Amount brought forward REGISTER'S OFFICE. Four clerks of class four. Eight clerks of class one.. One messenger, at $700 per annum. OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS. Oze clerk of class three... Three clerks of class two.. Four clerks of class one.. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SOUTHEAST EXECUTIVE BUILD- For fuel, labor, light, and miscellaneous items... INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For compensation of returns clerk from January 1 to June 30, 1864 For compensation of clerks in the office of the surveyor general of For compensation of the surveyor general of Arizona, per act of For clerks in his office, per same act... WAR DEPARTMENT. For supplying a deficiency in the appropriations for the payment of the clerks, messengers, copyists, and laborers in the office of the Quartermaster General... NAVY DEPARTMENT. $273,500 00 $3,600 4,800 4,200 4,800 350 17,750 00 800 2,100 2,400 5,300 00 13,305 00 600 00 1,668 48 1,350 00 2,250 2,000 4,250 00 156,651 66 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. For two additional clerks of class four, (submitted)............. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. For increase of salary of one clerk of class two, (submitted). FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. For salary of the minister at Salvador from April 16, 1863, to June 30, 164, at $7,500 per annum.. MISCELLANEOUS. INDEPENDENT TREASURY. For salaries of clerks, messengers, watchmen, and porter, in the office of the assistant treasurer at New York, per act of March 6. 1862 For additional allowance to clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer at Boston, appointed under acts of March 19, 1862, and February 25, 1863.. For compensation to designated depositaries under 15th section of act of August 6, 1846, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue.. 3,600 00 350 400 750 00 9,682 00 12, 000 00 2,000 00 For salary of designated depositary at Santa Fé, New Mexico, per Amount brought forward For supplying deficiency in the appropriation for facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electrical telegraph, per act of June 16, 1860, (12 Laws, pages 41 and 42) For refunding to the appropriation for the Treasury extension the amount of payments made out of that fund for furniture, night watch, and other miscellaneous items.... For the continuation of the north wing of the Treasury extension, For furniture, carpets, &c., for the Treasury building. For completing the repairs of the government warehouse, &c., on $509, 207 14 20,000 00 150,000 00 250,000 00 25,000 00 80,000 00 10,000 00 25,000 00 15,000 00 30,000 00 10,000 00 For furniture and repairs of furniture of the various public build- 5,000 00 992 00 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For erecting new furnaces in the basement of the east wing of the For repairs of rooms in sub-basement of the west wing of the Patent For the Capitol extension.... For the construction of water-closets in the basement of the south front of the Patent Office building POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For keeping in repair, and partially finishing and furnishing the Total civil, foreign intercourse, and miscellaneous INDIAN. For deficiency in the appropriation of $10,000, made by act of NAVY DEPARTMENT. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, November 28, 1863. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, November 16, 1863. SIR: I enclose herewith estimates for deficiencies which have accrued in the service of this department during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864; also explanatory notes of the Commissioner of the Land Office; and the report of Thomas U. Walter, architect, and Thomas D. Bond, engineer, explanatory of the repairs of the furnaces in the east wing of this building; all of which I respectfully request may be submitted to Congress at as early a day as practicable. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. J. P. USHER, Secretary of the Interior. Estimates of appropriations for the surveying department to supply deficiencies for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1863 and 1864. Object of appropriations. Amount. 1. For compensation of the surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri, (Statutes at Large, volume 3, page 412.. $1,668 48 2. For compensation of the clerks in the office of the surveyor general of Cal ifornia 1,350 00 3. For compensation of the surveyor general of Arizona, (act February 24, 1863, 12 Statutes, page 665, section 2).. 4. For compensation of the clerks in the office of the surveyor general of Arizona. 2,250 00 2,000 00 Total 7,268 48 EXPLANATION OF THE FOREGOING ESTIMATES. 1. The $1,668 48 is for the period embraced between the 1st January and 31st October, 13, when, by instructions from this office, the surveyor general's office at St. Louis, Mo., will be finally closed and discontinued. The archives of the original records of the surveying service in Illinois and Missouri having been reported by the surveyor general completed, will placed in the custody of the recorder of land titles at St. Louis, Mo., to be ultimately devered over to the authorities of the respective States upon the passage of the requisite laws for their reception. 2. The amount of $1,350 has been incurred by the surveyor general of California in excess of the appropriation of $11,000 for clerk hire, per act March 14, 1862, to cover which the forePing estimate is submitted. 3. This sum is estimated for salary of surveyor general from such time as he shall enter on his official duties in the Territory under the law to the 30th June, 1864, for which no ropriation was made during the last session of Congress. 