Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-14

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses Of the government for the year end
Ing June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty
four, an 1 for the year ending the thirtieth OF
June, 1853, and for other purposes.
Be It enacted by the senate and house of rep
resentatlves of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the following sums be
and The same are hereby appropriated, for the
oblecis hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year
ending The thrtleth June, c ghteen hundred and
siXty-tuur, viz:
SURVEY OF THE COAST
For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
OF the United States, Gucluding compenS alton of
civilians engaged i'll the work, ami excluding pay
and emOluments Ofotlicers OF the army aud navy
and petty offers and men of the navy employed
on tur q ~ one hundred and seventy-eight
thou SAINT dollars.
For continuing the survey of the western coast
Of the United States, (incuding compensation of
civilians engaged in the work 4 one hnndred
thuuS N dollars.
For continuing the survey of the florida reefs
AMI k Us, (incIuing compensation of civilians
engaged in the work, and eXcu ling nav and
enoluhehs OF officers of this army and navy,
ana petty ON 'ers an men of the navy employed
on the work,) 'lnven thousand dollars
For publishing the observations made in the
progress "i tue survey OF the coast OF the United
States, (lncludlng compensation of civilians EN-
poyri IN the work, four thousand dollars
For IT p airs OF steamers and sailing schooners
US IT IA ,h3 coast survey, four thousand dollars
For pay and ratiuuS of engineers for fiur
steamers used in the photography of the coast
survey, no longer supplied by the navy DEPART
meni, niue thousand dollars
For supplying deficiency in the fund for the re-
LET OF sick and disabled seatnen, one hundred
THOUSAND dollars.
+ the discharge of such miscellaneous claims
Ut otherwise provided for, rs shall be admitted
Ill due course Of settlement at the treasury. ten
thousand dollars
LIGHT HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT
For tiIe Atlantic gulf. AM Ike coasts, viz:
FOr supplying the lighthouses and beacon
hgItS with oil, wlckS, glass chimueys, and other
necessary expenses of the same, repsirinp and
kecpln%sIh repair the lighting apparatus, one
hltured and hity-tour thousand six hundred and
nin'Jv-tIIht dollars and eighty cents
For repairs and incidental expenses, refittng
an improving all the lighthouses an 1 buildings
connected Herewith, one hundred and Two thou.
Sani Two hundred dolla"S
FOR salaries OF tve hundred and ninety six keen
erN of Lighthouses AMI light-beacons. and their
assistants, htty-ihree thousand one hundred and
hlnety-tntce dollars and thirty three cents.
For salaries of forty hrce keepers of ilht YES
sels, three thousand nine huadred dollars.
for Sedlneh wages, repairs, supplies and in
cldcntal expenses OF furty-iya light vessels, one
hundred aGd seventy thousand nine hundred and
slXty-seven dollars aud seventy cents
htir . nj rNs;r-y -
pairing, remoOring, and supplying losses OF bea-
cons and buoys and for chains and sinkers for the
sane, one handed and twelve thousand three
hu ldrei and ifty dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights,
and other aids 10 Navigation, two thousand dol
lars.
For the purchase of lot and the erection of
suitable building thereon tor tue lighthouse es.
tabDlshmcnJ III New York city or vicinity, fifty
thousand doIltr>: Provided that the price of
purchase of LOT, and erection of building thereon
shall! not exceed the sum hereby appropri ,tei
FOR THE COASTS OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON,
AND wAsHINGrON
For supplying nineteen ii 1ht-houSes aud bea-
col-ghtS with oil, glass chinneys, chamois
skins, polishing powder, anu other cleaaing ma
terials, transportation, expenses OF keeping the
lamps and machinery in rep air, publishing no.
tees to mariners of changes OF aids TO naviga-
ton, seventeen thousand two hundred and sew
eGty dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of nine
teen ligh. houses and buildings connected there
with, zen thousand dollars.
For salar cs of fOrty-three keepers and assist
ant keepers of light-hou ,cs at an average not
exceeding eight hundred doll trs per annum,
twenty 1--WE thousand eli sht hun ired dollars
For EXPENSES OF Raising, cleaning, painting, re-
palfu5, remUOrln5, aud supplying losses of float
in5 ouJys and DcaconS, aud for chains an sink
ers for the same, aud for colorIns and number
Ing a.. tnc DuoyS, ten thousand dJllir
For maintenance of the vessel provide for by
nuIlurSu
and nity-SiX, Tor transportation of supplies and
materials, aud tor repairs OF lighthouses, and
buoy service, and for inspection purposes, twenty
Thousand dollars.
For compensation of two inspectors of Gus
toms acting as superinlendentS for the lite-saving
stations on the coast OF Long Island and New
Je'sey, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of tity-four keepers of Sta
lions 1t TWO hundred dollars each, ten thousand
eight hundred dollars.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
For support care, and medical treatment of
forty Transient pdupcrs, medlcal and surgical pa.
tieu[S ia sOm5 proper medical institution in the
CRY of Washington, to be selected by the COM
missioner oil public buildings, six thousand dol
lars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds, two
thousand dollars.
For purchase and repair of tools used in the
publ: grounds, two hundred dollars.
For purchase OF trees and tree boxes to replace
when necessary such as have been planted by the
Unite States, TO whiacwdsh tree-boXeS and
fences, ami TO repair payements III front of the
public grounds, three thousand dollars.
For annual repairs Of the capitol, waterclosets
public stables, water-plpeS, parenentS, and 9th
er walks within the capitol square, broken glass
and cks, and Ur the protection OF the building,
and keeping the main approaches 10 1t unencum
bereu, eight thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the presidents house and
furniture, improvement of grounds, purchase OF
plants ior garden, and contingent expenses Incl
dent thereto, six thousand doll drS
For iuet, in part, of the Presidents house, two
thousand four hundred dollars.
For llIhtug the capitol AMI presidents house
the pubic grounds around them, and around tht
executive offices, and Pennsylvania avenue
Bridge and high streets in Georgetown, Four
and-a-hatt street, Seventh, aud Twelfth street.
across the mall, siXty-two thousand dollars.
10 enable The commissioner OF public build
ings to erect two new furnaces under the rotul
do of the capitol, two under the old hall of III
house, and two under the supreme court room
aud YES ibue TO the same, i've thousand fiy
hundred dollars.
For repairs of the Potomac, navy ward and mn
Der bridges. and the roa Is appurtenaut thereto
and 10 repair the house occupied by the bridge
keeper at the navy yard, and To erect d wing wal
TO protect the same eleven thousand five huudre,
anu eghty-live dollars.
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, six thou
sand dollars.
For public reservation number two and Lafay
cite so uare, two thousand dollars
For taking care of the grounds south of tn
presidents mouse, containing lcontinuingI tn
Improvement of the same, and replacing tree
DESTROYED last winter aud spring by United State
cavalry, repairing fences, aud other injuries, tw
thousand dollars.
For repairs OF water pipes, five hundred dol
lars.
For cleaning out the sewer traps on Pennsylva
pia aveuue and repairing the same, three hundre
dollars.
For casual repairs of all the furnaces under til
capitol, live hundred dollars.
For continuing the repairs of Delaware aVenu
north of the capitol, one thousand dollars.
For removing back the fence, paving the foe
path on First street between the capital ground
80 Dctouip tra and making pavement q