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CHAP. XXVIII.— An Act making additional Appropriations, and to supply the 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.April 7, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, andDeficiency appropriations. the same are hereby, appropriated, and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations, for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: *Survey of the Coast.*—For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coastsCoast Survey. of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy15THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 28. 1866. and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.Coast Survey. For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, seventy-five thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the reefs, shoals and keys of South Florida, 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, eleven 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, four thousand dollars. For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast survey, twenty thousand dollars. For pay and rations of engineers for steamers used in the hydrography of the Coast Survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, six thousand dollars. *Light-House Establishment.*—For the Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts,Light-house Establishment. 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, one hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars. To supply deficiency in estimate for supplies of oil, wicks, glass chimneys, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, seventeen thousand dollars. For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses and lighted beacons, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in estimate for repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, fifty 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. For mates’ and seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-three light-vessels, two hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents.
To supply deficiency in estimates for seaman’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses for light-vessels, twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, painting, replacing, and supplying losses of buoys, chains, moorings, and incidental expenses of the same, and for repairing and keeping in repair all the day-marks, beacons, spindles, and monuments, and for expenses of coloring and numbering all the buoys and beacons, one hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars. *For the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.*—For supplyingLight-houses, &c., of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington. light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, and wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, and other cleaning materials, transportation, and expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, thirty-three thousand and thirty dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses and lighted beacons, fifteen thousand dollars. For salaries of forty keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand dollars. 16 For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, andLight-houses, &c. 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.
To supply deficiency in estimate for raising, cleaning, painting, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys, fifty thousand dollars. For special works, viz:Special works. For rebuilding sea-wall at Sand’s Point light-station, New York, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars. For rebuilding sea-wall, and repairs to tower at Nayat Point light-house, Rhode Island, six thousand five hundred dollars. For replacing the present stakes at Whitehall Narrows, New York, by approved structures, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Little Gull Island light-station, New York, three thousand dollars. For a new light-house on Hart Island, New York, or vicinity, six thousand six hundred dollars. For a new light-house on North Brother Island, or vicinity, East River, New York, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and renovations at Split Rock light-station, Lake Champlain, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For repairs and renovations at Galloo Island light-station, fifteen thousand dollars.
For beacons in Providence river, Rhode Island, on Conanicut and Bullock’s Points, in addition to previous appropriations, seventeen thousand dollars. For banking in light-house site at Cohansey, Delaware Bay, four thousand five hundred dollars. For a new iron stairway at Cape Henlopen light-house, twelve thousand dollars. For a new light-house at Sharp’s Island, Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars. For new lanterns at Clay island, Fog Point, Watt’s Island, Turkey Point, Havre de Grace, and Fishing Battery light-houses, six thousand dollars.
For a new iron stairway at Cape Henry light-house, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars. For new iron stairways at Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras light-houses, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Turtle Island light-station, Ohio, twelve thousand dollars. For rebuilding Green Island light-house, Ohio, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For protecting the foundation on which Waugoshance light-house is constructed, ninety thousand dollars.
For renovations and repairs at Windmill Point light-house, Lake Saint Clair, three thousand five hundred dollars. For rebuilding outer-range light at Cedar Point, Sandusky bay, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For range lights at Portage entry, Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars. For new keeper’s dwelling at Beaver Island light-station, Michigan, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairs and renovations at Marquette light-station, Michigan, thirteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Cooper Harbor light-station, Michigan, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For repairs and renovations at Ontonagon light-station, Michigan, fourteen thousand dollars. 17 For beacon lights at the mouth of Fox river, Wisconsin, six thousandLight-houses. dollars. For a beacon light on the landing at Santa Barbara, California, six thousand seven hundred dollars. To enable the Light-House Board to re-establish lights and other aids to navigation discontinued by the enemy on the southern coast, one hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Light-House Board to experiment with new illuminating apparatus and fog signals, three thousand four hundred dollars. For a new light-house at the mouth of North river, Albemarle sound, North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and renovations at Tybee light-house, Georgia, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding light-house at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, (Lake Erie,) upon the most eligible site under the control of the Light-House Board, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Mamaguda light-station, Detroit river, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and renovations at Kenosha light-station, Wisconsin, four thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, especially southernRepairs and preservation of public buildings. buildings, fifty thousand dollars. For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items for the same, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuation of the north wing of the Treasury extension, two hundredTreasury extension. thousand dollars.
