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THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90. 1850. 541 To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for Binding binding the Congressional Globe and Appendix, for members of the ég%;€f°“*°““l thirty-iirst Congress, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may ` be required to pay for binding said volumes in strong, substantial Russia leather, backs and corners, at a price not exceeding sixty cents. To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives to pay for Purchase of tive thousand five hundred and ninety-two copies of the “Congressional ggg’;€F°”‘°“‘l Globe," and for five thousand five hundred and ninety-two copies of ` the Appendix, at three dollars per copy each, thirty-three thousand four hundred and eight dollars. To enable the librarian of Congress to subscribe for and purchase Purchase cr one thousand copies of the works of John Adams, second President g;‘;s,3'e‘;k“ AQ; of the United States, to be published by Little dz. Brown, in an edition ,,m,_ of ten volumes: Provided, The cost of the same shall not exceed two Pr¤viS¤- dollars and twenty-five cents per volume, said volumes to be disposed of as Congress may hereafter direct, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For completing the eastern wing of the patent office building accord- Patent cmce; ing to the original plan, under the direction of the Secretary of the °“° '"”g· Interior, and for defraying such expenses as may have been incurred by materials procured or labor applied towards the west wing, prior to the fifteenth of May last, and for such materials or labor as may have been since procured or applied for the security of the old building, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent fund, if so much of said fund remains unappropriatcd; and if not, the excess out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. For the collection of agricultural statistics, four thousand five hun- agricultural dred dollars, to he paid out of the patent fund. ““*‘“‘°'· For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the Scicntinc works use of the patent office, one thousand Eve hundred dollars, to be paid f°‘ Pmul °m°°· out of the patent fund. For compensation of librarian, five hundred dollars, to be paid out Librarian. of the patent fund. For payment of the second and third volumes of the fifth series of _Dccumentary the Documentary History, under contract with the Secretary of State, H‘·“°"Y· thirty-five thousand dollars. _ For expenses in running and marking the boundary line between Bounds? line the United States and Mexico, marking the examinations contemplated 2;?°§f;‘x,c0‘ S' by the sixth article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and paying l the salaries of the officers of the commission, one hundred and thirty- tive thousand dollars. For the warden, clerk, physician, chaplain, two assistant keepers, Penitentiary cr four guards, and porter of the penitentiary of the District of Colum- g:au£,;$'°* °f bla, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For three inspectors of said penitentiary, three hundred dollars. Inspectors. For discharging the expense of taking the seventh enumeration of Taking seventh the inhabitants of the United States, one million one hundred and six- °°“S"· teen thousand dollars. For the payment of a balance certified by the first comptroller of James D. Doty. the treasury to be due to James D. Doty as governor and superintendent of Indian alfairs for the Territory of Wisconsin, one thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars and nine cents. For the payment of taxes due on the mint in Philadelphia, for which lfaxes on tha a judgment has been obtained, ten thousand dollars. £]}"i“d°]Pl““ For com tio du Lieuten t Geor e Thom of the United m ` P9¤S¤ D 6 ¤¤ g r George Thom. States corps of topographical engineers, while acting upon the north-_ eastern boundary during the years eighteen hundred forty-three, eighteen- hundred forty-four, and eighteen hundred forty-five, for his neces-