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THIRTY—FIR.ST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90. 1850. 533 For the purchase of law books, and the necessary book-cases for Law books. said office, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, Reporter of thirteen hundred dollars, if one volume only of the reports·shall be S¤P¥¤¤¤¢ C<>¤¤*· published, as heretofore; and in case the Supreme Court shall direct him to publish two volumes, then the sum of thirteen hundred dollars for each volume so published. For compensation of the district attorneys, being two hundred dol- District attorlars each, as prescribed by law, eight thousand four hundred dol- MYS- lars. For compensation of the marshals, seven thousand dollars. Marshals. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and District Expensesbf U. Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and Sm"' °°“"S· also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred in the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and previous years, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, five hundred and fifty- seven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For compensation for the clerk of the district judge of Florida, em- _C1erk of dis ployed in keeping and making transcripts of the records of the decis- %“i°*.dl“‘l8° °f ions of said judge in certain matters submitted to him by the Secretary on a' of the Treasury, the compensation for said service to be audited and allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, nine hundred dollars. Lighthouse Establishment. —For supplying lighthouses, contain- Supplies. ing three thousand one hundred and ten lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buff-skins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation, and other expenses thereon, and for repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, one hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and nineteen cents. For providing surf-boats, life-boats, and other means for the preser- Surf and lifevation of life and property shipwrecked on the coast of the United l’°“*’*· States, ten thousand dollars; to be expended under the control and direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of Repairslighthouses, and buildings connected therewith, eighty-four thousand six hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents. For salaries of three hundred and two keepers of lighthouses, and Lighthouse twenty assistants, (twenty-five of them charged with double and two k°°P°’S· with triple lights,) and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of an inspector of lights on the upper lakes, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty- three cents. For salaries of forty keepers of floating lights, twenty-one thousand Floating lights. seven hundred and fifty dollars. For seamen’s wages, repairs and supplies of forty floating lights, seventyfone thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and seventy- seven cents. For expenses of weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing losses of B¢¤¢0¤¤. &¢- beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents. For expenses of superintendents in visiting lighthouses annually, and Superintead reporting their condition, two thousand dollars. °““· For superintendents' commissions, at two and a half per cent., on Commissions. the four hundred and ninety-four thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-one cents, appropriated above for lighthouse purposes, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty proviso ,,8 t,, Gents: Provided, That collectors, whose compensation exceeds twenty- ¤¤1>¢ri¤¢¢¤d¢¤*·¤·