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SECTION 10. That the state treasurer is hereby required to pay of sinking fund to each of the commissioners of the sinking fund the sum of and clerk hire. three hundred dollars, and they are hereby authorized and required to impose the duties of clerk to said commissioners upon one of the clerks of the treasurer's department, at an increased salary not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum.

School department.

State library.

Printing.

SECTION 11. For the salary of the deputy superintendent of common schools, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For the salary of the warrant clerk in the school department, one thousand dollars.

For the salary of the report clerk, one thousand dollars. For the salary of the letter clerk, one thousand dollars. For the salary of the messenger, five hundred dollars. For stationery and blank books in the school department, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For postage, telegrams and express expenses, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For fuel, light, cleaning office and miscellaneous expenses of the school department, one hundred and ten dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For expenses in packing and distributing blank forms, reports, school laws and decisions, to the several school districts of the state, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be recessary.

For expenses of inspection and advertising Normal school of fifth district, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as may appear by the certificate of the state superintendent of common schools.

For engraving and printing warrants for district appropriation, and teachers' diplomas and certificates, two hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For cleaning department, and miscellaneous, one hundred dollars.

SECTION 12. For the salary of assistant librarian, one hundred and fifty dollars.

For the purchase of law, and miscellaneous books, three hundred dollars.

For the exchange of law books, including Purdon's Digest, three hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For postage, freight on books, stationery, purchasing books, cleansing apartments, making fires, et cetera, two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the further sum of fifty-two dollars and seventy-two cents, for the purpose of paying an excess of expenditure over the appropriation for these purposes, during the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.

For binding, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 13. For the public printing, folding, stitching and binding, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, on settlement of the account of the public printer according to law: Provided, That the state printers shall be blanks allowed. allowed an increase for the blanks, printed under their contract between the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred

Increase for

and sixty-two, and first day of July, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, equal to fifteen cents per pound, on the paper used in such blanks.

SECTION 14. For the payment of the expenses of the legisla- Legislature. ture, including the pay and mileage of members, clerks, and officers thereof, and the amount authorized by law for stationery, et cetera, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be settled by the auditor general, according to law.

SECTION 15. For packing and distributing the laws and jour Packing and nals of the legislature, to be performed under the direction of distributing the secretary of the commonwealth, seven hundred dollars, or laws. so much thereof as may be necessary.

Miscellaneous

SECTION 16. For miscellaneous expenses, to be first audited by the auditor general, before being paid by the state treasurer, expenses. the sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may

be necessary.

SECTION 17. For the salaries of the judges of the supreme court, Judges of suthe sum of twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars, or so preme court. much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 18. For the payment of the salaries of the judges Judges, Philaof the district court, and the judges of the court of common delphia. pleas of the city of Philadelphia, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, or three thousand dollars to each judge.

SECTION 19. For the payment of the judges of the district court, and the president and assistant law judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Allegheny, fifteen thousand dollars, and also three thousand, for the law. judge appointed by act of April eleventh, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Judges, Alle

gheny county.

SECTION 20. For the payment of the salaries and mileage of Judges of courts the president, additional and associate law judges of the several of common courts of common pleas in this commonwealth, except in the city pleas.

of Philadelphia, and the county of Allegheny, the sum of fifty

five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 21. For the payment of the salaries and mileage of Associate the associate judges of the courts of this commonwealth, the Judges. sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be

necessary.

SECTION 22. For the payment of the interest on the funded Interest on state debt of the commonwealth, that will fall due on the first days debt. of July and August, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and on the first days of January and February, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, the sum of one million nine hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hundred and seventy-three dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 23. For the instruction of indigent pupils in the Deaf and dumb. Pennsylvania institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid in proportion to the number of indigent pupils from the several counties of the commonwealth, at the rates prescribed by law, the evidence of which is to be presented to the state treasurer.

For the Northern Home for friendless children, the sum of five thousand dollars.

Northern Home for friendless children.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Proviso.

St. Joseph's hospital. Orphans' Farm school.

Home for friend

Wilkesbarre.

For the Northern Home for friendless children, the sum of five thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding in the erection of an additional building, to be used as an infirmary, or otherwise: Provided, That a like amount, or such further sum as may be required for the construction of said building, shall be raised by individual subscription, or otherwise: Provided fur. ther, That no more than one-half the cost of such building and premises, shall, in any event, be paid by the state of Pennsylvania: And provided further, That no part of the said sum of five thousand dollars, shall be paid by the state treasurer, until he shall have been satisfied that these provisions have been complied with.

For the Saint Joseph's hospital, at Philadelphia, the sum of five thousand dollars.

For the Orphans' Farm school, at Zelienople, Butler county, five thousand dollars, to be applied to the re-construction of the building occupied by said school: And provided, That the property shall not be alienated from its present objects, without the whole of this appropriation being re-imbursed to the commonwealth.

For the Home of Friendless Children in the borough of less children in Wilkesbarre, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, to be applied to the construction of a suitable building for said institution: Provided, That the property shall not be alienated from its present objects, without the whole of this appropriation being re-imbursed to the commonwealth: And provided further, That this sum shall not be paid unless the sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to any sum hereafter subscribed, shall first be secured, or paid, from other sources, to the satisfaction of the state treasurer, for the use of said last mentioned institution.

Proviso.

Blind.

Western Pennsylvania hospital.

Pennsylvania State Lunatic hospital.

Feeble-minded children.

Proviso.

SECTION 24. For the Pennsylvania institution for the instruction of the blind, the sum of twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars, to be paid in proportion to the number of indigent pupils from the several counties of the commonwealth, at the rates prescribed by law, the evidence of which is to be furnished to the state treasurer.

