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CHAP. 182.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations.Sundry civil expenses. That the following stuns be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, namely :
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings. Public buildings. Court-house and post-office, Atlanta, Georgia : For fencing, grading,Atlanta. and approaches, ten thousand dollars. Custom-house and post-office, Albany, New York: For continuationAlbany. of building, ninety thousand dollars. Post-office and sub-treasury, Boston, Massachusetts : For continuationBoston. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Custom-house and sub-treasury, Chicago, Illinois: For completion ofChicago. building five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; of which sum thirty thousand dollars may be used for fitting up the basement for use of the post-office, and be available immediately.
Custom-house and post-office, Cincinnati, Ohio : For continuation ofCincinnati. building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Custom-house and post-office, Fall River, Massachusetts: For continuation Fall River. of building and for purchase of adjoining land, on Second street, thirty-nine feet in width, eighty-five thousand dollars; of which sum not more than twenty-five thousand dollars shall be used for the purchase of the land. Custom-house and post-office, Hartford, Connecticut:
For continuationHartford. of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. Court-house and post-office, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : For continuationHarrisburg. of building, fifty thousand dollars. Court-house and post-office, Kansas City, Missouri : For continuationKansas City. of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. Court-house awl post-office, Little Rock, Arkansas : For completion ofLittle Rock. building, forty thousand dollars, Custom house, court-house, and post-office Memphis, Tennessee :
ForMemphis. continuation of building, sixty thousand dollars. Custom-house and post-office, New Orleans, Louisiana: For continuation New Orleans. of building, forty thousand dollars. Custom-house, court-house, and post-office, Nashville, Tennessee : ForNashville. continuation of building, ninety thousand dollars ; and not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars of this sum may be used in constructing an iron-framed roof. Post-office and court-house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : For continuationPhiladelphia. of building, three hundred awl fifty thousand dollars.
Custom house and post-office, Raleigh, North Carolina : For completionRaleigh. of building and grounds, five thousand dollars. For grading, paving and fencing, for court-house and post-officeLincoln. grounds, Lincoln, Nebraska, twelve thousand dollars. Custom-house and post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri: For continuationSaint Louis. of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Court-house and post-office, Topeka, Kansas: For continuation ofTopeka. building forty thousand dollars. 378 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 182. 1879. Utica.Court-house and post-office, Utica, New York : For continuation of building twenty-five thousand dollars. Washington.Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia . For annual repairs, and for retaining-wall and fences, northeast boundary of the Treasury building, twenty-five thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation of public buildings: For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. life-saving stations.
Life-saving service.For salaries of superintendents tor the life-saving stations, as follows: On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one, of Massachusetts, one, at one thousand dollars each ; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one, atone thousand five hundred dollars; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, five hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, one thousand five bundled dollars.
For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the house of refuge on the coast of Florida, one thousand dollars ; and of one superintendent for the life- saving and life-boat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand dollars, and of one on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand dollars.
For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and life-boat stations, as follows: One on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, and of one on the coast of Lake Michigan, at one thousand dollars each. For salary of one hundred and ninety-six keepers of life-saving and life-boat stations and of houses of refuge, at four hundred dollars each, seventy-eight thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of crews of experienced surfmen, employed at the life-saving and lite-boat stations, at a rate not to exceed forty dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, three hundred and seventy- six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For compensation of volunteer crews of life-boat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon each occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; and for pay of volunteer crews, for drill and exercise, five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses: For fuel for one hundred and ninety-six stations and houses of refuge ; repairs and outfits for the same ; supplies and pro- visions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department ; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations, on the coasts of the United States, fifty thousand dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and life-boat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, seventy-eight thousand dollars. revenge-cutter service. Revenue-cutter service.Expenses of revenue-cutter service : For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots, and for rations for the same; and for pay of petty-officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same : and for fuel for vessels, repairs and outfits for the same; ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters;379 and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses, which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. engraving and printing.
For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely : For laborEngraving and Printing Bureau. (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid tor such work; and for other expenses of engraving and printing, notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States; for paper for notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, including mill expenses, boxing and transportation; for materials other than paper required in the work of engraving and printing ; for purchase of engravers’ tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same ; and for expenses of operating macerating-machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Expenses of removal of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing : ForExpenses of removal. expenses of removal of the machinery, furniture, and effects of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from the Treasury Department building to the new building in course of erection for said bureau, when completed; and for the purchase and erection of such new machinery and fixtures as may be needed to complete the establishment of that bureau in the new building, including new boilers and a new engine, fifty thousand dollars.
For payment of expenses of printing pension-checks for fiscal yearPension checks. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eight thousand five hundred dollars, and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, nine thousand dollars. light-house establishment. Keepers of light-houses : For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quartersKeepers. where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of nine hundred and seventy-five light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, upon the recommendation of the Light-House Board, to use any surplus portion of the said sum for the purchase of automatic, or other, fog-bells. Expenses of light-vessels: Seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries,Light vessels. supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty-one light-ships, and the expense of maintaining the vessels of the light-house establishment, may*Expenses of maintaining vessels ; how paid.* be paid from any surplus of the appropriation for the works, general or special, on which the respective vessels are, for the time being, employed; and the cost of repairs to such vessels may be paid from the appropriation *Repairs.* under which they respectively were employed when they were injured or became deteriorated to such an extent as to render the repairs necessary; or, if such appropriation be exhausted, then from the appropriation - under which they are respectively to be next employed, two bundled and thirty thousand dollars.
Buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, *Buoyage.* and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Fog-signals : For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, establishing,Fog signals. and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, fifty thousand dollars. 380 Inspecting lights: Inspecting lights. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars.
Supplies of light-houses : Supplies. For supplying the light-houses, beacon-lights, and fog-signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books for light-stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Repairs of light-houses: Repairs. For repairs and incidental expense of light-houses ; for rebuilding and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Lighting and buoyage: Mississippi, etc., rivers. For maintenance of lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Commissions to superintendents of lights: Commissions to collectors. For commissions to collectors of customs acting as superintendents of lights, being for disbursements to be made by them for the light-house establishment during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, seven thousand five hundred dollars. light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals.
Light-houses, etc. Ipswich.For rebuilding tower, repairing dwelling, and purchasing site for beacon at Ipswich light-station, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars. Cape Poge.For building a double set of quarters for the two keepers at Cape Poge, northeast point of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, five thousand dollars. Stage Harbor.For light-house at Stage Harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars. For day-beacons on the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and for repairing the same, ten thousand dollars.
C. J. Gibbs.For reimbursement of Charles J. Gibbs, master of the light-house tender “Verbena”, for amount paid by him in accordance with the judgment of court, in the case of the suit for damages occasioned by the collision of the "Verbena" with the schooner “Adell”, including attorneys’ fees and costs, eight hundred dollars. H. W. Arnold.For reimbursing H. W. Arnold, keeper of Conimicut light-station, for losses sustained at the time of the destruction of the keeper’s dwelling by ice, three hundred and nineteen dollars.
Falkner’s Island.For steam fog-signal at Falkner’s Island light-station, New York, five thousand dollars. Execution Rocks.For establishing a first-class fog-signal at Execution Rocks, Long Island Sound, fifteen thousand dollars. Jane’s Island.For the rebuilding of the light-house on Jane’s Island, in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. Trinity Shoal.To establish a light-ship and fog-signal at Trinity Shoal, off the western coast of Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars.
Sandy Hook.For protecting the site of the east beacon, Sandy Hook, Now Jersey, from the encroachments of the sea, five thousand dollars. Steam Mill Point.For purchasing site at Steam Mill Point, Whitehall Narrows, New York, three hundred dollars. Cumberland.For purchase of additional land at Cumberland headlight station, New York, two hundred and fifty dollars. Isle La Motte.For establishing a better light and building a keeper’s dwelling at Isle La Motte, Lake Champlain, Vermont, five thousand dollars.
Reedy Island.That the amount expended for repairing and refitting the discontinued light-station at Reedy Island, Delaware Bay, to fit it for a fog-signal station, is hereby authorized to be charged to the appropriations for repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses relating to the fiscal years during which such repairs were actually made. 381 For general repairs and improvements at the general light-house andStaten Island depot. buoy depot at Staten Island, New York, ten thousand dollars.
For protecting the site of the Absecom light-house at Atlantic City,Absecom. New Jersey, twenty thousand dollars. To re-establish Reedy Island light, Delaware River, three thousandReedy Island. five hundred dollars. To establish lights on the Delaware River, from Deepwater Point toDelaware River. League Island, sixty thousand dollars. For repairs and protection of light-station in the fourth light-houseRepairs in Fourth District. district, damaged by storm of October third, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars.
That the balance of the appropriation made by the act of Jidy thirty-first,Paris Island. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for the establishment of range-lights at Hilton Head and Ray Point, entrance to Port Royal Harbor, South Carolina, is hereby made available for the construction of a range-light on Paris Island in the same harbor. For changing position of light on Fig Island, Savannah River, Georgia,Fig Island.Exchange Building, Savannah. and establishing a range-light on the tower of the Exchange Building, Savannah, and the Light-House Board is authorized to establish said range-light without cession of jurisdiction, provided the government*Jurisdiction.* shall be at no expense for rent, three thousand dollars.
For establishing a depot for buoys and supplies in the sixth light-house Buoy depot, Sixth District. district, ten thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of a light-house at or near AmericanAmerican Shoal. Shoal, Florida Reefs, Florida, fifty thousand dollars. For repairing the light-house at Northwest Passage, entrance to KeyNorthwest Passage. West Harbor, Florida, six thousand dollars. To reimburse keepers of Dog Island and Saint Mark’s light-stations,Keepers of Dog Island and Saint Mark’s.
Florida, for private property destroyed by a hurricane, nine hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-five cents. For rebuilding tower at South Pass entrance to Mississippi River,South Pass. Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars. For establishing a beacon-light to form a range with a large light toCalcasieu River. guide into the mouth of the Calcasieu River, Louisiana, one thousand five hundred dollars. For beacon-light on Frying-Pan Island, at the mouth of Saint Mary’sFrying-Pan Island.
