Chapter LVI. *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. LVI.— An Act *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*. April 20, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiency appropriation for year ending June 30, 1870. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz.:— *Treasury Department*.— For additional pay of twelve watchmen, at twoTreasury Department.Additional pay to watchmen and laborers in Treasury Department; hundred and twenty dollars each, and eleven laborers employed in the Treasury Department buildings, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For additional pay of thirty laborers, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy: *Provided*, That the pay shall not exceed seven hundred and twenty dollarsproviso; each for said year, three thousand six hundred dollars. To one of the watchmen acting as lieutenant of the watch, the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars, in addition to his pay as watchman. For additional pay of three watchmen and two laborers in the Navyin Navy Department;
Department, eight hundred and thirty dollars. For additional pay of forty laborers employed in the patent office, atin patent office. one hundred and twenty dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars: *Provided*, That their pay shall not exceed seven hundred andProviso. twenty dollars each per annum. For cartage for the House of Representatives, three thousand dollars.Cartage. For salaries of officers, clerks, and other employe[e]s in the office of theOffice of commissioner of internal revenue. commissioner of internal revenue, thirty thousand dollars.
For pay of assistant-engineer from January first to June thirtieth,Assistant-engineer. eighteen hundred and seventy, five hundred dollars. 84 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1870. Additional pay to watchmen and laborers in Post-Office Department.For additional pay of fifteen laborers employed in the Post-Office Department, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For additional pay of eleven laborers in the office of the auditor of the treasury for the Post-Office Department, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For additional compensation of nine watchmen in the Post-Office Department, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand and eighty dollars. Contingent expenses Treasury Department.For contingent expenses, copying, binding, sealing ships’ registers, translating foreign languages, advertising, and miscellaneous items for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, twelve thousand dollars. Sick and disabled seamen.To supply deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred thousand dollars. *Comptroller of the Currency*.— Clerks in office of comptroller of currency.
For pay of one clerk of class two, one clerk of class one, and three female clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, in his office, seventeen hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. *Internal Revenue Bureau*.— Internal revenue bureau. For rent, dies, paper ; for stamps and incidental expenses, including the cost of subscriptions for such number of copies of the “Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal” as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary to supply to revenue officers, three hundred thousand dollars. *Abandoned and Captured Property*.— Abandoned and captured property.
For the necessary expenses of defending suits in the court of claims against the United States, for the proceeds of abandoned and captured property under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the joint resolution of March Vol. xv. p. 251.thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twenty thousand dollars ; and for the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury or his subordinates and agents, in respect to or growing out of the seizure of such property, and in prosecuting suits for the recovery of property claimed to have accrued or belonged to the United States, growing out of the rebellion or the suppression thereof, and for settling the accounts of agents employed in recovering such property, twenty thousand dollars. *Public Buildings*.— Public buildings at Cairo;
For roofing and continuing the work on the custom-house at Cairo, Illinois, ten thousand dollars. Detroit;For roofing and continuing the work on the custom-house at Detroit, Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars. Savannah;For general repairs of custom-house at Savannah, Georgia, fifteen thousand dollars. Mobile;For general repairs of custom-house at Mobile, Alabama, fifteen thousand dollars. Portland;For plastering, iron work, and carpentry on the custom-house at Portland, Maine, thirty thousand dollars.
