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CHAP. 183.— An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for prior years, and for those heretofore treated as permanent, 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.Deficiencies. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for former years, and for other purposes, namely :
SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION. Southern Claims Commission.For salaries of the commissioners, the clerk, reporter, and messenger, six thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-four cents : *Provided*, That so much of the appropriation for contingent exFORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SESS. III. Ch. 183. 1879.411penses of the Southern Claims Commission macle by the legislative act approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as may*Transfer.* be necessary, not exceeding seven thousand dollars, is hereby transferred for the payment of salaries of investigating agents and their expenses, and for additional clerks, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
UNDER THE COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of judgments of the United States Court of Claims, as follows : To Frank O. Kihlberg, six hundred and eight dollars and ninety-nineJudgments of Court of Claims. cents ; Andrew C. Bradley, to use of A. R. Shepherd, to use of George Taylor and others, trustees, one thousand eight bandied dollars ; the International Steamship and Railway Supply Company, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ; William C. Rawolle, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-six cents;
Edward Hunter, seventy-three dollars and four cents; F. H. E. Ebstein, one hundred and fifty dollars; George F. Foote, two hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-three cents ; Frank K. Upham, eighty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents; Thomas T. Knox, two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents; William V. Richards, three hundred and twenty three dollars and three cents; James Miller, one hundred and forty five dollars; Francis Moore, one hundred and forty dollars and twenty-seven cents;
Richard I. Eskridge, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents ; George Searing, four thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-four cents ; George W. Griffin, surviving partner of the firm of Griftin and Porch, two thousand six hundred and seventy nine dollars and twelve cents; David E. Godwin, dative tutor of the minor children of Henry S. Hall, deceased, one thousand five hundred and ninety one dollars and sixty two cents; James W. Goslee, two hundred and eight dollars and eighty six cents;
Adolphus Erdman, two hundred and forty six dollars ; William Crosby, four hundred and ninety one dollars and seventy eight cents ; E. M. Peterson, administrator of Samuel Ruth, deceased, one thousand four hundred and seventy seven dollars and twenty one cents ; James F. Buckner, one hundred and seventy seven dollars and seventy six cents ; Adolph and Samuel Woolner, copartners under the name of A. and S. Woolner, eight hundred and one dollars ; Kyran A. Murphy, two hundred and sixty two dollars and sixty eight cents ;
Joseph S. Emery forty three thousand one hundred and ninety nine dollars and forty nine cents; John C. Grund and Company, forty seven dollars and fifty cents; Joseph S. Farden, one hundred and sixty three dollars and five cents; Jane Quinn, administratrix of David Quinn, deceased, one thousand seven hundred and forty dollars ; Platt M. Thorn, five, hundred and fifty eight dollars and thirty three cents ; to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, fifty eight thousand two hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; in all, one hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty two dollars and eighty four cents.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. foreign intercourse. For salaries of second secretaries of legation to Great Britain, France,Secretaries of legation. and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to make such allowance as he shallBayard Taylor. deem just and equitable to the widow of the late Bayard Taylor, late minister to Germany, for the extraordinary expenses and losses incurred by the estate of said minister in consequence of his dying within a short period after his arrival at his post of duty, the sum of seven thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 412 Justin Colburn.To enable the Secretary of State to make such allowance as he shall deem just and equitable to Mary E.
Colburn, widow of the late Justin E. Colburn, late consul-general to Mexico, for the extraordinary expenses and losses incurred by the estate of the said consul-general in consequence of his dying within a short period after his arrival at his post of duty, the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. territorial governments. For certain amounts fully set forth in detail on pages three, four, five, six and seven of House Executive Document Number-Thirty one, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, being letter of the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the various departments to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, and prior years :
Territorial expenses.For the legislative and contingent expenses of the Territories, as follows: Dakota.For the Territory of Dakota, one thousand three hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety cents, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven. Idaho.For the Territory of Idaho, for eighteen hundred and seventy seven, one thousand seven hundred and twenty seven dollars and fourteen cents ; for eighteen hundred and seventy eight two hundred and fifty dollars ; and for eighteen hundred and seventy nine, four thousand eight hundred and fifty eight dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred and thirty five dollars and fourteen cents.
Montana.For the Territory of Montana, two thousand four hundred and fifty eight dollars. Wyoming.For the Territory of Wyoming, for eighteen hundred and seventy seven, four hundred and forty six dollar’s and thirty three cents ; and for eighteen hundred and seventy eight, three thousand three hundred and fifty nine dollars and fifty four cents ; in all, three thousand eight hundred and five dollars and eighty seven cents. New Mexico.For the Territory of New-Mexico, eight hundred dollars, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy eight.
