Chapter XV. *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. XV.— An Act *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other Purposes*. April 10, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiency appropriation for 1869. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely : *Treasury Department*.— Treasury Department.
For the pay of superintendent, watchmen, laborers, and all other employees in the treasury building, and the fiveTreasury buildings. other buildings occupied for the use of the Treasury Department under the charge of said superintendent, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars. For lighting the above six buildings, three thousand two hundred and five dollars. For incidental expenses of the said buildings, three thousand dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture, ten thousand dollars.Furniture.
For salary of temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, at suchTemporary clerks. rates as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem just and reasonable, thirty-five thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of collectors, assessors, assistant assessors,Collectors, &c. of internal revenue. supervisors, and detectives, together with the expenses of carrying into effect the various provisions of the several acts providing internal revenue, excepting items otherwise provided for, two millions of dollars.
For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty ofDetection and conviction of persons violating Internal revenue laws. violating the internal revenue laws or conniving at the same, in cases where such expenses are not otherwise provided for by law, fifty thousand dollars. *Post-Office Department*.— Post-Office Department. To supply the deficiency (caused by the defalcation of E. B. Olmstead, disbursing clerk) in the appropriations forDefalcation of E. B. Olmstead. blank-books and 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, foreman, and laborers ; for library purposes, telegrams, and for miscellaneous items, forty-seven thousand dollars.
For temporary clerks for quarter ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundredTemporary clerks. and sixty-nine, thirteen thousand and eighty dollars. For temporary clerks’ salaries for the month of March, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to turn over to the Post-Office Department, which shall receive and use theEnvelopes for dead-letter office. same, the envelopes printed in the Treasury Department for the dead-letter office. *House of Representatives*.— House of Representatives.
For compensation of the document file clerk, authorized by resolution of February twenty-eight, eighteen hundredDocument file clerk. and sixty-eight, the sum of six hundred dollars. That the resolution of the House of Representatives of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, giving Daniel Buck compensation for preparing list of appropriations, and so forth, is hereby extended to hisPreparing list of appropriations. successor in office; and that there be, and is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, such a sum as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the said resolution. 10 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 15. 1869. Reading clerks.1869, ch. 121. Vol. xv. p. 285.Pay of clerk in charge of engrossing, &c.For additional compensation to the reading clerks, as provided by act of March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-two cents ; and also a sum sufficient to fix the pay of the clerk in charge of the engrossment and enrolment of the House bills and joint resolutions at the same rate as that of the reading clerks, covering the same period of their increased pay.
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 first session of the Forty-first Congress, four hundred dollars each, two 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 first session of the Forty-first Congress, four hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Pages and mail-boys.For pages and temporary mail-boys, six thousand four hundred dollars. Assistant librarian of House.To supply deficiency for the compensation of the assistant librarian of the House from March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty cents. For cartage, five thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of joint committee on retrenchment;For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the joint committee on retrenchment, the sum of five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said appropriation shall be drawn from the treasury on the order of the Secretary of the Senate, and disbursed under, and subject in all respects how drawn and disbursed.Vol. xiv. p. 564.to, the provisions of the joint resolution of January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For packing-boxes for the Senate, five hundred and forty-four dollars. *War Department*.— War Department. For the purpose of paying the premiums awarded Plans for new building.to certain architects of the country, for plans submitted by them for a new War Department building, six thousand dollars. *Navy Department*.— Navy Department. For the salary of the solicitor and naval judge Salary of solicitor and naval judge advocate.advocate general from July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, three thousand five hundred dollars. *Miscellaneous*.— Miscellaneous.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay G. G. G. Cushman.1869, ch. 3.Vol. xv. p. 435.G. Cushman, in accordance with the act of December fifteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the balance found due him by the fifth auditor of the treasury, nine hundred and forty-eight dollars. Statutes at Large, volume xv.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase of Little, Brown, and Company two thousand copies of the fifteenth volume of the United States Statutes at Large for distribution, agreeably to the acts of Congress directing the distribution of the other volumes, seven thousand dollars.
Building for pension office.For rent of building occupied for government uses by clerks of the pension office, nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents. Surveyor-general’s office in Minnesota.For compensation of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota, three thousand eight hundred dollars. Sec. 2. Additional appropriation for 1870.*And be it further enacted*, That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as follows, viz: *Treasury Department*.— Treasury Department.
For salary of temporary clerks in the Treasury Temporary clerks.Department, at the same rates prescribed by law for other clerks in said department for like duties, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 1st comptroller’s office.Office of the first comptroller: 11 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 15. 1869. For additional salary hereby allowed to the first comptroller of theSalary of 1st comptroller established. treasury fifteen hundred dollars, and the said salary is hereby established at five thousand dollars per annum from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropriated up to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy.
For six clerks of class four, eight clerks of class three, seven clerks of class two, four clerks of class one, six copyists, one assistant messenger, and one laborer, forty-five thousand and forty dollars. Office of the second comptroller :Office of 2d comptroller; For four clerks of class four, four clerks of class three, eight clerks of class two, and nine clerks of class one, thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars. Office of the first auditor:1st auditor; For one clerk of class four, and three clerks of class two, six thousand dollars.
Office of the second auditor:2d auditor. For one hundred clerks of class one, one hundred and twenty thousandCertain clerks in the office of the paymaster-general not to be continued after, &c.1869, ch. 121.Vol. xv. p. 294. dollars: *Provided*, That all clerks employed in the office of the paymaster general, in performing any of the duties transferred by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, from his office to that of the second auditor of the treasury, shall not be continued after May first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
For the payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suitsDefence of suits for seizures of captured, &c. property. against the Secretary of the Treasury or his agents for the seizure of captured and abandoned property in the late insurrectionary districts, and for the defence of the United States against suits for and in respect to such property in the court of claims, twenty-five thousand dollars. Construction branch of the Treasury Department: For construction of custom-house at Portland, Maine, seventy thousandCustom-house at Portland; dollars.
For completing the custom-house at Ogdensburgh, New York, thirty-sevenOgdensburg. thousand five hundred dollars. For removing the hydraulic weights and construction of northwestHydraulic weights, &c.Proviso. stairway in the treasury building, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any portion of the sums appropriated in the three preceding items which may be necessary, and also any portion of the amount appropriatedCourt-house at Springfield, Ill.1869, ch. 122.Vol. xv. p. 306. for the court-house at Springfield, Illinois, by “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, may be expended during the current fiscal year.
For heating apparatus and repairs of same for public buildings, twentyHeating apparatus, &c. thousand dollars. *Interior Department*.— Interior Department. For compensation of temporary clerks in the office of the Indian bureau, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars,Indian bureau. being for one clerk of class three, seven of class two, twelve of class one, and four copyists at nine hundred dollars per annum. For compensation of two additional examiners in the patent office, atPatent office. two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars.
For twenty-one clerks class two, in the patent office, at fourteen hundred dollars each, twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars. For fourteen clerks class one, in the patent office, at twelve hundred dollars each, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. *Post-Office Department*.— Post-Office Department. For temporary clerks in the Post-OfficeTemporary clerks. Department, thirty-two thousand dollars. *House of Representatives*.— House of Representatives. For compensation of the document fileDocument file clerk. clerk authorized by resolution of February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For increased compensation to the two reading clerks authorized byReading clerks.12FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 15. 1869. 1869, ch. 121.Vol. xv. p. 285.act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. *Miscellaneous*.— Judges in Idaho;1867, ch. 150, §3.Vol. xiv. p. 426.For salary of chief justice and two associates in the Territory of Idaho, increased by act of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars. in Montana.For salary of chief justice and two associates in the Territory of Montana, increased by act of March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars.
Legislative assembly of Washington Territory.Pub. Res., No. 23.*Post*, p. 370.For the per diem and mileage of the members of the territorial assembly of the Territory of Washington at its second biennial session which meets on the first Monday in December, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and for the incidental expenses of the same, twelve thousand dollars. Sec. 3. *And be it farther enacted*, That so much of the act approved Survey of public lands, &c. in Minnesota.1869. ch. 122.Vol. xv. p. 307.1869, ch. 121.Vol. xv. p. 292.March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, “making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes,” as appropriates twenty thousand dollars for surveying the public lands in Minnesota, is so modified as to appropriate only seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; and so much of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, “making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy,” as appropriates two thousand five hundred dollars for clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Minnesota, is so modified as to appropriate in all five thousand dollars.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the salary allowed by law to Salary of consul at Bankok.1869, ch. 125, §§ 2, 7.Vol. XV. pp. 321, 322.the consul at Bangkok shall be paid with the limitations contained in the second section of the “Act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, but deducting such sums as may have been heretofore paid on account of salary.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That the appropriation of fifteen Appropriation for grading, &c. Capitol grounds, to be expended by whom.1869, ch. 122.Vol. xv. p. 309.thousand dollars “for continuing the work of grading and filling the Capitol grounds,” appropriated in “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, shall be expended under the direction of the architect of the Capitol extension.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, That the act approved March third, Amendment of act 1869, ch. 123.Vol. xv. p. 311.eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, entitled “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 sixty-nine, and for other purposes,” be so amended as to insert in the second clause of said act after the words “at a salary of one hundred and eighty dollars each per year,” and before the first proviso in said clause, the following words:
“and such amount in addition to the amount appropriated in an act entitled ‘An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, 1869, ch. 121.Vol. xv. p. 291.and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy,’ approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, for fuel, lights, labor, and miscellaneous items, as may be necessary to pay the said employees, is hereby appropriated.” Sec. 7. Superintendent of Department of the Interior established;his duties and pay.[Repealed, 1870, ch. 251. *Post*, p. 243.]*And be it further enacted*, That there shall be a superintendent of the Department of the Interior, who shall be ex officio captain of the watch, and who shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of the Interior, and who shall receive the same compensation as is provided by existing laws for the superintendent of the treasury building, and a sum sufficient to pay such salary for the remainder of this and for the next fiscal year is hereby appropriated. 13 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 15, 16. 1869. Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted*, That the two clerks of class one inClerks In the office of education to be appointed by Secretary of Interior.1869, ch. 121. Vol. xv. p. 291.No other clerks after, &c. the office of education authorized by an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and all laws and parts of laws authorizing the employment of other clerks in the department or office of education shall, after the commencement of the next fiscal year, be repealed.
Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of War be, andTransfers of appropriations to carry into effect the reconstruction laws. he is hereby, authorized to make the necessary transfers of appropriations from military districts having an excess of appropriations to carry into effect the reconstruction laws to districts which are or may be deficient in the amount necessary to carry into effect said laws. Sec. 10. *And be it further enacted*, That the Washington Gas-lightWashington Gas-light Company to increase its rate of discount for prompt payment.
Company be, and they are hereby, required to increase their rate of discount for prompt payment to eighteen and three fourths per cent from and after the first day of November next. Approved, April 10, 1869.