Chapter CCXCVI. *making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.*July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Civil expe
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CHAP. CCXCVI.— An Act *making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.*July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Civil expenses appropriations.That 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-seven, viz:
Miscellaneous.*Miscellaneous.—* For discharge of such miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars. Detection, &c. of counterfeiters of United States securities and coins.For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Seamen.For supplying deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, two hundred thousand dollars. Public buildings and furniture.For repairs and preservation of public buildings, fifty thousand dollars. For furniture, repairs of furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items for the same, twenty thousand dollars. Treasury extension.For completion of north wing of treasury extension, and grading and fencing grounds, three hundred thousand dollars. Roofs.For replacing with slate or copper defective galvanized iron roofs, thirty thousand dollars.
Heating apparatus.For reconstruction of beating apparatus, thirty thousand dollars. Burglar-proof safes &c.For burglar-proof safes and vaults, thirty thousand dollars. Office furniture.For office furniture, and repairs of furniture, and miscellaneous expenses of the treasury bureaus, sixteen thousand dollars. Detection, &c. of perpetrators of frauds upon the United States.For expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in perpetrating frauds upon the United States, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars.
Custom-house at Toledo;For the completion of the custom-house building at Toledo, Ohio, its addition, and the approaches thereto, ten thousand dollars. Charleston.For the purpose of preserving from further dilapidation the new custom houe building in Charleston, South Carolina, ten thousand dollars. Arsenal at Hudson City.For repairs of the United States arsenal at Hudson City, New Jersey, two thousand dollars. Court house at Springfield, Illinois.For additional appropriation to complete the new court house and post office at Springfield, Illinois, fifty thousand dollars.
Marine Hospital at Chelsea.For repaire of Chelsea Marine Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, forty thousand dollars. National cemeteries.To establish national cemeteries, and to purchase sites for the same, at such points as the President of the United States may deem proper, and for the care of the same, fifty thousand dollars. Medical and surgical history of the rebellion.For the purpose of preparing for publication under the direction of the Secretary of War, and of printing at the government printing office the thousand copies of the first volume of the medical and surgical history of the rebellion, compiled by the surgeon-general; and for the purpose of preparing for publication Medical statistics of provost-marshal general’s bureau.under the direction of the Secretary of War, and of printing at the government printing office five thousand copies the medical statistics of the provost-marshal general’s bureau, compiled THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 29C. 1866.311and to be completed by Editions, how to be disposed of.Engraving and lithographing therefor.surgeon J. H. Baxter, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the editions of both publications thus ordered shall be disposed of as Congress may hereafter direct: *And provided further,* That the necessary engraving and lithographing for these publications may be executed under the direction of the Secretary of War, without advertisement. Marine corps.For transportation of officers of the marine corps, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, fifteen thousand dollars.
Custom-house, &c. at Bangor;For the enlargement and repairs of the customhouse and post-office buildings at Bangor, Maine, thirty-five thousand dollars. at Middletown.For the repairs of the customhouse and post office and the walks and fences adjoining the same, at Middletown, Connecticut, five thousand dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Chapel at naval academy.For the erection of a chapel on the naval academy grounds at Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-five thousand dollars, and the existing appropriation For the enlargement of the chapel is hereby repealed.
Coast survey.*Survey of the Coast. —* For 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the South Florida reefs, shoals, keys, and coast, 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, twenty-five 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, five thousand dollars. For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast survey, twenty thousand dollars.
For pay and rations of engineers for four steamers used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars. Survey of Isthmns of Darien for ship canal.To provide for a survey of the Isthmus of Darien, under the direction of the War Department, with the view to the construction of a ship-canal in accordance with the report of the superintendent of the naval observatory to the Navy Department, forty thousand dollars. Statistics of gold and silver mines of Western States and Territories.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to collect reliable statistical information concerning the gold and silver mines of the Western States and Territories, which shall include the labor and capital employed, the product and the modes of' working the same, and which information shall be reported to Congress, ten thousand dollars.
