Chapter CLXVI. *making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the
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CHAP. CLXVI.— An Act *making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be, andCivil expenses appropriations the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, viz:— *Survey of the Coast*.—For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coastsCoast survey.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,Western coast. 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, andSouth Florida reefs, &c. coast, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of the 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 coastPublishing. survey of the United States, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, five thousand dollars. For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in theVessels. coast survey, thirty thousand dollars. For pay and rations of engineers for four steamers used in the hydrographyPay, &c. of engineers. of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars. *Lighthouse Establishment*.—For the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and PacificLighthouse establishment.Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts. coasts, viz:— It or supplying the lighthouses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, chamois skins, whiting, spirits of wine, polishing powder, cleaning towels, brushes, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses, improving and refitting lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, two hundred and five thousand dollars. 458 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 167. 1867. Lighthouse establishment.For salaries of five hundred and eighty-nine keepers of lighthouses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. 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, two hundred and seventy-one thousand seven 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, two hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses of refitting and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. Commissions.For commissions at two and one half per centum to such superintendents as are entitled to the same under the provisions of the acts of March 1851, ch. 32.
Vol. ix. p. 608.third, eighteen hundred and fifty-*four* [one], on the amount that may be disbursed by them, twelve thousand dollars. Wharf, &c. at Wood’s Hole.For repairs to the wharf and buildings at the buoy depot, Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, twelve thousand dollars. Connimicut Point.For enabling the lighthouse board to make such alterations in the day-beacon at Connimicut Point, Providence river, as to fit it for the exhibition of a light, fifteen thousand dollars. Repairs at various stations.For repairs and renovations at the following stations, viz:
Point Aux Roches, Black Rock, Plum Island, Burlington Beacons, Princess Bay, and Point Judith, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars. Cumberland Head.For rebuilding Cumberland Head lighthouse upon a more eligible site, eighteen thousand dollars. Saugerties.For rebuilding the lighthouse at Saugerties, New York, and suitably protecting it, twenty-five thousand dollars. StuyvesantFor rebuilding Stuyvesant lighthouse, New York, and suitably protecting it, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sands’s Point.For repairs and renovations at Sands’s Point light-station, New York, nine thousand four hundred dollars. Execution Rocks.For repairs and renovations at Execution Rocks light-station, including a fog-signal, nineteen thousand dollars. Great Captain’s Island.For repairs and renovations at Great Captain’s Island light-station, twelve thousand dollars. Norwalk Island.For repairs and renovations at Norwalk Island light-station, twelve thousand dollars. Old Field Point.For repairs and renovations at Old Field Point light-station, twelve thousand dollars.
Eaton’s Neck.For repairs and renovations at Eaton’s Neck light-station, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars. Little Gull Island.For repairs and renovations at Little Gull Island light-station, including a fog-signal, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. Cedar Island.For rebuilding Cedar Island light-station, and suitably protecting it, twenty-five thousand dollars. North Brother Island.For additional appropriation for a new lighthouse on North Brother Island or vicinity, East river, New York, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Lighthouse depot, Staten Island.For construction of a vault for the storage of oil at the lighthouse depot, Staten Island, New York, twenty thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars. For repairs and renovations at the breakwater which protects the lighthouse establishment property at Staten Island, New York, twenty-seven thousand dollars. 459 For repairs and renovations to the sea-wall at lighthouse depot, StatenLighthouse depot, Staten Island. Island, New York, eighteen thousand dollars.
