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CHAP. 191.— AN ACT making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and prior years, and for those heretofore treated as permanent, for reappropriations, and for other purposes.June 14, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriations. 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-eight, and for former years, and for other purposes, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. foreign intercourse. For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercialConsular salaries. agents, and clerks, being deficiencies, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, six hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-three, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-five cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-two cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty cents.
To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, under appropriations for consular salaries, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-tour, one thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-five, six thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
To adjust the accounts of F. M. Cordeiro, United States vice-consulF. M. Cordeiro. at Rio de Janeiro, for salary from April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two of six hundred and fifty-five dollars and six cents; and to effect a transfer of his accounts, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, five hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-six cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-two, five thousand on hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty-four cents; and for eighteen hundred and seventy-three, five hundred and eighty-six dollars and ninety-five cents.
For stationery, bookcases, arms of the United States, seals, presses,Contingent expenses of consulates. and flags, rent, freights, postage, and miscellaneous items, being deficiencies, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy- 116 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 191. 1878. two, six hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-nine cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-four, seventy dollars and five cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents.
To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, under appropriations for contingent expenses of consulates, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, thirty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two hundred and seventy dollars and fifty-two cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and thirty-four cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, fourteen thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-one cents.
To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, involvingSalaries of interpreters. no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely: For salaries of interpreters to consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, five hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Relief of American seamen. being deficiencies as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, one hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-two, twenty-four dollars and eighty cents; eighteen hundred and seventy-three, sixty dollars; eighteen hundred and seventy-four, twenty dollars.
To effect a transfer of accounts in the State Department, under the appropriation for relief and protection of American seamen, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, fifty dollars and ninety-eight cents. For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes,Bringing home persons charged with crime. and expenses incident thereto, including loss by exchange, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty-five cents.
To pay George W. Jones, late minister to Bogota, New Granada,George W. Jones. seventeen dollars and fifty-six cents, being a deficiency in the contingent expenses for missions abroad for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty-one. UNDER THE COURT OF CLAIMS. For the payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims dueJudgments of Court of Claims. and unpaid February sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, with interest from date of presentation, as follows: To the State National Bank, Boston, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars, in gold coin; to James A.
White and Augustus R. Montgomery, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents; to E. E. Norton, assignee in bankruptcy of B. P. Ethel, three thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-two cents; to E. E. Norton, assignee in bankruptcy of Samuel DeBou and Company, two thousand two hundred and eight dollars and sixty-six cents; to J. A. Bonnafon, two thousand and sixty-six dollars and ten cents; to Charles Roman and O. Charles Olivier, three thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-six cents; to Edward A.
Yorke, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars; to E. E. Norton, assignee in bankruptcy of D. Cerf, one thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; to Jonas H. Levy and Anderson D. Dieter, one thousand four hundred and fifty-four dollars; to Irving F. Wilcox, one thousand and twenty dollars; to Selucius Garfielde, two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; in all, five hundred thousand seven hundred and ten dollars and twelve cents, and such sum as may be necessary for interest and premium. 117 TREASURY DEPARTMENT. territorial governments.
Dakota Territory: To pay balance one public printers for legislativePrinting. printing, one thousand and seventy-six dollars and twenty-five cents; and for miscellaneous printing, one hundred dollars. Idaho Territory: To pay Milton Kelly for printing and binding fiveMilton Kelly. hundred volumes of the revised and compiled laws of the Territory of Idaho, passed at the eighth session of its legislative assembly, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one thousand and thirty eight dollars and seventy-one cents.
For printing session laws of Idaho Territory, ninth session, eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, six hundred and forty-seven dollars and eight cents. For executive legislative printing during session of eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents. For printing journals of house of representatives for eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, five hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-four cents.
For printing journals of council for eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, five hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. Territory of New Mexico: To pay balance due Manderfield and Tucker,Manderfield and Tucker. as follows: For printing for legislative assembly, one hundred and ninety dollars and forty-seven cents; for printing laws in Spanish, legislative assembly, twenty-second session, eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents.
Territory of Utah: For amount due S. B. Axtell, late governor of the8. B. Axtell. Territory of Utah, for salary from February second to February tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, inclusive, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. internal revenue. For salaries, expenses, and fees of supervisors, storekeepers, agents,Salaries, etc., of officers. surveyors, gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twenty-five thousand dollars.
