Chapter CCXCIII. making additional Appropriations and to supply the Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CCXCIII.— An Act making additional Appropriations and to supply the Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other Purposes.July 15, 1870. *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 appropriations for 1870 and 1871. much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:— DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. *Office of the Attorney-General.*—For salary of the solicitor-general,Office of Attorney-General.Solicitor-general. seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional salary of two assistant attorneys-general, two thousand dollars.Assistant attorneys-general. For additional salary of solicitor of internal revenue, one thousand dollars.Solicitor of internal revenue. For salary of stenographic clerk, two thousand dollars.Clerks. For three additional fourth-class clerks, five thousand four hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, viz.: For fuel, labor, and miscellaneous items,Contingent expenses. three thousand five hundred dollars.
For stationery and books, one thousand dollars. For additional contingent, because of the transfer to the Department of Justice of the solicitor of internal revenue, naval solicitor, and the law office of the Department of State; for stationery and books, one thousand dollars. For the salaries of three commissioners appointed for the revision andCommissioners to revise the statutes of the United States.*Ante*, p. 96. consolidation of the statutes of the United States, for one year, at five thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the reasonable incidental expenses of the commission for clerk hire, stationery, and miscellaneous items, three thousand dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. For clerks in the office of the chief of ordnance, two thousand dollars,Office of chief of ordnance. to supply an omission in the total amount for that office for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. *In the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.*—For one clerk ofOffice of comptroller of the currency. class four, one clerk of class three, two clerks of class two, and three clerks of class one, nine thousand eight hundred dollars.
For ventilating the attic rooms in the west wing of the Treasury DepartmenVentilation.t building, twelve thousand dollars. For ventilating the attic rooms in the east wing, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. For annual repairs of the treasury building, fifteen thousand dollars.Annual repairs. For file cases, shelving for vaults, permanent counters, desks, tables,Furniture, &c. and other necessary fixtures, and for renovation of walls and floors, for the proper arrangement and preservation of the records and files of the Treasury Department, twenty-three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-two cents.
For fitting, putting up, and casing old vaults, for casing, and shelving,Work, unless for ordinary repairs, not to be done on treasury building except, &c. and for book-cases for records in the offices of the Secretary of the Treasury, and others, fourteen thousand and thirty-five dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter no alteration shall be made, or work done upon the treasury building, except for ordinary repairs, except upon authorization of and in accordance with specific appropriations therefor. 312 For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings throughout the UnitedFuel, &c. for public buildings.
States, under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For balance due on completion of the custom-house at Ogdensburg,Custom-house at Ogdensburg; New York, seven hundred and one dollars and eighty-eight cents. For continuing the construction of the custom-house building atat Charleston. Charleston, South Carolina, in accordance with the modified plans of the supervising architect of the treasury, as submitted in his letter of June twenty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no furtherProviso. sum than two hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars and forty-six cents shall be appropriated or expended by the government for the entire completion of said building and its approaches.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a parcel of ground,Purchase of land in Springfield, Illinois. twenty feet by one hundred feet, adjoining and on the east side of the site of the United [States] court-house and post-office building at Springfield, Illinois, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receivingPay of officers, clerks, messengers, &c. an annual salary in the House of Representatives, six thousand one hundred and six dollars and fifty cents.
And that there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seven hundred dollars each, per annum, to the chief, journal, assistant disbursing, file, printing, petition, stationery, and engrossing clerks of the House; and the sum of four hundred and five dollars per annum to the librarian in charge of the hall library; and the sum of four hundred and five dollars per annum to the assistant librarian in charge of the hall library; and the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum to the clerk of the committee of claims; and to the reading clerks and tally clerk, three hundred and forty dollars each, for the thirty-ninth Congress, as provided for by resolutions of the House of the first session of the said Congress.
