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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · June 20, 1878 · Chapter 359

Chapter 359.

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CHAP. 359.— An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. June 20, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Appropriations.Sundry civil expenses. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, namely:
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 359. 1878, 207 PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePrinting, binding, and paper. public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Court of Claims, and the departments, and for the necessary materials or articles which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, one. million two hundred and two thousand dollars; and out of the sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, namely:
For printing and binding for the State-Department, seventeen thousandDistribution of appropriation for printing, etc. dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and twelve thousand dollars; for the War Department, seventy-four thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, fifty-three thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, one hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eleven thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the district of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Post-Office, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars; for the Congressional Library, nineteen thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, ten thousand dollars; and for printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates of Congress, five hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.
And hereafter no binding shall be done for any department of the*Binding, how and when to be done*.*Post*, 323. government except in plain sheep or cloth, and no books shall be printed and bound except when the same shall be ordered by Congress or are authorized by law, except record and account books which may be bound in Russia leather sheep fleshers and skivers, when authorized by the head of a department, and this restriction shall not apply to the Congressional Library. And when any department shall require printing*Printing for departments, courts, etc*. to be done the Public Printer shall furnish to such department an estimate of the cost by the principal items for said printing so called for; and he shall place to the debit of such department the cost of the same, on certification of the head of the department, Supreme Court, Court of Claims, or Library of Congress, that said printing is necessary; and the Public Printer is hereby authorized to employ three*Additional clerks*. additional clerks of the third class, to make the estimates.
That the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, being the unexpendedPrinting and binding for library.1877, ch. 3,*Ante*,p. 8. balance of the sum appropriated by act approved December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for printing and binding for the Library of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, and may be expended for completing the new general catalogue of the Library, now in progress. Government Printing Office: For the construction of outside fire-escapeFire-escape ladders. ladders for the Government Printing Office, three thousand dollars.
To enable the Public Printer to pay for the telephonic wire connectingTelephones. the Capitol with the Government Printing Office, and for the rent of the telephones, one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much of the same as may be necessary. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriatedCongressional Globe, and Globe building.Purchase of. to purchase, of the present owners and proprietors, the following property to wit: Twenty-five thousand bound volumes of the Congressional Globe, forty thousand unbound volumes of the Congressional Globe, forty-six thousand metal plates for printing the Congressional Globe, twenty-four thousand composition plates for printing the Congressional Globe, the two-story fireproof brick building situate in the rear of the Globe building on Pennsylvania avenue, and the copyright for the complete work: *Provided,* That the Public Printer, the Secretary of the*Proviso*.
Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall examine the said property, and shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury 208 that it is in good order and in accordance with the schedule submitted, *Proviso*.before any of said money shall be paid: *And provided further,* That said property, when purchased by the United States, shall be placed in the custody of the Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing; and that the title to said property shall be approved by the Attorney-General.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. General expenses.For the general expenses of the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Commissioners of said District for the purposes set forth in their estimates of January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as amended June, fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be credited to the United States on its proportion of the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen 1878, ch. 180,*Ante*, p. 102.Reform School.1879, ch. 183,*Post*, 417.hundred and seventy-nine, under the act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, out of which said sum the Commissioners shall expend the following, namely: on account of the Reform School of the District of Columbia, one-half of the expenses for the inmates and for other expenses, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars;Columbia Hospital. on account of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in-Asylum a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars; to aid in the Children’s Hospital.support of the Children’s Hospital of Washington, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars; and may also in their discretion expend not exceeding ten thousand dollars to be applied in payment of the building already erected by the board of directors of the Children’s Hospital and shall purchase, at a cost of not exceeding forty-eight thousand dollars, Fire-engines, etc.two additional fire-engines, and one hook and ladder, including lands, buildings and equipments complete for two companies, as recommendedSt.
Ann’s Infant Asylum.Industrial Home School.Colored women and children.*Basis of assessments*. by the Board of Fire Commissioners of said District. And they may, in their discretion, donate a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars in either case to the Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, to the Industrial Home School, and to the National Association for the Relief of the Colored Women and Children of the District of Columbia; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have power to assess and collect the taxes for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine upon the basis of their estimates submitted to Congress, bearing date January twenty first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as amended June fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. *Advances to District Commissioners*.The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to advance, from the money hereby appropriated, to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from time to time, such sums as, in his judgment, may be necessary to carry on the government of said District, including accruing *Issue of District bonds*.1879, ch. 11,*Post*, 259.interest upon the bonds of the District.
And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to issue properly prepared bonds of said District to the amount of two hundred and eighty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for the redemption of the 1868, ch. 253,[15 Stat., 226](/us/stat/15/226).ten-year bonds issued by the corporation of Washington under an act of Congress approved February twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, amounting to two hundred and seventy-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; also, to redeem the Georgetown steam force-pump bonds, amounting to two thousand five hundred dollars, issued under the act of the general assembly of June twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.
Said bonds shall be payable thirty years after date in sums of one thousand dollars each, and bearing such rate of interest, not exceeding per centum, as shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to be sold to the highest bidder upon public tender, after being advertised for at least one month, the bids to be opened in the presence of the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by him. *Metropolitan police*.And the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to fix the salaries to be paid to the officers and privates of the metropolitan police until 209 otherwise provided by law; and to require the Washington Gas-light*Salaries*.*Lighting*.
Company to light the city lamps at such price as shall to the said Commissioners appear to be just and reasonable. And all expenses heretofore*Expenses*. incurred by the general government for the board of health, for the metropolitan police, and for gas inspection, shall hereafter be a charge upon the government of the District. For the support of the National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home,National Soldiers,’ etc., Orphans’ Home.1877, ch. 105,[19 Stat., 349](/us/stat/19/349).
Washington City, District of Columbia, including salaries and incidental expenses, to be-expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, there is hereby reappropriated the unexpended balance which may remain of the appropriation of ten thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight: *Provided,**Discontinuance of*. That the institution shall be closed up and discontinued during the ensuing fiscal year, and the title to the property, real and personal, shall be conveyed to the United States before any further payments are made to the trustees of the said institution.
That a sum not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars be appropriatedWork men employed under board of public works. to pay the workingmen employed in the public improvements under the late board of public works of the District of Columbia, or the contractors of the same, whose claims for work and labor are due and unpaid from contractors whose accounts against the government of the District of Columbia had been paid prior to the. passage of the act1874, ch. 455,[18 Stat., 210](/us/stat/18/210). of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy four, entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes”: *Provided,* That such claims shall*Proviso*.*Claims of, how paid*. be severally audited and paid by the proper accounting and disbursing officers of the Treasury, and that the amount found to be due to each workman shall only be paid to him in person if living, or, in case of nonresidents of the District of Columbia, by draft on the Treasury of the United States to his or their order, or to bis legal representatives if dead: *And provided further,* that if said sum of seventy-five thousand*Proviso*. dollars shall not be sufficient to pay all such claims filed prior to first day of December next in full, then there shall be made the required pro rata deduction on each claim, and the amount to be paid on each claim shall be paid and received in full discharge of the claim of such workman: *Provided further,* That no such claims shall be received or audited by*Proviso*. the accounting-officers of the Treasury subsequent to the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and that one-half the whole amount paid under this paragraph shall be paid by the United States and one-half shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia other than that portion which is derived from the United States.
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings. Court-house and post-office, Atlanta, Georgia: For completion ofPublic buildings.Atlanta;Albany; building, sixty thousand dollars. Custom-house and post-office Albany, New York: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars. Post office, Baltimore, Maryland: And the Secretary of the Treasury,Baltimore; the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and the engineer officer in charge of the fifth lighthouse district, are hereby authorized and directed to examine into and report to Congress at its next session upon the necessity of a building for a post-office in Baltimore, Maryland,*Report to Congress*. the price for which a site for the same can be obtained, and the cost of such a building thereon as the needs of said city may require.
Custom-house and sub-treasury, Chicago, Illinois: For continuationChicago; of building three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That*Proviso*. the Supervising Architect be, and he is hereby, required and instructed tn finish the parts of the building for the circuit and district courts of 210 the United States, the sub-treasury, and the offices of collector of customs and internal revenue, on the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen *Proviso*.hundred and seventy-nine: *Provided, further,* That the amount hereby appropriated shall be sufficient for that purpose.
Cincinnati;Custom house and post office, Cincinnati, Ohio: For continuation of building three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Evansville;Custom-house, Court-house, and post-office, Evansville, Indiana: For completion of building, including fences, grading, and approaches, forty-five thousand dollars. Grand Rapids;Court-house and post office, Grand Rapids, Michigan; For completion of building, including fences, grading, and approaches, forty-seven thousand dollars. Harrisburg;Post-office Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:
For continuation of building fifty thousand dollars. Lincoln;Court-house and post-office, Lincoln, Nebraska; For approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Topeka;For a public building at Topeka, Kansas, to be erected upon the grounds already owned by the United States, forty thousand dollars: *Proviso*.*Provided,* That the said building shall not exceed in cost two hundred thousand dollars, and shall be of the description and for the purposes provided for in chapter one hundred and ninety of the statutes of eighteen hundred and seventy-five.
Memphis;Custom-house, Court-house, and post-office, Memphis, Tennessee: For continuation of building, twenty five thousand dollars; and said building shall be constructed of marble quarried in the State of Tennessee, Proviso.cut and dressed on the site of the building: *Provided, however,* That the cost of the building shall not be increased more than eighty-five thousand dollars over and above the limit heretofore fixed by law for the cost of the same. Raleigh;Court-house and post office, Raleigh, North Carolina;
For approaches, and sewer to river, grading, fencing, paving, and entire completion, twenty-four thousand dollars. Saint Louis;Custom-house and post office Saint Louis, Missouri: For continuation of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Utica;Court house and post-office, Utica, New York: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars. Washington D. C.Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs, twenty thousand dollars. Repairs and preservation of public buildings:
For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one hundred thousand dollars. Boston;Custom-house, Boston, Massachusetts: For protecting basement of building against tidewater, and resetting side walks, ten thousand dollars. Post-office and sub-treasury, Boston, Massachusetts: For continuation of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Dover;Post-office, Dover, Delaware: For completion of building, approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, seven thousand dollars.
Fall River;Custom-house and post-office, Fall River, Massachusetts: For continuation of building, twenty thousand dollars. Hartford;Custom-house and post-office, Hartford, Connecticut: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars. Little Rock;Court-house and post-office, Little Rock, Arkansas: For continuation of building, thirty thousand dollars. Nashville;Custom-house, court house, and post-office, Nashville, Tennessee: For continuation of building, thirty-five thousand dollars.
