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538 THlR.TY—FIRST CONGRESS. Szss. I. Ch. 90. l850. their reception; and bind themselves to keep rooms for the accommodation of twelve pauper patients weekly on an average during the year. The Mall. For completing the grading, planting with trees, and enclosing with a substantial wooden fence for their protection, the Mall from Sixth Street westward to the Potomac River, five thousand dollars. Sewers from For extending the sewers from the executive department and the °?°°“l‘g*,mm,;“: President’s house to the canal, and for further improving the grounds Ezugizuhy v south of the President’s house, fifteen thousand dollars. Balance due For paying a balance due the contractors for laying gas pipes be- °°Q¤'**°*°" . f°’ tween the Capitol and Fifteenth Street, within the Capitol and Capitol laying gas pipes' grounds, and for chandeliers and burners in the President’s house, and completing the brpnch pipes, lamps, dec., within the Capitol grounds, three thousand do lars. Continuing For continuing the sewer under Pennsylvania Avenue, on the east §;’$'sy,vMB;‘d°' line of Fourteenth-Street, to the canal, three thousand dollars; to be Avenue. expended under the direction of the commissioner of public buildin s. Exferzsivu of Tor the extension of the Capitol, according to such plan as may be °h° C“P‘t°l' approved by the President of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars; to be expended under his direction, by such architect as he may appoint to execute the same. Itemissibn or That the duties now due the United States upon a certain importa-

 b°°$: tion of printed books, contained in three cases, marked one hundred

Hill and sem, and ninety-three, one hundred and ninety-five, and three, and hipped by William Cricknor, from London, England, in the ship J`. W. Andrews, unto Messrs. Hill and Sears, Boston, the value of said books being seventy-eight pounds four shillings and sixpence sterling, be, and Y1’¢>Vi¤¤· the same are hereby, remitted: Provided, It shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that such books have not been imported for sale, but for charitable and gratuitous circulation by certain religious societies in the United States. Bishop of Nat- For refunding to John Joseph Chance, bishop of Natchez, the duties dl"' paid on a cathedral bell, presented to said bishop by Prince Alexander Torlonia, of Rome, two hundred and fifty dollars. _Mary1am1H0s- For the expenses of pauper lunatics in the Maryland Hospital at PML Baltimore, eight thousand six hundred dollars. Annuities. For payment of annuities and grants by special acts of Congress, seven hundred and lift dollars. _SecretaEy to For compensation oi Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one ZE; hm P“°' thousand five hundred dollars. ° Additional For compensation of two additional watchmen on the Capitol

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C,,,,,,,,,,,},,,,,,, For compensation of the commissioner of public buildings, two or public build- thousand dollars. "‘$,?,,°E,,me°us For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise proclaims. vided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the Treas- P*°'i¤°· ury, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the appropria- ‘ tion shall be drawn from the Treasury, except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress authorizing the expenditure. Lana _ omses For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivmd "°°"°"‘ GIS og gpblic moneys, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand and seventy dollars. Expenses or For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public ,‘l;P!‘;*2;:*€ Pub` moneys, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars. Iueiuelipii 1;:5 FQ or irgczpntlal pxpenses of the several land offices, twenty-five thou- Penses o san an y ol ars. °§,°:,:},_,,t mM_ For salaries ·of assistant treasurers of the United States at NSW umu. §<H'k, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, eleven thousand Eve hundred 0 ars.