salary for extra services of two hundred dollars per annum, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to audit and pay out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the salaries of the R. M. Clark. present incumbent and his predecessor, R. M. Clark, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum for their services. District marshals. Advertisements, notices, &c. may be printed in three All acts au For compensation of the district marshals, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of section ten of an act "making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, newspapers in and for other purposes," approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixthe District of ty-seven, be, and they are hereby, extended to one additional newspaper Columbia, &c. 1867, ch.167, 10. in the District of Columbia from the date of the approval of said act, the Vol. xiv. p. 467. same to be selected by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts authorthorizing publication of debates izing the publication of the debates in Congress are hereby repealed from of Congress re- and after the fourth day of March next, and the joint committee on pealed from March 4, 1869. printing is hereby authorized and required to invite proposals for the Proposals to be publication of the actual proceedings and debates in Congress, upon a made for publi- plan and specifications to be previously published by them, and shall also ceedings and de- ascertain the cost of such publication by the superintendent of public printing, and shall report as soon as practicable such proposals and estimate of cost, together with a bill to provide for the publication of the debates and proceedings of Congress. cation of pro bates, &c. See post, p. 347. Advertisements, &c. in District of Co lumbia, Mary land, and Vir ginia to be pubfished in certain newspapers; for other States, &c. not to be published in these papers, unless, &c. Pay of nightwatchmen at Treasury Department increased. Appropriation. vate individuals SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all advertisements, notices, proposals for contracts, executive proclamations, treaties, and laws to be published in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, shall be published in the papers now selected under the provisions of section ten of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," and shall also be published in the paper selected under the provisions of the second section of this act: Provided, That no advertisement to any State, District, or Territory other than the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia, shall be published in the papers designated, unless at the direction first made of the proper head of a department. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each night watchman at the Treasury Department shall, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, receive a compensation of nine hundred dollars per annum, and an amount sufficient to pay said increased compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby appropriated. Paintings, &c. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That no statuary, paintings, or other belonging to pri- articles, the property of private individuals, shall hereafter be allowed to not to be exhib- be exhibited in the rotunda or any other portion of the capitol building; ited in capitol and it shall be the duty of the superintendent in charge of the public building. buildings to remove all such statuary, paintings, or other articles, being the property of private individuals, now in the capitol. APPROVED, July 20, 1868. Superintend ent to remove those now there. July 20, 1868. CHAP. CLXXVII. Civil expenses appropriation. An Act making Appropriations for sundry civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, viz. — loans and treas done at govern 1852, ch. 106. Miscellaneous. For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the Expenses of several acts of Congress authorizing loans and the issue of treasury ury notes; notes, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the said sum shall be used to pay commissions for the no part for purchase, sale, or conversion of the bonds or notes of the United States: commissions. And provided further, That all necessary letter-press printing and book- Printing and binding, in all the departments and bureaus, shall be done and executed at binding to be the government printing-office, and not elsewhere, except registered bonds ment office, and written records, which may be bound as heretofore at the department. except, &c. For carrying out the provisions of the acts of the thirtieth of August, and local inspec Supervising eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of tors of steampassengers on vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and of the boats. acts amendatory thereof, the following sums, to wit: For the salaries of Vol. x. p. 61. the supervising and local inspectors, eighty thousand four hundred dollars; for the travelling expenses of the supervising inspectors, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no supervising inspector shall be allowed for travel in his district in any one year a greater sum that one thousand dollars; for the travelling travel. expenses of the local inspectors, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided further, That no local inspector shall be allowed for travel in any one year a greater sum than five hundred dollars. For the travelling expenses of a special agent of the department, one thousand five hundred dollars; for the expenses of the meeting of the board of supervising inspectors, including travel, printing of manual and report, three thousand five hundred dollars, and there shall be but one meeting annually of the said board, which shall be at the ing of superviscity of Washington on the second Wednesday of January in each year; for stationery, for furniture of offices and repair thereof, for repair and transportation of instruments, and for fuel and lights, fifteen thousand dollars. For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electrical telegraph, forty thousand dollars. For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other frauds upon the government, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Limit to amount for Special agent. Annual meet ing inspectors. Furniture and repair of instru ments. Telegraph between Atlantic and Pacific States. Detection of counterfeiting and