New Orleans;Custom-house, New Orleans, Louisiana: For continuation of building, thirty thousand dollars. Parkersburg;Court-house and post office, Parkersburg, West Virginia: For approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, nine thousand dollars. Philadelphia;Post-office and courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For continuation of building, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 211 For appraisers’ stores, to be used also for United States courts andSan Francisco; any other governmental purposes, San Francisco, California:
For completion of building, one hundred and two thousand dollars. Court house and post-office. Trenton, New Jersey: For approaches,Trenton ; grading, fencing, and paving, ten thousand dollars. Custom-house and post office, Austin, Texas: For continuing work onAustin; building, forty thousand dollars: Assay-office, Helena, Montana Territory: For approaches, grading,Helena; fencing, and paving, ten thousand dollars Sub-treasury building, New York: For the purpose of further securingNew York; the safety of the public treasure in the subtreasury building, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, and authorized to be expended upon said building.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to apply so*New Bureau of Engraving Printing building*. much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for labor and expenses in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as may be necessary to construct a plain, substantial tire-proof building on square numbered two hundred and thirty-one, at the intersection of Fourteenth1877, ch. 105,[19 Stat., 353](/us/stat/19/353).Uses of. and South B streets, to be devoted to the use of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, to the mechanical purposes of other bureaus and branches of said department, and to like purposes of bureaus of other departments; said building to be built of brick, and by contract, upon plans to be obtained and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That the amount of money applicable*Proviso*.*Cost*. to this purpose shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars for the said building, and twenty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty six dollars and fifty cents for the site: *Provided further, **Proviso*.*Title*.That the owner of the site mentioned shall convey to the United States, by a good and sufficient title, to be approved by the Attorney-General, the parcel of land in square two hundred and thirty-one, described as follows, namely:
Commencing at the intersection of Fourteenth street, and South B. street, and running west on the south line of South B. street three hundred and seventy feet and two inches to Fifteenth street, thence south on the east line of Fifteenth street one hundred and sixty-six feet and eleven inches; thence east three hundred and seventy feet and two inches to Fourteenth street; thence north on the west line of Fourteenth street, to the place of beginning, and containing fifty-five thousand and seventy-three square feet, including the area of alley, containing six thousand three hundred and sixty quare feet. life saving stations.
For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving stations on theExpenses of life-saving service. coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving stations on the coast of Massachusetts, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the life saving stations on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of one assistant superintendent for the life-saving stations on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, five hundred dollars.
For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving stations on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving stations on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving stations on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the houses of refuge on the coast of Florida, one thousand dollars. 212 Expenses of Life-saving service.For salary of one superintendent for life-saving and life-boat stations on the coast of Texas, one thousand dollars.
For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario an Erie, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, one thousand dollars. Tor salary of one superintendent for the life-saving and life-boat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, one thousand dollars. For salary of keepers of life-saving and life-boat stations, at four hundred dollars each, sixty-nine thousand and forty-six dollars and ninety cents.
For establishing new life-saving and life-boat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, as authorized by law of the present Congress, seventy-five thousand dollars. For salary of five keepers of houses of refuge on the Florida coast, at forty dollars per mouth, two thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of crews of experienced surfmen at such stations and for such periods as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and proper, two hundred and forty-six thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
For compensation of volunteer crews of life-boat stations for services rendered upon each occasion of disaster, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each person, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, and for pay of such crews for drill and exercise, four thousand dollars. For compensation of the general superintendent of the life-saving service, four thousand dollars. For compensation of the assistant general superintendent of the life saving service, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses: For fuel for one hundred and fifty-five 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 of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, thirty-eight thousand dollars. *“Manes Life Boat.”**Report*.The superintendent of the life-saving service is authorized to examine into the merits of the “Manes Life Boat”, and to report to Congress upon its adaptability to the said service. revenue-cutter service.
Expenses of revenue-cutter service: For pay of captains, lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots, and for rations for the same; and for pay of petty-officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and rations for the same; and for fuel for vessels, repairs and outfits for same; ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; and contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses, which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Seal islands.Steamer.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use and maintain a revenue steamer or steamers, for the enforcement of the provisions of law and protection of the interests of the government on the seal islands and sea-otter hunting grounds, and of Alaska generally, twenty-five *Proviso*.*Mails to be carried*.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That when said revenue vessel or vessels are sent, the United States mails shall be carried therein. engraving and printing.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.For labor and expenses of engraving and printing, namely: For labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in 213 engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work; and for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States; for paper for notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, including mill expenses, boxing, and transportation; for materials other than paper required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers’ tools, dies, rolls, and plates, and for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating-machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, two hundred thousand dollars. light-house establishment.
Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries (including fuel, rations, andKeepers. transportation of the same, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses) of nine hundred and ninety-one light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and ninety-four thousand six hundred dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, upon the recommendation of the Light-House Board, to use any surplus portion of the said sum for the purchase of automatic buoys.
Light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies,Light-vessels. and incidental expenses of thirty-one lightships, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning painting, repairing,Buoyage. removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons and fog-chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred thousand dollars. That the use of the balances of the appropriations for the service ofReappropriation.1875, ch. 130,[18 Stat., 378](/us/stat/18/378). the Light-House Establishment made by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five (Statutes, volume eighteen, page three hundred and seventy-eight), now remaining on the books of the Department, not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, is hereby reappropriated to pay for certain expenditures made by officers of the light house service in connection with the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six.
Fog-signals: For repairs and incidental expenses in renewing, refitting,Fog-signals. and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, forty thousand dollars. Inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights andInspecting lights. other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, four thousand dollars. Supplies of lighthouses: For supplying the lighthouses, beacon-lights,Supplies. and fog signals on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books for light-stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Repairs of light houses: For repairs and incidental expense of lightRepairs. houses; for refitting and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Lighting and buoyage: For maintenance of lights and buoys on theMississippi, etc., rivers. Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Commissions to superintendents of lights:
For commissions to collectorsCommissions to collectors of customs. of customs acting as superintendents of lights, being for disbursements to be made by them for the Light-House Establishment 214 during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two and a half per centum on four hundred thousand dollars, seven thousand dollars Joseph Henry.To pay to the legal representatives of the late Joseph Henry, for services rendered by him as member and president of the Light House Board, eleven thousand dollars, lighthouses, beacons, and fog-signals.Light-houses, etc., at— Romer Shoal;For protecting the foundation of Romer Shoal beacon, New York Bay, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Barnegat;For protecting the site to the light-house at Barnegat, New Jersey, ten thousand dollars. Absecom;For protecting the site of Absecom light-house, New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars. Steam-tender.For building a steam-tender for general service on the Atlantic coast, fifty thousand dollars. American Shoal;For commencing the construction of a light house at or near American Shoal, Florida Beefs, Florida, seventy-five thousand dollars. Thirty-mile Point;For protecting site of Thirty-mile Point light station, Lake Ontario, New York, five thousand dollars.
Green Island;For purchasing additional land at Green Island light-station, Wisconsin, two hundred dollars Racine Point;For the establishment of a lake-coast light and fog-signal station on Racine Point, on Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, forty thousand dollars. Fort Point;For the erection of a light house at Fort Point, Galveston Harbor, Texas, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. Stannard’s Rock.For continuing the erection of a light-house on Stannard’s Bock, Michigan, one hundred thousand dollars.
Piedras Blancas.For purchasing right of way to Piedras Blancas site, and supplying that station with water, two thousand dollars. Steam-tender.For building a steam-tender, for service on the Pacific coast, sixty thousand dollars. Tillamook Head.That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of constructing a first-class light-house on Tillamook Head, Oregon. Fort Ripley Shoals.For building alight-house on Fort Ripley Shoals, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, to take the place of the light now at Castle Pinckney, five thousand dollars.
Paris Island.Bay Point.1876, ch. 246,[19 Stat., 112](/us/stat/19/112).For the construction of a range-light on Paris Island, Port Boyal Harbor South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars; and so much of the act of July thirty first eighteen hundred and seventy six, as directs the establishment of a range light on Bay Point, Port Royal Harbor, be, Mouth of Mississippi.1874, ch.455,[18 Stat., 220](/us/stat/18/220).and the same is hereby, repealed; and the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made by act approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy four, for a light house depot at Southwest Pass, Louisiana, is made available for the establishment of a depot at such point near the mouth of the Mississippi River as the Light-House Board may select.
Northern Lakes.*Proviso*.For the erection of pier head lights on the northern and northwestern lakes, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the Light-House Board is hereby authorized to establish a small pier-head light on the pier of *Portage Lake Ship Canal*.the Portage Lake Ship Canal, Lake Superior, and to lease so much of said pier as may be necessary for said purpose, the expenses of establishing*Proviso*.[R. S. 355, p. 59](/us/rs/s355/p59),[R. S. 4661, p. 914](/us/rs/s4661/p914),*Not to apply* said light to be paid for from this appropriation: *And provided further* That the provision of section three hundred and fifty five and forty-six hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be applicable to this structure so far as title to the site thereof and cession of jurisdiction thereover are involved.
Ohio River.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for maintaining lights on the Ohio River from the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty 215 six, to eleventh of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For rebuilding the light house in Hooper’s Straits, Maryland, twentyHooper’s Straits. thousand dollars. For rebuilding and remodeling the light house at Cane Henry, Virginia,Cape Henry. seventy-five thousand dollars.
For light house at Laurel Point in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina,Laurel Point. twenty-five thousand dollars. For beacon-lights in North Landing River, Currituck Sound, andNorth Landing and North rivers; North River North Carolina, on the line of Atlantic inland navigation, and Edenton Harbor, Albermarle Sound twenty thousand dollars.Edenton Harbor; For day beacon at Anita Rock, California, one thousand five hundred dollars.Anita Rock; For light house at Great Beds, Raritan Bay, New Jersey, thirty fourGreat Beds; thousand dollars.
For a light house and fog-signal at Point Wilson Puget Sound, WashingtonPoint Wilson; Territory, eight thousand dollars. For beacon-lights at Lake Memphremagog, five thousand dollars.Lake Memphremagog; For lights to guide past Cherry Island Flats, Delaware River, ten thousand dollars.Cherry Island Flats. coast and geodetic survey. Survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts: For every purpose and objectSurvey of Atlantic coast. necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the Mississippi, and other rivers, to the head of ship-navigation or tidal influence; soundings, deep-sea temperatures, dredgings, and current-observations along the above-named coasts, and in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, including its entrance into the Gulf of Mexico and east end of the Carribean Sea; the triangulation toward the Western coast and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of the Western (Pacific) coasts: For every purpose and objectSurvey of Pacific coast. necessary for and incident to the continuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United States, including the resurvey of San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California, the Columbia and other rivers, to the head of ship-navigation or tidal influence; soundings, deep sea temperatures, dredgings, and current-observations along and in the branch of the Japan Stream flowing off the above-named coasts, with observations of other currents along the same coasts; the triangulation toward the eastern coast, and furnishing points for State surveys; the preparation and publication of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other results of the work, with the purchase of materials therefor, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Repairs of vessels: For the repairs and maintenance of the complementRepairs of vessels. of vessels used in the Coast Survey, thirty thousand dollars. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to*Samuel Hein*. allow, in the accounts of Samuel Hein, late disbursing agent of the Coast Survey, the expenditures heretofore made by him and not yet passed to his credit, upon presentation by him of vouchers for said expenditures, and to make the necessary transfers on the books of the Treasury, to close the accounts of said disbursing-agent, if said accounting-officers shall find that said expenditures were fully and truly made for*Credit in accounts* the benefit and use of the government; and also to credit said Hein with the sum of nine hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount standing to his credit on the books of the assistant treasurer of the United States at New Orleans, Louisiana, on the second day of April eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for which sum he has not been reimbursed: *Provided,* That this authority shall not be construed as authorizing or*Proviso*. involving any payment whatever of money from the Treasury. 216 Publishing observations.Publishing observations:
For continuing the publication of observations, and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, six thousand dollars. General expenses.General expenses: For rent of buildings for offices, workrooms, and workshops in Washington, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. For rent of tire proof building, number two hundred and five, New Jersey avenue south (excepting rooms for standard weights and measures), for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records; the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts; instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable articles of the Coast Survey, five thousand dollars.
