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 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 175. 1855. 669 For the erection of a suitable house for the plants recently brought from H¤¤¤6 !`¤FPl¤¤*= Japan for the United States, fifteen hundred dollars, to be expended under f"°"° Ja""' the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. For the support of the public greenhouses, including the pay of horti- G,·w,1,0nSes,&e. culturalist and assistants, three thousand dollars. To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to provide additional Library r<><>¤‘·¤· furnaces for the Library of Congress, one thousand dollars. To construct suitable iron railings in front of the alcoves of the library, and other repairs, in addition to the balance of appropriations unexpended for the repairs of the Congressional Library, under the direction of the architect, three thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the salaries to which envoys _ Salaries efforextraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary shall be entitled on the first gfgefégisgiw July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, may be allowed to such as may be 1855, ch, 133, to in office on that day without reappointment, nor shall such envoys extra- l>¤ Mlvwsd W ordinary and ministers plenipotentiary be required to take with them $:%llE‘;_°"° thm secretaries of legation, unless they should be allowed by the President of Secretaries may the United States. l>·>¤¤¤<1 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth of wlcigks in Dc_ June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the Secretary of State be,and he is partment of hereby, authorized and required to cause the examination, classification, ,z’·*°;j*h°i' $**5* and distribution, of the clerks in the Department of State, in the same Eugxpgfm manner as directed in other executive departments by the provisions contained in the third section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government," approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, who shall be paid annual salaries T85th ch- 97- according to the act amendatory thereof, approved twenty-second April, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. And the whole permanent clerical force 185% °l‘· 52- in said department shall consist of three clerks of class one, two of class two, eight of class three, eight of class four, and one chief clerk, in lieu of those now authorized by law; and one of the said clerks of class four shall give bonds as required by the Independent Treasury Act, and make the disbursements for the department, and superintend the northeast executive building, and shall rcccivc therefor two hundred dollars per annum, in addition to his salary as clerk of class four: Provided, That the increased salary hereby allowed the chief clerk, shall be construed to take _ effect fiom the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and be paid accordingly. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That upon the tract so to be selected Marine lwspland set apart, there shall be erected, under the direction of the Secretary :’§9;;_?£°l°°°‘* of the Treasury, a marine hospital for said district, of faced brick exterior walls, upon a hammered granite underpinning, one hundred and forty feet long, fifty-two feet deep in the centre, and one hundred feet deep at the wings, and forty-five feet high from top of entrance-story floor to the eaves, with verandahs to each story on each side between the wings, and on each end of the building; for the construction of which a sum equal to the proceeds of the sale hereinafter directed, is hereby appropriated. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a tract of ten acres of the land pmt of mum; heretofore purchased by the United States for the purposes of the naval lé<;¤1;it¤1l¤pd¤ :2 hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, be selected andset apart under the ,·0,l;s;°g;i°°£:g direction of the President of the United States, for the use of the marine pim. hospital of the district of Boston and Charlestown. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury Su1e_ot‘ Ianq is hereby authorized to sell and convey the land with the buildings thereon ;;°£,l?:'1£;Q§€,:, belonging to the United States, now occupied as the marine hospital at at chelsea, Chelsea, as may seem to be most advantageous to the United States ; and he is hereby empowered to execute valid title deeds of the same to ile Sections 5 and 6 were probably meant to be trmisposnd.