Chapter CCXXVIII. *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CCXXVIII.— An Act *making Appropriations to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Government for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other Purposes*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiency appropriation for the year ending June 30, 1873. That the following sums be, and they 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 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for former years, and for other purposes, namely: senate.
Senate. For clerks to committees, pages, and so forth, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; for compensation and mileage, seven thousand dollars; for folding documents and materials, four thousand five hundred dollars, and for furniture and repairs, six thousand dollars; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. department of state. State Department. Publishing laws.For publishing the laws of the second session, forty-second Congress, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty-four thou-sand and fifty-six dollars. 531 For additional compensation to the consuls of the United States atConsuls at Havre and La Rochelle;to be paid from what appropriation.
Havre and La Rochelle, for extraordinary services during the late war in Europe, to be paid from the unexpended balance remaining to the credit of the appropriation for diplomatic and consular war expenses in London, Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, such sums as the Secretary of State may allow, with the approval of the President, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars. For stationery, book-cases, seals, arms of the United States presses,Stationery, &c. flags, rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous expenses, for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, sixty-five thousand dollars.
To pay the disbursing clerk of the Department of State additionalDisbursing clerk. compensation for disbursing moneys appropriated for the building now being erected for the use of the War, State, and Navy Departments, five hundred dollars per annum from the commencement of such duties until the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated. For expenses of the mixed commission on American and BritishMixed commission on American and British claims. claims, including salaries of the commissioner and agent, and expenses of the defense of the United States against claims presented before said commission, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, twenty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. treasury department.
Treasury Department. For furniture, carpets, desks, tables, chairs, shelving for file-rooms,Furniture, &c. boxes, repairs of furniture, cases, oil-cloths, matting, rugs, chair-covers, and cushions, repairs and laying of carpets, and other miscellaneous expenses, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ten thousand dollars. *Mint, Branches, and Assay-offices*.— Mint, branches, and assay-offices. Branch mint at Carson city, Nevada:Branch mint at Carson city; For salary of coiner for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters for fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, sixteen thousand dollars. For contingent expenses for fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-four thousand dollars. Branch mint, Charlotte, North Carolina: For repairs, fixtures, apparatus,Charlotte. and chemicals, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, five hundred and six dollars and forty-two cents.
Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For wages of workmen for theMint. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, six thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-four cents. For the amount required to make good to the treasurer of the mint a loss in the redemption of forty-four million seven hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and five pieces of base coin, amounting to seven hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eight cents, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, four thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents.
Assay-office at New York: For wages of workmen for the fiscal yearAssay-office, New York. ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four thousand five hundred dollars. 532 For salary of deputy treasurer for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one thousand five hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, thirteen thousand dollars. Assay office, Boise city.Assay-office at Boise city, Idaho:
For amount due on construction of the assay-office for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-seven cents. *Internal Revenue*.— Internal revenue. For compensation and actual necessary traveling Gaugers and storekeepers.expenses of internal-revenue gaugers, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nine hundred thousand dollars. For compensation of internal-revenue storekeepers, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, six hundred thousand dollars. *Coast Survey*.— Coast survey.
For survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, for Atlantic and Gulf coasts.the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three, sixty-one dollars and twenty-six cents. Western coast.For the survey of western coast, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one thousand seven hundred and two dollars and eighty-three cents. Extending triangulation, &c.For extending the triangulation of the coast survey to form a geodetic connection between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, sixty-four dollars and sixty-six cents.
Pay, &c., of engineers.For pay and rations of engineers employed in the coast survey, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, five thousand dollars. *Light-house Establishment*.— Light-house establishment. To pay seventy-seven keepers of lighthouses, Keepers.for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, forty-six thousand two hundred dollars. Buoys.To replace buoys already lost, and to meet emergencies that may arise, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. territorial governments.
Territorial governments. *Territory of Arizona*.— Arizona; For balance due Isham Reavis, late associate judge, on account of his salary from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as per certificate of first comptroller, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. For legislative expenses for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, three thousand and fifty-four dollars. *Territory of Colorado*.— Colorado;
For amount due to Edward McCook, governor, on account of his salary from April first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as per certificate of the first comptroller, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-two cents. For amount required to pay printing expenses for the ninth session of the legislature, convened January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars and sixty-four cents. *Territory of Montana*.— Montana.
