-
saon, as he may deem necessary, exceeding the author
To supply deficiency the fund for the relief Of sick and dis
abied seamen one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
LIGHT HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For the Atlantic, Gull, and Lake coasts viz:
supplying and fifty Six light houaes
con lights with OIL glass chmneys Wicks chamo skins, polish
ngpo~der whiting and cleaning materials, transportation and
other expenses Of the same repairing keeping
repair the lighting apparatus hundred and thirty eight thou
sand seven hundred and dollars and foryve
For repairs and incen expenses ehting and Improvements
Of az the light houses and buildings connected herewith
niue dollars aud twenty one cents
For salaries Of six hundred keepers Of light houses
aud light teaeo and their assistants sixty thousand dollars.
For salaries Of fifty two keepers light vessels twenty thou
sand tive hundred and six dollars and nifty seven cents
For selmeu repairs, supplies, incidental expenses
Of fifty two light vessels, hundred eighty five thousand
one hundred and ninety-nne dollars and fifty cents
For expenses Of raising, cleaning painting repairing remoo
ing, and supplying buoy dav econs and for
an ne Sgoy ar an t ~, Tpl9s ana numbering
/ dollars and seventy eight cents.
FOR The COASTS or cAL1goRNIA oREsox AND N, s1,xoros
For oil and other supplies for twenty lr lights cleaning ma
teas Of all kinds and transportation Of the same, expenses
Keeping lamp, and machinery in repair publishing notices
mariners OF changes OF aus 20 hs'lsauon' one thousand four
hundred and seventy twodollars and ninety cents
For repairs aud incidental expenses Of twenty four lights and
buildings connected Herewith twenty four housend hundred
and sixty three dollars.
eenh August eighteen hundred and fifty six FOR Inspection and
transportation purposes, thirty thousand dollars.
fuel and quarters for officers army serving nm Ii
house duty payment which 10 longer provided fo b
the Quarernastes Department, thousand thirty four
For compensation Of two superintendent for the life saving
stations the coasts Of Long Island and New jersey three
compensation fifty four keepers of stations at Two hun
drei dollars each, thousand eight hundred dollars
For contingencies for life saving apparatus on the coast of the
United States twelve thousand dollars.
For the purchase Of the best self htng life boat be placed
at each Of the twenty eight lie saving stations the
New Jersey, six thousand four hundred and forty dollars
For the purchase OF me pest NE 0oats 70 be approved
Treasury Departments for the use Of the of Long Ian ten
thousand dollars.
For procuring additional improved metallic life boats
metallic life car, and necessary harness. lines, and other suitable
Treasury saving life in marine disaster Of Galveston
station, Texas, ten thousand dollars
SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.
surveying the public lands Exclusive California Ore
gon, Washington New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska Utlh in
all other special difficult surveys demanding augmented rates
apporoned and applied the surveying districts
penses Of selecting swamp lands and the compensation and l
Penses to survey or to locate private land claims in louisiana
in addition to the unexpended balances Of all former apprcpa-
tions forty thousand dollars.
For correcting erroneous and defective lines Of public and m
vae surveys In Illinois and Missouri, at not exceeding
dollars per mile one thousand dollars
! by three thousand dollars.
surveying public and private land claims in Cali
forna including Office expenses incident the survey claims,
and be dbure at the prescribed y the different
kinds of work, one hundred thousand dollars.
continuing the survey meridian. standard aral-
lels township and section lines in New Mexico, twenty
For surveying such Of the private claims in New Meeo as
shall have been confirmed by Congress- including expenses u
Cured by the surveyor general in ajudcatng tie fifteen
For surveying the necessary base meridian standard parallels
township and section lines in Kansas Nebraska also outlines
of Indian reservations, hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey Of the base meridian, correction
at augmented rates, fifteen thousand dollars.
preparing the unfinished public and private
70 be transferred 10 the State authorities.
visions eighteen hundred and FORTY in
those districts where the surveys about being completed
For rsueys and examinations the surveys of the public
lands in those states where the Offices Of The surveyors General
have been, shall closed under acts Of the twelfth June
eighteen HUNDRED and forty January eighteen
salary Of the clerk detailed to this special service IN the ai
Land Once, two thousand dollars.
collection Of agricultural statistics investigations for pro-
noting agriculture and Ta ec9non and the procurement Of
dollars.
be the duty Of the Commissioner Patents to submit to the
Secreta Of the Interior the commencement Of each session
Of Congress- the invoices OF seeds and cuttings purchased with
the money hereby appropriated, and expenses
procuring agricultural statistics and incidental expenses
procuring seeds, cuttings, and information.
