Chapter CLXXII. *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-two, and for former Years, and for other Purposes.*May 18, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
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CHAP. CLXXII.— 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-two, and for former Years, and for other Purposes.*May 18, 1872. *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, 1872, &c. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, or for the period and purposes hereinafter expressed, namely :
House of Representatives.*House of Representatives*; — For cartage for the House of Representatives, three thousand dollars; and constructive cartage shall not hereafter Constructive cartage not to be paid for.be paid for, but all articles delivered on the trip shall be paid for as one load. And for a deficiency in the appropriation for folding docixments, Folding documents.including pay of folders and material therefor, thirty thousand dollars. Official reporter of Globe for 42d Congress. 1866,ch. 296, § 18.
To pay the official reporters of the Globe in each house the amount which the comptroller of the treasury may find severally due them for services during the sessions of the forty-second Congress, under the Vol. xiv. p. 323.eighteenth section of the act entitled “ An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and for other purposes,” approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Speaker may appoint a clerk, &c.That the speaker is hereby authorized to employ a clerk, at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and no appointment on the doorkeeper’s rolls shall be made to take the place of the person hitherto detailed as clerk to the speaker, and from March first to the close of this fiscal year, six hundred dollars are hereby appropriated for his salary. Senate.*Senate.* — That the payment of milcage of Senators for actual attendance Mileage for session of May 10, 1871, authorized.at the session of the Senate convened on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, by proclamation of the President, is hereby authorized.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars. For labor, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture, three thousand six hundred dollars. Heating, &c., apparatus.For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus for fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, four hundred dollars. John C. Knowlton.For compensation of John C. Knowlton, for service as messenger in the Senate during the month of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, one hundred and twenty dollars.
Sets of Congressional Globe to certain senators.To pay Rives and Bailey for complete sets of the Congressional Globe and appendix, furnished to Senators who had not previously received them, under the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, three 1864. ch. 250. § 1. thousand and five dollars. Vol. xiii. p. 392.For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, ten thousand Clerks to committees, &c.dollars. Capitol police.*Capitol Police.* — For captain of the police, two hundred and eighty-FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 172. 1872.123eight dollars; for two lieutenants, at three hundred dollars each; and twenty-eight privates, at three hundred and eighty-four dollars each; in all, eleven thousand six hundred and forty dollars. *Library of Congress.*; — For contingent expenses of the library ofLibrary of Congress. Congress, rendered necessary by the copyright business of said library, five hundred dollars. To enable the disbursing agent of the joint committee on the library to balance sundry fractional overdrafts in theOverdrafts. following funds, for the fiscal years of eighteen hundred and seventy-one and eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eight cents, the same to be placed to the credit of the funds named in the amount specified to each; fund for purchase of books, twelve dollars and ninety-eight cents; fund for purchase of law-books, twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents:
Fund for purchase of periodicals, two dollars and sixty-five cents; fund for exchange of public documents, six dollars and seventy cents; fund for repairs, etc., of buildings in botanic garden, seventy-five dollars and seventeen cents; fund for improving botanic garden, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; fund for contingent expenses of library, eight dollars and seventy-nine cents. To pay Rives and Bailey for the reporting and publication of the debatesReporting. &c. debates, &c., of forty-first Congress. and proceedings of the forty-first Congress, under the joint resolution approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and contract of April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, so far as may haveVol. xv. p. 317. been provided for by law, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. *Department of State.*; — For extra clerk-hire necessitated by unusualDepartment of State. labor in preparing for the session of the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva, five thousand dollars.Extra clerk hire.
For publishing the laws of the third session of the forty-first CongressPamphlet laws, and in newspapers. and of the first session of the forty-second Congress in pamphlet form, five thousand dollars. For publishing the laws of the first session of the forty-first Congress in newspapers, two thousand one hundred dollars. For publishing the laws of the second session of the forty-first Congress in newspapers, six thousand one hundred and twelve dollars. *Foreign Intercourse.*; — For salaries of envoys extraordinary, and ministersForeign intercourse. plenipotentiary, and ministers resident, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, forty-two thousand dollars; and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fifty thousand dollars; and in settling the accounts of John P.
