Chapter CCX. making Appropriations far sundry Civil Expenses of the Government far the Year ending the Thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CCX.— An Act making Appropriations far sundry Civil Expenses of the Government far the Year ending the Thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.July 2, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCivil expenses appropriation. the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, viz.:— *Survey of the Coast*.—ForCoast-survey. the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars.
THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 210. 1864.345 ForCoast survey. continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, eleven thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, four thousand dollars. For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast-survey, four thousand dollars. For pay and rations of engineers for four steamers used in the hydrog-raphy of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, nine thousand dollars. *Light-house Establishment*.—ForLight-house establishment. the Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts, viz:— For supplying the Light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, one hundred and fifty-six thousand and eighty-seven dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improving Light-houses and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars. For salaries of five hundred and eighty-nine keepers of Light-houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, two hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For salaries of forty-three keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars. For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-three light-vessels, one hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and two dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of beacons and buoys, and for chains and sinkers for the same, one hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. For1851, ch. 32.Vol. ix. p. 608. commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same under the proviso to act third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, on the amount that may be or may have been disbursed by them, ten thousand dollars:
To enable the Light-house board to reestablish lights and other aids to navigation, which have been injured or destroyed, on the southern coast, one hundred thousand dollars. For completing the Light-house works at Milwaukie, in addition to former appropriations, twelve thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. For completing the Light-house works at Racine, in addition to former appropriations, twenty-one thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For the erection of a Light-house on Point Peninsula, between Big and Little Bays de Noguet, in the State of Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. For beacon-light on Land Point, on the west side of Little Bay de Noguet, in the State of Michigan, five thousand dollars. For beacon-light at the mouth of Fox River, in the State of Wisconsin, five thousand dollars. For removing and reconstructing *beacon* [beacon] light on *Capen* [Cape] Henlopen, Delaware, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. 346 ForLight-house establishment. erecting a Light-house on Cape Arago, State of Oregon, fifteen thousand dollars.
For additional aids to navigation to facilitate the entrance to Portland, Maine, by suitably marking Alden’s Rock and Bulwark Shoal, or otherwise, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary. *For the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington*.—ForLight-houses, &c., on the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. supplying twenty Light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, chamois skins, polishing powder, and other cleaning materials, transportation, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, and publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty Light-houses and buildings connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. For salaries of forty keepers and assistant keepers of Light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating buoys and beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten thousand dollars.
ForSpecial works. special works, viz:— For repairing breakwater, and rebuilding keeper’s dwelling at Newport harbor Light-house, Rhode Island, six thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Block Island Light-house, Rhode Island, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation of two inspectors of customs acting as superintendents for the lifesaving stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars. For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For repairs of the roof of the courthouse and post-office at Windsor, Vermont, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For construction and repair of light-boats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. *Public Buildings and Grounds*.—ForPublic buildings and grounds. care, support, and medical and surgical treatment of forty transient paupers, medical and surgical patients in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington, to be selected by the commissioner of public buildings, six thousand dollars.
For hire of carts on the public grounds, two thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, four hundred dollars. To pay for ashes purchased by the public gardener three years ago for the public grounds, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace, when necessary, sach as have been planted by the United States, to whitewash tree-boxes and fences, and to repair pavements in front of the public grounds, three thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the capitol, water-closets, public stables, water-pipes, pavements, and other walks within the Capitol Square, broken glass, and locks, and for the protection of the building, and keeping the main approaches to it unencumbered, eight thousand dollars. To change Tiber Creek, where it runs through the botanic garden, into a sewer, ten thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of public buildings. To enable the commissioner of public buildings to reconstruct five of the old *burt-oid* [burnt-out] furnaces now under the old portion of the capitol, five thousand dollars. 347 ForPresident’s house, &c. annual repairs of the President’s house and furniture, improvement of grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and contingent expenses incident thereto, six thousand dollars.