For completion of the Dubuque, Iowa, custom-house, post-office, andCustom-house, &c., at Dubuque, Iowa. United States court-room, fifteen thousand dollars. For completion of alterations of the Cincinnati custom-house, twenty-twoCincinnati. thousand dollars. For completion of alterations of the Philadelphia custom-house, thirtyPhiladelphia. thousand dollars. For payment of claims due for the constructing and furnishing the Baltimore court house, one hundred and nine thousand dollars.
For payment of claims due for the repair of Government warehouses and construction of wharves, Staten Island, New York, twenty-nine thousand dollars. For burglar proof safes, or vaults, twenty thousand dollars. For heating of old Treasury building, ten thousand dollars. For office furniture and repairs of furniture and miscellaneous expenses for Treasury bureaus, Washington, twenty thousand dollars. *Public Buildings and Grounds.*—For error in compensation of employeesPublic buildings and grounds. in the Interior Department, to wit: one messenger, at one thousand dollars, and two assistants, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, forty dollars.
For compensation of two night watchmen at the President’s House, at six hundred dollars, each, per annum, one thousand two hundred dollars. For additional compensation of twenty per centum to two night watchmen, at six hundred dollars each, two hundred and forty dollars. For deficiency due the Navy Department, for use of pile-driver, men,Bridges and streets. oil, and engine, while repairing navy yard bridge, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents.
For deficiency in consequence of relaying and repaving all the crossings of the streets intersecting Pennsylvania avenue, on the north side, from the Capitol to the Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars. For deficiency in repairing the conservatory at the President’s House,President’s house and conservatory. seven thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to properly refurnish and repair the President’s House, in conformity with his estimate, forty-18six thousand dollars, the old furniture to be disposed of under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
For purchase of coal and pay of firemen to warm the library of CongressLibrary of Congress. one thousand five hundred dollars. For care, support, medical and surgical treatment for forty transientTransient paupers in Washington. paupers, medical and surgical patients, in some proper medical institution in the city of Washington, to be selected by the Commissioner of Public Buildings, twelve thousand dollars. For hire of carts on the public grounds, two thousand dollars.Public grounds.
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 the public grounds, three thousand dollars. For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, water-pipes,Repairs of capitol. 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 old material sold, eight thousand dollars.
For fitting up rooms in the basement, under the court-room of the SupremeRoom for supreme court. Court, for a consultation room for the court, six thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to pay for sewers andSewers and paving.1864, ch. 81, § 3.Vol. xiii. p. 69. paving in front of Government property constructed under the act of May five, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, thirty-two thousand and seventy dollars: *Provided,* That no payment shall be made on account of any appropriations herein contained to reimburse the city of Washington for improvements heretofore constructed in front of or through the public grounds, until the items have been properly examined and audited as to legality and amount by the proper officer of the Treasury.
For improvement of grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and contingentPublic grounds. expenses incident thereto, two thousand dollars. For fuel, in part, for the President’s House, five thousand dollars.Fuel. For lighting the Capitol and President’s House, the public groundsLighting capitol, &c. around them, and around the executive offices, and Pennsylvania avenue, Bridge and High streets, in Georgetown, Four-and-a-half street, Seventh and Twelfth streets across the Mall, and Maryland avenue west, and Sixth street south, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs of the Potomac and upper bridges, six thousand dollars.Bridges and streets. For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and keeping it clean, and for sprinkling the same, ten thousand dollars. For public reservation number two and Lafayette square, in addition toReservations. any sum heretofore received or that may hereafter be received for the sale of hay raised on the grounds, two thousand dollars. For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s House, and continuingPublic grounds. the improvement of the same, three thousand dollars.
