Chapter CLXVIII. *making Appropriations and to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State
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CHAP. CLXVIII.— An Act *making Appropriations and to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, 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, * Deficiency appriations for the year ending June 30, 1867. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, namely:— department of the interior.Department of the Interior.
Pension bureau.*Pension Bureau*.—To meet deficiencies of the present fiscal year on account of pensions for army widows and others under various acts, ten million dollars. For contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. For navy widows and orphans, seventy thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said sum be transferred from the navy pension fund. Engineers’ office.*Engineers’ Office*.—To meet deficiencies of the present fiscal year on account of engineer officer having the supervision of the Union Pacific railroad and branches, land-grant railroads, and wagon roads, namely:— For compensation of clerks, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies, five hundred dollars. Capitol extension.*Capitol Extension*.—For eight additional monolithic columns, eleven thousand two hundred dollars. For ventilating, nine thousand dollars. For supplying deficiency in appropriation for work on the Capitol extension, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars. Census Office.Amount due marshals and assistants in California;Maine;*Census Office*.—For the purpose of paying the amount due to certain United States marshals and their assistants for services rendered in taking the eighth census, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, in the following States, viz:
In the State of California, nine thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and forty-eight cents; in the State of Maine, thirty-three Ohio;dollars and six cents; in the State of Ohio, forty-nine dollars and sixty-nineOregon; cents; in the State of Oregon, three thousand one hundred and sixty Kansas;dollars and twenty cents; in the State of Kansas, sixty-eight dollars and Kentucky;forty cents; in the State of Kentucky, nine thousand three hundred and Maryland;’eleven dollars and fifty cents; in the State of Maryland, four thousand seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty cents; in the State of Missouri;Missouri, eight thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars; in the Tennessee;State of Tennessee, twenty thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and eighteen cents; in the Territory of New Mexico, seven hundred andNew Mexico;
Washington.eighty-four dollars and sixty-nine cents; in the Territory of Washington, ninety-nine, dollars and nine cents; being in the aggregate fifty-six thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and sixty-nine cents: *Provided,* No part to be paid to any one participating in the rebellion.That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to or on account of any claimant who participated in the late rebellion, or gave to it aid and comfort. Indian bureau.Indian service in Oregon and Washington.*Indian Bureau*.—For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the indebtedness incurred for the Indian service in the State of Oregon and Territory of Washington, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and eighteen hundred Payment to be made only to original owner of claim.and sixty-two, forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That such payments shall be made only to the original owner of the claims, and upon satisfactory proof furnished the accounting officer.
THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168. 1867. 469 To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Isaac Strohm forIsaac Strohm. additional services as a clerk in the Treasury Department from January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, at the same rate paid for similar additional services prior to that date, four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. *Library of Congress*.—To enable the librarian of Congress to employLibrary of Congress. two additional assistants, commencing April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, two thousand four hundred dollars; and there is hereby added to the contingent fund of said library the sum of one thousand dollars, to be expended for temporary help.
For six iron stairways, repairs and repainting in the library of Congress, and for a new skylight in the central library, five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.Public buildings and grounds.Accounts for repairs and furnishing executive mansion to be approved. *Public Buildings and Grounds*.—To pay for completing the repairs and furnishing the executive mansion, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no further payments shall be made on any accounts for repairs and furnishing the executive mansion until such accounts shall have been submitted to a joint committee of Congress, and approved by such committee.
To replace the bruised and worn copper water-pipes or roof gutters ofCapitol. the Capitol building with iron pipes, three thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in fuel for the President’s house and for theFuel. Capitol, two thousand dollars. To pay for a poudrette pit at the President’s stable, five hundred and sixteen dollars and nineteen cents. To pay for repairing streets passing along government reservationsStreets. where they were washed away by the great freshet in October last, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay for sewer in the rear of II Street, between Sixteenth andSewers. Seventeenth streets west, to abate a public nuisance, two thousand five hundred dollars. To thoroughly repair the roof of the executive mansion, two thousandExecutive mansion. five hundred dollars. To pay deficiency and keep in repair the bridge at or near Little Falls,Little Falls Bridge. Potomac river, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. To pay deficiencies in the contingent expenses of the Senate as followsContingent expenses of the Senate.:— For additional messengers, seven thousand dollars.
For additional labor in the folding-room and material, ten thousand dollars. For stationery, ten thousand dollars. *Miscellaneous*.—For deepening and improving Westport harbor, Connecticut,Miscellaneous.Westport harbor. twenty-five hundred dollars. For dredging and maintaining the channel of the river Thames nearThames river Norwich, in the State of Connecticut, to complete the work, thirty-six thousand dollars. For services rendered by the late F. M. Rotch, in furnishing an originalF.
M. Rotch. article “on cattle” for the agricultural report of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, to be paid to the widow. For temporary clerks in the Treasury Department for the fiscal yearTemporary clerks in Treasury Department;may be classified. ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to classify the clerks authorized according, to the character of their services.
