Chapter CCXCVII. *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 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*, Deficiencies a
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CHAP. CCXCVII.— An Act *to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 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*, Deficiencies appropriations for 1866.That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Executive.*Executive.—* For contingent expenses of the executive office, including stationery thereof, four thousand dollars. Treasury Department.*Treasury Department. —* Office of the first comptroller: Office of 1st comptroller;For the employment of temporary clerks in said office, two thousand five hundred dollars. comptroller of currency.Office of comptroller of the currency: For compensation of the comptroller, deputy comptroller, clerks, messengers, and laborers, thirty thousand dollars.
Light-house board.*Light-House Board. —* For contingent expenses, viz: For stationery, miscellaneous expenses, and postage, and renewing furniture and cases in the office, one thousand dollars. Stationery.For stationery for the Treasury Department and its various bureaus, twenty thousand dollars. Southeast executive building.For southeast executive building, including the extension, viz: For contingent expenses, viz: For fuel, labor, light, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of buildings for the accommodation of clerks who cannot be accommodated in the treasury building, five thousand dollars. Department of Interior.Assistant secretary.*Department of the Interior. —* For additional compensation for the assistant secretary, five hundred dollars. Biennial Register.For compiling and supervising the Biennial Register, five hundred dollars. Post Office Department.*Post Office Department.* — For additional compensation to three insistant postmasters general, at five hundred dollars each, fifteen hundred dollars.
Additional pay of assistant post-masters general.Pay of additional clerks.1866, eh. 10.*Ante,* p. 3.For compensation of the additional clerks in the Post Office Department, authorized to be appointed by act of Congress approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, forty-four thousand two hundred dollars, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, five thousand dollars. Twenty per cent additional to female clerks. 1664, ch. 147, §3.
Vol. xiii. p. 160.Female folders in dead-letter office to have $ 60 a month.For twenty per centum additional to the salaries of female clerks employed in the Post Office Department, as per act of June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That from and after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the regular compensation of the female folders in the dead-letter office shall be at the rate of fifty dollars per month.
Twenty per cent additional to laborers.For twenty per centum additional to the salaries of the laborers employed in the Post Office Department, and paid from the contingent fund, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand and forty dollars. District attorneys.*District Attorneys. —* For compensation of attorney for the eastern district of New York, from March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents.
Mail steamship service with Brazil.For mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil, from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be due. Watchmen for dome of capitol.For compensation of three watchmen for the dome of the capitol at 325seven hundred and twenty dollars each, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty-one hundred and sixty dollars.
Navy hospital at Washington.For navy hospital at Washington, District of Columbia, thirty thousand dollars. Compensation of deputy solicitor of court of claims established.The compensation of the deputy solicitor of the court of claims shall be, from and after June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. three thousand and live hundred dollars, payable quarterly out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. General land office.*General Land Office.—* To supply the deficiency for salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of the district land offices for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, forty thousand dollars.
Marshal of eastern district of New York.For salary of marshal of the eastern district of New York from March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-five cents. Public buildings and grounds.Sewer through botanic garden.Proposals to be advertised for.*Public Buildings and Grounds. —* To complete the sewer through the botanic garden, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the commissioner of public buildings shall advertise for two weeks for sealed proposals for the performance of such work and the furnishing of materials therefor in the two newspapers in the city of Washington authorized to publish the official advertisements, and at the expiration of such time, on a day to be specified in such advertisement, the proposals shall be Work to be let to lowest bidder, &c.opened by the commissioner of public buildings in the presence of the Secretary of the Interior, and the work shall be then let to the person who shall have offered to do the same and furnish the materials at the lowest rates and aggregate, and who shall give proper security for the performance of his contract; and the Report to Congress of appropriations, &c. for this work.commissioner of public buildings is hereby required to report to Congress at the commencement of the next session a full statement of the expenditure of the present and past appropriations for this work, with the rates that have been paid for work and materials under each appropriation.
Lower water-closets of supreme court room, &c.To enable the commissioner of public buildings to reconstruct the lower water-closets of the supreme court room, to place marble around the furnace register, by way of protection, and to make such other improvements as the chief justice of the court may desire, one thousand five hundred dollars. Long Bridge.To repair the planking and for other repairs to Long Bridge, over the Potomac, three thousand dollars. Public grounds.President's house.For iron seats for the public grounds, one thousand dollars.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to make such alterations in the arrangement of the business offices in the President’s house as the President may desire, two thousand dollars. For repair of one of the greenhouses at the President’s, five hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the President’s house, six thousand dollars, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. To complete the repairing and furnishing of the President’s house, twenty thousand dollars.
Lighting streets.To meet a deficiency in lighting Bridge and High streets, Georgetown, for the three months of the last fiscal year, eleven hundred dollars. To so alter the roof-gutters at the President’s house as to prevent injury by overflow of water, three thousand dollars. Twenty per cent to messenger of court of claims.For the additional twenty per centum compensation to the messenger of the court of claims from January twenty-ninth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, sixty-seven dollars and twenty cents.
