Chapter XVIII. *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-three, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. XVIII.— 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-three, and for other Purposes*. Jan. 8, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiency misapropriation for the year ending June 30, 1873. 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-three, for the purposes hereinafter expressed, namely: *Post-office Department*.— Post-office Department For the manufacture, engraving, and printing of postal cards for the service of the quarter ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-three, fifty thousand dollars.
For registry-locks, to be used on through mail-routes for pouches containing registered letters, three thousand dollars. *Coast Survey*.— For replacing old and worn-out vessels for service inCoast Survey. the Coast Survey, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and Lake Champlain, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, twenty thousand dollars. *Census*.— Census.
For a deficiency in the appropriations for the expenses of the ninth census, twelve thousand dollars. *Rebel Ram “Albemarle.”*— Captors of rebel ram “Albemarle.” To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay the captors of the rebel ram “Albemarle,” in accordance with the decree of the district court of the United States for the District of Columbia, two hundred and two thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and ninety cents. *Patent Office*.— Patent Office.Photo-lithographing.
For photo-lithographing, or otherwise producing copies of drawings of current and back issues of patents from the Patent Office, and for reproducing back numbers of the Patent Office Gazette, twenty thousand dollars. *District of Columbia*.— District of Columbia. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the expenditures made by the board of public works of the District of Columbia for paving roadway, and curbing and paviug sidewalks; grad-406FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.
III. Ch. 19, 20, 21. 1872.ing, sewerage, and other improvements upon and adjoining the property of the United States in the District of Columbia, one million two hundred and forty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-two Payments to be made only on vouchers.cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all payments under this appropriation shall be made only upon vouchers approved by the officer in charge of the public buildings and grounds of the District, after full examination and measurement of the said improvements, and the approval of the prices claimed therefor: *And provided Board of public works not to incur any liability, &c. for streets, beyond appropriations previously made by Congress.further*, That the said board of public works be, and they are hereby, prohibited from incurring or contracting further liabilities on behalf of the United States in the improvement of streets, avenues, and reservations beyond the amount of appropriations previously made by Congress, and from entering into any contract touching such improvements on behalf of the United States, except in pursuance of appropriations made by Congress.
Approved, January 8, 1873.