For rent, of sub office at San Francisco, two thousand dollars. For fuel for all the offices and buildings, two thousand dollars. For transportation of instruments, maps, and charts; the purchase of new instruments, books, maps, and charts; gas and other miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand four hundred dollars. *Sale of charts*.That the charts published by the Coast Survey shall be sold at the office at Washington at the price of the printing and paper thereof, and elsewhere at the same price with the average cost of delivery added *No free distribution, except, etc*.thereto; and hereafter there shall be no free distribution of such charts except to the departments of the United States and to the several States and officers of the United States requiring them for public use, in accordance with the act of June third eighteen hundred and forty four. *Rates of advertising*.That hereafter all advertisements, notices, proposals for contracts, and all forms of advertising required by law for the several Departments of the government may be paid for at a price not to exceed the commercial rates charged to private individuals, with the usual dis counts; such rates to be ascertained from sworn statements to be furnished by the proprietors or publishers of the newspapers proposing so *Proviso*.to advertise: *Provided,* That all advertising in newspapers since the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, shall be audited and paid at like rates; but the beads of the several departments may secure lower terms at special rates whenever the public interest requires it miscellaneous objects.
National currency.Expenses of national currency: For paper, engraving, printing express charges, and other expenses, one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars. Transportation of securities.Transportation of United States securities: For transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, sixty-five thousand dollars. Food-fishes.Propagation of food fishes: For the introduction of shad into the waters of the Pacific and Atlantic States, the Gulf States, and of the Mississippi Valley, and of salmon, whitefish, and other useful food-fishes, into the waters of the United Stales to which they are best adapted; and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes of the United States, fifty thousand dollars; which shall *Detail of boat*.be immediately available.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to detail the steamferry-boat Burlington, now at League Island, Philadelphia, for use by the United States Fish Commission, in the propagation of shad and other useful food fishes along the coasts of *Proviso*.the United States: *Provided,* That she is not required for the legitimate purposes of the Navy. Illustrations for Report on Food Fishes: For preparation of illustrations for the Report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars.
Weights and measures.Standard weights and measures: For construction and verification of standard weights and measures for the Custom-houses of the United States, and for the several States and of metric standards for the same: 217 for rent of workshops in building number two hundred and fifteen, South Capitol street; for rent of fire proof rooms in building number two hundredRent of building and five, New Jersey avenue, south, for the safe keeping and preservation of finished weights, measures, balances, and metric standards; for fuel and lights, materials, transportation, traveling and other miscellaneous expenses; in all, five thousand dollars To meet treaty obligations arising from a convention for the establishmentInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.*Post*, p. 709. and maintenance of an International Bureau of Weights and Measures, signed by the representative of the United States on May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy five, and ratified May fifteenth, eighteen hundred seventy eight by the Senate, thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty tour dollars, or so much thereof as may be found due from the United States, to cover their stipulated contribution to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
Fuel, lights and water for public buildings: For fuel, light, waterFuel, etc., for buildings under Treasury Department. and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings furniture, and heating apparatus, such as brooms, mops, brushes, buckets, wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, hatchets and hammers, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars Furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings:
For furnitureFurniture, etc. and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department seventy-five thousand dollars. For furniture for six new buildings; fifty seven thousand dollars. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating ventilating andHeating, etc. hoisting apparatus and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars. Pay of custodians and janitors:
For pay of custodians and janitorsCustodians, etc. for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, seventy-five thousand dollars. Vaults, safes and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes andVaults, safes, etc. locks and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, forty thousand dollars. Plans for public buildings: For photographing, engraving, and printingPhotographing, etc. plans for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars.
Suppressing counterfeiting and fraud: For expenses of detecting andPunishing counterfeiting. bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other frauds on the government, one hundred thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moietiesCompensation in lieu of moieties.*Inspectors’ pay*. in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, twenty five thousand dollars.
And hereafter the compensation of inspectors employed under the provisions of section twenty-seven hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes, for service at night, shall not exceed two dollars[R. S. 2733, p. 536](/us/rs/s2733/p536),*Amended*. and fifty cents for each night when actually employed; and said section is hereby-so amended. For gas drop-lights and tubing, gas-burners, brackets and globes,Gas-fixtures, etc. candles, and lanterns and wicks, for the Treasury Department, for the sevice of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay the bills of Charles Randolph, secretary of the Board of Trade,C. Randolph.J. D. Hayes.Milo Smith.G. U. Porter. Chicago, Illinois, three hundred and fitly dollars; J. D. Hayes, Detroit, Michigan, three hundred dollars; Milo Smith, Clinton, Iowa, two hundred and fifty dollars; and George U. Porter, secretary of Baltimore Board of Trade, two hundred and fifty dollars, for services in furnishing statistics relating to the internal commerce of the country, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy seven.
For two additional clerks of class four, one in the office of the FirstAdditional clerks. Auditor and one in the office of the First Comptroller of the Treasury, 218 1878, ch.180,*Ante*, p. 102.under the act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia, three thousand six hundred dollars. Agents at seal fisheries.Salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum; and additional traveling expenses for two agents, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Protection of U. S. lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care and protection of lands and other property belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. Examination of rebel archives.Examination of rebel archives and records of captured property: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have the records of captured and abandoned property examined, and information furnished therefrom, for the use and protection of the government, five thousand dollars.
Merchants’ National Bank.To reimburse the receiver of the Merchants’ National Bank of Washington, District of Columbia, for expenses incurred in the collection of the claim of the United States against Bayne and Company, three thousand and ninety six dollars and forty-five cents. R. G. Hatfield,To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay R. G. Hatfield, architect, for services rendered under order of the United States grand jury at New York City in May, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, upon the investigation of the causes of the accident at the post office building in that city, which had occurred just previously, one hundred and fifty dollars S.
W. Williams.To reimburse R. Wells Williams, late secretary and Chinese interpreter to the legation of the United States at Peking, China, a portion of amount paid by him to Chester Holcombe as substitute during the absence of said Williams on regular leave, one thousand six hundred dollars. Relics of Washington.For the purchase of relics of George Washington from the Lewis family, of Clark County, Virginia, the purchase to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury at a price not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Unsigned national-bank notes.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to redeem certain unsigned national-bank notes stolen from the office of the Comptroller of the currency during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-four to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, both inclusive, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT. Third Assistant Secretary.For salary of the Third Assistant Secretary of State, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses, foreign intercourse.For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all the missions abroad, and for the. necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, ten thousand dollars. Paris Exposition.To enable the Secretary of State to defray additional expenses necessarilyAdditional expenses. incurred by the Commissioner-General of the United States to the International Industrial Exposition in Paris, in erecting a special building for exhibits of agricultural machinery and products; in erecting a facade, or frontage, to the space allotted to the United States in the main building; in making necessary alterations and repairs; and for transportation, forty thousand dollars; to be available immediately Monetary conference.1878, ch. 20,*Ante*, p. 25.For the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expenses of the International Monetary Conference authorized by the act of February twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars.
S. D. Horton.For compensation of S. Dana Horton secretary to said commission, 219 the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars; and, in addition thereto, a sum sufficient to pay his reasonable expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of State. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. signal service. Observation and report of storms: For the expenses of the observationObservation and report of storms. and report of storms by telegraph and signal for the benefit of commerce and agriculture throughout the United States; for manufacture, purchase, and repair of meteorological and other necessary instruments; for telegraphing reports; for expenses of storm-signals announcing the probable approach and force of storms; for continuing the establishment and connection of stations at life-saving stations and lighthouses; for instrument shelters; for hire, furniture, and expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities or ports receiving reports; for river reports; for maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution; for books, periodicals, newspapers, and stationery; and for incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And the enlisted force of the Signal Corps shall consist of one hundred*Signal Corps*.*Enlisted force*. and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and two hundred and seventy privates, who shall receive the pay of engineer soldiers of similar grades; and two sergeants may, in each year, be appointed to be second lieutenants; *Provided* Signal Servicemen shall not receive extra*Proviso*. duty pay unless specially directed by the Secretary of War. Construction, maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines:Military telegraph lines.
For the construction and continuing the construction, maintenance, and use of military telegraph lines on the Indian and Mexican frontiers, for the connection of military posts and stations, and for the better protection of immigration and the frontier settlements from depredations, especially in the State of Texas and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona and the Indian Territory, under the provisions of the act approved1875, ch. 130,[18 Stat., 388](/us/stat/18/388). March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, forty thousand dollars.
For constructing, under the direction of the Secretary of War, a militaryTelegraph line from Bismarck to Fort Ellis. telegraph line from Bismarck to Fort Ellis, via the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, connecting Fort Buford, Fort Keogh, and Fort Custer, and from Fort Sully to Fort Keogh, via Deadwood, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And the Secretary*Expenses of*. of War is hereby authorized to pay the expenses of operating and keeping the said telegraph line in repair out of moneys appropriated and to be-appropriated for the maintenance of the Army: *Provided, however,**Private dispatches*.
That private dispatches of lawful nature may be transmitted over said line whenever the same is not needed for public use, at reasonable rares, not to exceed the usual rates charged by private telegraph companies, the proceeds thereof to be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States; and the said telegraph line shall be*Rules*. maintained and operated under such proper rules and orders as the Secretary of War may direct for the benefit of the public service.
For constructing, under the direction of the Secretary of War, a militaryMilitary wagon-road. wagon-road from Ojo Caliente to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and from an eligible point on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad to Parrott City, Colorado, five thousand dollars. armories and arsenals For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery,Springfield arsenal. not used for manufacturing purposes, of the arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, fifteen thousand dollars.
Rock Island arsenal: For general care, preservation, and improvement;Rock Island arsenal. building new roads; care and preservation of the water power; painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings and bridges 220 and shores of the island; building fences and grading grounds; and repairs of and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars. For Rock Island arsenal: For shop I, ninety thousand dollars; shop G, one hundred thousand dollars; shop H, fifty thousand dollars; furnishing power, and so forth, live thousand two hundred dollars; machinery and fixtures, twenty thousand dollars.
