SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the number Additional Innow allowed by law, the President be authorized to appoint one Indian dian agent East of Rocky Mounagent east of the Rocky Mountains, at a salary of one thousand five tains. hundred dollars.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior Investigation be authorized and required to cause an investigation to be had of the and report upon Indian depredaclaims for depredations by Indians in the Territory of New Mexico, that tions in New may have been heretofore made and filed in the Department of the Inte- Mexico. rior, and report to the next session of Congress, or as soon as practicable, the facts in each case, and particularly enumerating such as come within the provisions of the intercourse law, and for which in his opinion indemnity should be provided by Congress: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to bind the United States to make payment of said claims.

taw schools.

Vol. vii. p. 337.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior An unpaid balbe and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay the amount of six- ance to be exteen thousand and twenty-four dollars and eighty cents, the unclaimed pended to Chocbalance of the Choctaw orphan fund, arising from sales of lands under the nineteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty, to the Choctaw national authorities, to aid in the establishment of orphan schools and asylums in that nation, on condition, nevertheless, that said nation shall refund at any time, on the demand of the Secretary of the Interior, such amount as may be necessary to pay any claimant, his heirs or assigns, who may hereafter claim and establish a right to the same to the satisfaction of the said Secretary.

APPROVED, August 18, 1856.

CHAP. CXXIX.-An Act making Appropriations for certain Civil Expenses of the Govern- Aug. 18, 1856. ment for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Post, p. 147. and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, viz:

Survey of the Coast.-For survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United States, (including compensation to superintendent and assistants, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers, and men of the navy employed on the work,) two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, (excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers, and men of the navy employed on the work,) forty thousand dollars.

For running a line to connect the triangulation on the Atlantic coast, with that on the Gulf of Mexico, across the Florida peninsula, fifteen thousand dollars.

For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.

For repairs and alterations of steamers "Hetzel" and Vixen, and of sailing vessels employed in the coast survey, fifteen thousand dollars.

For fuel and quarters, and for mileage and transportation for officers and enlisted soldiers of the army serving in the coast survey, in cases no longer provided by the quartermaster's department, ten thousand dollars.

Coast survey.

Miscellaneous

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, five claims. thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of some law or resolution of Congress auth[or]izing the expenditure.

VOL. XI. PUB.-11

Seamen.

Light-house establishment.

1851, ch. 32.

Vol. ix. pp. 598,

608.

Pacific coast.

1851, ch. 32.

Vol. ix. pp. 598, 608.

Light-houses. Coffin's Patches.

To supply the deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Light-House Establishment. For supplying five hundred and eleven light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamoisskins, polishing powder, whiting and cleaning materials, transportation and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents.

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of all the light-houses, and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty

one cents.

For salaries of five hundred and forty-three keepers of light-houses and light-beacons and their assistants, and including one thousand two hundred dollars for salary of superintendent of supplies on the upper lakes, two hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred dollars.

For salaries of fifty-one keepers of light-vessels, twenty-nine thousand and fifty dollars.

For seamen's wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of fiftyone light-vessels, one hundred and ninety-four thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars.

For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring and supplying losses of buoys and day beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, one hundred and seven thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-eight

cents.

For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars.

For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same under the proviso to the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes," on the amount that may be disbursed by them, eight thousand dollars.

For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. For oil and other supplies for twenty-three lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, forty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventyfive cents.

For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty-three lights, and buildings connected therewith, twenty-four thousand five hundred and sixtythree dollars.

For salaries of forty-six keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.

For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons and buoys, and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars.

For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same under the proviso to the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes," on the amount that may be disbursed by them, one thousand dollars.

For completing the light-house near Coffin's Patches, off Dry Bank,

on the Florida reef, between Carysfort Reef and Sand Key light-houses, twenty-four thousand one hundred and five dollars and sixty cents.

For completing the light-house on Ship shoal, Louisiana, to take the Ship shoal, (La.) place of the light-vessel at that point, thirty-eight thousand and nineteen

dollars and seventy cents.