For landing wharf, roadway, and coal-shed, at the Staten Island depot, fifteen thousand dollars. For workshops for lampists, blacksmiths, coopers, at Staten Island depot, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Morgan’s Point light-station, twelveMorgan’s Point. thousand dollars. For tramways, grading, and fences and dredging at the Staten Island depot, eight thousand dollars. For protection of the lighthouse site at Absecom, New Jersey, fiveAbsecom. thousand dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at Egg Island, New Jersey, fifteen thousandEgg Island. dollars. For constructing a buoy-shed at the lighthouse depot, Staten Island,Staten Island. New York, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For a beacon-light at Somers’s Cove, Maryland, ten thousand dollars.Somers’s Cove. For rebuilding the first-class lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina,Cape Hatteras. seventy-five thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Tybee Island light-station, in addition toTybee Island. former appropriations, thirty-four thousand four hundred and forty-three dollars.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and fittingCape Canaveral. it up with a first order catadioptric illuminating apparatus, in addition to former appropriations, twenty-one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars. For repairs and renovations at Pensacola light-station, twenty thousandPensacola. dollars. For rebuilding Sand Island light-station, eighty thousand dollars.Sand Island. For rebuilding Mobile Point lighthouse, which the lighthouse boardMobile Point. are hereby authorized to do upon a more eligible site, if such can be found, twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations of the following light-stations, viz: EastRepairs, &c. at various stations. Pascagoula, Tchefuncti, Pass Manchac, Bayou Saint John, and Choctaw Point, fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For beacon-light on Sister Island, Saint Lawrence River, ten thousandSister Island. dollars. For repairs and renovations at the light-station on West Sister Island, Lake Erie, twelve thousand dollars. For additional appropriation for range-lights at Maumee Bay, Ohio,Maumee Bay. five thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Bayley’s Harbor light-station, Michigan,Bayley’s Harbor. fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Bois Blanc Island light-station, Michigan,Bois Blanc Island. fourteen thousand dollars. For new lighthouse on the South Fox Island, Lake Michigan, eighteenSouth Fox Island. thousand dollars. For a new lighthouse and fog-signal on Granite Island, Lake Superior,Granite Island twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and improving the lighthouse at Skillagalee (Isle auxSkillagalee.
Galets), Lake Michigan, forty thousand dollars. For day-beacon to mark Stanard’s Rock, Lake Superior, ten thousandStanard’s Rock. dollars. For new lighthouse at Sturgeon Point, Lake Huron, fifteen thousandSturgeon Point. dollars. For new lanterns at the light-stations at Grand River and Milwaukee,Grand River and Milwaukee. (North Point), three thousand dollars. For rebuilding the keeper’s dwelling at Presque Isle light-station, LakePresque Isle. Huron, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 460 Thunder Bay.For rebuilding the keeper’s dwelling at Thunder Bay Island light-station, Lake Huron, eight thousand dollars.
Muskegon.For rebuilding the keeper’s dwelling at Muskegon light-station, Lake Michigan, eight thousand dollars. Sand Point.For additional appropriation for a beacon-light on Sand Point, west side of Little Bay de Noquet, Michigan, nine thousand dollars. Point Conception.For an efficient fog-signal at Point Conception, California, six thousand dollars. Southern coasts.To enable the lighthouse board to re-establish lights and other aids to navigation on the Southern coast, one hundred thousand dollars.
Life-saving stations; superintendents, keepers, &c.For compensation of two superintendents for the life-saving 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 contingencies of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars. Lighthouses.Santa Cruz.For the establishment of a lighthouse at Santa Cruz, California, ten thousand dollars;
Point Reyes, fifteen thousand dollars. Trowbridge Point.For a lighthouse at Trowbridge Point, in Thunder Bay, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Mendota.For a lighthouse at Mendota, on Lake Superior, Michigan, fourteen thousand dollars. Braddock’s Point.For a lighthouse at or near Braddock’s Point, Georgia, in place of Caliboque light vessel, fifteen thousand dollars. Tybee Island Knoll.For a lighthouse to mark Tybee Island Knoll, Georgia, in place of light-vessel, fifteen thousand dollars.
Morris Island.For range-lights on Morris Island, as guides in crossing Charleston Bar, South Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars. Deep Water Shoals.For rebuilding lighthouse on Deep Water Shoals, in Jatnes river, Virginia, sixteen thousand dollars. Saint Simon’s.For rebuilding lighthouse tower and keeper’s dwelling at Saint Simon’s, Georgia, forty-five thousand dollars. Southwest Pass.For a reappropriation of the amount heretofore appropriated for an iron lighthouse at Southwest Pass, but which has been carried to the surplus fund, one hundred and eight thousand six hundred dollars.