Richmond;For repairing the custom-house at Richmond, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ogdensburgh;For paving, grading, and fencing about custom-house at Ogdensburgh, New York, five thousand dollars. Springfield;For paving, curbing, grading, sewerage, and other work about the court-house and post-office at Springfield, Illinois, the sum of twelve thousand dollars. Castine;For the purchase of additional land for the custom-house at Castine, Maine, six hundred dollars. Saint Paul;For continuing construction, granite and limestone work, for customhouse, Saint Paul, Minnesota, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, proviso.That no part of the money shall be expended until a contract or contracts shall be entered into by the proper authorities with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders for the completion of the entire building at a sum, including all moneys already expended in its construction, not85FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1870. exceeding three hundred thousand dollars; and the expenditure of anyPublic buildings at sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful. For completing the work on the court-house and post-office at DesDes Moines; Moines, Iowa, twenty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars. For roofing, interior brick-work, and plastering of the court-house atMadison; Madison, Wisconsin, thirty thousand dollars. For plastering, iron-work, and carpentry for the court-house at Portland,Portland;
Maine, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the building for court-house and post-officeNew York city;proviso; in New York city, one million dollars : *Provided*, That no part of this sum beyond the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or any other sum appropriated for this purpose, shall be expended until a contract or contracts for the completion of the entire building in conformity with[Modified. See *Post*. pp. 295, 296.] plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster-General, and at all times under their direction, shall be entered Into with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, and for a sum not exceeding three million dollars, including till sums already expended for that purpose, except that for the site; and the expenditure of any sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful.
For continuing the work on the building for post-office and sub-treasuryBoston; in Boston, Massachusetts, five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum, beyond the sum of two hundred and fifty thousandproviso; dollars, or any other sum appropriated for this purpose, shall be expended until a contract or contracts for the completion of the entire building,[Modified. *Post*, pp. 296, 516.] in conformity with plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and Postmaster-General, and at all times under their direction, shall be entered into with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, and for a sum not exceeding one million five hundred thousand dollars, including all sums already expended for that purpose, except that for the site; and the expenditure of any sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful.
For continuing the work, and for granite and freestone work on theSan Francisco; building for branch mint at San Francisco, California, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For construction and repairs of custom-house at Charleston, SouthCharleston; Carolina, and of the wharves adjacent thereto, and for employment of such labor as may be necessary to protect from injury and deterioration the marble and other building materials of said custom-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairing damage done by storm in September, eighteen hundredPortland; and sixty-nine, to the marine hospital at Portland, Maine, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the work on the marine hospital building at Chicago,Chicago; Illinois, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of theproviso;Vol. xvii. p. 11. money shall be expended until a contract or contracts shall be entered into by the proper authorities with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders for the completion of the entire building at a sum, including all moneys already expended in its construction, not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars; and the expenditure of any sum of money in violation of this proviso shall be deemed unlawful.
For continuing the construction of the appraisers’ stores at Philadelphia,Philadelphia; forty thousand dollars. For stone-work of the west centre stairs of the treasury building,Washington; Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For putting files rooms under the porticos in the treasury building, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For balconies to widen the passages about the custom-house buildingBangor. in Bangor, Maine, five thousand dollars. 86 Furniture for public buildings at Bangor;For furniture for the custom-house and the offices therein, at Bangor, Maine, twelve thousand dollars.
Ogdensburgh;For furniture for the custom-house and the offices therein, at Ogdensburgh, New York, fifteen thousand dollars. Des Moines;For furniture for the court-house and the offices therein, at Des Moines, Iowa, twelve thousand dollars. Springfield;For furniture for the court-house and the offices therein, at Springfield, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars. Wiscasset.For furniture for the custom-house at Wiscassett, Maine, three thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs.For casual and necessary repairs of the various public buildings in the United States, under the control of the Treasury Department, forty thousand dollars.
Fuel and lights.For fuel and lights and miscellaneous items for the various public buildings, under the control of the Treasury Department, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs.For repairs of the custom-house at New Orleans, twenty-five thousand dollars. Capitol grounds.For continuing the work on the capitol grounds, and repairing the capitol building, twenty thousand dollars. *House of Representatives*.— House of Representatives. Congressional Globe and Appendix.To pay for copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix furnished to members and delegates of the third session of the Fortieth Congress, four thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-one cents.
Daily Globe.To pay for reporting and printing in the Daily Globe debates of the House of Representatives of the same session, three thousand and seventeen dollars and five cents. Additional compensation to reporters.For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate for the Congressional Globe for reporting the proceedings of the Senate for the second session of the Forty-first 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 Forty-first Congress, eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars.
