Chapter XXV. to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight
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Chap. XXV.— An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.May 4, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, andDeficiency appropriation. the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receivingOfficers, &c. of House of Representatives. an annual salary, in the service of the House of Representatives, viz: Six messengers, by resolution of the House of Representatives twenty-267THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 25. 1858.third December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, three thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars. For folding documents, including pay of folders, wrapping paper, twine, and paste, twenty thousand dollars.
For furniture for speaker’s room, and committee rooms, clerk’s offices, sergeant-at-arms’ office, door-keeper’s room, and carpenter’s work, thirty thousand dollars. For newspapers, three thousand dollars. For laborers, by resolution of the House of Representatives, twenty-third December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, two thousand dollars. For stationery, four thousand dollars. For horses, carriages, and saddle horses, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable John C. Rives to pay to the reporters of the House for reportingReporters of House. the debates of the present session of congress, the usual additional compensation of eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars. *Army.*—For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department,Quartermaster’s Department regular supplies. consisting of fuel for the officers, enlisted men, guard, hospitals, storehouses, and offices; forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermasters’ department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments; and for the printing of division and department orders, army regulations, and reports, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars.
For the purchase of horses for the two regiments of dragoons, the twoPurchase of horses. regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, the companies of light artillery, and such infantry as it may be found necessary to mount at the frontier posts, two hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consistingIncidental expenses. of postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of the army on public service; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed under1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22.Vol. ii. p. 186. the direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth,1819, ch. 45.Vol. iii. p. 488.1854, ch. 247, § 6.Vol. x. p. 576. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and department head-quarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters, other disbursing officers, and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides, for the army; compensation of clerk[s] to officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; for the apprehension of1838, ch. 162, § 10.Vol. v. p. 257. deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the following expenditures required for the two regiments of dragoons, the two regiments of cavalry, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket 268 ropes, and shoeing the horses of those corps, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts which it mayBarracks, &c. be necessary to occupy during the year; and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the established posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, eighty thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troopsTransportation. when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; horse equipments and of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing vessels and boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of the troops on the frontier, five million four hundred thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind, one million two hundred and twenty thousandSubsistence. dollars. For surveys for military defences, geographical explorations, and reconnaissancesMilitary surveys, &c. for military purposes, five thousand dollars. *Miscellaneous.*—For contingent expenses of the northeast executiveN. E. Executive Building. building, viz: for fuel, light, and repairs, one thousand dollars. For the erection of stables and conservatory at the President’s houseStables, &c. at President’s house. to replace those about to be taken down to make room for the extension of the treasury building, three thousand nine hundred and five dollars.
For surveying the public lands and private land claims in California,Land surveys, &c. in California. including office expenses incident to the survey of claims, and to be disbursed at the rates prescribed by law for the different kinds of work, being the amount of surveying liabilities incurred by the surveyor general during the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, over and above that authorized under the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars for that period, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For payment to clerks temporarily employed in the Post-Ofiice DepartmentTemporary clerks in Post-Office Department. on account of the extraordinary labors connected with the lettings of new contracts for the term commencing on the first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and the increase of business in the inspection and dead-letter office of said department, five thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents. For lighting the President’s house and capitol, the public groundsLighting President’s house, capitol, &c. around them, and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, and Bridge and High streets, in Georgetown, five thousand dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Utah Territory, from Surveyor-general of Utah. first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of the “Masonic Temple,” in the city of Boston, for thePurchase of Masonic Temple, Boston, for courts.269THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 26. 1858. accommodation of the United States courts, upon the terms agreed on by the Secretary of the Interior and the proprietors thereof, in addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for the erection of a building1857, ch. 108, § 10.*Ante*, p. 229. for said purpose, five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of one million fourDeficiency in revenue of Post-Office department. hundred and sixty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the accounting officers of theClerk of House to be credited with certain payments. treasury be authorized and directed to allow credit to the clerk of the House of Representatives for such payments out of its contingent fund as have been or may be made under allowances authorized by the House of Representatives during the last Congress: *Provided,* That said allowancesProviso. shall have been duly approved by the committee on accounts. *And be it further provided,* That the said allowances be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That, whenever hereafter contractsSecretary of War and Navy to report hereafter to Congress reasons for making certain contracts.1820, ch. 52, § 6.Vol. iii. p. 568. shall be made by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy by virtue of the sixth section of the act approved the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, entitled “An act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,” he shall, if Congress be in session at the time, promptly report to both Houses thereof the reasons for making such contract, stating fully all the facts and circumstances which, in his judgment, rendered such contract necessary; if Congress be not in session at the time of making such contract, he shall, at the commencement of their next session, make such report to both Houses, and no such contracts shall be made hereafter, except in cases of pressing exigency.
Approved, May 4, 1858.