Punta Arenas.For a new lighthouse at Punta Arenas, California, sixty-five thousand dollars. Cape Blanco.For a new lighthouse at Cape Blanco, Oregon, seventy-five thousand dollars. Estate of Charles H. Peaslee.*Miscellaneous*.—To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the estate of Charles H. Peaslee, deceased, late collector of customs at Boston, a balance remaining due him upon settlement of his accounts, seven thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-four cents.
Barge office.For erecting a barge office at New York, fifty thousand dollars. Suspension bridge.For the purchase of the stone building and lot at Suspension Bridge, New York, now used for government purposes, six thousand dollars. Custom-house at Wiscasset;For rebuilding the custom-house at Wiscasset, Maine, with authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the present site and purchase a new one, if deemed for the public interest, twenty-five thousand dollars. New Orleans.For fitting up certain rooms in the unfinished portion of the customhouse building in New Orleans, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars.
Patent-office building.To reconstruct chimneys and flues in the patent-office building, eight thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the north portico of the patent-office building, seventy-five thousand dollars. 461 For continuing the work on the capitol extension, two hundred and fiftyCapitol extension. thousand dollars. For the dome of the capitol, fifteen thousand dollars.Dome. For the purpose of paying the total liabilities of the census office, exclusiveCensus office. of the amount claimed to be due to the United States marshals and their assistants, eight hundred and ninety dollars and sixty-four cents.
For repairs to marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, ten thousandMarine hospital. dollars. For a custom-house in Newport, Vermont, ten thousand dollars.Custom-house at Newport, Vt. For purchase of a site and the erection of a building for a customhouseMachias; and post-office at Machias, Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Astoria, Oregon, twenty-five thousandAstoria. dollars: *Provided,* That vessels may load and unload at the city ofLoading, &c. of vessels at Portland.
Portland, in said State, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. For constructing fire-proof appraisers’ stores on the property known asAppraisers’ stores,Philadelphia. the Pennsylvania Bank building, and belonging to the government, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of custom-houses and other public buildings,Repairs, &c. of custom-houses, &c. twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs of the building used as the custom-house and post-office at Middletown, Connecticut, six thousand dollars; and for the erection, under the direction of the lighthouse board, of an iron spindle on Success Rock,Iron spindle on Success Rock.
Long Island Sound, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary. For the payment of fixtures and furniture furnished to said office, six hundred dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture of custom-houses and other publicCustom-houses buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. For burglar and fire proof vaults and safes for depositories, twentyBurglar, &c. proof safes. thousand dollars. For replacing galvanized iron roofs with copper or slate roofs, twenty-fiveCopper, &c roofs. thousand dollars.
For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous expenses of treasury buildings,Treasury buildings. thirty-five thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of a survey of a tract of land for a park andPresidential mansion. site for a presidential mansion, made under the resolution of the Senate requesting the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars.Heating. For United States court-house and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa,Court-house, &c. at Des Moines. eighty-five thousand dollars.
For the completion of the approaches and fencing to the treasury building,Treasury building. fifty thousand dollars. For continuation of the treasury extension, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and alterations in the New York custom-house, thirty thousandNew York custom-house. dollars. For furniture and repairs of the same, seven thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase thirty copies of theStatutes at Large. first nine volumes of the United States Statutes at Large, nine hundred and forty-five dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust and settle the accountsJames Tufts. Census of Montana. of James Tufts for enumerating the inhabitants of the Territory of Montana, under the direction of the governor of said Territory, as authorized by the act of May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled1864, ch. 95, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 87. “An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana,” the sum of six thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 462 Heating Supreme Court room.For heating with steam the Supreme Court room, law library, and the passages and stairways adjacent [to] the court-room, and for other improvements and repairs of said court-room, fifteen thousand dollars.