For fuel, in part, of the President’s house, two thousand four hundred dollars. For repairs, refitting, and furnishing the President’s summer residence at the Soldiers’ Home, three thousand dollars. ForLighting capitol and public grounds. lighting the capitol and President’s house, the public grounds around them, and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania avenue, Bridge and High streets in Georgetown, Four-and-a-Half street, Seventh and Twelfth streets across the mall, and Maryland avenue west, and Sixth street south, sixty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
ForBridges, avenues, &c. repairs of the Potomac and upper bridges, six thousand dollars. For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and aiding in keeping it clean and free from dust, six thousand dollars. For public reservation number two and Lafayette Square, two thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvement of the same, and replacing trees destroyed, repairing fences, and other injuries, five thousand dollars. For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars.
For cleaning out the sewer-traps on Pennsylvania avenue, and repairing the same, three hundred dollars. For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the Capitol, five hundred dollars. For deficiency in tiling the floor of the library of congress, one thousand two hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatMarble floor in old hall of the House of Representatives.Structures, &c., for statuary. a marble floor, similar to that of the congressional library or the Senate vestibule, shall be constructed in the old hall of the House of Representatives, using such marble as may be now on hand and not otherwise required, and that suitable structures and railings shall be therein erected for the reception and protection of statuary, and the same shall be under the supervision and direction of the commissioner of public buildings; and so much of the moneys now or heretofore appropriated for the capitol extension as may be necessary, not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, is hereby set apart and shall be disbursed for the *porses* [purposes] hereinbefore mentioned.States to be invited to furnish statues.
And the President is hereby authorized to invite each and all the states to provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in number for each state, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof, and illustrious for their historic renown or from distinguished civic or military services, such as each state shall determine to be worthy of this national commemoration; and when so furnished the same shall he placed in the old hall of the House of Representatives, in the capitol of the United States, which is hereby set apart, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as a national statuary hall, for the purposes herein indicated.
To reimburseIron panel in ceiling of library of congress. the commissioner of public buildings for money expended in replacing one of the iron panels in the ceiling of the library of congress, and to enable the commissioner to secure all the panels by fastening them with iron shackles to the roof five hundred dollars. For repairs of the basement of the President’s house, three thousand dollars. To enableWater-pipes to President’s house. the commissioner of public buildings to remove the water-pipes which conduct the water from the spring at Franklin Square to the President’s house, rendered necessary by the grading around the treasury extension, and to lay them down in another place, five hundred dollars.
To enableEnclosing Franklin Square. the commissioner of public buildings to enclose Franklin Square with a wooden fence, and to guard the same and plant it with trees and shrubbery, three thousand dollars. 348 ForArmory Square, &c. repairing fence around Armory Square, five hundred and thirty-three dollars. For painting the iron railing around the capitol grounds, fifteen hundred dollars. For cleaning and painting the crypt and passages under the rotundo, two thousand dollars.
To pay expenses incurred by the commissioner of public buildings in enlarging bench in supreme court room, one thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars. For repairs of navy-yard bridge, twenty-five thousand dollars. For balance due the draughtsman for his services in charge and continuation of the series of maps ordered by resolution of the fourth May, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for part of the fiscal year ending in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, fifteen hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents.
For repairs to the bridge across the Potomac River at Little Falls, two hundred and fifty dollars. ToAccommodations for State Department. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide temporary accommodations for the State Department, and for such of the clerks of the second auditor of the treasury as cannot be accommodated in Winder’s building, ten thousand dollars. *Jail of the District of Columbia*.—ForJail in the District in Columbia.Salary of warden. salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, from February twenty-ninth to thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at the rate of sixteen hundred dollars per annum, five hundred and forty dollars and sixty-five cents. *Smithsonian Institute*.—ForSmithsonian Institute. the preservation of the collections of the exploring and surveying expeditions of the government, four thousand dollars. , *Government Hospital for the Insane*.—ForGovernment hospital for the insane. the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane of the army and navy and the revenue-cutter service, and of the District of Columbia, at the government hospital for the insane in said district, including five hundred dollars for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, sixty thousand five hundred dollars.