Light-house establishment*Light-house Establishment.—* Ff r 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, two hundred thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses of improving and refitting the same, one hundred and eighty thousand 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.312 For seamen's wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-three light-vessels, two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents. 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 sixty-two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Consul at Quebec.For compensation to the consul at Quebec, in Canada, fifteen hundred dollars. Light-houses, &c. on the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.*For the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.*— For 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, thirty-three thousand and thirty dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty light-houses and buildings connected therewith, fifteen thousand dollars. For salaries of forty-one keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty 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.
Officers of army on light-house duty.For fuel and quarters of officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the same not being provided for by the quartermaster’s department, five thousand dollars. Block Island light-house.For rebuilding Block Island light-house, near Rhode Island, upon a more eligible site, fifteen thousand dollars. Light-house on Race Rock.For a new light-house on Race Rock, or on the southwest end of Fisher's Island, entrance to Long Island Sound, as may be approved by the light-house board, ninety thousand dollars.
Rebuilding beacons.For rebuilding the following beacons, which have been destroyed, viz; Norwalk beacon, Southport beacon, and Elbow beacon, twenty-four thousand dollars. For rebuilding beacon-lights on the Breakwater at Plattsburg, New York, three thousand dollars. Light-houses and stations.For a new light-house with suitable piers for protection at Rondout, New York, twenty-two thousand dollars. For a new light-house with suitable piers of protection at Coxsackie, New York, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Sandy Hook light station, New York, seven thousand one hundred dollars. Life-boats, stations, &c. for preservation from shipwreck.To provide additional station-houses, life-boats, and other appliances for the belter preservation of life and property from shipwreck along the coast of New Jersey, between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor, ten thousand dollars. Light-houses, &c.For repairing and relighting the light-house on Tucker’s Beach, on the coast of New Jersey, five thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Esopus, Fourtnile Point, Beavertail, Passaic, Black Rock, and Great West Bay light-stations, five thousand one hundred dollars. For additional appropriations for building a new first-class light at Assateague, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. For a new light-house at Bay Point, Port Royal entrance, South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars. For building range-lights at St. Clair Flats, Lake St. Clair, sixty thousand dollars. For the erection of a light-house at Beaver Bay on Lake Stipe rior, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the light-house board of the THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 296. 1866.313Light-houses, &c.Treasury Department, after due examination, shall deem that a light-house at that point is necessary. For building a new light-house at McGulpin’s Point, near old Fort Mackinac, twenty thousand dollars. For a beacon-light on the end of the pier at Chicago, three thousand dollars. For a new light-house at Eagle Bluff, Wisconsin, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs at Grand Island light-house, Lake Superior, seventeen thousand dollars.
For beacon-light at the entrance to Grand Island harbor, Lake Superior, ten thousand dollars. For additional aids to navigation in Green Bay, Wisconsin, including a third-class light-house on Mahno-mah or Chambers’ Island, and beacon on Peshlego shoal, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs to light-house at Huron Island, Lake Superior, seventeen thousand dollars. For light-house and pier light at South Haven, in the State of Michigan, six thousand dollars. For range-lights at Portage entry, Lake Superior, six thousand dollars.
For a light-house to mark the channel between Keewenaw Point and Manitou Island, Lake Superior, fifteen thousand dollars. Fog-signals.For new and efficient fog-signals at Mount Desert Island, Mantinicus, Seguin, Mankiegin, Moose Peak, Cape Elizabeth, Point Judith, Cooper Harbor, Detour, Fort Gratiot, Huron Island, Manitou, McGulpin’s Point, Pottawatomie, Sand Point, Waugoshance, White Fish Point, and other light-stations, fifty-nine thousand five hundred dollars. Superintendents of life-saving stations.For compensation of two superintendents for the life-saving stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars.
Keepers of stations.For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Light-houses.For a new light-house at Grand Point Aux Sables, Lake Michigan, thirty-five thousand dollars. For a new light-house at the harbor of White River, Muskegon County, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Proviso.For a new light-house at the harbor of Manistee, Manistee County, Michigan, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no expenditure shall be made upon the aforesaid works at White River and Manistee, until a careful survey shall have been made and the character of the structure required shall have been thus determined, for which purpose the sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.
