Mr. WILLIAMS. I now offer the amendment which I submitted informally a few days ago, to strike out all after the resolving clause of the JtResolution and insert the following: That there shall be allowed and paid, out of any money, in the Treasury not otherwiseappropriated, to the following describedpersons, now employed in the civil service at Washington, as follows: to officers, temporary civil and all other clerks, messengers and watchmen; and employees, male and female, in any ofo Depts, or any bureau or division thereof, to wit: State. Treasury, War, Navy, interior, postoffice, AttyGen, Agricultural, and including civil officersand tempo rary, and all other clerks and employees, male and female, in the offices of the Coast Survey, Naval Observatory, navy yard, PayMGen, including the division of ary referred claims, Commis General o, f Prisoners, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned inds. QuarterMGen, Capitol and Treasury, extension, city postoffice, and ComrPubBldg, to superintendent the of meters, an additional compensation of 20%. on their respective sala ries as fixed by law, or, where no salary is fixed by law, upon their pay respectively, for one year from and after the 39thday of June is36; but when any of said persons is or shall be only entitied to receive salary or pay for a part of said year the said 20 per gent shall be computedon the amount such person is so entitled to receivefor services in any or all of said Depts or offices within saidyear: Provided. That the above mainedadditional compensation to the employees of the Patent Office shall be paid out of the funds of said office: Provided further, That the resolution shall not apply to persons whosesalariesas fixed by law exceed 3,500 dollars per annum, nor to any person whose salary has been increasedby lawsincethe30th of June, 1864, except thoseclerks in the officeof the QuarterMGen whosepay wasequalized with that of 1st class clerks by act of July 28, 1856: provided further, That all extra compensation allowed and paid to any of said personsduring the current fiscal year by the head of any Dept shall be taken and considered as a part of the said, 20%., so that all of said persons shall receive 20%. on their respective salaries, as aforesaid, and no more; but no person shall be required to refund any sum that he may have received, as aforesaid, in excessof said 20%.onhis salary.