For cure and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For renewing the oak floors and a portion of the floor-joists of the said bridge, six thousand two hundred dollars. And the Chief of Ordnance is authorized to use the sum of three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars, which is hereby reappreprinted out of any unexpended balances of appropriations made for the Rock Island arsenal, in paying a balance due on stone delivered *Moline Water-Power Company*.prior to and during the year eighteen hundred and seventy four; and the Secretary of War is hereby directed to ascertain upon what terms the Moline Water Power Company will undertake to complete the water-power*Report*. at their own cost, and report the same to Congress at the next session.
Benicia arsenal.Benicia arsenal, Benicia, California: For continuing attempt to get water by the artesian well, or, if water is procured, for putting down permanent iron pipe and turbine-wheel to pump water to reservoir, eight thousand five hundred dollars. To transfer machinery from storehouse to carpenter shop and blacksmith shop, two thousand five hundred dollars. To build a steam-engine room and boiler-room under same roof, two thousand five hundred dollars. Purchase of steam engine, and boiler, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Repairs of arsenals.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs of smaller arsenals and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. J. Cosbey.To pay John Cosbey, custodian of the Detroit arsenal at Dearbornville, Michigan, from September, fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight at the rate of seventy five dollars per month, less three hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-five cents, already received by him on account, two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Johnson’s Island cemetery.For care and protection of the Confederate cemetery on Johnson’s Island, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars; to be expended under *Proviso*.the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided,* That before any expenditure is made, the title to the land upon which the cemetery is located shall be transferred to the United States. buildings and grounds in and around washington and the executive mansion. Public grounds in Washington, D.C.Improvement and care of public grounds:
For filling in and improving grounds south of Executive Mansion five thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and the nursery, one thousand five *Proviso*.*What to he propagated*.hundred dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter only such trees, shrubs, and plants shall be propagated at the greenhouses and nursery as are suitable for planting in the public reservations, to which purpose only the said productions of the greenhouses and nursery shall be applied. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars.
For care and improvement of reservation number three (Monument grounds), one thousand dollars. For annual repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same two thousand five hundred dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lampposts, one thousand five hundred dollars. 221 For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars.Public grounds in Washington, D. C. For purchase and repair of tools, five hundred dollars. For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, two thousand dollars.
For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For flowers, pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For care and repair of fountains in the public grounds one thousand dollars. For improving various reservations five thousand dollars. For laborers employed in the public grounds, four thousand dollars. Executive Mansion: For care of and repairs, refurnishing, and fuelExecutive Mansion. for the Executive Mansion, and care of and necessary repair to the greenhouses, and fuel for the same, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For care and repair of bridges, one thousand dollars.Bridges. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay ofLighting, etc. lamplighters, gas-fitters, plumbers, plumbing, lamps, lampposts, matches, and repairs of all kinds; lamps for Anacostia bridge; fuel for the office, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouse in the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no more than twenty-five dollars shall be*Proviso*.Price of gas. paid per street-lamp for gas; and in case a contract cannot be made at that rate, the engineer in charge is hereby authorized to substitute other illuminating material, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.
Repair of water pipes and fireplugs: For repairing and extendingWater-pipes, etc. water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the War and Navy Depart merits, two thousand dollars. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and the GovernmentDepartment telegraph. Printing Office: For repair and care of the same, one thousand dollars.
Washington aqueduct: For engineering, maintenance, and generalWashington aqueduct. repairs of the same, fifteen thousand dollars. Building for State, War, and Navy Departments (east wing): To completeState, War, and Navy Department building. the east wing and its approaches, to be expended for plastering and stucco, glazing, painting, carpenter and joiner work, tiling floors, mantels and grates, elevators, balusters for winding-stairways, iron fence, lampposts and lanterns for the approaches, office rent, and contingencies, three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
For continuing the construction of the north wing, to be expended for cut-stone, excavations, and foundations, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the statue of General George H. Thomas, made by the act of July thirty-first, eighteenStatue of General Thomas.1876, ch. 246,[19 Stat., 114](/us/stat/19/114). hundred and seventy six, amounting to two thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifteen cents, be, and the same is hereby reappropriated, and made available to finish the pedes al and statue. miscellaneous objects.
One hundredth meridian: For continuing, in field and office, the geographicalGeographica1 survey. survey of the territory of the United States west of the one hundredth meridian, the supply brandies of the War Department aiding as heretofore; for the preparation, engraving, and printing of the maps and other illustrations, and the purchase of locations for connecting-stations, fifty thousand dollars; to be immediately available. Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes and Mississippi River:Survey of Northern and Northwestern lakes, etc.
For continuing survey of Lake Erie: determination of points in aid of State surveys and construction of maps, continuation of triangulation east from Mungo and south from Chicago and east to Lake Erie, survey of the Mississippi River; for Lake Erie: completion of triangulation 222 and measurement of base, constructing and engraving maps; for Lake Ontario; for Lake Michigan: continuation of triangulation east from Mungo and south from Chicago, and publication of maps; for survey of the Mississippi River: continuation of triangulation, continuation of topography and hydrography, continuation of levels, purchase of steam-launches and quarter-boats, and reduction of work and construction and publication of maps; water-level observations; quarters and fuel for officers; determination of points in aid of State surveys; office rent fuel; stationery; instruments; and for miscellaneous purposes incident to the work, ninety-nine thousand dollars; one half of which shall be used in continuing the survey, now being made under direction of the War Department, of the Mississippi River and fributaries.
Hartford and New York Steamboat Company.To enable the Secretary of War to pay to the Hartford and New York Steamboat Company for dredging done in the Connecticut River, under the direction of Major G. K. Warren, United States Engineers, in the months of July, August, and September, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, four thousand two hundred and three dollars. G. F. Wheeler,R. H. Hotchkiss,A. Walters.1875, ch. 166,[18 Stat., 506](/us/stat/18/506).For payment of George F. Wheeler, Robert H.
Hotchkiss and Aaron Walters, for services rendered by them as commissioners appointed pursuant to an act of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to appraise damages to lands in Fond du Lac County Wisconsin, caused by the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, five thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Colored soldiers, etc.Expenses of collection and payment of bounty, etc.1877, ch. 3,*Ante*, p. 11.Collection and payment of bounty, prize money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors:
For salaries of agents and clerks; rent of office, fuel, light stationery, and similar necessaries; office furniture and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents, telegraphing and postage, sixteen thousand dollars; to be disbursed under the direction of the Adjutant-General, for the purpose of closing up and turning over the affairs of said bureau as provided for in the act approved December fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. Military convicts.Expenses of military convicts:
For payment of costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, fifteen thousand dollars. Rebellion records.For publication of official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate, armies, and for purchasing records of the late Confederate States of America, and for office rent not exceeding five hundred dollars, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Raising volunteers.Refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers: To indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in enrolling, equipping, and transporting troops for the defense of the United States during the late insurrection, to wit: For the State of New York, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy eight cents; for the State of Pennsylvania, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and one cent.
Military prison.Support and improvement of the Leavenworth military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For purchase of subsistence stores for four hundred and twenty-five men, three hundred and sixty-five days, one ration each per day, one hundred and fifty-five thousand one hundred and twenty-five rations, at eighteen cents per ration, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. For purchase of illuminating material and fuel; for heating purposes and running machinery, eleven thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty cents.
For prisoners’ beds; blank books and stationery; stoves, stovepipe, and for buildings not heated by steam, miscellaneous stores for disinfectants and other general purposes; material for one suit of clothing for each prisoner on discharge, estimated two hundred discharges; pay- 223 ment of five dollars to each prisoner on discharge, estimated two hundred discharges; expenses of pursuing and for apprehension and delivery of escaped prisoners; material and tools for use in shops at stone-quarry, and for repairing and cleaning machinery, engines, and heating apparatus; pay of foremen, one carpenter, one blacksmith, one quarry-man, one engineer for stationery and one for portable engine, at seventy-five dollars per month each; building storerooms, shops, messroom, and kitchen for prisoners; and for general repairs of prison buildings; for completion of prison hospital, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand six hundred and thirty dollars.
United States Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: To provideArtillery school. for textbooks, drawing materials, models, and material necessary in the science of engineering and of artillery, stationery and miscellaneous necessaries for the use of the school, three thousand nine hundred and twenty five dollars. For repairs and erection of barracks at Fortress Monroe, Virginia,Barracks at Fortress Monroe. twenty five thousand dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and transportation, one hundred and five thousand dollars; five thousand dollars of which may be used for the service of the current fiscal year.
For disinterring and removing to national military cemeteries theOfficers’ remains. remains of officers of the Army who fell in battle, or died on the frontier, and whose remains have not been removed to the States, five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States not otherwise provided for, three thousand dollars. Support of transient paupers:
For care, support, and medical treatmentTransient papers. of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with such institution as the Surgeon-General of the Army may select, fifteen thousand dollars. Support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: CurrentNational Home for Volunteers. expenses, including repairs: For the Central Branch, for the Eastern Branch, for the Northwestern Branch, for the Southern Branch, and for hospital and other necessary construction purposes, for clothing of extra sizes and underclothing, for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That all purchases*Purchase of supplies*, of supplies exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars at any one time shall be made upon public tender after due advertisement: *And further,* That Colonel Leonard A Harris, of Ohio, General Richard*Managers appointed*.
Coulter, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel John A. Martin, of Kansas, be, and they are hereby, appointed managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, to fill vacancies occasioned by the expiration of the terms of office on the twenty-first day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, of Lewis B. Gunckel of Ohio, General James S. Negley, of Pennsylvania, and General John S. Cavender, of Missouri. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to cause the machine*Testing iron and steel*.*Use of machine*. built for testing iron and steel to be. set up and applied to the testing of iron and steel for all persons who may desire to use it, upon the payment of a suitable fee for each test; the table of fees to be approved by the Secretary of War, and to be so adjusted from time to time as to defray the actual cost of the tests as near as may be; and in order to makeAppropriation. the final payment on contract for the construction of this machine, the sum of six thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty eight cents, of the unexpended balance now remaining on the books of the Treasury of the appropriation for this purpose is hereby reappropriated and made available therefor.
The requisite amount is hereby appropriated, out of any money in theJames B. Eads. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay all money that may become 224 1875, ch. 134,[18 Stat., 463](/us/stat/18/463).due and owing to James B. Eads and his associates, or that may become payable, to said Eads, bis assigns or legal representatives, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred 1878, ch. 313,*Ante*, p. 168.and seventy-five, and the act amendatory thereof, prior to the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine.