River, Lake Huron, two thousand dollars. For continuing the erection of a light-house on Stannard’s Rock, LakeStannard’s Rock. Superior, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. For erection, removal, and repair of pier-head lights on the northernNorthern Lakes. and northwestern lakes, twenty-five thousand dollars. For establishing a first-class steam fog-signal at the light-station onSouth Farallon Island. South Farallon Island, California, twelve thousand dollars. For establishing a light-house and fog bell to mark the entrance toOakland Harbor.
Oakland Harbor, California, five thousand dollars. Point Pinos light-station, California : To pay amount of the decree ofPoint Pinos the United States circuit court, attorneys’ fees, and costs, in the case of the United States versus Theron R. Hopkins and others, a suit instituted for the purpose of obtaining condemnation of lands for light-house site, six thousand dollars. For establishing a depot for buoys and supplies in the twelfth district,Buoy depot, Twelfth District. ten thousand dollars.
For completing the light-house and fog-signal to be established atPoint Wilson. Point Wilson, Puget Sound, Washington Territory, twelve thousand dollars. For establishing duplicate steam fog-signals on the coasts of theFog-signals. United States, twenty thousand dollars. For building a steamer for service on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers,River-service steamer. thirty thousand dollars. For addition to the laboratory used by the Light-House Board forLaboratory. experiments with illuminating apparatus and materials, eight thousand dollars. 382 coast and geodetic survey.
Survey of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts : For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the Mississippi and other rivers, to the head of either tidal influence or ship-navigation ; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and current-observations along the above-named coasts, and in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, including its entrance into the Gulf, its course through the Caribbean and into and around the Sargasso Sea ; the triangulation toward the Western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys ; the triangulation of the Mississippi River from the northern boundary of the State of Mississippi to the Gulf; the usual coast-survey work of that part of Louisiana lying between the mouth of the Red River and the Gulf as a portion of the coast included in the operations of the Coast and Geodetic Survey ; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of the Western (Pacific) coasts : Survey of Pacific Coast. For every purpose and object necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, including the Columbia and other rivers, to the bead of either tidal influence or ship-navigation, deep-sea soundings, temperatures, currents, and dredgings along and also in the branch of the Japan Stream flowing off these coasts; the triangulation toward the. Eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Repairs of vessels : Vessels. For the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars. Publishing observations: Publishing Observations. For continuing the publication of observations, and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, six thousand dollars. General expenses : General expenses.
For rent of buildings for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. For rent of fire-proof building, number two hundred and five, New Jersey avenue south (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures), for the safe keeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts ; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey, five thousand dollars.
For rent of sub-office at San Francisco, two thousand dollars. For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts ; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts ; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand four hundred dollars. Charts to Senators and Members.That Senators, Representatives, and Delegates to the House of Representatives shall each be entitled to not more than ten charts published by the Coast Survey, for each regular session of Congress. under the commissioner of fish and fisheries.
Food-fishes.Propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Gulf and Great Lake. States, and of salmon, white-fish, carp, gourand, and other useful food-fishes, into the waters of the United States generally to which they are best adapted; also for the propagation of cod, hewing, mackerel, halibut, and other sea-fishes, and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of383 the decrease of food-fishes of the United States, seventy-five thousandFood-fishes, continued. dollars, which shall be immediately available.
Illustrations for Report on Food Fishes: For preparation of illustrations for the Report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars. For maintenance of the United carp ponds in the city of Washington and elsewhere, five thousand dollars. For collecting statistics of the sea-coast and lake fisheries of the United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy one, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For constructing, equipping and fitting a steam-vessel for the hatching of shad, cod, mackerel, halibut, and other fishes along the coast of the United States, to be built under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, according to the plans of the United States Fish Commission, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; to be available from the passage of this act. miscellaneous objects under the treasury department. Expenses of national currency:
National currency. For paper, engraving, printing, express charges, and other expenses, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Transportation of United Stales securities: For transportation ofTransportation of securities. notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, sixty thousand dollars; and so much of the act "making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes", approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and1879, ch. 329*Ante*, p. 191. seventy-eight, as authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue coin certificates in exchange for bullion deposited for coinage at mints and*Bullion certificates*. assay-offices other than those mentioned in section thirty-five hundred and forty-five of the Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby,R.
S. 3545. repealed ; said repeal to take effect at the end of the present fiscal year. Standard weights and measures: For construction and verification ofStandard weights and measures. standard weights and measures, including metric standards, for the custom-houses and other offices of the United States, and for the several States, and of mural standards of length in Washington, District of Columbia, five thousand dollars; for rent of workshops in building number two hundred and fifteen, South Capitol street, four hundred dollars ; for rent of fire-proof rooms in building number two hundred and five.
New Jersey avenue, south, for the safe keeping and preservation of finished weights, measures, balances, and metric standards, one thousand dollars; for fuel and lights, materials, transportation, traveling, and other miscellaneous expenses, six hundred dollars ; in all, seven thousand dollars. For contribution to maintenance of International Bureau of WeightsInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures. and Measures, in conformity with terms of convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one thousand nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, light, waterFuel, lights, water, etc., for public buildings. and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, hatchets, and hammers, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, throe hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Secretary of the Treasury*Leasing public property.* to lease, at his discretion fora period not exceeding five years, such unoccupied and unproductive property of the United States under his control, for the leasing of which there is no authority under existing law, and such leases shall be reported annually to Congress.
Furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings : For furnitureFurniture. and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including furniture for three new384 Furniture, continued.buildings, namely : Appraiser’s stores at San Francisco, court-house and post-office, at Atlanta, Georgia, and court-house and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Custodians and janitors.Pay of custodians and janitors :
For pay of custodians and janitors for ail public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, ninety thousand dollars. Heating apparatus.Heating apparatus for public buildings: For beating, ventilating, and hoisting apparatus, and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs of the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. post-office and court-house, new york.
Alterations of post-office New York.Alterations required to be made to remedy the defective ventilation of the basement and first story, including the mezzanine floor, thirty thousand dollars; extension of the mezzanine gallery, twelve thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-eight cents; total, forty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-eight cents. Plans for public buildings.Plans for public buildings: For photographing materials, and labor for duplicating plans tor all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Counterfeiting and other crimesSuppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other crimes against the government, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars. Agents at seal fisheries.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lien of moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars.
Rebel archives.Examination of rebel archives and records of captured property: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the records of captured and abandoned property examined, and information furnished therefrom, for the use and protection of the government, five thousand dollars. Charges and commissions.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to refund excess of duties and to pay costs in suits and proceedings in “charges and commissions cases” in which judgments may hereafter be obtained, or which may be compromised by said Secretary, fifteen thousand dollars *Extra pay to loan clerks in Treasury Department.*R.
S. 170.That section one hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes of the United States be so modified that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized, during the present fiscal year, to pay, out of the appropriation for refunding the national debt, a reasonable additional compensation to the clerks of his department who are actually employed upon the refunding of the national debt in addition to the usual business hours, and not exceeding five hundred dollars shall be allowed to any one individual, nor shall the aggregate of such allowances exceed ten thousand dollars.
Lands, etc., of United States.Lauds and other property of the United States: For custody, care, and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. 385 For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for theTreasury library library of the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed toReimbursement of Georgia. pay the State of Georgia seventy-two thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-four cents, in full settlement of advances made to the United States for the suppression of the Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee Indians in eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; and that said sum be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed toReimbursement of Kentucky. pay the State of Kentucky, on special settlement of the third and fourth installments other war claims under act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the sum of six thousand and ninety-one dollars and eighty-five cents, which has been confirmed by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed toReimbursement of Pennsylvania. pay to the State of Pennsylvania eight thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty-six cents, being the amount due said State on special settlement of her war claims, under the, act of July twenty-seventh,1861, ch. 21,12 Stat., 276. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An act to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in defense of the United States.
” To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, amounts advanced at the request of Major General R. C. Schenck, dated June twentieth, eighteen hundred andRepayment to Baltimore. sixty-three, to aid the United States in the construction of works of defense, the accounts to be passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, not to exceed the amounts examined, allowed, and approved by the Secretary of War, a sum not exceeding ninety-six thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For three additional clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer ofAssistant treasury New York. the United States at New York, two at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and one at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, for the service of the unexpired portion of the current fiscal year a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated. For salary to Charles Bryant, late special Treasury agent of the sealC. Bryant. islands in Alaska, from May fifteenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, inclusive, at the rate of three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per annum, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, four hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-nine cents.
For professional services rendered and expenses incurred by F. W.F. W. Viehe. Viehe, attorney-at-law, Vincennes, Indiana, in the case of the United States versus Hall-Neilson and others, involving the title claimed by the United States to a valuable tract of land situated in the city of Vincennes, Indiana, three thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and six cents. To pay John Sherman, junior, United States marshal for New Mexico, for services rendered and expenses incurred in paying per diem, witnesses, bailiffs, and other similar and necessary expenses in the investigation of the Una the Gato land grant in the Territory of New Mexico,J.
Sherman, jr. under authority given by the act of July twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-three cents. To pay B. R. Lewis and J. J. Coffee the balances due them as marshalB. R. Lewis.J. J. Coffee. and clerk respectively at the consulate-general at Shanghai, China, during their absence attending on subpoenas as witnesses before a committee of the House of Representatives, the sum of two thousand two hundred and three dollars and sixty-nine cents, to be available at once; and said Lewis and Coffee shall receive no allowance for witness fees and travelling expenses. 386 C.
H. Lord.To reimburse expenses incurred and paid by C. H. Lord, United States depositary at Tucson, Arizona, under Treasury Department instructions, three hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-seven cents. Frauds on customs revenue.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend, out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue.