4. This estimate is for clerk hire from such time as the surveyor general may find it necessary to employ clerks in his office to the 30th June, 1864, for which no appropriation has teen made. GENERAL LAND OFFICE, October 22, 1863. OFFICE SIOUX COMMISSION, Minneapolis, November 2, 1863. SIR: We have up to this date transmitted to your department the papers and awards in 1,255 cases submitted to us under the act of February 16, 1863, and there yet remain 1,685 cases on our docket undisposed of. ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS The act under which we are appointed requires that "the testimony of the witnesses and the examination of the complainant shall be reduced to writing and transmitted to you for approval, rejection, or modification," and for your submission of the claims to Congress, our decision being final only to the extent of a maximum allowance of $200 to each family. Not being at liberty, therefore, to curtail the evidence, or to record merely our conclusions upon the facts, or their results, an immense amount of written matter has necessarily accumulated, requiring, in addition to our personal supervision and manipulation, the aid not only of a secretary to manage the books and papers, but of several able clerks and assistants to engross the testimony and aid us in our duties. And to conclude our labors within the period limited by the act, ourselves and corps have been engaged almost without intermission, night and day-five or six witnesses being frequently under examination at the same time, and at as many desks, before the commissioners and their assistants. The papers you have already received will furnish an index to the extent of our labors, though they will fail to show the severe pressure upon our time and attention by constant crowds of applicants rendered importunate by their urgent needs. In addition to the above, many other expenses have been thrown commission, such as records, blanks, stationery, printing, transportation, office upon the rent and fuel, witnesses for the United States, &c., which have now nearly exhausted the small appropriation made for that purpose, and which by the time our final report shall be made will show a deficit of about $3,500. These we can now calculate so nearly that we have taken the liberty to submit to you, under date of November 30, an exhibit showing amount of expenses incurred and paid, and an estimate for the deficit, amounting, as before stated, to $3,500, with the request that you will embrace them in your annual estimates to be submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the next Congress, without awaiting the slower appropriations for the unpaid balance of our awards when approved by you. After proceeding somewhat further in our investigation of the cases, we hope to be able to send you, in time for such recommendation to Congress for their payment as you may decide upon after their revision, an approximate estimate of our awards unsatisfied after exhausting the present appropriation of $200,000. We invite your special attention to secure an early appropriation to meet the above deficit in justice to the gentlemen in our employ who have rendered valuable services and incurred considerable expense, as yet without remuneration. Very respectfully, your obedient servants, A. S. WHITE, Hon. J. P. USHER, Secretary of the Interior. Commissioners. 1863. OFFICE OF SIOUX COMMISSION, under the act of February 16, 1863, "for the relief of persons for damages sustained by reason of the depredations and injuries by certain bands of Sioux Indians." Estimates for appropriation on expense account. Nov. 30. Expenses incurred and paid, as per vouchers on file.... Balance due marshal for attendance, serving process, and expense... Balance due secretary for services. Balance due office rent. Miscellaneous... Commissioners' salaries.. CR. $2,500, 625 552 1,900 175 248 6,000 7,500 13,500 10,000 3,500 By appropriation heretofore made Amount of appropriation asked Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of the Interior. A. S. WHITE, ELI R. CHASE, CYRUS ALDRICH, Commissioners. ARCHITECT'S OFFICE, UNITED STATES CAPITOL, Washington, D. C., August 12, 1863. SIR: The communication of Mr. Thomas D. Bond, relative to the heating apparatus and the water-closets of the Patent Office building, which was referred to me for report, has been received and duly considered, and I respectfully submit the following as my views upon the subjects referred to: I concur, entirely, with Mr. Bond as to the condition of the heating apparatus of the east wing. It is very much out of repair, and the pipes and castings are so much decayed and dilapidated that I question whether it would be possible to put them in such a condition as to render them reliable for another winter, by any expenditure short of what would be involved by an entire reconstruction. It should be remarked that the present apparatus has never been considered a success; it was almost the first attempt that had been made in this country to warm a public building by means of hot water circulating through iron pipes by the simple action of gravity. Since this apparatus was put up, improvements have been continually made in the system, so that this early attempt will not compare in efficiency, nor in economy, nor in durability, with what has since been accomplished by this method of warming buildings. I am, therefore, of the opinion that the whole of it should be taken down, and that new apparatus should be put up similar to that under the north portion of the building, which, it should be remarked, has proved to be entirely satisfactory as to the amount of heat it distributes through the building, while the consumption of fuel is only about one-half of what is required for the furnaces in question under the east wing. One of the greatest difficulties to be encountered in the heating of this wing |