frauds. Collection of To meet expenses incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, fifteen thousand dollars, to be disbursed under the claims due the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. United States. Details of For supplying deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled Sick and disseamen, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter abled seamen. the Secretary of the Treasury shall communicate at each annual session amounts collectof Congress a full and complete statement in detail of the amounts col- ed and expendlected from seamen, and also the amount expended for sick and disabled ed to be given. seamen, in accordance with the provisions of the act of May third, eigh- Vol. ii. p. 192. teen hundred and two. For salaries of commissioners under "An act to provide for the revision and consolidation of the statute laws of the United States," approved June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for clerical services and other incidental expenses, the printing to be done by the government printing-office, seventeen thousand dollars. 1802, ch. 51. Revision, &c. of statutes. Commissioners, printing, &c. 1866, ch. 140. Vol. xiv. p. 74. Messengers conveying elec toral vote of For payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. States. Towards rebuilding the United States Military Asylum for disabled Rebuilding soldiers at Togus, near Augusta, Maine, destroyed by accidental fire, military asylum near Augusta, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the building shall be completed without any further appropriation by the government. Me. Proviso. Congressional Globe and Ap For the payment for the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twenty pendix. Appropriation for coast survey. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Western coast. thousand dollars; to be taken from the appropriation heretofore made and unexpended for the purchase of one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each senator and representative who has not already received them. Survey of the Coast. - For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred and Publishing ob- thirty thousand dollars. servations, &c. Engineers for steamers used in coast survey. 1858, ch. 154. Vol. xi. p. 820. Vessels. Northern and north western lakes. Lighthouse establishment. Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts. Lighthouse at Trowbridge Point in Thun der Bay, Michigan; Vol. xiv. p. 425. at Bailey's Harbor, Lake Michigan. Repairs and incidental expenses. Keepers of lighthouses, beacons, and light-vessels. Seamen's wages, &c. Beacons and buoys. Fog signals. Inspection of lights. Rose Island. Watch Hill, &c. For publishing the observations made in the progress of the coast survey of the United States, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, five thousand dollars. For pay and rations of engineers for steamers used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, per act of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, ten thousand dollars. For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the coast survey, thirty thousand dollars. Northern and Northwestern Lakes. For the survey of northern and northwestern lakes, seventy-five thousand dollars. Lighthouse Establishment. For the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific Coasts, viz. For supplying the lighthouses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, chamois skins, whiting, spirits of wine, polishing powder, cleaning towels, brushes, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and forty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That the lighthouse board be, and hereby is, authorized to apply the amount heretofore appropriated "for building a lighthouse on a proper site at Trowbridge Point, in Thunder Bay, in the State of Michigan," to building a lighthouse on a more eligible site, if such can be found in the immediate vicinity: And provided further, That the appropriation now available for rebuilding the lighthouse at Bailey's Harbor, Lake Michigan, be applied to the erection of a new structure between that point and North Bay, and upon its completion the light at Bailey's Harbor shall be discontinued. For the necessary repairs and incidental expenses, improving and refitting lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, two hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of five hundred and eighty-nine keepers of lighthouses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars. For salaries of keepers of light-vessels, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars. For seamen's wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses, of twenty-four light-vessels, two hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of beacons and buoys, and for chains and sinkers for the same, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses of refitting and improving fogsignals and buildings connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. For a lighted beacon on Rose Island, Narraganset Bay, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and renovations at Watch Hill, North Dumpling, and Saybrook light-station, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. For a fog-signal at Eaton's neck light station, three thousand dollars. For the erection of a permanent buoy on Success Rock, Long Island Sound, three thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Brockway's Reach and Bordeo's Flats beacons, eleven thousand four hundred dollars. For protecting the lighthouse site at Barnegat, New Jersey, seven thousand dollars. For a new lantern at Delaware Breakwater light-station, two thousand dollars. For range lights on Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor, fifteen thousand dollars. For day beacons on Oyster Rocks, mouth of Savannah River, two thousand dollars. Eaton's Neck. Success Rock. Brockway's Reach, &c. Barnegat. Delaware Breakwater. Sullivan's Island. Oyster Rocks. For rebuilding the lighthouse at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and fitting Cape Canaveit up with a first-order catadioptric light, in addition to former appropria- ral. tions, thirty thousand dollars. For reimbursing the keepers at Timbalier lighthouse the loss of their private property, destroyed with the lighthouse, four hundred dollars. For range lights at Bailey's Harbor, Wisconsin, six thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Beaver Island