H. C. Lovell.To Henry C. Lovell, or his assigns, for balance due on account of Army transportation in eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the claim for which has been duly audited and allowed by the Treasury Department, four hundred and seven dollars and forty-seven cents. J. Christian.For payment to Jacob Christian for quartermaster stores and services furnished in eighteen hundred and sixty three, as allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, the sum of sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
J. M. Vance.To pay James M. Vance the amount found due him by the accounting-officers of the Treasury for the value of a horse lost while in the service of the United States, one hundred and five dollars. Free wagon-bridge at Fort Snelling.That the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to aid in the construction and completion of a free wagon-bridge, with stone abutments, or stone and iron abutments, and iron superstructure, across the Mississippi River at or near Fort Snelling, between the military reservation of the United States upon which said fort is situated and a point nearly opposite said fort, in the county of Ramsey, *Proviso*.*Cost*.Minnesota: *Provided,* That such bridge shall be constructed without the expenditure of any other or greater sum of money from the Treasury *Hight and span*.of the United States: *Provided also,* That, the bight of said bridge shall be at least sixty-eight feet above high-water mark, and that a span of at least two hundred feet in the clear be provided from the right or Fort *Public highway*.Snelling bank of said river toward the left bank thereof: *Provided further,* That said bridge shall be and forever remain, a public highway, free to the United States of America and to all the people thereof. *Approval of plan, etc*.That the location of said bridge, and the plans, specifications, and estimates for the construction and completion thereof, shall be approved *Payment, when to be made*.by the Secretary of War.
And whenever the said bridge shall have been fully completed as hereinbefore provided, opened to travel, and irrevocably dedicated as a public highway, free to the United States of America and all the people thereof, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the persons entitled to receive the same by reason of the construction of said bridge, or to the commissioners authorized to build said bridge, the said sum of sixty-five thousand dollars, which sum is *How to be kept in repair*.hereby appropriated for said purpose: *Provided,* That said bridge, when constructed, shall be kept in good order and repair by the county of Ramsey, Minnesota; and the United States shall never be liable to any expense in the maintenance or repair of said bridge. *Authority to abut and make roads on reservation*.That the commissioners authorized to build said bridge under a special act of the legislature of Minnesota, entitled “An act to authorize and provide for the construction of a free bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Fort Snelling, and to lay out suitable roads and approaches thereto”, approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy six, and the acts amendatory thereof, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, authorized to abut said bridge upon the lands of the United States known as the Fort Snelling military reservation, and to construct and maintain an abutment thereon for said bridge, at such point as the Secretary of War shall approve, and to survey locate, open and maintain public roads or highways from said bridge; for which purpose a right of way not exceeding one hundred feet in width, from said bridge, across said military reservation, upon such line or lines as the Secretary of War shall direct or approve, is hereby given and granted to said commissioners and their successors.
Richmond and Danville Railroad Company.To pay the treasurer of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company the balance of the amount found due that company for transportation by the Secretary of War, and certified by the accounting-officers of the 225 Treasury in settlement numbered seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight, November first, eighteen hundred and seventy five; and the sum of nine thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy one cents is hereby reappropriated for that purpose.
NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy-yards and stations: For repairs at the different navy-yards andRepairs at navy-yards. stations, and preservation of the same three hundred thousand dollars. To continue the construction of the stone dry dock at Mare Island,Mare Island dry dock. seventy-five thousand dollars. For the payment of sundry bills authorized and recommended by theWreck of steamer Huron. Secretary of the Navy for services rendered in connection with the wreck of the United States steamer Huron, namely:
To the Baker WreckingBaker Wrecking Company.E. Pickup. Company, seven thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, for steamer and diving parties; to Edward Pickup, for services of the canal and sound steamers Chowan, Virginia, and Cobb, seven hundred andCain Stetson & Co.T. J. Poyner. forty dollars; to Cain Stetson and Company, for charter of canal and sound steamer Bonita, eight hundred dollars; to T. J. Poyner, residing near Currituck Light, for outlays made by him on behalf of the survivors of the wreck, two hundred dollars, and the further sum of one hundred dollars, to be applied by the Secretary of the Navy to the purchase for him of some suitable memento of his praiseworthy and humane conduct on that occasion; and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to expend a further sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars, in recognition of services rendered by William T.
Brinkley and JosephusW. T. Brinkley.J. Baum. Baum, of Nag’s Head in relieving the wants and necessities of the survivors of the wrecked steamer. To pay William Young for royalty on ninety-five ships’ galleys, nowW. Young. in use in the United States Navy, being the amount of the award of a board of naval officers, six thousand five hundred and forty dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. public buildings. Patent Office building: To enable the Secretary of the Interior toRestoration of Patent Office Building.*Post*, 392. restore and reconstruct the Patent Office building under report and specifications to be submitted by a commission of three practical men skilled in the art of building (whose appointment is hereby authorized) upon the basis of the plans already provided for, who shall be allowed compensation at the rate of ten dollars per day, one hundred thousand dollars To complete the work of the restoration of the models in the PatentRestoration of Patent models.
Office, damaged by fire and water during the fire of September twenty-fourth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, In that building, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available immediately. That the total at the end of the clause beginning “United States1878, ch. 329,*Ante*, p. 200.Corrected. Patent Office. For Commissioner and so forth”, in the law appropriating for “legislative, executive, and judicial expenses and so forth, for the year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy nine, and for other purposes”, is hereby amended so as to read three hundred and ninety six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.
For removing the Bureau of Education, and for sending out reportsBureau of Education. and other documents, two thousand five hundred dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby instructed to ascertain*Site for Congressional Library*. as near as may be, what would be the probable cost of land, either through direct purchase from the owner or condemnation for public use, adjoining the Capitol grounds on the north, east and south sides to the extent required for a proper site for the Congressional Library and for this purpose shall ascertain the assessed value of the several parcels of land proposed to be taken and so far as may be the terms which the 226 *Report*.present owners would be willing to offer and accept, and report to Congress on the first day of the next session.
Walker’s Statistical Atlas.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to procure four thousand additional copies of the Statistical Atlas of the United States compiled by F. A. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, at a cost not to exceed two dollars and fifty cents per copy, two thousand five hundred copies to be distributed by the House, six hundred by the Senate, and nine hundred by the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars. Ninth Census.That the sum of four thousand and ninety dollars and sixty-nine cents of the unexpended balance of the appropriations for expenses of the Ninth Census be reappropriated, and made available to pay adjusted accounts for that service.
Capitol extension.Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, fifty-five thousand dollars. Capitol grounds.Improving Capitol grounds: For improving Capitol grounds and for paving Pennsylvania avenue around the Naval Monument, one hundred thousand dollars; to be expended equally and judiciously in the improvement of the approaches to both the Senate and House wings of the Capitol building. G. W. Cook.And for the payment of all sums reserved from the vouchers paid George W.
Cook prior to January first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for artificial stone pavement laid in the said grounds under contract of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. C. Bromidi.To enable the Architect of the Capitol to pay C. Bromidi, for services in frescoing in the Capitol, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Lighting Capitol, etc.Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting Capitol, and grounds about the same, including Botanic Garden; for gas, pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, and gas-fitters; for material for electrical battery; and for general repairs to lamps and pipes, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Heating apparatus.For the person in charge of heating apparatus of Congressional Library, Supreme Court, and old Hall of Representatives, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars. Cleaning rotunda, etc.For three laborers for cleaning rotunda, dome, and corridors of center portion of Capitol, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Water-closets.For one laborer in charge of water closets in the Capitol, center portion, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Court-house.Repairs to court house, Washington, District of Columbia:
For annual repairs to Court-house, in the city of Washington, one thousand dollars. Botanic Garden.Botanic Garden: For painting conservatory and fence around the square, and for repairs and reglazing small houses in the Botanic Garden, new floors in offices, carpenter work, lumber, and repairs to building, two thousand seven hundred dollars. For raising the grade around the Bartholdi fountain to prevent overflowing, for placing of rock-work, and for marble rim around the basin, three thousand dollars.
For conducting gas to fountains, and concreting the bottom of the basin, and for rock-work around fountain and necessary finish, seven hundred and fifty dollars. *Roadway west of Capitol grounds*.*Purchase of lands for*.That in order to continue the roadway and foot-walk the proper width, at Pennsylvania and Maryland avenues, around the circles at the intersections of said avenues and First street, at the foot of the Capitol grounds, in accordance with plans of Fred. Law Olmsted, heretofore approved and deposited in the room of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and signed by H.
L. Dawes, chairman of said committee, November ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, there shall be purchased portions of lots numbered one, two, three, four, and five, square five hundred and seventy-five, and a portion of original lot numbered nine, square five hundred and seventy-six; that is to say, about nine hundred and sixty-eight superficial feet of lot numbered one; seven 227 hundred and nineteen feet of lot numbered two; five hundred and seventy-three feet of lot numbered three; two hundred and ninety-seven feet of lot numbered four; and twenty-five feet of lot numbered five, all in square five hundred and seventy-five; and two thousand six hundred and sixteen superficial feet of original lot numbered nine, square five hundred and seventy-six, in accordance with a plot of the ground intended to be purchased, a copy of which shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided,* That authority and permission are*Proviso*. hereby granted to take and use, for the purpose of completing the roadways and foot-walks around the circles as aforesaid, so much of the corresponding grounds of the Botanical Garden as may be necessary.
That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to purchaseAppropriation. the ground above named from the owners thereof, the value of the property so purchased to be paid to the owner or owners thereof, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of said Secretary: *Provided,* That before such payment shall be made,*Conveyance of title*. the owner or owners of the property purchased shall, by good and sufficient deed or deeds in due form of law, and approved by the Attorney-General of the United States, fully release and convey to the United States.all their and each of their several and respective rights in said title to such lands and property so purchased.
That to ascertain the value of said property, it shall be the duty of*Ascertainment of value*. the Secretary of the Interior to make application to the supreme court of the District of Columbia by petition, containing a particular description of the property required, with the name of the owner or owners thereof, and his, her, or their residence, as far as the same can be ascertained, which court is hereby authorized and required, upon such application, in such mode, and under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, after notice to the owners of the said property, either by summons or order of publication, once a week for four successive weeks, in one or more newspapers published in the city of Washington, and shall appoint five commissioners, freeholders of the District of Columbia, to make, under oath, a just and equitable appraisement of the cash value of the several interests of each and every owner of the real estate and improvements thereon necessary to be taken for the public use, in accordance with the provisions of this act; and in all such appraisements, both damages, as well as all benefits and advantages, shall be taken into consideration; which appraisement shall be subject to ratification by said court.
That the fee-simple of all premises so appropriated for public use, of*Fee-simple to vest in United States*. which an appraisement shall have been made under the order and direction of said court, shall, upon payment to the owner or owners respectively, or to such person as shall be authorized to receive the same for any such owners, of the appraised value, or in case the said owner or owners refuse or neglect for fifteen days after the appraisement of the cash value of said lands and improvements by said court to demand the same from the Secretary of the Interior, upon depositing the said appraised value in the said court to the credit of such owner or owners respectively, be vested in the United States; and the Secretary of the*Payment*.
Interior is hereby authorized and required to pay to the several owner or owners respectively, or to such person authorized as aforesaid, the appraised value of the several premises, as specified in the appraisement of said court, or pay into court by deposit, as hereinbefore Provided, the said appraised values. That said court may direct the time and manner in which possession*Possession*. of the property condemned shall be taken or delivered, and may, if necessary, enforce any order or issue any process for giving possession.