Legislative expenses.For legislative expenses, namely : For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, and clerks, and contingent expenses thereof, and for rent, light, fuel, printing, stationery, and incidentals, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy nine, for the following Territories, namely : Arizona.Dakota.Idaho.Montana.For Arizona, four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for Dakota, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars ; for Idaho, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars ; and for Montana, five thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. miscellaneous.
Checks and certificates of deposit, Independent Treasury : Checks and certificates. For a new supply of checks to be used in the place of coin-checks now on hand and rendered useless under the operations of the resumption act, and for the increased number of checks now used in the redemption of United States bonds, and in the payment of interest under the different loans, two thousand dollars. Arms for protecting public money, etc.That upon the request of the head of any department, the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue arms and ammunition whenever they may be required for the protection of the public money and property, and they may be delivered to any officer of the department designated by the head of such department, to be accounted for to the Secretary of War, and to be returned when the neces-413sity for their use has expired.
Arms and ammunition heretofore furnishedReceipt for arms. to any department by the War Department, for which the War Department has not been reimbursed, may be receipted for under the provisions of this act. Salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue ; being for theInternal revenue. year eighteen hundred and seventy nine, twenty five thousand dollars. For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy nine, twenty five thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers of internal revenue, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, two hundred and seventy seven dollars and seventy eight cents. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department, freight and telegrams,Contingent, Treasury Department. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, two dollars and sixty four cents. Life-saving sendee, contingent expenses: For fuel for life-saving andLife-saving service. life-boat stations and houses of refuge, repairs and outfits for the same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations ; traveling expenses 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, ten thousand dollars.
For Thirty Mile Point light station, New York, for the fiscal yearThirty Mile Point light station. eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen dollars and fifty two cents. For contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, as set forth inContingent, Treasury Department. detail in House Executive Document Number Thirty one, third session of the Forty fifth Congress, referred to above, two thousand and fifty two dollars and thirteen cents. For gas, drop-lights, and tubing, gas-burners, brackets, and globes, candles, lanterns, and wicks, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy nine, four thousand dollars.
That in the settlement of the accounts of Henry C. De Ahna, late collectorH. C. De Ahna. of customs at Sitka, Alaska, in addition to the salary and fees to which the said De Alma is entitled under existing law, the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and pay to the said De Alma the further sum of one thousand five hundred dollars in full compensation for all expenses incurred and losses sustained by the said De Alma in traveling to and from Alaska and in obtaining and furnishing the Treasury Department with reports concerning the condition of public affairs in said Territory.
And said sum of one thousand five hundred dollars is for that purpose hereby appropriated out of any money in the. Treasury not otherwise appropriated. To refund to B. Maddocks, owner of the schooner Ocean King, ofB. Maddocks. Gloucester, Massachusetts, the sum of forty five dollars. To adjust the settled account of James Crawford, superintendent ofJ. Crawford. the mint at Carson, Nevada, on account of wages of workmen, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, one thousand three hundred and thirty two dollars and ninety two cents, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five.
To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Treasury Department, for printing commissions of revenue marine officers, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, sixty three dollars and eighty cents. To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for engraving, printing, and similar necessary expenses, disbursing414 officers’ transfer and interest checks, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy eight, one thousand three hundred and ninety two dollars and eighty cents.
Customs duties.1878, ch. 191,*Ante*, 128.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, made by the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, for the repayment to importers of the excess of deposits for unascertained duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, including interest and costs in judgment cases, is hereby continued and made available for the payment of all claims to which the appropriation is applicable, which are not payable from the R.
S. 3689.*Proviso.*permanent annual appropriation provided for in section thirty six hundred and eighty nine of the Revised Statutes: Provided, That the claims known as the “charges and commissions cases” shall not be paid without further legislation. coast and geodetic survey. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: Survey of Atlantic and Gulf coasts. For the continuation, during the present fiscal year, of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the triangulation toward the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys, fifteen thousand dollars.
Survey of the western (Pacific) coasts: Survey of Pacific coast. For the continuation, during the present fiscal year, of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, the triangulation toward the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys, twenty five thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Auditor of Railroad Accounts.For salaries and expenses of the Office of Auditor of Railroad Accounts, two thousand four hundred dollars. J. F. Swift.To pay John F. Swift, late pension agent at San Francisco, the amount found due to him on settlement of his account, one hundred and twenty three dollars and four cents.