Extra clerks.For the compensation of eight extra clerks of class two in the office of the commissioner of Indian affairs, eleven thousand two hundred dollars. Lewis Heyl.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Lewis Heyl for compiling statutes prescribing the rates of duties on imports, and making index to the tariff bill now pending, one thousand dollars. Public buildings and grounds.Transient paupers, &c.*Public Buildings and Grounds*.—For 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 so much thereof as may be necessary.
Carts and tools.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. Trees, treeboxes, &c.For the 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 the public grounds, three thousand dollars. Water-pipes, stables, &c.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, twelve thousand dollars, in addition to the sale of old material.
Lighting buildings, grounds, and streets.For lighting the Capitol and President’s house and public grounds around them, around the executive offices and Pennsylvania Avenue, fifty-five thousand dollars. Corporation of Washington, how to light their lamps, and for what time.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 lamps with seven-feet burner[s], 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.
Lamp-lighters, &c.For pay of lamp-lighters, gas-fitting, plumbing, lamp-posts, lanterns, glass, paints, matches, materials and repairs of all sorts, twenty-five thousand dollars. Bridges.For casual repairs of the navy yard and upper bridges, six thousand dollars. Fuel.For fuel for the President’s house, five thousand dollars. Pennsylvania Avenue.For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, and sprinkling the same, and keeping it clean and free from dirt, two thousand dollars. Public reservations.For improvement and taking care of public reservation number two and Lafayette Square, in addition to the sale of hay which may be raised on the former, three thousand dollars.
Squares and grounds.For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvement of the same, and repairing fences, three thousand dollars. Water-pipes.For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars. Sewer traps.For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on Pennsylvania Avenue, eight hundred dollars. Furnaces.For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the Capitol, five hundred dollars. Public grounds.For hauling manure for top-dressing the public grounds, five hundred dollars. 463 For purchase of fuel for the centre building of the Capitol, fifteenBuildings and streets. hundred dollars.
For taking care of the Circle on Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand dollars. For continuing the grading and repairing of Virginia Avenue, ten thousand dollars. For the necessary expenses to be incurred in consequence of opening Sixth Street west across the Mall, and in making fences, two thousand dollars. For renewing the heating apparatus at the President’s house, eight thousand dollars. For laying a new pipe from the K Street main to the Capitol, in order to supply the building at all times with a full flow of water, five thousand dollars.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to put in thorough repairConservatory and greenhouse. the conservatory recently injured by fire at the President’s mansion, ten thousand dollars. For the construction of a new greenhouse, with central dome and a wing, to correspond in size with the present greenhouse in the Botanic Garden, to be built of iron and glass according to a plan prepared by the architect of the capitol extension, and approved, by the joint committee on the library, thirty-five thousand dollars; the same to be expended under the direction of the joint committee on the library of Congress.
For enabling the commissioner to cause the old and useless lightning-rodsHawley’s conductors. on the President’s house to be removed, and Hawley’s improved patented conductors substituted for them, two hundred and fifty dollars. For enabling the commissioner to employ a suitable electrician to takeLighting dome of capitol. care of and operate the lighting apparatus of the dome of the capitol, twelve hundred dollars. For repairing in front of the War Department on Pennsylvania Avenue and on Seventeenth Street with stone flagging, sixteen thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the President’s house, six thousand dollars.Public buildings, grounds, streets, &c. For top-dressing for public grounds and cartage for same, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of tools for public grounds, five hundred dollars. For purchase of flower-pots, mats, glasses, putty, wire, twine, and so forth, for use on the greenhouses, one hundred dollars. For the removal of the foot-bridge on Maine Avenue, now of noFoot-bridge on Maine Avenue. further use at that point, to Third Street west, which the commissioner of public buildings is hereby directed to have done, three hundred dollars.