Hale, late minister to Spain, the accounting olficers of the treasury shall allow him salary to the first of January, eighteen hundred andAllowance to John P. Hale. seventy, at which time his health was so far restored as to be able to travel, and the sum necessary to pay the same is hereby appropriated. And the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to allow the payment ofExtraordinary services of certain consuls during the late war in Europe. such sums as. the President shall approve to the consuls of the United States at Algiers, Boulogne, Lyons, Marseilles, Nantes, Nice, and Rheims, as compensation for extraordinary services during the late war in Europe: *Provided*, That the total sum so expended shall not exceed the unexpendedTotal not to exceed, &c. balance of the amount appropriated by the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the act entitled “ An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses1871, ch. 114.
Vol. xvi. p 495. of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. For contingent expenses of the United States consulates for blank-booksBlank books, &c. and stationery, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, fifteen thousand dollars; and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fifteen thousand dollars.
For pay of dragoman at the consulate at Constantinople from AprilDragoman at124Constantinople.first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four hundred dollars. Cemetery in Malaga;For improvements and alteration of the Protestant cemetery in Malaga, Spain, five hundred dollars. In Mexico.To reimburse the consul of the United States in the city of Mexico for the care of the Protestant American cemetery during the past year, for the current fiscal year, and to pay salary of keeper, five hundred dollars, one thousand one hundred and five dollars.
Cape Spartel light.For the annual proportion of the United States of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. United States legation in France.For additional expenses of the United States legation in France, consequent upon the removal of the seat of government from Paris to Versailles, eight hundred dollars. Extraordinary expenses of minister to Italy.To defray the extraordinary expenses of the American minister to the kingdom of Italy occasioned by the removal of its capital from Turin to Florence and from Florence to Rome, six thousand dollars.
Amanuensis for Robert C. Schenck.To enable Robert C. Schenck, minister to Great Britain, to pay his private amanuensis, as provided by joint resolution approved January Vol. xvi. p. 590.eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, from the date of the approval of said joint resolution to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. Consular building at Tangiers.For repairs to the consular building at Tangiers, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, to be available until the end of the next fiscal year.
American seamen in foreign countries.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars. Food-fishes.*Inquiry respecting Food-Fishes.*; — For continuing the inquiry into the cause of the decrease of the food-fishes of the coast and of the lakes, three thousand five hundred dollars. Report of commissioner.For preparation of the illustrations, tables, and so forth, of the report of the United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, five hundred dollars. united states mints and branches.Mints and branches.
Branch mint at San Francisco;*Branch Mint, San Francisco, California*.—For wages of workmen and adjusters, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars. at Carson City.*Branch Mint, Carson City, Nevada*.—For salaries and expenses, (deficiency during fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy,) three thousand dollars. For wages of workmen and adjusters, for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, to wit, for sundry miscellaneous items, including wood, charcoal, and freight, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twelve thousand four hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the same character, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, three thousand dollars. For this Assay-office, Boise city.amount, deficiency in the construction of the assay-office, Boise city, Idaho Territory, two thousand ninety-two dollars and five cents. Independent Treasury.*Independent Treasury*.—Contingent expenses under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six :
For the collection, safe-keeping, 1841, ch. 90. Vol ix. p. 59.transferring, and disbursement of the public moneys, one hundred thousand dollars. To pay deficiencies in the salaries of officers, clerks, and others in the office of the assistant treasurer in New York city for the present fiscal year, nine thousand three hundred and four dollars. 125 territorial governments.Territorial governments. *District of Columbia*.—To pay the governor, secretary, and threeDistrict of Columbia. members of the board of public works of the District of Columbia such sums as may be due them for salaries from the date of their commissionsGovernor, &e. to the first of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, three thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and fourteen cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To pay the members of the board of health from the date of their appointmentBoard of health. to the first of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at two thousand dollars each per annum, twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty-six cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For compensation to the president and members of theCouncil. council of the District of Columbia, for the session commencing on the eighth of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
For deficiency in appropriation for legislative expenses of MontanaExpenses, &c., of Montana Territory; Territory, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the same to be expended in publishing the laws and journals of the last session of the legislature of said Territory, the sum of five thousand dollars. For printing and binding house and council journals of the fifth session of the legislative assembly of Montana Territory, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation of members of the fifth legislature of Montana Territory, eight hundred and seventeen dollars. For rent of office, salary of messenger, furniture, carpet, postage, andNew Mexico; other incidental expenses of the secretary of the Territory of New Mexico, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-two cents. For expenses of the secretary’s office of the Territory of Arizona, rentArizona; of office, fuel, lights, printing, postage, storage of furniture, and so forth, three thousand dollars.