For completion of pier of protection and repairing Waugoshance light-house at Straits of Mackinac, ninety thousand dollars. For the establishment of beacon-lights to mark Brewerton Channel, Patapsco River, Maryland, thirty thousand dollars. Re-establishing lights on Southern coastTo enable the light-house board to reestablish lights and other aid to navigation on the southern eoat, two hundred thousand dollars. Furnishing President’s house.To reimburse the appropriation for furnishing the President’s house, the sum transferred from it by the accounting officers of the treasury, to settle another account of the commissioner of public buildings for annual repairs, four thousand dollars; and the avails of old furniture which may be sold shall be applied to the purchase of new furniture.
Little Falls bridge.To enable the commissioner of public buildings to put in thorough repair the bridge across the Potomac at Little Falls, in accordance with the estimate of the engineer, two thousand four hundred and ten dollars. Interest on sums loaned for government purposes.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the interest on sundry sums loaned for government purposes by the First National Bank at Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of five thousand six hundred and seventy dollars and twelve cents. 314 Extra pay to commissioner and chief clerk of general land office.For compensation to the commissioner and chief clerk of the general land office (to be apportioned by the Secretary of the Interior) in consideration of the increased duties devolving on them from June seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in connection with the census of eighteen hundred and sixty, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars.
Iron fences, &c.For painting iron fences, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairing gates to the iron fence enclosing Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars. To repair mid whitewash the wooden fences around the several reservations, one thousand dollars. For repairing the arch on New Jersey Avenue below the coast survey building, one thousand dollars. Waterpipes, road drainage, &c.To repair or replace the water-pipes which convey the water from the spring in Franklin Square to the President’s house, and to the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments, six thousand dollars.
For making the road from the President’s stable to the house, fifteen hundred dollars. For four new pave-washers on Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand dollars. To pay for drainage by pipes of the waste-water from the President's bouse, the cowstable, cowyard, and small greenhouse, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Botanic garden.For an iron fence around the botanic garden, fifteen thousand dollars. Escutcheons of West Virginia and Nevada.To cause to be painted in the square panels of gloss, in the ceiling of the House of Representatives, the escutcheons of the States of West Virginia and Nevada, the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars.
Additional laborer in library of Congress.For compensation of one additional laborer hereby authorized to be appointed in the library of Congress, commencing July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Warming library.For purchase of coal and pay of firemen to warm the library of Congress, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Transient paupersFor care, support, and medical treatment of sixty transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington, under a contract to be formed with such institution by the commissioner of public buildings, twelve thousand dollars, or be much thereof as may be necessary.
Public grounds.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. For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, to whitewash tree-boxes and fences, and to repair pavements in front of tho public grounds, three thousand dollars. Capitol water-closets.For annual repairs of the capitol water-closets, and to put the proper number of water-closets in the upper stories, 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, in addition to the sale of old material, twelve thousand dollars.
Virginia Avenue.For grading and repairing Virginia Avenue, ten thousand dollars. Water-pipes.For keeping the spring and water-pipes which supply all the drinking water to the capitol in repair, and erecting a substantial wooden fence around the ground on which the spring at Smith’s farm is, one thousand dollars. Capitol extension.For the capitol extension, two hundred thousand dollars. Fuel.For fuel, in part, for the President’s house, five thousand dollars. Lighting Capitol, &c.For lighting the capitol and President's house and public grounds around them, around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania Avenue, sixty thousand dollars.
THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 296. 1866. 315 Corporation of Washington, how to light street lamps.For lighting Four-and-a-half Street across the Mall, and Maryland Avenue west, and Sixth Street south, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided, *That the corporation of Washington city shall light their street lamps with seven-feet burners, twenty-one nights in each month, from dark until daylight, and that no part of this appropriation shall be disbursed until it is proved to the satisfaction of the commissioner of public buildings that said corporation have so lighted their street lamps.
Pay of lamp-lighters, &c,For pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitting, plumbing, lamp-posts, lanterns, glass, paints, matches, materials and repairs of all sorts, twenty thousand dollars. Bridges.For casual repairs of the Potomac, navy yard, and upper bridges, six thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, five thousand dollars. For public reservation number two and Lafayette Square, in addition to the sale of hay which may be raised on the former, three thousand dollars.
