The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-16
OFFICIAL.
T Avs OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED
IL AT THE SECUND SESSION OF THE
FURTY-SECONU CONGRESS.


For completing the tight house at Spectacle
reef, Lake Huron, Michigan, being the amount
carried to the su plus fund "a former appropria :
ton, seven y thousand dollars.
For erection of Il light on Saint Helena,
island, Lake Michigan to mark the anchor
age TO the harbor of refuge, fourteen thousand
dollars.
For erection of n coast-lisht at Petite Point
au sable. Lake Michigan, thirty-fye Thousand
dollars.
For erection of a keepers dwelling at Hol.
land, Lake M ciligan, in place of a former
amount reverted to the treasury, tour thousand
dollars
For erection OF a light between White Fish
point and Grand Island harbor, Michigan, forty
thnusald dollars.
For erection of lights on the northern and
northwestern lakes, on piers belonging to the
United States, twenty thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the depot for the
storage of oil and olher supplies at Detroit,
Michigan, twenty five thousand dollars.
For establishment of q light ana fog signal
at Point Fermin, California. twenty thou
sand dollars.
For est ,blishment Of a first-class fog-signal
It Point Huenene, California. ten thousand
dollars.
For erection of a lighthouse and tog-signal to
mark the entrance to the Straits of Caiquinas,
California, twenty thousand dollars.
For frst-classl light and fog-signal ut Piedras
Blancas, California, seventy five thousand Gel
lars.
For rebuilding and re establishing the steam
fog-slsnal station at Point Reyes. California, ten
ltiOuSihu dclldiS.
For compieting the light. house at Bolivar point,
Texas, ten thousand dollars.
Fur The annual proportion of the expenses of
Cape Martel light, on the coast of Morocco, two
hund ed and eighty five dollars, to be expend d
by the Secretary # State.
That appropriations for lighthouse purposes
shall be available foi expenditure Tor two years
after acts of legislatures ceaing jurisdiction over
sites: Prortded, however, That this section shall
not apply to any general appropl iatio1s for light
house purposes: dad proptded further, That in
m c,rn shall anu sfnaatul a ~ ~ i a Tim ha a yat1a-
BILE for more than two years without further
provision of law; and the uuexpended balances
of appropriate ions Tor special works under the
Light House board made by the act approved
March third, eighteen hundred and seventy do,
entitled A act making appropriations for sun
dry civil expenses of the government for the ifs
cal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two, and for other purposes" are
hereby re-appropriated for the purposes therein
specified.
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
For repairs and incidental expenses in rent-
ting and improving lighthouses and buildings
connected Herewith. two hundred thousand
dollars.
For salaries Of seven hundred and thirty-two
light-housek keepers and light. beacon keepers, and
their ASSISTANTS. four hundred and thirty-nine
thousand Two hundred dollars.
For seamen's wages, rations, repairs. salaries,
and incidental expenses of twenty five
iight-vassels and seven relief light-vessels, two
hundred and s~ixty-one thousand six hundred and
forty seven dollars and fifty cents.
For expenses Of raising, cleaning, painting.
repairing, removing, and supplying losses #
buoys, spindies, and day -beacons, and for chains,
sinkers, and similar neoessaries, two hundred
and seventy-fiye thousand dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses In renew
ing, refitting, and improving fog-sisnals and
buildings connected herewith, fifty thousand
dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights
and other aids to navigation, two thousand dol
lars.
For supplying the lighthouses and beacon
til. -. L. 4y-.., IN-JS r 4I4 nod on,Rn
coasts with o !, wicks, glass chimneys, chamoi /,
skins, spirits of wine, whiting, pollshIng-powN
der, towels, brushes. soap, paints, and other
cleaning materials, and tor expenses of repair
ing and keeping in repair Illuminating appara-
tus and machinery, and of gauging, testing,
trans portation, delivery OF oil and other sup
plies for lighthouses, an other incidental nee
essary expenses, three hundred and thirty-one
thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars
Fo constructing the connected maps of the
public lands in the States aud Territories, and
procuring an engraved copper-plate thereof, 10
be perfected by adding, from year to year. the
further surveys that may be made, three thou
sand dollars.
BxPEEsBs OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM
SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS.
For salaries and commissioners of regi tiers of
land offices and receivers OF public moneys at
land offices,f four hundred and hfty-one
thousand two hundred dollars.
For incidental expenses of the land-ofices,
fifty thousand one hundred and seventy-tiye dol
lars.
Fer expenses of depositing oneys received
from sales OF public lanes, thirteen thousand
dollars.
For expenses already incurred under instruc.
tons of the Secretary of the Interior for
suppressing depredations on the public timber.
and for expenses yet to be incurred during the
f. cal years ending June thirtieth, eigh cen hum
dred aud seventy-two, and June 1hlrtie, h, eigh
teen hundred and seventh three, on the same ac-
count, ten thousand dollars.
PATENT OFFICER.
To provide for The plates of an Official Gaze tie
of the Patent Office abstra is Of the drawings OF
patents issued, forty thousand dollars, to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Commissioner
of Patents.
For deficiency in contingent fund, caused by
carrying into effect the joint resolution Of Janu
airy eleventh, eighteen hundreu and seventy .one,
requiring tho commissioner OF Patents to keep
on hand for salt copies of al specificar ions and
drawings Of patents, ton thousand dollars.
That forty tho Island dollars OF the appropria-
tion ior lithographing, engraving, and so forth,
for the public printing during the fiscal year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy-three, be, and The same are hereby, trans
ferred TO the appropriation for the Patent Office
for photo-lithogr 'phmg. printing, and paper for
the draw, gs of patents authorized by the joint
res. luton approved January eleventh eighteen
hundred and seyenty-one, entitled Joint resolu.
ton providing for publishing specifications and
rawing of Patent Office"
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
For salaries and other necessary expenses Of
the MetTopOlttan ponce IOf tlS ihStIicL OF Co.
lumbia, two hundred and seven thousand eight
hundred and ninety dollars: Proptded, hat q
further sum-, amounting 20 one hundred and
three thousand nine hundred and forty Ave DOL
lars, shall be paid to defray the expenses of the
said Metropolitan police force by the cities OF
Washington and Georgetown, and the county of
Washington. beyond the limits OF said cities, in
the District of Coli mbia, in the proportion cor
res ponding to the number of privates allotted
seyeraily to SAID precincts and the corporate au-
thorities of said cities, and proper authorities Of
the Distli let of Columbia, are hereby authorized
an required to levy Il special tax not exceeding
one third of one per centurn, which shall be spe-
ciaIly dep sited oi.ce i'll each week, as such col.
l~ections are made, TO be appropriated and ex-
pended for said purpose only, for the service of
the fl cal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three,
GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE IN
SANE.
For the support, clothing, medical and moral
treatment of The insane of the army and navy,
revenue cutter, and volunteer service, who may
have become insane since their entry into the SER
insane of the District of Colombia, IN the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane, including five
hundred dollars for books, stationery, and lnci-
dental expenses, one hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting UP of
an extension of the hospital sufficient TO accom-
modate fifty-four patients of the excited class,
thirty.seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
For purchasing and setting Jour heating-boilere
six thousand dollars.
For the purchase by the Secretary of the In
terror for the agricultural and economical uses of
the hospital, tventy-nine and forty one-hun-
lroItIu n ntaE If land aud itl nn1rfanGn naG n