Stationery, Interior Department.For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus, five thousand dollars. indian affairs. Subsistence Indians.Arapahoes and others.For subsistence, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy nine, of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, of the Indian Territory, thirty thousand dollars. Bannocks and others.For the Bannocks and others at Fort Hall, Idaho Territory, ten thousand dollars. Assinaboines.For the Assinaboines at Fort Belknap, Montana Territory, ten thousand dollars.
Fort Peck Indians.For the Indians at Fort Peck agency, Montana Territory, twenty five thousand dollars. Purchase of supplies, etc.For telegraphing, and for purchase of Indian supplies, inspection, and other expenses connected therewith, and for advertising for the year eighteen hundred and seventy nine, five thousand dollars. W. Kiskadden.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay William Kiskadden for beef furnished the Crows, eighteen hundred and seventy six, nine thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and eleven cents.
Buck and KelloggTo enable the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse Messrs. Buck and Kellogg, attorneys at law, Emporia, Kansas, for certain moneys paid and fees due as bondsmen and attorneys in a suit brought in the district court of Lyon County, Kansas, entitled L. M. Appleby versus Louis Primeaux, two hundred and eight dollars and sixty cents. Incidental expenses.Central Superindency.For incidental expenses of Indian service in Central Superintendency, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, two dollars and sixty one cents. 415 For depredations on public timber, for the fiscal year eighteen hundredDepredations on timber. and seventy seven, two hundred and ninety nine dollars and thirty five cents.
To pay J. A. Coffey and Company for building sold the governmentJ.A. Coffey & Co. for the use of the Osage Indian agency, and for contingencies of the Indian Department, eight hundred and eighty four dollars and fifty cents. To pay D. R. Risley for expenses of Indian delegation visiting WashingtonD. R. Risley. in eighteen hundred and seventy, two hundred and thirty one dollars and fifty seven cents. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the heirs of HenryH. Newton Newton, deceased, for services on the commission to survey the Black Hills, in Dakota Territory in the years eighteen hundred and seventy five and eighteen hundred and seventy six, two thousand nine hundred and two dollars and ten cents.
To pay Joseph O-Jib-Way for services rendered the Indian Department,Joseph O-Jib-Way four eighteen hundred and seventy four and prior years, three hundred dollars; For services of the Hot Springs Commission acting under the requestHot Springs Commission. of the President, from June twenty fifth to December, sixteenth eighteen hundred and seventy eight, at the rate provided, by the act creating the commission, and for salaries of clerks, and the necessary incidental expenses incurred during said term, and for fees and per diem due the United States marshal for the eastern district of Arkansas, acting under the authority of said commission, twelve thousand dollars; the same to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. public lands.
For bringing up arrears in drafting and other work in relation to privatePrivate land-claims. land claims, three thousand dollars. pension bureau. For contingent expenses, for the year eighteen hundred and seventyContingent. nine, three thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For expenses of United States courts, for the year eighteen hundredExpenses of courts. and seventy eight, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, fifty thousand dollars.
For salaries of District marshals for the fiscal year eighteen hundredMarshals. and seventy seven, one hundred and eighty five dollars and eighteen cents, and no clerk of the district or circuit courts of the United States or their deputies shall be appointed a receiver or a master in any case*Receivers and matters in chancery.* except where the judge of said court shall determine that special reasons exist therefor to be assigned in the order of appointment. Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah:
For defraying the contingentCourts in Utah. 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, of supplying and earing for the penitentiary, arising under the act of June twenty-third, eighteen1874, ch. 469,18 Stat, 253. hundred and seventy-four, in relation to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of Utah, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen416 hundred and seventy-nine, to be paid under the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly verified and certified, six thousand dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT. Contingent.To enable the Secretary- of the Navy to pay certain contingent expenses of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, namely : To Evans, Ball and Company, freight to Villefrance, France, two thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty-two cents; to pay Bogart and Morgan, agents, freight to Brownsville, Texas, one hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-five cents; to pay Commercial Advertiser Association for advertising, two hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents; in all, two thousand five hundred and five dollars and twenty-seven cents.
Marino Corps.To pay certain amounts due under Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps: For pay of mechanics, one thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars; for purchase of flags, drum-heads, and similar necessaries, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars. Under Pay Department of Marine Corps: For pay of clerks and messengers, five thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-seven cents; for undrawn clothing, three thousand dollars; for additional pay for one first lieutenant, retired, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents.
Leigh Brothers and Phelps.To pay Leigh Brothers and Phelps, of Norfolk, Virginia, commissions on sale at public auction of the Macedonian and Saint Florence, United States ships, four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty-six cents. J.W. Bigelow.To pay John W. Bigelow for provisions for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty cents. W. Cramp & Sons.To pay W. Cramp and Sons for iron furnished the Bureau of Construction and Repair, under contracts of October second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and April fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, twelve thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-one cents.
