THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 242. 1854. 555 _ Post- Office Department.- For compensation of the Postmaster-Gene P- 0· D°P°·¤`°‘ ` ral, three Assistant Postmasters-General, and the clerks, messenger, m°°t‘
assistant messengers, and watchmen of said department, one hundred and
‘* twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars ;
- Q Forcompensation of temporary clerks necessarily employed from the
ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and Efty-three, to the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, and ninety-eight cents.
Q Contingent expenses of said department: -_ For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the General Post- Oiiice building, (including the Auditor’s office,) oil, gas, and candles, - printing, labor, day watchmen, and for miscellaneous, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars ; For repairs of the General Post-Oliice building, for office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fire-places and furnaces in order, two thousand five hundred dollars ; For paper and printing for the Executive Departments, including pa.- 9,,90,- md per, printing, and binding the annual “Statement of Commerce and Navi- gfintms f°¤ im gation," and paper and printing the annual “Estimates of Appropria.- €°pmm°m‘ tions," thirty thousand eight hundred dollars. Maz of the United States. — Mint. At Philadelphia. l pmlmdphgm For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, melter, and redner, chief coiner, and engraver, assistant assayer, assistant melter, and reliner and seven clerks, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, seventy-two thousand dollars ; For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars; For transportation of bullion from New York assay office to the United States Mint for coinage, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars ; For incidental and contingent expenses, including acids, copper, zinc, salt, fuel, melting—pots, and other materials, and wastage of gold and silver, being, in addition to other available funds, fifty-six thousand dollars. At New Orleans. N. Orleans. For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, coiner, melter, and refiner, and three clerks, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars; For wages of workmen, in addition to other available funds, thirty-two thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-tive cents; For wastage and incidental expenses, in addition to other available funds, seventy thousand and eighty-two dollars and fifty-tive-cents; For rebuilding portions of the walls and complete repairs of the building of the Branch Mint at New Orleans, thirty-seven thousand dollars. At Charlotte, North Carolina. Cpu1cm_ For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars ; For wages of workmen, three thousand Eve hundred dollars; For incidental and contingent expenses, including pay of two watchmen, two thousand one hundred dollars.G At Dahlonega, eorgia. For salaries of superintendent, coiner, assayer, and clerk, six thousand Dmomgm dollars ; For wages of workmen, three thousand six hundred [dollars;] For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, repairs, wastage, and purchase of new scales, two thousand tive hundred dollars. At San Francisco, California. SM1 F¤‘¤¤°i¤<><>· For salaries of superintendent, treasurer, assayer, melter, refiner, and coiner, and five clerks, twenty-eight thousand dollars;
