Chapter VIII. *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Execution of the Reconstruction Laws, and for the Service of the Quartermaster‘s Department of the Government, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.*Feb. 12, 1868.
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CHAP. VIII.— An Act *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Execution of the Reconstruction Laws, and for the Service of the Quartermaster‘s Department of the Government, for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.*Feb. 12, 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 soDeficiency appropriation. much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, namely:
To provide for the expenses of carrying into effect the “ Act to provide Reconstruction expenses.for the more efficient government of the rebel States ”: for the first 1867, ch. 153.military district, the sum of fifty thousand dollars; for the second military district, the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars; for the third Military districts.military district, the sum of ninety-seven thousand dollars; for the fourth military district, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for the fifth military district, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; making, in all, the sum of six hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars.
To supply deficiencies in the service of the quartermaster’s department, Quartermaster’s department.to wit: For regular supplies, three million five hundred thousand dollars.Regular supplies. For incidental expenses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, four hundred thousand dollars.Army. For transportation of the army, seven million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; making, in all, the sum of twelve million dollars.
Office of the chief of engineers:Engineers. To supply deficiencies in the office of the chief of engineers, for blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets:Building corner of F and 17th Streets. To supply deficiency for fuel, compensation of fireman, and miscellaneous items, eight thousand dollars. *Legislative.*—for increased compensation to congressional printer, to Congressional printer.June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents.
To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the House of House of Representatives.Representatives for the present fiscal year, the following sums, namely: For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That from and after Senators and representatives limited in newspapers and stationery.the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, no senator or representative shall receive any newspapers except the Congressional Globe, or stationery, or commutation therefor, exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars for any one session of Congress.
For furniture, repairs, and packing-boxes for members, twenty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars. For folding documents, including materials, fifty thousand dollars. For newspapers, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. To supply a deficiency in the contingent expenses of the Senate for theSenate. present fiscal year, namely: For clerks to committees, and pages, horses, and carryalls, thirty-three thousand eight hundred and four dollars. For additional messengers and laborers, fifteen thousand dollars.
For labor and materials in the folding-room, to be provided by the sergeant-at-arms, five thousand dollars. *Judiciary.*—for salary of the marshal of the Supreme Court of the JudiciaryUnited States from April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, at thirty-five hundred dollars per annum, four thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 8, 9. 1868.36 Department of education.*Department of Education.*—for amount required for salary of commissioner to March thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred and ninety-two dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* Transfers of appropriations between different branches of any department, prohibited. 1809, ch. 28, § 1.That so much of the first section of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and nine, entitled “ An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,” as authorizes the President, on the application of the secretary of any department, to transfer the moneys Vol. ii. p. 635.appropriated for a particular branch of that department to another branch of expenditure in the same department, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and all acts or parts of acts authorizing such transfers of appropriations be and the same are hereby repealed, and no money appropriated for one purpose shall hereafter be used for any other purpose than that for which it is appropriated.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Indorsed by the President: “Received January 31, 1868.” [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]