470 THIRTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168. 1867 Atlantic Ca.- sending telcgraphic despatches over the Atlantic cable, thirty thousand "’°· dollars for the current year. r Custom-house For preservation and care of the unfinished custom-house building at iu °h“'1°“°°· Charleston, South Carolina, and fitting up the interior to provide suitable offices for the use of the United States, including court-rooms, twenty-five thousand dollars. Beacons in To enable the lighthouse board to erect in the lower bay of New York N" Y°‘"k bay' one or more permanent beacons, forty-five thousand dollars. American To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase the stereotype °°*“" P“°"· plates and copyright of the American Coast Pilot, twenty thousand dollars. R68mm_ gm T0 enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into efect the provision 0f l¤¤d ¤6i¤¢S· of the seventh section of the act of Congress entitled “An act granting 18i,6,;,°;h:6;é;7‘ the right of way to ditch and canal owners over public lands, and for °` other purposes," approved July twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty- six, thirty-six thousand dollars. G¤<>l0Sl<=¤l Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the uncxpended balance of the
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aside for the purpose of procuring a geological survey of Nebraska, said survey to be prosecuted under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office. Ten cents s Sec. 3. And be it jlartber enacted, That upon all merchandise gaugeable f££;‘;g° ;Q;e_ by law hereafter exported upon which drawback or return duty is allowed, nm, ,:,,,,,,5 &'g_ and upon all goods gaugeable by law withdrawn from bonded warehouses xgtlédaaxgrgcm for export, there shall be levied and collected by the collectors of the ,1 on ses, or on several ports ten cents per cask. which drawback S20. 4. And be at further enacted, That the gaugers at the port of is §U§>W°d·t_ New York shall receive, from and after the first day of April, eighteen uzegyag New hundred and sixty-seven, an annual salary of two thousand dollars: daorli; Provided, That the amount of compensation of said 0{licers as hereby “°* t° °*°°°d established shall not exceed in any fiscal year the amount of fees earned amount of fees. by them. I6 Claiimcei lzgf- Sim. 5. And he t': jim/zer enacted, That the second section of an act maybe gah making approprmtions for Isundry civil expenses of the government, 1866,ch. 28,QB. approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby so 1****% P· 28- amended as to authorize and require the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors, Butler and Carpenter, the sum of twenty thousand dollars in full of all their claims for indemnity therein referred to. Transfer of Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That tho surplus sum of two thouzzzgiumkgufz sand dollars, now standing on the books of the treasury to the credit of library or con. a fund to enable the joint committee on the library to carry out a contract gffskm 570 with William H. Powell, authorized by a joint resolution approved March `P`second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for a picture illustrative of some naval victory, (said sum being in excess of the amount required to carry ‘ out said contract,) is hereby transferred to the fund for the purchase of books for the library of Congress. Pay of deputy SEO. 7. And be it further enacted, That the deputy surveyor at the port
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to the deputy collector at said port. Puy <>f*¤¤[¤P°· Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the temporary clerks in the
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genemvs oSce. paid to first-class clerks, to take efcct from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and a sum sufficicnt to pay _ the same is hereby appropriated. digg:;'*€$d°§s i Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the district of the {mega judge of the district of Calilbrnia. shall be five thousand dollars. The States com-u. salary of the district judge of the district of Louisiana shall be four thousand five hundred dollars. The salary of the district judge of the district of Massachusetts, northern, southern, and eastern districts of New
