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 314 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 102. 1877. For contingent expenses of the office, namely: For actual and necessary expenses of clerks detailed to investigate suspected frauds and attempts at fraud, as provided by law, forty thousand dollars. For carpets, mats, furniture, awnings, and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars; for fuel, gas, engraving and retouching plates; for bounty land warrants, printing and binding the ame, engraving and printing pension-certificates; for repairs of building and for other necessary expenses of the office, including two daily newspapers, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all twelve thousand nve hundred dollars. Patent-Ollice. Umrnn Srlvrns PATENT-Onnron.-For compensation of the Commissioner of the Patent Office, four thousand five hundred dollars; for · assistant commissioner, three thousand dollars; for chief clerk, two twousand two hundred and fifty dollars; three examiners-in-chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner in charge of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; trade-mark examiner, two thousand two hundred and dfty dollars; twenty-two principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; twenty-two iirst assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; twenty-two second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; twenty-. two third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of Fiiiupcigl ninnk; class four, (one of whom shall receive two hundred dollars additional oompouwtiou; for services as financial clerk, and shall give bond in such amount as b°”d· the Secretary of the Interior may determine;) nve clerks of class three; one of whom shall be translator of languages; twenty-one clerks of class two; and thirty-five clerks of class one ; also for twenty-five permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; for forty copyist-clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; for three skilled draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; lor one messenger and purchasing-clerk, one thousand dollars; for one skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; for six attendants in model—roou1, at one thousand dollars each; for four attendants in model-room, at nine hundred dollars each; for forty laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each ; for six laborers, at six hundred dollars each; three folders and pastors, at tour hun-. dred and eighty dollars each; in all, three hundred and eighty-tour thousand nve hundred and forty dollars. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses' of the Patent-Olnce, namely: For repair of model-cases, stationary portfolios for drawings, furniture and labor connected therewith, repairing, paperin g painting, carpets, ice, advertising, books for library, moneys refunded, printing engraved patentheads, international- exchanges, plumbing, gas-fitting, _ extra labor on indexes and abstracts for annual reports, fitting rooms, Proviw and other contingencies, sixty thousand dollars; and no money appropriated by this paragraph shall be expended for advertising in news- ‘ papers published in the city of Washington other than the Patent-(Juice Oflicial Gazette. • For photolithographing, or otherwise producing copies of drawings of current and back issues of the office and for sale, including pay of temporary draughtsmen, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For photolithographin g, or otherwise producing plates for the Odicial Gazette, including pay of employees engaged on the Gazette, and for making similar plates, twenty-five thousand dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise producing copies of the weekly issues of drawings, to be attached to patents and copies, twenty-seven Supervision or thousand five hundred dollars; the work of the said photolithographr¤o¤<>lM¤o:;¤¤1>h- ing, or otherwise producing plates and copies, referred to in this and "‘¥¥· the two preceding paragraphs, to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents and in the city of Washington, if it can be there done at reasonable rates; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to make contracts therefor.