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Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Brought forward....

For expenses of compiling and preparing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Amount.

$759,876 80

1,200 00

For compensation of members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories

For mileage

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Clerk of the House of Representatives, $4,320; officer charged with disbursing the contingent fund, $576; chief clerk and journal-clerk of the House, while such positions are held by the present incumbents, and no longer, $3,600 each; two reading-clerks, assistant journal-clerk, and tally-clerk, $3,000 each; four assistant clerks, at $2,592 each; one assistant clerk, at $2,520; eight assistant clerks, including librarian and assistant librarian, at $2,160 each; four assistant clerks, at $1,800 each; one chief messenger in the office of the Clerk of the House, at $5.76 per day; superintendent of document-room of the Clerk of the House, $1,800; three messengers, (including one messenger in the House library,) at $1,440 each; one engineer, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; six firemen, at $1,095 each per annum; for clerk to Committee on Ways and Means, $2,592; messenger to the Committee on Ways and Means, $1,314; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, $2,592; messenger to the Committee on Appropriations, $1,314; clerk to the Committee on Claims, $2, 160; clerk to the Committee on War-Claims, $2,160; clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, $2, 160; clerk at Speaker's table, at $5.76 per day; private secretary to the Speaker, $2,102.40; Sergeant-at-Arms, $4,320: Provided, That hereafter he shall receive, directly or indirectly, no fees or other compensation or emolument whatever for performing the duties of the office, or in connection therewith, otherwise than as aforesaid; clerk to the Sergeant-at-Arms, $2,500; payingteller for the Sergeant-at-Arms, $1,800; messenger to the Sergeant-at-Arms, $1,440; Doorkeeper, $2.592; first assistant doorkeeper, $2,592; Postmaster, $2,592; first assistant postmaster, $2,088; fourteen messengers, seven at $1,500 each, and seven at $1,200 each; Chaplain of the House, $900; five official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; two stenographers for committees, $1,200 each; superintendent of the folding-room, $2,160; superintendent and assistant superintendent of the documentroom, at $2,160 each; document-file clerk, $1,800; eleven messengers, five at $1,800, and six at $1,440 each; twelve messengers during the session, at the rate of $1,440 each per annum, $10,080; one telegraph-operator, at $100 per month during the sessions of Congress; fifteen laborers, at $720 each; seven laborers during the session, at the rate of $720 each per annum; one laborer, at $820; and Henry Douglas, laborer's pay, as fixed by act of March 3, 1873, $917.50; and for one female attendant in ladies' retiring-room, $600; making, in all, the sum of..

For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, namely:
For clerks to committees

For folding documents, including pay of folders in the folding rooms and materials: Provided,
That no part of this appropriation shall be used in paying more than twenty folders..
For fuel

For hire of horses and mail-wagons for carrying the mails, and for one saddle-horse for mes

senger....

For furniture, and repairs of the same..

For postage stamps for the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Clerk, and the Postmaster of the House of
Representatives, each $100

1,550, 000 00

100, 000 00

227,590 70

22,500 00

25,000.00 10,500 00

5,475 00 10,000 00

For packing-boxes.

For cartage..

For miscellaneous items..

300 00 3,020 00 2,000 00 28,000 v0

For newspapers and stationery for members of the House of Representatives, officers of the House, and committees of the House, including $6,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House

For twenty-eight pages, (including three riding-pages,) at $2.50 per day.

43,750 00 14,840 00

PUBLIC PRINTING.

For compensation of the Congressional Printer, and the clerks and messengers in his office... For contingent expenses of his office, namely: For stationery, postage, advertising, traveling. expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items.

It shall be lawful for the Congressional Printer to print and deliver, upon the order of any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or Delegate, extracts from the Congressional Record, the person ordering the same paying the cost thereof.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

For compensation of the Librarian, $4.000; and for sixteen assistant librarians, three at $2,500
each, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,440 each, three at $1,200 each, two
at $1,000 each, and one at $960 per annum; in all ...

For purchase of books for the Library, $9,000; for purchase of law-books for the Library,
$2,000; for purchase of files of periodicals and newspapers, $2,500; for expenses of ex-
changing public documents for the publications of foreign governments, $1,500.
For contingent expenses of said Library

For expenses of the copyright-business.