A. H. LindsayTo pay A H. Lindsay for timber furnished the Bureau of Construction and Repair, seven thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-one cents. WAR DEPARTMENT. Traveling expenses Army.For pay and traveling and general expenses of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, seven hundred thousand dollars. Incident expenses.For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s Department, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and seven cents.
For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s Department, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three thousand one hundred and two dollars and five cents. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. General expenses.That the sum of four hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-three cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the same to be credited to the United States on its proportion of the expenses of the government of the Dis-417trict of Columbia, as established by the act approved June eleventh,1878, ch. 180,*Ante*, 104. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the said amount taken in connection with the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,1878, ch. 359,*Ante*, 208. for the general expenses of the District of Columbia, being fifty per centum of the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and all said appropriations shall be expended in accordance with the estimates of the Commissioners of said District, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury : *Provided*, That so much of the act “making*Proviso.* appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for1878, ch. 359,*Ante*, 208. other purposes”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which makes an appropriation for the expenses of the Reform School of the District of Columbia, shall not be considered as modifying or repealing the thirteenth section of the act entitled “An act revising1876, ch. 90,19 Stat., 49. and amending the various acts establishing and relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia”, approved May third, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
PUBLIC PRINTING For the public printing and binding, and for paper for the public printing,Printing and binding. including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, the amounts following, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, one hundred and eighty thousandDistribution. dollars; for the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars ; for the War Department, twenty thousand dollars: for the Interior Department, forty thousand dollars; for the Post-Office Department, thirty thousand dollars; for the Library of Congress, ten thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty thousand dollars ; in all, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the duties paid bySaint Michael’s Church, Charleston, S.C. the trustees of Saint Michael’s Church of Charleston, South Carolina, on a chime of eight bells imported into the port of Charleston, one thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents. To pay the heirs of A. B. Brown, formerly light-keeper at Barnegat,A. B. Brown. New Jersey, for services from January first to March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents.
Smithsonian Institution : For the preservation of the specimens of theSmithsonian Institution. United States surveying and exploring expeditions, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four thousand dollars. To pay John A. Torrence, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eightJ. A. Torrence. dollars and ninety-five cents, the amount due him as receiver of public moneys at Harrison, Arkansas : *Provided*, That of this sum one hundred*Proviso.* and sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents shall be credited to his account as disbursing agent by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, and the remainder paid to him.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To enable the Clerk of the House to reimburse N. G. Ordway, lateN. G. Ordway. Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, the amount of sundry bills paid by him for the House of Representatives, one thousand three hundred and five dollars and fifty-eight cents: *Provided*, Said bills be approved by the*Proviso.* Committee on Accounts. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay certain accounts properlyHouse contingent. chargeable to the miscellaneous items of the contingent fund of the418 House for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, respectively, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Robert Coates and others.To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the following-named persons, for services rendered in the Doorkeeper’s department during the Forty-fourth Congress, the amounts specified, to wit: To Robert Coates, the sum of two hundred and ten dollars, for services rendered from August fifteenth to first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; to Charles Carter, J. Cook Nickens, James Hall, and Henry Hall, each the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars, for services from the first day of September to the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; in all, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
C. J. Wiener.To pay Charles J. Wiener for services as clerk to the Committee on Printing during the recess of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, said committee being authorized by resolution of the House to sit during the recess, thirty days, at six dollars per day, one hundred and eighty dollars. SENATE. Horses, etcFor horses and mail wagons, four hundred dollars. Furniture.For furniture and repairs, two thousand dollars. Folders.For pay of folders, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Packing boxes.For packing-boxes, one hundred and seventy dollars. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items ; that is to say: For expenses of Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, in taking testimony concerning claim of James B. Eads ; Committee on Agriculture, taking testimony concerning cattle diseases; Select Committee on claims of citizens against Nicaragua ; Select Committee concerning removal of Cheyenne Indians; compensation of Joseph Segar ; Committee on the District of Columbia, inquiring as to plan of sewerage in the District; and sundry other expenses of the Senate, twenty-seven thousand and five hundred dollars.
Contingent.That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated ; which sum shall be placed to the credit of the contingent fund of the Senate, to be applied toward defraying the expenses of such investigations and inquiries as have already been, or may hereafter be, directed by the Senate during the Forty-fifth Congress. H. C. Creary.For payment to H. C. Creary, for services as a page in the Senate from December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.
C. H. West.For payment to C. H. West, for services as a page in the Senate from December fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, two hundred and seventy dollars. L. Harieston.For payment to Lord Harleston, as a special messenger on the floor of the Senate, from December second, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to March thirty-first eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars per annum, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents.
