Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-10
THE EVENING STAR.
o r y &c L..
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the Thir.
ty.ninth Congress.
PUBLIC-No. Ell

Of June, eighteen hundred and sixty -eight :,
and for other purposes.
Ieentiagtd from yesterdays EreninS Star
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
For commentator OF the Postmaster General,
three Assistant Pcstmasters General, chief
clerk, superintendent OF money order system,
topographer, three chief clerks and the clerks,
dnCInding forty three female clerks, az nine
hundred dollars each,) messenger. assls:au.
messengers, watchmen, and laborers of said
department, TWO hundred and seveniy-three
thousand one hundred and sixty dollars
For additional compensation 20 subordinate
employees, under the provisions of &C, of Jnly
twenty third, eighteen hundred and sixty six,
Two thousand one hundred and forty dollars
For additional ana temporary CLERKS forty
thousand dollars.
COMING EMIT EXPENSES OFTHE POST
OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
For blank books, binding, and stationery
fuel fo- he General Posi- Office building, in
GLIDING he Auditors offfee, oil, gas, and
candles, printing, repair of the General Post
Once building, Office furniture, glazing paint
ing, whitewashIng, and for keeping the fire.
places and furnaces in order; for engineer for
stsam-engine, labOrers, watenmen, repairs of
furniture, and for miscellaneous items ffty-
Elk thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
For compensation Of Commissioner OF Agri-
Culture, chief clerk, etomologist. chemist and
he clerks ana 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, thrice
/. thousand dellars.
For collecting agricultural satisfies for
annual and monthly reports, zen thousand
cellars.
F0r purchase and distribution of new and
valuable 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: Provided, That the Commissioner OF
Agriculture shall only purchase, and distribute
Win the iund herein appropriated for that pur-
Pose, such seeds as are rare and uncommon 10
me country, or such as can be made more prof
liable by frequent changes from one part of Our
own country TO another Preceded, That the
Commissioner shall, on or before the fifteent ID
day OF December IN each year hereafter make
areport, 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 thou sand dol
lars PTorided, That the propagation of plants.
cuttings, and shrubs shall be confined to
such as are adapted 10 general cultivation
and 20 promote the general interest of horti
States.
For experimental garden in reservation
humber two, eight thousand eight hund red
dollars.
MINT AT PHILADELPHIA.
For salaries ofthe director, treasurer assayer
Delter and refiner, chief conner and engrayer,
assistant assayer. and seven clerks, thirty six
thousand five hundred dollars
tor wages OF workmen and adiusters one
hundred 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, fl We thousand
dollars.
BRANCH MINT AT SAN FRANCISCO,
For salaries of superin tendent treasurer.
assayer, melter and refiner, conner, and six
clerks, thlrty thousand five hundred dollars.
For wages OF worknen and adIusters, two
husdred and five thousand four hundred and
fifty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, re-
pairs and wastage. in addition 10 available
profits, nifty thousand and forty-seyen
dollars and seventy-three cents
For specimens OF ores, three hundred dol
lars.
ASSAY OFFICE, AT NEW YORK.
For salaries of superintendent assayer and
melter and refner, assistant assayer Officers
and clerks, twenty five thousand seven hun
For wages OF workmen, in addition 10 un-
expended balances of former appropriations,
forty thousand dollars.
For Inciden tai and contingent expenses sev
enty thousand dollars.
BRANCH MINT AT DENVER.
For superintendent, assayer, melter and re-
inner, coiner, and clerks, thirteen thousand
dollars.
For wages of workmen. twenty-two ,hous-
and seven hundred and seventy dollars
For Incidental and contingent expenses, fif-
teen thousand five hundred dollars
INDEPENDENT TREASURY.
For salaries OF the assistant treasurers of
the nited States, al New York. Roston
Charleston, and ST. Louis, viz: For the m. as
sistant treasurer al New York. eight thousand
oolIaisi nose at Boston and ST. Louis, each,
hye thousand dollars; and the one at Charles
ton, two thousand five hundred dollars: TWEEN
" thousand five hundred dollars
FOR additional salary OF the treasurer of the
dred dollars.
For additional salary OF the treasurer of the
branch mint al New Orleans, hye hundred
For additional salary OF the treasurer of the
branch mint at Denver, five hundred dollars
FOR additional salary of the treasurer of the
branch mint al San Francisco, California fif-
teen hundred dollars Rr0rided That there
shall be no increase OF salary IN the foregoing
paragraphs relating TO the independent treas
ury over that allowed by existing laws
For salaries OF the clerks and messengers in
the ONCE of assistant treasurer al Boston, TWEEN
ty-fiye thousand two hundred dollars
FOR salaries OF clerk messengers and watch
men IN once OF the assistant treasure at Phil
edeiphia, eighteen thousand three hundred dol
lars.
For salaries of additional clerks in the office
OF the assistant treasurer AZ PHILADELPHIA. six
Thousand five hundred and eighty-fye dollars
fOr salaTies ofcleTks. messengers, and watch
men IN the once OF the assistant treasurer at
new 1ork, one hundred and twenty-six thou
SAND one hundred and twenty dollars
or salaries OF clerks, messenger. and watch
men IN the Office OF the assistant treasurer AZ
SAINT Louis, nine thousand seven hundred and
sixty dollars.
For additional salaries TO the messenger AT
-FOUR hundred dollars per annUm. and to the
Tour Watchmen, at one hundred dollars per
annum each, IN the Office of the assistant treas :
uTer AZ 81 Louis, eight hundred dollars
or salaries OF clerks, porter, and watchmen
IN tue once OF the assistant treasurer at Ne w
Orleans nine thousand six hundred dollars
fOr compensation 10 stamp CLERK in the Of
nee OF the assistant treasurer AT San Francisco
TWO thousand four hundred dollars
or compensation Of the depositary at Santa
re- and the clerk, watchman. and porter IN
ms Once, four thousand eight hundred dollars
for salary OF the clerk TO the acting assistant
dred dollars
FOR salaries of clerks in the Office of the de-
posilAry AT Louisville, five thousand nine
hundred and forty dollars
tor salaries of clerks in the Office of the
uepositary at ChIcago, two thousand six hun
For salaries of clerks and watcbmen IN the
off1ee of the depositary al PIttsburg, three
fhoUsand four hundred dollars
For salaries OF clerks and msssAnpsrs in tba
office OF the depositary at Baltimore seven
thousand six hundred dollars