For purchase of fuel for the centre building of the capitol, fifteen hundred dollars. For erecting a new draw in the navy yard bridge, five thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvement of the same, and repairing fences, three thousand dollars. For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars. For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on Pennsylvania Avenue, three hundred dollars. For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the capitol, five hundred dollars.
For under-draining the President’s garden and capitol grounds, one thousand dollars. To enable the commissioner of public buildings to so grade a portion of North Capitol Street as to relay the water-pipes leading from the government spring to the capitol, sufficiently below the grade as to secure from frost, and to relay said pipes, eight thousand one hundred and forty dollars. For hauling manure for top-dressing the public grounds, five hundred dollars. For the protection and improvement of Franklin Square, fifteen hundred dollars.
For watchman for Franklin Square, six hundred dollars. Extra clerks in office of Indian affairs.1854, ch. 267.Vol. x. p. 581.1854, ch. 175, §23.Vol. x. p. 673.For the compensation of eight extra clerks in the office of Indian affairs, under the acts of' August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, March third, eighteen hundred mid fifty-five, and March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, eleven thousand two hundred dollars. 1865, ch. 127.Vol. xiii. p. 557.Patent office.For the continuation of the work upon the north portico of the patent office building, *of* fifty thousand dollars.
Northeast executive building.For additional contingent expenses of the northeast executive building, or the building occupied by the Secretary of State, including extra watchmen and laborers, six thousand dollars. Commissioners to revise statutes.1866, ch. 140.*Ante*, p. 74.For salaries of commissioners under “An act to provide for the revision and consolidation of the statute laws of the United States,” approved June twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for clerical services, and other incidental expenses, the printing to be done by the government printing office, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Temporary clerks in pension office.For the payment of temporary clerks of the first class in the office of the commissioner of pensions, under the direction of the Secretary of *of* the Interior for the fical year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars. 316 Rooms for pension office.To enable the Secretary of the Interior, at his discretion, to rent such rooms in the vicinity of the department for the use of the pension office as may be deemed necessary for the transaction of the business of that office, three thousand dollars.
Site and building for government purposes at Saint Paul, Minnesota.For the purchase of a site and the erection of a building at Saint Paul, Minnesota, for a customhouse, post office, the accommodation of the federal courts, and other necessary government purposes, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifty thousand dollars. Jail in District of Columbia.*Jail in the District of Columbia. —* For the support and maintenance of the convicts transferred from the District of Columbia at such place or places as may be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, fifty thousand dollars.
For salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the same is hereby authorized. School-houses in Washington County.For the payment in part for the purchase of sites and the erection of school-houses in the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, payable to the board of commissioners of primary schools of said county, the sum of ten thousand dollars. Columbia hospital.For support of the Columbia Hospital for women and lying-in association, ten thousand dollars.
Revision of laws of District of Columbia. Vol. xiii. p. 409.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the persons employed by the committees on the District of Columbia of the two houses of Congress, under the provisions of the joint resolution approved June eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “ A resolution to provide for the revision of the laws of the District of Columbia,” the compensation provided in said resolution, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose.
Smithsonian Institution.*Smithsonian Institution. —* For the preservation of the collections of the exploring and surveying expeditions of the government, four thousand dollars. Washington aqueduct.*Washington Aqueduct. —* To complete the dam in the Potomac River at the head of the aqueduct, from the shore to Coun’s Island, with cut stone, fifty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-seven dollars. To complete the connecting conduit around and outside the receiving reservoir, seventy thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
To finish gate-house at Great Falls, four thousand dollars. For temporary dam at Conn’s Island, one thousand dollars. For management, miscellaneous, and contingents, fifteen thousand dollars. Government Hospital for the insane.*Government Hospital for the Insane. —* For the support, clothing, and medical treatment of the insane of the army and navy and the revenue cutter service, and of the indigent insane 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, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.
For finishing, furnishing, and lighting additional accommodations in the east wing, in part unfinished, five thousand dollars. For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase and fencing fifty-six and one half acres of meadow land, lying near the hospital, provided the Secretary of the Interior shall approve of the purchase in view of the price and quality of the land, and the necessity of adding it to the hospital farm, six thousand dollars.
