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THIRTY—SECON D CON GR.ESS.» Sess. I. Ch. 108. 1852. 91 sand seven hundred miles of surveying, at a rate not exceeding fourteen dollars per mile, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For subdividing one hundred and ifty townships in California into sections, at a rate not exceeding twelve dollars per. mile, one hundred and eight thousand dollars. For extending surveys in California through the mineral region, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying private claims in California which may have been Private land presented in good faith to the board of land commissioners, twenty-two §m‘?“ in Cam thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the authority hereby mii;g{,5$0_ conferred on the Surveyor-General shall apply only to such unconfirmed 'cases as in the gradual extension of the lines of the public surveys he shall hnd within the immediate sphere of his operations, and which he is patisfied ought to be respected, and actually surveyed in advance of conirmation. For subdividing the islands of Santa Cruz, San Miguel, or Santa Certain islands , Rosa, San Bernardo, Santa Catalina, San Clemente, or San Salvador, ‘Q,’$}L‘;,n§,i"S° °f San Nicolas, and Santa Barbara, on the coast of California., by the coast survey, according to such plan as may be devised by the General Land- Oliice, so that said islands may be readily disposed of under the laws of the United States, and in establishing the necessary corners along the meanders with which to connect the lines of the subdivisions under this appropriation, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Superin- P¤<>ViS¤· tendent of the Coast-Survey shall return to the General Land-Oiiice two complete copies of the maps and field notes of said subdivisions with the meanders and connections aforesaid, one of which shall be for the records of the Surveyor-General : And provided, further, That all leases Outstanding of any of said islands, or of any part of either of them now outstanding, 1°°·"°’ t° b° "°‘ · shall be regarded as without authority and void. For rent of Surveyor-General’s office, purchase of instruments, records, sum Op drawing materials, furniture, fuel, pay of messenger, &c., eleven thousand G<=¤<>¤>l’¤ ¤l£¤¤· four hundred dollars. For completing the geological survey of the iron region of that por- Michigan. tion of Michigan which borders on Lake Superior, fifteen hundred dollars. For defraying the expense of surveying and marking the botmdary Boundary bc; between the States of Missouri and Iowa, under the recent decision and lwg? Mlssmm ordlpr of tthe Supreme Court, eleven thousand forty-two dollars and sixty- M7 p§,`;,,°f(,60_ ew t cen . DPublic Buildings. -—For compensation of the Commissioner of Public _ Public Build- Buildings, two thousand dollars. "‘§,;m¤m,°¤“_ For the compensation of a clerk in the office of the Commissioner of gmk, Public Buildings, one thousand dollars. For the annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, Capitol. pavements, and other walks within and around the Capitol Square, the ilagging in the crypt, the doors of the wood-vaults, and for repainting the crypt, faces of the wood-vaults, dce., seven thousand dollars. For the purchase of two thousand feet of six-inch iron water-pipe, to W¤¤¤-pip¢- conduct the water to the Capitol, and for laying the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the President’s House and improvement of the Miscellaneous. grounds, viz., repairs of the roof and chimneys, replacing defective stone at the base of the house, laying brick walks from the house to the Treasury, Vllar, and Navy Departments; cleaning, painting, and whitewashing the inside of the house, repairing gravel walks, paving brick gutters in the grounds, fitting new blinds •to the south windows outside, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the door·keeper of the President’s House, five Door—keeP°¥'· hundred dollars; and assistant door-keeper of the same, three hundred and sixly—fivc dollars.