530 THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90. 1850. For compensation of the assistant surgeon, clerks, and messengers in the office of the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, four thousand three hundred dollars. Contingencies. Contingencies of the Navy Department, — For contingencies of the Navy Department, and all the bureaus connected therewith, namely: For blank books, binding, stationery, printing, labor, office rent, and fuel, seven thousand two hundred dollars. South-west ex- For compensation of superintendent and three watchmen of the °°“*iV° b“udl°B· south-west executive building, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, the salary of the three watchmen being increased from three hundred and sixty-tive dollars to five hundred dollars each per annum, from hrst of July, eighteen hundred and fifty. For contingent expenses of said building, namely, labor, fuel, and light, one thousand six hundred and seventy-f·ive dollars. For miscellaneous items, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Y<>¤*m¤·¤¢¢r· Post·Office Department.—-For compensation of the Postmaster- B°°°"l‘ General, six thousand dollars. Surveyor-gem Surveyors-General and their Clerks. -—— For compensation of the sur-
- ‘,‘g,h,‘;°‘°h"'°“* veyor-general north-west of the Ohio, and the clerks in his olhce, eight
' thousand three hundred dollars. Illinois and For compensation of the surveyor-general of Illinois and Missouri, m”°“'i- and the clerks in his office, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Louisiana. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Louisiana, and the clerks in his office, four thousand five hundred dollars. Florida., For compensation of the surveyor-general of Florida, and the clerks in his office, five thousand five hundred dollars. IJ5;S¢<>¤¤i¤ wd For compensation of the surveyor-general of Wisconsin and Iowa, ' and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars. H Clerks in of'· For clerks in the offices of the surveyors·general, to be apportioned g;;f,f“'Y°y°" to them according to the exigencies of the public service, aud, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing field-notes of surveys, for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, twenty thousand dollars. Arl¢¤¤¤¤-¤· For compensation of surveyor-general of Arkansas, per act of eighth 1846* °h' 106* of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand dollars. `For compensation of clerks in his office, per act of eighth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, six thousand three hundred dollars. Michigan. For re-surveying and correcting erroneous surveys in Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, twenty thousand dollars. Mint of the United States. — At Philadelphia. 0m°°”· For salaries of the director, treasurer, chief coiner, assayer, meltcr and refiner, engraver, assistant assayer, and their clerks, tWcnty·0nB thousand dollars, and the employment of au additional clerk, at twelve hundred dollars per annum, is hereby authorized. Workmen. For wages of workmen, thirty-two thousand dollars. Contingencies. For incidental and contingent expenses, including fuel, materials, stationery, water rent, repairs, and wastage, in addition to available Proviso _£or funds on hand, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That to enable {’0“";l;:‘f,:’;,2§>l,‘; the President of the United States to obtain for the United States, if ar macuuoh & he shall deem it expedient to do so, the right to use the improved meth- Boothe. ods of refining argentiferous gold bullion, recently discovered, and being patented to R., S. McCulloh and James C. Boothe, or the right to use any other method of accomplishing the same object which may be hereafter discovered aud patented, there be appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousanddollars. Specimens. For specimens of ores and coins, to be reserved at the mint, three hundred dollars.