For amount due First National Bank of Washington, District of Columbia, assignee of John P. Bruce, for printing, third session legislative assembly, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. 533 *Territory of New Mexico*.— For per diem and mileage of membersNew Mexico; and officers of the legislative assembly convened December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents.
For rent of office, fuel, lights for secretary’s office, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one thousand five hundred dollars. *Territory of Utah*.— Utah; For current and contingent expenses of the Territory, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the just expenses and emoluments of the marshal of the United States for the Territory of Utah incurred and earned in the service of process and performing other official duties pursuant to the decision of the supreme court of said Territory that it was the duty of said marshal to serve all process of said supreme and the district courts of said Territory, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary: *Provided*, That the accounts of said marshal shall be settled by the sameProviso. officers and upon the same principles required by law in respect to his accounts as marshal of said courts when exercising jurisdiction as circuit and district courts of the United States. *Territory of Washington*.— Washington.
For amount due Elisha P. Ferry, governor, for salary from June fifth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- two, as per adjustment of account by first comptroller, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty eight cents. For contingent expenses of secretary’s office, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one thousand five hundred dollars. *Treasury—Miscellaneous*.— Treasury, miscellaneous.
To pay the commissions allowed by law and now due to collectors of customs acting as superintendents of lights,Commissions to collectors. sixty thousand dollars. For a new boiler and to complete the steam-heating apparatus of theSteam-heating. Treasury Department building, nine thousand dollars. For completion of the building for the custom-house at Saint Paul,Custom-house, Saint Paul. Minnesota, thirty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of disbursingAccounts of disbursing officers of Freedmen’s Bureau. officers and agents for expenditures of the Freedmen’s Bureau already made under orders of superior officers, which will not involve any actual expenditure, a transfer on the books of the treasury of seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby authorized.
For compensation to designated depositaries under the fourth section ofDesignated depositaries.1846, ch. 90.Vol. ix. p. 59. the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue, ten thousand dollars, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three. war department. War Department. *Office of the Quartermaster-General*.— Office of quartermaster-general.
Contingent: For stationery, office furniture, repairs, and so forth, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand dollars. *Military Establishment*.— Military establishment. Quartermaster’s department: Regular supplies: For stoves for heating and cooking, fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, forage for theQuartermaster’s department. horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field, and for horses of die several regiments of cavalry and batteries of artillery and such companies of bi fan try and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number534 of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals, straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, including blank books for the quartermaster’s department, certificates of discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, each item being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For stoves for heating and cooking, fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three; forage for the horses, mules and oxen of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry and batteries of artillery, such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals, straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, including blank books for the quartermaster’s department, certificates of discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and for the printing of division and department orders and reports, each item being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars. incidental expenses.For incidental expenses, consisting of postage and telegrams or despatches received and sent on public business, extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermaster’s department in the erection of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals; in the construction of roads and other constant labor, for periods not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department head-quarters, and hospital-stewards on clerical duty; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier-posts and 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, when ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office-furniture; hire of labor in the quartermaster’s department including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks for officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon masters; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering 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 and scouts as may he mounted, viz: the purchase of travelling-forges, blacksmiths and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes and nails, iron and steel for shoeing; hire of veterinary surgeons; medicines for horses and mules; picket-ropcs; and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of the army not expressly assigned to any other department, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred thousand dollars.
For incidental expenses, as above set forth, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of the army.Army transportation. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops, when moving either by land or water; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, from the depots at Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and army depots, and from these depots to the troops in the field; of horse-equipments and of subsistence stores from the. places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms, from the foundaries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and535 harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels, and of boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic, and the Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance; and for cleaning roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may be required for the actual operations of troops in the field, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six hundred thousand dollars.
For transportation of the army, including the items as above set forth, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, live hundred thousand dollars. Barracks and quarters: For rent or hire of quarters for troops, and forBarracks and quarters. officers on military duty; of store-houses for safe-keeping of military stores; of offices; of grounds for camps and cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for construction and repair of temporary huts, of stables and other military buildings at established posts, and for repairs of buildings occupied by the army, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Clothing and equipage: For purchase and manufacture of clothing,Clothing and equipage. camp and garrison equipage, and for preserving and repacking stock of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and materials on hand at the Schuylkill arsenal and other depots, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. *Pay Department*.— Pay department. General expenses of paymaster-general’s office: For postage on letters and packages, and telegrams received and sent by officers of the army on public business; the additional compensation ofPaymaster-general’s office.Postage. judge-advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on court-martial service, and the traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six thousand dollars.