For Botanic Garden, for improving the garden, procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, and purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress.

Carried forward

15,117 60 2,500 00

29, 340 00

15,000 00 2,000.00 500 00

5,000 00

2,873, 310 10

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward...

For pay of superintendent and assistant in Botanic Garden and green-houses, and laborers, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress..

$2,873, 510 10

12, 146 00

PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

For clerk in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds.

For messenger in the same office...

For the public gardener.

For a landscape-gardener..

For the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Capitol.
For a foreman and laborers employed in the public grounds.
For four laborers in the Capitol.

For furnace-keeper in charge of heating-apparatus under the old hall of the House of Repre

sentatives

For the following employés at the Executive Mansion, namely: For furnace-keeper, $864;
two policemen, $2,640; one night-watchman, $900; one night-usher, $1,200; and two door-
keepers, at $1,200 each; in all...

For two draw-keepers for Navy-Yard and Upper bridges, and for fuel, oil, and lamps...
For watchman in Franklin Square

For the person in charge of the heating-apparatus of the Library of Congress, and other
steam-heating apparatus in the central building

For four watchinen in reservation numbered two, (being the Smithsonian grounds).
For watchman in Lincoln Square..

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1,400 00 840 00 1,440 00 1,800 00

720 00

21,456 00 2,880 00

864 00

8,004 00 1,600 00

720 00

864 00

2,880 00

540 00

720 00

540 CO

720 00

540 00

For watchman for circle at intersection of Massachusetts and Vermont avenues..
For watchman at Rawlins Square, and one at Pacific Place, at $540 each; in all
For watchman for Judiciary Square

For contingent and incidental expenses

1,080 00 720 00 2,000 00

EXECUTIVE.

For compensation of the President of the United States

For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States.

For compensation to private secretary, $3,500; assistant secretary, $2.500; two executive clerks, at $2,300 each, steward at $2,000, and messenger at $1,200, of the President of the United States; in all..

For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor.

For official postage-stamps

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

For compensation of the Secretary of State, $8,000; three assistant secretaries of state, at $3.500 each; for chief clerk, $2,500; twelve clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class one; and thirteen clerks, at $900 each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; nine laborers; and four watchmen; in all...

For six chiefs of bureaus, (consular, diplomatic, accounts, rolls and library, statistics, and indexes and archives,) and one translator, at $2,400 each...

And the chief of the Bureau of Accounts may be appointed by the head of the Department disbursing-clerk of the Department of State.

For additional force required for the new building to be occupied by the Department, viz: One superintendent of watch, $1,000; five watchmen, at 8720 each; eight laborers; chief engineer, $1,200; one assistant engineer, $1,000; conductor for the elevator, $720; four firemen, at $720 each; in all ..

For proof-reading, and packing the laws and documents for the various legations and consu lates, including boxes and transportation of the same, $3,000; for stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, $5,000; for books and maps, $2,500; for extra clerk-hire and copying, $6,000; in all

For contingent expenses, namely: For fuel, $5,000; for lights, $4,320; for care and subsistence of horses and repairs of carriages, $2,000; and for miscellaneous items, not included in the foregoing, $6,250; for publishing in newspapers the laws passed at the second session of the Forty-third Congress, $50,000, to be available immediately; in all....

50,000 00

8,000 00

13,800 00 6,000 00 600 00

88,020 00

16,800 00

16, 160 00

16,500 00

For rent of stable and wagon-shed for the new State Department building
For lithographer, laborers, and necessary materials for the lithographic press

71,570 00 1,000 00

For purchase of official postage-stamps..

For expense of editing, printing, binding, and distributing the Statutes at Large of the Fortythird Congress.