To complete the culvert through the Botanic Garden, fifteen thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice from pavements and public walks, three hundred dollars. For manure and cartage of the same for Smithsonian grounds and public reservations, one thousand dollars. For completing the improvement of Franklin Square, gravelling walks and deepening the same, and purchasing and planting trees and shrubbery, five thousand dollars. For improvement of reservations on New York, Massachusetts, Vermont,Reservations. &c. and Maryland avenues, the same being now enclosed, manure, trenching, the purchase of trees and shrubbery, four thousand dollars.
For further improvement of the Circle on Pennsylvania Avenue, six hundred dollars. For purchase and planting of trees and boxes for the same, replacing 464 Streets and squares.those that have been destroyed on the streets, heretofore planted by the government, two thousand dollars. For painting the iron fences around Lafayette Square, in front of the War and Navy Departments, in front of the executive mansion, and the government portion of the fence around Judiciary Square, five thousand dollars.
For new crossings on Pennsylvania Avenue, five thousand dollars. For annual repairs of fences around the public reservations, one thousand dollars. Lighting rotunda.For lighting the rotunda of the capitol with gas, by a branch from the electric battery which lights the dome, three thousand dollars. Historical library of Peter Force.To enable the joint committee on the library of Congress to purchase the historical library of Peter Force for the library, one hundred thousand dollars.
Bust of Pulaski.To enable the joint committee on the library of Congress to purchase the bust of Pulaski, now in the old ball of the house of representatives, executed by the late Henry D. Saunders, one thousand dollars. Office of register of deeds.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for books of record heretofore furnished in the office of the register of deeds of the District of Columbia, and fitting necessary shelving in said office, six hundred dollars. Warden of jail.For salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars.
Department of agriculture.To enable the commissioner of agriculture to erect a department of agriculture on reservation number two, in the city of Washington, according to the plan proposed by him, to be constructed under the general provisions of laws relating to the construction of public buildings, one hundred thousand dollars. Smithsonian Institution; collections of surveying expeditions.*Smithsonian Institution*.—For the preservation of the collections of the exploring and surveying expeditions of the government, ten 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 of 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 thousandSalary of superintendent established. five hundred dollars; and the salary of the superintendent of the said hospital is hereby fixed at four thousand dollars per annum.
East wing.For finishing, furnishing, lighting, and heating additional accommodations in the east wing of the hospital edifice, occupied as a general army hospital during the war, and still in part unfinished, seven thousand dollars. Wall.For continuing the wall enclosing the grounds of the hospital, ten thousand dollars. Coal-house.For building a coal-house near the wharf, two thousand dollars. Washington aqueduct.*Washington Aqueduct*.—For the payment of the employees in the management, engineering, and repairs of the Washington Aqueduct, twenty thousand dollars.
Patent Office.Copyrights.*Patent Office*.—For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care of copyright books, charts, and other copyright matter, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be paid out of the patent-office fund. Illustrations, &c. of commissioner’s report.For preparing illustrations and descriptions for the report of the commissioner of patents, ten thousand dollars, to be paid out of the patent-office fund. Columbian Institution for the deaf and dumb.Not over ten deaf mutes may be received from the States and Territories, and how.*Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb*.—For the support of the institution, including one thousand dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That deaf mutes, not exceeding ten in number, residing in the several States and Territories of the United States, applying for admission to the collegiate department of the institution, shall be received on the same terms and conditions as those 465 prescribed by law for residents of the District of Columbia, at the discretion of the president of the institution.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of additions to the buildingsAdditions to buildings. of the institution, to provide enlarged accommodations for the male and female pupils and the resident officers of the institution, fifty-four thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the enlargement and further improvement of the grounds of theEnlargement, &c. of grounds. institution, including under-drainage, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To furnish an increased supply of Potomac water and for the erectionWater. of tanks to regulate the distribution thereof, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the president of the institution.
