For repairs of Fort Washington, on Potomac river, twenty-five thousand. dollars. For Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, two hundred thousand dollars. For fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, California, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fort at Alcatraz island, San Francisco bay, California, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For additional defences at San Francisco, California, fifty thousand dollars. For defences of Washington, three hundred thousand dollars. For field works and field operations, one million dollars. For bridge trains and equipage for armies in the field, three hundred thousand dollars. For tool and siege trains for armies in the field, five hundred thousand dollars. For surveys for military defences, for purchase of campaign maps, three hundred thousand dollars. For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including Lake Superior, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For engraving and printing charts of lake surveys, fifteen thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of instruments, twenty thousand dollars. For repairing, equipping, and enlarging Fort Porter, at Buffalo, fifty thousand dollars. Approved February 28, 1865. AN ACT relating to the enrolment and license of certain vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever it shall become necessary for the owner or owners of any vessel of the United States navigating the western rivers and the waters on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers of the United States, otherwise than by sea, and being in a district other than that to which such vessel shall belong, to procure her enrolment and license, or license, or renewal thereof, the same proceedings may be had in the district in which said vessel then shall be as are now or shall then be required by law, on application for such enrolment and license, or license, or renewal thereof, as the case may be, in the district to which such vessel may belong, excepting the giving of bond and the enrolment and issuance of license; and the officer before whom such proceedings shall be had shall certify the same to the collector of the district to which such vessel shall belong, who shall thereupon, on the said owner or owners giving bond as required in other cases, duly enrol the said vessel and issue license in the same form as if the application had originally been made in his office; and either deliver the said license to said owner or owners, or forward it by mail to the officer who certified to him the preliminary proceedings, and who shall, in such case, deliver the said license to the owner or owners or master of the vessel: Provided, That this act shall not be construed so as in any respect to change existing laws, excepting in so far as it enables such owner or owners to procure enrolment or license, or renewal thereof, without returning their vessels to their home ports or districts. Approved February 28, 1865. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the admeasurement of tonnage of ships and vessels of the United States," approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to regulate the admeasurement of tonnage of ships and vessels of the United States," approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be so construed that no part of any ship or vessel shall be admeasured or registered for tonnage that is used for cabins or state-rooms, and constructed entirely above the first deck, which is not a deck to the hull. Approved February 28, 1865. AN ACT concerning the collection district of Salem and Beverly, in Massachusetts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the office of naval officer for the district of Salem and Beverly, in the State of Massachusetts, be, and the same is hereby, abolished. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the office of surveyor for said district, to reside at Beverly, be, and the same is hereby, abolished. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the salary of surveyor of said district shall hereafter be four hundred dollars per annum. Approved February 28, 1865. AN ACT granting to the Michigan City Harbor Company the use of government piers in said harbor for the purpose of protecting said harbor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted to the Michigan City Harbor Company, at Michigan City, in the State of Indiana, the privilege of using the foundations of the old government piers now in said harbor, for the purpose of improving and protecting the said harbor, and no expense made by the said harbor company for this purpose shall be considered a charge against the government. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Michigan City, in the State of Indiana, is hereby constituted a port of delivery, subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery of the United States, and the said port of delivery is hereby annexed to, and made part of, the collection district of Chicago, in the State of Illinois. And there shall be appointed a surveyor of the customs, to reside at said port, who shall receive an annual compensation of three hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Approved February 28, 1865. AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and additional appropriations for the current fiscal year. 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, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, namely: LEGISLATIVE. For compensation and mileage of senators, two hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz: Secretary of the Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, four hundred and eighty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eight clerks in office of the Secretary of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, one thousand seven hundred and fiftytwo dollars; two messengers, at one thousand and eighty dollars, and one page, at five hundred dollars; Sergeant-at-arms and Doorkeeper, two thousand dollars; Assistant Doorkeeper, one thousand seven hundred dollars; Postmaster to the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Assistant Postmaster and mail-carrier, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two mail boys, at one thousand dollars each; superintendent of the document room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants in the document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of the folding room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; seventeen messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk or secretary to the President of the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; clerk to the Committee on Finance, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; clerk of printing records, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent in charge of the furnaces, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant in charge of furnaces, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer in charge of private passages, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and seventy-six dollars each; chaplain to the Senate, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making seventy-nine thousand six hundred and forty-six dollars. For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For stationery, seventeen thousand dollars. For newspapers, three thousand dollars. For Congressional Globe, thirty-five thousand dollars. For reporting proceedings in the Daily Globe for the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress, twenty thousand dollars. For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars. For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each senator in the 39th Congress, who has not already received them, six thousand eight hundred dollars: provided, however, that any senator who has already, as member of the House of Representatives, received a portion of a set of the Congressional Globe shall only be entitled to receive, as such senator, the additional volumes required to complete one full set. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the first regular session of the thirty-ninth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars. For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, eighteen thousand dollars. For Capitol police, nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, sixteen thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives and delegates from Territories, three hundred thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, viz: Clerk of the House of Representatives, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk and one assistant clerk, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each; eleven clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; principal messenger in the office, at four dollars and eighty cents per day, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; three messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger to the Speaker, at four dollars and eighty cents per day, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars; clerk to the Committee of Ways and Means, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; clerk to the Committee of Claims, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to Committee on Public Lands, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Sergeant-at-arms, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; clerk to the Sergeant-at-arms, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger to the Sergeant-at-arms, one thousand two hundred dollars; Postmaster, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; Assistant Postmaster, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; four messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two mail boys, at nine hundred dollars each; Capitol police, nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars; Doorkeeper, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; superintendent of the folding room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two messengers, at one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars each; one messenger, at one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; five messengers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; six messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve messengers, to be employed during the session of Congress, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum; chaplain to the House of Representatives, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making one hundred and nine thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars. For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: For cartage, two thousand dollars. For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each member and delegate of the first regular session of the thirty-ninth Congress, and one hundred copies of the same for the House Library, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. For the compensation of clerks to committees, and temporary clerks in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars. For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, ten thousand nine hundred dollars. For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for each representative and delegate in the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress who has not already received the same, twenty-three thousand dollars. For folding documents, including materials, thirty thousand dollars. For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs, and materials, fifteen thousand dollars. For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes for members, ten thousand dollars. For horses, carriages, and saddle horses, nine thousand dollars. For laborers, eight thousand four hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. For newspapers, one thousand dollars. For pages and temporary mail boys, ten thousand and eighty dollars. For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, at seven dollars and fifty cents per column, twenty thousand dollars. For stationery, twelve thousand dollars. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the House for the first regular session of the thirty-ninth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For completing the tiling of the floor of the old hall of representatives, under the same authority that the work has already been done, three thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING. For compensation of the Superintendent of the Public Printing, and the clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars. For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For stationery, postage, advertising, furniture, travelling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. For addition to the public printing office and the necessary presses, machinery, and fixtures, sixty-one thousand dollars; so much thereof to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior as may be necessary for the erection of said addition. For the public printing, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents. For paper for the public printing, six hundred and twenty-nine thousand and forty dollars. For the public binding, three hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and ten dollars and twenty-four cents. For mapping in cases pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars. For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. For compensation of librarian, three assistant librarians, messenger, and laborers, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said library, two thousand dollars. For purchase of books for said library, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars. For an enlargement of the library of Congress, so as to include two wings, built fire-proof, the space at either end of the present library, measuring about eighty feet in length by thirty feet in width, in accordance with a plan to be approved by the Committee on the Library, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. COURT OF CLAIMS. For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, the solicitor, assistant solicitor, deputy solicitor, clerk, and assistant clerk, bailiff, and messenger thereof, thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For stationery, books, fuel, lights, laborer's hire, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, three thousand dollars. For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, and commissioners, one thousand dollars. |