H. French.To pay Howard French as clerk in the Sergeant-at-Arms’s office during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine at the same rate as committee clerks, such sum as may be necessary for that purpose is hereby appropriated. F. Beall and others.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Fillmore Beall, J. C. Robertson, and Daniel Shepperd, each for twenty-six days’ services as clerks to Senate committees in the second session of the Forty-fourth419 Congress, at the rate of six dollars per day, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars ; this being the difference between four months’ pay, as authorized1876, ch. 287,19 Stat., 146 by the act of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and the amounts actually received by these parties.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George W. Wales forG. W. Wales. clerical services rendered to the Select Committee on the Tenth Census for the mouth of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one hundred and eighty dollars. That the employees of the Senate who have served during the present*Senate employees.* fiscal year shall be paid their respective salaries out of the fund already appropriated for such service from the time they entered upon their duties until the time of their taking the oath required by law.
That when any duty is imposed upon a committee of the Senate involving*Advances for Senate committee expenses.* expenses which are ordered to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers to be approved by the chairman of the committee charged with such duty, the receipt of the chairman of such committee for any sum paid to him or his order out of said contingent fund by the Secretary of the Senate shall be taken and passed by the accounting officers of the Treasury as a full and sufficient voucher ; but it: shall be the duty of such chairman, as soon us practicable, to furnish vouchers in detail for the disbursement of such moneys to the Secretary of the Senate, who shall file them with the accounting officers aforesaid; and this provision shall apply to all cases in which orders of the Senate have already been made.
That Senators elected, whose term of office begins March fourth, eighteen*Pay of Senators elect.* hundred and seventy-nine, and whose credentials in due form of law have been presented in the Senate, or may be deposited with the Secretary’ of the Senate, may receive their compensation monthly from the beginning of their term until the beginning of the first session of the next Congress. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George P. BradstreetG. P. Bradstreet for clerical services rendered the Committee of the Senate to inquire into matters touching the late Presidential election in Louisiana, the sum of sixty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George A. Clarke, forG. A. Clarke his services as messenger in the office of official reporters of the Senate, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty cents, the same being the salary of a mail-carrier of the Senate, less the amount already received by him on account of said services. For the payment of the following named persons for reporting testimonyReporting testimony. before committees of the House of Representatives at the third session of the Forty-fifth Congress (at times when the official stenographers were engaged with other committees), to wit:
Joseph I. Gilbert, B. W. Grant, E. C. Bartlett, E. D. Easton, C. J. Hayes, and William F. Bouyage, three thousand seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, on accounts to be rendered by them respectively, certified by the official stenographers for the committees of the House and approved by the chairman of the several committees for which the work was done and by the Committee of Accounts. To pay Henry G. Hays and Andrew Devine, official stenographers forH.
G. Hays.A. Devine. committees of the House of Representatives, the difference between their compensation as fixed by law and actually received by them during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and in the months of July and August eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine hundred dollars each, eighteen hundred dollars. To pay J. C. Kondruss for services as messenger to the official reportersJ. C Kondrnss. of debates during the present session, two hundred and fifty dollars. 420 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Under letter of Postmaster-General, January twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine : Postmasters.For compensation of postmasters, for eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two hundred and forty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirty seven cents; to be paid out of the postal revenues for said fiscal year. Railway mail transportation.For transportation of the mails by railroads, for eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and previous years, one hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Settlement of account of Pacific Railways. That for the proper adjustment of the accounts of the Union Pacific. Central Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Western Pacific, and Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Companies, respectively, for services which have been or may be hereafter performed for the government for transportation of the Army and transportation of the mails, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make such entries upon the books of the department as will carry to the credit of said companies the amounts so earned or to be earned by them during each fiscal year and withheld under the R.
S. 5260.1878, ch. 75,*Ante*, 44.*Proviso*.provisions of section fifty-two hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes and of the act of Congress approved May seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight : *Provided*, That this shall not authorize the expenditure of *No change of rights, etc.*any money from the Treasury nor change the method now provided by law for the auditing of such claims against the government: *Provided further*, That this paragraph shall not be so construed as to be a disposition of any moneys due or to become due to or from said companies respectively, or to, in any way, affect their rights or duties or the rights of the United States, under existing laws, it being only intended hereby to enable the proper accounting officers to state on the books of the Treasury the accounts between the government and said companies respectively.
Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, contingent expenses of the Post-Office Department, for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Telegraphing.For telegraphing, contingent expenses, for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Foreign official post age.For ordinary postage-stamps, under article eight of the Universal Postal Convention, for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Railway postal clerks, etc.For railway postal clerks, seventeen thousand dollars; for route agents, six thousand five hundred dollars ; for local mail agents, one thousand five hundred dollars, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine ; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars, under Rouse Executive Document Number Seventy-seven, third session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Post-route maps.For preparation and publication of post-route maps, being for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, five thousand dollars.
D. C. CaseyThat the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to credit the account of D. C. Casey, late postmaster at Hot Springs, Arkansas, for salary before his rejection as postmaster, with the sum of one hundred and two dollars and sixty-four cents. Sec. 2. Certified claims.For the payment of claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund 1874, ch. 328,18 Stat., 110under the provisions of section five of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six and prior years, as fully set forth in Executive Document Number Thirty, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, and for other items, as follows : 421 DEPARTMENT OF STATE. foreign intercourse.
To pay consular salaries, as follows: To W. W. Randall, one hundredConsular salaries, etc. and five dollars and fourteen cents ; J. F. Webb, two hundred and seventy dollars and ninety-one cents ; William Morey, four hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty-four cents; R, Dawson, fourteen dollars and fifty cents : C. S. Mattoon, three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents; R. Dawson, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents; F. Newman, three hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-one cents;
J. Fisher, for relief and protection of American seamen, twenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents; N. Creasey, for relief and protection of American seamen, twenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents; M. Vidal, awards under convention between United States and Peru, one thousand and twenty-five dollars and six cents ; John F. Delaplaine, salary as United States minister, one thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and twelve cents; in all, four-thousand and twelve dollars and fifty-five cents.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. internal revenue. For redemption of internal-revenue stamps, two thousand five hundredRedemption of internal-revenue stamps and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents. For allowance on drawback, internal revenue, fifty dollars andInternal-revenue drawbacks seventy-six cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, four hundred and forty-oneRefunding taxes. dollars and thirty-four cents. For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers ofInternal-revenue salaries.
Internal revenue, three thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-six cents. For expenses of assessing and collecting internal revenue, fifteenAssessing and collecting. thousand and three dollars and sixty-one cents. The unexpended balance, amounting to forty thousand dollars, of theRefunding back taxes. appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, made by the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to refund1878, ch. 191*Ante*, 128. and pay back taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collected under the internal-revenue laws, is hereby continued and made available for, mil during the present and next fiscal years only, the payment of all claims to which the appropriation is applicable. treasury miscellaneous.
For suppressing counterfeiting and fraud, forty-six dollars and fiftyCounterfeiting, etc. cents. To refund excess of duty paid on deposits by national banking associations,Bank tax. one thousand and ninety-three dollars and eight cents. For return of proceeds of captured and abandoned property, twenty-sixCaptured and abandoned property. thousand and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents. For collecting revenue from customs, for this amount certified by theCollecting customs revenue.1878, ch. 191,*Ante*, 131.
Commissioner of Customs under section four, act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, nine thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents. And the further sum of two thousand three hundred and eighty-sevenSurveyor of customs.Portland, Me. dollars and seventy-six cents is hereby appropriated to pay the amount found due the late surveyor of customs at Portland, Maine, and certified by the Commissioner of Customs to the Secretary of the Treasury as due, subsequent to the Secretary’s letter of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
For Marine Hospital service, three dollars and twenty-five cents.Marine Hospital service. 422 Light-house keepers.For salaries of light-house keepers, eighty-six dollars and fifty-four cents. Light-house supplies.For supplies of light-houses, five dollars and thirty-three cents. Buoyage.Public buildings.For expenses of buoyage, eight dollars ; repairs and preservation of public buildings, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents ; furniture and repairs of same, for public buildings, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-two cents; heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents; in all, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents; being certain 1879, ch. 191*Ante*, 131.amounts certified by the Second Auditor and Second Comptroller under section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. MarshalsFor salaries of district marshals, thirty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. Expenses of courts.For expenses of United States courts, one thousand five hundred and five dollars and nineteen cents. Contingent.For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, twenty-two dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. civil Eighth census.For expenses of the eighth census, as follows : To pay Tipton B. Collins, one hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-one cents ;
David J. Reed, seventy-nine dollars and ninety-two cents ; William D. King, two hundred and one dollars and two cents ; T. F. Owen, tour hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-four cents ; Sylvanus Walker, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents ; in all, one thousand and seventy-three dollars and eighty-six cents. Timber depredations.For prevention of depredations on public timber, three hundred and six dollars and forty cents. Land-offices.For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers of the land offices, seven bundled and thirty-six dollar’s and twenty-six cents.