For expense of editing, printing, binding, and distributing the laws enacted by the Fortythird Congress at their second session

2,500 00

10,000 00

For rent of building on Fourteenth street to time of expiration of the lease, $4,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary

20,000 00 25,000 00

4,000 00

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Secretary's Office: For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, $8,000; two Assistant
Secretaries of the Treasury, at $1,500 each; chief clerk and ex-officio superintendent of the
Treasury building, $3,000; one principal clerk of warrants and appropriations, $3,000;
seven principal clerks, at $2,800 each; eight assistant clerks, at $2,400 each; twenty-five

Carried forward

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Appropriations, &c.—Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward..

clerks of class four; two disbursing-clerks, at $2,800 each; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,400; twenty-six clerks of class three; twenty-one clerks of class two; eighteen clerks of class one; thirty-one female clerks, at $900 each; eleven messengers; and eleven laborers; one clerk of class four and one clerk of class one, to assist the chief clerk in superintending the building; one captain of the watch, $1,400; one engineer, $1,600; one machinist and gas-fitter, $1,200; one storekeeper, $1,400; sixty watchmen, at $720 each, and additional to two of said watchmen, acting as lieutenants of watchmen, $280 each; twenty-five laborers, at $720 each; one assistant engineer, $1,000; nine firemen, at $720 each; ninety charwomen, at $180 each; in all

Supervising Architect: In the construction branch of the Treasury: For Supervising Architect, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; book-keeper, $2,000; photographer, $2,500; assistant photographer, $1,600; four clerks of class four; additional to two clerks of class four, one at $600 and one at $200; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class one; two copyists; and one messenger; in all..

First Comptroller of the Treasury: For First Comptroller of the Treasury, $5,000; chief clerk. $2,000; ten clerks of class four; twelve clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; six copyists, at $900 each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all.

Second Comptroller of the Treasury: For Second Comptroller of the Treasury, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; twelve clerks of class four; eighteen clerks of class three; eighteen clerks of class two; fourteen clerks of class one; ten copyists, at $900 each; one messerger; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all.

Commissioner of Customs: For Commissioner of Customs, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,000; three
clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; nine clerks of
class one; one messenger; and one laborer; in all

First Auditor: For the First Auditor of the Treasury, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; three clerks
of class four; ten clerks of class three; eight clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class
one; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all...
Second Auditor; For Second Auditor, $3.000; chief clerk, $2,000; six clerks of class four;
and, for additional to disbursing clerk, $200; thirty-seven clerks of class three; seventy-
three clerks of class two; forty-five clerks of class one; one messenger; five assistant
messengers; and seven laborers; in all.

Third Auditor: For Third Auditor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; eleven clerks of class four;
twenty-six clerks of class three; eighty-two clerks of class two; forty-four clerks of class
one; ten copyists, at $900 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; and five labor-
ers; in all

Fourth Auditor: For the Fourth Auditor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; five clerks of class
four; eighteen clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one;
six female clerks, at $900 each; one inessenger; one assistant messenger; and two laborers;
in all.....
Fifth Auditor: For the Fifth Auditor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; four clerks of class four;
seven clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; six copy-
ists, at $900 each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all.
Sixth Auditor: For compensation of the Sixth Auditor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; nine
clerks of class four, and additional to one clerk of class four as disbursing-clerk, $200;
sixty-two clerks of class three; sixty-nine clerks of class two; thirty-seven clerks of
class one; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and eighteen laborers; twenty assort-
ers of money-orders, $20,000; also, fifteen female assorters of money-orders, at $900 each;
in all.

Provided, That on and after July 1, 1875, the fees on money-orders shall be, for orders not exceeding fifteen dollars, 10 cents; exceeding fifteen, and not exceeding thirty dollars, 15 cents; exceeding thirty and not exceeding forty dollars, 20 cents; exceeding forty and not exceeding fifty dollars, 25 cents; and no money-order shall be issued for a sum greater than fifty dollars.

