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THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 175. 1855. 653 Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Yards and Docks: For stationery, books, plans, drawing, and incidental labor, eight hundred dollars. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, seven hundred dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For blank books and stationery, three hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars. For the General Purposes of the Southwest Executive BuiZding.———For Southwest compensation of four watchrnen of the southwest executive building, two f;“°“t“'° hmm thousand four hundred dollars. g' For contingent expenses of said building, viz: For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, three thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars. Post- Ojicc Department.- For compensation of the Postmaster-Gen- P<>Si·OfH<=° eral, three Assistant Postmasters-General, and the clerks, messenger, D€pm°m°m' assistant messengers, watchmen, and laborers of said department, one hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars. Contingent expenses of said department: For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the General Post- Ofiice building, including the Auditor’s office, oil, gas, and candles, printing, labor, day watchman, and for miscellaneous items, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For the continuation of the 1’ost·Ofiice building, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the plan submitted by Thomas U. Walter, architect, to the Postmaster-General, and approved of by the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, at the present session of Congress. For repairs of the General Post-Ofiice building, for office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the fireplaces and furnaces in order, four thousand dollars. For the renewal of the furnaces in the General Post-Oflice building, and for repairing the mantels and fireplaces therein, two thousand dollars. For paper and printing for the executive departments, including the faper and annual statement of commerce and navigation, the Biennial Register, and P*`ml‘“gg annual estimates of appropriations, one hundred and forty-six thousand gi£§f‘“‘“1 R° five hundred dollars : Provided, All blank books, binding, and ruling the same for the several executive departments herein appropriated for, shall be furnished under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of Public Printing. Maz of the United Stem.- Mint. At Philadelphia. rnumipiiis. For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, melter and reiiner, chief coiner and engraver, assistant assayer, assistant melter and rehner, and seven clerks, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, fifty 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 8Bgl];)°€cf?; $,3;}; States mint, for coinage, ten thousand dollars : Provided, That all bullion Oérehucd bam required by law to be transmitted from said office to the mint for coinage, shall, if practicable, be in the form of refined bars. _ For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials,