The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-27
No. IS.
Official.

For surveying the public lands of Nevada, at
rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile
lor standard lines, twelve dollars for township,
and ten dollars for section lines twenty thousand
dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Arizona, at
rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile
Tor standard lines, twelve dollars for township,
and ten dollars tor section lines, ten thousand
dollars.
For surveying the public land in California, at
rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile
for standard lines, twelve dollars tor township
and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand
dollars.
For surveying the public lands of Oregon, at
rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lneal mile
for standard lines twelve dollars for township,
and ten dollars for section lines, twenty thousand
dollars.
For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dol
lars.
For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on Penn
sylvansa avenue, eight hundred dollars.
For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the
Capitol, five hundred dollars.
For hauling manure for top-dressing the public
grounds, five hundred dollars.
For purchase of fuel for the centre building of
the Capitol. fifteen hundred dollars.
For taking care of the Circle, on PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, one thousand dollars.
For continuing the grading and repairing OF
Virginia avenue, ten thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses to be incurred In
consequence of opening Sixth street west across
the Mall, and in making fences, two thousand
dollars.
For renewing the heating apparatus at the Pre-
sident's House, eight thousand dollars.
For laying new pipe from the K street main
to the Capitol in order to supply the building at
all times with with full flow of water, five thou
sand dollars.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Build
lngs to put in thorough repair the conservatory
recently injured by fire at the Presidents Man
sion, ten thousand dollars.
For the construction ofa new green house with
central dome, and wing to correspond in size
with the present green house in the Botanic Gar
den, to be built of iron and glass according to a
plan prepared by the architect of the Capitol ex-
tension, and approved by the Joint Committee
on the Library, thirty five thousand dollars; the
same to be expended under the direction of the
Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.
For enabling the Commissioner to cause the
old and useless lightning rods on the Presidents
House to be removed and Hawley's improved
patented conductors substituted for them, two
hundred and fifty dollars.
For enabling the Commissioner to employ o
suitable electrician to take care of and operate
the lightning apparatus OF the dome Ofthe Capt.
tol, twelve hundred dollars.
Eor repairing in front of the War Department
on pennsylvania avenue and on Seventeenth
street. with stone hagging, sixteen thousand
dollars.
For annual repairs of the Presidents House,
six thousand dollars
For top dressing for public grounds and
carriage for the same, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For purchase of tools for public grounds, five
hundred dollars.
For purchase of flower pots, mats. glasses,
putty, wire, twine and so forth, for use on the
greenhouses, one hundred dollars.
For the removal Of the foot-bridge on Maine
avenue, now of no further use at that point, to
Third street west, which the Commissioner Of
Public Buildings is hereby directed to have done,
three hundred dollars.
To complete the culvert through the Botanic
Garden, fifteen thousand dollars.
For removing snow and ice from pavements
and public walks, three hundred dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Washington
Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars
per lineaI mile for standard lines, twelve dollars
for township, and ten dollars for section lines,
ten thousand dollars.
For the survey of the forty-second parallel of
north latitude, SO far as it constitutes the COM
mon boundary between the States of California
miles, at not exceeding sixty dollars per mile,
thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty-seyen
dollars.
For survey or boundary line between the State
OF Oregon and the Territory of Idaho, commen-
cling at the northern boundary of the State of Ne
vada, and running north to its intersection with
Sake river, estimated one hundred and sixty
miles, at not exceeding sixty dollars per mile,
nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For the survey of the thirty-scventh parallel of
north latitude, so fan it constitutes the uorth-
ern boundary of the Territory Of New Mexico,
estimated three hundred and twenty miles, at not
exceeding sixty dollars per mile, nineteen thou
sand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
office OF Commissioner of Public Buildings is
hereby abolished and the Chief Engineer Of the
army shall perform all the duties now required
by law of said Commissioner and shall also have
the superintendent of the Washington Aque-
duct and all the public works and improvements
of the government of the United States in the
District of Columbia, unless otherwise provided
by law; and the Sergeant alarms of the Senate
and the Sergeant alarms of the House ofRepre-
sentatives shall hereafter appoint the members of
the Capitol police.
SEC. g. And be it further enacted, That the
Lighthouse Board be authorized to apply any
unexpended balance which may remain after the
completion of a light house work OH the Pacific
coast to the construction of any other similar
work upon the same coast, which may have been
authorizedby Congress, but for which the amount
appropriated may prove sufficient
SEC. T. And be 1t farther enacted, That the
Light house Board is authorized, whenever an
gress for a new light house, the proper Site for
which does not belong to the United States, to
purchase the land, provided the purchase-mon
be paid from the amount appropriated for such
light house: Provided, That no superintendent
of lights, whose compensation collector of
customs exceeds three thousand dollars per an
mum, shall receive any compensation as disburs-
ing agent for the light house establishment
whether the sums disbursed by him be for arti-
cles to be used or services rendered within or
without the limits of his superintendency or col
lection district.
SEC. 5. d1,d6 it further enacted, That the
salary of the general appraiser in the city OF New
York shall be three thousand dollars. And the
salaries of the assistant appraiser at Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland,
and San Francisco, shall be twenty-fi hundred
dollars per annum.
SEC e. And be it further enacted, That the
clerk OF pardons in the Department of State be
placed upon the same footing in regard to com.
pensation for extraordinary services under the
amnesty proclamation of the twenty of
May, eighteen hundred and sixty-fve, as the
principal clerk of pardons in the Attorney Cen
erals office; and any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated is hereby appropriated
for this purpose.
Sec. T. And be it further enacted That It shall
be the duty of the clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives to select in Virginia, South Carolina.
North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-.
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas one or
more newspapers, not exceeding the number now
allowed by law, in which such treaties and laws
OF the United States as may be ordered for pub.
lcation in newspapers according to law shall be
published, and in all some one or more of which
so selected all such advertisements as may order
ed for publication in said districts by any United
States court or judge thereof or by any officer of
such courts, or by any executive officer of the
United States shall be published the compensa-
tion for whi' b, and other terms of publicatione
shall be fixed by said Clerk at rate not exceed
ing two dollars per page for the publication Of
treaties and laws, and not exceeding one dollar
per square of eight lines of space tor the publica
ton of advertisements, the accounts for which
shall be adjusted by the Droper accnupf;ner ofa