Chapter IV. 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. Dec. 20, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State

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CHAP. IV.— 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.* Dec. 20, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums, or soDeficiency and other appropriations for 1867. 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, viz : *Office of Superintendent of Public Printing*.—For public printing,Public printing. eighty thousand dollars.

For paper for public printing, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.Paper for public printing. *Bureau of Statistics*.—For contingent expenses, viz: Laborers, officeBureau of Statistics. furniture, carpets, files, and miscellaneous items, six thousand dollars. *Southeast Executive Building, including the Extension*.—For fuel, light,Southeast Executive Building and Extension. and labor, twenty-three thousand dollars. *Office of the Sixth Auditor*.—To refund to the office of the sixthOffice of Sixth Auditor.1864, ch. 87, § 13.Vol. xiii. p. 79. auditor so much of the appropriation of seventeen thousand dollars, under the act of May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, appertaining to the office of the sixth auditor, transferred to the general salary account of the Post-Office Department, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. *For Special Objects, estimated for by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury*.—For fencing the grounds south of the treasury building, andSpecial objects. the President’s mansion, fifteen thousand dollars.

For repairs and preservation of public buildings, twenty-five thousandPublic grounds, and buildings. dollars. For furniture, and repairs of furniture for the same, ten thousand dollars. For furniture, carpets, and repairs of treasury buildings in Washington, District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars. For heating apparatus for public buildings, ten thousand dollars.Heating apparatus. For salaries of ten supervising, and fifty-nine local inspectors, appointedSupervising and local steamboat inspectors.1852, ch. 106.

Vol. x. p. 61. under the act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, with travelling and other expenses incurred by them, seven thousand dollars. For a deficiency in flagging the furnace room, and repairs about the stable at the executive mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars. 374 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 4, 5. 1866. Metropolitan Police.1866, ch. 215. *Ante*, p. 212.*Metropolitan Police*.—For salaries of increased force, under act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, viz:— One captain and inspector, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety-one cents.

One clerk to major of police, at one thousand dollars per annum, six hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-six cents. Twenty sergeants of police, at sixty-five dollars a month, ten thousand four hundred dollars. Fifty privates of police, at sixty dollars a month, twenty-four thousand dollars. Compensation increased, and how to be borne.And the compensation of said increased force is hereby increased fifty per centum upon the amount hereby appropriated, commencing on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; said increase to be borne by the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the county of Washington, in the proportion equal to the number of privates allotted severally to the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the county beyond the limits of said cities; and the corporate authorities of said cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the levy court of said county be, Special tax authorized.and they are hereby authorized and required to levy a special tax not exceeding one quarter of one per centum for the purpose aforesaid.

Department of the Interior.Engineer Office.*Department of the Interior*.—For commutation of quarters and fuel to officer of corps of engineers, United States army, in charge of engineer office, Department of the Interior, for present fiscal year, agreeable to army regulations, one thousand two hundred and one dollars and ninety-five cents. Washington Aqueduct.For repairing the damage done to the Washington aqueduct by freshets in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twelve thousand dollars.

Watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds.To enable the commissioner of public buildings to pay three watchmen employed in the Smithsonian grounds for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the sum of twenty-four hundred and seventy-five dollars is hereby appropriated. Watchmen in public buildings. 1866, ch. 296, § 5.*Ante*, p. 321.To enable the commissioner of public buildings to pay to the watchmen mentioned in the fifth section of the act appropriating for sundry civil expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the difference between their pay as fixed prior to the passage of that act and the allowance made by said section, two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.

State Department.Foreign intercourse.*Department of State*.—To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved, December 20, 1866.