Lands erroneously sold.For repayments for lands erroneously sold, two thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty cents. indian affairs. Indian superintendents and agents.For pay of superintendents and agents, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents. Interpreters.For pay of interpreters, forty-two dollars and twelve cents. Contingent.For contingencies of the Indian Department, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-three cents. Gros Ventres.For fulfilling treaty with Gros Ventres, fifteen dollars and fifty cents.
Incidental expenses.For incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona, one hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-five cents; in Montana, twenty-four dollars and sixty-five cents ; in New Mexico, seventy-two dollars ; and in Oregon and Washington, three dollars ; in all, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty cents. Civilization.For support and civilization of Indians in Central Superintendency, four dollars and eighty-six cents; of Teton Sioux, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents; of Sioux at Fort Peck agency, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Roving Kickapoos.For collecting and subsisting roving bands of Kickapoos and other Indians on the borders of Texas and New Mexico, five hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-six cents. 423 UNDER WAR DEPARTMENT. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, nineCalifornia volunteers. hundred and ninety dollars and sixty-nine cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, thirty-seven thousand nineVolunteers. hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For draft and substitute fund, twenty-four dollars and seventy-twoSubstitute fund. cents.
For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, two hundred andCollecting volunteers. sixty-three dollars and ninety cents. For allowance for reduction of wages under the eight hour law, twoEight hour law. hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-one cents. For bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, one hundredBounty to volunteers. and fifty thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents. For medical and hospital department, two thousand six hundred andMedical and hospital department. seventy-eight dollars and ninety-six cents.
For arsenals, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-nineArsenals. cents. For contingencies of the Army, three hundred and forty-one dollarsContingent. and fifty cents. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, three hundred and elevenOrdnance stores dollars and thirty cents. For ordnance service, two hundred and thirty dollars.Ordnance service For expenses of recruiting, thirty-four dollars and thirty cents.Recruiting For transportation of officers and their baggage, one hundred andOfficers’ transportation. seventy-seven dollars and ninety cents.
For pay of the Army, fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty-threePay. dollars and forty cents. For Army transportation, supplies, and incidental expenses of theTransportation Army, the details of which are embraced in House Executive Document Number Thirty, Forty-fifth Congress, third session, pages twenty-six to forty-three, both inclusive, except and excluding the claims numbered*Certain claims excepted.* thirty-eight thousand six hundred and eighty-three, forty-four thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, and forty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and the claims of the Union Pacific, the Central Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Western Pacific, and the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Companies, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty cents.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, fifty-eightLost horses, etc. thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-one cents, as fully set forth in the above Executive Document. To pay William Allen, late sergeant Company E, First OregonW. Allen, Mounted Volunteers in Indian war of eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for one horse lost in the military service of the United States, one hundred and fifteen dollars. To pay William W.
Ivory for one horse lost in the military service ofW. W. Ivory. the United States, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. For indemnity to seamen for lost clothing, seven hundred and twentyLost clothing. dollars. For expenses of burial of officers and others of the United StatesHuron. steamer Huron, four hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-seven cents. For bounty gratuity and mileage to seamen, one thousand three hundredSeamen’s bounty, etc. and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents, as fully set forth on page fifty-two of said Executive Document Number Thirty. 424 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT transportation of the mails.
Mail transportation.To pay certain amounts due for carrying the mails, certified by the Sixth Auditor under section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as more fully set forth in Executive Document Number Thirty, third session of the Forty-fifth Congress, pages fifty-three, fifty-four, and fifty-five. railroads. Railways.For carrying the mails between Saint Peter and New Elm, Minnesota, eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ninety-nine dollars.
For carrying the mails in eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, four hundred and fifty dollars. For carrying the mails in eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, four hundred and ten dollars and twenty-two cents. For carrying the mails between Hannibal and Naples, Missouri, from January first to June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, one thousand dollars.
For carrying the mails between Lehigh Railroad Company’s depot and the post-office at Hazleton, Pennsylvania, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five hundred and forty dollars. For increased pay, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, sixty-six dollars and eighty-four cents. Also, for increased pay, from January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eighty-five dollars and ninety cents.
For carrying the mails from May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and six cents. For carrying the mails from April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, from Junction City to Clay Centre, six thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-three cents. For carrying the mails from September first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-one cents.
For service from November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. For Sunday service from April first to April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand five hundred and ten dollars and ninety-nine cents. star transportation. Star routes.For additional allowance for carrying the mails from April fifth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, by reason of increased distance, four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For carrying the mails between Greenville Court-House and Highland Grove, South Carolina, from January sixth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents. For carrying the mails between Marshall and Kaufman from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred and sixty dollars. For carrying the mails between Selina and Forest Lawn, Texas, from October twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to June thir-425tieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, twenty-nine dollars and thirty-twoStar routes, continued. cents.
