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For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.

For the general purposes of the Southwest Executive Building.—For compensation of five watchmen and two laborers of the southwest executive building, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz:

For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Post-Office Department.—For compensation of the Postmaster-General, three assistant postmasters-general, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, assistant messengers, watchmen, and laborers of said department, one hundred and sixty thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.

For compensation of twenty-five additional clerks, twenty thousand dollars.

Contingent Expenses of the Post-Office Department.—For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the general post-office building, including the auditor's office, oil, gas, and candles, printing, repair of the general post-office building, office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fireplaces and furnaces in order; for engineer for steam-engine, laborers, watchmen, repairs of furniture, and for miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars.

Money-Order Bureau.—For compensation of superintendent and the clerks in his office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Department of Agriculture.—For compensation of commissioner of agriculture, chief clerk, and the clerks and employees in his office, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars.

For contingencies, viz: For stationery, purchase of library, laboratory, rent, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For collecting agricultural statistics, twenty thousand dollars.

For purchase and distribution of new and valuable seeds, viz: For purchase of cereal, vegetable, and flower seeds, and for labor in putting up seeds, seed-bags, and miscellaneous items, sixty-one thousand dollars.

For employees in seed-room, five thousand two hundred dollars.

For propagation and distribution of plants, cuttings, and shrubs, fourteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the propagation of plants, cuttings, and shrubs shall be confined to such as are adapted to general cultivation and to promote the general interests of horticulture and agriculture throughout the United States.

For experimental garden in reservation number two, eight thousand dollars.

Mint at Philadelphia.—For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, chief coiner and engraver, assistant assayer, and seven clerks, twenty-six thousand four hundred dollars.

For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.

For specimens of ores and coins to be preserved in the cabinet of the mint, three hundred dollars.

Branch Mint at San Francisco, California.—For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and six clerks, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.

For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs, and wastage, fifty thousand dollars.

Assay Office, New York.—For salaries of superintendent, assayer, and melter and refiner, assistant assayer, officers, and clerks, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.