Protection of seal islands.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue-steamers for the protection of the interests of the government on the seal islands, the the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, twenty thousand dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT signal service Observation and report of storms: Observation and report of storms. For the expenses of the observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments ; for telegraphing reports ; for expenses of storm signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life saving stations and light houses ; for instrument shelters ; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river reports ; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution ; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery ; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Construction, maintenance, and repair of military telegraph lines: Military telegraphs.For the construction and continuing the construction maintenance, and use of military telegraph lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers and in the northwest, for the connection of military posts and stations and for the better protection of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in the State of Texas and the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, and the Indian Territory, fifty thousand dollars, under the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy five.
For extension of the military telegraph lines from Fort Buford by way of the new post on the Milk River, Fort Benton and Fort Shaw to Helena, Dakota Territory, twenty thousand dollars. For the extension of the military telegraph fines from Fort Elliott, Texas, westward, twenty thousand dollars. armories and arsenals Springfield arsenal.For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery, not used for manufacturing purposes, of the arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars.
Rock Island arsenal : Rook Island arsenal. For shop G, an iron working and finishing shop for the arsenal, one hundred thousand dollars. For shop H, an iron finishing shop for the armory, fifty thousand dollars. For shop I, a wood working and leather working shop for the arsenal, fifty thousand dollars. For re-covering Fort Armstrong avenue and the cause-way to the Rock Island wagon bridge with macadam, and for putting a new floor on the Rock Island wagon bridge, six thousand dollars.
For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvement ; building new roads;387 care and preservation of the water power ; painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings and bridges and shores of the island ; building fences and grading grounds; and repairs of and extension of railroad, twelve thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and empowered to*Lease of water power at Moline.* lease the water power, at Moline, or such portion as maybe agreed upon, to the Moline Water Power Company upon such terms and conditions, and for such term of years as may be agreed upon, if the same can be done consistently with the interests of the Government of the United States.
Said lease to be made upon the condition that the said Moline*Conditions.* Water Power Company shall go on and complete the development of the water power and maintain it at its own cost and expense Benicia arsenal, Benicia, California : To rebuild the present wharf, fiveBenicia arsenal thousand dollars. Pikesville arsenal: Pikesville arsenal to be sold. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to dispose of the grounds, buildings, and appurtenances known as the Pikesville arsenal in the State of Maryland, by public sale to the highest bidder, tinning into the Treasury the net proceeds after paying cost of advertisement sale, and so forth : *Provided*, That if the State of Maryland shall, prior to the first of March, eighteen hundred and eighty, accept the same, it is hereby granted and donated to*May be given to Maryland.* said State, to be used for such militia or other purposes as the necessities of the State may require; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to transfer said property to the State of Maryland, to be held by it in trust for the use, benefit, and execution of the purposes of this giant.
For repairs of smaller arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expendituresRepairs. at arsenals as accident or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, thirty thousand dollars. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to remove the remains ofRemoval of remains of W. E. English. the late William E. English, first lieutenant Seventh
(7th)United States Infantry, who died at Deer Lodge, Montana, from wounds received at the battle of Big Hole Pass, Bitter Boot Mountain, August seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, to his former home in Jacksonville, Illinois, for final burial, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON AND THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. Improvement and care of public grounds : Public grounds in Washington. For filling in and improving grounds south of Executive Mansion, five thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and the nursery, one thousand five hundred dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation number three (Monument grounds), one thousand dollars. For construction and repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp posts, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, five hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, five hundred dollars. For trees, tree stakes, lime, whitewashing and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For flower pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care and construction and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving various reservations, ten thousand dollars. 388 For filling, leveling, and improving the park in front, of the Treasury and State Departments and the Executive Mansion, comprehended between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets, ten thousand dollars. Executive Mansion : Executive Mansion. For care of and repairs, refurnishing, and fuel for the Executive Mansion, and care of and necessary repair to the greenhouses, and fuel for the same, and re-covering the roof of the mansion with tin, twenty five thousand dollars; and so much as may be necessary to re-cover the roof, not exceeding two thousand dollars, is hereby made available immediately. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lamp posts, matches, and repairs of all kinds; lamps for Anacostia bridge ; fuel for office, for the watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses in the nursery, fifteen *Proviso.**Price of gas.*thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than twenty five dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas under any expenditure provided for in this bill ; and in ease a contract cannot be made at that rate, the engineer in charge is hereby authorized to substitute other illuminating material, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose. Repair of water pipes and fire plugs : Water-pipes,etc. For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion and the building for State, "War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Department telegraph.Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the, departments and the Government Printing Office: For repair and care of the same, one thousand dollars ; and the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds is hereby authorized to sell any condemned material or lines not needed by the departments, and cover the proceeds in the Treasury. State, War, and Navy Department building.Building for State, War, and Navy Departments : To complete the east wing and its approaches, and for continuation of construction of the north wing of the building five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be immediately available. miscellaneous objects under war department Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes.For the completion of the survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes, and to finish the field work and publication of maps, and all work pertaining to said survey except the preparation of the final report, eighty five thousand dollars. Furniture.For furniture for the portion of the new building about to be occupied by the War Department, fifty thousand dollars ; to be available immediately Expenses of military convicts : Military convicts.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, sixteen thousand dollars. Rebellion records.For continuing the preparation of the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate Armies, and for the compensation of temporary clerks and other employees engaged thereon, the collection of such Confederate records as may be placed at the disposal of the government by gift or loan, the rent of building, and the preservation of the Brady War Views, forty *Limit to employees.*thousand four hundred and ninety dollars: *Provided*, That not more than two clerks of class four, one clerk of class three, one clerk of class two, one clerk of class one, two clerks at one thousand dollars each, twelve copyists at nine hundred dollars each, one foreman of printing, one pressman, six compositors, two assistant messengers, one watchman, and one agent for the collection of Confederate records, shall be employed ; Headstones for soldiers’ graves.and the unexpended balance of the sum of one million dollars appropriated by act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy three, to erect headstones over the graves of soldiers who served in the regular or389 volunteer army during the war for the Union, is hereby continued and made available. For the purpose of payment of balance due for records, already purchased,Confederate records of the late Confederate States of America, of Colonel Thomas L. Snead, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For official postage stamps for the executive departments, as requiredForeign official postage. under Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, ten thousand dollars; to be available immediately. Support and improvement of the Leavenworth military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Leavenworth, military prison. For purchase of subsistence stores, oil, wicking, and fuel for heating and cooking purposes and running machinery, forty four thousand dollars; Forbay for prisoners’ beds; for blank books and stationery; for stoves and stove-pipe for use in buildings not heated by steam; for miscellaneous stores, drainage of grounds, disinfectants, and other general purposes, one thousand and forty dollars ; For material for clothing for each prisoner on discharge ; for payment of five dollars to each prisoner on discharge ; for expenses of pursuing, and payment of rewards for apprehension and delivery, of escaped prisoners, three thousand five hundred dollars; For hose for use in ease of fire and for filling cisterns, and for tools and materials in shops, one thousand dollars; For tobacco for issue to prisoners on special and excessive hard labor, four hundred dollars; For foreman and engineers, and mechanics and watchmen, and extra duty pay, seven thousand five hundred dollars ; United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia : Artillery School. To provide for text books, drawing material, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and of artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for the use of the school, tour thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For completion of the. United States barrack buildings at FortressBacracks at Fortress Monroe. Monroe, Virginia, thirty four thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to establish a military post in theMilitary post in Colorado. vicinity of Pagosa Springs, on the left bank of the San Juan River, in the State of Colorado, for the protection of the San Juan country, forty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to pay for rent of building at SanRent of buildings. Antonio, Texas, used as headquarters of the Department of Texas, from November first, eighteen hundred and seventy eight until June first, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, two thousand three hundred and ninety one dollars and sixty seven cents. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and transportation, one hundred thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldier’s : Surgical appliances. For providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars. For rebuilding of eight sets of officers’ quarters at Madison Barracks,Madison Barracks. Socket’s Harbor, New York, destroyed by fire on November sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy six, according to plans and specifications in the office of the Quartermaster General of the United States, twenty five thousand dollars. Support of transient paupers: Transient paupers. For care, support, and medical treatment of seventy five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients,390 in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution as the Surgeon General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars. Catalogue of library of Surgeon General’s Office.For printing and binding the first and second volumes of catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office, twenty thousand dollars; to be immediately available Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers : National Home for Volunteers. Current expenses, including repairs: For the Central Branch, for the Eastern Branch, for the Northwestern Branch, for the Southern Branch, and for barracks and other necessary construction purposes, for clothing of extra sizes and underclothing, for outdoor relief and incidental expenses,*Purchase of supplies.* eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars : Provided, That all purchases of supplies exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars at any one time shall be made upon public tender after due advertisement, and *New buildings.*that the expenditure for new buildings shall be expressly authorized in writing: *Provided*, That the estimates hereafter submitted for the support of the National Home shall be made in detail, specifying the *Detailed estimates*.several items of expenditure, and separating the cost of food and other supplies in the form usually adopted for the Army, and that this specification be made for each soldiers’ home separately. Road at Fortress Monroe.For the purpose of keeping in repair and protection of the road between Fortress Monroe and Mill Creek, Virginia, six thousand five hundred dollars. Military roads.For completion of the military road from Alamosa, Colorado, to Pagosa Springs, ten thousand dollars. For repairing the military road from Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, to Pagosa Springs, five thousand dollars. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement and repair of the military wagon road running from Scottsburgh to Camp Stewart in the State of Oregon ; said money to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. Buildings at Fort Snelling.For the purpose of constructing the necessary buildings, under direction of the Secretary of War, for headquarters of the Department of Dakota, at the military post of Fort Snelling, in the State of Minnesota, in accordance with the estimates of General Charles H. Tompkins, deputy quartermaster general of the United States Army, chief quartermaster of the Department of Dakota, one hundred thousand dollars. Army transportation.For the payment of arrears of Army transportation due such land grant railroads as have not received aid in government bonds as compensation 1874, ch. 285,18 Stat., 74.1874, ch. 114,18 Stat., 200.1875, ch. 133,18 Stat., 453.was withheld from, under the acts of June sixteenth and twenty second, eighteen hundred and seventy four, and March third, eighteen hundred and seventy five, to be adjusted by the proper accounting officers in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court in eases decided under the said acts, to be paid as other Army transportation, but in no event shall more than fifty per cent of the fall amount allowed by the Quartermaster-General be paid until the decision of the Court of Claims be had in each case, three hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. navy yards and stations. Navy yard, Mare Island, California : Mare Island drydock. For continuation of work on stone dry-dock, seventy-five thousand dollars. Repairs at navy-yards.Repairs and preservation at navy yards: For repairs at the different navy-yards and stations, and preservation of the same, three hundred thousand dollars. miscellaneous. Velocity of light.To enable the Secretary of the Navy to make certain expenditures in experimenting with a view to obtain a correct knowledge of the velocity of light, five thousand dollars. 391 For the United States Naval Observatory, the following items, to wit:Naval Observatory. For solar and stellar photography, one thousand dollars; for illustrations for report on the eclipse of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars ; for observing the California eclipse. January, eighteen hundred and eighty, six hundred dollars; and for thirty-five woodcuts of nebula in Orion, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars, which shall be immediately available. To pay certain claims for bounty for the destruction of enemy’s vessels,Destruction of enemy’s vessels. allowed under the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and duly certified by the proper accounting officers, one thousand two hundred and ten dollars and sixteen cents. For furniture and fitting up shelving, file cases, fire apparatus, andFurniture, etc., for new Navy Department. similar necessaries for the Secretary’s office and the bureaus of the Navy Department in the east wing of the new building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, to be available as required, under direction of the Secretary of the Navy, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs to the rope-walk building at the Boston navy-yard, Boston,Boston navy-yard. Massachusetts, new roof and new floors, and other necessary repairs, to make the building in good condition, twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay J. F. H. Claiborne amountJ. F. H. Claiborne. due him on adjusted account, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and ten cents. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to alter and repair the UnitedShip Antietam.States ship Antietam, so as to provide for the marines at League Island station, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. public buildings. Capitol extension : Capitol extension. For work on the Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, fifty thousand dollars : Provided, That, one thousand five hundred dollars of this amount may be used for the purchase of file-eases, or boxes for the file-room of the Clerk’s office of tho House of Representatives. And hereafter the disbursing clerk of the Department of*Disbursements for Capitol extension, etc.* the Interior is hereby required to act as disbursing clerk of the architect of the Capitol, and to disburse all moneys appropriated for the United States Capitol extension and improvement of the grounds, and to receive an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, to be paid out of said appropriation. No work of art or manufacture other than the property of the UnitedWorks of art, etc., in Capitol. States shall be exhibited in the National Statuary Hall, the Rotunda, or the corridors of the Capitol. For renewing and repairing portions of the heating apparatus in theHeating apparatus. Senate wing of the Capitol, four thousand dollars. To pay C. Brumidi for retouching and blending the picture in frescoFresco picture of dome. on the canopy of the dome of the Capitol, and for constructing a scaffolding under said picture, seven hundred dollars. Improving Capitol grounds: For improving Capitol grounds, sixtyCapitol grounds. thousand dollars. For payment of retained percentages on contracts made during theRoadways. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for paving roadways in Capitol grounds two thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-four cents. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: Lighting. For lighting Capitol and grounds about, the same, including Botanic Garden and Senate stable; for gas, pay of superintendent of meters, lamp lighters, and gas fitters ; for material for electrical battery. ; and for general repairs to lamps, pipes, and meters, thirty- thousand dollars. For the purchase of dynamo-electric machines to take the place of theDynamo-electric machines. batteries now used to ignite the gas in the rotunda, dome, tholus, and House of Representatives, twenty-four hundred dollars. 392 Parent Office building.Patent Office building : For the fire-proof reconstruction of the Patent Office building within the present walls, under the plans submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the unexpended balance of the amount l878, ch. 359,*Ante*, 225.appropriated for this purpose by the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which is hereby made available for the purpose originally intended ; to be expended under the supervision of a board consisting of the Commissioner of Patents, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Engineer in Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds. Reproducing patent drawings.To pay the American Photolithographic Company, the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Commissioner of Patents to reimburse said company for the actual expenses it incurred in reproducing ten copies of drawings in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine and eighteen hundred and seventy. Court-house, Washington, D. C.Repairs to court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs to court-house in the city of Washington, and for new furnaces, one thousand dollars. Agricultural Department grounds.Improvement of grounds, Department of Agriculture: For labor, new implements, purchase of trees for arboretum, and repairs of tools, six thousand five hundred dollars. Stable, etc.For stable and building for the better preservation of stock, tools, implements, grain, and so forth, one thousand five hundred dollars. PUBLIC LANDS. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands Registers and receivers.For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys, at ninety-four local land-offices, three hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred thousand dollars Depositing moneysFor expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public lands, ten thousand dollars. Timber lands.To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands forty thousand dollars, to be made available immediately. Surveys.For surveying the public lands three hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately. Private land claims in California.For surveying confirmed private land-claims in California at the rates per mile prescribed by law, and office expenses, seven thousand five hundred dollars. W. A. McKinney.For compensation to William A. McKinney for compiling the reports of the Committees of Private Land-Claims of the Senate and House of Representatives, from the Nineteenth Congress to the present time, and for making indexes and correcting proofs, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars in addition to his pay as clerk to the Committee on Private Land-Claims, which compilation is hereby ordered to be printed. For the preliminary survey of unconfirmed and survey of confirmed private land-claims in New Mexico at a rate not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, ten thousand dollars. Private land-claims in Arizona.For the preliminary survey of unconfirmed and survey of confirmed private land-claims in Arizona, at a rate not exceeding sixteen dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Testing surveys.Occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, inspect mineral deposits, coal fields, timber districts, and so forth, eight thousand dollars Surveying boundary of Wyoming.Survey of the northern boundary of Wyoming Territory, being that part of the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude included between the twenty-seventh and thirty-fourth meridians of west longitude from Washington Observatory, twenty thousand dollars. 393 For appraisement of lands and the buildings erected by the UnitedAppraisement of lands, etc.1874, ch. 323,18 Stat., 85. States, and the sale of the same to the highest bidder, in accordance with the act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, five thousand dollars. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continueReproducing defaced plats. to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys now on file, and constituting apart of the records of said office, twelve thousand dollars. For obtaining iron monument from the Colorado River, two hundred and five dollars and twenty-eight cents. For translating, copying, and indexing original Spanish archives, andSpanish archives in California preserving from destruction originals greatly defaced, in the office of the surveyor-general of California, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, nine thousand dollars. For purchase of an iron safe for the said original Spanish archives, one thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to protect, preserve, and improveYellowstone Park. the Yellowstone National Park, in compliance with section twenty-four hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes of the UnitedR. S. 2475. States, ten thousand dollars. offices of surveyors-general of public lands. Surveyors-General— Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Louisiana : For fuel,Louisiana. books, stationery, messenger hire, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Florida : For rentFlorida of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Minnesota: ForMinnesota. fuel, books, stationery, pay- of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Dakota : For rentDakota. of office of surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Colorado: ForColorado. rent of office tor surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico : ForNew Mexico. rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of California: ForCalifornia. fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Idaho: ForIdaho rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada: For rentNevada. of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Oregon : For fuel,Oregon. books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Washington: ForWashington rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent, expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: Nebraska and Iowa For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Montana : Montana. For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. 394 Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Utah: Utah. For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Wyoming : Wyoming. For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Arizona: Arizona. For rent of office for surveyor-genera], fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. *Office of Director created.*For the salary of the Director of the Geological Survey, which office is hereby established, under the Interior Department, who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, six thousand dollars: Provided, That this officer shall have the Duties.direction of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain And that the Director and members of *Interest in lands, etc.*the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations; and the *Surveys discontinued.*Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, and the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, under the Department of the Interior, and the Geographical Surveys West of the One hundredth Meridian, under the War Department, are hereby discontinued, to take effect on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred *Scientific collections to National Museum.*and seventy nine. And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, fossils, and objects of natural history, Archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer needed for investigations in progress shall be deposited in the National Museum. *Geological Survey.*For the expenses of the Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological structure ; mineral resources and products of the national domain, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred thousand dollars; *Codification of land laws.*For the expense of a commission on the codification of existing laws relating to the survey and disposition of the public domain, and for other purposes, twenty thousand dollars: *Commission to codify land laws; pay and expenses.**Provided*, That the Commission shall consist of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Director of the United States Geological Survey, and three civilians, to be appointed by the President, who shall receive a per diem compensation of ten dollars for each day while actually engaged, and their travelling expenses ; and neither the Commissioner of the General Land Office nor the Director of the United States Geological Survey, shall receive other compensation for their services upon said commission than their salaries, respectively, except Duties.their traveling expenses, while engaged on said duties; and it shall be the duty of this commission to report to Congress within one year from the time of its organization ; first, a codification of the present laws relating to the survey and disposition of the public domain ; second, a system and standard of classification of public lands; as arable, irrigible, timber, pasturage, swamp, coal, mineral lands and such other classes as maybe deemed proper, having due regard to humidity of climate, supply of water for irrigation, and other physical characteristics ; third, a system of land parcelling surveys adapted to the economic uses of the several classes of lands; and, fourth, such recommendations as they may deem wise in relation to the best method of disposing of the public land’s of the western portion of the United States to actual settlers. *Publications of Geological Survey.