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THIR'1‘Y—NINTH CONGRESS. Szss. I. Ch. 28. 1866. 23 For additional compensation to the publishers of the Statutes at Large, Statutes at eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. L*·"$°· For refifting the rear basement rooms of the old Treasury building for cmce purposes, eleven thousand dollars. For the purchase of the property in Washington city, known as Fo1;d’s Furd’s thoa.tr•. theatre, for the deposit and safe-keeping of documentary papers rclatmg to the soldiers of the army of the United States, and of the museum of the medical and surgical department of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the ninth section of the act Ipdgmpityh entitled "An act, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 3***:*; Md Cm Government for the year ending Juuc thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty- gggsféh 79 é 9 four, and for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and Vol. p. 762. sixty-three, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, appropriatiug thirty per centum of tho cost of cngxraving the special dies for internal revenue stamps, not to exceed in amount See 1867, ch. twenty thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to m;;;?} No enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors, Butler and° Carpenter, the said sum of twenty thousand dollars in full of all claims for indemnity. S20. 3. And be it furtlw·r endcled, That the Secretary of the Treasury cmmmmu be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase for the United Bt URM P¤¤d· Smtes an appropriate building site at Island Pond, or at some point northerly of Island Pond and south of the Canadian boundary line, in the State of Vermont, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable building for the use of such officers of the customs as arc or may be stationed at that place: Provided, That: the cost of such purchase and erection shall not Proviso. exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; which amount is hereby appropriated for the purpose. Sec. 4. And be it further emzcled, That the sum of four thousand Libmry of dollars, appropriated by “An act making appropriations for the legislative, Cggg?6 14,, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending VOL fiu_ 1{é June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-6ve," approved J unc twent,y·5ve, eighteen hundred and sixtytfive [four], " to enable the Joint Library Committee to purchase a complete file of selections from European periodicals, from eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred ahd sixty-Four, relating to the rebellion in the United States, to be deposited in the 1ibra.x·y," is hereby transferred to the fund For the purchase of books For the Library of Congress, to be expended one half for the purchase of law books and one half for the purchase of miscellaneous books for said Iibmry. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United Additioqnl States bc, and hereby is, authorized to expend during the fiscal year end- g;%’:;‘:g::B°° ing the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, so much of and mmm1s gt the appropriation of second March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as he S¤¥Vi9¤¤ i¤ ¤¤P· may be deem expedient and proper, not exceeding in the whole ton thou- §T§m: w° sand dollars, for compensation to United States marshals. district attor- ‘ neys, and other persons employed in enforcing the laws for the suppres- V§°Qif1; ¥‘9 sion of the African slave-trade, for any services they may render, and for ' which no allowance is otherwise provided bylaw; and also so much of said appropriation as may be necessary to pay the salaries of the judges ·T¤dz¤¤.•fbiand arbitrators appointed by him, pursuant to the act. of Congress approved 2*;;*;;* 612% July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act to carry 1862, cb. 146. into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britanuic Maj- V°l- ¤H· P- 531- cshy for the suppression of the African SIBVC-tf3dB," and for the expenses 0f the mixed courts of justice provided for by said treaty; S1·:c. 6. And be it further enacted, That the authority to sell the prop- Pennsylvania crty known as the Pennsylvania Bank building, in accordance with tho B°“kb*;““‘:g’8 acts approved J una twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty, section two, ¥§{ c;,?¥0,£ ,1