Expenses of committee on post-office, &c.;To defray the expenses of the committee on the post-office and post-roads, incurred in their recent investigations in New York and Boston on the order of the House of Representatives, two thousand dollars, to be paid into the contingent fund of the House. on military affairs.To defray the expenses of the committee on military affairs, incurred in the recent investigations on the order of the House of Representatives, to be paid into the contingent fund of the House, such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding four thousand dollars.
Contingent and miscellaneous.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the House of Representatives, to defray outstanding indebtedness, incurred by investigating committees, and in the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the House, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. *Public Printing*.— Public printing and binding. For the public printing, ninety-five thousand dollars. For the public binding, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Lithographing and engraving.For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, fifteen thousand dollars. territorial governments.
Territorial governments. *Utah*.— Utah. For additional salary of chief justice and two associates, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars. For compensation and milgage of the members of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah, and for officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars. 87 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1870. *Washington Territory*.— Washington Territory. For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington, and for officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, eight thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars.
For paper, printing, binding, and folding the bills, laws, and journals of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington, for the session begun and held on the first Monday in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, six thousand dollars. To pay claim of T. F. McElroy, for balance due him for public printingT. F. McElroy. during fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand eight hundred and forty-four dollars and thirty-four cents. *Dakota Territory*.— Dakota Territory.
To pay for printing and binding the laws and journals of the last session of the legislative assembly of Dakota Territory, and for incidental expenses of the office of the secretary of said Territory, five thousand dollars. Public Lands.— Public lands. For salary of surveyor-general of Louisiana, twoSurveyor-general of Lousiana; thousand and seventy-two dollars, and for clerks in his office, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of surveyor-general of Montana, five hundred and nineteenMontana ; dollars and twenty-three cents ; for rent of his office, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, nine hundred dollars; and for clerks in his office, five hundred dollars.
For salary of surveyor-general of Florida, one hundred and forty-eightFlorida; dollars and thirty-five cents. For salaries of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota,Minnesota; thirteen hundred dollars. For salaries of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Dakota,Dakota; two thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars. For salaries of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of CaliforniaCalifornia; and Arizona, four thousand dollars. For salaries of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Kansas,Kansas; one thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For salaries of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Nevada,Nevada. and contingent expenses, three hundred dollars. interior department. Interior Department. *Pension Office*.— Pension office. For navy pensions to widows and others, eighty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the pension office, ten thousand dollars. For pay of laborers and messengers, five thousand dollars. For rent of building on G Street, corner of Eighth Street, from the sixteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, until the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, at an annual rental of not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum as may be necessary is hereby appropriated. *Indian Department*.— Indian department.
For pay of interpreters, nine thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. *Patent Office*.— Patent office. For difference of pay to fifty-three female copyists in the patent office, for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred andFemale copyists. seventy, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand six hundred dollars: *Provided*, That said sum does not increase their compensation beyond nineProviso. hundred dollars each for said year. *House of Correction*.— House of correction.
For the purposes mentioned in the fourteenth section of the act of July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled1866, ch. 238, § 14.Vol. xiv. p. 234. “An act to establish in the District of Columbia a house of correction for boys,” and to be paid in the same manner as the appropriation therein made is directed to be levied and paid, the payment of the several88 portions to be paid by the cities of Washington and Georgetown, and the county of Washington, respectively, to be enforced in the same manner as therein provided, twelve thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay such sum as on examination Survey for bridge.Vol. xiv. p. 674.he shall find justly due, and incurred in a survey of the grounds and river near the aqueduct bridge in the District of Columbia, under a joint resolution of Congress approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, but not exceeding the sum of three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. *Jail in the District of Columbia*.— Warden of jail in District of Columbia.
To pay salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, for portion of the current year, seven hundred dollars. James B. Hubbell.To pay James B. Hubbell for the construction of Fort W. T. Sherman, and other buildings attached thereto, for the Blackfeet, Blood, and Regan tribes of the Blackfeet nation of Indians, in Montana Territory, as per contract with W. J. Cullen, United States special agent, dated October seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, balance due on settlement, eleven thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-one cents.