*The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating tire re-395 sources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of*Annual Report.* the Geological Survey shall accompany tire annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said survey*Special memoirs.* shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but otherwise in ordinary octavos. Three thousand copies of*Number.**Sales.* each shall be published for scientific exchanges and for sale at the price of publication ; and all literary and cartographie materials, received in exchange shall be the property of the United States and form a part of the library of the organization : And the money resulting from the sale*Proceeds.* of such publications shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, one hundred thousand dollars; For the preparation of reports, maps, and such other illustrations as*Geological Survey of Territories.* may be necessary for completing the office work of the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For the completion of the reports of the Geographical and GeologicalGeographical Survey of Rocky Mountain Region. Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region with the necessary maps and illustrations, twenty thousand dollars ; to be immediately available. For the preparation of reports, maps and such other illustrations asHundredth Meridian Survey. may be neccessary for completing the office work of the Geographical Surveys West of the One hundreth Meridian, under the direction of the Secretary of War, twenty thousand dollars; to be immediately available. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital for the insane. Current expenses, Government Hospital tor the Insane : For support,Insane of Army, etc. clothing and treatment of the insane of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue Cutter Service, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Government Hospital for the Insane, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ; and of this sum not exceeding one thousand dollars maybe used for transporting patients to their friends: *Provided**Indigent insane of District of Columbia.* That one half of the expense of the indigent patients from the District of Columbia shall be reported to the Treasury Department, and charged against the appropriations to be paid toward the expenses of the District by the general government, without regard to the date of their admission. For airing-courts for the recreation of the inmates, five hundred dollars ; Repairs, etc.for the completion of the rooms in the upper story of the bakery, one thousand five hundred dollars; for changing a portion of the roof and providing additional accommodations for employees in the attic story of the hospital building, five thousand dollars, in all, seven thousand dollars. For fire-pump and additional pipe and hose to complete the provisionFire apparatus. against fire, three thousand dollars. For the erection of suitable structures for the present accommodationBuilding of patients of the chronic class, to be immediately available, thirty thousand dollars. For general repairs and improvements five thousand dollars.General repairs. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. Current expenses, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb ; ForDeaf and Dumb. support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses in wrapping, tying, directing and packing the publicationsBureau of Education. of the Bureau of Education for distribution one thousand dollars. 396 freedmen’s hospital and asylum. Freedmen’s Hospital.Support of Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia ; For subsistence, eighteen thousand dollars ; for salaries and compensation, nine thousand three hundred and thirty six dollars; fuel and light, three thousand dollars; clothing and bedding, forage and transportation, miscellaneous expenses and repairs, five thousand nine hundred dollars; rent of hospital building and grounds, four thousand dollar’s; medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars ; in all, forty one thousand seven hundred and thirty six dollars. indian affairs. A. S. Lee’s heirs.That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay, or cause to be paid, in equal portions, to Susanna Marble, Millie Frances Lee, and John Abel Lee, heirs of Abel. S. Lee, or their legal representatives, the sum of two thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum from the ninth day of Juno, eighteen hundred and seventy two, out of any money due and owing, or that, may hereafter become due to the Kiowa tribe of Indians, on account of any treaty between the said tribe of Indians, and the United States; the said payment to be in full of all claims of the said heirs of said Abel S. Lee, and of the amount allowed them by the Indian Bureau for property belonging to said Abel S Lee, taken and destroyed by the said Kiowa Indians in the year eighteen hundred and seventy two. Celia C. Short.That there be paid Mrs. Celia C. Short, of Lawrence Kansas, the sum of five thousand dollars, in five annual installments of one thousand dollars each, out of any money that may hereafter be appropriated for the use and benefit of the Cheyenne Indians ; the first installment, 1879, ch. 87,*Ante*, 298.to be paid out of the money appropriated for said Indians by act of Congress approved February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, entitled “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and so forth”. C. P. BirkettThat so much of “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 1878, ch. 359*Ante*, 232.eighteen hundred and sixty nine and for other purposes”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, as is in the words following : “To pay to Charles P. Birkett the sum of thirty two thousand five hundred and five dollars and seventy one cents, to reimburse the said Birkett, late United States Indian agent, for amount expended by him for the benefit of the Indians at Ponca agency Dakota”, be and the same is hereby, repealed. *Claim of C. P. Birkett referred to Court of Claims.*And the said Charles P Birkett is hereby authorized and empowered to institute and prosecute suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of the amount claimed by him as provided in the act. aforesaid under the rules and regulations governing proceedings in said court, with the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States to either said Birkett or the United States from the judgment of the Court of Claims in said case Survey of Sioux lands in Dakota.For the survey of lands for allotments to the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail bands of Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory, ten thousand dollars. Removal Muache and other Ute Indians.For the removal of the Muache, Capote, and Weeminuche bands of Ute Indians to the new reservation provided for them under the terms of an agreement made by the United States through Edward Hatch, N. C. McFarland, and Lot M. Morrill, commissioners, and the above named bands of Ute Indians, at Pagosa Springs, in the State of Colorado, upon the ninth day of November, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and for the erection of suitable agency buildings, including residence for agent upon said new reservation, twenty thousand dollars. 397 smithsonian institution Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution ; For preservationNational Museum. and care of the collections of the National Museum, including those from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy six, twenty three thousand dollars. Distribution of duplicates; For expenses of making up into sets forDuplicate scientific specimens. distribution to colleges and museums, the duplicate ores, minerals, and objects of natural history belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory building ;National Museum. For expense of watching and storage of articles belonging to the United States, including those transferred from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy six, two thousand five hundred dollars. Additional security against fire; For providing additional securitySecurity against fire. against fire in the Smithsonian building for the government collections, in accordance with report of the commission appointed to examine the public buildings, December tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, three thousand dollars. For completing and preparing for publication the contributions toNorth American Ethnology. North American Ethnology, under the Smithsonian Institution twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That all the archives, records and materials*Proviso.* relating to the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, shall be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, that the work may be completed and prepared for publication underits direction ; *Provided* That it shall*Proviso.* meet the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. For a fire-proof building for the use of the National Museum threeBuilding for National Museum. hundred feet square, to be erected under the direction and supervision of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, in accordance with the plans now on file with the Joint Committee of Public Buildings and Grounds on the southeastern portion of the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: said building to be*Location.* placed east of the Smithsonian Institution, leaving a roadway between it and the latter of not less than fifty feet, with its north front on a line with the south face of the buildings of the Agricultural Department and of the Smithsonian Institution; and all expenditures for the purposes*Expenditures to be audited.* herein mentioned, not including anything for architectural plans, shall be audited by the proper officers of the Treasury Department. entomological commission For the completion of the work of the United States EntomologicalEntomological Commission. Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper and the cotton worm, the sum of ten thousand dollars. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. To pay George H. Giddings, late contractor, for one month’s extra payG. H. Giddings. on discontinuance of a portion of route numbered eight thousand and seventy six, Texas, which -went into effect July first, eighteen hundred and sixty one, in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney General, fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty three dollars and thirty three cents. COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims one hundred andJudgments. twenty five thousand dollars. 398 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. miscellaneous. Defending suits and claims for seizure of captured or abandoned property : Defending suits, etc. For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury or his agents for the seizure of captured or abandoned property, and for the examination of witnesses in claims against the United States pending in any department, and for the defense of the United States in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, twenty five thousand dollars. Prosecution and collection of claims: Collecting claims. For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due to the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts and frauds : Violation of in course acts. For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, three thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes : Prosecuting crimes. For detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; investigation of official acts, records, and accounts, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney General, twenty thousand dollars. Opinions of Attorneys General.To enable the Attorney General to pay for the editing and preparing for publication and the superintending of the printing of the fifteenth volume of the Opinions of the Attorneys General, including the expense of copying the same, one thousand dollars. JUDICIAL. united states courts. Support of convicts : Support of convicts. For support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, for support, of convicts transferred from other districts (and for collection of criminal statistics), to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney General, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah : Courts in Utah. For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including compensation of the United States district attorney, and the fees, per diem, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal in the Territory of Utah, with expenses of summoning jurors; subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be expended only under the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly *How used.*verified and certified, twenty thousand dollars. Ami this appropriation may be used, under the direction of the said department to defray the judicial expenses of the supreme and district courts of said Territory; *Reimbursement.*and the amount so used shall be reimbursed to said appropriation out of the treasury of said Territory : 1878, ch. 359*Ante*, 236.*Repealed*.That so much of the act “making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year, ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, and for other purposes”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, as requires the authorities of the county of Madison or town of Jackson, Tennessee, to provide suitable buildings free of any expense to the United States, for holding the United States district and circuit courts, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 1878, ch. 269*Ante*, 166.That the second section of an act entitled “An Act to provide for the holding of terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States399 at Fort Wayne, Indiana” approved June eighteenth eighteen hundred*U. S. Courts in Indiana.