Chapter 75.
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CHAP. 75.— AN ACT to provide for deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for prior years, for subsistence of the Army, and for other purposes.April 30, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed,namely:
SENATE. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay as follows: For salaries of persons employed in the service of the Senate, “during Employees for session.the session” only, one thousand five hundred dollars. For twenty-seven clerks to committees, eight thousand one hundredClerks to committees. dollars. For nineteen pages, two thousand three hundred and seventy-five Pages.dollars. For furniture and repairs, to enable the Secretary of the Senate to Furniture.comp’y with the requirements of the concurrent resolution of February eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; two thousand dollars.
To pay Thomas P. Clark for services as page of the Senate from theThomas P. Clark. first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, five hundred and thirty dollars; all of the above items being deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. For furniture and repairs for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,Furniture. two hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-one cents.
For miscellaneous items for fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,Miscellaneous. forty-five dollars. To pay S. II. Col bath the salary of a messenger of the Senate for theS. H. Colbath. month of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, at the rate of one thousand four hundred and forty dollars per annum, one hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy cents. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay as follows: For salary of persons employed in the service of the House, “duringEmployees for session. the session” only, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-two cents.
For twenty-one clerks to committees, five thousand seven hundredClerks to Committees. and ninety-six dollars. To pay John. P. Jefferis for copying and compiling questions of orderJohn P. Jefferis. decided in the House of Representatives, under the resolution of the House of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, two hundred dollars. For twenty eight pages, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, threePages. thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. For furniture and repairs of furniture, one thousand dollars; all ofFurniture. the above items being for deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
To pay W. P. Furey and James C. Courts for services as committeeW. P. Furey, James C. Courts. clerks during the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, each sixty-two dollars. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay accounts examined by theAccounts examined by Committee on Accounts. Committee on Accounts, to certain persons, for services rendered for the House of Representatives, said accounts amounting in all to three thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-four cents; which sum is hereby appropriated, to be paid only on approval and order of the Committee on Accounts. 42 To pay Frank W.
Millar, page for the Sergeant-at-Arms’ office, from Frank W. Millar.October fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, six hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. To pay Charles S. Reissinger and John A. Travis, two thousand dollars, Charles S. Reissinger, John A. Travis.or so much thereof as the Committee of Accounts may find due them for services rendered during the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and such others whose names have been borne on the soldiers’ roll during either the Forty-fourth or Forty-fifth Congress as shall be found due and shall be approved by the Committee of Accounts.
To pay Watson Boyle, messenger in the Speaker’s room, from AprilWatson Boyle. first to June thirtieth, inclusive, at three dollars and sixty cents per day, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty cents. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. For printing for the Department of the Interior, to be done atPrinting. the Government Printing Office, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight thirty thousand dollars. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Patent Office, asPatent Office.Contingent expenses.Reimbursement of contingent fund. follows:
For reimbursement of contingent fund for incidental expenses for labor and materials in protecting the property of the office at the time of and subsequent to the fire; fitting up rooms and providing cases for specifications and drawings to be removed from the attic of the Patent Office building; removal of the same; replacing and repairing furniture, cases, carpets, awnings, drawing materials destroyed by fire and damaged by water; carpeting and furnishing rooms temporarily occupied by the Patent Office in Wright’s building; additional temporary laborers made, necessary by the destruction, damage, and derangement of the files, models, drawings, and specifications, twenty-six thousand six hundred dollars.
For photolithographing, or otherwise producing copies of drawings of Copies of drawings.back issues, to replace, in part, those destroyed by fire, fifteen thousand dollars. For photolithographing, or otherwise producing copies of the weekly issues of drawings, to be attached to patents and copies, twelve thousand five-hundred dollars. For photolithographing, or otherwise producing plates for the OfficialPlates of Official Gazette. Gazette, including pay of employees engaged on the Gazette, and for making similar plates, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; this and each of the above items for the Patent Office being a deficiency for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
Government Hospital for the Insane. For the support, clothing,Hospital for Insane. and medical and moral treatment of the insane of the Army, Navy, and 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, being a deficiency in the amount required for the support of the hospital for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, nine thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars.
Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum. For rent of the buildings andFreedmen’s Hospital. grounds occupied as the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum in the District of Columbia, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Storage of Silver Dollars. For constructing, repairing, enlarging.Storage of silver dollars. and renting vaults and sales, for use of the Treasurer and assistant treasurers of the United States, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. 43 mints and assay-offices.
