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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 162. 1856. 113 Post- Office Department.-—For compensation of the Postmaster-Gem P. 0.Departeral, three Assistant Postmasters-General, and the clerks, messenger, ‘“°"°· assistant messengers and watehmen of said department, and for laborers employed therein, at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, per act fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and fifty thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Contingent Expenses of said Department: For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the General Post- Otlice Building, including the Auditor's Olzlice, oil, gas, and candles, day watchman, and for miscellaneous items, nine thousand Eve hundred dollars. For repairs of the General Post·Office building, for office furniture, glazing, painting, whitewashing, and for keeping the tire—places and furnaces in order, three thousand dollars. Printing for Executive Deparhncnts.—For paper and printing for the Printing for executive departments, including the annual statement of commerce and d°l’“"‘m°“l’s' navigation, and annual estimates of appropriations, fifty-tive thou and dollars Mnt of the United States.- Mint. Ai Philadehzhia.-——For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, Philadelphia. melter and retiner, chief coiner, and engraver, assistant assayer, assistant melter and refinexyand seven clerks, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, sixty-four thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses including wastage, in addition to other available funds, seventy-five 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, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of new fixtures and machinery, twenty-one thousand dollars. At New OTZeans.—For salaries of superintendent, t1‘e8.SUI‘e1‘,a.SSayG1‘, New Orleans. coiner, melter and retiner, and three clerks, eighteen thousand three hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, twenty-six thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage in addition to other available funds, eighteen thousand and te°n dollars. For the increased compensation of clerks in the branch mint at New Orleans, under the twenty-third section of the act of third March, one 1855,<>h·175» thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, for the year ending thirtieth June, ig, X 6,8 one thousand eight hundred and fifty»six, six hundred dollars.' P` ` At Charlotte, North Carolina.-—For salaries of superintendent, coiner, Glim-1otte,N.C. assayer, and clerk, six thousand ddlars. For wages of workmen, three thousand five hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage, in addition to other available funds, two thousand one hundred dollars. At Dahhmega, Georgia.—For salaries of superintendent, coiner, as- Dah1onega,Ga. sayer, and clerk, six thousand dollars. For wages of workmen, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage, in addition to other available funds, two thousand dollars. At San Framrisco, C’alt)"orn1Ia.—For salaries of superintendent, trea- SM1 Fr¤¤¤i¤<=¤·· surer, assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and five clerks, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and seventy thousand and two hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including wastage in addition to other available funds, seventy-three thousand three hundred dollars. v01.. xr. PUe.——15