For expenses of the secretary’s office of the Territory of Wyoming,Wyoming; fuel, lights, stationery, postage, and so forth, one thousand two hundred dollars. For miscellaneous printing, and printing journals of council and houseUtah; of the nineteenth annual session of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and forty cents. For deficiency of appropriation for legislative expenses of the TerritoryDakota. of Dakota, for the fiscal years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, viz. : for planting and binding, four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars; for office rent, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; for incidental expense, twelve hundred dollars; in all, six thousand dollars. *Internal Revenue*.—For stamps, paper, and dies for the use of theInternal revenue stamps, &c. office of Internal Revenue, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. *Captured, and abandoned Property*.—For payment of necessary expensesCaptured and abandoned property. incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury, or his agents, and for defence of the United States in respect to such property, and in the recovery of property claimed to have accrued or belongedExpenses of suits, &c. to the United States through the suppression of the rebellion, and for settling the accounts of agents employed in recovering such property, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirty thousand dollars. *United States Coast Survey*.—For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the coast survey, per act of March *second*, [third] eighteen hundred and fifty-three, thirty thousand dollars. 126 Pay, &c., of engineers or steamers.For pay and rations of the engineers for the steamers used in the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars.
Public buildings.*Public Buildings throughout the United States*.—For the completion of the building for custom-house at Astoria, Oregon, twenty thousand four Custom-house at Astoria.hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents, and for fencing, grading, sidewalks, sewerage, and other matters indispensable to its completion, five thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and forty cents; in all, twenty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety cents. New State department building.For continuing the work on the new State Department building during the balance of the present fiscal year, two hundred thousand dollars.
Custom-house, &c., Baltimore.For extension and repair of the building for custom-house and post-office at Baltimore, Maryland, fifty thousand dollars. Marine hospital, Chicago.For completion pf the building for marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty-nine cents; and for grading and fencing, thirteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars and five cents; and to make good the damage done to the building and loss by fire, fourteen thousand and sixty dollars and fifty cents; in all, one hundred and five thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-four cents.
Custom-house at Knoxville;For continuation of the construction of the building for custom-house at Knoxville, Tennessee, one hundred thousand dollars. Portland, Me.For completing the building for custom-house at Portland, Maine, ten thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars. Post-office, &c.; at Portland, Me.For completing the building for post-office and court-house at Portland, Maine, fifteen thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars. Custom-house, &c., Newport.For putting a new roof on the custom and post-office building at Newport, in the State of Rhode Island, to be so arranged as to afford an additional story, and for remodelling the interior of said building, and such other repairs as may be necessary, the sum of eleven thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. appraisers’ stores, Philadelphia.For additional machinery for the appraisers’ stores in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, five thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents.
Custom-house, Saint Paul, Minn.For grading, paving, sidewalks, and fences of the approaches to the building for custom-house at Saint Paul, Minnesota, fifteen thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents. Assistant treasurer, Saint Louis.For rent of the office of assistant treasurer of the United States at Saint Louis, Missouri, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the remainder of the present fiscal year, and for fitting up the office, one thousand dollars.
Wood pavement in Detroit.To reimburse the city of Detroit, Michigan, the amount expended in laying a wood pavement in front of the marine hospital property in said city, eighteen hundred dollars. Custom-house at Machias.To supply furniture for the new custom-house at Machias, Maine, three thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars. Treasury, miscellaneous.*Treasury, Miscellaneous*.—For rebuilding the light-stations at Manistee, Light-stations at Manistee, Mich.Michigan, which were destroyed by fire on the eighth of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, ten thousand dollars.