For postage on letters and packages received and sent by officers of the army on public service; cost of telegrams; compensation of citizen witnesses attending upon courts-martial, military commissions, courts of inquiry, and traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seventy-five thousand dollars. Mileage, paymaster-general’s office: For allowances made to officers ofMileage. the army for transportation of themselves and their baggage when traveling on duty without troops, escort, or supplies, for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seventy-five thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay certain indebtedness incurred byPublic buildings. the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds in the city of Washington during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, in furnishing the executive mansion, one thousand four hundredOfficer in charge of, to have what rank, pay, &c. and ninety-five dollars and thirty-six cents; and the officer in charge of the public buildings and grounds shall have the rank, pay, and emolument of a colonel.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay W. H. Shirley, for additionalW.H. Shirley. clerical services, heretofore employed by him in the investigation and settlement of accounts for abandoned and captured property, one thousand dollars. *Signal Service*.— Signal service Observation and report of storms: For expenses of the manufacture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessaryObservation and report of storms. instruments for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals, announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for instrument shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use, in cities or posts receiving reports; for maps, bulletins, and so forth, to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and536 for distribution to agricultural, scientific, and other associations; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighty-eight thousand dollars. *Medical and Hospital Department*.— Medical and hospital department.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already made in pursuance of law, which will not involve any actual expenditure, a transfer on the books of the treasury of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby authorized. To pay bills for medical attendance and medicines furnished by citizens to officers and men on detached service, such bills not having been presented until after the close of the fiscal year, eight thousand dollars.
State penitentiaries.For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, five thousand dollars. *Marine Corps*.— Marine corps. For a deficiency in the appropriation for clothing for the marine corps, ten thousand dollars. For a deficiency in the appropriation for contingencies in the marine corps, ten thousand dollars. interior department. Interior Department.
Clerks, &c.For clerks, copyists, messengers, and laborers in the office of the secretary, eight thousand dollars. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For expenses of packing and distributing official documents, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand dollars. Maps for statistical atlas of United States.For the expense of preparing, engraving, and printing fifty maps for the statistical atlas of the United States, based on the results of the ninth census, to be compiled by Francis A.
Walker, and to be published in an edition of three thousand copies, thirty thousand dollars. Francis A. Walker.For compensation of Francis A. Walker, late commissioner of Indian affairs, for extra services and labor performed by him while such commissioner, in finishing the report of the census, fifteen hundred dollars. *Public Lands*.— Public lands. Surveyor-general.For office of surveyor-general of Idaho, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ten dollars and eighty-seven cents.
Idaho;Oregon;For office of surveyor-general of Oregon: For clerks in his office, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, one hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-one cents. Washington Territory;Surveyor-general of Washington Territory: For clerks in his office, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, sixty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents. California.For surveyor-general of California: For rent of office, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four hundred and eighty dollars and four cents.
Recorder of land-titles in Missouri.For recorder of land-titles in Missouri, for fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one thousand dollars. Surveying public lands in Nevada;For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents.
Montana;For surveying the public lands in Montana, at rates not exceeding fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, one thousand and eight dollars and fifty-eight cents. Oregon.For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding537 fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents. For surveying the public lands in Wyoming, at rates not exceedingSurveying public lands in Wyoming; fifteen dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, one hundred and forty-six dollars and forty-eight cents.
For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding tenNebraska: dollars per mile for standard, seven dollars for township, and six dollars for section lines, one hundred and thirty dollars and nine cents. For surveying the public lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding tenKansas. dollars per mile for standard, seven dollars for township and six dollars for section lines, six hundred and ninety-two dollars and five cents. For surveying the eastern boundary of Nevada, two hundred dollars.Eastern boundary of Nevada.
For surveying the public lands in Idaho, at rates not exceeding fifteenSurvey of public lands in Idaho. dollars per mile for standard, twelve dollars for township, and ten dollars for section lines, one thousand and thirteen dollars and eight cents. The foregoing for surveys of public lands are for deficiencies in the appropriationsAppropriations are for what deficiencies. for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and eighteen hundred and seventy-three For the building for the penitentiary in Wyoming Territory, beingPenitentiary in Wyoming Territory. amount of deficiency in the proceeds of internal revenue set apart for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, thirteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-seven cents. extension of capitol grounds.