Patent office.*Patent Office. —* For 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 the report of the commissioner of patents, six thousand dollars. 317 Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.*Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. —* For the support of the institution, including five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of two extensions to the buildings, to provide enlarged accommodations for the male and female pupils and the resident officers of the institution, thirty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars. For the erection of a brick barn, carriage-house, cow-house, shop, gas-house, and ice-house, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the improvement and enclosure of the grounds of the institution, including under-drainage and sewerage, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Providence Hospital.*Providence Hospital, D. C. —* For the purpose of aiding in the erection of au additional building to the Providence Hospital, in the city of Proviso.Washington, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That if the said property should ever be sold or diverted from the uses expressed in the 1864, ch. 50. Vol. xiii. p. 43.act of Congress entitled “An act to incorporate Providence Hospital, of the city of Washington, District of Columbia,” approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, then the sum of thirty thousand dollars shall be first paid out of the proceeds thereof into the United States treasury to reimburse the sum hereby appropriated.
Destitute colored women and children.1863, ch. 33. Vol. xii. p. 650.For the “National association for the relief of destitute colored women and children,” incorporated under an act of Congress approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the officers of the association. Reimbursement of Washington for expenses for streets. &c.1864, ch. 81, § 3.Vol. xiii. p. 69.To enable the commissioner of public buildings to reimburse the corporation of Washington for expenses incurred in improving streets and avenues passing through and by property of the general government, under the third section of the act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington,” passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, forty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-one cents.
Congressional library.*Congressional Library. —* To complete the extension of the library of Congress, twenty-two thousand dollars. For furniture for the two wings of the extension of the congressional library, and for sliding cases for illustrated books, ten thousand dollars. Decoration of capitol.1856, ch, 129.Vol. xi. p. 88.For an additional appropriation, to be expended under the direction of the joint committee on the library, to decorate the capitol with such works of art as may be ordered and approved by said committee, as provided by act approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, five thousand dollars.
Pay of labor era.For additional compensation of three laborers employed in the congressional library, commencing January one, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred and forty dollars; and the compensation of said laborers is hereby fixed at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. Fire-proof building, for treasury.For the purpose of erecting on the public land adjacent to the Treasury Department a fire-proof brick building to afford additional room for Presses machinery, &c. in treasury building may be sold at auction.the Treasury Department, two hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to remove and sell at auction or otherwise any portion of the presses, machinery, and apparatus employed in the treasury buildings, which from the diminution of the volume of business or otherwise he may from time to time find to be no longer required.
And the legal representatives of the Washington and Georgetown to provide, buildings for orphan's court, and fire-proof vault for register of wills.corporation of Washington and Georgetown, and the portion of the county of Washington in the District of Columbia, not included in said corporations, be, and they are hereby, directed to provide and suitably furnish, without delay, a suitable room for the use of the orphan’s court, and two contiguous rooms and a fire-proof vault for the use of the register of wills in and for said county; and for the repayment of the expense to be incurred in exe-318cuting this order, the A tax to he levied therefor.said corporations of Washington and Georgetown, and the levy court of the county of Washington in the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and directed to levy and collect a suitable tax upon the property embraced within their respective jurisdictions.
General post-office building.*General Post-Office Building. —* For completing the extension of the general post-office building, forty thousand dollars. Surveys of public Iands in Minnesota;*Surveying the Public Lands. —* For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, seven dollars for township, and six dollars for section lines, twenty thousand dollars. Dakota;For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, seven dollars for township, and six dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
Nebraska;For surveying the public lands in Nebraska Territory, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, six dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars. Kansas;For surveying the public Lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, six dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars. Colorado;For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, at rates not exceeding ten dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, eight dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
Nevada;For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Nevada, three thousand dollars. For compensation of the clerks in his office, five thousand dollars. For office rent, messenger, furniture, books, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses of office, three thousand dollars.
New Mexico;For surveying the public lands in New Mexico, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, five thousand dollars. California;For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding fifteen [dollars] per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, twenty-five thousand dollars. Oregon;For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal [mile] for standard hues, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
Washington;For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, ten thousand dollars. Montana;For surveying the public lands in Montana Territory, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township, and eight dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars. For compensation of the surveyor-general of Montana, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of clerks in his office, five thousand dollars. For office rent, messengers, furniture, books, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses of office, three thousand dollars. Indian reservations.For surveying Indian and other reservations, under treaty stipulations, at not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile, front boundaries, at ten dollars for township, and eight dollars per mile for section lines, fifty thousand dollars. Collection of revenue from sales of public lands.*Expenses of Collection of Revenue from Sales of Public Lands. —* For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public money, two hundred and six thousand one hundred dollars.
