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shall not be affected by this section: Provided, however, That in the event of any act being passed by Congress at the present session to regulate and fix the salaries or compensation of the respective officers of the customs, then this section shall operate and extend to the time such act goes into effect, and no longer.

. And be it further enacted, That the following sums are hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for interpreters, guards, and other expenses incidental to the consulates in the Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred dollars. For refunding the duty paid upon the Belgian vessel Antonius and her cargo beyond the amount which would have been paid by a Dutch vessel, fourteen hundred and twenty-six dollars and seven cents. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in addition to a former appropriation, fifty dollars. For an outfit of a Charge d’Affaires to Russia, four thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the third Assistant Postmaster General, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks, messengers and watchmen in the Post Office Department, as provided by the, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Postmaster General, four thousand and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Auditor for the Post Office Department, one thousand five hundred dollars; for compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, as provided by the, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingencies in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, fifteen hundred dollars. For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, including repairs of the roof over the principal stairway to the Representatives’ hall, and coppering the projecting steps and top surface of the cornice round the base of the dome of the rotunda, six thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents. For lighting lamps, and keeping the grounds and walks of the Capitol square in order, including the cost of trees and shrubs, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the gardener employed in superintending the Capitol square and other public grounds, one thousand dollars. For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, for the gardener’s salary, and for keeping the grounds and walks in order, including the cost of trees and shrubs, three thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. For the annual expenses of two fire engines, two hundred dollars. For gravelling the yard east of the Capitol, two thousand dollars. For repairing culverts, two hundred and thirty-one dollars. For purchase of Smith’s spring, including one acre of land, and for enclosing the same, for building culverts and keeping the water-pipes in order, five thousand three hundred dollars. For attendants on the furnaces of the rotunda during the recess, one hundred and fifty dollars. For replanting trees and keeping boxes in order on the Pennsylvania Avenue, purchase of trees and planting in Fountain square, Lafayette square, and across the public reservation at Seventh street, one thousand two hundred dollars. For a workshop, one thousand two hundred dollars. For conveying the surplus water of the Capitol to the Botanic garden, making a basin, and purchasing a fountain of Hiram Powers, five thousand dollars.

For enclosing the garden and grounds of the Magazine and Marine Hospital, near the Eastern Branch, five hundred dollars. For a dwarf wall and fence between the executive buildings and the President’s house, one thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents. For extending the Capitol square, and improving the grounds within and adjacent to the same, as far west as the first street intersecting the Pennsylvania Avenue from the east, the sum of twenty-five thousand