light station, five thousand dollars. Keepers at Timbalier lighthouse. Bailey's Har bor. Beaver Island. For renovating and relighting the lighthouse on Michigan Island, Lake Michigan Superior, six thousand dollars. Island. Copper Har- For a range of lights for Copper Harbor, Lake Superior, with a fogbell or such other ear-signal as the Secretary of the Treasury on the bor recommendation of the lighthouse board may adopt, in addition to former appropriations, five thousand dollars. For a first-order lighthouse at Point Año Nuevo, or vicinity, California, ninety thousand dollars. For a steam lighthouse tender for the twelfth district, to replace the one wrecked on the coast of California, ninety thousand dollars. For one buoy and lighthouse tender for service on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, forty thousand dollars. For enabling the lighthouse board to experiment with new illuminating apparatus and fog-signals, in addition to former appropriations, one thou sand dollars. Point Año, Nuevo. Steam lighthouse tender, for California; Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Experiments with new illumi nating apparatus and fog signals. Re-establish For enabling the lighthouse board to re-establish lights and other aids to navigation on the southern coast, in addition to former appropriations, ing lights, &c. one hundred thousand dollars. For compensation of two superintendents of the life-saving stations on For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingencies of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars. on Southern coast. Life-saving stations on Long Island and New Jersey; Contingencies. Revenue cut Revenue Cutter Service. For pay of officers and pilots, four hundred and eight thousand six hundred dollars: Provided, That hereafter ter service. no expenses of the revenue marine shall be paid out of any other fund than that herein specified. For rations for officers and pilots, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars. For pay of petty officers and crew, three hundred and eighty thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For rations for petty officers and crew, one hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars. For fuel, one hundred thousand dollars. For repairs and outfits, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of revenue marine, how to be paid. Five of the six steam revenue cutters on the lakes, to be laid up, &c. Certain revenue cutters to be withdrawn from Atlantic coast. Construction branch of Treasury Department. Portland, Me. Portland. Philadelphia. Des Moines. Madison. Portland, Ore gon. Proviso. Springfield, Ill. Bangor. Cairo. Ogdensburg. Repairs, &c. of public buildings. Furniture. Heating. ⚫Vaults and safes. North wing of treasury building. Repairs, &c. of treasury building. Branch mint For supplies of ship-chandlery, fifty thousand eight hundred dollars. For travelling expenses, five thousand dollars: Provided, That five of the six steam revenue cutters stationed upon the northern and northwestern lakes and their tributaries shall be laid up, and that no more of the money appropriated by this act shall be paid on their account than so much as may be necessary for their safe and proper care and keeping; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to lay up and withdraw from commission every revenue cutter off the Atlantic coast, bays, [and] gulfs, not actually required and needed for constant service. Construction Branch of the Treasury Department. For the construction of a custom-house at Portland, Maine, one hundred thousand dollars. For the construction of a building, to be used as custom-house and post-office, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of a barge office at New York, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of a building, to be used as a court-house and post-office, at Portland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of appraisers' stores at Philadelphia, fifty thousand dollars. For the construction of a public building at Des Moines, Iowa, for a court-house, post-office, and the accommodation of officers of the United States, eighty-nine thousand and eight dollars. For the construction of a public building at Madison, Wisconsin, for a court-house, post-office, and the accommodation of officers of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. For construction of a public building for a custom-house, United States court-room, and post-office, at Portland, Oregon, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That said building, when completed, shall not cost more than one hundred thousand dollars. For the construction of a public building at Springfield, Illinois, for a court-house, post-office, and the accommodation of officers of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. For completion of the extension and repairs of the custom-house at Bangor, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For the construction of post-office and custom-house at Cairo, Illinois, forty-nine thousand dollars. For the completion of the custom-house and post-office building at Ogdensburg, New York, forty thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of custom-houses and other public buildings, fifty thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture for the same, twenty thousand dollars. For heating apparatus for custom-houses and other public buildings, thirty-five thousand dollars. For vaults and safes for depositaries, twenty-five thousand dollars. For vaults for north wing of treasury building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fitting up fixtures and furniture for the north wing of treasury building, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the north wing of the treasury building and the approaches, including fittings and fixtures, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For repairs of the east front, and incidental repairs of the entire building, fifteen thousand dollars. For completion of the branch mint building at Carson City, Nevada, at Carson City, fencing the grounds, and for machinery, fixtures, and apparatus, and for Nevada. Mint and branches to re putting up the same, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the mint of the United States, and branches, shall continue to refine not to contract gold and silver bullion, and no contract to exchange crude or unparted to exchange, &c. bullion for refined bars shall be made until authorized by law. fine bullion, and |