To adjust the settled account of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Treasury Department, being amount found due said bureau for paper boxes furnished to the Treasury Department, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, forty-two dollars and fifty-six cents. For contingent expenses under the act of August sixth, eighteen hundredCollection, etc., of public money.Contingent expenses.R.
S. 3653, p. 723.Postage-stamps, etc. and forty-six, for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursements of the public money, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, five thousand dollars. For postage-stamps and overdue postage, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eight hundred dollars. For amount due Texas Banking and Insurance Company, for transportation,Texas Banking and Insurance Co. being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents.
For amount due B. Vaughn Abbott, on account of the commission toB. Vaughn Abbott. revise the United States statutes, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, sixty-one dollars and ninety cents. 118 Customs service: For the settlement of balances cine disbursing-officersDisbursing-officers, customs service. for expenditures made by them in pursuance of law, on account of the appropriations named below, being deficiencies as follows:
For furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one dollar and seventy-five cents; for repairs and preservation of public buildings, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, twenty-five dollars; for revenue-cutter service, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two dollars and fifty-two cents; for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-three cents; for customhouse, Machias, Maine, ninety-one cents; for customhouse, Wiscasset, Maine, ten dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For the settlement of disbursing-officers’ accounts under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, fifty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-nine cents, being on account of appropriations for the service of several fiscal years. To adjust the settled account of Marcus W. Lyon, lieutenant of ordnanceMarcus W. Lyon. and quartermaster, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, thirty-six dollars.
To adjust the settled account of the Treasury Department for stationeryStationery for officers of secret service. furnished officers of the United States secret service, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen dollars and twenty-two cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Louis Delano for servicesLouis Delano. rendered in the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, three H.
F. Hutchinson.hundred and thirteen dollars and four cents; and to pay H. F. Hutchinson for the same character of service, two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents; and to And. J, Carnes.pay Andrew J. Carnes for the same character of service, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty T. S. Nelligar.Printing and binding.cents; and to pay T. 8. Nelligar, one hundred dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, eighteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, thirty thousand dollars; in all, seventy-three thousand dollars, to be done at the Government Printing Office.
To pay George Barber, light house keeper at Point Bonita, California,George Barber. amount due. him, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-four cents. WAR DEPARTMENT. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officersNational cemeteries. of the Treasury Department, for establishing and maintaining national cemeteries, being for the service, of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-six cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-two, seventy-six dollars; for eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen dollars.
For payment of amount certified to be due for ordnance service for theOrdnance service. fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one hundred and two dollars and seventy-five cents. For payment of amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officersHire of quarters. of the Treasury Department, for rent-or hire of quarters for troops, and for officers on military duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one,and prior years, thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars and forty-four cents.
For payment of amounts due for incidental expenses of the Army,Incidental expenses, Army. being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-six cents. 119 For payment of amounts due for purchase of horses for cavalry’ andHorses for cavalry, etc. artillery, being for the. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, nine thousand nine hundred and two dollars and eighty six cents.
For payment, of amount due certain musicians and soldiers for lossesLosses by soldiers. at Fort Sumter, fifteen dollars. That nothing in the language of the act entitled “An act making*Paymaster’s clerks and Indian scouts, how paid.*1877, ch. 1,*Ante*, p. 1. appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other purposes”, approved November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, shall be construed to forbid the payment from the moneys therein appropriated for “pay, traveling, and general expenses of the Army,” of fifty-four paymaster’s clerks, for actual services rendered from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to the-date of the act, or to prevent payment to the actual number of Indian scouts employed during said year, not in excess of the one thousand authorized by law.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriations for maintaining the FortMilitary prison, Fort Leaven worth. Leavenworth military prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, four thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-four cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For lighting the Capitol and grounds: For gas consumed for the Lighting Capitol.month of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, being a deficiency for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand and forty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the rent of the buildingRent of building, Eighth and G sts. on the northeast corner of Eighth and G streets from September twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, at six hundred dollars per month, one thousand two hundred and forty dollars. indian affairs. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay E. R. Otis for servicesE. R. Otis. as secretary and reporter, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, to the commission engaged in investigating charges by and against the Indian agent for the.
