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CHAP. 3.— AN ACT to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.Dec. 15, 1877. *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 the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, except as differently specified, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
COURT OF CLAIMS Payment of Judgments, Court of Claims.—For the payment ofJudgments Court of Claims. judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, to wit: To Stephen Powers, one thousand dollars; Marshall O. Roberts and E. N. Dickerson, surviving trustees of Albert G. Sloo, six hundred and thirty-three thousand and seventy-eight dollars and forty-eight cents; George W. Jack-man, junior, three hundred and thirteen dollars and eighteen cents; Edward Braden, ten thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents;
Horner and Benedict, two hundred and forty dollars; John Devlin, ten thousand dollars; John W.Monk, four hundred and eighty-five dollars; F. Phisterer, two hundred and thirty dollars and fifty cents; Thomas B. Briggs, two hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty cents; Warren R. Dunton, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty cents; H. S. Maloney, sixty-one dollars and fifty cents; John 3 Bishop, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy cents; Jo-
(7)8 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3. 1877. seph Stafford’s administratrix, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents; W. W. Wood’s administratrix, one hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy cents; O. F. Sampson and others, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and eight dollars and seventy-five cents; J. 0. Chance, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents; in all, six hundred and eighty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents; also, to Christian Kinsinger, one thousand five hundred dollars; Lewis Deutsch, for the use of Charles Wolf, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Joseph Smith, five thousand dollars; James W. Mears, seventy-five dollars and fifty-two cents; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-two cents, with interest, at the rate of five per centum, upon said last four amounts, from dates of presentation for payment until paid, for which the sum of five hundred and seventy dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary therefor, is hereby also appropriated. To pay judgment rendered in favor of Thomas W. Kelly, May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, two hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay judgment rendered in favor of Philemon B. Hawkins, February twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, fifteen hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety five cents. To pay judgment rendered in favor of Elijah S. Alvord, November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, thirty-five thousand and one hundred dollars. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Printing and Binding, Library op Congress.—For binding thePrinting. arrears of books, newspapers, and other periodicals belonging to the Library of Congress, and for printing the new1878, ch. 359,*Post*, 207. general catalogue, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twenty thousand dollars. For indexing laws, documents, and debates of Congress, being a deficiencyIndexing. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand eight hundred dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Fuel, Light, and Water for Public Buildings.—For fuel, light, water, and miscellaneous items required byFuel, lights, and water. the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, hatchets, and hammers, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seventy-five thousand dollars. Salaries, Temporary Clerks, Treasury Department.—For temporaryTemporary darks. clerks for the Treasury Department, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eight thousand dollars. Salaries and Traveling Expenses of Agents at Seal-Fisheries in Alaska.—ForAgentsin Alaska. one agent, at three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars per annum; one assistant agent, at two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and for necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars; being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seven ryeight. For continuing the operations, under the direction of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Propagation of food-fishes.Fisheries, connected with the propagation and distribution of shad and other useful food-fishes, during the present fiscal year, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For adapting the ponds in Monument lot in the city of WashingtonCultivation of carp. to the culture of carp for distribution throughout the United States *Use of lot for.*(the use of which lot tor the purpose in question being hereby granted to the United States Fish Commission), the work to be done by the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds, according to the plans 9 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3. 1877. of the United States Fish Commission, five thousand dollars, to be available immediately. Freight on Bullion, Mint of the United States at Philadelphia.—ForFreight on bullion. transportation of bullion and coin between the United States mint at Philadelphia and the United States assay-office at New York, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. ten thousand dollars. Mint of the United States at Denver, Colorado.—For fuel,Denver mint. lights, acids, chemicals, crucibles, and other incidental expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eight hundred dollars. Assay-Office at Helena, Montana Territory.—For fuel, lights,Helena assay-office. freight, crucibles, balances, weights, and other incidental expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand dollars. For salaries of commissioners, not in government employ, appointedSalaries, etc., of commission on customs-service. by the Secretary of the Treasury to examine the condition and competence of the force employed in the collection of the revenue from customs at New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans, with a view of reducing the number of the same, and for salaries of experts at Boston and Baltimore to investigate the subject of the proper drawback on exported sugars, under section three thousand and nineteen of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand dollars; and for the incidental expenses of the San Francisco commission, three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents. Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department.