Chapter XIII. *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for contingent Expenses of the Senate of the United States for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.*March 29, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative
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CHAP. XIII.— An Act *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for contingent Expenses of the Senate of the United States for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other Purposes.*March 29, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Deficiencies appropriations for contingent expenses of the Senate for the year ending June 30, 1867.and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:— For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, fifteen thousand Clerks to committees. dollars.
For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. For salary of the clerk to the committee on appropriations, from the Clerk to committee on appropriations. date of his appointment to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twenty-eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars. To pay the expenses incurred under the resolution of the Senate directing Hydration of the atmosphere of the Senate chamber. the hydration of the atmosphere of the Senate chamber, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated and added to the contingent fund of the Senate.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That section ten of an act entitled Construction of act 1867, ch. 167, § 10. “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Vol. xiv. p. 467. and for other purposes,” passed at the second session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, shall not be construed to allow a greater compensation for the 8 Pay for publication of the Jaws, &c. in the papers in the District of Columbia. publication of the laws passed by Congress and executive proclamations Certain newspapers in the ten rebellious States to publish the laws, &c. and treaties in the papers of the District of Columbia than is provided by law for such publication in other papers.
And the newspapers in the ten rebellious States named in section seven of “ An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes,” which have been or may be designated in pursuance of the provisions of said section for the publication of the public laws and treaties of the United States, shall publish the public laws and treaties of the Thirty-ninth Congress, authentic copies of which it shall be the duty of the Secretary Secretary of State to furnish copies. of State to furnish as soon as practicable, after receiving notice of such designation; and there is hereby appropriated out of the treasury, Appropriation. from any moneys not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay for Accounts and rate of pay. said service: *Provided,* That the accounts therefor shall be settled in the usual manner, and the compensation shall not exceed the rate fixed in section seven aforesaid.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,*Clerk of the House to select newspapers in the several States and Territories in which the laws, legal notices, &c. are to be published. That so much of section seven of au act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as relates to the publication of the treaties and laws of the United States, be and the same is hereby extended to the States not therein designated, and to the Territories; and that it shall be Secretary of State to furnish copies. the duty of the Secretary of State, upon receiving notice of the designation of newspapers under the act aforesaid and this section, promptly to furnish to such newspapers authentic copies of the treaties and laws of Three papers in Louisiana. the United States to be published as aforesaid: *Provided,* That it shall be lawful to print the laws and treaties of the United States, as aforesaid, Rates of pay. in three newspapers in Louisiana: *And provided further,* That the rates fixed by previous laws shall not be hereby increased.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,*Appropriations for House of Representatives. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, namely:— Stationery.For stationery for the House of Representatives, nine thousand dollars. Newspapers.For newspapers, ten thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,*Appropriation for salaries of commissioner of education and his clerks; That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for salaries of the commissioner of education and his clerks, twelve thousand four hundred dollars, for the period of three months ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. offices and stationery.For furnishing offices and for stationery, six thousand dollars.
Repairs of Long Bridge.For the repair of Long Bridge, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,*Appropriations for expenses of Indian delegations visiting Washington. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the expenses incurred by certain Indian delegations in visiting Washington city for the purpose of negotiating treaties and in their return home, to wit:— Sioux.For the Sioux of Lake Traverse, ten thousand dollars.
For the Sioux of the Upper Missouri, fifteen thousand dollars. Kansas Indians.For the tribes residing in the State of Kansas, fifteen thousand dollars. Chippewas.For the Chippewas of the Mississippi, six thousand dollars. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 13, 14. 1867.9 And all laws allowing the President, the Secretary of the Interior, or Laws allowing the making of treaties with Indian tribes repealed. the commissioner of Indian affairs to enter into treaties with any Indian tribes are hereby repealed, and no expense shall hereafter be incurred in negotiating a treaty with any Indian tribe until an appropriation authorizing such expense shall be first made by law.*Post,* p. 18.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums of money Chief engineer, &c. to expend moneys appropriated to be expended under direction of commissioner of public buildings. heretofore appropriated to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of public buildings be transferred to and may be expended under the direction of the chief engineer of the army, or such officer of the engineer corps as he may direct. Approved, March 29, 1867.