Chippewas in Minnesota, one hundred and sixty dollars and forty cents. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay H. M. Rice for servicesH. M. Rice. as commissioner during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, engaged in investigating charges by and against the Indian agent for the Chippewas in Minnesota, two hundred and eighty dollars and eighty cents. And so much of the act approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundredSalary of agent at Mission agency reduced.1878, ch. 142,*Ante*, p. 65. and seventy-eight, entitled “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses for the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes”, as provides the sum of three thousand dollars for the salary of the agent at the Mission agency in California, is hereby repealed, and the sum of one thousand three hundred dollars for said salary is hereby inserted in lieu thereof.
For amounts found due, as follows: To Charles T. Brown, late IndianChas. T. Brown. agent, ninety-five dollars and eighty cents; George-A. Crowell, late Indian agent, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-seven cents; being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and prior years, two hundred and sixty seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. For amount due George A. Crowell, late Indian agent, being a deficiencyGeorge A. Crowell. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one hundred and seven dollars and sixteen cents. 120 For amounts found due for supplies and services, as follows:
To WilliamW. Howland and others.Supplies and services. Bowland, junior, six dollars; Charles Jarvis, nine dollars; John H. Bridgman, sixty dollars; Peter Bissonette, nine hundred dollars; Adjoins and Glover, fifty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; William Harmon, five hundred and nine dollars and seventy-nine cents; Hamma and Murphy seventy-nine dollars; George O’Brien, forty-eight dollars and fifteen cents; Allred T. Lobach, eighty-four dollars; H. Haas, fifty-one dollars and fifty cents;
Antoine Barrett, twelve dollars; L. W. Brewer, one hundred and eighty dollars; C. de L, Benevathis, eight dollars; John Farnham, thirty dollars; George Gafney, thirty dollars and fifty-nine cents; Patrick Hays, one hundred and fifty dollars; Antoine Jarvis, twelve dollars; Joseph Kamen, one hundred and fifty dollars; John Liddeau, nine dollars; John Proveau, six dollars; William Rowland, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-six cents; William Rowland, one hundred and fifty dollars;
Manuel Romero, twenty-one dollars; Frank Salvia, fifty-five dollars; Lezic (half-breed), twenty-eight dollars; Todd Randall, sixty-three dollars; Thomas Monahan, three hundred dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents; being deficiency for the fiscal year (eighteen hundred and seventy-four) eighteen hundred and seventy-three. For balance due Walter P. Jenuey, late geologist in charge survey ofW. P. Jenney. the Black Hills from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as shown on settlement of his accounts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, being amount found due by accounting-officers of Treasury, and certified to Congress.
For amount due J. P. C. Shanks, late Indian agent, being a deficiencyJ. P. C. Shanks. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and eleven cents. For amount due Albert L. Green, late Indian agent (Otoes and Missourias), being a deficiencyA. L. Green. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and prior years, eighty-four dollars and sixty-four cents. For amount due Charles Borland, late commissioner to the Choctaws, being a deficiency, one dollar and ninety-eight cents.
For amount due John T. Kingston, late special agent, being a deficiencyJ. T. Kingston. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and prior years, seven dollars and twenty-five cents. For amount due 8.1). Hinman, late special agent and commissioner, being a deficiency S. D. Hinman.for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and prior years, twenty-five dollars and forty-eight cents. For amount due Albert L. Green, late Indian agent, being a deficiencyA.
L. Green. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and prior years, two dollars and fifty-three cents. For amounts due for goods and provisions furnished the Indians on the Fresno and King’s River reservation in eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, as follows: To John J. Blair, seven hundred and J. J. Blair.Levi Mitchell.twenty-five dollars and seventy-two cents; to Levi Mitchell, forty-four dollars and eight cents; being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and prior years, seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. To pay William H. Dempsey’s bill of February seventeenth, eighteenW. H. Dempsey. hundred and seventy-five, for stationery, three dollars and seventy-five cents; to pay balance of account of the item for advertising proposals for stationery, forty-six dollars and fittyfive cents; being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy five. To pay the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company for telegraphingAtlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. during the months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and sev- 121 entysix, fifty-five dollars and eighteen cents; to pay Lutz and Brother’sLutz & Bro. bill of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, for sundries, forty-one dollars; and bill for repairing harness, twenty-six dollars; being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
To pay the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company for telegraphingAtlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co in October, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, nine dollars and ten cents; to pay Andrew Joyce for repairs to carriages from July to November,A. Joyce. eighteen hundred and seventy-six, fourteen dollars and eighty-five cents; to pay Wash Nailor forW. Nailor. one months livery of one horse, tor June, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, twenty-five dollars; being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.
