The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-30
Official.

procuring geological survey of Nebraska, said
survey to be prosecuted under the direction OF
the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
SEC. ). And be 1t FURTHER enacted, That upon all
merchandise gaugeable by law hereafter exported
upon which drawback or return is allowed, and
upon all goods gaugeable by law withdrawn from
bonded warehouses for export, there shall be
levied and collected by the collectors of the sew
eral ports ten cents per cask.
SEC. 4. 1nd be it further enacted, That the
gaugers at the port Of New York shall receive,
from and after the first day OF April, eighteen
hundred and siXty-seven an annual salary OF two
thousand dollars: Provided, That the amount
OF compensation OF said officers as hereby estab
ed shall not exceed in any fiscal year the amount
OF fees earned by them.
SEC. 5. And be 1t further enacted, That the
second section of act making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses of the Government, ap-
proved April seventh, eighteen hundred and six
ty-siX, is hereby amended as to authorize and
require the Secretary OF the Treasury to pay the
contractors, Butler and Carpenter, the sum Of
twenty thousand dollars i'm full of all their claims
for indemnity therein referred to.
Sec. 6. A'ad be Hturther enacted, That the sur
plus sum of two thousand dollars, now standing
on the books of the Treasury to the credit of a
fund to enable the Joint Committee on the Ii
brary to carry out contract with William ID.
Powell, authorized bya joint resCl luton approved
March second, eighteen hundred and slXty-hve,
for picture Illustrative of some naval victory,
(sad sum being III excess of the amount required
to carry out said contract) is hereby transferred
to the fund for the purchase of books for the
library of Congress.
SEC. e And be it further enacted, That the
deputy surveyor at the port of San Francisco be
paid the same compensation annually that is now
paid to the deputy collector at said port
SEC. s. AWd be ii further enacted, That the
temporary clerks in the Quartermaster General S
office shall receive the same compensation as is
paid to frst-cass clerks, to take effect from and
after the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and sixty seven, and sum sufficient to pay the
:, l,o -irt..
SEC. 9. Ind be it ti0ther enacted, That the
salary OF the District Judge of the District OF
California shall be five thousand dollars. The
salary of the District Judge of the District OF
Louisiana shall be four thousand five hundred
dollars. The salary of the District Judge of the
District OF Massachusetts, Northern, Southern
and Eastern Districts OF New York, Eastern and
Western Districts OF Pennsylvania, the District
of MARYLAND, Northern District of Illinois, South
ern District of Ohio, and the District of New
Jersey, shall be four thousand dollars each; and
the salaries of the District Judges of every other
District shall be three thousand five hundred dol
lars each; and said salaries shall be in full com
pcnsation for all official services performed by
such Judges, and shall take effect at the com
mencement of the next fiscal year, and no Other
allowance or payment shall be made to them fol
travel, expenses, or otherwise; and the amount
necessary to pay the increased compensation
herein provided for shall be paid out OF any mon
ey in the treasury not otherwise approprlated
SEC. TO- And be IL tirther eaacted, That if the
supreme court Sildil Ill ally Out NCdl uhSSb lt'
reporter to publish second volume for sucl
year, OF its decisions, and if such second volume
Shall be published accordingly, an additional sun
OF fifteen hundred dollars shall be paid said re
porter therefor the delivery by said rcporte
to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution
according to existing laws of three hundred
copies of such second volume of said reports; ant
the amount necessary to pay the same is hereb,
appropriated
SEC IL And be it further enacted, That th'
notice required by the fourth section of the ac
entitled IAN act to pay in part for publishing th
debates IN Congress and for other purposes ap
proved July I, 1864, is hereby given that Congress
will, in two years from the close of the prcscn
Congress- abrogate the provisions of the first ant
second sections of said act
SEC 12. Ind be it further enacted, That tn
Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized t.
appoint in the Office of the Commissioner o
Pensions in addition to he clerks now author
lied in said office, twenty-eight clerks of elias
one; twenty four of class two; eighteen OF elias
three; and ten of class four; said cler kships t
expire at the end of two years, and a sum suffi
cient to pay the salaries ol said clerks from tn
date of their appointment to the 3Oth of June
1867, and for the fiscal year ending the 3Oth o
june, 1868, be and the same is hereby appropri
aied.
Approved, March 2, 1867.