For finishing, furnishing, heating, and lighting additional accommodations in the east wing, five thousand dollars. For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds of the hospital, ten thousand dollars. For iron coping of the battlement of the hospital edifice, two thousand five hundred dollars. The SecretarySecretary of the Navy to reserve part of pay of officer in insane hospital.Superintendent to recommend the amount. of the Navy is hereby authorized and required to set apart from the pay of any officer of the navy, or of the marine, corps, who may be under treatment by his order in the government hospital for the insane, such a portion of the monthly pay of said officer as may be needed for his personal use and comfort in addition to the ordinary resources of that establishment The superintendent of the government hospital for the insane shall recommend the portion of the pay of such officer of the navy, or of the marine corps, that shall be set apart in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described, but the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, increase or reduce the sum so recommended to be set apart.Portion set apart to be paid to superintendent.
The said sum set apart for the personal benefit of any officer of the navy, or of the marine corps, under treatment in the government hospital for the insane, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, shall be paid to the said superintendent of that institution, by the paymaster having charge of the said officer’s accounts; and the receipt of said superintendent for the sum which he is authorized by the Secretary of the Navy to draw from the said paymaster shall be equivalent to the receipt of the legal guardian of said officer, or to that of the officer himself.
The said superintendent shall disburse the money thus set apart and drawn by him, and he shall349 account for it in quarterly statements to the fourth, auditor of the treasury. *Botanic Garden*.—ForBotanic garden. grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, fuel, and repairs, purchasing trees and shrubs under the direction of the library committee of congress, three thousand three hundred dollars. For pay of superintendent of botanic garden, and assistants in the botanic garden and greenhouses, to be expended under the direction of the library committee of congress, six thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents. *Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind*.—ForInstitution for the deaf, dumb, and blind. salaries and incidental expenses, embracing, in addition to the objects heretofore provided for in this appropriation, the salary of an additional teacher, construction of a new sewer, and the construction and repairs of fences, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For continuingPurchase of land. the work for the accommodation of the students and inmates in said institution, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made, viz: for the purchase of a tract of improved land, containing about thirteen acres, bordering on Boundary street of the city of Washington, and adjoining the lot now belonging to the institution, to enable it to instruct the male pupils in horticulture and agriculture, and to furnish sites for mechanic shops and other necessary buildings, twenty-six thousand dollars: *Provided,* ThatProviso. before the purchase of the said thirteen acres is consummated, the owner shall complete the title in fee to the premises now held and occupied by said institution, by executing a release or conveyance of the remainders and reversions now outstanding in him to the said institution.
To bringPotomac water. the Potomac water into the institution from the nearest water mains, or other adequate sources in the city, three thousand two hundred dollars. *Patent-Office*.—ForPatent office. expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care of copyright books, charts, and other copyright matter, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For preparing illustrations and descriptions for report, six thousand dollars. *Survey of the Public Lands*.—ForSurvey of public hinds. surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, and Montana,) including incidental expenses and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, in addition to the unexpended balances of ail former appropriations for the same objects, fifty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in California and Nevada, fifty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in the Territory of Colorado, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Kansas and Nebraska, fifty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in the Territory of Dakota, five thousand dollars. For the survey of a military road from Sioux City, Iowa, to Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, and from Niobrara, Nebraska Territory, to Fort Randall, and to bridge the Dakota and Vermillion Rivers and other streams, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in New Mexico, ten thousand dollars. 350 For surveying the public lands in the Territory of Arizona, ten thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in the Territory of Idaho, ten thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in the Territory of Montana, ten thousand dollars. *Miscellaneous*.—ForMiscellaneous.Vol. x. p. 1089. *carring* [carrying] on the work of the commission appointed under the first article of the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, eight thousand dollars.
ForCapitol extension. continuing the work on the capitol extension, three hundred thousand dollars. ForPatent-office building. finishing the patent-office building, seventy-five thousand dollars. To enable the commissioner of agriculture to pay a debt incurred by the commissioner of patents in preparing the agricultural report for eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and transferred to the account of the agricultural department in pursuance of an opinion of the Attorney-General of September eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three thousand seven hundred and four dollars and five cents.