The cost occasioned by the inquiry and assessment shall be paid by the*Costs*. United States; and, as to other costs which may arise, they shall be charged or taxed as the court may direct. That no delay in making an assessment of compensation or in taking*In case of doubtful ownership*. possession shall be occasioned by any doubt which may arise as to the 228 ownership of the property, or any part thereof, or as to the interests of the respective owners; but in such cases the court shall require a deposit of the money allowed as compensation for the whole property or the part in dispute.
In all cases, as soon as the United States shall have paid the compensation assessed, or secured its payment by a deposit of money under the order of the court, possession of the property Appropriation.may be taken; and the sum necessary to carry out the object herein mentioned is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. public lands. Offices of surveyor-general :Louisiana;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Louisiana; For fuel, books, stationery, messenger hire, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.
Florida;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Florida: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. Minnesota;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Minnesota: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Dakota;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Dakota: For rent of office of surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Colorado;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor general of Colorado; For rent of office for surveyor general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. New Mexico;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico: For rent of office, for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. California;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of California:
For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, three thousand dollars. Idaho;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Idaho: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Nevada;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
OregonContingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Oregon: For fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Washington: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Nebraska and Iowa;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nebraska and Iowa: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Montana,Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Montana: For rent of office for surveyor general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Utah;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Utah: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Wyoming;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Wyoming: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Arizona;Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Arizona: For rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Colorado and Utah boundary.For the survey and marking of the boundary line between the State of Colorado and the Territory of Utah, fifteen thousand dollars; the 229 said survey to be made under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. To reimburse S. Wolf, late recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia,S.
Wolf. four thousand one hundred and ten dollars for the record-books purchased and paid for by him for the use of his office during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and prior years. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reproduceDefaced plats. worn and defaced plats of original surveys now on file and constituting a part of the records of said office, the sum of ten thousand dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands.
For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receiversRegisters and receivers. of public moneys, at ninety-nine land-offices, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the land-offices, forty thousand one hundredExpenses of land-offices. and seventy-five dollars. For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of publicDepositing moneys. lands, ten thousand dollars. To meet expenses of suppressing depredations upon timber on theSuppressing depredations. public lands, twenty-five thousand dollars.
To pay Peyton Finley, late receiver of the land-office at Montgomery,P. Finley. Alabama, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, amount due him for salary and commissions and over-deposits. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to protect, preserve, and improveYellowstone Park.[R. S. 2475, p. 456](/us/rs/s2475/p456). the Yellowstone National Park, in compliance with section twenty-four hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, ten thousand dollars. surveys of public lands.
For survey of the public lands and private land-claims, three hundredSurveys of public lands.*Provisos*. thousand dollars: *Provided,* That not more than eight thousand one hundred dollars of this sum shall be used for the employment of clerical force to write tract-books or do other general work in the General Land Office for the local land-officers; *Provided further,* That the sum*How expended*. hereby appropriated shall be expended in such surveys as the public interest may require, under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and at such rates as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, not exceeding the rate herein authorized: *And provided further,* That no*Lands to be surveyed*. lands shall be surveyed under this appropriation except, first, those adapted to agriculture without artificial irrigation; second, irrigable lands, or such as can be redeemed, and for which there is sufficient accessible water for the reclamation and cultivation of the same not otherwise utilized or claimed; third, timber lands bearing timber of commercial value, either foreign or domestic; fourth, coal lands containing coal of commercial value; fifth, exterior boundary of town-sites; sixth, private land-claims.
The cost of such surveys shall not exceed*Cost*. ten dollars per mile for standard lines and the starting-point for said survey may be established by triangulation), seven dollars for township and six dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey of standard lines in heavily timbered and mountainous land a sum not exceeding sixteen dollars per mile, and for township lines not exceeding fourteen dollars, and for section lines not exceeding ten dollars; and the amounts hereby appropriated for surveys of public lands shall be made available immediately.
That the sum of thirty thousand dollars is appropriated for the the surveyTimbered lands. of timbered lands exclusively. geological and geographical survey of the territories. Continuation of the geological and geographical survey of the TerritoriesHayden’s survey. of the United States: Under Professor F. V. Hayden: For salaries 230 of scientific corps; for employees in the field; transportation of party to and from field; office rent, stationery, and postage; expressage and freight; outfitting and provisions during field season; purchase of arms and ranching animals; purchase of and repairing instruments; miscellaneous expenses in field, such as provisions, toll, and blacksmithing, and preparation of reports, seventy-five thousand dollars; to be available*Proviso*. immediately: *Provided,* That the money hereby appropriated shall be expended only in prosecuting said survey north of the forty-second parallel and west of the one hundredth meridian; and hereafter no deficiency in the appropriation shall be created.
Powell’s survey.Under Professor J, W. Powell: For continuation of the geographical and geological survey of the Kooky Mountain region, fifty thousand dollars; to be available*Proviso*. immediately: *Provided,* That the money hereby appropriated shall be expended only in prosecuting said survey south of the forty-second parallel and west of the one hundredth meridian; and hereafter no deficiency in the appropriation shall be created. *National Academy of Sciences to consider and report plans of surveys*.And the National Academy of Sciences is hereby required, at their next meeting, to take into consideration the methods and expenses of conducting all surveys of a scientific character under the War or Interior Department, and the surveys of the Land Office, and to report to Congress as soon thereafter as may be practicable a plan for surveying and mapping the Territories of the United States on such general system as will, in their judgment, secure the best results at the least possible cost; and also to recommend to Congress a suitable plan for the 1879, ch. 5*Post*, 258.publication and distribution of the reports, maps, and documents, and other results of said surveys, not exceeding one acre now occupied by them for a period of ten years unless otherwise provided by law at *Hot Springs*.*Bath-houses*.an annual rental of one thousand dollars.
And be is further directed to lease the Bathhouses of a permanent nature now upon the Hot Springs reservation, to the owners of the same and lease to any person or persons, upon such terms as may be agreed on, sites for the building of other Bathhouses, for the term of five years, unless otherwise provided by law, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; and the tax imposed shall not exceed fifteen dollars per tub per annum including land rent: *Provided,* That MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital fob the insane Insane of Army, etc.Current expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane:
For support, clothing, and medical and moral treatment of the insane of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue Cutter Service, and of all persons who have become insane since their entrance into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, in the Government Hospital for the Insane one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And of this sum not exceeding one thousand dollars may be used for transporting patients to their friends.
Indigent insane.That one half of the expense of the indigent persons who may be admitted from the District of Columbia shall be reported to the Treasury Department, and charged against the appropriations to be paid toward the expenses of the District by the general government. Drainage, etc.Bake-house.For drainage, and laundry of the hospital, and for the erection, furnishing, and fitting-up of an enlarged and improved bake-house and oven, including storeroom for flour and lodging for bakers, thirteen thousand dollars.
Repairs, etc.For general repairs and improvements, seven thousand dollars. Barracks.For erection of barracks, five thousand dollars. Hose, etc.For hose, standpipe, and valves, for extinguishing fires, one thousand five hundred dollars. 231 columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. Carrent expenses, Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; ForDeaf and dumb. support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, fifty-one thousand dollars.
For furniture and repairs of fences and walks, five thousand dollars; which shall be immediately available. freedmen’s hospital and asylum. Support of Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District ofFreedmen’s Hospital. Columbia: For subsistence, eighteen thousand dollars; for salaries and compensation, as follows: For surgeon-in-chief, two thousand dollars; medical assistance, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; matron, two hundred and sixteen dollars; nurses and cooks and labor, three thousand six hundred dollars; fuel and light, three thousand dollars; clothing and bedding, three thousand five hundred .dollars; rent of hospital buildings, four thousand dollars; medicines and medical supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; and miscellaneous expenses, two thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars in all, forty thousand five hundred dollars. indian affairs.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay A. G. Lawrence forA. G. Lawrence. services and expenses as commissioner, appointed on the sixth of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to aid in the conduct of certain negotiations to be had with the hostile Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the British province of Manitoba, one thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay Henry S. Neal, H. F.H. S. Neal.H. F. Hawks.A. Hodges. Hawks, and Asa Hodges, special commissioners, appointed to investigate the affairs of the Osage Indian agency in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for per diem and expenses, the following amounts respectively: three hundred and four dollars, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents, and one hundred and sixty dollars; in all, one thousand and forty seven dollars and ninety-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary To pay outstanding indebtedness for and on account of the Indian service in Arizona and New Mexico, and other Territories, as follows:
For amount amount due T. D. Burns, as per vouchers for supplies furnishedT. D. Burns. the Abiquin agency, New Mexico two thousand six hundred and seventy dollars and forty-five cents For amount due Z Staab, as per vouchers, for blankets, flour, andZ. Staab. other supplies furnished for the Southern and Mescalero agencies, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-two cents. For amount due L. and H. Homing, as per vouchers, for supplies ofL. and H. Burning. flour, corn corn meal, barley and beaus furnished the Indian service in Arizona, fourteen thousand five hundred and seven dollars and eighty three cents.
For amount due M. Barth, as per voucher, for freight charges on flourM. Barth. delivered at Camp Apache, Arizona, two thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. For amount due W. B. Hooper and Company for flour furnished theW. B. Hooper & Co. Indian service in Arizona Territory, as per voucher, thirty four thousand two hundred and ten dollars. Amount due Thomas D. Burns, as per voucher or vouchers, for suppliesT. D. Burns. furnished for the service at the Abiquin agency, New Mexico, six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eleven cents.
Amount due Joseph. J. Woods for services rendered from OctoberJ. J. Woods. twenty-ninth to November sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy one, at eight dollars per day, as commissioner to examine Cherokee country 232 west of ninety-sixth meridian, nine days service, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy three, and prior years, seventy-two dollars. C. P. Birkett.*Repealed*,*Post*, 396.To pay to Charles. P. Birkett the sum of thirty two thousand five hundred and five dollars and seventy-one cents, to reimburse the said Birkett, late United States Indian agent, for amount expended by him for the benefit of the Indians at Ponca agency, Dakota, C.
T. Stump.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay C. T. Stump for services as assistant marshal in taking the ninth census, fifty-one dollars and ninety cents. Sarah M. Crawford.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay to Mrs Sarah M. Crawford, widow of William M. Crawford, deceased, forty-four dollars and thirty-four cents, for taking ninth census, as assistant marshal. Grist-mill on White Earth reservation.1877, ch. 101,[19 Stat., 292](/us/stat/19/292).That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to use the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the erection of a Gristmill in connection with the present saw mill on the White Earth reservation, Minnesota, in the erection of a Gristmill at such other location on said reservation as may be most suitable, or in the purchase of a portable saw and grist mill combined, for use thereon, if the same be practicable and for the best interests of the Indians.
