Chapter CXV. making Appropriations to supply 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 former Years, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CXV.— An Act making Appropriations to supply 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 former Years, and for other Purposes.March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums *are* [or]Deficiency appropriations for the years ending June 30, 1870 and 1871. so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:— *Senate.*—To pay an additional assistant engineer authorized by theSenate.Assistant engineer.
Senate, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eight hundred and forty dollars. For steam-pump for the heating and ventilating apparatus of the Senate,Heating and ventilating apparatus. under the direction of the sergeant-at-arms, one thousand dollars. For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus of the Senate, one thousand dollars. *House of Representatives.*—For cartage, three thousand dollars.House of Representatives.
For laborers, one thousand six hundred dollars. For furniture and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars. For fuel, two thousand dollars. For paying teller in the office of the sergeant-at-arms, one thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. For the miscellaneous item of the contingent fund of the House, tenMiscellaneous. thousand dollars. For the following sums due under resolutions of the House passed duringDoorkeeper and superintendents of document and folding rooms. the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, namely:
To the late first assistant door-keeper, eight hundred and forty dollars; to the superintendent of the document-room, eight hundred and forty dollars; and to E. Spicer, late superintendent of the folding-room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; to John J. McElhone, Wm. Hincks, W. Blair Lord, D.Reporters for Congressional Globe. Wolfe Brown, Theodore F. Andrews, and William Henry Burr, reporters for the Congressional Globe during the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, seven hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand four hundred dollars, additional compensation for the Thirty-ninth Congress.
For compensation of the tally-clerk of the House of Representatives,Tally-clerk. from the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy, to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, six hundred and twelve dollars, the same making his compensation equal to that of his predecessor, (R. U. Sherman,) and as fixed in the legislative bill for himself. To pay Rives and Bailey for the reporting and publication of the debatesRives and Bailey.Vol xv. p. 347 and proceedings of the Forty-first Congress, under the joint resolution approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and contract of April fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, so far as may have been provided for by law, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. *Public Buildings under the Treasury Department.*—For continuingPublic buildings under the Treasury Department.Post office and court-house in New York. the work on the building for post-office and court-house in New York City, to be applied only to finishing the foundations up to and including the sill course, and receiving and setting the granite of the first story above that course, and subject to no other limitations or restriction, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the building for post-office and sub-treasury in Boston, the unexpendedPost-office and sub-treasury in Boston. balance of appropriation remaining on the thirtieth June, eighteen516FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 115. 1871. hundred seventy, appropriated for purchase of site of the same, which was covered into the treasury by the provisions of section five of the act of1870, ch. 251.*Ante*, p. 251.1870, ch. 292.*Ante*, p. 296.*Ante*, p. 85. July twelve, eighteen hundred and seventy, is, with the sum appropriated by the act of July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, hereby reappropriated and made available, together with the sum of sixty-four thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the award for the necessary land condemned under authority of the State of Massachusetts for the purposes of said building; for purchase of title in passage-way, eight thousand dollars; and for expenses of legal proceedings, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, subject to no other restriction except that the cost of said building shall not exceed, in the ultimate total under all appropriations, one million five hundred thousand dollars.
For completing the court-house building at Madison, Wisconsin, thirty-fourCourt-house at Madison; thousand and eighty-two dollars and seventy-four cents. For completing the court-house building at Portland, Maine, fifty-sixPortland, Me. thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-four cents. For completing the work on the building for appraisers’ stores in Philadelphia,Appraisers’ stores. fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That said building shall also be used for a bonded warehouse.
For repair of the custom-house building at Sandusky, Ohio, ten thousandCustom-house at Sandusky. dollars. For desks, tables, chairs, cases, shelving for file-rooms, boxes, and repairsFurniture. of furniture in Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, fifty thousand dollars.Repairs of buildings, &c. For furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. For carpets, oil cloth, matting, rugs, chair covers, and cushions, repairsCarpets, &c. and putting down of carpets, and other necessary miscellaneous items of the same kind for the Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars. treasury department.Treasury Department. *Miscellaneous.*—For compensation of twelve watchmen and ten laborers,Miscellaneous.Watchmen. fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For salaries, travelling, and other expenses of supervising and localSupervising, &c. inspectors. inspectors of steam-vessels, twenty thousand dollars. For stamps for use of the internal revenue office, two hundred and fiftyStamps for internal revenue office. thousand dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters in the branch of the UnitedBranch mint at San Francisco. States mint at San Francisco, California, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For executing contract to facilitate communication between the AtlanticElectric telegraph. and Pacific States by electric telegraph, forty thousand dollars.