For payment made to Elisha Willis for carrying the mails between Akron and New Buda, Missouri, from January first to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighteen dollars and seventy cents. For one month’s extra pay on curtailment of service on route numbered eight thousand five hundred and fifty-three, Texas, order of the Postmaster-General, numbered three thousand and seventy-five, dated June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eleven dollars and sixty-six cents.
For amount accrued on account of fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, under order of the Postmaster-General numbered five thousand five hundred and thirty-eight, dated October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, modifying order of May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, curtailing route numbered twenty thousand one hundred and eighty-two, Kentucky, mid allowing one month’s extra pay, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents. For additional allowance for carrying the mails on route numbered twenty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-nine, from October first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, by reason of increase in distance, eighty-one dollars and sixty-six cents.
For carrying the mails on route numbered twenty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-two, from August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, twenty-six dollars and thirty-five cents. For carrying the mails between Rienzi and Jacinto and Iuka, Mississippi, route numbered seven thousand five hundred and two, Mississippi, from February twentieth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred and ninety dollars and seven cents.
For carrying the mails between Tuskegee and Cheban, Alabama, route numbered six thousand eight hundred and six, Alabama, from July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three hundred and fifty dollars. For carrying the mails between Tuskegee and Cheban, Alabama,route numbered seven thousand and fifteen, Alabama, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and ten dollars. For carrying the mails five trips between Tullahoma and McMinnville, Tennessee, route numbered ten thousand one hundred and thirty-seven, in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, twenty-five dollars.
For one month’s extra pay by reason of the annulment of contract, route numbered twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-three, Illinois (older of the Postmaster-General numbered six thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dated August twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight), twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. Also, one month’s extra pay by reason of the annulment of contract on routes numbered twenty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine, twenty seven thousand one hundred and ninety-eight, and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and two, and the curtailment of route twenty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-one, all in July, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, fifty-three dollars and thirty-four cents.
For carrying the mails on routes numbered fifteen thousand and six and fifteen thousand and eight, Oregon, from January first to March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two hundred and sixty dollars. For carrying the mails in Louisiana and Mississippi, during the years eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, balance on account, one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents. For carrying the mails on routes numbered eight thousand five hun-426dred Star routes, continued.and sixty-eight, eight thousand five hundred and seventy, eight thousand five hundred and seventy-one, eight thousand five hundred and seventy-two, and eight thousand five hundred and seventy four, Texas, during the second quarter of eighteen hundred sixty eight, six hundred and sixty one dollars and nineteen cents.
For carrying the mails on routes numbered thirty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-six and thirty-one thousand two hundred and forty, Texas, from April first, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy six, three hundred and eighty-three dollars and six cents. For an allowance of one month’s extra-pay on discontinuance of service from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, route numbered twenty-seven thousand two hundred, Iowa, twenty seven dollars and seventy five cents.
For amount for one desk for the safe keeping of letters, December twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ten dollars. steamboat transportation. Steamboat service.For carrying the mails between Norfolk, Virginia and New York, New York, from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy one, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, route numbered four thousand seven hundred and twenty five, Virginia, seven hundred and fifty dollars. mail-messenger service. Messenger service.For increase of mail-messenger service between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot and the post office, both at Chicago, Illinois, from December twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy five, one thousand two hundred and twenty six dollars and eight cents.
For mail-messenger service from April fifteenth to June thirtieth, and from July first to fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents; this amount being required to reimburse the postmaster, he having paid for the authorized service. foreign-mail transportation. Foreign mail transportation.For carrying the United States mails between San Francisco New Zealand, Australia- Sandwich and Fiji Islands from February second to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, being the amount of sea postages on mails conveyed, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars and fourteen cents.
Also, for carrying the mails between San Francisco and Australia, from October twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy four, to November ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, being the amount of sea postages on mails conveyed, five thousand and two dollars and seventy three cents. For carrying the United States mails between San Francisco, China, and Japan, from January fifteenth to September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being nine outward and seven inward trips, five thousand one hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-one cents.
Also, for same service from October nineteenth to December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being three round trips, two thousand nine hundred and four dollars and twenty-three cents. F. A. Wilson.To adjust the account of F. A. Wilson, for carrying the mails on route numbered fifteen thousand two hundred and eighty-one during the second quarter of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six. a transfer to the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars on the books of the Treasury is hereby authorized.
Approved, March 3, 1879.