For drawings illustrate the mechanical report Of the Commits
soner Of Patents FOR the eighteen hundred and fifty eight
six thousand dollars
HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
the support clothing, and medical treatment of the
asylum in said District, twenty four thousand five hundred
For Salaries and incidental expenses Of the Institution for the
instruction Of the deaf dumb and blind in the District Of Colum
bl authorized by the act approved May twenty nine eighteen
hundred and fifty eight, three thousand dollars.
extension Of stables and erection Of sheds in connection
with the stock yard, four thousand dollars.
For heating ventlatng the entire remainder
the hospital eiifce aud for slightly remoeng the heating a
M heating and ventilation of the establishment shall he
one connected and efficient SYSTEM fifteen thousand dollars
paupers, medical and surgical patients in Washington Infay
! sin thousand dollars.
For purchase for the public grounds one thousand
For hire Of carts the public grounds, thousand
For purchase and repair Of tools the public grounds
For purchase Of trees boxes to replace where necessary
such been planted by the United States repair
For annual repairs Of the Capitol closets public stables
pipes, payements and other walks within the Capitol
To the Commissioner Of Public Buildings fit up with
shelves the the south end Of the library Of Congress
for the U.s. Of library and for putting partition the pas
/ saoe M them. two hundred and seventy dollars
For annual suarr the Presidents House and h,rit,ra i'm
prvement grounds purchasing plants for garden
and making hot ren and contingent expenses Incident
there to- twelve thousand dollars
For fuel part Of the Presidents House. thousand eight
For lighting the Presidents House and CapitoI the nubli
grounds them and around the Executive Offices and penn
syvana and Bridge and High streets in Georgetown,
! forty three thousand dollars.
For erecting thirty additional lamp posts in Bridge and High
streets, in Georgetown, eight hundred and ten dollars
For purchase books for library Executive mansion IN
he expended under Of President of the states
| two hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of the PotomOc, Navy Yard upper bridges six
/ thousand dollars
For repairs Pennsylvania avenue, three thousand dollars
nav residue Of the salary due engineer
ing the bridge the Potomac at Little Falls thousand
five hundred and eighty dollars and sixty even cents and
for panting rails work Of said bridge fr
hundred dollars; the bridge hereby placed under protection
of Georgetown with power regulate the speed Of travel and
passage dov Of cattle the same but no tolls shall be
public reservation number two, Lafayette Square, three
For taking care grounds south of the Presidents house
and keeping them in Order- thousand dollars.
For afOreTs employed n
the pavemen along the Government reservations on Pennsyv
MIA avenue, eight hundred dollars
For repairs Of water pipes, five hundred dollars.
For repairs Of the furnaces under the Senate Chamber and SUI
pFeme Court thousand dollars.
repairs Of the Patent Office building, three
dollars.
For completing wing Of the Patent Office building
filling the southwest Of the square, setting
and raising Ninth street in front Of the building its proper
grade fifty thousand dollars.
For repairing the fence around that portion Of the mall upon
which the Smithsonian institution is situated, thousand
dollars.
For cleaning out the traps Pennsylvania sveuue three
hundred dollars.
For purchasing plants for the conservatory Presidents
House. thousand dollars.
the completion of the Washington Aqueduct eight hundred
thousand dollars and addition thereto much Of the appro
paton Of hundred and fifty thousand dollars for paying
the work already done from injury contained in the entitled
"a act making appropriations for certain civil expenses Of the