To reimburse to F. E. Spinner the sum by him paid into the UnitedF. E. Spinner. States treasury to replace the deficit resulting from the embezzlement by Charles C. Edwins, discovered in September last, five thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents. For compensation of two assistants in the office of the librarian ofAssistants in office of librarian of Congress. Congress, to date from February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, whose employment is hereby authorized at twelve hundred and eighteen hundred dollars, respectively, three thousand dollars.
For outfit and extraordinary clerical expenses of the commission to reviseRevision of United States Statutes. the United States statutes at large, one thousand dollars. For the collation and publication of the reports of the foreign claimsReports of foreign claims commissions. commissions between the United States and other countries, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, three thousand dollars, but not to exceed three thousand dollars. For alterations and extension of the Treasury building, forty-nineExtension of Treasury building. thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-one cents. 517 To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the present district attorneyDistrict-attorney of Nebraska. of Nebraska his salary for the four years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eight hundred dollars. *Lighthouse Establishment.*—For repairs and incidental expenses in refittingLighthouse establishment.Refitting and improving light-houses. and improving lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, fifty thousand dollars.
For supplying the lighthouses and beacon-lights on the Atlantic, GulfLighthouses and beacon-lights. Lake, and Pacific coasts with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, and cleaning materials, and repairing and keeping in repair the illuminating apparatus and lamps, and all other necessary expenses connected with the same, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, andBuoys, spindles, and day-beacons. supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and other like necessaries, fifty thousand dollars. *Public Printing.*—For the public printing, one hundred and twenty-fivePublic printing.No printing to be done except on written order of, &c.Vol. xvii. p. 2. thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no printing shall be hereafter executed except on written order under the direction of heads of departments or by the two houses of Congress, as authorized by law.
For paper for the public printing, fifty thousand dollars.Paper and binding. For the public binding, fifty thousand dollars. For contingent fund of the office of the congressional printer, fifteenContingent fund. hundred dollars. department of state.Department of State. For compensation of the Secretary of State, assistant secretaries, clerks,Pay of Secretary, &c. messengers, watchmen, and others, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents. For publishing the laws in pamphlet form and in newspapers of thePublishing laws.
States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, sixteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-threeContingent expenses. dollars and seventy-one cents. For salaries of United States ministers abroad, seventy-five thousandSalaries of United States ministers. dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter no salaries shall be paid to two ministers for the same place for a longer period than thirty days. For rent of prisons in China, two thousand five hundred dollars.Prisons in China.
For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,American seamen in foreign countries. eighty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, ten thousand five hundredForeign intercourse. and sixty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. To pay the salary of the United States consul at Hiogo and OsacaConsul at Hiogo and Osaca. from the time of his appointment, February ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. interior department.Interior Department.
For deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy and seventy-one, namely:— *Pension Bureau.*—For compensation of the commissioner of pensions,Pension bureau.Pay of commissioner, &c. clerks, messengers, watchmen, and laborers in his office, ten thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and three cents. For blank books, stationery, furniture, and miscellaneous items in theBlank books. pension office, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For twelve clerks of class one, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars;Clerks and messengers. for seven laborers, five thousand and forty dollars; for two assistant messengers, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. *Indian Office.*—To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay balanceIndian office.Indian service in California. due on the indebtedness incurred for the Indian service in California by518 Austin Wiley, former superintendent of Indian affairs, ten thousand fiveExpenses incurred by Austin Wiley. hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For subsisting seven hundred and forty-seven Ponca Indians fromSubsisting Ponca Indians. December first, eighteen hundred and seventy, to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, including liabilities for the purpose already incurred, fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-four cents. For blank books, stationery, furniture, and miscellaneous items in theBlank books. Indian office, fifty-one dollars and ninety-five cents. *Patent Office.*—For casual repairs of the Interior Department building,Patent office.Repairs. five thousand dollars.