Treasurer: For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, $6,500; assistant treas-
urer, $3,800; cashier, $3,800; assistant cashier, $3,500; five chiefs of division, at $2,700
each; two principal book-keepers, one at $2,600 and one at $2,500; two tellers, one at $2,700
and one at $2,600; one chief clerk, $2,700; two assistant tellers, at $2,350 each; thirteen
clerks of class four; thirteen clerks of class three; nine clerks of class twò; eight clerks of
class one; sixty female counters, at $900 each; seven messengers; five male laborers, at
$720 each; and seven female laborers, at $240 each; in all..
Register of the Treasury: For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, $4,000; assist-
ant register, $2,000; chief clerk, $2,000; seven clerks of class four; ten clerks of class
three; fourteen clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; eight copyists, at $900 each;
one messenger; two assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all.
Comptroller of the Currency: For Comptroller of the Currency, $5,000; deputy comptroller,
$2,500; thirteen clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class
two; eleven clerks of class one; thirty-three female clerks; four messengers; four labor-
ers; and two night-watchmen; in all..

For expenses of special examinations of national banks.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For Commissioner of Internal Revenue, $6,000; one deputy commissioner, $3,500, and one deputy commissioner, $3,000; seven heads of division, at $2,500 each; one stenographer, at $2,000; thirty clerks of class four; forty-five clerks of three; fifty-two clerks of class two; eighteen clerks of class one; seventy-five copyists, at $900 each; five messengers; three assistant messengers; and fourteen laborers; in all.. For dies, paper, and stamps, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury

For salaries and expenses of collectors..

$3,287, 934 10

346,500 00

32, 040 00

72,600 00

111, 400 00

49, 460 CO

55, 480 00

240, 800 00

249, 720 00

78,600 00

52, 400 00

309, 620 00

180, 460 00

76,720 00

120,680 00 3,000 00

336,340 00

500,000 00 2, 151, 000 00

Carried forward

8, 254, 754 10

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Brought forward..

For salaries, expenses, and fees of supervisors, storekeepers, agents, surveyors, gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses..

And hereafter no gauger shall receive a greater compensation than six dollars per day. For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internalrevenue laws, or conniving at the sanie, including payments for information and detection of such violations..

Light-House Board: For chief clerk of the Light-House Board, $2,000; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one female copyist; one messenger; and one laborer; in all..

Bureau of Statistics: For officer in charge of the Bureau of Statistics, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,000; eleven clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; five copyists, at $900 each; one messenger; one laborer; and one char-woman, at $480; in all..

It shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the Bureau of Statistics to gather, collate, and annually report to the Secretary of the Treasury, for transmission to Congress, statistics and facts relating to commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, the railroad systems of this and other countries, the construction and operation of railroads, the actual cost of such construction and operation of railroads, the actual cost of transporting freights and passengers on railroads, and on canals, rivers, and other navigable waters of the United States, the charges imposed for such transportation of freight and passengers, and the tonnage transported; and the reports now by law required to be prepared and published monthly in the said Bureau of Statistics shall hereafter be prepared and pub. lished quarterly, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and the sum of $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to defray the expenses thereof. Treasury miscellaneous: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus. For purchase of official postage-stamps

For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, namely: For arranging and binding canceled marine-papers, requisitions, and other important records; sealing ships' registers; for foreign postage, newspapers, books, hand-stamps, and repairs of the same

For investigations of accounts and records, including the necessary traveling-expenses, and for other traveling-expenses.

For freight, expressage, telegrams, and car-tickets..

For rent of buildings.

Provided, That the Secretary may rent other buildings in lieu of those now rented as he may deem for the public interest, for a sum not to exceed this appropriation.

For care and subsistence of horses for office, and mail-wagons, including feeding and shoeing; and for wagons, harness, and repairs of same

For ice, buckets, file-holders, book-rests, labor; for care of grounds, clocks, and repairs of the

same

For coal, wood, grates, grate-baskets and fixtures, stoves and fixtures, blowers, coal-hods,
hearths, shovels, tongs, pokers, matches, and match-safes.....

For gas, drop-lights and tubing, gas-burners, brackets and globes, candles, lanterns, and wicks.
For carpets, oil-cloth, matting, repairs, cleaning, and laying of the same

For desks, tables, and chairs, and shelving for file-rooms, and cases; repairs of furniture;
boxes, rugs, chair-covers and caning, cushions, cloth for covering desks, locks, screws,
hand-saws, turpentine, and varnish..

