Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-05-11
TBY AUTHORITY
y Laws OF THE UNITED STATES.
,osses at tile Second Session of the ThiryScth Congress-

Public 81.
For taking of the grounds south of the Presidents
House. continuing the improvement of the same, and Keep
ing them in order, one thousand dollars. ~
For the payment of laborers employed in shovelling
snow from the walks to and round the Capitol the Pres-
dents House. and the pavemepts along the Government
reservations Pennsy ania avenue five hundred dollars
For repairs of water pipes, five hundred dollars
For casual repairs OF the Patent Office Building one thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For completing the erection of the north front of the
Patent Office building grading and paving street around
the same enclosing front yards fty thousand dollars
Messrs Little Brown. and Company two thousand copies
of the eleventh volume of the United States Statutes at
ING The distribution of the other Volumes thousand
dollars.
two thousand dollars.
For making and fitting up rooms in the Patent Of
flee building to receive copyright books charts and other
copyright matter and for transferring arranging and ia
| GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
For continuing wall enclosing the grounds three thou
| sand five hundred dollars.
For furnishing the present hospital continurton compri
sing the centre and three sections OF the wing fourteen
| thousand three hundred dollars.
For fire apparatus nine hundred dollars. ,
For painting and sanding battlemen and window heads
and frames and tracing window sash the FIVE west sec
tons of the hospital edce erected eight hundred dollars
For grading and planting trees about the hospital edace
and upon the approaches thereto within the grohnds
Towards the completion of the four eastern sections of
the eaast wing which will complete the hospital edfce for
For support clothing and medical treatment of the in
sane of the District of Columbia and of the army and navy
at the Asylum in said District tweny-four thousand Ave
For salaries and incidental expenses of the Institution of
the Deaf Dumb aud Blind in the District of Columbia,
| three thousand dollars.
For expenses to be incurred preliminary to taking the
! eighth census fifteen thousand dollars.
For United State Capitol extension four hundred thou
nf fhn nd
shall be expended in the decoration and establishment of
the Capitol extension by sculpture paintings unless the
horzed by the act of twelfth June, eighteen hundred and
fyeght, the stated in said but this prov-
shall not be construed as to interfere with the compile
ZION and payment for works already begun by Crawford
and Rogers or the completion of the painting Of in
a Of hy @ s Office hundred
| and fifty thousand dollars.
For payment of the mortgage and interest property
Pine street. in the city of New York, belonging to the Uni
ted States and purchased and under authority of the act
of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fty-our eleven
thousand dollars or much thereof Hay BE- necessary
BOTANIC GARDEN
For procuring manure TOOLS fuel and rerars purcha
sing trees and shrubs for botanic garden to be expended
under the direction of the Library Committee of Cong ess
twenty-hree hundred dollars.
For pay of horticuturst and assistants IN the botanic
garden and to be expended under the drec-
ton the Library Committee of Congress- five thousand one
hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.
For deficiency in the executive extIaord expenses
Kansas Territory during the administration of Governor
Joqn W. Geary six hundred and ninety dollars and forty
CENTS
For Introducing the Potomac water the Botanic Gar
den and building csern thereon, thousand dollars
completing certain volumes of the Exploring Expedi-
ton nearly finished and pay of superintendent the
of eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and
five cents.
of stores furnished for the of volunteers engaged in sup
pressing Indian hostes in the Territory of Washington
during The late Indian hos'iies in that Territory seven
thousand dollars, with neterest from the time the money
was advanced by Governor Douglas for said purchase
For the payment Of volunteers employed in Florida dur
ing the years eighteen hundred and yseven and eigh-
hundred and yeight, and who called into SER
hy rexuston of the President the Governor of that
State the of four hundred and thirteen thousand
hundred dollars thereof as may be to
paw the found due for the time said troops were
uay in the service of the United States Provided That
greater pay communications be allowed than
thorzed by law to similar troops of the United States
army.
For repairs of the Long Bridge over the Potomac at
Washington, FIVE Thousand dollars; TO be expended ader
| the direction of the Commission of Public Buildings.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to pay
John F. Calhn for taken frc square nranbed five
hundred and sxtywo, in " asbngon city and in passing
New Jery ev avenue hundred and sxtytwo dollars
SEC ?. And he it further enacted That the First Comp
roller of the Treasury do allow, in the adjustment of the
accounts of Peter Ianond dsbursng clerk of the Int
ror Department the of five hundred and thirty If
doIas and seventy seven cents paid to A. G. Cochran
50 = And be further enacted, That the lot of groud
in the city of Philadelphia here fore agreed to be purcha
sed bv the United States from the American Philosophical
Society a site for courthouse shall be sold at public
auction to the highest and best bidder and that the lot in
said city heretofore purchased from the Bank of Pennylva
for post flee shall also be sold at public for the
best price bring: Provided That said lots shall be
sold for an aggregate of less than two hundred and five
thousand dollars.
SEC T. And be it further enacted That the sum or sums
of oaSed by the sale of the lots aud grounds author
lied be sold by the preceding sectors of this act oge
with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for
the construction of post office at Philadelphia, be applied
ard expended follows to wit: fer the purchase Of the
first LOT of the custom house. commonly known as the
Levy Corner sum not exceeding seventy five thousand
dollars for the purchase of the adjoining lot west
known the Bailey lot not exceeding eighty-six
thousand dollars and for the construction of building
the said Levy and Bailey lots suitable for post Office and
courthouse not exceeding the remainder of the
ey disposed of above provided and shall be the
duty the Secretary of the Treasury the Postmaster Cen
era and ae Attorney General to execute the foregoing
sections of this Provided. That the whole
be expended in the construction of said building shall not
exceed the balance of the amount received from the sale of
the said lots ard the balance of the appropriation.
Sec s. And be further enacted That the to is
and reissue Treasury notes. conferred the President
or the United States by the act entitled An act to author
lie the issue of Treasury notes. approved the twenty third
December eighteen eundred and ftyseven, be and the
hereby is revived and continued in force from the
dred and sixty and defay the thereof the
of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated Provided
That the said notes be issued bearing interest not
exceeding six per eentum per annum; and that it shall not
be necessary, directed by the original act aforesaid after
to or 10 Inc @
est of interest upon said notes. and that in all other
respects the reissue of said Treasury notes shall be subject
| to the terms and conditions of the act aforesaid
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of
the Treasury hereby authorized under the of June
fourteenth eighteen hundred and ffyegh to issue
pom registered stock, as the purchaser may elect.
SEC T. And be it further enacted That the post Office in
Boston, Massachusetts, shall not be removed from its pres
emit location until after the next session of Congress- provi-
ded the enonsrants againsts its removal will indemnify
the from any additional expense growing out
of anv contracts for another site.
SEC 8. And be further enacted That such officers as
were placed upon the furough list by the action of the
said Naval Retiring Board and who have been Subsequent
ly transferred to the leaye list shall be allowed eave
pay" for and during the time they the furlough
list aforesaid deducting the furough pay which they re-
; ceived during said time.
SEC. Q. And be it further enacted That in case of the
death of officer after his restoration or transfer as aore
said his legal representatives shall be entitled to receive
the amount which said officer would have received under
this act I'D to the time of his death