For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars.Water-pipes, sewers, &c. 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 an additional watchman in reservation number two, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For casing with stone and erecting a wall in front of the north basement of the old part of the Capitol, so as to correspond with the south basement already completed, four thousand three hundred dollars.
For completing the sewer through the botanic garden, twenty thousand five hundred and five dollars. 19 For taking up and relaying with stone flagging the brick pavement inPaving, &c. front of the War and Navy Departments, on Seventeenth street, three thousand dollars. For stone crossings at the streets intersecting Pennsylvania avenue, five thousand dollars. For repairing, re-glazing, re-painting, and putting in thorough order thePublic grounds, squares, and buildings. greenhouse at the President’s, five thousand dollars.
For repairing roof of the old portion of the Capitol, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. To meet the expenditure made by the Commissioner of Public Buildings in illuminating the Capitol and the government portion of the City Hall, two hundred and fifty dollars. For hauling manure for the public grounds, five hundred dollars. For the protection and improvement of Franklin square, two thousand dollars. For painting the President’s House inside and out, eight thousand dollars; to be expended by the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
For rebuilding fence (destroyed by fire) around the Smithsonian Institution, two hundred dollars. For fuel for centre building of Capitol, fifteen hundred dollars. For completing the dome of the Capitol, fifty thousand dollars.Dome of capitol. For supplying deficiency in appropriation for lighting the Capitol and President’s House and public grounds around them, and around the executive offices and Pennsylvania avenue; Bridge and High streets, Georgetown; Four-and-a-half street, Seventh street, and Twelfth street across the Hall, and Maryland avenue west, and Sixth street south, thirteen thousand dollars.
For sweeping and cleaning Pennsylvania avenue prior to the inauguration on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand dollars. For carrying the Potomac water into that portion of the President’s House occupied for offices, and all the necessary fixtures, three thousand dollars. For supplying deficiency in appropriation for fuel for the President’s House and Capitol, six thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the Capitol extension, one hundred andCapitol extension. seventy-five thousand dollars.
For casual repairs of Patent Office Building, ten thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses incident to the death and burial of AbrahamBurial of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, late President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars. For salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, sixteenJail in District of Columbia. hundred dollars. For the support and maintenance of the convicts transferred from theSupport and transportation of convicts. District of Columbia to such place or places as may be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, thirty thousand dollars.
For the preservation of the collections of the exploring and surveyingCollections of exploring and surveying expeditions. expeditions of the government, four thousand dollars. *Office of the Secretary of State.*—For publication of the laws, eight thousandOffice of Secretary of State Laws. dollars. For extra clerk hire, eight thousand dollars. For the pay of the United States Commissioner, and for the pay of theCommission under reciprocity treaty.Vol. x. p. 1089. United States Surveyor, and for incidental expenses in the execution of the duty assigned to the joint commission appointed under the first article of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Great Britain of the fifth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to March, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for drafting and compilation of the final chart, showing the places reserved from the common liberty of fishing, their limits and descriptions, fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 20 *Office of the Attorney General.*—For deficiency in appropriations forOffice of the Attorney General.1865, ch. 98.Vol. xiii. p. 516. salaries under act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For deficiency in appropriation for contingent expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of two temporary clerks from January first to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twelve hundred dollars. For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and maps for the Library for the Interior Department, three thousand dollars. For compensation for temporary clerks in the Pension Bureau for the current fiscal year, twenty thousand dollars. *Government Hospital for the Insane.*—For the support, clothing, andGovernment hospital for the insane. medical treatment of the insane of the army and navy and the revenue cutter service, and 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; for new bedding for the west wing, and for the extension and replanking of the coal wharf, ten thousand dollars. For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds of the hospital, ten thousand dollars. For removing and repairing three old frame houses and building two new cottages for the occupation of the employees of the hospital having families, six thousand dollars. *Patent Office.*—For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking carePatent office. of copyright books, charts, and other copyright matter, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For preparing illustrations and descriptions for report, six thousand dollars. For finishing the saloon in the north wing of the Patent Office building, and for furnishing the same with suitable accommodations for the reception and convenient exhibition of the models, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in the purchase of carpets for any of the public buildings orCarpets to be of domestic manufacture. offices under any appropriations herein provided, they shall be of domestic manufacture. *Census Office.*—For making good the aggregate difference between theCensus office. original rates of salaries paid the clerks and employees of the Census Office, before they were assigned to the General Land Office, from June one to December thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-one cents.