* and seventy eight, be and the same is, amended to read as follows ; " “Sec. 2. That the clerk of the district court and the clerk of the circuit court for the district of Indiana, and the marshal and the district attorney for said district, shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices respectively for said courts; and the clerks of said courts and the marshal shall appoint deputies, to reside and keep their offices at Fort Wayne, and who shall in the absence of their principals, do and perform all the duties appertaining to their said offices respectively” " BOTANIC GARDEN. For improvements and repairs to the buildings and grounds of theImprovement and repairs. Botanic Garden, as follows ; For two new boilers and additional pipe for conservatory and one propagating house, seven hundred and fifty dollars ; slate tables for west wing of the conservatory to replace rotten wood, three hundred dollars; plumbing, two hundred dollars; painting and glazing, eight hundred dollars ; carpenters work, three hundred dollar’s ; concrete bottom and completing rim to fountain and curb for beds around the same, five hundred and fifty five dollars ; hardware, one hundred dollars ; concrete walks, one thousand two hundred dollars ; brick work, one hundred dollars ; soil to fill beds to conform to new grade, and for resetting and raising main walk, one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars; in all five thousand four hundred and ninety five dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePrinting, binding, and paper. public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and tor lithographing, mapping and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, and the departments, and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, one million five hundred thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following respectively, namely : For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings andDistribution of appropriation. debates, seven hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars ; for the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, thirty nine thousand dollars ; for the Interior Department, one hundred and ninety one thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars ; for the Post Office Department, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eleven thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States thirty thousand dollars ; for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars ; for the Court of Claims, ten thousand dollars ; and for the Library of Congress, nineteen thousand dollars. For fire proof extension of the Government Printing Office building,Extension of Government Printing Office. upon plans approved by the Architect of the Capitol, and the work to be done under his direction, including heating apparatus and plumbing, said appropriation to be available during the present fiscal year, forty three thousand eight hundred dollars; and any expend time on a plan that shall cost a greater sum to complete it shall be deemed unlawful. For the purchase of portable fire extinguishers, one thousand dollars,Fire-extinguishers. after competitive test of such apparatus as may be presented by the agents or owners thereof. For the annual rental and necessary repairs of the telephones andTelephones. lines connecting the Capitol with the Government Printing Office and400 the several executive departments, three hundred dollars, of so much thereof as may be necessary. SENATE D. T. Corbin.To pay D. T. Corbin, late contestant for a seat in the United States Senate from the State of South Carolina, his expenses of such contest, ten thousand dollars. F. Brackett.To pay Frederick Brackett for services as additional clerk to the Committee on Appropriations under resolution of the Senate, in addition to any other compensation he may be receiving, seventy two dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Contested election expenses.That the parties named below, be allowed the amounts set opposite their names on account of expenses incurred by them respectively in contested election cases : Charles M Shelley, two thousand five hundred dollars; Jere Haralson, two thousand five hundred dollars ; P. D. Wigginton, two thousand five hundred dollars; Romualdo Pacheco, two thousand dollars; T. M. Patterson, two hundred and thirty seven dollars and thirty five cents; J. B. Belford, six hundred and sixty six dollars ; J. J. Finley, one thousand two hundred and sixty two dollars and seventy one cents; Horatio Bisbee, jr., four thousand dollars; J. H. Acklen, two thousand dollars ; C. B. Darrall, one thousand dollars; J. B. Elam, five hundred dollars; C. E. Nash, one thousand dollars; E. W. Robertson, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Benjamin Dean, one thousand and five hundred dollars; Walbridge A. Field, one thousand and five hundred dollars; John R. Lynch, one thousand dollars; Lyne S. Metcalfe, one thousand and seven hundred dollars; B. Graham Frost, two thousand dollars; James L. Nutting, four thousand dollars; James B. Reilly, four thousand dollars; John S. Richardson, two thousand dollars; Joseph H. Rainey, two thousand five hundred dollars; G. D. Tillman, two thousand dollars ; Robert Smalls, two thousand five hundred dollars ; Joseph Jorgensen, one thousand dollars; in all, forty six thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and six cents, to be immediately available. *Allowances for expenses of election contests.*That hereafter no contestee or contestant for a seat in the House of Representatives shall be paid exceeding two thousand dollars for expenses in election contests ; and before any sum whatever shall be paid to a contestant or contestee for expenses of election contests, he shall file with the clerk of the Committee on Elections a full and detailed account of his expenses, accompanied by the vouchers and receipts for *Accounts*each item, which account and vouchers shall be sworn to by the party presenting the same, and no charges for witness fees shall be allowed in R. S. 128said accounts unless made in strict conformity to section one hundred and twenty eight Revised Statutes of the United States. Payment to widows of deceased members.The following sums are hereby appropriated to pay the widows and heirs of members of the present Congress, lately deceased in conformity with the direction of the House of Representatives, namely ; To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the widow of Alpheus S. Williams, one thousand and seven dollars and eighty-eight cents. To pay the widow of Gustave Schleicher, seven hundred and thirty eight dollars and eighty five cents. 401 To pay Bessie Dandridge Douglas, Evelyn Spotwood Douglas, and Mary Ellen Douglas, children of B. B. Douglas, nine hundred and ninety four dollars and forty three cents ; to be divided and paid in equal sums to them respectively. To pay the widow of Julian Hartridge, seven hundred and sixty five dollars and seventy five cents. To pay the widow of Terrence J Quinn, three thousand five hundred and twenty five dollars and ninety five cents. To pay John W Polk, late Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives,J. W. Polk two months’ extra pay under resolution of the House of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty six cents. To pay John E Kelly balance due for services under the DoorkeeperJ.E. Kelly from December, eighteen hundred and seventy six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, one hundred and forty seven dollars and sixty cents. To pay services of L. Q. Washington as clerk to the Committee on theL. Q. Washington. Pacific Railroad, from January eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy six, to February twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy six, one hundred and eighty four dollars. To pay Edward L. Parris for services as clerk of the Special CommitteeE. L. Parris. on the Florida Elections appointed under resolution of December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy six, from December seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy six, to February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, and for expenditures made by him for said committee, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents. To pay the heirs or legal representatives of the late John E LeonardJ. E. Leonard. ainonnt of salary due him, four thousand eight hundred and twenty eight dollars and fifty seven cents. To pay George B. Hilton for forty two days’ services as page duringG. B. Hilton. the second session of the Forty fourth Congress, one hundred and five dollars. To pay F. M. Schulteis for forty seven days services as page in theF. M. Schulteis. House in the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. To pay Charles Christian for services as laborer in the office of theC. Christian. Sergeant at Arms of the House from July first to March fourth, inclusive, four hundred and six dollars and sixty six cents. To pay stenographers to Railroad Committee of the Senate for reportingStenographers. testimony and arguments before that committee, under resolution of the Senate instructing such committee to inquire into the expediency of authorizing railroad companies to do a commercial telegraph business, the sum of two hundred and twenty nine dollars and fifty cents. For services rendered and to be rendered in cleaning Statuary HallCaro of Statuary Hall. and watching statuary therein, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; to be disbursed as contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, subject to the approval of the Architect of the Capitol. To enable the Clerk of the House to have prepared for the PublicSummary Reports of Commissioners of Claims. Printer copies of the “Summary Reports” of the Commissioners of Claims in cases reported to Congress as disallowed under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy one, of which twenty five copies shall be printed and bound for the use of the Senate, and twenty five copies for the use of the House of Representatives, one thousand dollars or so much as may be necessary. To enable, the Sergeant at Arms of the House to pay the widow ofFrank Welch. Frank Welch, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay to Albert Ordway for services performed in preparing the GeneralA. Ordway. Index of the Journals of Congress from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, the date on which he entered on his duties, to July sixteenth eighteen hundred and seventy eight, the date on which402 he took an oath of office, the sum of one hundred and one dollars and ninety cents. M. M. HerrTo enable the Sergeant at Arms of the House to pay M M Herr for ninety four days services as messenger in Sergeant at Arms office, four hundred and seventy dollars. H.W. Spofford.To pay H. W. Spofford the balance of salary due him as clerk to the Committee on the Census from May thirteenth to January thirty first inclusive two hundred and sixty four dollars. Clerks to committees.That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the contingent fund, to the clerks authorized to be employed by the resolution adopted by the House March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, such compensation as may be fixed by the Committee of Accounts, upon proper certification by the chairman of the respective committees named in said resolution, whether said clerks were sworn or not at the time they were respectively employed. Alterations of Hall of House.For making the necessary changes and alterations for the proper heating, lighting, and ventilation of the Hall of the House of Representatives, according to the plans and specifications made by the Architect of the Capitol Extension, to be expended under the direction of the commission appointed by resolution of the House, thirty thousand dollars. A. ErdmanTo enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay A Erdman for services rendered by him in indexing and analyzing the testimony taken by the Committee on Public Expenditures in relation to the public printing and binding, three hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. Health bulletins.To meet the expenses of collecting the data upon which to prepare bulletins of health, to be issued from the office of the Surgeon General of the United States Marine Hospital, five thousand dollars, under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; to be paid out of the permanent appropriation for the above service. J. C. Myers.To enable the Secretary of State to pay John C. Myers late consul general at Shanghai, in full compensation for amount due him on settlement of his accounts, two thousand two hundred and eighty three dollars and eighty one cents. A. D. ShawTo reimburse A. D. Shaw, late consul at Toronto, the sum of six hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty seven cents, that being the amount of government funds deposited by him in the banking house of H. J. Morris and Company of Toronto, at the date of their failure in eighteen hundred and seventy three, no part of which has been reimbursed to him. D. L. Smith.To pay David L. Smith, late captain and assistant quartermaster in the United States Army, eight hundred and sixty nine dollars and forty seven cents, on account of subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and seventy one, and prior years, as per Comptroller’s report number one thousand five hundred and ninety seven, January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine. W. Beantor.To reimburse William Beantor, of Oregon, for moneys taken from him under the rules of the military prison at Fort Alcatraz, California, in eighteen hundred and seventy seven, by First Lieutenant William W. Fleming, Twelfth Infantry, and then treasurer of said prison, and which amount was subsequently embezzled by said Fleming, the sum of nine hundred and ninety two dollars and fifty seven cents Sec. 2. *Bounty, etc., to colored soldiers.*That all sums due upon certificates issued, or which may be issued by the accounting officers of the Treasury in settlement of claims for pay, bounty, prize money, or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors or marines, or their legal representatives, shall be paid by the officers of the Pay Department of the Army, under the direction of the Paymaster General, who is already charged with the payment of like dues to white soldiers: *Provided, first*, That no such certificate shall be 403 issued until it shall have been ascertained that the application is made*Identity of claimant.* by the original claimant, or, if he be dead, by his true living legal representative, nor until the identity of such claimant or representative as the case may be, shall have been duly established : *Provided*, That if*Attorneys’ fees* an agent or attorney be employed, the allowance for his services shall not in any case exceed that contemplated in the scale of fees and allowances fixed by the second section of a joint resolution approved July twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty six, entitled “Joint resolution1866, res. 8614 Stat., 368. amendatory of a joint resolution respecting bounties to colored soldiers, and the pensions, bounties, and allowances to then’ heirs”, approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty six, and such allowance shall1866, res. 46,14 Stat. 357. be stated in a separate certificate in favor of the agent or attorney simultaneously with the issue of a certificate for the amount due the claimant : *Provided further*, That the amount due the claimant, or his*Payments to claimants.