Repair public buildings.For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. Heating apparatus.For re-arranging the heating apparatus of the Treasury building, according to plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, nineteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, which shall be available to the close of the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three. Furniture and repairsFor furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings under the127control of the Treasury Department for the fiscal years prior to the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, three thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and eighty-five cents.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control ofRepairs of public buildings, prior, &c. the Treasury Department for fiscal years prior to the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-two cents. For re-establishing lights and other aids to navigation on the southernRe-establishing lights on southern coasts. coast for the fiscal years prior to the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety cents: *Provided*, That this and the two immediately precedingProviso. paragraphs do not involve any appropriation from the treasury, but are merely an authorization to the proper officers to make upon the books of the treasury transfer entries to settle certain accounts.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle the accounts of collectorsCollectors acting as superintendents of lights. of customs acting as superintendents of lights, outside the districts for which they were appointed, for expenditures already made in pursuance of law, and which will not involve any actual expenditure, a transfer on the books of the treasury of such sums as may be necessary is hereby authorized. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings under the control of theVaults, safes, and locks.
Treasury Department for fiscal year ending June thirtieth,eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fifty thousand dollars. That the salary of the second comptroller of the Treasury shall, afterSalary of 2d comptroller established. the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be five thousand dollars per annum. To pay John P. Bruce the amount appropriated to be paid him by theJohn P. Bruce. 1870, ch. 293. Vol. xvi. p. 313. act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, for printing for the third session of the legislature of the Territory of Montana, but which has not been paid but is now directed to be paid to him, and his receipt shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for payment of the same by the accounting officers of the treasury, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety cents.
To pay John Gordon, messenger in the Post-office Department, for extraJohn Gordon. service from March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay certain gaugers employedGaugers in New York. in the thirty-second district of the State of New York, under the late collector of internal revenue, J. F. Bailey, fees earned by them during part of the month of March, eighteen hundred and seventy, seven hundred and four dollars and twenty cents.
For the payment of the salary of the secretary of the Territory of NewSalary of Secretary of New Mexico, as superintendent of public buildings. Mexico, as superintendent of public buildings and grounds for the years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred andRepeal of part of 1808, ch. 272, § 2. seventy-one, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two thousand dollars; and so much of the second section of the act of July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight (Statutes at Large, chapter CCLXXIL), as grants a salary to the secretary of said Territory as superintendent of public buildings andVol. xv. p. 240. grounds, is hereby repealed, the repeal to take effect at the end of the current fiscal year.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the annual salary of theUnited States marshal of Nebraska. United States marshal of Nebraska from the date of the admission of the State, at the rate of two hundred dollars per annum, one thousand one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay O. P. Rockwell, late mail-contractor in Utah Territory, balanceO. P. Rockwell. due him, one thousand three hundred and ten dollars and sixty-three cents. war department.War department. *Military Establishment*.—For the pay department, for the allowance to the officers of the army for transportation of themselves and theirPay department.128baggage, when travelling on duty, without troops, escort, or supplies, ninety thousand dollars.
Quartermaster’s department.*Quartermaster’s Department*.—For regular supplies, consisting of fuel for officers, enlisted men, guards, hospitals, storehouses and offices, and for forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quartermaster’s department at the several posts and stations, and with the armies in the field; for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses when serving in the field and at the outposts, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding; and of stationery, including blank books for the quartermaster’s department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster’s departments, and for printing of division and department orders and reports, three hundred thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses of quartermaster’s department.For the general and incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting of postage on letters, and telegrams or dispatches, received and sent on public service; extra pay to soldiers employed under the direction of the quartermaster’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of 1819, ch. 45.
Vol. iii. p. 488.March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen 1854, eh. 247. § 6.hundred and fifty-four, including those employed as clerks at division and Vol. x. p. 576.department headquarters 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 frontiers and other places, when ordered by the secretary of war, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers in the quartermaster’s department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation of clerks to officers of the quartermaster’s department; compensation of forage and wagon 1838, ch. 162, § 10.masters, authorized by the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight;
Vol. v. p. 257.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 as may be 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-ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the movement and operations of an army not expressly assigned to any other department, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Barracks and quarters;Barracks and quarters: for rent or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty; of storehouses for safe-keeping of military stores; of offices; of grounds for camps and cantonments, and for temporary frontier stations; for construction and repairs of temporary huts; of stables, and other military buildings at established posts; for construction and repair of hospitals; and for repairs of buildings occupied by the army, six permanent, to be constructed, by special authority by acts of Congress, and cost not to exceed.hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars : *Provided*, That hereafter barracks and quarters, and all buildings and structures whatever of a permanent nature, shall be constructed upon specitd authority, to be given by act of Congress, except when constructed by the troops; and no such structures whose cost shall exceed twenty thousand dollars shall be erected or continued in erection unless by such authority so specially granted.