For paying the salaries at the original census rate, of principal clerk and other clerks and one employee from January one to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. For incidental expenses of the Census Office, fifteen hundred dollars. In the office of the engineer, Department of the Interior, viz:Department of the interior. For one clerk, six months, at one thousand eight hundred dollars perOffice of engineer. annum, nine hundred dollars.
For one clerk, six months, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For one clerk, six months, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, six hundred dollars. For mileage of Government engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Omaha,Mileage of engineer, examining route of Union Pacific Railroad. Nebraska, and thence to Washington, in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, directed by the President of the United States to examine and report upon Union Pacific railroad routes west from Omaha, two thousand nine hundred and two miles, at ten cents per mile, two hundred and ninety dollars and twenty cents.
For mileage of the same, from Washington to New York and back, in21 August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, on account of Union Pacific railway, two hundred and twenty-five miles, each way, at ten cents per mile, forty-five dollars. For cost of completing bridge over Big Sioux river, near Sioux City,Bridge and wagon road. and government wagon road from Sioux City, Iowa, to Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, in addition to former appropriations, ten thousand dollars. For commutation of quarters and fuel to officer of corps of engineers,Quarters and fuel.
United States army, in charge of engineer office, Department of the Interior, agreeably to army regulations, from first August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to be paid by Department of the Interior, agreeably to army regulations, eleven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents. For contingencies, two thousand dollars. *Library of Congress.*—For purchasing files of leading American newspapersLibrary of Congress. for the Library of Congress, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to pay the first installment due on a contract made with William H. Powell for a naval pictureWilliam H. Powell, for naval picture.Vol. xiii. p. 570. to be placed in the Capitol, in pursuance of a joint resolution approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two thousand dollars. *Botanic Garden.*—For grading, draining, procuring manure, tools,Botanic Garden. fuel, and repairs, purchasing trees and shrubs, under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, three thousand three hundred dollars.
For pay of superintendent of botanic garden, and assistants in the botanic garden and green-houses, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, six thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents. For the purchase and removal of materials, and for erecting four greenhouses in the botanic garden, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, twenty-five hundred dollars. *Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.*—For salaries and incidentalColumbian Institution for the deaf and dumb. expenses, including five hundred dollars for the purchase of books and illustrative apparatus, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of the two extensions to the buildings, to provide enlarged accommodations for the male department, and to furnish rooms for the instruction of the pupils in useful labor, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents. For the proper enclosure, grading, and improvement of the grounds of the institution, three thousand five hundred dollars. *Surveying the Public Lands.*—For surveying the public lands in Wisconsin,Surveying public lands. six thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, fifteen thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, five thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Nebraska Territory, twenty-five thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Kansas, twenty-five thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, fifteen thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Nevada, fifteen thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in New Mexico, five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in California, thirty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Oregon, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, twenty thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. 22 *Miscellaneous.*—For the fencing in, repair and completion of the UnitedMiscellaneous.Court-house, &c. States court-house and post-office at Indianapolis, Indiana, and paving the sidewalks in front of the same, the sum of eight thousand dollars, or such part thereof as may be necessary.