For estimated amount required for care and subsistence of horses andCare of horses, etc. repairs of wagons and harness, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two hundred and fifty dollars. For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suitsDefending suits, etc. 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, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight-, two thousand dollars.
To pay amount due D. J. Baldwin, United States attorney for theD. J. Baldwin. eastern district of Texas, balance of salary, as per certificate of the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay amount due Francis H. Good win, late United States marshal,F. H. Goodwin. district of Arizona, being part of his salary from January eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, being deficiencies as follows:
For eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ninety-four dollars anti forty-seven cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-six, twenty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents. judicial. For defraying the-expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and districtExpenses courts, etc. courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia, and also for jurors and witnesses, and expenses of suit in which the United States are concerned, of prosecutions for offenses committed against the United States; for the safekeeping of prisoners, and for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement ofEnforcing elective-franchise laws.R.
S., Title 26. the act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, relative to the right of citizens to vote, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. To pay Margaret McDonald, executrix of G. W. McDonald,M. McDonald. deceased, of Covington, Kentucky, the sum of two hundred dollars, for rent of rooms occupied by the United States courts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years.
For the support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the Convicts from District of Columbia.District of Columbia, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, six thousand dollars. For deficiency in defraying the expenses of the courts in the TerritoryExpenses of courts in Utah. of Utah for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seven thousand dollars. navy department. To meet a deficiency in the appropriation for pay of officers and menPay of officers and men. of the Navy, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and twelve cents. 122 To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the civil establishmentCiVil establishment, navy-yards. of the several navy-yards, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eighty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For the deficiencies in the appropriations for the naval service, whichDeficiencies in naval service have been favorably reported upon unanimously by the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, the following sums are hereby appropriated, namely: hi the Bureau of Steam-Engineering: To American Steam-GaugeSteam engineering. Company, twenty dollars and fifty cents; to William H. Arthur and Company, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirty cents; to Atlantic Works, one thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-four cents; to Adams Express Company, two dollars and thirty-five cents; to Stillman B.
Allen, four hundred and fifty dollars; to Boston Lead Company, ninety five dollars; to George F. Blake Manufacturing Company, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; to Benner and Pinckney, twenty-six dollars and fifty cents; to Cook, R,vines and Company, fourteen dollars; to Coast Wrecking Company, seventy-five dollars; to M. A, Campbell, one hundred and eight dollars and sixty cents; to C. H. De Lamater and Company, seventy-two thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and seven cents; to Downie, Trainer and Company, sixty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents; to F.
W. Devoe and Company, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents; to Richard Dudgeon, six hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-six cents; to William P. Eddy, four dollars and forty-two cents; to Eastern Railroad Company, eleven dollars and ninety cents; to George E. Hanson, eighty-three dollars; to H. H. Ham, three dollars and fifty cents; to Fabri Chauncey and Company and others, for whom J. D. Hurlbut and Son were ship-brokers, four thousand thirty-one dollars and nineteen cents; to John Mullett, twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; to A.
A, McCullough, two hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-four cents; to Manhattan Packing Company, seven hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy-five cents; to Neafie and Levy, forty-five thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-four cents; to Old Dominion Steamship Company, twenty nine dollars and ninety-two cents; to Philadelphia and New York Steam Navigation Company, two dollars and twelve cents; to Rider and Colton, one hundred and six dollars and fifty-eight cents: to Francis Raymond, four dollars and seventy cents; to Sutton and Company, four thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents; to Thomas M.
Shepherd, one hundred and thirty dollars; to Twitchell, Pike and Company, eighteen dollars; to E. V. White and Company, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents; to E. M. Whittaker and Son, four Hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty-nine cents; to C. 0. Wallcott, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-one cents; to George H. Creed, twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents; to Charles W. Cottle, fifty-four dollars and eighty-seven cents; to Mercer Goodrich, one dollar and fifty-eight cents; to Pacific Mail Steamship Company, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and ninety-five cents; to Pratt and Whitney Company, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents; to M.
A. and C. A. Santos, twenty-nine dollars and seventy five cents; to Vickery and Company, one hundred and nine dollars and thirty cents; to Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, eighty-four thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents; to T. F. Rowland, forty-seven thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; to Quintard Iron Works, one hundred and sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty cents; to Quintard Iron Works, paid to Ashcroft, five thousand dollars; to Quintard Iron Works, j aid to Murphy and Company, three hundred and one dollars and sixty-six cents; to William Cramp and Sons, sixty-six thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars; to C.
