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hundred and forty dollars; five messengers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; six messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve messengers, to be employed during the session of congress, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum; chaplain to the House of Representatives, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making one hundred and nine thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars.

Contingent expenses of House.

For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:

Cartage. For cartage, two thousand dollars.

Congressional Globe and Appendix. For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the first regular session of the thirty-ninth congress, and one hundred copies of the same for the House library, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.

Clerks to committees, &c., and temporary clerks. For the compensation of clerks to committees, and temporary clerks in the office of the clerk of the House of Representatives, eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars.

For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken,Globe and Appendix. one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, ten thousand nine hundred dollars.

For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each representative and delegateSets to new members. in the first session of the thirty-ninth congress, who has not already received the same, twenty-three thousand dollars.

Folding. For folding documents, including materials, thirty thousand dollars.

Fuel, lights, &c. For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs, and materials, fifteen thousand dollars.

Furniture, &c. For furniture, repairs, and packing-boxes for members, ten thousand dollars.

Horses, carriages, &c. For horses, carriages, and saddle-horses, nine thousand dollars.

Laborers. For laborers, eight thousand four hundred dollars.

Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars.

Newspapers. For newspapers, one thousand dollars.

Pages, &c. For pages and temporary mail-boys, ten thousand and eighty dollars.

Reporting, &c., in Daily Globe. For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, twenty thousand dollars.

Stationery. For stationery, twelve thousand dollars.

Additional pay to reporters. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the House for the first regular session of the thirty-ninth congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars.

Tiling of floor of old House. For completing the tiling of the floor of the old hall of representatives, under the same authority that the work has already been done, three thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Public printing.
Pay of superintendent, &c.
Public Printing.—For compensation of the superintendent of the public printing, and the clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars.

Contingencies. For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For stationery, postage, advertising, furniture, travelling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars.

Additions to printing-office. For addition to the public printing-office and the necessary presses, machinery, and fixtures, sixty-one thousand dollars; so much thereof to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior as may be necessary for the erection of said addition.

Public printing. For the public printing, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents.

Paper for printing. For paper for the public printing, six hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty dollars.

Binding. For the public binding, three hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and ten dollars and twenty-four cents.