For the alteration and repair of the court-house in the city of Boston, five thousand dollars. For repairs of United States marine hospital at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, eight thousand dollars. For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific StatesAtlantic and Pacific telegraph. by electrical telegraph, forty thousand dollars. For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment personsDetection of counterfeiting treasury notes, &c. engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust and settle the accountsD. S. Payne. Census of Idaho.1863, ch. 117.Vol. xii. p. 808. of D. S. Payne, for enumerating the inhabitants of the Territory of Idaho, under the direction of the governor of said Territory, as authorized by the act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Idaho,” the sum of eight thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For building a custom-house at Portland, Maine, in addition to the sumCustom-house at Portland, Me. heretofore appropriated by Congress, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Treasury may, if he thinks it advisable, expend a sum, not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars, in the purchase of ground adjoining the site of the old custom-house on Fore street, now owned by the United States, for the purpose of enlarging the same, or the Secretary may exchange the lot now owned as aforesaid for a more eligible one, if the same can be procured; but no money shall be paid or agreed to be paid by the United States in consideration of such exchange, and no transfer, assignment, or conveyance of property by the United States shall be made upon such exchange, except a conveyance, on its behalf, by the Secretary of the Treasury, of the interest of the United States in the lot aforesaid and the building thereon.
For building a custom-house at Saint Albans, in the State of Vermont,Saint Albans. ten thousand dollars. For expenses of the census of Arizona Territory, taken in the yearCensus of Arizona. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to be audited and paid under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For securing the right of way and building a bridge across the canal toPortland. the marine hospital near Portland, Maine, three thousand dollars.
For making alterations and repairs in the custom-house, court-house,Providence. and post-office building, at Providence, Rhode Island, three thousand dollars. For compensation of the revenue agent stationed at New York, in additionRevenue agent of New York.1864, ch. 173, § 4.Vol. xiii. p. 224. to the sum authorized by the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, including one thousand dollars for the current fiscal year, two thousand dollars. For one thousand copies of a compilation of the laws of the UnitedCompilation of laws relating to revenue, &c.
States relating to revenue, commerce, and navigation, now in course of preparation for the press at the Treasury Department, such sum as may be necessary therefor in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, and not exceeding seven thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to William Handy, ofWilliam Handy. the Treasury Department, for extra clerical services, such sum as may be found due, not exceeding five hundred dollars. For compensation to John Hopley, for services in indexing the nationalJohn Hopley. currency act, one hundred dollars. 23 For additional compensation to the publishers of the Statutes at Large,Statutes at Large. eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-nine cents.
For refitting the rear basement rooms of the old Treasury building for office purposes, eleven thousand dollars. For the purchase of the property in Washington city, known as Ford’sFord’s theatre. theatre, for the deposit and safe-keeping of documentary papers relating to the soldiers of the army of the United States, and of the museum of the medical and surgical department of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the ninth section of the actIndemnity to Butler and Carpenter.1863, ch. 79, § 9.Vol. xii. p. 752. 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 of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, appropriating thirty per centum of the cost of engraving the special dies for internal revenue stamps, not to exceed in amountSee 1867, ch. 168, § 5.*Post*, p. 470. twenty thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors, Butler and Carpenter, the said sum of twenty thousand dollars in full of all claims for indemnity.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryCustom-house at Island Pond. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase for the United States an appropriate building site at Island Pond, or at some point northerly of Island Pond and south of the Canadian boundary line, in the State of Vermont, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable building for the use of such officers of the customs as are or may be stationed at that place: *Provided,* That the cost of such purchase and erection shall notProviso. exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; which amount is hereby appropriated for the purpose.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the sum of four thousandLibrary of Congress.1864, ch. 147.Vol. xiii. p. 148. dollars, appropriated by “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-five,” approved June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-*five* [four], “to enable the Joint Library Committee to purchase a complete file of selections from European periodicals, from eighteen hundred and sixty-one to eighteen hundred and sixty-four, relating to the rebellion in the United States, to be deposited in the library,” is hereby transferred to the fund for the purchase of books for the Library of Congress, to be expended one half for the purchase of law books and one half for the purchase of miscellaneous books for said library.