F. Hatch, fifty-four dollars and fifty cents; to American Tube Works, seven thousand and fifty- 123 nine dollars and seventy-five cents; to E, II. Ashcroft, six hundred and twenty-five dollars; to A. P. Brown, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents; to D. Babcock and Company, six thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-three cents; to Chalmers, Spence and Company, one thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-three cents; to G.
P. Goff, eight thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and forty cents; A. M. Ingersoll, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents; to Manhattan Oil Company, sixteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-six cents; to W. A. Torrey and Company, thirty-six thousand five hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-two cents; Walton Brothers, eight, thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-three cents; to James M. Motley, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars; to Providence Steam-Engine Company, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents; to John Roach, three hundred and twenty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents; to South Boston Iron Company, one hundred and eighty-one thousand and forty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents; in all, one million four hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
In the Bureau of Construction and Repair: To Anthony and Company,Construction and repair. one hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirty cents; to Bridgewater Iron Company, fifty-two dollars; to Phineas Burgess, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty cents; to W. Cramp and Sons, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-five cents; toC.M. Chase,forty-five dollars and ten cents; to Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, two hundred and thirty-four thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents; to J.
L. Knowlton, four thousand three hundred dollars; to JosephP. Manton, five thousand nine hundred dollars; to Phelps Manufacturing Company, three hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty cents; to T. F. Rowland, thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety eight dollars and ninety-six cents; to Rider and Cotton, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents; to M. A. and C. A. Santos, one hundred and fifty-five dollars; toS. A. Stevens and Company, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents; to Tatliam Brothers, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-three cents; to W.
A. Torry, seventy-six dollars; to Taylor, Elliot and Company, eighty-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents; to Walton Brothers, eighteen dollars; to E. V. White and Company, three hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents; to J. K. Frothingham, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; to W. B. Rearny, four hundred dollars; to Neatie and Levy, fifteen thousand dollars; to J. W. Baker, one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty eight cents; G. H. Creed, eight hundred and tour dollars and five cents;
G. P. Goff, five hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-two cents; H. W. Gardner, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars; N. McKay, six thousand nine hundred dollars; John Roach, two hundred and ninety-five thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents; Seyfert McManus and Company, nineteen thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-two cents; American Windlass Company, six thousand two hundred dollars; A. M. Ingersoll, fifteen thousand dollars;
Joseph P. Manton, fifteen thousand dollars; amounting, in all, to nine hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty-five cents; also for timber, four hundred and sixteen thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said timber to be paid for at no greater rate than the market price at date of contract or order, after the most rigid inspection. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing: To J.
W. Jones, twenty-fourProvisions and clothing. thousand eight hundred dollars and eighty-five cents; to Hunter, Walton and Company, eight thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars 124 and thirty-three cents; to John Hanley, seven thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-three cents; to P. Lorillard and Company, twenty eight thousand five hundred dollars; to naval hospital fund, four thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and eighty-nine cents: also, on account of clothing indebtedness, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty cents.
To pay two clerks of class one in the Bureau of Equipments and Recruiting,Clerks. Navy Department, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand four hundred dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. To meet a deficiency that may occur in the appropriation for compensationPost masters’ compensation. of postmasters, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, four hundred thousand dollars, or so’much thereof as may be necessary.
For amount to pay balance due Texas and New Orleans RailroadTexas and New Orleans Railroad Co. Company for carrying United States mails on route eight thousand five hundred and one, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixteen cents; the same having been audited by the Sixth Auditor and estimated tor and recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury as a deficiency tor eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, in Executive Document number forty-five, made to first session of Forty-fifth Congress.
To pay J. C. Clendennin, for carrying the mails in North Carolina inJ. C. Cleudeunin. eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the sum of one hundred and one dollars; being a deficiency for the year eighteen hundred— To meet a deficiency that may occur in the revenues of the Post-OfficeRevenues of Post-Office Department. Department, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To pay James J. Spellman amount due him as page for the Doorkeeper’sJ. J. Spellman. office from March first to October fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, as approved by the Committee on Accounts, five hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. To pay William Douglas for services as laborer from October fifteenthW. Douglas. to October thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, thirty-three dollars and twenty-six cents; and from December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, four hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-eight cents; in all, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and four cents.