Clothing and equipage.Clothing and equipage : for purchase and manufacture of clothing, 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, one hundred thousand dollars. FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 172. 1872.129 For the preservation of army clothing and equipage, fifty thousand dollars : *Provided*, That there shall be no claim upon the United StatesNo claim for the line of any patent for the use of any patent for the manner of or material for doing the same.
Ordnance and ordnance stores : for purchase of ordnance and ordnanceOrdnance and ordnance stores. stores, to continue the armament of certain southern forts, one hundred thousand dollars. For establishing and maintaining national military cemeteries, fiftyNational military cemeteries. thousand dollars; and the appropriations for collecting, drilling, and organizingAppropriation for collecting, &c., volunteers to be for present year only. volunteers, heretofore considered as permanent appropriations, are hereby continued and made available for the service of the present fiscal year only, so far as the same may be necessary to pay the usual clerical service heretofore paid out of said appropriations in the War Department. *Miscellaneous*.—For payment of any balance due, or to be found due,Miscellaneous.
Payments to States for enrolling, &c., troops, &c. during the present fiscal year, 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 to indemnify1861, ch. 21. Vol. xii. p. 276. certain States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transporting troops for the defence of the United States during the lateSee 1878, ch. 228, § 2. rebellion, one million dollars.*Post*, p. 542. *Signal Office*.—Observation and report of storms:
For manufficture,Signal office. Observation, &c., of storms. purchase, or repair of meteorological and other necessary instalments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals, announcing probable approach and force of storms; for instrument-shelters; for hire, furniture, and expense 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 board of trade rooms, and for distribution; for books and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, sixty-one thousand and fifty dollars : *Provided*, That no part ofNo part to be paid to certain telegraph companies. this appropriation, nor of any appropriation for the several departments of the government, shall be paid to any telegraphic company which shall neglect or refuse to transmit telegraphic communications between said departments,1866, ch. 230, § 2.
Vol. xiv. p. 221. their officers, agents, or employees, under the provisions of the second section of chapter two hundred and thirty of the statutes of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and at rates of compensation therefor to be established by the postmaster-general. To furnish transportation to insane volunteer soldiers at any time entitledInsane volunteer soldiers. to be admitted into the government hospital at Washington, one thousand dollars.
For expenses of the board of visitors at the Military Academy at WestBoard of visitors at West Point. Point, two thousand dollars. Public buildings and grounds in and around Washington, under thePublic buildings, &c., in Washington. chief of engineer of the War Department: for repairs and improvements, viz. : for survey and map in accordance with the provisions of the joint resolution of July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, oneSurvey and map. thousand five hundred dollars.Vol. xvi. p. 883.
For grading and paving circle at the intersection of Vermont and MassachusettsGrading, &c., circle, at, &c. avenues for fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, five thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. For stationery for the office, one hundred and twenty-four dollars andStationery. thirty-two cents. For repairs on the executive mansion, ten thousand three hundred andExecutive mansion and grounds. forty-five dollars.
For additional compensation to the assistant door-keeper at the executive mansion, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, three hundred and sixty dollars. vol xvii. Pub. — 9 130 For the executive avenue and adjacent grounds, recently inclosed, for grading, paving, and otherwise completing the work during the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, twenty-five thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-five cents.
Contingencies of the army.Contingencies of the army prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy: for fees of attorneys at law employed by the War Department; Expenses of suits; of military convicts, pay of detectives, and provost-marshals.expenses of suits incurred previous to act of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, creating the Department of Justice; the costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care and maintenance of United 1870, ch. 150.States military convicts confined in them; the pay of detectives and Vol. xvi. p. 162.scouts; and for compensation of provost-marshals employed by the Secretary of War in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, fifty thousand dollars.
Freedmen’s hospitals, &c.Freedmen’s hospitals and asylum : to reimburse the commissary department for supplies furnished the freedmen’s bureau prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, thirty-four thousand dollars. Military convicts.Military convicts at 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, ten thousand dollars.
