The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-02
Official.

Bureau eff fSteam Engineering:
For blank books, binding, stationery, and mis-
cellaneous items, two thousand five hundred
dollars
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing:
For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous
items one thousand five hundred dollars.
Bureau OF Medicine and Surgery:
For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous
items, eight hundred dollars.
FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF THE
SOUTHWEST EXECUTIVE BUILDING.
For compensation of nine watchmen and two
laborers of the southwest executive building,
seven thousand six hundred and thirty-two dol
lars.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items,
seven thousand five hundred dollars.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
For compensation of the Postmaster General,
three Assistant Postmasters General, chief clerk,
superintendent of money order system, poto-
grapher, three chief clerks and the clerks, lin
Guiding forty female clerks, at nine hundred
dollars each,) messenger, assistant messengers,
watchmen, and laborers of said department, two
hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred
and sixty dollars.
For additional compensation to subordinate
employees under the provisions of act of July
twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two
thousand one hundl ed and forty dollars.
For additional and temporary clerks forty thou
sand dollars.
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE POST
OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel
for the General Post Office building, including
the Auditors office, oil, gas, and candles, print
ing, repair of the General Post Office building,
office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing,
and Tor keeping the tireplaces and furnaces in
order; for engineer for steam-engine, laborers,
watchmen, repairs of furniture, and for miscella-
neous items, fitty-six thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
For compensation of Commissioner of Agri-
culture, chief clerk, etomologist, chemist, and
the clerks and employees in his Office, thirty
eight thousand and twenty dollars.
For contingencies, viz: For stationery, freight,
purchase of library, laboratory, fuel, light rent,
and miscellaneous items, thirteen thousand dol
lars.
For collecting agricultural statistics for annual
and monthly reports, ten thousand dollars.
For purchase and distribution of new and val
uable seeds, viz:
For purchase of cereal, vegetable, and flower
seeds, and for labor in putting up seeds, seed
bags, and miscellaneous items, eighty thousand
dollars: Pr0vided, That the Commissioner of
Agriculture shall only purchase, and distribute
with the fund herein appropriated for that pur-
pose, such seeds as are rare and uncommon to the
country, or such as can he made more profitable
by frequent changes from one part of our own
country to another: PrOcded That the Com
missioner shall on or before the fifteenth day of
December in each year hereafter, make a report,
in detail, to Congress, of all moneys expended by
him.
For the purchase of the Glover Museum, ten
thousand dollars.
For employees in seed room, five thousand two
hundred dollars.
For propagation and distribution of plants,
cuttings, and shrubs, fourteen thousand dollars :
Pfo0ided, That the propagation of plants, cut
tings, and shrubs shall be confined to such are
adapted to general cultivation and to promote
the general interest of horticulture and agricul-
ture throughout the United States.
For experimental garden in reservation num-
Der two, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
MINT AT PHILADELPHIA.
For salaries OF the director, treasurer, assayer,
melter and refiner, chief cOiner and engraver,
sistant assayer, and seven clerks, thrty-siX thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hun
drcd and twenty five thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, ten
thousand dollars.
For specimens of ores and coins to be pre-
served in the cabinet of the mint, six hundred
dollars.
For freight on bullion and coin, five thousand
BRANCH MINT AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
IFORNIA.
For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, as
sayer, meitcr and retiner, coiner, and six clerks,
thirty thousand five hundred dollars.
For wages of workmcn and adjusters, two hun
dred and five thousand four hundred and fifty dol
lars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs
and wastage, in addition to the available profits,
ffty-seven thousand and fortyseven dollars and
seventy-three cents.
For specimens of ores, three hundred dollars.
ASSAY OFFICE, AT NEW YORK.
For salaries of superintendent, assayer, and
melter and refner assistant assayer, officers and
clerks, twenty-five thousand seven hundred dol
lars
For wages of workmen, in addition to unex-
pended balances of former appropriations, forty
thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, seventy
thousand dollars.
BRANCH MINT AT DENVER.
For superintendent, assayer, melter and refner,
coiner, and clerks, thirteen thousand dollars.
For wages of workmen, TWENTY-FIVE thousand
seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, fifteen
thousand five hundred dollars.
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the
United States, at New York, Boston, Charleston,
and St. Louis, viz: for the the assistant treasurer
at New York, eight thousand dollars: those at
Boston and St. Louis, each, five thousand dol
lars and the one at Charleston, two thousand
five hundred dollars; twenty thousand five hun
dred dollars.
For additional salary to the treasurer of the
mint at Philadelphia, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For additional salary of the treasurer of the
vi ulHI dl 4NCH OIlCdHS, ufC uol-
lars.
For additional salary to the treasurer of the
branch mint at Denver, five hundred dollars.
For additional salary of the treasurer of the
branch mint at San Francisco, California, fifteen
hundred dollars: Provided, That there shall be
no increase of salary in the foregoing paragraphs
relating to the independent treasury over that al
lowed by existing laws.
For salaries of the clerks and Messengers in the
office of assistant treasurer and Boston, twenty
five thousand two hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerk, messengers, and watch
men in Office of the assistant treasurer at the Phi
ladelphia, eighteen thousand three hundred dol
lars.
For salaries of additional clerks in the of
flee of the assistant treasurer at Philadelphia,
six thousand five hundred and eighty five dol
lars
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watch
men in the Office of the assistant treasurer at New
York, one hundred and twenty-six thousand one
hundred and twenty dollars.
For salaries of clerks, messenger, and watch
men in the office of the assistant treasurer at Saint
Louis, nine thousand seven hundred and sixty
dollars.
For additional salaries to the messenger, at four
hundred dollars per annum, and to the four watch
men, at one hundred dollars per annum each, in
the office of the assistant treasurer at st. Louis,
eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks, porter and watchmen in
the offices of the assistant treasurer at New Or
leans, nine thousand six hundred dollars
For compensation to stamp clerk in the Office