Survey of Navajoe Indian reservation.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay balance due for surveying Navajoe Indian reservation under contract, preparatory to making allotments for their new homes for agricultural purposes, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars. Sisseton and Warpeton Santee Sioux Indians.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide necessary food for the Sisseton and Warpeton Santee Sioux Indians, on Lac Traverse and Devil’s Lake reservations, in Dakota Territory, during the spring and summer, and to furnish them with implements and seeds for cultivating their fields, ten thousand dollars. *Miscellaneous*.— Ninth census.
For defraying the preliminary expenses of taking the ninth census of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. Census of Wyoming Territory.For expenses incurred during the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in taking the first census of Wyoming Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars. B. B. French.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to close the accounts of B. B. French, late commissioner of public buildings, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand and seventy-six dollars and eight cents, or so much thereof as may be found necessary for that purpose; but no greater sum shall be paid from the treasury out of this appropriation than eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty-three cents, the balance due to said French on the aggregate of the several accounts.
H. Hamlin.For the amount due H. Hamlin, late collector of the port of Boston and Charlestown, and superintendent of lights at Boston, two thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and sixty cents, the same to be carried to his credit on the books of the Treasury Department on account of surplus official emoluments, and on account of expenses of collecting the revenue from customs. Members &c. of legislature of Territory of Idaho.To pay Joseph Miller, M. Kelley, L. Miller, M.
C. Brown, John Cummins, J. B. Pierce, Charles D. Kenyon, M. Storms, A. E. Galloway, James Carr, B. Crossed, M. G. Tooney, H. B. Lane, T. R. Howlett, and A. B. Farnesworth, the amounts due them, respectively, as officers, members, clerks, and eraploye[e]s for per diem, mileage, and services in the legislature of the Territory of Idaho, to be paid only upon vouchers to be approved by the proper accounting officers of the treasury, in all seven thousand and twenty-three dollars and sixty-five cents; and to Crawford, Slocum and Company, George M.
Thompson, Emil Lombard, A. L. Downey, and Archibald McBuraty, the amounts due them, respectively, for rent and stationery for the same service, in all one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents; to89FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1870. Allen and Maxwell for wood and other supplies for the same service,Expenses of legislature of Territory of Idaho. one thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars; and to Starr and Company, Wilts Young, W.
H. Andrew, Caleb North. T. R. Howlett, A. Copper, A. II. Rucker, D. W. C. Dormell, and J. K. Vincent, the amounts due them, respectively, for sundry supplies for the same service, in all four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-six cents: *Provided*,Proviso. That no part of the above amounts hereby appropriated to defray the outstanding indebtedness of the Territory of Idaho thus specified shall be paid, unless upon vouchers verified upon oath to the satisfaction of the proper accounting officers of the treasury. *Senate Deficiency*.— Senate deficiency.
For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, twenty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs, three thousand dollars. For Congressional Globe and Appendix, seven thousand six hundredCongressional Globe and Appendix. and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-three cents. For defraying the expenses of the joint select committee on retrenchment,Committee on retrenchment.Provisio. five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury on the order of the secretary of the Senate, and disbursed under and subject in all respects to the provisions of the joint resolution of January twenty-second, eighteen hundredVol. xiv. p. 564. and sixty-seven. *War Department*.— War Department.
For rent, watchmen, and laborers for the building on the corner of Fifteenth and F streets, occupied by the paymaster-general, six thousand dollars. *Reconstruction Acts*.— Reconstruction acts.1867 ch. 153.Vol. xiv. p. 428. To defray expenses incurred in carrying into effect the “Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” for various supplies and service, viz.: In the first military district, seventy-five thousand dollars; in the fourth military district, two hundred thousand dollars; in the fifth military district, one hundred andProviso. ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no portion of said sums shall be paid except upon vouchers furnished and verified upon oath by the partyPub.