Columbia Hospital.—To aid in the support of the Columbia HospitalColumbia Hospital. for Women and Lying-in Asylum, in the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. *Expenses of Collection of Revenue from Sales of Public Lands*.—ForExpenses of collecting revenue from sales of public lands. 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 thousandSalaries, &c. of registers and receivers. four hundred dollars. *Surveying the Public Lands*.—For surveying the public lands in Minnesota,Surveys of 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, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, including the landsDakota; along the Red River of the North, 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. For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding tenNebraska; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, six dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding tenKansas; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, six dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Idaho, at rates not exceeding fifteenIdaho; dollars per mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Colorado, at rates not exceeding fifteenColorado; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, eight dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteenNevada; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Arizona, at rates not exceeding fifteenArizona; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, ten thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding fifteenCalifornia; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, thirty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding fifteenOregon; dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates notWashington Territory; exceeding fifteen dollars per lineal mile for standard lines, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, ten thousand dollars. For the survey of the forty-second parallel of north latitude, so far asforty-second parallel between California and Oregon. it constitutes the common boundary between the States of California and Oregon, estimated two hundred and twenty miles, at not exceeding sixty dollars per mile, thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty-seven dollars. 466 Survey of boundary between Oregon and Idaho;For survey of boundary line between the State of Oregon and the Territory of Idaho, commencing at the northern boundary of the State of Nevada, and running north to its intersection with Snake river, estimated one hundred and sixty miles, at not exceeding sixty dollars per mile, nine thousand six hundred dollars. thirty-seventh parallel.For the survey of the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, so far as it constitutes the northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico, estimated three hundred and twenty miles, at not exceeding sixty dollars per mile, nineteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Office of commissioner of public buildings abolished; chief engineer to perform duties, superintend Washington Aqueduct, &c. *And be it further enacted, *That the office of commissioner of public buildings is hereby abolished; and the chief engineer of the army shall perform all the duties now required by law of said commissioner, and shall also have the superintendence of the Washington Aqueduct and all the public works and improvements of the government of the United States in the District of Columbia, unless otherwise provided by law; and the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and the sergeant-at-arms of the House Appointment of capitol police.of Representatives shall hereafter appoint the members of the capitol police.
Sec. 3. Lighthouse board may apply unexpended balances on Pacific coast; *And be it further enacted, *That the lighthouse board be authorized to apply any unexpended balance which may remain after the completion of a lighthouse work on the Pacific coast to the construction of any other similar work upon the same coast, which may have been authorized by Congress, but for which the amount appropriated may prove insufficient. Sec. 4. may purchase sites for lighthouses, &c. when, &c. *And be it further enacted, *That the lighthouse board is authorized, whenever an appropriation has been or may be made by Congress for a new lighthouse, the proper site for which does not belong to the United States, to purchase the necessary land, provided the purchase-money be paid from the amount appropriated for such lighthouse: *Provided,*Certain superintendents of lights not to receive pay as disbursing agents for lighthouse establishment.
That no superintendent of lights, whose compensation as collector of customs exceeds three thousand dollars per annum, shall receive any compensation as disbursing agent for the lighthouse establishment, whether the sums disbursed by him be for articles to be used or services rendered within or without the limits of his superintendency or collection district. Sec. 5. Salary of general appraiser at New York;of assistants at certain ports. *And be it further enacted, *That the salary of the general appraiser in the city of New York shall be three thousand dollars.
And the salaries of the assistant appraisers at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, and San Francisco shall be twenty-five hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 6. Pay of clerk of pardons in State Department.Vol. xiii. p. 758. *And be it further enacted, *That the clerk of pardons in the Department of State be placed upon the same footing in regard to compensation for extraordinary services under the amnesty proclamation of the twenty-ninth May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as the principal clerk of pardons in the Attorney-General’s office; and any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated is hereby appropriated for this purpose.