To restore the salary of the chief messenger in the department of agriculture to nine hundred dollars per annum, at which it is fixed, three hundred dollars. ForTelegraph between the Atlantic and Pacific. the annual subsidy for facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific states by electrical telegraph, forty thousand dollars. ForTreasury extension. the continuation of the north wing of the treasury extension, five hundred thousand dollars. ForTreasury building. furniture for treasury building, twenty-five thousand dollars.
ForVaults. the construction of vaults, as an additional security to the public funds in United States depositories, thirty thousand dollars. ForRepair, &c., of custom-houses. the repair and preservation of custom-houses, marine-hospitals, and other public buildings under the supervision of the Treasury Department, forty thousand dollars. ForCustom-house at Portland, Me. the purpose of building a new custom-house at Portland, Maine, on the site owned by the United States, fifty thousand dollars.
ForFurniture and repairs of public buildings. furniture and repairs of furniture of the various public buildings under the supervision of the Treasury Department, fifteen thousand dollars. ForHeating apparatus. heating apparatus for the east front and centre wing of the treasury building, in addition to available appropriations, twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-seven cents. ForPlates, paper, &c., for circulating notes. plates, paper, and special dies, and the printing of circulating1 notes, and expenses necessarily incurred in procuring said notes, including miscellaneous items, four hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, ten thousand dollars. ForMessengers to bring electoral votes. the payment of messengers of the respective states for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said states for president and Vice-President of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. For stationery for the Treasury Department, forty-five thousand dollars.
ForBiennial Register.1861, ch. 44.Vol. xii. p. 141.Branch mint at San Francisco. compiling and supervising the Biennial Register, per act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, five hundred dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the branch-mint at San Francisco tbr the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, seventy-one thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and ten cents. ToIndian hostilities in Minnesota. supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred by the State of Minnesota in suppressing Indian hostilities in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the sum of351 oneProviso.1863, ch. 210, § 22, vol. xii. p. 754. hundred and seventeen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That only so much of said sum shall be paid the State of Minnesota as is allowed by the proper accounting officers *under* [under] the twenty-second section of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen *eighteen* hundred and sixty-four, and for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other purposes.” *Montana*.—ForTerritory of Montana. salaries of governor and superintendent of Indian affairs, chief-justice and two associate judges, and secretary, nine thousand seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of said territory, one thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars. To enableAmerican maps, &c., for library of congress. the joint library committee to purchase a collection of early American maps and plans, chiefly manuscript originals illustrative of ‘the French war, and the war of the Revolution, for deposit in the library of congress, one thousand dollars.
ForPlans for capitol wings, ventilating, &c. plans and detailed drawings for proposed changes in the capitol wings to secure improvement in the ventilation, heating, and acoustics of the halls of congress, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; the said outlay to be authorized and approved by the joint select committee of the two houses upon the ventilation, &c., of said halls, and to be paid out of the aforesaid appropriation for the capitol extension.
ForAssistant treasurer at Philadelphia. additional clerical force in the office of the assistant treasurer at Philadelphia, four thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatDetection of counterfeiting U. S. notes, &c.Proviso.Witnesses.*Post*, p. 533. the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of meeting any expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, or other securities of the United States, as well as the coin of the United States: *Provided,* That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPay of clerk to committee of ways and means. the compensation of the clerk to the committee of ways and means shall be twenty-one hundred and sixty dollars per annum to commence with the present session of congress; and such sum as may be found necessary to pay the same be, and is hereby, appropriated. To compensatePay of persons on board U. S. gunboat Cincinnati. persons on board the U. S. gunboat “Cincinnati,” in accordance with the joint resolution, approved *February* [April] nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, seven thousand two hundred dollars.
ForPub. Res., No. 24.*Post*, p. 404. compensation of stamp-elerk in the office of the assistant treasurer at San Francisco, two thousand four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ForClerks. &c., in office of Secretary of Treasury; compensation to clerks and extra clerk-hire, in addition to that already appropriated, in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars. ForLittle, Brown, & Co., for 10th and 11th vols, of Statutes at Large. payment to Messers.