For incidental expenses of the several land offices, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars. 319 For necessary expenses incident to providing accommodations for internal revenue officers in existing United States fire-proof buildings, wherever possible, fifteen thousand dollars. Site for building fur federal offices at Des Moines.For the purchase, enclosure, and preservation of a parcel, of ground at Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, as a site for the erection of a building for the use of the federal courts and for other federal offices, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Government building at Portland, Me.For the government building at Portland, Maine, used as post office, Custom-house, and for the United States courts, lately destroyed or rendered almost worthless by fire, to repair or rebuild the same as may prove most advisable, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Seminoles.*Post*, Treaties, p. 72.For this amount to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable the Seminoles to occupy, restore, and improve their farms, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty thousand dollars.
For the purchase of agricultural implements, seed-, corn, and other stock, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twenty thousand dollars. For the erection of a mill, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, fifteen thousand dollars. For interest on fifty thousand dollars from the date of the ratification of the treaty, at the rate of five per cent per annum, to be paid annually for the support of schools, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For interest on twenty thousand dollars from the date of the ratification of the treaty, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. For this amount, to be expended for subsisting the Seminole Indians, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, forty thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the losses that may be awarder! under the provisions of article fourth of treaty March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as per third article of said treaty, fifty thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenses of a board of commissioners, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to investigate the losses of the loyal Seminole Indians, as per fourth article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the erection of agency buildings, as per sixth article of treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause a census of each tribe to be taken, as per first clause seventh article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand live hundred dollars. For transportation of such articles as may be purchased under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the Seminole Indians, under treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, twelve thousand dollars.
Creeks.For this amount to be paid per capita in money, unless otherwise directed by the President, upon the ratification of the treaty, to enable the Indians to occupy, restore, and improve their farms; to pay the dam-320ages Creeks.*Post,* Treaties, p 103.sustained by the mission schools; and to pay the delegates of the council as per third article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred thousand dollars. For interest on seven hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars from the date of the ratification of the treaty at the rate of five per cent per annum to be expended under the direction of tile Secretary of the Interior, as per third article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause the line dividing the Creek country as provided for by the terms of the sale of the Creek land to the United States in article third, as per eighth article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, four thousand dollars. For the erection of agency buildings, as per ninth article treaty of Juno fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause a census of the Creeks to be taken, as per first clause, tenth article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hun dred and sixty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenses incurred in negotiating treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as per fourteenth article of said treaty, ten thousand dollars.
For transportation of such articles as may be purchased for the Creek nation of Indians under treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, seven thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* Office of United States depositary atThat the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz: — Louisville;Office of the United States depositary, Louisville:
For salary of cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of assistant cashier, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars For contingent expenses, six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Chicago;Office United States depositary, Chicago: For salary of cashier, one thousand six hundred dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, lour hundred dollars.
Pittsburg;Office United States depositary, Pittsburg: For salary of cashier, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of assistant cashier, one thousand dollars. For salary of watchman, nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, two hundred dollars. Baltimore;Office United States depositary, Baltimore: For salary of cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand live hundred dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For salary of clerk, one thousand dollars For salary of clerk, twelve hundred dollars. For salary of messenger, nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, three hundred and sixty dollars. San Francisco.Office United States assistant treasurer, San Francisco: For salary of cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of bookkeeper, two thousand dollars.321 Office United States depositary, Cincinnati:Office United States depositary at Cincinnati. For salary of assistant cashier, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of asistant cashier, one thousand two hundred dollars. For salary of assistant cashier, one thousand dollars. For salary of teller, one thousand three hundred dollars. For salary of bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of two clerks, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. Portions of commutation fund appropriated to pay awards to loyal persons for service of colored volunteers or drafted men. 1864, ch. 13, § 24, Vol. xiii. p. 11.That so much of any money in the treasury known as the “commutation fund ” as may be necessary be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment to loyal persons claiming service or labor from colored volunteers or drafted men, the amounts heretofore, or hereafter to be awarded them under the provisions of section twenty-fourth of the act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled an act for enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four” for each person so claimed to be held to service or labor who has enlisted or been drafted into theAllegiance of claimant to government to he satisfactorily proved military service of the United States; but such payment shall in no case be made to any person except upon satisfactory proof that the claimant has firmly and faithfully maintained his or her adherence and allegiance to the government of the United States, by defending its can e against the government and forces of the so-called confederate states of America, in all suitable and practicable ways, and according to his or herNo money to be paid until final report of commissioners.