Sec. 7. Clerk of the House to select newspapers in each of the ten rebel States in which the laws, legal notices, &c. shall be published. *And be it further enacted, *That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the House of Representatives to select in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, one or more newspapers, not exceeding the number now allowed by law, in which such treaties and laws of the United States as may be ordered for publication in newspapers according to law shall be published, and in some one or more of which so selected all such advertisements as may be ordered for publication in said districts, by any See Vol. xv. p. 8.United States court or judge thereof, or by any officer of such courts, or by any executive officer of the United States, shall be published, the compensation for which, and other terms of publication, shall be fixed by said clerk at a rate not exceeding two dollars per page for the publicationPay therefor. of treaties and laws, and not exceeding one dollar per square of eight 467 lines of space, for the publication of advertisements, the accounts for which shall be adjusted by the proper accounting officers and paid in the manner now authorized by law in the like cases; and said clerk shall,Heads of executive departments and, judges to be notified, and they are to publish only in such newspapers. as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, notify each head of the several executive departments, and each judge of the United States courts therein, of the papers selected by him in accordance with the foregoing provisions; and thereupon and thereafter it shall be the duty of the several executive officers charged therewith to furnish to such selected papers only an authentic copy of the publications to be made as aforesaid; and no money hereby or otherwise appropriated shall be paid for any publications or advertisements hereafter to be made in said districts, nor shall any such publication or advertisement be ordered by any department or public officer otherwise than as herein provided: *Provided,* That the rates fixed in this section to be paid for the publication of theRates of pay in all the States for publishing the laws. treaties and laws of the United States in the States therein designated shall also be paid for the same publications in all the States not designated in this section.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the TreasurySecretary of Treasury may sell at auction the old customhouse at Alexandria, New Haven, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Perth Amboy and Sackett’s Harbor; is hereby authorized to sell, at public auction, the following property belonging to the United States, namely: the buildings and grounds known as the old custom-house, at Alexandria, Virginia; the building and grounds known as the old custom-house, at New Haven, Connecticut; the budding and grounds known as the old custom-house, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; the parcel of ground, known as the old custom-house lot, at Norfolk, Virginia; the parcel or lot of ground purchased, in the city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, for the erection of a custom-house; and the custom-house and grounds at Sackett’s Harbor, New York; and he is hereby authorized to make, execute, and deliver all needful conveyances to the purchaser or purchasers thereof.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the Interiorto examine and report upon the public buildings in New Mexico. be directed to procure an examination to be made of the condition of the public buildings in the Territory of New Mexico, and report to the next Congress an estimate of what amount is necessary to complete the same. Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted, *That all advertisements, noticesAll advertisements, notices, &c. to be printed only in two newspapers in the District of Columbia, and in each equally. and proposals for contracts for all the executive departments of the government, and the laws passed by Congress and executive proclamations and treaties shall hereafter be advertised by publication in the two daily papers published in the District of Columbia, now selected under the act of the first session of the thirty-ninth Congress making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department, during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and forSee Vol. xv. p 7. other purposes, until otherwise ordered by Congress, and in no other District of Columbia papers: *Provided,* That the charges for such publicationRates of pay. shall not be higher than such as are paid by individuals for advertising in said papers : *And provided also,* That the same publications shall be made in each of said papers equally as to frequency : *Provided further,*Printing to be done by government printer, except, &c.
That all printing of any kind ordered by the executive departments shall be executed by the government printer when practicable, and if not, at such office as may be designated by the clerk of the House of Representatives at rates not exceeding the current rates for suchVol. xv. p. 13. printing. Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted, *That all laws and parts of lawsRepeal of inconsistent laws. conflicting with the above provisions with respect to the official advertising in the District of Columbia be and are hereby repealed.
Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of War isPay of clerks at arsenal in Springfield increased. hereby authorized, at his discretion, to increase the pay of the clerks of the United States armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, to twelve hundred dollars per annum, instead of eight hundred dollars, as now fixed by law. 468 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 167, 168. 1867 Sec. 13. Laws relating to army, navy, &c. may be published in Army and Navy Journal, and at what rates. *And be it further enacted, *That the laws relating to the army, navy, the militia and the marine corps of the United States be published officially in the United States Army and Navy Journal, at such rates as are fixed by the Secretary of State for the publication of the laws of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1867.