Chapter CCXXXIII. *making Appropriations and to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen handled and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.* July 25, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State
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Chap. CCXXXIII.— 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 handled and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.* July 25, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums, or so Deficiencies appropriation for year ending June 30, 1868.much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appro priated for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, viz.— *Legislative.—*For compensation of the clerks of committees, the additional Legislative.
Clerks of committees.pay ordered by the resolution of the House of Representatives, twenty-fifth May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars. For pay of additional messengers of the Senate, for the month of June, Messengers.eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, two thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and four cents. For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate Additional compensation to reporters of the Senate and House.for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the second session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars.
For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House for the Congressional Globe, for reporting the proceedings of the House for the second session of the fortieth Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars. A sufficient sum is hereby appropriated to pay the official reporters of Official reporters of the Globe.the Globe in each house the amount which the comptroller of the treasury may find severally due to them for services during the sessions of the fortieth Congress, under the eighteenth section of “An act making appropriations 1866, ch. 296, § 18.
Vol. xiv. p. 828.for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending 172 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 233. 1868.June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes,” approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Botanical garden. *Botanical Garden.—*To complete the botanical conservatory in accordance with the estimate of the architect of the Capitol extension, to be e xpended under the direction of the joint committee on the library of Congress, ten thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Court of claims. *Court of Claims.—*For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, and commissioners in said court, fifteen hundred dollars. Interior Department. Interior department. Pension bureau. *Pension Bureau.—*For rent of building from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, for the use of the bureau, two thousand dollars. Census office. Census office. *Census Office.—*For the purpose of paying the amount due to certain United States marshals and their assistants, for services rendered in taking Eighth census in West Virginia.
Proviso.the eighth census, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, in the State of West Virginia, five thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars and nine cents: *Provided,* 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 it any aid or comfort. General land office. Enlargement of congressional library. *General Land Office.—*For payment of the balance due the architectural iron works company of New York, for work done at enlargement of the congressional library in addition to their contract, such as increasing the length of the northern wing and furnishing four thousand six hundred and fifty-two lineal feet of iron shelving more than required by their contract, Proviso.five thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars: *Provided,* That the said bills shall first be examined and approved by the joint committee on the library.
For tiles for five thousand eight hundred feet of tiling for the basement Patent-office building.stairs of the patent-office building, to complete pavement on the lower floor of the south wing, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per foot, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For fuel and lights for the patent-office building, including the salaries of engineer and assistant engineer and repair of heating apparatus, five thousand dollars. Distributing congressional journals and documents.
For distribution of congressional journals and documents, two thousand dollars. Office of commissioner of Indian affairs. *Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.—*For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying for blank-books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be bound, filed, and preserved for the use of the office, two thousand dollars. Capitol building. *Capitol Building.—*For the payment of outstanding liabilities incurred by the late commissioner of public buildings for materials furnished and labor done in repairing the old portion of the capitol building prior to and during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-two Proviso.cents: *Provided,* That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid until the said accounts shall have been fully examined and approved by the proper accounting officers of the treasury.
Public garden and grounds. For the payment of the superintendent and foreman of the public garden and others employed in the public garden and capitol building and grounds, the sums to which they are entitled under the act of July twenty-eighth, 1866, ch. 296, § 18. Vol. xiv. p. 323.eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Treasury Department. Temporary clerks. Proviso. *Treasury Department.—*For temporary clerks in the Treasury Department: *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 service—twenty thousand dollars. 173 For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items of the treasury bureau, Furniture, &c. of treasury bureau.ten thousand dollars.
For fuel, labor, lights, and contingent expenses of the Treasury Department Fuel, lights, &c.building, twelve thousand dollars. For this sum to refund to the appropriation for the treasury extension, Treasury extension. Furniture.for furniture furnished to the following offices from January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to March twenty-six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, namely: For the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirteen thousand four Office of Secetary of Treasury.hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-two cents.
For expense in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons Detection, &c. of counterfeiters and those defrauding the revenue.engaged in counterfeiting treasury notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coin of the United States, and other frauds on the revenue, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the office of the second comptroller, one thousand one hundred and Office of 2d comptroller;three dollars and eighty-six cents. For the office of the first auditor, three hundred and three dollars and of 1st auditor,ninety-two cents.