Abandoned and captured property.To enable the Secretary of War to pay for additional clerical services heretofore employed by him in the investigation and settlement of accounts for abandoned and captured property, one thousand dollars. navy department.Navy department. Marine Corps.*Naval Establishment*.—Marine corps: for rent of quarters for officers, where there are no public quarters, one thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirteen cents. For forage for horses belonging to field and staff officers of the marines, one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents.
For indispensable miscellaneous articles for the use of the marine barracks at Brooklyn, New York, and for other posts, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty cents. This item and the two preceding items are for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. For hire of officers’ quarters where there are no public quarters, eight thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars. For forage for horses for field and staff officers, three thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
For pay account for per diem to marine band, one thousand five hundred dollars. This item and the two preceding items are for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Survey of route for ship-canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceansFor completion of the survey of a route for a ship-canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the routes of Tehuantepec and Nicaragua, with reports upon the same, twenty thousand dollars; and to complete the survey of the Darien route, five thousand dollars. interior department.Interior department.
Pension-office.*Pension-Office*. — To reimburse the contingent fund of the pension-officeRemoving papers to Seaton House. for expenses incurred in removing the papers and files of said office to the Seaton House, and in refitting rooms in said building, the sum of ten thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. Clerks.To pay six clerks of class one and six clerks of class two, to lie employed in the examination of claims for pensions to the survivors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, which the secretary is hereby authorized to employ for one year, and no longer, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars; and this appropriation is available for said purpose for one year, and no longer. 131 For deficiency for fuel and lights in the Interior Department, oneFuel and lights. thousand two hundred and eighty-two dollars. *Land-Office*. — For contingent expenses of district land-offices for theLand-office. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, five thousand dollars.
To supply deficiency in the appropriation for the expense of depositingDepositing public moneys, and clerks. public moneys for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eight thousand dollars; and for a deficiency in the appropriations for clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of California, five hundred dollars. *Patent-Office*.—To provide for the plates of an official Gazette of thePlates for official Gazette. patent-office abstracts of the drawings of patents issued, thirteen thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars, to be expended under the direction of the commissioner of patents: *Provided*, That one copy of said GazetteCopies, how to be distributed. shall be furnished to each senator, representative, and delegate in Congress; and one copy each shall be sent to eight such public libraries as may be designated by each senator, representative, and delegate, and two copies to the Library of Congress; *Provided further*, That a subscription-priceSubscription-price of Gazette. of not less than five dollars per annum for said Gazette shall be charged to each subscriber; and all sums received from such subscription shall be, on or before the first day of each month, paid into the treasury. *For the Public Printing*.—For the additional expense of printing andPrinting, &c., official Gazette. stitching the patent-office official Gazette, with the abstracts of specifications and drawings, five thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars. *Census*.—To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the expensesNinth census. of the ninth census, twenty thousand dollars, and such sum as may be necessary to pay the remainder due census-takers, for taking the eighthProviso. census: *Provided*, That the amount of money paid under this appropriation shall not exceed in all twenty-five thousand dollars. *Public Works*.—Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb : forPublic works. furnishing and fitting up the buildings of the institution, six thousandColumbia Institute. dollars.
For repairs of buildings of said institute during fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, three thousand five hundred dollars. To commence the proper fitting-up, in a fire-proof manner, of the vacantSmithsonian Institution. apartments in the Smithsonian Institution building for the proper distribution and exhibition of the government collections of natural history, geology, and mineralogy, five thousand dollars. For the preparation and publication of the maps, charts, geologicalReport of geological survey by Professor Hayden. sections, and other engravings necessary to illustrate the final report of the United States geological survey of the Territories, by Professor Hayden, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
For the payment of clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of theSurveyor-genera’s office, Louisiana. State of Louisiana, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the repair and improvement of the Congressional cemetery, to beCongressional cemetery. expended under the direction of the warden and vestry of Washington parish, District of Columbia, three thousand dollars. For the completion of the United States court-house at Charleston,Court-house at Charleston, S. C. South Carolina, one hundred and two dollars and eight cents. *Capitol Extension*.—For the purpose of buying and putting in place aCapitol extension. new boiler, water-tank, and steam pump in the south wing of the Capitol,*Post*, p. 361. ten thousand dollars; and the disbursing clerk of the Interior DepartmentDisbursing clerk of department to make disbursements for building. is hereby required to disburse all moneys appropriated for the United States Capitol extension and improvement of the grounds, and to receive therefor an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to be paid from said appropriation, from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: 132Accounts of F.