Little, Brown & Co., for three hundred and ninety-five copies of the 10th and 11th volumes each of the Statutes at Large, at three dollars and fifty cents per volume, delivered by order of the Secretary of the Interior, dated February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. ForSalaries of additional clerks in Navy Department. payment of salaries for additional clerks in the Navy Department, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, nine thousand and eight hundred dollars. 352 ForDigest of election cases. compensation to the clerk of the committee of elections for .preparing for publication a continuation of the digest of election cases, to be expended under the direction of said committee, the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as in the opinion of said committee shall be necessary therefor.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for miscellaneous items for the Senate for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, fifteen thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars. For deficiency for the Congressional Globe for the present session, twenty-five thousand and sixty-five dollars and twelve cents. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* ThatVaults, &c., in custom-house at Philadelphia.1863, ch. 79, § 11.Vol. xii. p. 752. in addition to the sum of ten thousand dollars, appropriated by the eleventh section of the act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the construction of vaults and the fitting up of offices in the custom-house building at Philadelphia, for the accommodation of the assistant treasurer of the United States at that city, there is hereby appropriated, payable out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sura of forty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the object provided for in said section, and in such alterations of said buildings as may be required to adapt the same to the receipt, custody, and disbursement of the public money by the assistant treasurer aforesaid, as well as to the convenient accommodation therein of the officers of the customs at the port of Philadelphia.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPay of district attorneys, marshals, &c., for services in suppression of slave-trade;judges and arbitrators, &c.1862. ch. 440, Vol. xii. p. 531. the President of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized to expend during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, so much of the appropriation of second March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as he may deem expedient and proper, not exceeding in the whole ten thousand dollars, for compensation to United States marshals, district attorneys, and other persons employed in enforcing the laws for the suppression of the African slave-trade, for any services they may render, and for which no allowance is otherwise provided by law; and also, so much of said appropriation as may be necessary to pay the salaries of the judges and arbitrators appointed by him pursuant to the act of congress, approved July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade,” and for the expenses of the mixed courts of justice provided for by said treaty.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* ThatRepeal of 1862, ch. 54, § 11.Vol. xii. p. 378. section eleven of an act entitled “An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia,” approved April sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also that part of the first section of an act entitled “An act making supplemental appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,1862, ch. 182, § 1.Vol. xii. p. 582. and for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for other purposes,” approved July sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which reads as follows “To enable the President to carry out the act of congress for the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia, and to colonize thoses to be made free by the probable passage of a confiscation bill, five hundred thousand dollars, to be repaid to the treasury out of confiscated property, to be used at the discretion of the President in securing the right of colonization of said persons made free, and in payment of the necessary expenses of their removal,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed: *Provided, however,*Proviso.
That this section shall not be construed so as to interfere with any expenditure that may have been incurred by carrying into effect the parts of acts above repealed, or any expenditure necessary to fulfil existing engagements in relation thereto. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That,Surgeon-general’s district in New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Dakota, and Montana. until otherwise directed by law, the Territory of New Mexico, and the Territory of Arizona shall con-THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 210, 211. 1864.353stitute one surveyor-general’s district; That the Territory of Idaho and Nevada shall constitute, and be a part of, the surveyor-general’s district of Colorado; That the Territory of Dakota and Montana shall constitute one surveyor-general’s district, and that there shall be but one office of surveyor-general for each surveyor-general’s district; That the provisions of this section shall be executed under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commissioner of the general land-office;Repeal. and that all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this section are hereby repealed.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* ThatCoastwise slave-trade prohibited.Repeal of act 1807, ch. 22, §§ 8, 9.Vol. ii. p. 429. sections eight and nine of an act entitled “An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eight,” which said sections undertake to regulate the coastwise slave-trade, are hereby repealed, and the coastwise slave-trade is prohibited forever.
Approved, July 2, 1864.