For the office of the third auditor, four thousand and three dollars and of 3d auditor;thirty-one cents. For the office of fourth auditor, five thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars of 4th auditor;and thirty-eight cents. For the office of fifth auditor, one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven of 5th auditor;dollars and fourteen cents. For the office of sixth auditor, seven hundred and twenty-four dollars of 6th auditor;and twenty-four cents. For the office of the treasurer of the United States, twelve thousand of treasurer;eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and ninety-six cents.
For the office of register, eleven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and of register;ninety-six cents. For the office of comptroller of the currency, four thousand two hundred of comptroller of currency;and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents. For the office of the solicitor, four thousand five hundred and sixty-eight of solicitor;dollars and twelve cents. For the office of the first division of the national currency, two thousand of first division of national currency;four hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-five cents.
For the office of the lighthouse board, two thousand six hundred and of lighthouse board;seventy-dollars and forty-one cents. For the office of commissioner of internal revenue, six thousand nine of commissioner of internal revenue.hundred and eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. For the office of the Attorney-General, two hundred and one dollars and of Attorney-General.eighty cents. For the quarters of the treasury regiment, four hundred and twenty-two Quarters of treasury regiment.dollars and sixteen cents; making in all the sum of sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents.
For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States Telegraph between Atlantic and Pacific States.by electrical telegraph, (to supply deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,) forty thousand dollars. *Construction Branch of the Treasury Department.—*For constructing Construction branch of Treasury Department.the custom-house at Portland, Maine, fitly thousand dollars. For constructing the court-house at Portland, Maine, fifty thousand Portland.dollars.
For constructing appraisers’ stores at Philadelphia, twenty-five thousand Philadelphia.dollars. For remodeling the marine hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, forty-five Chelsea, Mass.thousand dollars. To complete the building used for court-house and post-office at Springfield, Springfield, Illinois.Illinois, thirty thousand dollars. 174 Madison, Wis. For constructing the United States court-house and post-office at Madison, Wisconsin, fifty thousand dollars. Cairo. For the work on the public building now being erected at Cairo, Illinois, to be used as a post-office, custom-house, and United States court-house, ten thousand dollars.
Chicago. For necessary repairs of the roof and alterations in the building used for a custom-house and post-office in Chicago, Illinois, twenty thousand dollars. Custom-house building, New York. To meet outstanding liabilities and complete the repairs to the custom house building at New York city, forty-five thousand dollars. Repair of iron roofs, &c. To repair or replace corrugated galvanized iron roofs of buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, thirty thousand dollars.
War Department. *War Department.—*For rent, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items in the office of the paymaster-general, eleven thousand dollars. Office of paymaster-general. Repair, &c. of public works on rivers and harbors. Proviso. For the repair, preservation, extension, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, one million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said expenditures shall not be applied to any works not mentioned in the bill “making appropriations for repairs, preservation, and comple tion of certain public works, and for other purposes,” which passed the House of Representatives June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Removal of iron steamship Scotland, in New York harbor. Proposals therefor to he advertised for. One hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the removal of the wreck of the iron steamship “Scotland,” now on the bar outside of Sandy Hook, near the entrance to the harbor of New York: *Provided,* That the Secretary of War shall, after notice given in one or more newspapers in the cities of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, receive sealed proposals for the removal of said wreck, and make contract for the same with the lowest bidder therefor.
Said contract will in no case exceed in amount the sum herein appropriated. Removal of sunken rock in channel of New York harbor. For the removal of a sunken rock in the channel of the harbor at the port of New York, fifteen hundred and thirty dollars. Soldiers’ bounties. 1866, ch. 296. Vol. xiv. p. 222. *Soldiers’ Bounties.—*To facilitate the payment of soldier’s bounties under act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as follows: For fuel and gas, seven hundred dollars.