W. Clemons.*Provided*, That in the adjustment of the accounts of F. W. Clemons, late disbursing agent of the Capitol extension, the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow him the sum of eight hundred dollars, to be paid from the appropriations heretofore made for expenses of the ninth census, as compensation for increased responsibility and labor in disbursing said appropriations from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy, to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
Lamps and service-pipe.For additional lamps and service-pipe in the east and west parks, Capitol grounds, four thousand dollars. Indian bureau. Seneca Indians*Indian Bureau*.—For this amount, to pay to the Seneca Indians the interest due on the sum of forty thousand dollars, held in trust for them Vol. xv. p. 515.as provided in the treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, from June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the date of the ratification of said treaty, to November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the date when interest on stocks purchased with said sum of forty thousand dollars commenced to accrue, six thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, which amount shall be paid direct to said Seneca Indians, and not to an agent, attorney, or other person claiming to act for them.
Seminoles. 1806, ch. 296.For this amount, to replace the sum appropriated by the act of July Vol. xiv. p. 319.twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, under the provision of the Vol. xiv. p. 758.sixth article of treaty with the Seminoles of March twenty-first, eighteen Vol. xiv. p. 788.hundred and sixty-six, and ninth article of the treaty with the Creeks of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the erection of agency buildings on the reservations of said tribes, twenty thousand dollars.
Kaw Indians in Kansas.For this amount, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to supply the Kaw tribe of Indians in Kansas with subsistence, to relieve their immediate and pressing wants, the same to be reimbursed to the United States, from the proceeds of the sale of lands of the said Indians, when the same shall have been sold under existing treaty stipulations, ten thousand dollars. Kavajoes.For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for subsisting the Navajo Indians in New Mexico, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, sixty thousand dollars.
Apaches.For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to subsist the Apache Indians of Arizona and New Mexico during the remainder of the present fiscal year, who shall be upon the reservation and peacefully remain there, or who shall otherwise maintain peaceful relations with the United States, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Arickareas, Gros Ventres, and Mandans.For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the subsistence, civilization, and care of the Arickaree, Gros Vendre, and Mandan Indians, at Fort Berthold agency, Dakota, during the remainder of the present fiscal year, forty thousand dollars.
Indians at Milk river agency, Montana.For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the subsistence of the Indians at the Milk River agency, in Montana (including eight thousand Sioux now collected at that place), for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred thousand dollars. Osage Indians. Vol. xiv. p. 688.For this amount, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary 1870, ch. 296, § 12.of the Interior, in providing subsistence and clothing for the Osage Indians, and aiding them in establishing themselves in their new homes, to Vol. xvi. p. 362.be reimbursed to the United States from the interest on the net proceeds of the sale of their lands in Kansas, as provided by the second article of the treaty with the Great and Little Osages, of September twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the twelfth section of the act of July Certain persons not to re-fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, fifty thousand dollars : *Provided*, That no person shall receive any part of the money appropriated by this133act for any services or pretended services as attorney, counsellor, or agent,ceive any part of this appropriation. for any tribe, or Indian, or Indians, for whom any part of these appropriations are made.
Any person violating this provision shall be deemedPenalty. guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in double the amount so received. For this amount, being the balance on account due the Quapaw tribeQuapaw Indians. of Indians for a certain tract of land in the State of Kansas, containingVol. xv. p. 514. seven thousand six hundred and thirty-two hundredths acres, ceded by said tribe to the United States in accordance with the terms of the fourth article of the treaty with Senecas, Mixed Senecas, and Shawnees, Quapaws, confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ottawas of Blanchard’s Fork and Roche de Bauf, and certain Wyandotts, concluded February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven (Statutes, volume fifteen, page five hundred and thirteen), four thousand five hundred dollars and forty cents.