For salary of one examiner in charge of interferences, and one firstExaminer and assistant. and one second assistant examiner in the patent office, five thousand nine hundred dollars. For five clerks of class two, seven thousand dollars.Clerks. For five clerks of class one, six thousand dollars. For the steam-heating apparatus in the Interior Department building,Steam-heating apparatus. six thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. For expenses of packing and distributing congressional journals andDistributing congressional documents, &c. documents, six hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents.
For salaries of eight watchmen in the general service of the InteriorWatchmen. Department building, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the freight on the lawLaw libraries in certain Territories.1870, ch. 292.*Ante*, p. 306. libraries authorized to be purchased for each of the Territories of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona by the act of July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Mining statistics: For collecting statistics of mines and mining, to beMining statistics. expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary and commissions of the register and receiver of the landRegister, &c. of land office at Susanville. office at Susanville, California, three thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of said office, five hundred dollars. *Government Hospital for the Insane.*—To supply the deficiency in theGovernment Hospital for the Insane. appropriation to pay salaries and wages for the month of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and outstanding bills due June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, three thousand five hundred dollars.
To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for support of the hospital for the current year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, twenty-two thousand dollars. post-office department.Post-Office Department. The following sums are hereby appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said department:— For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, fifty-five thousand dollars; for advertising,Mail-locks, keys, and stamps.Letting of mail contracts in Maryland and Virginia. twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter the lettings of mail contracts in Maryland and Virginia shall be published in one newspaper only.
For additional pay of nine temporary laborers, two firemen, and one watchman, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand fourLaborers, firemen.Proviso. hundred and forty dollars: *Provided,* That their entire pay for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, is thereby not increased above seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum. For eight temporary clerks for two months, at one hundred dollars perTemporary clerks. month, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For temporary clerks, to be employed as occasion may require, ten thousand dollars. 519 For preparation of the post-office directory for eighteen hundred andPost-office directory. seventy, twelve hundred dollars. And so much of the first section of the act approved July twelve,Correction of act1870, ch. 246, § 1.*Ante*, p. 246. eighteen hundred and seventy, as states the total sum of the appropriations, for compensation of the Postmaster-General, assistants, superintendents, chiefs of division, chief clerks, clerks, messengers, assistants, folders, firemen, watchmen, and laborers, is hereby *connected* [corrected], and, in lieu of the sum there stated, declared to be three hundred and fifty-four thousand eight hundred dollars, which is the true total sum of the specific appropriations for the above-recited purposes, more fully set forth in said act, and shall be so construed.
To supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office DepartmentDeficiency for June 30, 1871. for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, four million six hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty-two dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That no part of theNo part to pay the Chorpenning claim.*Post*, p. 702. money hereby appropriated shall be applied to the payment of what is known as the Chorpenning claim. war department.War Department.
For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery and IndianHorses. scouts, two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the army, and forClothing. camp and garrison equipage, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, to enable the Secretary of the TreasurySettlement of accounts of disbursing officers. to settle the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already lawfully made, a transfer of other balances on the books of the treasury to this account is hereby authorized to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To pay fees of attorneys at law employed by the War Department;Fees of lawyers, and expenses of suits prior to act of1870, ch. 150.*Ante*, p. 162. expenses of suits incurred previous to act of June twenty-two, eighteen hundred and seventy, creating Department of Justice; the costs and charges of State penitentiaries; the care and maintenance of United States military convicts confined in them; the pay of detectives and scouts; and for compensation of provost marshals employed by the Secretary of War in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy having been exhausted, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of privateMedical and hospital supplies, &c. physicians employed in emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, expense of purveying depots, of medical examining boards, and other incidental expenses of the medical department, one hundred thousand dollars. To pay the costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care,State penitentiaries for military convicts. clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance, and like necessaries of United States military convicts confined therein, thirty thousand dollars.
For repairing and putting new roof on the cadet quarters at WestCadet quarters at West Point Point, recently destroyed by fire, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. *Paymaster-General’s Department.*—Pay of the army: For pay to officers,Paymaster-general’s department.Pay of army. nine hundred and eight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. Mileage: For allowance paid to officers of the army while travellingMileage. on duty without troops, two hundred thousand dollars.
