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 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 267. 1854. 579 For continuing the survey of the northern and north-western lakes, including Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars ; For repairs of instruments of the corps of topographical engineers, five thousand dollars; For printing and distributing charts of lake surveys, one thousand tivo hundred dollars; For the purchase of Barlow’s planetarium for the use of the military B,,,k,w», P],_ academy at West Point, two thousand dollars; nemiuni for For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house Wm P°““’· duty, the payment of which is no longer made or provided for by the Quartermastefs Department, five thousand and sixty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents; For continuing the explorations and surveys to ascertain the best Railroad route route for a railway to the Pacific, and for completing the reports of *0*}*6 P¤°m°· surveys already made, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; For fuel and quarters and for mileage or transportation for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army serving in the coast survey, in cases no longer provided for by the Quartermastefs Department, ten thousand dollars; For arrearagcs prior to July first, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, under an act approved May the first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in addi- 1820, <>l¤- 52· tion to a balance of seven thousand six hundred and lift —three dollars and five cents undrawn in the treasury on the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, three thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of a site, and construction of an arsenal at Benicia, Arsennlnt California, thirty~three thousand nine hundred and eighty-tive dol- B‘”“°‘“· lars; For the sword ordered to be presented to Brevet Major-Gene sword for ral John E. Wool, by the joint resolution approved January twenty· J°h'* E· W°°l· fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars; For payment of claims adjudicated by the board of army officers, appointed by the Secretary of War, under the sixth section of the act of August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, one hundred and 1852, oh. 110. twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty- three and a half cents ; For the purchase of the best breech loading rifles in the opinion of the Rifles Secretary of War, for the use of the United States army, ninety thousand dollars : Provided, That the Secretary of War, after a fair practical test thereof§ shall deem the purchase advisable and proper: That the proper accounting Officers of the treasury be, and they are Settlement of hereby, directed in the settlement of the accounts of Captain Joseph L. *&°°;'_'t°$£’fF°1 Folsom, assistant quartermaster of the United States army, to receive ,0,,};` ` parol testimony of the disbursements made by him as such assistant quartermaster, in lieu of vouchers for such disbursements which were destroyed by the fire in the city of San Francisco, on the fourth of May, mma Domimf, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and that upon the testimony so taken, if satisfactory to the department, the accounts of' said assistant quartermaster shall be audited and settled according to the principles of equity and justice: Provided, That the sum allowed shall not exceed the balance now due from said Folsom to the treasury. S}za·wnccs.——For the first instalment of interest at Eve per cent. on Shawnee;. forty thousand dollars, for education, per third article of the treaty of May Pos, p mm tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars; ’ '