Extension of capitol grounds. *Squares six hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred eighty-eight*.— To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase from the ownersPurchase of certain land in Washington.1872, ch. 140, §§ 6–11.*Ante*, pp. 83, 84. thereof all the remaining real estate and improvements thereon in square numbered six hundred and eighty-eight, in the city of Washington, necessary to be takeu to complete the purchase of said square, and of square numbered six hundred and eighty-seven, in said city, authorized by sections six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other purposes,” approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the sum of two hundred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifteen cents is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That such real estate and improvementsPrices. shall be purchased at the prices fixed in the report of the commissioners appointed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia to appraise the value of such property, made to said court on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and confirmed by said court on the sixteenth day of October, in said year: *Provided further*, that the SecretaryCertain materials in the buildings may be sold at public auction. of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell at public auction such materials in the buildings in said squares, numbered six hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred and eighty-eight, as are not necessary for the public works in this District; and from the proceeds of such sales shallProceeds of sales, how to be applied. be paid, by the Secretary of the Interior, all actual and necessary charges for advertising, auctioneer’s fees, extra clerical labor, services of commissioners for appraising the property aforesaid, and such other expenses as may have been incident to, and occasioned by, the appraisement and purchase of the real estate and improvements in the squares hereinbefore named, and the sales of the materials in the buildings thereon; the remainder of such proceeds, after payment of all such charges and expenses, to be applied to the improvement and extension of the capitol grounds. 538 Elevator in Senate wing of capitol.For an elevator in the Senate wing of the capitol, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the architect of the capitol extension Expenses of examination of titles, &c.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to defray the expenses incurred in executing the provisions of the eighth section of the act approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,” being for the examination of titles, surveys, plats, and appraisement, forming the basis of the purchase by the United States of squares numbered six hundred and eighty-seven and six hundred and eighty-eight, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated. *Miscellaneous*.— Miscellaneous.
Zebulon B. Sturges.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay Zebulon B. Sturges, assistant secretary to sign patents of public lands for the President, for the months of June, July, August, and September, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, five hundred dollars. Alexander Lynch.To pay Alexander Lynch for services rendered by him as clerk of the select committee to inquire into matters connected with the Union Pacific Railroad Company, the Credit Mobilier, appointed pursuant to House resolution of January sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four hundred dollars.
John G. Merritt.To pay John G. Merritt for services as messenger of the Senate from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, as authorized by resolution of the Senate passed June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fourteen hundred and forty dollars. John W. Wright.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay John W. Wright for rent of building, under lease dated May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay John W.
Wright for buildings, under lease dated June second, eighteen hundred and seventy, two thousand six Thomas Lewis.hundred dollars; and to pay John W. Wright and Thomas Lewis for rent of buildings, under lease dated June second, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand five hundred dollars, making the total sum of seventeen thousand six hundred dollars. Temporary clerk in pension-office.To enable the commissioner of pensions to employ certain temporary- clerks in his office for the remainder of the current fiscal year, twelve thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars.
Wagon-mad to Red Lake branch of agency for Chippewas.For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the construction of a wagon-road, by which supplies may be transported from a point on the Northern Pacific railway, in the State of Minnesota, known as Red Lake Crossing, to the Red Lake branch of the agency for the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi, five thousand dollars. *Indian Bureau*.— Indian bureau. Portion of proceeds of sale of Osage Indian lands to be transferred to pay for lands bought by the Osages from the Cherokees, and placed to credit of Cherokees. 1870 ch. 296, § 12.
Vol xvi. p. 362. 1872, ch. 310. *Ante*, p. 228.That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the proceeds of sale of the Osage Indian lands in Kansas, made in accordance with the twelfth section of the act of Congress approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, the sum of one million six hundred and fifty thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for hinds purchased by the Osages from the Cherokees, and to place the same on the books of his Department to the credit of the Cherokee Indians, the same shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent., in accordance with the act of Congress approved June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled “An act to confirm to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory,” and the acts of Congress and treaties therein mentioned and referred to, whenever the amount to be so transferred shall be certified to the said Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of the Interior. *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as539 in any manner changing the provisions of section four of the act “making1873, ch. 138. § 4. *Ante*, p. 402. appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes.