For this amount, to be taken from any funds in the treasury of theSame. United States belonging to the confederated bands of Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, to make good to the Quapaw tribe of Indians the estimated value of eighteen thousand five hundred and twenty-two and fifty hundredths acres of land lying south of Kansas, ceded by them to the United States under the terms of the fourth article of the treaty with the Senecas, Mixed Seuecas, and Shawnees, Quapaws, confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ottawas of Blanchard’s Fork and Roche de Boeuf, and certain Wyandotts, concluded February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven (Statutes, volume fifteen, page five hundred and thirteen), which lands were, by the twenty-second article of said treaty, granted and sold to the confederated bands of Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, at the same rate as paid by the government, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars and eighty-seven cents. judicial.Judicial. *District Courts of the United States*.—For salaries of district judgesDistrict courts. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the courts of the United States, includingExpenses of courts of the United States. the District of Columbia; for jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned; of prosecutions for offences1871, ch. 99. committed against the United States; for the safe-keeping of prisoners; andVol. xvi. p. 433. for the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, for the four months ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one million dollars.
To enable the commissioners on revision of the statutes of the UnitedDerision of the Statutes. States to expedite the work and furuish clerical and other assistance, and supply contingencies, the sum of nine thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid from time to time as the work progresses, upon vouchers approved by all the commissioners : *Provided*, That this appropriationProviso. shall continue available until June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. To enable the clerk of the court of claims to pay attorneys’, commissioners’,Court of claims. and marshals’ fees for the years ending June thirtieth, eighteenAttorneys’, &c., fees. hundred and seventy, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eight hundred dollars; and for attorneys’ and commissioners’ fees, paid by the clerk of the court in excess of the appropriations for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, three hundred and forty-one dollars and fourteen cents.
To purchase books for the Department of Justice, two thousand fiveBooks for Department of Justice. hundred dollars. 134 Payment of judgment in Edgerton v. Culpeper.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury in his discretion to pay the judgment entered by the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of Florida, in the case of Theodore T. Edgerton against Jesse W. Culpeper, deputy collector and inspector of customs at Cedar Keys, district of Saint Marks, Florida, on the seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the sum of twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars, with costs, twenty-six dollars, and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from date of judgment until paid,a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.
Allowance to William E. Parker, for travel of Judge Duval.That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed, in the adjustment of the accounts of William E. Parker, United States marshal for the eastern district of Texas, to allow eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents, money paid by said Parker for the travelling expenses of Thomas H. Duval, judge of the western district of Texas, for holding two terms of the United States circuit and district court at Galveston, and one at Brownsville, in Texas, under the direction of Mr.
Justice Swayne. Sec. 2. Wages of certain workmen to be settled without reduction for reduction in hours of labor.That the proper accounting officers be, and hereby are, authorized and required, in the settlement of all accounts for the services of laborers, workmen, and mechanics, employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States, between the twenty-fifth day of June, 1868. ch. 72.eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the date of the act constituting eight Vol. xv. p. 77.hours a day’s work for all such laborers, workmen, and mechanics, and VoL xvi. p. 1127.the nineteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the date of See *Post*, p. 955.the proclamation of the President concerning such pay, to settle and pay for the same, without reduction on account of reduction of hours of labor by said act, when it shall be made to appear that such was the sole cause of the reduction of wages, and a sufficient sum for said purpose is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. Persons born in Oregon are citizens of the United States.That all persons born in the district of country formerly known as the Territory of Oregon, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States at this time, are citizens of the United States in the same manner as if born elsewhere in the United States. Sec. 4. Appropriation for pier at Lewes, Del., continued.That the appropriation for building a pier at Lewes, Delaware, contained in sections twelve and thirteen of the act approved July fifteen, 1870. ch. 292, § 12,13.eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled “ An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June thirty, Vol. xvi. p. 310.
See *Ante*, p. 9.eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, continued until June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Sec. 5. Certain claims for cotton to be paid.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the lawful owners, or their legal representatives, of all cotton seized after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by the agents of the government unlawfully and in violation of their instructions, the net proceeds, without interest, of the sales of said cotton actually paid into the treasury of the United States :
Proviso.*Provided*, That the receipt thereof shall be taken and received in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States for or on account of the seizure of said cotton; and a sufficient sum for such payment is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated : Certain claims not included.*And provided further*, That the foregoing provisions shall not apply to any claim now pending before the court of claims, nor to any claim not filed in the Treasury Department within six months after the passage of this act; and the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the payment of the necessary expenses of defending the United States in respect to claims for said proceeds, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, May 18, 1872. FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 173-176. 1872.135