Bathroom of House of Representative.To ventilate the bathroom of the House of Representatives, two hundred dollars. 326 Pennsylvania bank building.To alter and repair the building in the city of Philadelphia belonging to the United States, known as the Pennsylvania bank building, so as to render it suitable for the occupancy of the appraisers connected with the customs at Philadelphia, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty thousand dollars. Indian departmentMiscellaneous.Indian service in Nevada.*Indian Department.— Miscellaneous. —* For the general incidental expenses of Indian service in Nevada, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended Payment to James W.
Nye.under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars shall be paid to James W. Nye, late governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for Nevada, for balance found due him. Statutes at large.For additional compensation to the publishers of the statutes at large, twenty-four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents. Edward Jarvis, for digest of facts as to mortality and diseases, in census of 1860.To pay the salary of Edward Jarvis, from January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to May thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for digesting the facts as to mortality and diseases, collected by the census marshals in eighteen hundred and sixty, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Office of Secretary of State.To enable the Secretary of State to remove his office and contents, twenty-five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated. Pay of temporary clerks in quartermaster-general's office made equal to that of first-class clerks.To enable the Secretary of War to make the pay of the persons employed at any time during the last fiscal year as temporary clerks in the office of the quartermaster-general, or any division thereof, equal to the pay of first-class clerks, which is hereby directed, such sum as may be necessary for this purpose.
Expenses of delegation of Southern Cherokees.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the reasonable costs and expenses actually paid or incurred by the delegates of the Southern Cherokees in coming to and going from Washington, and Sum to be refunded from sales of lands.during their stay in and about the negotiation upon the formation of treaties of peace and amity with the Indian tribes, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said sum shall be refunded to the treasury from the proceeds of the sales of the Cherokee neutral lands in Kansas.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, Increased pay of judges of supreme court of District of Columbia.1856, ch. 103, §2.*Ante*, p. 55.That for increased compensation of the chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, authorized by the second section of the act of June first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, the sum of three hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty-five cents is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, Quieting title to occupants of certain lands conveyed by the United States. Vol. vii. p. 190.That the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to quiet the title of the occupants of the following lands, conveyed by the United States to Joseph Richard ville, senior, and Joseph Richardville, junior, by treaty at Saint Mary’s, October sixth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, to wit:
The west half of section number twenty-six (26), the east half of section number twenty-eight (28), and section number twenty-seven (27), of township five south, range four east, lying in the county of Auglaize and State of Ohio. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That whereas doubts have arisen whether the fourth section of the act Construction of 1865, ch. 78, $ 4. Vol. xiii. p. 483.approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled, “An act to amend au act to provide internal revenue to support the government, to pay interet on the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, authorized disbursing agents to disburse other moneys than those appropriated in the said fourth section: therefore, fur the purpose of removing such doubts and declaring the true intent and meaning 327of said fourth [section], the said fourth section shall be deemed, held, and construed as being and remaining in full force and effect from and after the, third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-Collectors of internal revenus acting as disbursing agents, to disburse what moneys.five, until the same shall have been modified or repealed, and as authorizing the disbursement through such agents of moneys heretofore appropriated, and that may hereafter be appropriated, for the payment of the lawful expenses incident to carrying into effect the various acts relative to the assessment and collection of the internal revenues; and all bonds and obligations heretofore entered into by collectors of internal revenue as disbursing agents shall be binding and obligatory upon such collectors and their sureties, as well in respect to moneys which have been or may hereafter be received by said collectors as such disbursing agents as to moneys appropriated in the said fourth section.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, Increased pay to capitol police.That the capitol police and two policemen at the executive mansion shall be entitled to the increased compensation allowed by law to officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the employ of the House of Representatives. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, Appropriation for depositary at Santa Fe.That the following sums be appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz: For compensation of the depositary at Santa Fe, New Mexico, per act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand dollars.
Additional clerks, &c.1846, ch. 90.Vol. ix. p. 59.For salaries of additional clerks and additional compensation of officers and clerks, under act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, at such rates as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem just and reasonable, ten thousand dollars. Life-saving stations.1855, ch. 1. Vol. x. p. 697. 1856, ch. 160. Vol. xi. p. 95.For compensation of two superintendents for the life-saving stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, per acts December fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, per same acts, six thousand dollars. Quartermaster-general's office.For salary of the superintendent of the building occupied by the quartermaster-general’s office, two hundred dollars for the current fiscal year. Contingent expenses of the Senate.For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz: For the Senate folding-room, six thousand dollars. For additional messengers during the session, five thousand dollars. Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted*, Estimates for fire-proof buildings for War Department.That the Secretary of War be directed to cause estimates to be made for the erection of suitable fire-proof buildings for the War Department in Washington, stating the location and price of the land, and plans and cost of necessary buildings, to be reported at the next session of Congress.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, Amendment of 1849, ch. 129, § 4 Vol. ix. p. 415. 1769, ch. 12. Vol. i. p. 65.That section four of the act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the service of the United States,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be amended by striking out all after the enacting clause, and in lieu thereof inserting the words: “That the said auditor shall, in all cases, transmit his adjustment, with all the papers relating thereto, to the second comptroller, for his revision and decision thereon, the same in all respects as is provided in the act of the second of September, *eighteen* [seventeen] hundred and eighty-nine.
” Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted*, Index to Senate list of private claims.That the sum of five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of continuing the index to Senate list of private claims down to the present Congress, in pursuance of the order of the Senate, dated March sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Approved, July 28, 1866.