For washing towels, brooms, brushes, crash, cotton cloth, cane, chamois-skins, dusters, flour, keys, lye, matches, nails, oil, powders, sponge, soap, tacks, wall-paper, and the other miscellaneous expenses required for the current and ordinary business of the Department; and for repairs of machinery, baskets, spittoons, files, water-coolers, tumblers, ice-picks, bowls and pitchers, traps, thermometers, ventilators, towels, awnings and fixtures, alcohol, window shades and fixtures, wire screens, hemming towels, axes, bellows, chisels, canvas, candlesticks, door and window fasteners, bells and bell-pulls, hammers, mallets, leather, gum, and other belting, stencil-plates, tools, whetstones, wire, and zinc, and other absolutely necessary expenses

INDEPENDENT TREASURY,

Office of the assistant treasurer at New York: For assistant treasurer, $8,000; for deputy assistant treasurer, $3,600; cashier and chief clerk, $4,200; chief of coin division, $4,000; chief of note-paying division, $3,000; chief of note-receiving division, $3,000; chief of check division, $3,000; chief of registered-interest division, $2,800; chief of coupon-interest division, $2,500; chief of fractional-currency division, $2,500; chief of bond division, $2,400; chief of canceled-check and record division, $2,000; two clerks, at $2,400 each; six clerks, at $2,200 each; ten clerks, at $2,000 each; nine clerks, at $1,800 each; four clerks, at $1,700 each; four clerks, at $1,600 each; two clerks, at $1,500 each; ten clerks, at $1,400 each; three clerks, at $1,200 each; five messengers, at $1,300 each; one messenger, $1,200; keeper of building, $1,800; chief detective, $1,800; assistant detective, $1,400; three hall-men, at $1,000 each; six watchmen, at $730 each; one engineer, $1,000; one porter, $900; in all.... Office of the assistant treasurer at Boston: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; for chief clerk, 82,700; paying-teller, $2,500; chief interest-clerk, $2,500; receiving-teller, $1,800; first book-keeper, $1,700; second book-keeper, "depositors'" accounts, $1,500; stamp and newfractional-currency clerk, $1,800; specie-clerk, $1,500; assistant specie-clerk, $1,400; two coupon-clerks, at $1,400 each; fractional-currency-redemption clerk, $1,200; receipt-clerk, $1,200; assistant book-keeper, $800; money-clerk, $1,000; assistant currency-redemption clerk, $1,100; assistant currency-redemption clerk, $1,000; messenger and chief watchman, $1,060; two watchmen, at $850 each; in all...

Carried forward

Amount.

$8, 254, 754 10

2, 300, 000 00

100, 000 00

13, 860 00

59,440 00

20, 000 00 50, 000 00 100,000 00

10, 000 00

4, 000 00 7,000 00 13, 000 00

6,000 00

9,000 00

12,000 00 20, 000 00 14,000 00

24, 500 00

25, 000 00

150, 980 00

34, 260 00

11, 227, 794 10

Appropriations, &c.-Continued.

Object of appropriation.

Amount.

Brought forward..

Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: For assistant treasurer, $6,000; for cashier,
$3.000; for book-keeper, $2,500; for assistant cashier, $2,000; for assistant book-keeper,
$2,000; for stamp-clerk, $2,400; for one clerk, $1,800; for three night-watchmen, $1,500
each; for one day-watchman. $960; in all...

Office of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; for cashier and
chief clerk, $2,700; book-keeper, $2,500; chief interest-clerk, $1,900; assistant book-keeper,
$1,800; coin-teller, $1,700; chief registered-interest clerk, $1,900: assistant coupon-clerk,
$1,600; fractional-currency clerk, $1,600; two assistant registered-loan clerks, one at $1,500
and one at $1,400; assistant coin-teller, $1,400; assistant fractional-currency clerk, $1,400;
receiving-teller, $1,300; assistant receiving-teller; $1,200. superintendent of building, $1,100;
seven female counters, at $900 each; four watchmen, at $930 each; in all....
Office of assistant treasurer at Saint Louis: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; chief clerk and
teller, $2,500; assistant teller, $1,800; book-keeper, $1,500; assistant book-keeper, $1,200;
messenger, $1,000; four watchmen, at $700 each; in all..

Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: For assistant treasurer, $4,500; for cashier,
$2,500; receiving-teller, $2.000; book keeper, $1,500; assistant book-keeper, $1,500; porter,
$900; two watchmen, at $720 each; two night-watchmen, at $720 each; in all..
Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; for cashier, $2,500;
for three clerks, $5,400; for three clerks, $4,200; for two clerks, $2,400; for one messenger,
$840; for five vault-watchmen, $3,600; in all
Office of assistant treasurer at Charleston, South Carolina: For assistant treasurer, $4,000;
one clerk, $1,800; one clerk, $1,600; one assistant messenger, $720; and two watchmen, at
$720 each; in all..

Office of assistant treasurer at Chicago: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; for cashier, $2,500;
for paying-teller, $1,800; for book-keeper and for receiving-teller, at $1,500 each, $3,000;
for one clerk, $1,200; for one messenger, $840; for one watchman, $720; in all
Office of assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: For assistant treasurer, $5,000; for cashier, $2,000;
for one book-keeper, $1,800; for assistant cashier, $1,500; for check-clerk and interest-
clerk, at $1,200 each; for fractional-currency clerk, $1,000; for one messenger, $600; for
one night watchman, $720; two watchmen, at $120 each; in all.......
Office of depositary at Pittsburgh: For cashier, $1,800; book-keeper, $1,400; one watch-
man, $720; in all

Office of depositary at Santa Fé: For depositary, in addition to his pay as receiver, $2,000;
one clerk, $1,200: two watchmen, at $720 each; in all

Office of depositary at Tucson, Arizona: For depositary, in addition to his pay as post

master

For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at
the several sub-treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as deposi
taries under the act of the 6th of August, 1846

For compensation to designated depositaries at Buffalo, New York, and Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania, for receiving, safely keeping, and paying out public money, at the rate of one-half
of one per centum on the first $100,000, one-fourth of one per centum on the second
$100,000, and one-eighth of one per centum on all sums over $200,000; any sum which may
have been allowed to such depositaries for rent or any other contingent expenses in respect
to the custody of such public money being deducted from such compensation before any
payment shall be made therefor: Provided, That no compensation shall be allowed for the
above services when the emoluments of the office of which said designated depositary is in
commission amount to the maximum compensation fixed by law; nor shall the amount
allowed to any one of said designated depositaries for such services, when added to the
emoluments of the office of which he is in commission, be more than sufficent to make the
maximum compensation fixed by law: And provided further, That the whole allowance
to any designated depositary for such service shall not exceed $1,500 per annum
For checks and check-books for disbursing officers and others, and certificates of deposit for
offices of the Treasurer and assistant treasurer and designated depositaries...
For contingent expenses under the act of the 6th of August, 1846, for the collection, safe-
keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money.

Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended for clerical services or payment of employés of any nature or grade; and hereafter a detailed statement of the expenditure for the preceding fiscal year of all sums appropriated for contingent expenses in any Department or Bureau of the Government shall be presented to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.

$11, 227, 794 10

25, 160 00

40,020 00

15, 800 00

15,780 00

23,940 00

9,560 00

15,060 00

15, 260 00 3,920 00

4,640 00

1,500 00

4,000 00

3, 000 00

13,000 00

70,000 00

UNITED STATES MINTS AND ASSAY-OFFICES.

Office of the Director of the Mint: For Director, $4,500; examiner, $2,200; one computer of bullion, $2,200; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one translator, $1,200; one copyist, $900; one messenger; and one laborer; making in all the sum of.

. For contingent expenses of the United States mints and assay-offices, namely: For specimens of ores and coins, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, $200; for books, balances, and weights, and other incidental expenses, including traveling expenses of the Director and examiner, $1,500..

For recoinage of gold and silver coins, to meet the difference between the nominal and bullion-value of gold coins now in the Treasury, reduced by natural abrasion below the legal limit and to be recoined, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Mint at Philadelphia: For salaries of the superintendent, $4,500; for the assayer, melter, and refiner, coiner, and engraver, at $3,000 each; the assistant assayer, assistant melter and

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16,960 00

1,700 00

2,000 00

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