SECTION 25. For the Western Pennsylvania hospital, eight thousand five hundred dollars, to be applied to the salaries of officers, and nineteen thousand six hundred dollars for the completing of the new Dixmont hospital for the insane; and for the improvement of the grounds thereof, for the erection of a building for the use of the resident physician and other officers, the sum of six thousand dollars.

SECTION 26. For the Pennsylvania State Lunatic hospital, at Harrisburg, for the payment of salaries and wages, and for repairs to the building and machinery, and for the support of the house, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, three thousand dollars thereof to be applied to the perpetual insurance of buildings, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 27. For the Pennsylvania Training School for feebleminded children, at Media, in the county of Delaware, the usual sum for each pupil, as provided by the act of incorporation: Provided, That the number of said pupils shall not exceed eighty..

SECTION 28. For the Philadelphia School of Design for women, Philadelphia the sum of two thousand dollars, to be paid out of and deducted School of Defrom that part of the school fund appropriated to the city of sign for women. Philadelphia.

SECTION 29. For the support of the common schools, to be Common and paid on warrants drawn by the superintendent, in favor of the Normal schools. several school districts of the commonwealth, in proportion to the number of pupils attending the schools therein, by the superintendent's report of one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, the sum of three hundred and sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars, inclusive of the salaries of the county superintendents, and of five thousand dollars to the State Normal school of the fifth district, in Mansfield, Tioga county, and of one dollar a year, for one copy of the Pennsylvania School Journal, to be subscribed for and sent to each board of school directors in the state, for public use, according to the act of assembly, approved the eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, for the school year which will begin on the first Monday in June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, to be accounted for in the usual manner: Provided, That the city of Philadelphia Proviso. shall be entitled to a proportion on said basis without contribuling to the salaries of the county superintendents. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to the State Normal school, of the second district, in the county of Lancaster, but that neither of the State Normal schools shall alienate nor direct to any other uses than those provided by act of May twentieth, one thousand eight hundred fifty-seven, any of the real or personal property belonging to said schools, without first re-imbursing to the state the whole amount of any appropriation that has been, or that may be, made for their use and benefit: And provided further, That the sums, herein before given to the State Proviso. Normal schools, shall only be payable on production to the superintendent of common schools, of a duly certified copy of the proceedings of a general meeting of the stockholders thereof, respectively, held after thirty days' public notice, for the purpose, agreeing, by a majority of said contributors or stockholders, that the capital stock thereof shall be reduced by an amount equal to that hereby appropriated by the state, (to effect which reduction, when thus agreed to, authority is hereby given to the trustees of said schools, respectively, to call in the present certificates of stock, and issue others in lieu thereof, of such amounts as shall effect said reduction,) and that should dividends be hereafter declared, by either of said schools, such dividends shall in no case exceed six per centum on said reduced capital stock.

SECTION 30. For the payment of the salaries of the officers Eastern Peniof the Eastern Penitentiary, the sum of twelve thousand eight tentiary. hundred dollars, and for repairs of said penitentiary, fifteen hundred dollars, in equal quarterly payments, on or after the fifteenth day of the months of June, September and December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour; and for each discharged convict from the city of Phila delphia, or whose residence is within fifty miles thereof, the

Proviso.

Western Penitentiary.

House of Refuge, Philad'a.

House of Re

county.

sum of five dollars, and ten dollars to each convict whose resi dence or settlement is fifty miles, or over, from the said penitentiary: And provided further, That the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of securing an ample supply of fresh water for said penitentiary; and two thousand five hundred dollars for the manufacture, in said penitentiary, of gas for lighting the corridor, yards and walls inside the same; and for books and stationery for the use of the convicis, two hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the warden, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and to be accounted for to the auditor general

SECTION 31. For the payment of the salaries of the officers of the Western Penitentiary, the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on and after the fifteenth day of the months of June, September and December, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, and March, Anuo Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four; and for each discharged convict whose residence or settlement is within hity miles of said penitentiary, the sum of five dollars, and ten dollars to each discharged convict whose residence or settlement is fifty miles, or over, from said penitentiary.

For books and stationery for the use of the convicts, two hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the warden, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and to be accounted for to the auditor general.

SECTION 32. For the House of Refuge in Philadelphia, nineteen thousand dollars.

SECTION 33. For the House of Refuge of Western Pennsyl fuge, Allegheny vania, in the county of Allegheny, the sum of six thousand dollars, for furniture, re-building wall, and for additional boiler and house, with steam connections for new building, or so much thereof as may be needed.

Pensions and gratuities.

For the salaries of officers for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, the sum of eight thousand dollars.

SECTION 34. For the payment of pensions and gratuities, the sum of seven thousand dollars, and such further sum as may be necessary to pay to the widows and children of deceased soldiers, such sum or sums as they may be entitled to receive according to law.

Water and gas SECTION 35. For the payment to the city of Harrisburg, for for public build- supplying the public buildings with water, according to the act ings. of April twenty-eighth, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty, the sum of six hundred dollars; and also for gas for the public buildings and walks, such amount as may be found due the Harrisburg gas company, on the contract with the company, and upon a regular account being rendered to the auditor general, who is hereby authorized to examine and settle the same, in the same mode and manner as other accounts are settled in said department, in pursuance of its charter and supplement, to be paid on the warrant of the auditor general.

Public buildings and grounds.

SECTION 36. For the superintendent and watchman of the dublic buildings and grounds, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day during the period of his appointment.

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