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 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 10. 1850. 427 For dehciency in the appropriation for the present fiscal year for Llghting the lighting the Capitol and Capitol grblmtls, Pennsylvania Avenue, and ::3522: the Presidenfs house, six thousand dollars. ' For the management of Indian affairs in Oregon Territory, to be, I8;}i¤¤ ¤$`=*·i¤¤ expanded under the direction of the President, ten thousand dollars, to m °8°”' supply the deficiency in the appropriation made by the law of fourteenth 1848, ch. 177. August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. To supply an deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent ex- Contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for printing, binding, and en-  °[‘§e;;‘f graving, and other miscellaneous expenses for the present hscal year, sentatives. one hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred and filly dollars. To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for one Statutes at thousand sets of the continuation of the Statutes at Large, printed by ¥·°’8*’· Little &, Brown, pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives, two thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars. For repairing the United States steamers JeH`erson, Hetzel, and Le- Repairs of cergare, employed in the const survey, under the direction of the Secretary ::mgg_ S°°°°s of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Senate, two hundred and thirteen C¤¤fi¤g¤¤f GX- thousand dollars. °£ um For deficiencies in the appropriations for the branch mint at New Branch mint Orleans, the present fiscal year, fifteen thousand dollars. at N°" O'l°°“· For supplying denciencies in appropriations for the naval service for Naval mma. the liscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty- nine, in pursuance of the letter of the Secretary of the Navy of December twenty-four, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, seven hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty cents. For the compensation of two watchmen to be employed in preserv- 1;fW°W;*<=la¤¤=P ing the public grounds about the Capitol, at the rate of three hundred :°f°`;.0:1;d_s_ app and sixty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and thirty dollars. ‘ For the removal of the public greenhouse, and the botanical colleen- Removal of tion thereat, to some suitable site on the public grounds, and for the KS2? ewg‘°°“' erection of such other greenhouse as may be deemed necessary by the ’ ` Joint Committee on the Library, Evo thousand dollars, to be expended by the direction of the said Joint Committee, and under the supervision of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. For continuing the improvement of the grounds south of the Presi- { I¤P1'¤'€¤1¢¤t dent’s house, and as incidentally necessary thereto, towards the con- of g2g2nd5f?;;`;;? struction of a culvert on Seventeenth Street, leading from the grounds dent’s honse, attached to the Navy Department building to the Washington Canal, :}";";f;f::“°°‘°“ ten thousand dollars. ` For completing the improvement of Indiana Avenue in the city of Indima A*'°¤¤°· Washington, from the City Hall to the Capitol Hill, seven thousand dollars, to be expended under the control of the Commissioner of Public Buildings. For continuing the improvement of the public grounds west of Scv- Public S¤¤¤¤<l¤· entb Street, designated as the mall, Eve thousand dollars. _ For enclosing with a substantial wooden fence, grading, and plant- _Enc1osing, mg with trees, the low grounds on the canal, between Third and Sixth gfgfiffé m23g Streets, two thousand five hundred dollars. lhw grounds. SBC. 2. And be itfurthei enacted, That the Postmaster—General be, £`F'°¤§Y‘*‘;’° if §¤¤d he is hereby, authorized to employ twenty-two additional clerks ,u:§°!:;¤ m the Post-Olnce Department, viz.: seven clerks each at an annual man, in Pose-OL Sulary of fourteen hundred dollars, eight clerks each at an annual salary °°° D°p“`““°"°· of twelve hundred dollars, and seven clerks each at an annual salary of one thousand dollars, and one additional watchman at a salary of three hundred and sixty—5ve dollars. _ Sm. 3. And Ira in further amazed, That the salaries provided for $¤l¤ri¤¤ ¢¤ M in the second section of this not, and payable for the remainder of the Wd °“t °f my