For the purpose of enabling the director of the mint to purchaseMint. publications relating to metals and the manipulations thereof for the library of the mint, one thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses incurred by the Department of State by 470 Atlantic Cable.sending telegraphic despatches over the Atlantic cable, thirty thousand dollars for the current year. Custom-house in Charleston.For preservation and care of the unfinished custom-house building at Charleston, South Carolina, and fitting up the interior to provide suitable offices for the use of the United States, including court-rooms, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Beacons in New York bay.To enable the lighthouse board to erect in the lower bay of New York one or more permanent beacons, forty-five thousand dollars. American Coast Pilot.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase the stereotype plates and copyright of the American Coast Pilot, twenty thousand dollars. Registers, &c. of land offices. 1866, ch. 262. § 7.*Ante*, p. 252.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provision of the seventh section of the act of Congress entitled “An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over public lands, and for other purposes,” approved July twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty-six thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Geological survey of Nebraska. *And be it further enacted, *That the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for defraying the expenses of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Nebraska, is hereby diverted and set aside for the purpose of procuring a geological survey of Nebraska, said survey to be prosecuted under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office. Sec. 3. Ten cents a cask to be collected on gaugeable goods, &c. withdrawn from bonded warehouses, or on which drawback is allowed.Salary of gaugers at New York;not to exceed amount of fees. *And be it further enacted, *That upon all merchandise gaugeable by law hereafter exported upon which drawback or return duty is allowed, and upon all goods gaugeable by law withdrawn from bonded warehouses for export, there shall be levied and collected by the collectors of the several ports ten cents per cask.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted, *That the gaugers at the port of New York shall receive, from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, an annual salary of two thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the amount of compensation of said officers as hereby established shall not exceed in any fiscal year the amount of fees earned by them. Sec. 5. Claim of Butler and Carpenter to be paid. 1866, ch. 28, § 2.*Ante*, p. 23. *And be it further enacted, *That the second section of an act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government, approved April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby so amended as to authorize and require the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors, Butler and Carpenter, the sum of twenty thousand dollars in full of all their claims for indemnity therein referred to.
Sec. 6. Transfer of surplus to purchase books for library of Congress.Vol. xiii. p. 570. *And be it further enacted, *That the surplus sum of two thousand dollars, now standing on the books of the treasury to the credit of a fund to enable the joint committee on the library to carryout a contract with William H. Powell, authorized by a joint resolution approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for a picture illustrative of some naval victory, (said sum being in excess of the amount required to carry out said contract,) is hereby transferred to the fund for the purchase of books for the library of Congress.
Sec. 7. Pay of deputy surveyor at San Francisco. *And be it further enacted, *That the deputy surveyor at the port of San Francisco be paid the same compensation annually that is now paid to the deputy collector at said port. Sec. 8. Pay of temporary clerks in quartermaster-general’s office. *And be it further enacted, *That the temporary clerks in the quartermaster-general’s office shall receive the same compensation as is paid to first-class clerks, to take effect from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 9. Salaries of district judges of the United States courts. *And be it further enacted, *That the salary of the district judge of the district of California shall be five thousand dollars. The salary of the district judge of the district of Louisiana shall be four thousand five hundred dollars. The salary of the district judge of the district of Massachusetts, northern, southern, and eastern districts of New 471 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 168, 169. 1867. York, eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania, the district of Maryland,Salaries of district judges. northern district of Illinois, southern district of Ohio, and the district of New Jersey, shall be four thousand dollars each; and the salaries of the district judges of every other district shall be three thousand five hundred dollars each; and said salaries shall be in full compensation forTo be in full for all official services. all official services performed by such judges, and shall take effect at the commencement of the next fiscal year, and no other allowance or payment shall be made to them for travel, expenses, or otherwise; and the amount necessary to pay the increased compensation herein provided for shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted, *That if the Supreme Court shallReporter of decisions of the Supreme Court, if second volume is published in any year. in any one year direct its reporter to publish a second volume, for such year, of its decisions, and if such second volume shall be published accordingly, an additional sum of fifteen hundred dollars shall be paid said reporter therefor on the delivery by said reporter to the Secretary of the Interior, for distribution, according to existing laws, of three hundred copies of such second volume of said reports; and the amount necessary to pay the same is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted, *That the notice required by theNotice to publishers of Congressional Globe and Appendix, to terminate agreement.1864, ch. 250, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 392. fourth section of the act entitled “An act to pay in part for publishing the debates in Congress and for other purposes,” approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby given that Congress will, in two years from the close of the present Congress, abrogate the provisions of the first and second sections of said act.
Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted, *That the Secretary of the InteriorAdditional clerks in office of commissioner of pensions. is hereby authorized to appoint in the office of the commissioner of pensions, in addition to the clerks now authorized in said office, twenty-eight clerks of class one; twenty-four of class two; eighteen of class three; and ten of class four; said clerkships to expire at the end of twoAppropriation. years, and a sum sufficient to pay the salaries of said clerks from the date of their appointment to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1867.