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For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, light, labor, and miscellaneous items, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Department of the Interior.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, assistant secretary, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, watchmen, and laborers in his office, forty-eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For compensation of the commissioner of the general land-office, chief clerk, recorder, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, packers, watchmen, and laborers in his office, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand two hundred dollars.

For compensation of additional clerks in the general land-office, under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, granting bounty land, and for laborers employed therein, fifty-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, at his discretion, shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to use any portion of said appropriation for piece-work, or by the day, week, month, or year, at such rate or rates as he may deem just and fair, not exceeding a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum.

For compensation of the commissioner of Indian affairs, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, watchmen, and laborer in his office, thirty-two thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of the commissioner of pensions, chief clerk, and the clerks, messengers assistant messengers, watchman, and laborers in his office, two hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.

For additional clerks in the pension office, twenty-one thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, at his discretion, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to use any portion of said appropriation for piece-work, or by the day, week, month, or year, at such rate or rates as he may deem just and fair, not exceeding a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum.

For compensation of the commissioner of public buildings, and the clerk and messenger in his office, four thousand two hundred dollars.

Contingent Expenses—Department of the Interior.—

For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and maps for the library, seven thousand dollars.

For repairs of the patent-office building, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For expenses of packing and distributing congressional journals and documents, in pursuance of the provisions contained in the joint resolution of congress, approved twenty-eighth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and act fifth February, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, six thousand dollars.

For fuel and lights for the patent-office building, including the salaries of engineer and assistant engineer of the furnaces, eighteen thousand dollars.

For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, four thousand dollars.

For stationery, engraving, and retouching plates for bounty land warrants, and binding the same, office furniture, and repairing the same, and miscellaneous items, including two city daily newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, fifteen thousand dollars.

For stationery, blank books, plans, drawings, and other contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars.

Surveyors-General and their Clerks.—For compensation of the sur-