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the President of the UnitedAdditional compensation to district attorneys and marshals for services in suppression of the slave-trade. States be, and hereby is, authorized to expend during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, so much of the appropriation of second March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as he may *be* deem expedient and proper, not exceeding in the whole ten thousand dollars, for compensation to United States marshals, district attorneys, and other persons employed in enforcing the laws for the suppression1861, ch. 84.Vol. xii. p. 219. of the African slave-trade, for any services they may render, and for which no allowance is otherwise provided by law; and also so much of said appropriation as may be necessary to pay the salaries of the judgesJudges, arbitrators, and mixed courts.1862, ch. 140.Vol. xii. p. 581. and arbitrators appointed by him, pursuant to the act of Congress approved July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade,” and for the expenses of the mixed courts of justice provided for by said treaty.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the authority to sell the propertyPennsylvania Bank building may be sold.1860, ch. 100, § 2. known as the Pennsylvania Bank building, in accordance with the acts approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty, section two,24 and March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, section five, isVol. xii. p. 89.1862, ch. 11, § 5.Vol. xii. p. 369. hereby conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That the property be sold at public auction, and for a sum not less than one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the TreasuryClerks of assistant treasurer in Philadelphia. is hereby authorized to increase the clerical force in the office of the assistant treasurer of Philadelphia, and the aggregate salaries of said clerks shall not exceed the sum of nine thousand dollars, which amount is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That, in addition to the appropriationsBranch mint at California. hereinbefore allowed for the branch mint at California, the following sums respectively are hereby, in like manner, appropriated, viz:
For wages of workmen and adjusters, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs, and wastage, one hundred and six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents. Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That in addition to the appropriationsArizona Territory. hereinbefore made for the Territory of Arizona, the following sums are hereby appropriated, viz: For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.
For preparation and printing laws of the Territory, five thousand dollars. Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, andDeficiency appropriations for the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for deficiencies in the appropriations for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz: For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers and others, receivingofficers, &c., of House of Representatives, an annual salary in the service of the House of Representatives, one thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents.
For clerks of committees, and temporary clerks in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz: For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs and materials, ten thousand dollars. For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes, for members, twenty thousand dollars. For pages and temporary mail boys, two thousand three hundred dollars. For stationery, thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For folding documents, including materials, twenty-five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of the Senate, namely:contingent expenses of Senate. For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars. For clerks, pages, horses, carryalls, and so forth, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. For fuel and repairs of heating and ventilating apparatus, to be provided under the charge of the sergeant-at-arms, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For furniture purchased, and repairs done by the Sergeant-at-arms, under the direction of the Committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For additional labor in the folding room and around Senate chamber, five thousand dollars. 25 To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the Capitol police underCapitol police. the act of April twenty-two, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to be paid to the widow of David Vose, late a policeman in the crypt, being twenty per centum on his salary from December four, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, to July eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, five hundred and thirty-two dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of public buildings.
For salary of the Stenographer appointed under resolution of JanuaryStenographer. fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For additional compensation to laborers in the Clerk’s office of the House of Representatives, the same as allowed by act of June twenty-fifth, eighteen1864, ch. 147.Vol. xiii. p. 147. hundred and sixty-four, seven hundred and thirty dollars. Sec. 11. *And be it further enacted,* That the proper accounting officersEmployees of deputy provost marshal of the District of Columbia for special service. of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay A.
D. Collingsworth, O. H. Vedder, Edward R. Sherman, Charles C. Adams, Samuel W. Tucker, J. G. Adams, A. Bengiral, J. C. Parker, J. A. Odell, V. Barnes, T. H. Gladman, R. A. Cronin, T. N. Adams, J. C. Cleary, W. D. Lindsay, A. Jewett, jr., F. Cochin, B. C. Earless, J. P. Townsend, C. W. Odell, J. W. Morehead, S. P. Lee, W. H. Salter, James Cross, J. R. Creed, H. B. Rourke, E. A. Lipscomb, George Gottenham, C. A. Perkins, W. B. Cudlipp, S. S. Baker, J. M. Conroy, D. W. Boyden, J.
