Buckingham Smith.. For services as one of the commissioners appointed by the select Committee on $2,082 16 Isaac Contnor Cleaning and putting down all the carpets, putting up drapery, flutings and curtains, in Senate chamber, ante-chamber, Vice President's room, vestibule and passages $240 00 Making 250 yards new carpet in Senate chamber, at 25 cents.. 62 00 Repairing, painting, varnishing, rehanging and trimming 6 pair blinds, at $6. 36 00 Re-covering and stuffing Vice President's chair. Re-covering 3 sofas in Senate chamber and 1 in Committee Finance, including materials, at $5. Covering reporter's desk in Senate chamber with baize.. 5 00 sergeant-at-arms' rooms, at $4.. Collins, Bowne & Repairing 30 chairs and 4 sofas, in Vice President's room and ante-chambers, at 1 25.. Making 711 yards of carpet, in committee rooms and vestibule, at 183 cents. Putting down carpets and covering table with oil cloth, in round document room. Fluting 2 screens in committee rooms, at $1 50. Covering 5 large tables with cloth, at $1 50. 1 pound of beeswax. ...... Putting down new oil cloth in water-closets and entrances; removing books, documents and furniture, and replacing same in 22 rooms, at $1 50 reams of Congress note paper, ruled and gilt, at $2 35. Covering backs and seats and desks in reporters' gallery with baize.. Putting down old carpets in galleries and stairways, new fluting and covering backs and seats in galleries.... Do.... ....for 24 reporters' chairs, at $2. 3 boxes, 8 dozen each, of tax, at $5 00. 15 00 .do....additional, at $2 50. 125 00 40,000 white note.. 5,000 white government envelopes, No. 10, at $5 50. 10,000 white official. 50,000 white letter envelopes, at $2 65. 5 reams ruled mourning note paper at $1 80. 6 dozen pearl penholders, at $4 25.. 2 gross electro pens, at $2... 30 cards Perry's side spring pens, at $2 75 per dozen. 30 gross red tape, No. 13, at $2.. 118,500 document buff envelopes, at $2 30. 5 reams plain mourning note, at $1 62. 27 50 ...do.... .9, at 3 75. 37 50 ..do......4, at 1 85. 9.00 25 50 6 88 6 gross stenographic pens, at 62 cents. 1 set of Elliott's Debates, 5 volumes. 58 00 Hire of horse and wagon for carrying the mail, 29 days, at $2.. Draftsman, under Senate resolution of January 9, 1852, for November, 1853, 30 days, at the rate of $1,800 per annum.. Clerk to the President of the Senate, pro tempore, for November, 1853, 30 days, at $4. Clerk to the Committee of Claims, for November, 1853, 30 days, at $4. Messenger in November, 1853, 10 days, at $3. ..do... .do.. .do. ...... Benjamin Owens. F. D. Queen M. Titcomb W. M. Mann.. ..... 32 buckets of paste, at $1. ..do.... .do. ..do.. .do. ..do.. $30 00 30 00 90 00 ..do.. .do. ...... .do 90 00 ..do.. .do. .do ....... 90 00 ..do........... .do 90 00 ..do...... ..do. ..do 90 00 Attending mail wagon in November, 1853, 30 days, at $2. Supernumerary, 9 days, at $3 014, (less paid by House of Representatives,). 13 56 257 29 Cleaning and attending to clocks, in all the offices of the Senate, for 1 year, to November 30, 1853. Binding 64 copies each of the following House Ex. Docs., for 2d session 32d Con Volume 10, part 2....do.. 234 copies of Senate and House Journals, 1st and 2d sessions, reserve, at 60 cents.. 400 copies of Andrews' maps for State Department, at 25 cents, (being part 2d vol. 11... 1,205 copies of coast survey maps, at 18 cents...... 54 copies Andrews' maps for Senate, at 25 cents.. Newspapers. Labourer, carrying wood, scouring and cleansing, &c., for November, 1853, 30 days, at $1... 400 bushels charcoal, at 12 cents. Deduct amount received from sale of lumber used at the inauguration of the President. |