Clothing to discharged soldiers: For payment to discharged soldiersClothing. for clothing not drawn, nine hundred and nine thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty cents. *Quartermaster-General’s Department.*—For extra pay to soldiers employedQuartermaster-general’s department. under the direction of the quartermaster’s department in the520 erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the constructionExtra pay to soldiers, &c. of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts andExpresses.Escorts.Interment of officers, &c. armies in the field; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field or at posts on the frontier or other places where ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation toSpies and guides.Deserters.Expenses of cavalry and light artillery. clerks to officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon masters; for the apprehension, securing, and delivery of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, namely, the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith’s and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, and nails, iron, and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps above named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the army not expressly assigned to any other department, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For hire of quarters for officers on military duty; hire of quarters forHire of quarters. troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, three hundred thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the office of the quartermaster-general, two thousand five hundred dollars. Signal Office.—Observation and report of storms:
For expenses of theSignal office.Observation and report of storms. manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing probable approach and force of storms; for instrument shelters; for hire and expense of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for maps, bulletins, to be displayed in chambers of commerce and board-of-trade rooms; for books and stationery and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriationNo part for telegraphing at greater rates than. &c.1866, ch. 230, § 2.Vol. xiv. p. 221. shall be expended for telegraphing at greater rates than those which are or may be fixed by the Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the second section of chapter two hundred and thirty of the statutes of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. *Chief Engineer of the Army.*—For annual repairs of the President’sChief engineer of the army.President’s house. house, three thousand nine hundred and four dollars and eighty-four cents.
For refurnishing the President’s house, eleven thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents. To make up deficiency in appropriation for Capitol police for the fiscalCapitol police. year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eleven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, as follows: For one captain, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; for two lieutenants, at three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars; for twenty-five privates for twelve months, at three hundred and eighty-four dollars each per annum, nine thousand and six hundred dollars; for three privates for eleven months, at three hundred and eighty-four dollars each per annum, one thousand and fifty-six dollars. *Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands.*—For pay ofBureau of freedmen, refugees, and abandoned lands.Medical officers and medicine. medical officers and attendants in Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, at Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. 521FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 115, 116. 1871. For medicine, medical supplies, and rations, twenty-five thousand dollars. For clothing, two thousand five hundred dollars.Clothing. For collecting and payment of bounty and other claims to coloredBounties. soldiers, sailors, marines, or their heirs, forty thousand dollars. For rent of building, (outside of the District of Columbia,) four thousand five hundred dollars. For stationery and printing, five thousand dollars. For mileage and transportation of officers and agents, four thousand dollars.
For telegraphing and postage, one thousand dollars. For unfulfilled contracts for the erection and repair of school buildingsSchool buildings. and asylums, forty thousand dollars. navy department.Navy Department. Bureau of provisions and clothing: For provisions for the officers,Bureau of provisions and clothing. seamen, and marines of the navy, five hundred thousand dollars. Marine corps: For clothing for non-commissioned officers, musicians,Marine corps. and privates of the marine corps, fifty thousand dollars; for fuel, ten thousand dollars. *Territory of Washington.*—That there be, and hereby is, appropriated,Washington Territory. for amount to pay expenses of legislative assembly of Washington Territory, per diem and mileage of members, pay of officers, and printing for the session commencing October, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, nine thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For deficiency in appropriation to pay the salary of governor, secretary,Dakota Territory. and judges of the Territory of Dakota, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, seventeen hundred dollars, or so much of the same as shall be necessary for that purpose. For the payment during the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteenPensions.1871, ch. 50.*Ante*, p. 411. hundred and seventy-one, of pensions under the act of February fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers and sailors, two hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the provisions of the act of Congress entitledProvisions of act of1870, ch. 225,*Ante*, p. 193.made applicable to act 1871, ch. 50.
“An act to define the duties of pension agents, to prescribe their manner of paying pensions, and for other purposes,” approved July eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, shall be, and the same is hereby, declared to be applicable to all pensions granted by virtue of the said act approved February fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. Sec. 2. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneyCollection of revenue from customs. in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, for each half-year from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be received during said half-year from fines, penalties, and forfeitures connected with the customs, and from fees paid into the treasury by customs officers, and from storage, cartage, drayage, labor, and services; and the resolution “making appropriations for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs,” approved May three, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby repealed.
Approved, March 3, 1871.