For carpeting, two thousand dollars. For fitting house, cases, and so forth, five hundred dollars. For rent, twelve hundred dollars. For fifty chairs, three hundred dollars. For one messenger, three laborers, and two night watchmen, four thousand six hundred dollars. Washington aqueduct. *Washington Aqueduct.—*To meet a deficiency in the cost of com pleting certain portions of the Washington aqueduct, comprising the Potomac dam, repairs of temporary dam, gate-house at Great Falls, and the connecting conduit at the receiving reservoir, twenty-seven thousand Proviso.five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That the sum shall be in full of all claims against the government for work done or damages incurred on the Washington aqueduct.
Superintendence and repairs; how to be expended. For salary of assistant engineer, superintendence, and repairs, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the immediate direction of the officer detailed to act as superintendent of public buildings and grounds. Rock Island arsenal. *Rock Island Arsenal.—*For the erection of a bridge to connect Rock Island arsenal with the city of Rock Island, Illinois, one hundred thousand dollars, said bridge to be constructed and completed for the sum hereby appropriated.
Interpreter at Bankok. To enable the Secretary of State to pay the costs of interpretation at the consulate at Bankok, in Siam, from the first of July, eighteen 175hundred and sixty-seven, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to meet the expenses of defending Defence of suits by Secretary of War.suits brought against parties for executing the orders of government dur ing the late rebellion, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To supply a deficiency for reporting and printing the proceedings of the Senate in the Daily Globe, fifteen thousand dollars. Daily Globe. To repay to the judiciary fund the sum of five thousand two hundred Expenses under bankrupt act.and eighteen dollars and thirty-eight cents, being amounts expended by order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in carrying into effect the provisions of an act, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An act to establish a uniform 1867, ch. 176.
Vol. xiv. p. 617.system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.” To reappropriate an unexpended balance of an appropriation made by act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, “to refund to the State of California expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities,” Indian hostilities in California. 1854, ch. 267. Vol. x. p. 682. Proviso.said balance having lapsed and been covered into the treasury on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ten thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-three cents: *Provided,* That nothing shall be paid except subject to existing provisions of law and upon the finding and certificate of the third auditor that the same is ac tually due.
For the payment to the Territory of Colorado for the services of the Colorado, for mounted militia and other forces.first regiment of the Colorado mounted militia, called into the service of the United States on the requisition of Colonel Thomas Moonlight; and for the services of any other militia forces of the said Territory which were employed in the service of the United States, on the call of the governor of the Territory, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents, being the amount found to be justly due and recom mended to be allowed on the account as presented by Thomas M.
Vincent, assistant adjutant-general, in his letter to the Secretary of War, dated Washington, October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven: *Provided,* That said amount shall be taken and deemed to be in full satisfaction Proviso.of the claims of the said Territory: *And provided further,* That no money shall be paid from the treasury on said account until the public property issued to the forces shall have been properly accounted for to the satisfaction of the proper officers of the treasury.
For deficiency in the appropriation for salaries and other expenses of Inspectors of steamboats. 1852, ch. 10e. Vol. x. p. 61.local and supervising inspectors, appointed under act of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for the better protection of the lives of passengers by steamboats, twenty thousand dollars. *Post-Office Department.—*For overland mail and marine service between Post-office Department. Mail service between New York and California; United Static and Brazil.New York and California, nine hundred thousand dollars.
For deficiency for steamship mail service between the United States and Brazil during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. *Reconstruction.—*For deficiency under the reconstruction acts for the several military districts for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen Deficiency is military districts under reconstruction acts.hundred and sixty-eight: For the first district, six thousand dollars; For the second district, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-five cents;
For the fourth district, fifty-three thousand two hundred dollars; For the fifth district, forty-five thousand dollars. For the following amounts estimated as necessary in carrying out the reconstruction acts from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight: 176 For the first district, ninety-three thousand dollars; For the second district, fifteen thousand dollars; For the third district, fifteen thousand dollars; For the fourth district, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For the fifth district, eighty thousand dollars. Public buildings and grounds. *Public Buildings and Grounds.—*To supply deficiencies in appropriations for public buildings and grounds, viz. For additional labor cleaning the centre building of the Capitol, repairing the Washington statue on the east grounds of the Capitol, cleaning and repairing columns in the building, laying a new brick pavement on the west front, and repairing fountains, fifteen hundred dollars. For continuing the filling and grading of the Capitol grounds, under the direction of the architect of the Capitol extension, ten thousand dollars.