See *Post,* p. 377. Vol. xv. p. 29. ability and opportunity: *Provided,* That no money shall be paid under the foregoing provision until the final report of the commissioners under the act aforesaid shall have been made on all the claims embraced in the twenty-fourth section of said act. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, Provision for pay of revenue agent at New York repealed.1866, ch. 28.*Ante*, p. 22.That so much of “An act making additional appropriations, and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations, for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for other purposes,” approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as provides “for compensation of the revenue agent stationed at New York, in addition to the sum authorized by act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, including one thousand dollars for the current fiscal year, two thousand dollars,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, Deficiency for mail service for 1866.That nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of the Post Office Department, to supply the deficiency fur the mail service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, Pay of watermen in public buildings.That each watchman in the public buildings and grounds under the commissioner of public buildings, whose pay is less than one thousand dollars a year, shall, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, receive a compensation of nine hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, Increase of pay of metropolitan police force;That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the compensation of the metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia be,, and the same is hereby, increased as follows, viz: Twenty dollars per month, and the necessary sum required is hereby appropriated; also, an additional increase of ten dollars a month, said additional increase to be borne by the cities ofto be borne by Washington and Georgetown, and in what proportion.Special tax may be levied therefor.
Washington and Georgetown, and the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, in the proportion equal to the number of patrolmen allotted severally to the city of Washington, to the city of Georgetown, and county of Washington outside of the corporate limits; and the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the levy court of said county, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to levy a special 322tax not exceeding one quarter of one per centum for the purpose aforesaid, and for no other purpose whatsoever.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted*, Property paved from rebel steamer Florida may be sold, and proceeds distributed.That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose of the property saved from the rebel steamer Florida, and distribute the proceeds thereof as other prize money is required by law to be distributed. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, Midshipmen, &c. entitled to one ration, &c.That midshipmen and acting midshipmen in the navy of the United States shall be entitled to one ration, or commutation therefor.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted*, Appropriation for minister resident in Greece repealed.That so much 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 thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for the year ending the thirtieth 1863, ch. 79. Vol. xii. p. 752.of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other purposes,” as appropriates three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for a minister resident in Greece, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted*, Travelling expenses of first Michigan cavalry.That there is hereby appropriated for the payment of travelling expenses of the members of the first regiment of Michigan cavalry from the place, in Utah Territory, where they were mustered out of service, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the place of their enrolment, a sum sufficient to allow each member three hundred and twenty-five dollars, deducting therefrom the amount paid to each for commutation of travel, pay, and subsistence by the government, when thus mustered out, and that the accounts be settled and paid under the direction of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted*, Judicial powers extended to American consuls, &c. in Egypt.1860, ch. 179, § 22.Vol. xii. p. 76.Consul-general at Alexandria.That the provisions of the act to carry into effect the treaties between the United States and China, Japan, Siam, Persia, and other countries, giving certain judicial powers to ministers and consuls, or other functionaries of the United States, in those countries, and for other purposes, approved, June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, shall extend to Egypt; and the consul-general at Alexandria shall have the power provided by section twenty-two of such act for the consul-general or consul residing at the capital of a country where there is no minister.
Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted*, Additional bounty of $ 100 to certain enlisted soldiers, honorably discharged;That each and every soldier who enlisted into the army of the United States, after the nineteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for a period of not less than three years, and having served the time of his enlistment has been honorably discharged, and who has received or who is entitled to receive from the United States under existing laws, a bounty of one hundred dollars and no more, and any such soldier enlisted for not less than three years, who has been honorably discharged on account of wounds or their widows, minor children, or parents.received in the line of duty, and the widow, minor children or parents in the order named, of any such soldier who died in the service of the United States or of disease or wounds contracted while in the service, and in the line of duty, shall be paid the additional bounty of one hundred dollars hereby authorized.
