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670 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 175. 1855. the purchaser or purchasers; and that the proceeds of such sales shall be paid into the treasury of the United States. _ Mode (,;-,,,.8. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the provisions contained in tim P¤1'i¤S the Mi- second section of the act entitled “AH act making appropriations $.§:,§§QQg‘§,’{f; for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government}' approved the 1844,ch. 105. seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, be required to be carried into street in all particulars, any act in conflict therewith being hereby repealed; and all estimates for the compensation of officers of the government authorized by law to be employed shall be based upon the expressed provisions of law, and not upon the authority of executive distribution thereof; and the act, and section authorizing the same, with the volume and page where such authority may be found, shall be cited in each and all estimates respectively. Settlement of Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting cmaccounts_ of T- cers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to B““l°' K‘“g‘ credit T. Butler King, late collector and depositary at San Francisco, in the sum of twelve thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents, being the amount of money proved to have been lost by the destruction of the custom-house building and vault at San Francisco, by the fire of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Additional Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed and °"‘E“"“°"“ Md aid in the manner now rovided b law four rinci al examiners and nssistsnt exum— P _ _ P Y_ v _ _ P P _ _ sims in pmm. four assistant examiners of patents, 1H addition to the examining force 0*%- now authorized bylaw, to be so employed in the Patent—OHiee; and should the necessities of the public service, in the estimation of the Commissioner of Patents, require any additional examining force to that herein provided, previous to the next session of Congress, there may also be appointed and paid in the manner now provided by law, in addition to the foregoing, not exceeding two principal and two assistant examiners, who shall not so continue to be employed subsequent to the expiration of said next session of Congress, without further provision of law. _Sslm·y ofprin- That the second section of the act of thirty-first August, eighteen hun- §Qglmf\f"]f)b‘;;\__ dred and fifty-two, which provides " that the clerks, messengers, watchvatory. men, and laborers, employed at an annual salary, or in temporary positions, 1553. ch, mg, in the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government in the City of Washington, whose annual compensation does not exceed twelve hundred dollars, shall, in addition thereto, be allowed an increase compensation of twenty per cent.," shall be construed to include the principal clerk at the National Observatory at Washington; and that hereafter the salary of said clerk shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum. D¤§<=l9¤<=y up- And one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifteen cents gtlgxzlggggfr to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for building four steam dredge bouts on the boats, in use by the W`ur Department, on Lakes “Champlain," "Erie," 1“k°'· "Michigan," and Ontario, to be applied for materials, machinery, tools, and labor furnished in painting said boats. Murine impl- Sec. 11. And be it jim/wr enacted, That the Secretary of the Tream‘ sury be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be constructed the follow- » ing buildings : -~· Bu,ungm,,,(v¤_) At Burlington, Vermont, a marine hospital, to cost not more than thirty- five thousand dollars. Wilmington, AtWilrningto1i, North Carolina, a marine hospital, including a. pest- (N·¤·) house for the separatewzceommodation of patients with contagious and infective diseases, to cost not more than forty thousand dollars. HSltes for ssid • Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the several sums mentioned °“¥"°“*“· m the preceding section, as the cost of the buildings therein authorized C ti _ to be constructed, together with ten per cent. thereon, to cover the com- °n “g°“°‘°" pensation of architects, superintendents, advertising, and other contingent expenses, and so much as may be required to purchase suitable sites for said buildings, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the pur-