” For this amount, to be paid to the Osage Indians, being interest at five perInterest to Osage Indians. centum per annum, in accordance with section twelve of the act approved July fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy, upon the net avails of Osage trust and diminished reserve lands sold by the United States prior to November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and seventy-one cents. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to make upSioux Indians1872, ch. 233.*Ante*, p. 183. deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, for the subsistence and support of “Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux in the State of Nebraska, and Poncas in the great Sioux reservation, and families of Santee Dakota Sioux, who have taken homesteads at or near Flandreau, in Dakota Territory,” three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the following amounts, or so much thereof as may lie necessary toIndian services in California, Utah, Nevada, Dakota, and Montana. meet deficiencies in the appropriations for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three: For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in California, ten thousand, dollars; in Utah, ten thousand dollars; in Nevada, ten thousand dollars; in Dakota, five thousand dollars; and in Montana, five thousand dollars; amounting, in all, to forty thousand dollars.
For fulfilling treaty with the Menomonee trite of Indians, being anMenomonees. amount erroneously carried to the surplus fund, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, seven thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be required, for the purchasePurchase of land from Mississippi bands of Chippewas from the Mississippi bands of Chippewa Indians one township of land in the White Earth reservation in Minnesota, for the use and benefit of the Pembina band of Chippewas, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to aid andPembina band of Chippewas. assist the Chippewas of the Pembina band in establishing themselves upon the White Earth reservation in Minnesota, ten thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet theApache Indians; deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to subsist and properly care for the Apache Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, who have been, or may be, collected on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona: *Provided*, Thatonly for those on reservations, and who refrain from hostilities this appropriation shall be expended only in behalf of those Indians who go and remain upon said reservations, and refrain from hostilities, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to transfer fromStockbridge, &c., Indians. the proceeds of sales of public lands, one hundred and seventy-four thousand five hundred and forty-height dollars and eighty-three cents to the credit of the appropriation, “Fulfilling treaty with Stockbridges—proceeds of land,” the aforesaid sum having been received from the sale of the Stockbridge and Munsee Indian lands, and having been erroneously covered into the treasury as receipts from sales of public lands.
To enable the Secretary of War, according to the act upon that subjectExpenses of Indian hostilities in Montana. passed at the present session of Congress, to pay for expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities in the Territory of Montana in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to the persons entitled thereto, the claims reported upon by General James A. Hardie, under the provisions of section ten of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry1870, ch. 292, § 10Vol. xvi. p. 310. civil expenses of the government, and fur other purposes, for the year ending June the thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy,” approved July540 fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy; and for that purpose there is hereby appropriated, from any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and thirteen thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Subsistence, &c., of Arickare, Gros Ventre, and Mandan Indians.For this amount, or so much thereof as may he necessary, for the subsistence, civilization, and care of the Ariekare, Gros Ventre, and Mandan Indians, at Fort Belthold agency, Dakota, to make up deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, seventy-six thousand dollars. *Miscellaneous*.— Miscellaneous. Introduction of shad.For introduction of shad into the rivers and lakes of the United States, to be extended under the United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, ten thousand dollars.
Folding documents.For a deficiency in the appropriation for folding documents in the House of Representatives, eight thousand dollars. Rives and Bailey.To pay Rives and Bailey for reporting and the publication of the debates and proceedings of die forty-second Congress, forty-two thousand dollars. Public printing.For the public printing, fifty thousand dollars. S. Wolf.To reimburse S. Wolf, recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, for certain books of record and indexes purchased by him for the use of his office in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-one and eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
W. H. Powell.To pay the last installment due W. H. Powell for picture illustrative of Perry’s victory, nine hundred and five dollars. International Prison Reform Congress.To pay for five hundred copies of the proceedings of the International Prison Reform Congress which assembled in London in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the use of the commissioner of the United States at said congress, one thousand five hundred dollars. Congressional cemetery.For repair and improvement of the congressional cemetery, to be ex-pended under the direction of and on vouchers to be approved by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds of the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars.
Board of health.To enable the board of health of the District of Columbia to perform the duties imposed upon them by law, thirty-nine thousand three hundred dollars. Columbia Hospital for Women.For completion of the building known as the Columbia Hospital for Women: For a steam-heating apparatus, for remodeling the upper stories in order to have more rooms, and to ventilate the building properly, fifteen thousand dollars. Purchase of city-hall building in Washington.For the purchase by the United States of the interest of the District of Columbia in the present city-hall building in Washington, now used solely for government purposes, such sum as may be determined by three Appraisers.impartial appraisers to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, not Purchase-money, bow to be applied.exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, the same to be applied by said District only for the erection of a suitable building for the District offices; and the governor and board of public works are authorized, if Land for new building.they deem it advisable for that purpose, to make arrangements to secure sufficient land fronting on Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues, between Proviso.Seventh and Ninth streets: *Provided*, That the government of the United States shall not be liable for any expenditures for said land, or for the purchase-money therefor, or for the buildings to be erected thereon; and no land, or the use thereof, is hereby granted for the purpose of erecting any building thereon, for such building.