For folding documents, including materials, five thousand five hundredFolding. and four dollars and twenty-seven cents. For clerks to committees and temporary clerks, ten thousand four hundredClerks. and seventy-five dollars and twenty cents. For laborers, two thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars andLaborers. eighty cents. For miscellaneous items, to defray the expenses of the committee onCommittee on education and labor; education and labor, incurred during their late investigation, one thousand dollars.
For additional expenses of the committee on the ninth census, to beon the ninth census. added to the contingent fund of the House, two hundred and ten dollars. To Dr. Edward Jarvis, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for services renderedEdward Jarvis. to committee on the ninth census, five hundred dollars. To pay the official reporters of the Globe in each House the amountOfficial reporters of the Globe.1866, ch.296, § 18.Vol. xiv. p. 323. which the comptroller of the treasury may find severally due them for services during the sessions of the forty-first Congress, under the eighteenth section of the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes, approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
For ceiling with iron laths under the copper roof of the hall of theLighting and ventilation. House of Representatives, and for additional glass panels, flues, doors, and apparatus for improving the lighting and ventilating of said hall, to be expended under the direction of the architect of the Capitol, fifteen thousand dollars. 313 For the Senate, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundredSenate.Miscellaneous. and seventy, for miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars.
For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, five thousandClerks, pages, &c. dollars. For the payment of the necessary expenses incurred by the joint selectCommittee on retrenchment. committee on retrenchment in investigating the contracts of the Navy Department for steam machinery, three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and four cents: *Provided,* That the appropriation of seventy-eight thousandTransfer of appropriation for lithographing.1870, ch. 251.*Ante*, p. 233. dollars for lithographing for the patent office, in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, is hereby carried to the fund for lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives.
MISCELLANEOUS.Miscellaneous. To pay the government of Peru the sum of fifty-seven thousand and *and*Award to Esteban G. Montano.*Post*, p. 751. forty dollars in coin, being the amount awarded to Esteban G. Montano by the joint commission at Lima, Peru, February twenty-five, eighteen hundred [and] seventy, acting under the claims convention between the United States and Peru, of December four, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. To meet a deficiency in the appropriation for the legislative expenses of the Territory of Montana, ten thousand dollars.
For printing the journal of the legislative assembly of the Territory ofLegislative expenses in Montana; Montana for the second and third sessions of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, four thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy cents. For balance in full to John P. Bruce for printing for the third sessionJohn P. Bruce. of the Montana legislature, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety cents. For a deficiency in the appropriation for the legislative expenses of theIdaho. assembly of the Territory of Idaho, for rent, furniture, wood, storage, oil, and candles, printing, stationery, and incidental expenses, three thousand four hundred dollars.
To pay the increased compensation of the chief justices and associateIncreased pay of judges in certain Territories.1870, ch. 130.*Ante*, p. 152. justices of the Territories of New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado, and Dakota, under the provisions of an act approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, ten thousand dollars. For amount due James S. Reynolds for paper, printing, and labor performedJames S. Reynolds. for the said legislative assembly of Idaho, two thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirteen cents.
For a deficiency in the appropriation for the legislative expenses of theLegislative expenses of New Mexico. Territory of New Mexico, ten thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-seven cents. For rent of office of the surveyor-general of Nevada, fuel, books, stationery,Office of surveyor-general of Nevada; and other incidental expenses, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For rent of office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming, fuel, books, stationery,Wyoming; and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona,Arizona; three thousand dollars; for clerks in his office, three thousand dollars; and for rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For repairs of custom-house at Detroit, Michigan, thirteen thousandCustom-house, Detroit. five hundred dollars. To reimburse the United States marshal of the district of South CarolinaSummoning jurors in South Carolina. for sums paid by him in excess of the sums provided by existing statutes, for summoning jurors in obedience to a jury order issued by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, June five, eigh-314teen hundred and sixty-nine, one thousand dollars, or such part thereof as may be necessary.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for the use and occupationUse of building by department of education. by the late department of education of a portion of the building located on the corner of G and Eighth streets in this city, from November twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, until April sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the relief of sick andSick and disabled seamen. disabled seamen, one hundred thousand dollars, and to meet a deficiency in the same fund for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the erection of penitentiary buildings in the Territory of Wyoming,Penitentiary buildings in Wyoming Territory.Proviso. forty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That the said sum be set apart from the proceeds of collections of internal revenue tax in that Territory, to be appropriated for said purpose only, and expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For expenses to be incurred in taking the ninth census of the UnitedNinth census.