—For ice,Contingent expenses. buckets, file-holders, book-rests, labor clocks, and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. For carpets, oilcloths, matting, repairs, cleaning and laying of the same,Carpets, etc. four thousand dollars. For desks, tables, and chairs, and metal shelving for file-rooms, and cases;Furniture, eta repairs of furniture; boxes, rugs, chair covers and caning, cushions, cloth for covering desks, locks, screws, handsaws, turpentine, and varnish, twelve thousand dollars. For washing towels, brooms, brushes, crash, cotton-cloth, cane, chamois-skinsMiscellaneous expenses., dusters, flour, kegs, lye, matches, nails, oil, powders, sponge, soap, tacks, wall paper, and the other miscellaneous expenses required for the current and ordinary business of the department; and for repairs of machinery, and for baskets, spittoons, files, water-coolers, tumblers, ice-picks, bowls and pitchers, traps, thermometers, ventilators, towels, awnings and fixtures, alcCh.l, window-shades and fixtures, wire-screens, hemming towels, axes, bellows, chisels, canvas, candlesticks, door and window fasteners, bells and bell-pulls, hammers, mallets, leather, gum, and other belting, stencil-plates, tools, whetstones, wire, and zinc, and other absolutely necessary expenses, being deficiencies for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, five thousand dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For compensation to postmasters, being a deficiency in payment ofCompensation of postmasters. salaries during the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the sum of six hundred and eighty-one thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents. For the payment of railway post-office clerks, route-agents, mail-route Railway post-office clerks, etc.messengers, and local agents, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For inland mail-transportation, namely: For transportation on starTransportation. routes and by steamboats, and all other than railroad routes, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, five hundred thousand dollars. 10 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3. 1877. For preparation and publication of post-route maps, five thousand dollars;Post-route maps. to be paid out of the revenues of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seven tyeight. Todefray the expenses of delegates to be sent to represent the UnitedInternational Postal Congress.*Documents by mail free.*1877, Ch. 103.19 Stat., 336. States in the International Postal Congress, to be convened in the city of Paris, in France, in the spring of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight-, four thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Vice-President, Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives may send and receive through the mail free all public documents printed by order of Congress, and in the manner provided by section seven of the “act establishing post-roads, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. EXECUTIVE. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, namely: For purchaseContingent expenses. of new books for the library and rebinding old books, five hundred dollars; for stationery not to include record books two thousand dollars; for purchase carpet for office, five hundred dollars; for expense of telegrams, three hundred dollars; for office furniture and repairs of old furniture, five hundred dollars; for miscellaneous items and contingencies, seven hundred dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. SENATE. For the payment of mileage, for actual travel only, to Senators whoMileage. took their seats at the session of the Senate convened on the filth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, by proclamation of the President, and who were not members of the previous Congress, six thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Christian Chritzman for services as messenger to the CommitteeChristian Chritzman. on Appropriations from the fifth day of March last to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, inclusive, at the rate of fourteen hundred and forty dollars peraunum, nineteen hundred and five dollars and sixty-five cents. To pay the clerk to the committee to audit and control the contingent Clerk to committee on contingent expenses.expenses of the Senate from the first day of July to the fourteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, inclusive, six hundred and thirty-six dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture, for the fiscal year eighteen Furniture.hundred and seventy-six, fifteen dollars; and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, nine thousand dollars; in all, nine thousand and fifteen dollars. For materials for folding, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,Folding. twenty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, as follows, namely: For the fiscalMiscellaneous items. year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, forty-four dollars; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, seven hundred dollars; and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, five thousand dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay those members of theCapitol police. Capitol police force who were discharged by reason of the reduction of force made by the legislative act approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, from the first to the fifteenth of September of that year, both days inclusive, five hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-nine cents. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay, in accordance with the direction of the following stated resolutions of the House of Representatives, namely: 11 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Ch. 3. 1877. To certain clerks of committees under resolution of the House ofClerks to Committees. March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; To pay to twenty-one clerks of committees (who shall be designated Difference of pay.by the Committee on Accounts of the House) the difference of pay due them under resolution of the House of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; To pay the clerk of the Committee on Elections not exceeding the sum of oneClerk to Committee on Elections. thousand and five hundred dollars, for preparation of digest of contested-election cases, and indexing the same, under resolution of the House of March second, eighteen hundred and seventy seven; To pay James Morrow for services rendered under the Doorkeeper of the House,James Morrow. under resolution of March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three hundred and fifty-dollars; To pay William Tudge for services in the House William Tudge.post-office, under resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three hundred dollars; To pay the clerk to Committee on Accounts for services renderedClerk to Committee on accounts. during the recess of Congress, under resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and eighty dollars; To pay the pages employed by the House for the month of March, eighteen hundredPages. and seventy-seven, under resolution of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars; To pay fifteen pages of the House for the month of March, eighteen hundred andPages. seventy-seven, under resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, nine hundred and five dollars and fifty-eight cents; Said sums in all amounting to eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars*When amount) to be paid.