Purchase and distribution of seeds.For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, being so much of the appropriation for the Department of Agriculture, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, erroneously carried to the surplus fund, two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and ninety-two cents. 541 department of justice. Department of Justice. For defraying expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and districtCourts, jurors, witnesses, prisoners, and prosecution of crime courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses, and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and prosecuting offenses committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred mid seventy-two, three hundred thousand dollars.
For salaries of Uniter! States district judges, for fiscal year endingJudges. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-seven cents. For associate justices of the Supreme Court, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four thousand dollars. For rent of the fifth story of the building occupied by the DepartmentRent. of Justice from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand dollars.
For fitting up rooms twenty-two, twenty-three, and twenty-four, andRooms. connecting hall, in above building, and furnishing the same, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives to payPay of certain members of Congress from Mississippi. the members of the forty-first Congress from the State of Mississippi for the time embraced in the period between the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred mid sixty-nine, and the thirtieth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.
To enable the clerk of the House to pay the representative from theRepresentative from the first district of Ohio. first district of Ohio, as provided in House resolution of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, his compensation from the eleventh day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to December second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the sum of one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents, to be added to the contingent fund of the House.
To enable the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives to payPay of certain members of Congress from Georgia. to each representative in the forty-first Congress from the State of Georgia such sum as shall make his pay equal to that received by P. M. B. Young as a representative in said Congress. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the bearer of the contestingBearer of contesting electoral vote of Louisiana. electoral vote of the State of Louisiana, the sum of six hundred and thirty-eight dollars is hereby appropriated out of the appropriation heretofore made to pay the regular messengers.
To reimburse the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives forSergeant-at-arms of the House. sundry payments made by him for contingent expenses of the House on vouchers approved by the committee on accounts of said House, three thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and forty-five cents. For the purchase of site, and to commence the construction of a brickBuilding at Evansville, Indiana, for custom-house, &c. building at Evansville, Indiana, to be used as a custom-house, court-house, post-office, and for other government offices, one hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase a part of a lot of*Ante*, p. 411.Land in Indianapolis, adjoining court-house. ground in Indianapolis, Indiana, east of and adjoining the ground on which the court-house and post-office is situated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated. For salary of deputy commissioner of pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of medical referee, two thousand five hundredPension-office.Salaries. dollars; for additional compensation of four surgeons, now receiving one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, to be one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars; making, in all, seven thousand four hundred dollars, the same to be immediately available. 542 Sec. 2.
Balance of appropriation for payments to States for amounts due for enrolling, &c, troops, &c., reappropriated.1861, ch. 21.Vol. xii. p. 276.1872, ch. 172.*Ante*, p. 129.That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of one million dollars for payment of any balance due, or to be found due, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to any State for costs, charges, and expenses, contemplated and provided for in and by the act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, being an act entitled “An act to indemnify certain States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transporting troops for the defense of the United States during the war of the late rebellion,” is hereby reappropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Sec. 3. Topographer, &c., of Post-office Department.1872, ch. 335.*Ante*, pp. 283, 284.That a sum sufficient to pay the amounts due respectively to the topographer, and to the assistant carpenter of the Post-office Department, and the superintendent of the post-office building, under the provisions of the “act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to the Post-office Department.” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred William M. Ireland.J. M. McGrew.and seventy-two, is hereby appropriated; and to pay William M.
Ireland and J. M. McGrew for preparing regulations and instructions for the use of the Post-office Department under the new postal code, the sum of one thousand dollars each is hereby appropriated. Registered package-envelopes.To supply deficiency in the appropriation for registered package-envelopes for the post-office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eleven thousand and fifty-three dollars and two cents. Salaries of postmasters.For balance on salaries of postmasters for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.