Sec. 13. *And be it further enacted*, Additional bounty of to certain enlisted soldiers, &c.That to each and every soldier who enlisted into the army of the United States, after the fourteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, for a period of not less than two years and who is not included in the foregoing section, and has been honorably discharged after serving two years, and who has received or is entitled to receive from the United States, under existing laws, a bounty of one hundred dollars and no more, shall be paid an additional bounty of fifty dollars, and any such soldier enlisted for not less than two years who has been honorably discharged on account of wounds received in the line of duty, and the widow, minor children, or parents, in the order named, of any such soldier who died in the service of the United States, 323or of disease, or wounds contracted while in the service, and in the line of duty, shall be paid the additional bounty of fifty dollars hereby authorized.
Sec. 14. *And be it further enacted*, Soldiers who have sold, assigned, loaned, &c. their discharge papers, not entitled to the bounty.Soldier applying for bounty to make oath.That any soldier who shall have bartered, sold, assigned, transferred, loaned, exchanged, or given away his final discharge papers, or any interest in the bounty provided by this or any other act of Congress, shall not be entitled to receive any additional bounty whatever; and when application is made by any soldier for said bounty, he shall be required, under the pains and penalties of perjury, to make oath or affirmation of his identity, and that he has not so bartered, sold, assigned, transferred, exchanged, loaned, or given away either his discharge papers, or any interest in any bounty as aforesaid.
Claim not to be entertained, except, &c.And no claim for such bounty shall be entertained by the paymaster-general, or other accounting or disbursing officer except upon receipt of the claimant’s discharge papers, accompanied by the statement under oath, as by this section provided. Sec. 15. *And be it further enacted*, Paymaster-general to examine accounts of soldiers making application for bounties, &cThat in the payment of the additional bounty herein provided for, it shall be the duty of the paymaster-general, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to cause to be examined the accounts of each and every soldier who makes application therefor, and if found entitled thereto shall pay said bounties.
Sec. 16. *And be it further enacted*, Rules for accounting officers in paying claims of widows, &c. for additional bounty.That in the reception, examination, settlement, and payment of claims for said additional bounty due the widows or heirs of deceased soldiers, the accounting officers of the treasury shall be governed by the restrictions prescribed for the paymaster-general by the Secretary of War, and the payment shall be made in like manner under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 17. *And be it further enacted*, Pay and mileage of senators, representatives, and delegates in Congress.That the compensation of each senator, representative, and delegate in Congress shall be five thousand dollars per annum, to be computed from the first day of the present Congress, and in addition thereto mileage at the rate of twenty cents per mile, to be estimated by the nearest route usually travelled in going to and returning from each regular session; but nothing hereinAccrued mileage accounts not affected.Mileage accounts, how to be certified.Pay of speaker. contained shall affect mileage accounts already accrued under existing laws: *Provided,* That hereafter mileage accounts of senators shall be certified by the president of the Senate, and those of representatives and delegates by the speaker of the House of Representatives: *And provided further, *That the pay of the speaker shall be eight thousand dollars per annum.
Sec. 18. *And be it further enacted*, Twenty per cent additional pay to officers, clerks, reporters, of Senate and House of Representatives, and librarian, &c. of congressional library.That there be allowed and paid to the officers, clerks, committee clerks, messengers, and all other employés of the Senate and House of Representatives, and to the Globe and official reporters of each house, and the stenographer of the House, and to the capitol police, and the three superintendents of the public gardens, their clerks and assistants, and to the librarian, assistant librarians, messengers, and other employes of the congressional library, an addition of twenty per cent on their present pay, to commence with the present Congress; and the amount necessary to pay this allowance is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 19. *And be it further enacted*, Preservation of harbor of Provincetown, Mass.That the sum of eight thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the preservation of the harbor of Provincetown, Massachusetts, the same to be expended under the supervision of a commission or board of officers to be appointed by the Secretary of War. Approved, July 28, 1866.