* and fifty-eight cents, to be paid only after supervision of the same by, and upon the order of, the Committee on Accounts. To pay the clerk of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, from JulyClerk to Committee on Invalid Pensions. first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand dollars. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. For printing for the use of the Supreme Court of the United States,Printing. to be done at the Government Printing Office, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay the salary of Edward G. Loring as a retired judge of theEdward G. Loring. Court of Claims, from the first day of January to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, inclusive, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT. Collection and Payment of Bounty, Prize-money,Collection of claims of colored soldiers, etc.1878, ch. 359,*Post*, 222.*Bureau to be closed.* and other Claims of Colored Soldiers and Sailors.—For salaries of agents and clerks; rent of office, fuel, lights, stationery, and similar necessaries; office furniture and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents; telegraphing and postage, being a deficiency for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twenty thousand dollars; which is appropriated to close up and finish the collection and payment of bounty, prize money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors; and if the work of collecting and paying said bounty and other claims shall not be finished before January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, said bureAn shall be closed, and all papers connected therewith shall be turned over to the department having charge of the payment of bounties due to white soldiers. That the Secretary of War is authorized to rent offices required for*Rent of building» authorized.* the construction of the State, War, and Navy Department building, and public buildings and grounds, at an aggregate rental not to exceed two 12 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3. 1877. thousand one hundred dollars per annum, until such offices can be supplied in buildings belonging to the government; and to pay for the rent of the building now occupied for said offices, from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, out of any existing appropriations for the State, War, and Navy Department building, or public buildings and grounds. MISCELLANEOUS. For fitting up and furnishing the new building of the Columbia InstitutionDeaf and Dumb Institute. for the Deaf and Dumb, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twenty-five hundred dollars. For the National Association for the Relief of the Colored Women and ChildrenNational Association. of the District of Columbia, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, six thousand dollars. State, War, and Navy Department building: For continuation of the east wing State, War, and Navy Department building.of the. building, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and for continuation of the north wing of the building, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in all, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For continuation of the courthouse and post-office building at Little Rock,Court-house, Little Bock, Ark. Arkansas, thirty thousand dollars, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seven tyeight, and to correct an error in the enrollment of the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses approved March third, eighteen hundred and seven tyseven. For continuing the surveys and other works under the provisions of the lawHot Springs reservation, Ark. appointing a commission to lay out and appraise the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, fifteen thousand dollars. For the payment of the commissioner appointed to prepare and publish a newCommissioner to edit Revised Statutes. edition of the first volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States, five thousand dollars, one-half thereof to be paid when he makes his report to the Secretary of State, and the balance when the work is completed. For expenses of preparing for publication and indexing the volume containingProceedings of Electoral Commission. the proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the two Houses of Congress in regard to the counting of the electoral votes, ordered to be printed by a concurrent resolution of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to be expended under the direction of the Senate Committee on Printing, one thousand two hundred dollars. To enable the Superintendent of the Naval Observatory to carry out theHall’s Arctic expedition. object of Senate resolution of February sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the preparation of a narrative of Hall’s second Arctic expedition, five thousand dollars. Botanic Garden.—To reconstructBotanic Garden. the main sewers in the Botanic Garden, and to repair the heating apparatus, damaged by the overflowing of Tiber Creek, five hundred dollars. To elevate the grade of part of the grounds of the Botanic Garden, overflowed by Tiber Creek sewer, and to make sundry alterations and appliances for their immediate sanitary improvement, eight hundred dollars. International Prison Congress.—That the sum of eight thousand dollars,International Prison Congress.*How applied and expended.* heretofore appropriated to defray the expenses of the United States commissioner to the International Prison Congress, originally appointed to be held at Rome in eighteen hundred and seventy-six, but subsequently adjourned to eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and again to eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and the place of meeting changed to Stockholm, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose; four thousand dollars of the said sum to meet expenses already incurred by the commissioner in the preparatory labors of the congress, and four thousand dollars to meet future expenditures in the further prosecution of bis mission, the whole to be immediately available, and the part thereof which remains unexpended to be expended under the direction of the Department of State. 13 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3, 4, 5. 1877. To pay John W. Dodd and John McKinny for work and labor andJohn W. Dodd and John McKinny. materials furnished in grading and paving the sidewalk and gutters on Michigan street, in front of the arsenal grounds, in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, six thousand and four dollars and forty-eight cents. That the sum of forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as mayRestoring, etc., patent models. be necessary, be appropriated, to be expended by the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of restoring and repairing models of patents injured by fire, and for the construction of suitable cases for the preservation of the same. Approved, December 15, 1877.