* living representative, or the balance due after deducting the attorney’s fee, if any, shall be paid only to the party named in the certificate, and in current funds or by post office money order, and not by checks or drafts; an no power of attorney, transfer or assignment of the amount of such claims, or any part thereof, shall in any case be recognized; and the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may beExpenses. necessary, is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, and ten thousand dollars for the fiscal year, ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to meet the expenses incurred on account of payment of these claims, for salaries of agents and clerks, rent of offices, fuel and lights, stationery and printing, office furniture, , mileage and transportation of officers and agents, telegraphing, postage and post office money orders ; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, underPay of volunteers. the title “Pay of two and three years’ volunteers reappropriated”, for the payment of such of the claims in question as may be covered by Treasury certificates issued after the passage of this act, and previous to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty : *And provided further*, That the sum or sums now held by the Treasurer*Disposition of colored bounty fund in Treasury.* of the United States, turned over to him under the Attorney General’s decision of December thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, by the chief disbursing officer of the Freedmen’s Branch of the Adjutant General’s Office, as the balance in said officer’s hands of moneys due and unpaid on account of adjusted claims of the class contemplated in the first clause of this section, shall be turned over to the paymaster who may be charged by the Paymaster General with the payment of such claims, to be by him paid to the proper claimants under the restrictions imposed in said section. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Sec 3. That the sum of one million six hundred and thirty two thousandUnited State half of expenses. ninety eight dollar’s and seventy eight cents be, and is hereby appropriated for the purpose of paying one half of the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, namely: For improvements and repairs, as follows: Work on Boundary streetImprovements and repairs. auxiliary sewer, one hundred thousand dollars ; lateral sewers, fifteen thousand dollars ; work upon sundry avenues and streets, one hundred thousand dollars ; replacement of pavements, at not to exceed two dollars and twenty five cents per square yard, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; repairs to concrete pavements, one hundred thousand dollars ; material issued for permit work, fifteen thousand dollars ; in all, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For constructing, repairing, and maintaining bridges as follows:Bridges. Ordinary care of Benning’s, Anacostia, and Chain bridges, including fuel, oil, lamps, matches, and so forth, one thousand two hundred dollars ; replanking and painting Chain bridge, two thousand five hundred dol404lars : repairing Benning’s bridge and its carriage ways, two thousand five hundred dollars; raising embankments of Anacostia bridge and repairing piers and abutments, three thousand dollars ; repairs of Rock Creek bridges, one thousand dollars; in all ten thousand two hundred dollars: *Tracks on Anacoetia bridge.*And one of the two railroad tracks now on said Anacostia bridge shall be at once removed. Charities, etc.For maintaining institutions of charity, reformatories, and prisons, as follows: Washington Asylum.Washington Asylum : One commissioner, two hundred dollars; one intendant, nine hundred and sixty dollars ; one matron, six hundred dollars ; one visiting physician, one thousand two hundred dollars; one resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars ; one resident physician, three hundred and sixty dollars ; one clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; one baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; six overseers, at six hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one watchman, three hundred dollars ; three watchmen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each, five hundred and forty dollars ; one driver, one hundred and twenty dollars; one hostler, sixty dollars ; one cook, one hundred and twenty dollars ; two cooks, at sixty dollars each, one hundred and twenty dollars; five nurses, at sixty dollars each, three hundred dollars ; contingent expenses, including provisions, fuel, forage, lumber, hardware, shoes, dry goods, medicines, and miscellaneous items, thirty five thousand three hundred dollars ; total Washington Asylum, forty five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; Georgetown Almshouse.Georgetown Almshouse : Support of inmates, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Insane Asylum.Hospital for the Insane: Board and clothing of inmates, seventeen thousand dollars ; Transportation of paupers, etc.Transportation of paupers and conveying prisoners to workhouse, two thousand five hundred dollars; Reform School.1875, ch. 90,19 Stat., 51.Reform School, District of Columbia ; Salaries, fuel and incidentals, repairs and improvements, twenty thousand dollars; mid section thirteen of the act entitled “An act revising and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia, approved May thud, eighteen hunched and seventy six”, is hereby continued in full force; Lying in Asylum.For the support and maintenance of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying in Asylum, twelve thousand dollars; Children’s Hospital.For the support and maintenance of the Children’s Hospital, five thousand dollars; Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum.For Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, five thousand dollars; Industrial Home SchoolFor the Industrial Home School, five thousand dollars ; Colored women and children.For the National Association for Colored Women and Children, six thousand five hundred dollars; Women’s Christian Association.For the Women’s Christian Association, five thousand dollars Relief of poor.Relief of the poor, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty eight thousand three hundred dollars. Howard UniversityHoward University, for maintenance, ten thousand dollars. Aqueduct.For the Washington Aqueduct, as follows; Engineering, maintenance, and general repairs, twenty thousand dollars. general expenses. Salaries and contingent.For salaries and contingent expenses, as follows; Executive office proper: Executive office. Two Commissioners, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; one secretary two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two temporary405 clerks, arranging, classifying, and preserving records of former governments, at three dollars per day each, one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight dollars; one temporary clerk, arranging, classifying, and preserving records of former governments, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, four hundred and sixty nine dollars and fifty cents; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, two thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; in all, twenty one thousand dollars. Auditor and comptroller’s office: Auditor and comptroller’s office. Auditor and comptroller, three thousand dollars; one book-keeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars, four thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, in charge of special assessment branch, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and forty dollars; two clerks, at one dollar and fifty’ cents per day each, nine hundred and forty dollars; in all, nineteen thousand dollars. Sinking fund office: Sinking fund office. Two clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars; contingent expenses, three hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Coroner’s office : Coroner’s office One coroner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and jury and witness fees, seven hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Collector’s office: Collector’s office. Collector, three thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars ; one clerk, one thousand dollars, one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars ; one clerk, at three dollars per day, nine hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; contingent expenses, including hooks, stationery, printing, and miscellaneous items, four thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars ; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Attorney’s office : Attorney’s office. One attorney, four thousand dollars; one assistant attorney, one thousand nine hundred dollars; one special assistant attorney’, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one hundred and ninety two dollars ; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, nine hundred and eighty eight dollars ; in all, nine thousand dollars. And for the expenses of a revision of the laws of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars. Treasurer’s office: Treasurer’s office. Treasurer and assessor, three thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: one messenger, nine hundred dollars ; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, car fare, and so forth, two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred dollars. Inspector’s of buildings office: Inspector of buildings’ office. One inspector, two thousand four hundred dollars; one assistant inspector and draughtsman, one thousand seven hundred dollars; one assistant inspector, one thousand dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, three hundred dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Superintendent’s of assessments and taxes office : Assessment office. One superintendent, two thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; contingent expenses, books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. That from and after the passage of this act, a certain piece of property*Edgewood exempt from taxes.* situated about two and one half miles north of the Capitol, being 406 the property known as “Edgewood”, of the estate of the late Chief Justice of the United States, Salmon P. Chase, and all the buildings, grounds, and property appurtenant thereto, and used in connection therewith, in the District of Columbia, shall be exempt from any and *Proviso.*all taxes or assessment, national, municipal, or county : *Provided*, That such exemption shall continue only until the thirtieth day of Juno, anna Domini, eighteen hundred and eighty ; and all taxes, together with the interest anti penalties now due and unpaid, upon said property, shall be, and they hereby are, remitted. Inspector’s of gas and meters, office: Inspector of gas’s office. One inspector, two thousand dollars; one assistant inspector, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. Assessor’s office : Assessor’s office Two clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, four hundred and sixty nine dollars and fifty cents ; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, temporary clerks, and so forth, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and fifty cents ; in all, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Harbor master, etc.Harbor master of Georgetown, eighty dollars ; sealer of weights and measures, eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty dollars. Engineer’s office : Engineer’s office. One chief clerk, one thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars ; one clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars ; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars ; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; one clerk, at three dollars and twenty cents per day, one thousand and one dollars and sixty cents; one clerk at three dollars per day, nine hundred and thirty nine dollars ; one computing engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars ; one draughtsman, one thousand dollars ; one leveller, one thousand six hundred dollars; two levellers, at four dollars per day each, two thousand five hundred and four dollars ; two rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; one axeman, at two dollars per day, six hundred and twenty six dollars; one axeman, six hundred dollars; one inspector of asphalt pavements, two thousand four hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars ; one inspector, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, eight hundred and eighty two dollars and fifty cents; eleven inspectors, at four dollars per day each (employed for six months), six thousand eight hundred and eighty six dollars; two overseers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one overseer, nine hundred and sixty dollars ; one overseer, at four dollars per day, one thousand two hundred and fifty two dollars; one superintendent of property, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one watchman at property yard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two watchmen at property yard at one dollar and fifty cents per day each, one thousand and ninety five dollars ; one inspector of fuel, at two dollars per day, six hundred and twenty six dollars; one janitor of public buildings, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; two watchmen at public buildings, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer, at one dollar and twenty five cents per day, three hundred and ninety one dollars and twenty five cents; one laborer, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one superintendent- of permits, one thousand four hundred dollars; one sewertapper, one thousand dollars ; two messengers, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; one driver, six hundred dollar’s; contingent expenses, books, stationery, and so forth, four thousand nine hundred and twenty seven dollars and fifteen cents; in all, fifty three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. 