General council of Indians.For holding general council of the Indians of the Indian Territory for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-five and eighteen hundred and seventy-six, under provisions of the treaties with the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, seven thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty cents. *Commission to Red loud and Spotted Tail Indians*.Appropriation.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint a commission consisting of three persons to visit the Bed Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians, to confer with them about their permanent location, with a view to their final settlement where they can earn their support by agriculture and stock-raising; and that the sum of five thousand dollars be set apart out of funds already appropriated by the act 1878, ch. 142,*Ante*, p. 80.approved May twenty seventh eighteen hundred and seventy eight, for defraying the expenses of said commission; and further that the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use so much of the sum therein set apart for their removal and settlement as may be necessary to secure their consent to accept such locations as the said commission *Proviso*.may approve: *Provided,* The sum so expended shall not exceed forty thousand dollars.
Commission to the Indians of Colorado.For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in defraying the expenses of a commission to negotiate with the Ute Indians in Colorado, with the view of their removal to such location in the northern part of the State of Colorado as may be determined upon, and for the relinquishment of such part of their present reservation as may be agreed upon, six thousand dollars.
Removal of Utes and Apaches of New Mexico.That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the removal of the band of Ute Indians at Cimarron, New Mexico, to the reservation of that tribe in Colorado; and also to remove the band of Apaches at the same place to the Mescalero Apache reservation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico; and the President shall cause the removal of said Indians *Rations stopped*.within thirty days after the passage of this act; and therafter no rations or annuities shall be issued to said Indians except at the agencies of their respective reservations.
Removal of Utes of White River.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to remove the Ute Indians from the present reservation on the White River, Colorado, to a more suitable location, where agriculture can be pursued, and the erection of suitable buildings for such new location, ten thousand dollars. B. L. Simpson.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, upon the passage of this act, to B. L. Simpson, or bis assigns, from money appropriated and due to the Miand tribe of Indians 233 of Kansas, in payment of the nineteenth of twenty installments, under the third article of the treaty of June fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four,[10 Stat., 1094](/us/stat/10/1094). the sum of one thousand dollars; the same to be in full payment of a certain order executed to the said Simpson by the chiefs and delegates of said tribe of Indians, bearing date January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
For pay of a physician at the White Earth Agency Minnesota, twelvePhysician at White Earth agency. hundred dollars. For trustfund interest which accrued between the first day of January,Chickasaw trust-fund interest. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, on trust funds held by the United States for the Chickasaw Nation, the sum of two hundred and twenty-two thousand two hundred and ninety dollars and twenty five cents: *Provided,* That*Proviso*.*Part to be invested*. one hundred and filty thousand dollars of said sum shall be invested in bonds of the United States, to be held in trust for said nation by the United States, and the residue shall be paid into the Trasury of said nation, after deducting such stipulated attorneys’ fees as shall be*Attorneys’ fees*.*Proviso*. approved by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided, further,* That no compensation shall be paid to any person for services connected with said arrears of interest without the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and any person receiving, directly or indirectly, any money or*Penalty*. other thing of value in violation hereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than three years or both.
To enable the Commissioner of Pensions to rent a part of the firstRent of Pension Office. floor of the building now occupied in part for the use of the Pension Office, being Number four hundred and seven, twelfth street North West, two thousand dollars. smithsonian institution. Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution: For preservationSmithsonian Institution. and care of the collections of the National Museum, including those from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, eighteen thousand dollars.
Distribution of duplicates: For expenses of making up into sets, for distribution to institutions of learning and museums, the duplicate ores, minerals, and objects of natural history belonging to the United States, five thousand dollars. Preservation of collections, Smithsonian Institution, Armory building: For expense of watching and storage of articles belonging to the United States, including those transferred from the International Exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two thousand five hundred dollars UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE miscellaneous.
Defending suits and claims for seizure of captured or abandonedDefending suits. property: For payment of the necessary expenses incurred in defending suits against the Secretary of the Treasury or bis agents for the seizure of captured or abandoned property, and for the examination of witnesses in claims against the United States pending in any department, and for the defense of the United States in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Prosecution and collection of claims: For expenses to be incurred inCollection of claims. the prosecution and collection of claims due to the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts and frauds: For detecting andViolation of intercourse acts. punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney- 234 General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, and marshals, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.
Prosecuting crimes.Prosecution of crimes: For detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; investigation of official acts, records, and accounts, to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney General, twenty thousand dollars. Attorney-General’s Opinions.To enable, the Attorney-General to pay for the editing and preparing for publication and the superintending of the printing of the fourteenth volume of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, including the expense of copying the same, one thousand dollars. *Claim for steamer B.
P. Cheney not to be paid*.1878, ch. 191,*Ante*, p. 129.That the appropriation of seventy-five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents, to pay for horses, mules, oxen, wagons, carts, sleighs, harness, steamboats, and other vessels, railroad-engines and railroad-cars, killed, lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned while in the military service, contained in the 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”, be not construed to authorize the payment of the claim for the steamer B.
P. Cheney without further legislation. Utah.Territorial courts.Expenses of Territorial courts in Utah: For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including compensation of the United States district attorney, and the fees, per diem, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal, in the Territory of Utah, with expenses of summoning jurors; subpoenaing witnesses; of arresting, guarding, and transporting prisoners; of hiring and feeding guards; of supplying and 1874, ch. 469,[18 Stat., 253](/us/stat/18/253).caring for the penitentiary, arising under the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in relation to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of Utah, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to be paid under the direction and order of the Department of Justice, upon accounts duly verified and *Further use*.certified, twenty thousand dollars.
And this appropriation may be used, under the direction of the Department of Justice, to defray the judicial expenses of the supreme and district courts of said Territory. COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment of judgments.For payment of judgments of the Court of Claims rendered in favor of the following persons: To Sebastian Kaufman, forty seven dollars and fifty cents; to James Collins, two hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-four cents; to August Kaiser, one hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-six cents; to Elias Li.
Parsons, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents; to William W. Wood, two hundred and eighty-nine dollars; to George W. Kingsbury, five hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-seven cents; to John W. Whitten, eighty-one dollars and sixty cents; to Ellen S. Mellen, administratrix of William P. Mellen deceased, four thousand five hundred dollars; to Allen Carr, one thousand one hundred and fifty four dollars and fifty-six cents; to Emery E. Norton, assignee in bankruptcy of A.
F. Dan-bar, three hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-four cents; to William Bogel, eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty eight cents; to Edward Thomas Parker, administrator of Alfred B. Adams, deceased, four hundred and forty-two dollars and sixteen cents; to James G. U. Lee, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-one cents; to John G. Leefe five hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-six cents; to John W. Dillenback two hundred and sixty-six dollars; to Charles H.
Rockwell, one hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty-four cents; to Joshua W. Jacobs, seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and forty-four cents; to Thomas W. Lord, six hundred anti eleven dollars and eighty-nine cents; to Sidney E. Clark, one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-four cents; to David J. Craigie, tour hundred and forty-five dollars and 235 twenty-two cents; to H. Baxter Quimby, five hundred and four dollarsPayment of judgments. and thirty-eight cents; to James H.
Lord, four hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-two cents; to Charles G. Gordon, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents; to William H. Winters, sixty-two dollars and sixteen cents; to John B. Nixon, two hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty cents; to Daniel W. Burke, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-two cents; to Forrest H. Hathaway, five hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty-two cents; to Stephen R. Stafford, one hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-three cents; to Henry C.
Ward, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty seven cents; to William B. Beck, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-three cents; to Louis H. Rucker, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents; to Lewis Smith, two hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-six cents; to George K. Brady, fifty-five dollars and twenty cents; to Eugene A. Bancroft, two hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents; to Gregory Barrett, six hundred and twenty seven dollars and seventy-four cents; to Charles B Hall, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; to William H.
Clapp, thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents; to Lizzie D. Clark, administratrix of Thomas L. Clark, one thousand two hundred dollars; to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, sixty-eight thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and thirteen cents, with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum from May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, until paid; and to John T. Morrison, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, with interest. from April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at five per centum per annum, until paid; to Dialogue and Wood, six thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty four cents.
To pay Doughty and Cord, for professional services rendered by them,Doughty and Cord. and for expenses incurred and moneys paid out by them at the instance of the United States, in the case of Parish and Company versus the United States, in the Court of Claims one hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-two cents. JUDICIAL. united states courts. Expenses of United States courts: For defraying the expenses of theExpenses of courts. 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; for t he safekeeping of prisoners, and for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act approved February twenty-eighth, eighteenR.
S., Title 26.R. S., Title 70. hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act to amend an act approved May thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled ‘An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union, and for other purposes”, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and circuit and districtDeficiency for 1878. 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, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one hundred and fitly thousand dollars. *Provided* That the act entitled “An act to provide for the appointment*Tennessee judicial districts*.1878, ch. 196,*Ante*, p. 132,*Amended*. of a District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee and for other purposes” approved June fourteeth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:
The Western District of Tennessee is hereby divided into two divisions which shall be known as the Eastern and Western divisions thereof. 236 The Eastern division shall intitute the counties of Benton, Carroll, Decatur, Gibson, Henderson, Henry Madison, McNairy, Hardin, Dyer, Lake, Crockett, Weakley, and Obion, and terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for said District shall be held therein at the town of Jackson, in the County of Madison at least twice in each year at such times as the judges thereof shall respectively fix, whenever 1879, ch. 182,*Post*, 398.the authorities of said county or town shall provide suitable buildings therefor free of any expense to the United States.
The remaining counties embraced in said District shall constitute the Western division thereof, and terms of the district and circuit courts of the United States for said district shall be. held therein at the times and place now prescribed by law. *Suits*.*Where to be brought*.All suits not of a local character which shall be hereafter brought in the district or circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Tennessee, against a single defendant, or where all the defendants reside in the same division of said district shall be brought in the division in which the defendaent or defendants reside, but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions, such suit may be brought in either division, and duplicate writs may be sent to the other defendants.
The Clerk issuing such duplicate writs shall endorse thereon that it is a true copy of a writ sued out in the proper division of the District and the original and duplicate writs when executed and returned into the office from which they shall have issued shall be proceeded in as one suit, and all issues of fact in such suits shall be tried in the division where the suit is so brought. The Clerks of the Circuit *Deputy clerks*.and district courts for said district shall each appoint a deputy of their respective courts at the place in the Eastern division of said district where their said courts are required to beheld, who shall in the absence of the Clerk, exercise all the powers, and perform all the duties of Clerk *Proviso*.within said division: *Provided,* That the appointments of such deputies shall be approved by the Court for which they shall be respectively appointed and may be annulled by such Court, at its pleasure.
The marshal*Deputy marshal*. of said district shall also appoints deputy for said Eastern division, who shall reside therein, and in the absence of the marshal, perform all the duties devolved upon the marshal by law. Support of convicts.Support of convicts: For support and maintenance of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, for support of convicts transferred from other districts, and for collection of criminal statistics to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney-General fifteen thousand dollars.