Res. No. 60.*Post*, p. 377. furnishing said supplies or performing such service, to the satisfaction of the proper accounting officers of the treasury : *And provided also*, That inProviso. the fifth military district there shall not be paid more than five dollars per day to any registrar or sheriff, and four dollars per day to any clerk or1870. ch. 242.*Post*, p. 228. deputy sheriff, for the time actually employed. To enable the surgeon-general of the army to pay the balance dueTransient paupers in the District of Columbia. under contract executed by him with the Providence Hospital, in the District of Columbia, for the care, support, and medical treatment of sixty transient paupers, six thousand dollars.
For secret service fund, being required to settle the accounts of disbursingSecret service fund. officers, and to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already made and not involving any actual disbursements, but merely requiring a transfer on the books of the treasury, seventy-five thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, fifty thousand dollars.Army. For expenses of the recruiting service of the regular army, fifty thousand dollars.
For four watchmen and two laborers for the building on the corner ofBuilding corner F. and Seventeenth streets. F and Seventeenth streets, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, compensation of firemen, and miscellaneous items for the building, five thousand dollars. *Post-Office Department*.— Post-Office Department. To supply the deficiency in the appropriation for blank books, stationery, fuel and lights for the general post-office building, including the sixth auditor’s office; repairs of the building, furniture, papering, painting, fitting up permanent cases for filing papers; for pay of engineer, fireman, and laborers; for library purposes, telegrams, and for miscellaneous items, twenty-seven thousand dollars. 90 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 56, 57. 1870. *Northern Lakes and Seaboard*.— Northern lakes and seaboard,*Post*, p. 369. For expenses of the observation and report of storms, by telegraph and signal, for the benefit of the commerce of the northern lakes and seaboard, fifteen thousand dollars. *Coast Survey*.— Coast survey. For supply of new vessels for the service of the coast survey, sixty thousand dollars. Judicial.— Circuit judges. For nine circuit judges of the United States, to reside in circuit, from the date of their respective commissions to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, both inclusive, twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars.
Public Buildings and Grounds.— Public buildings and grounds. For repairing and refurnishing the President’s house, twenty-five thousand dollars. Wyoming Territory.For salary of surveyor-general of the Territory of Wyoming, eleven hundred and ninety-two dollars. For the clerks in his office, fifteen hundred and eighty-nine dollars. President’s house, &c.For lighting the President’s house, the capitol, and public grounds, eight thousand dollars. For repairs of greenhouse at President’s house, and purchase of plants, one thousand dollars.
For pay of lamp-lighters, plumbing, gas-fitting, and the like, one thousand dollars. Watchmen.To pay five watchmen employed in reservation number two, one hundred and twenty dollars each, in order to make their entire pay for the current year seven hundred and twenty dollars each, six hundred dollars. John S. Willard & Co.To pay John S. Willard and Company the amount due them for furniture for treasury building, four thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. Navy Department.— Navy Department.
Marine corps.To supply deficiencies in appropriations for fuel for the marine corps, ten thousand dollars. To supply deficiency in contingent appropriation, twenty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars. Naval Academy.— Naval Academy. For finishing additional quarters for midshipmen, now in course of construction, as per contract entered into July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, thirty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. Expenses of investigating committees of the House;*And be it further enacted*, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-three cents, for expenses of the following committees of the House of Representatives of the Forty-first Congress while engaged on investigations, elections;ways and means;viz.: committee of elections, twenty-six thousand (bur hundred and sixteen dollars and five cents; committee of ways and means, five thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-two cents; committee on foreign affairs ;judiciary;foreign affairs, six thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and thirty cents; committee on the judiciary, three thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars and eight cents; committee on the decline of American commerce, decline of American commerce ;ninth census.two thousand dollars; committee on the ninth census, three thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents; being the amounts reported by the committee on accounts to the House of Representatives, on the first of March, eighteen hundred and seventy, and ordered to be audited and approved, the same to be added to the miscellaneous item of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.
Approved, April 20, 1870.