Post-office at Charleston, S. C.To enable the Postmaster-General to pay the expenses incurred in eighteen hundred and sixty-six in fitting up the post-office at Charleston, South Carolina, one thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and five cents. Sec. 4. That the following amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the following-named officers and departments for purchase of postage-stamps for use during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four:
Postage-stamps for certain offices and departments for the year ending June 30, 1874.For executive office, six hundred dollars; for Department of State eighty-three thousand dollars; for Post-office Department, eight hundred thousand dollars; for Treasury Department, five hundred and four thousand dollars; for Navy Department, thirty-eight thousand dollars; for Interior Department, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; for Agricultural Department, fifty-two thousand dollars; for Department of Justice, fifteen thousand dollars; for War Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars; for offices of the clerk of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, and the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, one hundred dollars each; making, in all, one million eight hundred and sixty-five thousand and nine hundred dollars:
Special stamps ox stamped envelopes for official mail-matter for the executive departments;*Provided*, That the Postmaster-General shall cause to be prepared a special stamp or stamped envelope, to be used only for official mail-matter, for each of the executive departments; and said stamps and stamped envelopes shall be supplied by the proper officer of said departments to all persons under its direction requiring the same for official use; and all appropriations for postage heretofore made shall no longer be available for said purpose; and all said stamps, and stamped envelopes to be sold at what price.shall be sold or furnished to said several departments or clerks only at the price for which stamps and stamped envelopes of like value are sold at the several post-offices.
Charles H. W. Meehan.For one month’s salary of the late Charles H. W. Meehan, assistant librarian, for the month of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be paid to Mary M. Meehan, his widow, two hundred and ten dollars and sixty cents. FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 229. 1873. 543 Sec. 5. That there shall he appointed an assistant treasurer of theAssistant treasurers of the United States to be appointed at Cincinnati and Chicago; United States, to be located in the city of Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio; and one to be located in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois; and such assistant treasurers shall be appointed in like manner, for like time, and be subject to all the provisions of law to which the other assistant treasurers of the United States are subject.
Sec. 6. That there shall be prepared within the custom-house of thesuitable moms to be prepared for them; city of Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, and within the custom-house to be erected in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, suitable and convenient rooms for the use of the assistant treasurers herein authorized, and sufficient and secure fire-proof vaults and safes for the safe-keeping of the public moneys collected and deposited with them; and the said assistant treasurers shall have the custody and care of said rooms, vaults, and safes, respectively, and of such other rooms, vaults, and safes as may be temporarily assigned to them, or either of them, by the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the public moneys deposited therein; and they shall perform all the duties required to be performed by other United Statestheir powers and duties. assistant treasurers in reference to the receipt, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of such moneys: *Provided*, That the rooms, vaults, andProviso. safes now used by the United States designated depositaries at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, shall be set apart for the purposes named in this section, as far and as long as they may be applicable and convenient.
Sec. 7. That upon the appointment and qualification of said assistantDesignation as depositories of, &c., at Cincinnati and Chicago to be revoked, when, &c. treasurers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall revoke the designations as depositories of the United States of the surveyor of customs at Cincinnati and the collector of customs at Chicago, and shall direct the transfer of all the books, accounts, vouchers, property, and public moneys in the offices of the said depositories to the offices of the said assistant treasurers, respectively.
Sec. 8. That the assistant treasurers authorized by this act to be appointedPay of such assistant treasurers established. shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars each per annum, to be paid quarter-yearly at the treasury of the United States, which shall be in full for all their services; and a sufficient amount to pay said salary until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby appropriated. Sec. 9. That the assistant treasurers herein provided for, may, with theSuch assistant treasurers may appoint clerks and messengers approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, appoint the same number of clerks and messengers in their respective offices, and at the same compensation as is now provided by law for the offices of the United States depositaries at Cincinnati and Chicago, respectively; and all unexpended balances of moneys heretofore appropriated, or that may hereafter he appropriated, for the payment of the clerks and messengers appointed in the offices of the assistant treasurers created by this act.
Sec. 10. That there shall be appropriated and paid, out of any moneyPreparation of rooms, vaults, &c., for assistant treasurer at Chicago. in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in such repairs and additions as may be necessary to put in good condition, for immediate use, the offices, rooms, vaults, and safes herein mentioned, or such others as may be temporarily assigned to the assistant treasurer at Chicago, Illinois, and in the purchase of any necessary additional furniture and fixtures, and in defraying any other incidental expenses necessary to carry this act into effect.
Approved, March 3, 1873.