To Charles Christian, for services as laborer in the office of the Sergeant-at-ArmsC. Christian. from March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eight hundred dollars. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. To repay the Smithsonian Institution expenses incurred in the transportationTransportation of documents.1868, res. 72,15 Stat., 260. of public documents under the joint resolution approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one dollars.
Sec. 2. That the following balances of appropriations, carried to theBalances carried to surplus fund made available.1874, ch. 328,18 Stat., 110. surplus fund under the provisions of the fifth section of the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, being required to complete the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and prior years, are hereby continued and rendered available for such purpose, namely: For amount due George Brown (of Minnesota), two hundred dollars;G.
Brown. 125 it being the amount of award by the commission appointed by an act of Congress approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. To pay James F. Cunningham for services performed in eighteen hundredJ. F. Cunningham. and sixty-nine, in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving in such crime, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars.
Amount due Thomas Steel, late surveyor of customs and designatedT. Steel. depositary at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on account of commissions for receiving, safekeeping, and disbursing public moneys under act of March second, eighteen hundred and fifty three, being for the service of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and prior years, one thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-seven cents. To adjust the settled accounts of Thomas Steel, late surveyor of customsT.
Steel. and designated depositary at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, being for the service of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and prior years, two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and fourteen cents. Amount due B. C. Sparrow, superintendent lifesaving station, secondB. C. Sparrow. district, East Orleans, Massachusetts, for traveling expenses, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eleven dollars and fifty-five cents.
For payment of the amount due Harrison Loring, from the unexpended H. Loring.balance of Revenue Cutter Service, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, which was reappropriated for eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for repairs to the revenue-steamer “Levi Woodbury” in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and fifty dollars. Customs Service: For the settlement of balances due disbursing-officersBalances due disbursing officers. for expenditures made by them in pursuance of law, on account of the following appropriations:
Salaries of lighthouse keepers, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one hundred and forty dollars; salaries of lighthouse keepers, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, ninety-five dollars and twenty-two cents; supplies of lighthouses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, seven dollars and sixty-three cents; revenue-cutter service, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, six dollars; preserving life and property from shipwrecked vessels, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one hundred and eighty dollars; preserving life and property from shipwrecked vessels, contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, three hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-four cents; lifesaving service, fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen dollars.
To meet the expenses attendant upon experiments made as to the Steam-boiler experiments.1873, ch. 327,17 Stat., 629.causes of steam boiler explosions, this portion of the balance (four thousand and sixty-four dollars and ninety-six cents) of the appropriation made by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, is continued and made available for said purpose, namely, six hundred dollars. And the property used in connection with the experiments as*Transfer of property used.* to the causes of steam-boiler explosions shall be transferred to the Navy Department, and such sums only as may be necessary to pay indebtedness to watchmen are hereby reappropriated from said balance.
WAR DEPARTMENT. For examination and surveys on western and northwestern rivers,Survey of western, etc., rivers.1870, ch. 292,16 Stat., 300. there is reappropriated from the balance of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, the sum of three hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty cents. 126 For balance of one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by act ofSeacoast mortar batteries.1872, ch. 417,17 Stat., 377.Alluvial basin of Mississippi.1874, ch. 411,18 Stat., 199.
July tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for construction of Seacoast mortar-batteries, three hundred and one dollars and fifty cents. For balance of twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated by act of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy four, for commission to investigate and report plan for reclamation of alluvial basin of Mississippi River, live thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for traveling, and general expenses of theTraveling, etc., expenses, Army.
Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two thousand live hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty cents. For payment of amounts for medical and hospital supplies and incidentalHospital supplies, Army. expenses of the Medical Department of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and eight cents; for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and thirty four dollars and fifty-five cents; for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, one hundred and ninety eight dollars.
For payment of amounts of costs and charges of State penitentiariesMilitary convicts, maintenance. for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them: For the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents; for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars; for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
For payment, of amounts for expenses of the draft and for the procurationExpenses of draft. of substitutes: For the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one hundred and sixty dollars and nineteen cents. To pay claims of enlisted men of the volunteer service, or their widowsBounty claims. and legal heirs, for bounty, being for the. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and eighty-two cents.
Also to pay bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, sixty-fiveBounty. thousand dollars. For payment of amount due George Hey, for subsisting volunteerGeorge Hey. recruits in eighteen hundred and sixty-three, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one hundred and eight dollars and twelve cents. For payment of amounts for transportation of the Army, being for theTransportation, Army. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, eighty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents; for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seven tythree, two hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-two cents; for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, forty-thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifty-three cents.