E. S. Dundy.To pay Elmer S. Dundy, United States district judge of the district of Nebraska, his actual traveling expenses to and from Denver, State of Colorado, in the performance of judicial duties, by order of the Attorney-General, four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as is required. DeWitt Stearns.To pay DeWitt Stearns for services as district attorney pro tempore for the northern district of Mississippi, three hundred and twenty-one dollars. S. B. McLin.That the proper accounting-officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit the account and to pay to Samuel B.
McLin, who was appointed by the President an associate justice of the Territory of New Mexico, the salary provided by law for said office for the period during which the said McLin performed the duties of the said office. H. B. Whitfield.To pay Henry B. Whitfield for services as district attorney pro tempore for the northern district of Mississippi, one hundred and fifty dollars. G. R. Maxwell.To pay George R. Maxwell, late marshal of the Territory of Utah, for his expenses and emoluments incurred and earned in the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and 1874, ch. 469,[18 Stat., 253](/us/stat/18/253).June thirtieth eighteen hundred and seventy-six, pursuant to the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, entitled “An act in relation to courts and judicial officers in the Territory of Utah”, 237 twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided,* That said expenses and emoluments shall*Proviso*. be paid after they have been audited and allowed, upon suitable vouchers, by the proper accounting-officers of the Treasury.
SENATE. Contingent fund of the Senate: For miscellaneous items, four thousandMiscellaneous.Deficiency. dollars, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. For payment of S. B. Pennebaker, George McNeir, Thomas Bailey,S. B. Pennebaker, G. McNeir, T. Bailey, E. P. Holcombe, W. D McGowan. E. P. Holcombe, and William Dorrell McGowan, for services as pages of the Senate during the present session, at one hundred and seventy dollars each, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For payment to James W. Richardson for services as a page, of theJ. W. Richardson. Senate, from April twelfth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight at two dollars and fifty cents per day, two hundred dollars. For payment to James W. Hurley, a page of the Senate, for eightJ. W. Hurley. and one-half month’s service as such page, six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the additional expensesMonetary Commission. of the United States Monetary Commission, provided for by the joint resolution of August fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-six, five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
That there be paid, out of the contingent funds of the respective*Per diem to clerics and pages*. houses, the usual per diem allowance to all clerks of committees not having a yearly salary, and to the pages, for the period of thirty days from the adjournment of the present session of Congress. For the purchase of an additional water tank, pipes and steam-pumpWater-tank, etc. for the Senate wing of the. Capitol three thousand dollars. For the purchase of a new feed-water heater for the Senate boilers,Feed-water heater. one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Jacob J. Noah for servicesJ. J. Noah. rendered the Senate as clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia at the special session of the Senate from March ninth to March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy five, inclusive, being sixteen days, at six dollars per diem, the sum of ninety-six dollars. For the pay of six watchmen, at six hundred and sixty dollars perWatchmen in Capitol grounds. year, to be employed day and night on the-Capitol Grounds; the same to be under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For the purchase of two of Martin’s stationary fire-extinguishingMartin’s fire-extinguishers. apparatus, to be placed in the lofts of both wings of the old part of the Capitol building, including the pipe connections and hose attachments necessary to make this apparatus available for the extinguishment of fire at the library and all parts of the roof and lofts of the center building, to be erected under th supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For payment of Howard French as clerk in the Sergeant at Arms’H. French. office during the first and second sessions of the Forty fifth Congress, at the same rate as committee clerks; such sum as may be necessary for that purpose is hereby appropriated. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Henry Cook the differenceH. Cook. between his pay as skilled laborer and that of a messenger of the Senate of the United States from October fifteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred and ninety dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George T. Howard theG. T. Howard. difference between his pay as skilled laborer and mail carrier, and that of a messenger of the Senate of the. United States from July first, eighteen 238 hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred and ninety dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. J. E. Leonard.Expenses of illness.1877, ch. 65,[19 Stat., 233](/us/stat/19/233).For the expenses attending the illness and death of the honorable John E.
Leonard at Havana, the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty cents; the same to be placed to the credit of the appropriation “For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper and of all the missions abroad”, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Newspapers, etc.For newspapers and stationery for members of the House of representatives for the first session of the Forty-fifth Congress, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For newspapers and stationery for Senators for said session, nine thousand five hundred dollars. S. S. Everett.To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay Shepard S. Everett for extra clerical services in the Committee on War-Claims, rendered necessary by the report of the Commissioners of Claims, four hundred dollars. G. W. Kennedy.To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay George W Kennedy for one hundred and eight days’ services during the present session as messenger and assistant clerk of the Committee, of Elections, by an order of the committee, and approved by the Committee of Accounts, six hundred and forty-eight dollars.
J. R. Barbee.To pay J. Russell Barbee for services as special messenger to the Committee on War-Claims from January ninth to March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, the sum of four hundred and ten dollars. Reporting testimony before committees of House.For the payment of the following-named persons for reporting testimony before committees of the House of Representatives at the first regular session of the Forty-fifth Congress (at times when the official stenographers were engaged with other committees), to wit:
A. Johns, J. I. Gilbert, E. W. Grant, T. J Hamilton, George O. Doherty, H. H. Alexander, E. C. Bartlett, E. D. Easton, B. P. Gaines, S. D. Caldwell, and J. L. Andem, six thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, on accounts to be rendered by them respectively, certified to by the official stenographers for committees of the House, and approved by the chairmen of the, respective committees for which the work was done, and by the Committee of Accounts.
C. W. Coombs.To pay Charles W. Coombs for services as messenger in the folding-room from January first eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to this date, and to include services hereafter to be performed, up to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, six hundred dollars. Rent of building 8th and G streets.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the rent of the building on the northeast corner of Eighth and G streets from November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at six hundred dollars per month, four thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
To enable, the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay certain employees of the House, as per statement of Committee on Accounts referred to Committee on Appropriations, the following sums, to wit: J. G. White, L. E. Chapman.To J. G. White and Leonard E. Chapman for services as riding-pages from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day, six hundred and ninety-five dollars.
J. R. Dunbar.To Josiah R. Dunbar for services as messenger from February first to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one hundred dollars. F. Angerer.To Frank Angerer for services as page during the present session, four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents. Folders.To pay folders of the House for extra work in the folding-room of the House from March first, eighteen hundred and seventy seven to April 239 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand five hundred and fifty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents.
To pay John H. Dougherty for services under the Doorkeeper fromJ. H. Dougherty. September first to December fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, three hundred and forty-two dollars. To pay J. G. Houston for services under the Doorkeeper during theJ. G. Houston. second session of the Forty fourth Congress, two hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty three cents. To pay Edward F. Higgs for fifty eight days’ service as page in theE. F. Riggs. Clerk’s office, said service terminating on the twenty eighth of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, one hundred and forty-five dollars.
To enable the Clerk of the House to pay claims examined and foundEmployees under Doorkeeper. to be just, by the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service to certain persons for services rendered the House of Representatives under the late Doorkeeper John W. Polk, and the present doorkeeper and Sergeant-at-Arms, amounting to seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy said claims; which sum is hereby*How paid*. appropriated, to be paid only on approval and order of the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, and said amount to be available, immediately.
To pay J. C. Koudrup for services as messenger to the official reportersJ. C. Kondrup. of debates during the present session, five hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-four cents. To pay William P. Thomas for services as messenger under the DoorkeeperW. P. Thomas. during April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one hundred and eighty dollars and four cents. To pay Asher Barnett for services as clerk to the Committee on ExpendituresA. Barnett. in the Navy Department from October thirty-first, eighteen hudred and seventy-seven, to March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight seven hundred and sixty two dollars.
To pay J. B. Holloway for services as clerk to the Committee on ExpendituresJ. B. Holloway. in the Department of Justice from November first, eighteen hudred and seventy seven, to March seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, the time he actually entered upon duty as such notwithstanding his failure to be sworn until a later day, seven hnndred and sixty-two dollars. CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to purchase works ofWorks of art. art for the Capitol building, fifteen thousand dollars.
To purchase portraits of the Presidents, three thousand dollars.Portraits of Presidents. For three additional assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollarsAssistant librarians. each per annum, to be employed in the Library of Congress, three thousand six hundred dollars. And the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to cause to be*Works of art to be removed*. removed from the Capitol, within thirty days from the close of this session of Congress, all works of art which have not been purchased or accepted by Congress, excepting Troye’s equestrian painting of General Winfield Scott, and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to remove the same from the basement and hang it in an appropriate place in the Capitol.
VARIOUS. That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized and directedMemphis and Little Rock Railway Company. to pay to the Quartermaster’s Department the sum of sixteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents, on account of mail service performed by the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and the said sum is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 240 Compensation of postmasters.To supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the compensation of postmasters for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Postal revenues.To supply deficiencies in the postal revenues for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. T. A. Kendig.To pay T. A. Kendig for carrying the mails in Louisiana from November first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty seven (routes numbered eight thousand one hundred and eight and eight thousand one hundred one hundred and nine), being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and prior years, four thousand and ninety-nine dollars and forty four cents. *Uniform canceling ink in postal service*.That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to adopt a uniform canceling ink or other appliance for cancling stamps which experiments and tests have proved or may prove to be the most practicable and the best calculated to protect the revenues of the department from the frauds practiced upon it, to be used in all the-post-offices where stamps are canceled, and he is hereby authorized to distribute said canceling ink or other appliance in the same manner as other supplies are now distributed to the different post-offices in the United States; and to this end the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to use any funds *Proviso*.of said department heretofore applicable: *Provided,* The same shall not increase the expenditures of said department for the purposes named in this section.
Department of Agriculture.For the Department of Agriculture, namely: For labor, manure, repairing and extending concrete, purchasing new tools, and repairs of machinery, six thousand five hundred dollars. For investigating diseases of swine and infectious and contagions diseases to which all other classes of domesticated animals are subject, ten thousand dollars; to be expended under and by the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture. To continue and complete the work of the United States Entomological Commission attached to the United States Geological and Gographical Survey of the Territories, in the special investigation of the Itocky Mountain locust or grasshopper, the sum of ten thousand dollars; to be immediately available.
Sec. 2. Hickey’s Constitution. That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to purchase fifteen hundred copies of Cummings’ edition of Hickey’s Constitution of the United States; four hundred copies of which shall be for the use of the State Department, with which to furnish United States legations and consulates, four hundred copies for the use of the Senate, and seven hundred and twenty copies for the use of the House of .Representatives; and the sum of two thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for that purpose.
Sec. 3. Fisheries award. That the sum of five and one-half million dollars, in gold coin, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed under the direction of the President of the United States, with which to pay to the Government of Her Brittanic Majesty the amount awarded by the Fisheries Commission, lately assembled at Halifax, in pursuance of the Treaty of Washington,*When to be paid*. if, after correspondence with the British Government, on the subject of the conformity of the awards to the requirements of the treaty and to the terms of the question thereby submitted to the commission, the President shall deem it bis duty to make the payment without further communication with Congress.
Approved, June 20, 1878.
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