For taking care and improvement of reservation number two and Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars. For care and improvement of grounds south of the President’s House, one thousand dollars. For continuing the grading of Virginia Avenue, to pay cart hire—labor having been furnished by the commissioner of the freedmen’s bureau, when the original appropriation was exhausted, to continue the work—the hire of carts to be paid by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand dollars.
For cleaning sewer traps on Pennsylvania Avenue, five hundred dol-lars. For repairs of water pipes, three hundred dollars. For removing snow and ice from pavement[s] and public walks, two hundred dollars. For repairs of Pennsylvania Avenue, and keeping it clean and free from dirt, two thousand five hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the President’s House, including the payment of bills approved by the joint committee of Congress appointed to audit the bills for repairing and refurnishing the executive mansion, ten thousand dollars.
For removal of foot-bridge from Maine Avenue to Third Street west, seventy-five dollars. For improvement and taking care of the Circle, on Pennsylvania Avenue and Twenty-third Street west, one hundred and fifty dollars. To supply deficiency in payment for material for gates for Judiciary Square Hospital, eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Feeding destitute friendly Indians. For deficiencies in appropriations for feeding destitute friendly Indians, under act of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in accordance with recommendations of the Indian peace commission, one hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars an d eleven cents: *Provided,* That no part of the money appropriated for this purpose shall be paid until the accounts for feeding such destitute Indians Commission to Investigate accounts therefor.
Duties. &c. of commission.shall be fully investigated by a commission to consist of Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman, Major-General P. H. Sheridan, and Major-General C. C. Augur; and the said commission is hereby authorized, for the purpose of such investigation, to call and examine witnesses in this behalf, and only the amount that said commission shall certify to be equitably and justly due shall be paid. And said commission shall sit at Clerk.Leavenworth, Kansas, and shall have power to appoint a clerk at a salary of five dollars per day for the time actually employed; and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for clerk hire, travelling and incidental expenses of the commission, is hereby appropriated.
CITY OF WASHINGTON. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the chief engineer of the FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 233, 234. 1868. 177army shall reimburse to the corporation of the city of Washington for City of Washington to be reimbursed for certain expenses. 1864, ch. 81, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 69.expenses incurred in improving the property of the general government in said city, under provisions of act of May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of War, in book of estimates of appropriations, pages two hundred and forty-four and two hundred and forty-five, two hundred and ninety-six thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents: *Provided,* That section fifteen of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Washington and to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that Repeal of 1820, ch. 104, § 15.
Vol. iii. p. 591, and 1864, ch. 81, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 69. No improvements in streets, &c. to be paid for by the United States, to be made until after appropriation therefor.purpose,” approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty; and section three of an act approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to amend ‘An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty,’” are hereby repealed; and no improvements of the streets, alleys, avenues, or other property of the United States, in the city of Washington, authorized by said act, which is to be paid for by the United States, shall hereafter be made until an appropriation shall have been made therefor, and such appropriation, when made, shall be expended under the direction of the chief engineer of the army.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That hereafter no contract shall No contract to be made for any public improvements, &c. for larger sum than appropriated.be entered into for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public build ing, or for any public improvement whatever, which shall bind the government to pay a larger sum of money than the amount in the treasury appropriated for the specific purpose. And if any officer of the government shall knowingly contract for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building, or for any public improvement which shall bind the government to pay a larger amount than the specific sum appropriated for such purpose, such officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than two Penalty.years, and shall pay a fine of two thousand dollars.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That all laws making an appropriation Appropriations for solicitors of court of claims repealed;for the payment of the salaries of the solicitor, assistant solicitor, and deputy solicitor of the court of claims, and of the assistant attorney-general, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and that there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the salaries of two assistant attorneys-general, one clerk, for assistant attorneys-general and clerks.and two clerks of class four for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twelve thousand four hundred dollars.
Approved, July 25, 1868.