O. Armes, J. Bellows, E. S. Brossius, J. J. Calvert, F. G. Calvert, G. D. Curtis, W. B. Dyer, D. A. Fish, A. H. Gillespie, R. B. Guillien, Charles Goheen, H. Holmes, G. C. Holliday, B. E. Messer, E. C. Messer, F. Madden, W. McKee, W. H. E. Ouratid, L. P. Porter, P. W. Pearson, J. L. Rowland, C. V. Rottorden, E. J. Schale, E. J. Sweet, T. J. Schea, J. C. Williams, J. G. Wilson, L. K. Brown, J. H. Gunn, H. A. Dobson, J. A. McIntire, V. B. Munson, J. J. Dickens, W. E. Armes, J. C.
Green, Lewis E. Rauterburg, and B. W. Parsons, employed by the deputy provost marshal of the District of Columbia in the enrolling office of said marshal, for night-work and especial service performed in pursuance of a contract between said clerks and said provost marshal, such accounts being properly certified upon the rolls, or by said deputy provost marshal, and the sum of three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated therefor.
Sec. 12. *And be it further enacted,* That the following sums be, andDeficiency appropriation for the same are hereby, appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: For the compensation of the superintendent of the building occupiedQuarter-master General’s office. by the Quarter-master General, viz: for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the present fiscal year, four hundred dollars.
For the Indian service in Utah, being for money advanced by BrighamIndian service in Utah. Young, while governor and ex-officio superintendent of Indian affairs, found due and allowed by the Secretary of the Interior, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents. For plates, engraving, printing, and paper for national currency notes,Plates, &c., for national currency notes.No portrait of living person to be engraved thereon. two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no portrait or likeness of any living person hereafter engraved, shall be placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, fractional or postal currency of the United States.
For making certain alterations in the custom-house building at Philadelphia,Custom-house at Philadelphia. seven thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. For deficiency in the appropriation for fuel for the President’s HousePresident’s house and capitol. and Capitol, six thousand dollars. 26THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 28, 29. 1866. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the naval academy forNaval academy. the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand and sixty-four dollars.
To pay H. A. Klopfer for ten months’service, as a laborer in the officeH. A. Klopfer. of the Attorney General, at forty dollars per month, four hundred dollars. For certain alterations to the post-office portion of the building in Portland,Post-office, &c., building at Portland. Maine, used for post-office, custom-house, and court-house, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the money hereby appropriated for claims due for the construction and furnishing the Baltimore court-house, and for the payment of claims due for the repairs of the government warehouses and the construction wharves, Staten Island, New York, shall be paid for damages, and no payments whatever shall be made unless upon a full examination of the proper department of the government, and a certificate by the Attorney General that the said amounts to be paid are just, legal and proper.
Sec. 13. *And be it further enacted,* That such sum as may be requiredAdditional pay of females, &c.1864, ch. 147, §3.Vol. xiii. p. 160. to pay the additional compensation provided by section three of “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, up to and including the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated.
Sec. 14. *And be it further enacted,* That from and after the first day ofSalaries of officers of the mint at Philadelphia, and assistant treasurers. April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, there shall be paid annually, instead of the yearly salaries at present authorized, to the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, four thousand five hundred dollars; to the Treasurer, three thousand five hundred dollars, and one thousand five hundred dollars for additional compensation as assistant treasurer of the United States; to the melter and refiner, three thousand dollars; to the assayer, three thousand dollars; to the assistant to the assayer, two thousand dollars; to the chief coiner, three thousand dollars; to the assistant to the chief coiner, two thousand dollars; to the engraver, three thousand dollars; to one clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; to two clerks, two thousand dollars each; to four clerks, one thousand five hundred dollars each; to the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, for salary as assistant treasurer of the United States, in addition to his salary as treasurer of said mint, one thousand five hundred dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, eight thousand dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, five thousand dollars; to the assistant treasurer of the United States at Saint Louis, five thousand dollars; and the amount necessary to carry these provisions into effect for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby appropriated.
Approved, April 7, 1866.