For continuing the construction of the light-house on the rocks called Sow and Pigs. the "Sow and Pigs," near the entrance to Buzzard's bay, in Massachu

setts, twenty thousand dollars.

For continuing the construction of the light-house on Minot's Ledge, Minot's Ledge. one of the Cohasset Rocks, Boston bay, Massachusetts, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For restoring the bracing, and repairing injuries to the iron screw-pile ght-house on Brandywine shoal, by the breaking up of the ice in the Delaware river and bay, seven thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars and three cents.

shoal.

Brandywine

For restoring and repairing beacons, buoys, and spindles destroyed or Beacons, buoys, injured by the breaking up of the ice on the coasts of Maine and Massa- &c. chusetts, in Long Island sound, and in Newark, New York, Delaware, and Chesapeake bays, forty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars.

For restoring lost moorings, and repairing injuries to light-vessels, by Moorings and the breaking up of the ice in Vineyard sound, Boston and Chesapeake light-vessels. bays, fourteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars and

fifty-four cents.

For the erection of a "boarding station at Pass a l'Outre, in Louisiana, twelve thousand dollars.

For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the Quartermaster's department, five thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty-eight cents.

Boarding sta

tion at Pass a l'Outre.

Mint at San Francisco.

For enlarging the mint at San Francisco, California, forty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase-money agreed by the Secretary of the Interior to be Site for Court paid, on the part of the United States, for the purchase of a lot and house in Philadelphia. building for the use of the United States courts at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, seventy-eight thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; but said payment is not to be paid until the Attorney-General's certificate is produced to the Secretary of the Treasury that a valid, unencumbered title is become vested in the United States.

Site for post

delphia.

For the purchase of the lot or parcel of land, with the appurtenances and buildings thereon, belonging to the Bank of Pennsylvania, and par- office in Philaticularly referred to and described in articles of agreement bearing date the twelfth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, for the purposes of a post-office in the city of Philadelphia, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be expended for the purchase aforesaid, until the Attorney General of the United States shall give his written opinion in favor of the validity of the title of said lot or parcel of land.

Alterations of building

thereon.

For the purpose of making alterations required in the building hereby authorized to be purchased of the Bank of Pennsylvania, to adapt it to the the uses of a post-office in the city of Philadelphia and to furnish the necessary cases and boxes for the same, fifty thousand dollars.

Court-house in

That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to enable the President to procure and pay for a site for a building for the accommodation of the United States courts in the city of Baltimore, and to erect thereon a fire-proof building for such Baltimore. purpose, on such plan as the President may approve; and the further sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be

site therefor.

necessary, for a post-office in the said city; and the President is hereby authorized to reconsider the conditional contract heretofore made by him with the Merchants Exchange Company and to appoint a commissioner to whom, together with another commissioner, to be appointed by the Selection of mayor of Baltimore, he shall refer the question of the selection of a site or site and building for said post-office; and if said commissioners disagree they shall choose a third, and the said commissioners shall make their decision and submit the same to the President for his approval; and if the President approve their selection, his approval shall be final; and if he disapprove their selection, the whole subject shall be referred by him to Congress at their next session. Provided, That no part of the money shall be applied for the erection of such buildings till a contract shall be concluded with responsible parties, with detailed plans and estimates to erect and complete such buildings according to such plan and estimates. and to deliver the same to the United States for or within the sum above appropriated, after paying thereout for the land contracted for by the President, under the authority of law, for the site of such buildings. For raising the roof of the marine hospital at Natchez, Mississippi, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Marine hospitals.

Custom-house

and post-office at Cincinnati.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase for the United States, the lot in the rear of marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama, six thousand dollars.

For the completion of the marine hospitals at St. Mark's, Florida, and Galena, Illinois:

For St. Mark's, seventeen thousand dollars.

For Galena, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For completing the custom-house and post-office building at Cincinnati, Ohio, with all necessary additions, appendages, and accommodations, thirty-five thousand dollars.

Marine hospi- For fencing and grading the grounds of the marine hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

tals.

Custom-house

For completing the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For annual repairs of marine hospitals, twenty thousand dollars.