For payment of amounts for transportation of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two thousand one hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents. For payment of amounts for rent or hire of quarters for troops and forHire of quarters. officers on military duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars; tor eighteen hundred and seventy-four, thirty dollars.
For payment of amounts for regular supplies of the Army, being forRegular supplies, Army. the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and 127 prior years, twenty-three thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. For payment of amounts for regular supplies of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, three hundred and sixty six dollars and ten cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, six hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-four, five hundred and four dollars and ninety-five cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For payment of amounts for incidental expenses of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, thirteen thousand four hundred and ten dollars and ninety-three cents. For payment of amounts for incidental expenses of the Army, beingIncidental expenses, Army. for the. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-one cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, four hundred and seventy seven dollars and forty-nine cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and seventy five cents.
For payment of amounts for purchase of horses for the cavalry andPurchase of horses. artillery, being for the service oi the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, three hundred and ninety-five dollars. For payment of amounts for establishing and maintaining nationalNational cemeteries. cemeteries, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, two dollars and forty-nine cents. For payment of amounts for clothing the Army, being for the serviceClothing, Army. of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, fifty-eight dollars and five cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-four, eleven dollars and thirty-five cents.
For payment of amounts for transportation of officers of the ArmyTransportation of officers. and their baggage when traveling on duty, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, nine hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventeen cents. For payment of amounts for expenses of relief of persons sufferingGrasshopper ravages. from the ravages of grasshoppers, incurred prior to September first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, six hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For payment of amounts for subsistence of the Army, being for theSubsistence Army. service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, five thousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-one cents. For payment of amounts for subsistence of the Army, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, one dollar and ninety cents; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, one dollar and ninety cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eight dollars and twenty-five cents.
For payment of amounts due for pay, transportation, services, andOregon and Washington volunteers. supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents. For payment of amounts due for pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers, in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents. 128 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Army Pensions.—For amounts due under this head, as more fully-setArmy pensions forth in Executive Document Forty-six, Forty-fifth Congress, second session, four hundred and fifty-six dollars and nine cents. Indian Affairs.—For amounts due to superintendents and IndianIndian service. agents, interpreters, contingent expenses of the Indian department incidental expenses, fulfilling treaties with the Indian tribes, and for maintaining peace with and among the various tribes and bauds of Indians, as more fully set forth on pages eleven, twelve, and thirteen of Executive Document Forty-six, Forty-fifth Congress, second session, three thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-nine cents.
Surveying Public Lands.—To pay George O. Elms, deputyG. O. Elms surveyor in Louisiana, for services performed during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents. Expenses United States courts: For amount due S. B. Packard, lateS. B. Packard. United States marshal, district of Louisiana, for services during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, eight dollars. To pay H. Pastor and others amount of judgment in their favor onH.
Pastor. the charges and commissions (customs) cases, with interest, three hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay Mrs. Cora S. Ives, widow of Joseph 0. Ives, late astronomerCora S. Ives. for the survey of the eastern boundary of California, amount found due him, eight hundred and four dollars. Sec. 3. For payment of claims originating prior to July first, eighteenB. S. 3689, p. 729. hundred and seventy-five, under section thirty-six hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, as follows:
For refunding to persons money collected from them without warrantDirect taxes. of law, as in payment of dues under the direct-tax laws, one thousand and sixty-four dollars and five cents. For repayment to importers the excess of deposits for unascertainedCustoms duties.1879, ch. 183,*Post*, 414.*Proviso.* duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, including interest and costs in judgment cases, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the payment of claims known as the “Charges and Commissions Cases”.
To refund to the owners of the bark “General Cobb” certain tonnageTonnage.“General Cobb.” duties paid by them under protest, and ordered to be repaid by the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of six hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents. For the payment of debentures or drawbacks, bounties, and allowancesDrawbacks.*Proviso.* which are or may be authorized and payable according to laws authorizing them, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, The collectors of customs shall be the disbursing-agents to pay the same.
For the payment, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury,Fines, etc. of the distributive shares of fines, penalties, and forfeitures under the customs laws, five dollars and thirty-seven cents. To refund and pay back taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collectedInternal-revenue taxes.*Post*, 421. under the internal-revenue laws, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To pay allowance or drawback on articles on which any internal dutyExport drawbacks. or tax shall have been paid when said articles are exported, two thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventeen cents.