States, one million dollars. For payment of claims of loyal citizens for services rendered as UnitedLoyal citizens acting as United States marshals and assistants.1870, ch. 164.*Ante*, p. 167. States marshals and their assistants, as provided in act approved June twenty-four, eighteen hundred and seventy, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For deficiency in the appropriation for public buildings and grounds,Public buildings and grounds. under the chief engineer of the army, ten thousand dollars.
For materials and putting up Wilson’s electric gas-lighter in the SenateWilson’s electric gas-lighter.Proviso. chamber, four thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* [That] the same can be done under the control of the architect of the Capitol extension during the recess, and at an expense not exceeding the amount herein appropriated. For expenses of conducting the election, on second day of September,Election in Wyoming Territory. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in Wyoming Territory, one thousand dollars.
For assay office, New York, salaries of superintendent, assayer, melter,Assay office, New York.*Ante*, p. 241. refiner, assistant assayer, and clerks, and wages of workmen, thirty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the superintendent of theSuperintendent of building occupied by Department of Interior. building occupied by said Secretary and his department from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the allowance to be made to such superintendent, with his salary as clerk, not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum, the sum of seven hundred dollars.
For deficiency in the pay of certain employe[e]s in the agriculturalPay of employees in agricultural department.Proviso. department, one thousand one hundred and ten dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary: *Provided,* That their annual compensation is not increased thereby beyond the amount fixed by law. For services performed in the patent office, under direction of the commissionerActing examiners and assistants in patent office. of patents, from August first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to April first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, by clerks and assistant examiners acting as assistant examiners and examiners, at the rates fixed by law for the respective grades in which such services were performed, the sum of ten thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-four cents: *Provided,* That the compensation thus paid shall not exceed thatProviso. received by those duly enrolled as examiners and assistant examiners during the same period.
For the support of primary schools in that part of the district of ColumbiaPrimary schools outside of Washington and Georgetown, D. C. lying outside of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, to be expended by the commissioners of primary school[s], under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and the president of the levy court, ten thousand dollars. 315 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 293, 294. 1870. To pay William Fisher, of San José, California, for supplies furnishedWilliam Fisher. seamen and marines of the United States navy who were employed with the army during the Mexican war in conquering California, three thousand and seventy-five dollars.
To compensate the widow of the late W. J. Hubard, for the statue ofW. J. Hubard, statue of Washington. Washington executed by him, said sum to be in full of all demands for said statue, two thousand dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the accounting officers of theCredit to be allowed C. N. Felton. Treasury Department are hereby authorized to credit C. N. Felton, treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, with sixteen hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents, paid to Edward Wheaton for clerical services performed in his office.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the secretary of the SenatePayment to First National Bank of Washington, advance for expenses of committee. be, and he hereby is, directed to pay to the First National Bank of the city of Washington the sum of sixteen hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-one cents, with interest from June three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in satisfaction of money advanced to defray the expenses of the joint select committee on ordnance, and that the receipt of said bank shall be deemed a sufficient voucher in the settlement of the accounts with the Treasury Department.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the commissioner of the bureauPayments to Wilberforce University and Lincoln University. of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands be, and he is hereby, directed, out of the fund in said bureau for the education of freedmen, to pay to Wilberforce University, situated in Greene county, Ohio, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and to Lincoln University, situated in Chester county, Pennsylvania, twelve thousand dollars, in aid of the objects of said institutions.
Approved, July 15, 1870.