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Mapping. For mapping in cases pending in the supreme court of the United States, five thousand dollars.

Lithographing and engraving. For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Library of congress. 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.

Books. For purchase of books for said library, eight thousand dollars.

Law books. For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars.

Enlargement of library building. For an enlargement of the library of congress, so as to include in 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. Court of Claims.—For salaries of five judges of the court of claims, the solicitor, assistant solicitor, deputy solicitor, clerk and assistant clerk, bai1iff, and messenger thereof, thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For stationery, books, fuel, lights, laborers' hire, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, three thousand dollars.

Attorneys. For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, and commissioners, one thousand dollars.

Executive.
President and Vice-President.
Executive.—For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, eight thousand dollars.

Secretary, &c. For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to the private secretary, steward, and messenger of the President of the United States, four thousand six hundred dollars.

Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the executive office, including stationery therefor, two thousand dollars.

State Department.
Pay of secretary, &c.
Department of State.—For compensation of the Secretary of State and assistant secretary of state, chief clerk, superintendent of statistics, clerks, messenger, assistant messenger, and laborers in his office, fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.

Contingent expenses. For the incidental and contingent Expenses of the Department of State. For publishing the laws in pamphlet form and in newspapers of the states and territories, and in the city of Washington, seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Proof-reading, &c. For proof-reading and packing the laws and documents for the various legations and consulates, including boxes and transportation of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Stationery, &c. For stationery, blank books, binding, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, five thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Copper-plate printing, &c. For copper-plate printing, books, and maps, five thousand dollars.

Extra clerk-hire. For extra clerk-hire and copying, ten thousand dollars.

Northeast executive building. For compensation of four watchmen and two laborers of the northeast executive building, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, light, repairs, and miscellaneous expenses, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Capitalization of Scheldt dues.

For the payment of the first annual instalment of the proportion contributed by the United States toward the capitalization of the Scheldt dues,—to fulfil the stipulations contained in the fourth article of the convention between the United States and Belgium, of the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the sum of fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars, in coin, and such further sum as may be necessary to carry out the stipulation of the convention providing for the