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 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 162. 1856. 105 For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars. For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars. For compensation of the Superintendent of Public Printing and the Pub1icPi·inting clerks and messenger in his office, eleven thousand five hundred and four— teen dollars. For contingent expenses of his office, viz : For blank-books, stationery, postage, advertising for proposals for paper, furniture, travelling expenses, and miscellaneous items, two thousand three hundred dollars. For rent of ware-room, two hundred and hfty dollars. For cartage and labor in storing and transportation of paper, five hundred and fifty dollars. For paper required for the printing of the second session of the Thirty- Fourth Congress, one hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and eight dollars. _ _ For printing required for the second session of the Thirty-fourth Con- D*’H°‘°““‘°“· gress, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. And the appropriation Ame- P· U- to “ supply deficiencies in the appropriation for printing of the second session of the Thirty-third Congress," contained in the act of fifteenth 1856, ch. 29. May, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, shall be construed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, to include the cost of paper necessary for said printing. For procuring drawings to illustrate the Patent-Olhce report for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six, six thousand dollars; to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Patents. Execzttive.—For compensation of the President of the United States, Executive. twenty-five thousand dollars. For compensation of the Vice—President of the United States, from fourth of March to the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, two thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty- two cents. Fair compensation to secretary to sign patents for lands, one thousand five hundred dollars. Department of State.—For compensation of the Secretary of State, smc 1),,,,,,,,,, and Assistant Secretary of State, clerks, messenger and assistant messen- mentger in his office, and for laborers employed therein, at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, per act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, fifty-one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. For the Dzcidental and Contingent Expenses of said Department.—For publishing the laws in pamphlet form and in the newspapers of the States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, forty-seven thousand three hundred and one dollars. For proof·rea<ling, packing, and distributing laws and documents, including cases and transportation, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. For stationery, blank books, binding, painting and glazing, six thousand five hundred dollars. For copper-plate printing, books and maps, two thousand dollars. For newspapers, six hundred dollars. For extra clerk-hire and copying, two thousand dollars; said clerks to be employed only during the session of Congress, or when indispensably necessary to enable the Department to answer some call made by either House of Congress at one session to be answered at another. For miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to pay for the services of a messenger Messenger to sent to the government of Texas upon the passage by Congress of the T°X“S· Texas indemnity bill, in eighteen hundred and fifty, five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase fifty copies, each, of vol- Howards Rep. umes eighteen and nineteen of Howards Report of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to purchase five hundred copies of Diplvmetic Gorvor,. xi. PnB.—l4 '°sp°"d°“°°‘