under authority of the act of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,1854, ch. 242.Vol. x. pp. 561, 562. eleven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose.
Botanic Garden. Botanic Garden.-For procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, purchasing trees and sh[r]ubs for botanic garden, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, twenty-three hundred dollars.
For pay of horticulturist and assistants in the botanic garden and green-houses, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, five thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.
Deficiency, executive expenses in Kansas.For deficiency in the executive extraordinary expenses in Kansas Territory during the administration of Governor John W. Geary, six hundred and ninety dollars and forty cents.
For introducing the Potomac water into the botanic garden, and building a cistern thereon, one thousand dollars.
Exploring expedition. For completing certain volumes of the Exploring Expedition now nearly finished, and pay of superintendent, the sum of eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and five cents.
Payment of stores for volunteers in Washington Territory. To enable the Secretary of War to pay for the purchase of stores furnished for the use of volunteers engaged in suppressing Indian hostilities in the Territory of Washington during the late Indian hostilities in that territory, seven thousand dollars, with interest from the time the money was advanced by Governor Douglas for said purchase.
Payment of volunteers in Florida war. For the payment of volunteers employed in Florida during the years eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and who were called into service by requisition of the President on the governor of that State, the sum of four hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the amount found due for the time said troops were actually in the service of the United States: Proviso. Provided, That no greater pay or commutations be allowed than are authorized by law to similar troops of the United States army.
Repairs of Long Bridge. For repairs of the Long Bridge over the Potomac at Washington, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
Payment to John F. Callan. To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to pay to John F. Callan for stone taken from square number five hundred and sixty-two, in Washington city, and used in paving New Jersey avenue, one hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Peter Lammond allowed $534.77 in settlement of accounts.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the First Comptroller of the Treasury do allow, in the adjustment of the accounts of Peter Lammond, disbursing clerk of the Interior Department, the sum of five hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents, paid to A. G. Cochran.
Lots of land in Philadelphia to be sold at auction. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the lot of ground in the city of Philadelphia heretofore agreed to be purchased by the United States from the American Philosophical Society, as a site for a court-house shall be sold at public auction to the highest and best bidder, and that the lot in said city heretofore purchased from the Bank of Pennsylvania for a post-office shall also be sold at public auction for the best price it will bring. Proviso.Minimum price. Provided, That said lots shall not be sold for an aggregate sum of less than two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Appropriation of money from said sale, for purchase of land in Philadelphia for post-office and the court-house.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum or sums of money
raised by the sale of the lots and grounds authorized to be sold by the
preceding section of this act, together with the unexpended balance of
the appropriation for the construction of a post-office at Philadelphia be
applied and expended as follows, to wit: for the purchase of the first lot
west of the custom-house, commonly known as the Levy Corner, a sum
not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of