For the continuation of the custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana,

at New Orleans. three hundred thousand dollars.

Court-room and post-office at Canandaigua.

Custom-house

at Oswego.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to procure a lease from the Board of Supervisors of Ontario county, New York, for a court-room and post-office at Canandaigua, New York, and to furnish the same, twelve thousand dollars.

For enclosing and grading the lot, constructing pavements, and cisterns, and introducing gas for the custom-house at Oswego, New York, five thousand dollars.

For fencing and grading the grounds, completing and furnishing the At Barnstable. custom-house at Barnstable, Massachusetts, nine thousand eight hundred seventy dollars eighty cents.

Bridge at Bangor.

Sale or ex

Providence.

For bridging the Kenduskead river on each side of the custom-house at Bangor, Maine, from the middle bridge to the lower bridge, five thousand three hundred dollars.

And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to sell the old custom-house and lot at Providence, Rhode Island, and apchange of custom-house at ply the proceeds thereof to the purchase of land for the enlargement of the site of the custom-house now being constructed at that place; or to exchange said old custom-house and lot for land for the enlargement of said site, if in the opinion of said Secretary it shall be more advantageous.

Board of Revisors of Laws of

For compensation of the members of the Board of Revisors appointed District of Co- in pursuance of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An act to improve the laws of the District

lumbia.

of Columbia, and to codify the same, twelve thousand dollars: Provided, That the President of the United States shall determine the sum to be received by each member of said board, the same not to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, to each during his term of service, and that the whole compensation shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated.

1855, ch. 174.

Vol. x. p. 642.

expedition.

That the officers of the late surveying and exploring expedition to the Pay of certain China seas and Bheering's Straits, who, under the orders of the Secretary officers in the of the Navy, performed the duties of grades higher than their own re- Bheering Straits spectively, shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of the pay of their own grades, the pay of the grades whose duties they performed respectively, for and during the time they performed the same, and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby directed, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to Henry Woods, and to the legal representatives of Samuel Roseburg, deceased, the sum of three dollars a day, each, for the services of the said Woods, and the said Roseburg, in superintending the construction of the building for a custom-house, post-office, and court-house at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

For completing custom-house at Pensacola, Florida, five thousand dollars in addition to the sum already appropriated.

For the completion of the marine hospital at New Orleans, in addition to the appropriation heretofore made by an act approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty cents: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to direct the said hospital to be built either of iron or of brick, or of both materials, and fire proof, as in his discretion he may deem best adapted to the climate.

Henry Woods.
Samuel Rose-

burg.

Custom-house at Pensacola.

Marine hospital at New Orleans. 1854, ch. 242,

4.

Vol. x. p. 571.

Public build

For enlarging the building provided by law to be constructed at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, for a custom-house, post-office, and court- ings at Chicago. house, over the plan heretofore adopted for that purpose, and so modifying said plan as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury the public convenience shall require, sixty-five thousand dollars, and ten per cent. on the same for contingencies: Provided, That such enlargement and modification can be completed within the sums heretofore and hereby appropriated.

Custom-house

For completing the custom-house at Norfolk, Virginia, fifty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-three cents. Provided, at Norfolk. That the proceeds that shall be received from the sale of the present custom-house shall be paid into the treasury of the United States.

Public build

R. I.

For enlarging the building provided by law to be constructed at Bristol, Rhode Island, for a post-office and court-house, over the plan adopted ings at Bristol, under the appropriation heretofore made, and so modifying said plan as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury the public convenience shall require, seven thousand five hundred dollars, and ten per centum on the same for contingencies: Provided, That such enlargement and modification shall be completed within the sums heretofore and hereby appropriated.

Court-rooms at

To complete the rooms in the city hall, Utica, New York, necessary for the proper accommodation of the United States district and circuit Utica, N. Y. courts held in said city and their offices, which was directed by the act of Congress approved thirtieth September eighteen hundred and fifty, five thousand dollars.

For the alteration and improvement of the court room in the city hall At Washington. of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the continuation of the custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, three hundred thousand dollars.

Custom-house

at Charleston.