407 Fuel, ice, repairs, general miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, forMiscellaneous. District offices, three thousand dollars. For the public schools of the District of Columbia as followsPublic schools. One superintendent two thousand seven hundred dollars, one superintendent two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars one secretary, one hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk to committee of accounts, board of trustees, one hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; five teachers at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; one teacher, one thousand six hundred dollars ; two teachers, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each, two thousand seven hundred dollars ; one teacher, one thousand three hundred dollars; one teacher, one thousand two hundred dollars; one teacher, one thousand one hundred dollars; fifteen teachers, at one thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars; one teacher, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two teachers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred dollars; twelve teachers, at nine hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; ten teachers, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each, eight thousand five hundred dollars; twenty teachers, at eight hundred dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars; thirty one teachers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, twenty three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fifty one teachers, at seven hundred dollar’s each, thirty five thousand seven hundred dollars; fifty seven teachers, at six hundred and fifty dollars each, thirty seven thousand and fifty dollars; eighty three teachers, at six hundred dollars each, forty nine thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty five teachers at five hundred and fifty dollars each, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars ; ten teachers, at five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars, five teachers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars ; twelve teachers, at four hundred and twenty five dollars each, five thousand one hundred dollars; fifty teachers, at four hundred dollars each, twenty thousand dollars; one temporary teacher, three hundred and fifty dollars; six teachers, at two hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars ; one janitor, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars, one janitor, one thousand one hundred and two dollars ; one janitor, one thousand and eighty seven dollars; one janitor, nine hundred and twenty two dollars; one janitor, nine hundred and fourteen dollars; one janitor, nine hundred dollars ; one janitor eight hundred and eighty dollars; one janitor, eight hundred and fifty dollars; one janitor, six hundred and eighty two dollars; one janitor, six hundred and twenty two dollars, one janitor, six hundred and two dollars; one janitor, five hundred and eighty eight dollars ; one janitor, five hundred and eighty four dollars ; one janitor, five hundred and eighty two dollars, one janitor five hundred and forty dollars : one janitor, four hundred and thirty dollars, two janitors, at three hundred and eighty four dollars each, seven hundred and sixty eight dollars; two janitors at two hundred and eighty eight dollars each, five hundred and seventy six dollars; one janitor two hundred and fifty dollars; one janitor, two hundred and thirty dollars; one janitor, two hundred and twenty five dollars; one janitor, two hundred and sixteen dollars; one janitor, one hundred and ninety two dollars; three janitors, at one hundred and seventy two dollars each, five hundred and sixteen dollar’s ; one janitor, one hundred and eighty dollars, one janitor, one hundred and fifty dollars, two janitors, at one hundred and sixty dollars each, three hundred and twenty dollars; one janitor, one hundred and forty dollars; one janitor, ninety two dollars and twenty three cents, six janitors, at eighty six dollars and forty cents each, five hundred and eighteen dollar’s and forty cents; twelve janitors, at eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; three janitors at one hundred and twenty dollars each, three hundred and sixty dollars; four janitors at sixty dollars each, two hundred and forty dollars; eleven janitors, at fifty four dollars each, five hundred and ninety four 408 Public schools, continued.dollars; nine janitors, at fifty dollars each, four hundred aid fifty dollars, additional teachers and increase of pay by continuous service, twenty two thousand dollars; rent of school buildings, thirty thousand dollars; fuel, twelve thousand dollars ; repairs to school buildings, twenty five thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, printing, insurance, and miscellaneous items, twenty one thousand five hundred and eighty seven dollars and thirty seven cents; for the construction of two new school buildings, purchase of lots, and furniture, complete and ready for occupancy, at thirty seven thousand *Donation of lots for school building.*five hundred dollars each, seventy five thousand dollars: Provided, That two lots on square one hundred and fifty eight, south side of Massachusetts avenue and west of Seventeenth street, belonging to the United States, may be used by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for school purposes and they may erect one of said school houses *Supervision of construction.*thereon : *And provided*, That the inspector of buildings of the District shall have authority and control over and supervision of the construction and repairs of all school buildings if the Commissioners deem best to delegate the same to him ; in all, four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Metropolitan police.For the Metropolitan police, as follows ; One major and superintendent, two thousand six hundred and sixty six dollars; one captain, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one property clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars ; three surgeons, at four hundred and fifty dollars each, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars ; six detectives, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; ten lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twelve thousand dollars; twenty sergeants, at one thousand one hundred and forty dollars each, twenty two thousand eight hundred dollars; seven acting sergeants, at one thousand and eighty dollars each, seven thousand five hundred and sixty dollars ; seventy three privates, class one, at nine hundred dollars each, sixty five thousand seven hundred dollars; one hundred and twenty privates, class two, at ten hundred and eighty dollars each, one hundred and twenty nine thousand six hundred dollars; sixteen station keepers at five hundred and sixteen dollars each, eight thousand two hundred and fifty six dollars; eight laborers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; two telegraph operators at seven hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; one major and superintendent, mounted service, three hundred and sixty dollars; one captain, mounted service, two hundred and forty dollars; fifty lieutenants, sergeants and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each, twelve thousand dollars ; rent of police station houses and police headquarters, six thousand two hundred dollars; fuel, one thousand five hundred and forty three dollars; repairs to station houses, one thousand two hundred dollars; miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, gas, telegraphing, ice, washing, printing, meals to prisoners, repairs to van, and so forth ; twelve thousand one hundred and eighty four dollars; in all three *Provisos.*hundred and five thousand two hundred and forty dollars; *Provided*, That all new appointments shall be made to class one; *And provided*, That the number in any class shall not at any time exceed the number herein designated. Fire department.For the fire department and fire alarm, as follows: Two commissioners (one of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to represent the interests of the general government on said board of commissioners), at two hundred dollars each, four hundred dollars; one commissioner and secretary, four hundred dollars ; one chief engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars ; one assistant engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one superintendent of fire alarm telegraph; one thousand five hundred dollars; two telegraph operators, at one thousand409 dollars each, two thousand dollars; eight foremen at one thousand dollarsFire department, continued. each, eight thousand dollars ; six engineers, atone thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; six firemen, at eight hundred each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; two tillermen, at eight hundred dollars each, one thousand six hundred dollars; eight hostlers at eight hundred dollars each, six thousand four hundred dollars ; forty eight privates, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, thirty four thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; six privates, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, temporarily employed, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; repair’s to engine houses one thousand dollars; fuel, five hundred dollars; purchase of horses, two thousand dollars; repairs to apparatus, five thousand dollars ; contingent expenses, including hose, forage, stationery, horseshoeing, washing, and miscellaneous items, twenty five thousand four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and five thousand seven hundred dollars. For the courts, as follows: Police court, one judge, three thousandPolice court. dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; one deputy clerk, one thousand dollars; two bailiffs, at three dollars per day each, one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, five hundred and forty dollars; one justice of the peace, acting as judge in judge’s absence, six hundred and twenty dollars; United State’s marshal’s fees, two thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars; rent of building for police court, one thousand seven hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, witness fees, and miscellaneous items, two thousand and forty six dollars; judicial expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For the streets, as follows: Removal of garbage, ten thousand threeStreets, etc. hundred and fifty five dollars; street lamps, lighting, extinguishing, and gas, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars; repairs to street lamps, one thousand dollars; erection of street lamps, one thousand five hundred dollars; matches for use of lamp lighters, thirty dollars; one superintendent, eight hundred dollars; four lamp lighters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; one lamp lighter, one hundred and twenty dollars: Parking commission, one superintendent, twelve hundred dollars; one assistant superintendent, seven hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree straps, tree stakes, planting and care of trees, whitewashing, care of parks, and miscellaneous items, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars: Current work of repair’s of streets, alleys, county roads, and so forth, one overseer of repairs, two thousand dollar’s; one clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; four supervisors of roads, at nine hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; labor, cart hire, materials and miscellaneous items, seventy five thousand five hundred dollars ; sweeping, cleaning, and sprinkling streets and avenues, thirty five thousand one hundred dollars; cleaning alleys, seven thousand five hundred dollars; repairs to pumps, two thousand five hundred dollars ; cleaning Tiber sewer, ten thousand dollars ; in all, three hundred and twenty six thousand four hundred and fifty five dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, as follows : Markets, one market master,Miscellaneous expenses. one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ; one market master, one thousand five hundred dollars ; two market masters, one thousand eight hundred dollars; contingent expenses, including gas, repairs, and miscellaneous items, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; rent of market site and property yards, one thousand one hundred and seventy five dollars ; hay scales, two hundred dollars ; rent of District offices, six thousand dollars; general advertising, seven thousand dollars; miscellaneous items, books to register of wills, printing checks, damages, and so forth, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand three hundred and seventy five dollars. For the health department, as follows: One health officer, three thou-Health office.410FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 182, 183. 1879.sand Health office, continued.dollars; six sanitary inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars. seven thousand two hundred dollars ; two food inspectors, at twelve hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; clerks, seven thousand dollars, one pound master, one thousand dollars; contingent expenses, including books, stationery, fuel, rent, disinfectants, and miscellaneous items, three thousand eight hundred dollars ; in all, twenty four thousand four hundred dollars. Interest and sinking fund.For the interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, one million one hundred and fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-five cents. *Sinking fund for 3–65 bonds.*1878, ch. 180,*Ante*, 104.And there is hereby appropriated, out of the proportional sum which the United States may contribute toward the expenses of the District of Columbia in pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and annually thereafter, such sums as will, with the interest thereon at the rate of three and sixty-five hundredths per centum per annum, be sufficient to pay the principal of the three-sixty-five 1874, ch. 337,18 Stat., 120.bonds of the District of Columbia, issued under the act of Congress approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, at maturity; which said sums the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually invest in said bonds at not exceeding the par value thereof; and all bonds so redeemed shall cease to bear interest, and shall be cancelled and destroyed in the same manner that United States bonds are cancelled and destroyed. Contingent.For general contingent expenses of the, government of the District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars. *Deposits and payments*.All moneys appropriated under this act, together with all revenues of the District of Columbia from taxes or otherwise, shall be deposited, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, in the Treasury, as required 1878. ch. 180*Ante*, 105.by the provisions of section four of an act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and shall be drawn therefrom upon requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such requisitions specifying the appropriation upon which the same is drawn; and in no case shall such appropriations be exceeded, either in requisition *Settlements of accounts.*or expenditure; and the accounts for all disbursements shall be made monthly to the accounting officers of the Treasury by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, upon vouchers certified by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia as now required by law. And section 1877, ch. 11719 Stat., 396.two of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, entitled “An act tor the support of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, and for other purposes” be and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, March 3, 1879.
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