To repay to purchasers evicted through failure of title from laudsEvicted purchasers of direct-tax lands. sold to them in insurrectionary districts for direct taxes, six thousand and seventy-five dollars. Refunding the principal and interest of the purchase-money of landsRefunds on redemption of direct-tax lands.1863, ch. 21,12 Stat., 640. redeemed after the sale of the same, under “An act further to amend an act entitled ‘An act for the collection of direct taxes in the insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes’, 129 approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two”, approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as follows:
To pay George Billow the sum of four hundred and ten dollars, withG. Billow. interest from December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to date of payment. To repay James Brown, as assignee of Samuel W. Brown, purchase-moneyJ. Brown. for lands erroneously sold him, two hundred dollars. To pay for horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, sleighs, harness, steamboatsProperty destroyed in military service.*Post*, 234. and other vessels, railroad engines and railroad-cars, killed, lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned while in the military service, seventy-five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.
To pay H. H. Herring, late lieutenant and adjutant Seventy-fourthH. H. Herring. Ohio Volunteers, the value of horses lost in the military service, as per account duly approved, two hundred dollars. To pay to the purchaser or purchasers the sum or sums of money receivedLands erroneously sold, for lands erroneously sold by the United States, ten thousand dollars and forty-one cents. For the payment of claims originating prior to July first, eighteenTax on spirits accidentally destroyed.R.
S. 3221, p. 622. hundred and seventy-five, under section thirty-two hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes, as follows: For refunding taxes collected on distilled spirits in bond which have been destroyed by fire or other casualty, forty-one dollars and thirty cents. For the payment of claims originating prior to July first, eighteenExcessive bank dues.R. S. 5218, p. 1016. hundred and seventy-five, under section fifty-two hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, as follows:
Amounts found due the following national banks by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for excess of duty paid prior to July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, namely: Second National Bank of Boston, Massachusetts, eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-one cents; Western National Bank of Baltimore, Maryland, five hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-eight cents; First National Bank of Baltimore, Maryland, three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents;
Second National Bank of Baltimore, Maryland, three hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventeen cents; National Mechanics and Traders’ Bank of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one hundred and four dollars and eighty-five cents; National Bank of Commerce, Boston, Massachusetts, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty cents; Leather Manufacturers’ National Bank of New York, one hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-four cents; National Bank of Commerce, Philadelphia, four hundred and twenty dollars;
Merchants’ Exchange National Bank of the City of New York, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents; Merchants’ National Bank of the City of New York, one thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and forty dollars and seventy-four cents. For the payment of claims originating prior to July first, eighteenCalifornia and Nevada volunteers.1867, ch. 170,14 Stat., 487. hundred and seventy-five, under act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven (Statutes at Large, volume fourteen, page four hundred and eighty-seven, section seven), as follows:
To pay for the traveling expenses of such California and Nevada volunteers as were discharged in New Mexico, Arizona, or Utah, and at points distant from the place or places of enlistment, such proportionate sum, according to the distance traveled, as has been paid to the troops of other States similarly situated, two hundred and ten dollars and twenty-four cents. For payment of claims originating prior to July first, eighteen hundredRations of soldiers, etc., held aa prisoners. and seventy-five, under acts of July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six (Statutes at Large, volume fourteen, page three hundred and 130 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 191, 192. 1878. sixty-four), and March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven (Statutes1866, res. 74,14 Stat., 364.1867, ch. 145,14 Stat., 423. at Large, volume fourteen, page four hundred and twenty-three, section three), as follows: Amounts certified to be due by the accounting-officers of the Treasury Department for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, one thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents. Sec. 4. That so much of section five of the act approved June twentieth,Report of balances carried to surplus fund abolished.1874, ch. 328,18 Stat., 110.Accounts to be examined and settled. eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as directs the Secretary of the Treasury at the beginning of each session to report to Congress with his annual estimates any balances of appropriations for specific objects affected by said section that may need to be reappropriated, be, and hereby is, repealed.
And it shall be the duty of the several accounting-officers of the Treasury to continue to receive, examine, and consider the justice and validity of all claims under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of said section that may be brought before them within a period of five years. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report the amount due each claimant, at the commencement of each session, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall lay the same *Proviso.*before Congress for consideration: *Provided*, That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the reexamination and payment of any claim or account which has been once examined and rejected, unless reopened in accordance with existing law.
Approved, June 14, 1878.