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 242 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 110. 1857. W*¤°SS*>¤ Md For fees of witnesses in behalf of the government in the court of claims. to attend to the taking of deposmons, five thousand dollars. Army. Army.—To meet the expenses of nurses and attendants, authorized by N“'S°S» &°· the third section of the act of sixteenth August, eighteen hundred and 1856;¤h·125- fifty-six, entitled "An act providing for a necessary increase and better A"“* p' 5I' organization of the medical and hospital department of the army," from the date of said act to thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and flfty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a reappropriation of fifty thousand dollars of the balance of the Claims ou med- appropriation for the medical and hospital departments, which was carried i°*‘l md h°SPl*°1 to the surplus fund thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, for d°pmtm°nt' the payment of claims applicable be said department, accruing during Lhe war with Mexico, & not yet settled by the Treasury Department, fiftzy thousand dollars. Transportation, For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving either by- land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots, horse equipments, and of Subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent, of ordnance or ordnance stores and small arms, from the foundries and arsenals to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots ; freights, wharfage, tolls, and forages ; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, dreys, ships, and other seagoing vessels, and boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments, the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific, and for procuring `water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance, seven hundred thousand dollars. Mmm, New For completing the repairs of the branch mint at New Orleans and Orleans. rendering the same fire-proof, one hundred and twenty thousand six hundred and sixty·0ne dollars. Light-vessels. For seamen’s wages, repairs, and incidental expenses of light-vessels, occasioned by damages, loss of moorings, and for necessary expenses in recovering said vessels broken adrift during the late storms and freshets, and by floating ice, forty thousand one hundred and five dollars and sixty two cents. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and Buoys, &c. supplying losses of buoys, and for chains and sinkers, occasioned by damage, losses, and for necessary expenses in recovering and restoring buoys and their appendages during the late storms and freshets, and by floating ice, thirty-seven thousand Eve hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty cents. For restoring spindles and repairing day beacons destroyed or damaged by the late storms, freshets, and Heating ice, fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Defence Ogsmts For defraying expenses of the defence of suits against the United M Sw F¤‘¤¤¤iS<>¤· States for lands occupied by marine hospitals, lighthouses, and fortifications at the harbor of San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars. To defray expenses incurred in preparing plans and estimates of cost J,,,,,, Dismct of a new jail for the District of Columbia, and of a. building for the ofcolumbia. 51-apex- accommodation of the Department of the Interior, Eve hundred 0 ars. Extra cnmpem- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the extra compensation:
 * §;l;t?;;2$,b:tr`0f claims, and of agents or attorneys to be appointed by the solicitor thereof
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Songt? how to dred and fifty-six, to its officers and employees, shall be paid by its diss pm.