Mint at San Francisco, California. For material and repairs,Mint at San Francisco. fuel, lights, chemicals, and other miscellaneous expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twelve thousand dollars. Mint at Denver, Colorado. For wages of workmen, being a deficiencyMint at Denver. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, fifteen hundred dollars Assay-Office at Boise City, Idaho Territory. For wages of Assay-Office at Boise City.workmen, fuel, crucibles, chemicals, repairs, and other miscellaneous expenses, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, six hundred dollars.
Light-House Establishment. For repairs necessary for the safetyWhale’s Back station. and continuance of the fog-signal at Whale’s Back light station, entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars. Coast Survey. For the continuation of the survey of the AtlanticSurvey of Atlantic and Gulf coasts. and Gulf coasts of the United States, the triangulation toward the western coast, and furnishing points for State surveys, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, fifty thousand dollars.
For the continuation of the survey of the Pacific coasts of the United Survey of Pacific coast.States, the triangulation toward the eastern coast, and furnishing points for St ate surveys, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, thirty thousand dollars. For one schooner for the observation of sea-currents and other workObservation of sea-currents. along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. Internal Revenue.
For salaries, expenses, and fees of storekeepers,Internal revenue.Salaries of storekeepers, etc.Abstracts of real estate.Public buildings.Repairs. agents, surveyors, gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, forty thousand dollars. For expenses incurred in obtaining abstracts and information of real estate acquired under internal-revenue laws, six hundred dollars. Public Buildings. For repairs and preservation of public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For labor and material for the following begun and unfinished public buildings: Custom house and sub-treasury, Chicago, Illinois, for continuation ofContinuation. building, one hundred thousand dollars. Customhouse and post office, Cincinnati, Ch.o, for continuation of building, one hundred thousand dollars. Post office and courthouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for continuation of building, one hundred thousand dollars. Post-office and sub-treasury, Boston, Massachusetts, for continuation of building, one hundred thousand dollars.
Customhouse and post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri, for continuation of building, one hundred thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Fall River, Massachusetts, for continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars. Customhouse, courthouse, and post-office, Nashville, Tennessee, for continuation of building, forty thousand dollars. Customhouse and post-office, Hartford, Connecticut, for continuation of building, seventy-five thousand dollars. Appraisers’ stores, San Francisco, California, for continuation of building, forty thousand dollars. courthouse and post office, Parkersburg, West Virginia, for continuation of building, six thousand dollars.
Customhouse. New Orleans, Louisiana-, for continuation of building, ten thousand dollars. For completion of the building or courthouse and post-office in Trenton, New Jersey, six thousand dollars. 44 For the building for the United States courthouse and post-office, New York City, for urgently necessary repairs, ten thousand dollars. Sixth Auditor’s Office.—For twenty assorters of money-orders, atAssorters of money-orders. one hundred dollars each, two thousand dollars; this being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
For continuing, under the direction of the. United States CommissionerFond-fishes. of Fish and Fisheries, the propagation and introduction of useful food-fishes into the waters of the United States, during the present season, twenty thousand dollars; to be immediately available. To complete the work of adapting the ponds in the Monument lot inCarp in ponds in Monument lot. the city of Washington to the culture of carp for distribution throughout the United States, to be done by the engineer in charge of public buildings and grounds, according to the plans of the United States Fish Commission, two thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; to be available immediately.
To pay the salary of Ebenezer Peck as a retired judge of the CourtEbenezer Peck. of Claims, from the first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and ten cents. UNITED STATES CAPITOL. For annual repairs of the Capitol, being a deficiency for the fiscal yearAnnual repairs. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, nine thousand dollars. For fertilizers, materials, and labor on the Capitol grounds during theLabor on grounds. present fiscal year, nine thousand dollars; to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol.
WAR DEPARTMENT. Transportation. To enable the Secretary of War to pay for transportationTransportation of army. of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water; of clothing and camp and garrison equipage from the depots of Philadelphia and Jeffersonville to the several posts and Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horseequipments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may have required them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small-arms from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; freights, wharf-age, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen, and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific; for procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it to be brought from a distance; and for clearing roads, and for removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which has been required for the actual operations of the troops in the field, one million two hundred thousand dollars, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and *Railway companies.**Interest on bonde to be deducted.*18711, ch. 183.*Post*, 420.seventy-seven: *Provided, however*, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any railroad company or to its assigns on account of freights or transportation over their respective roads unless there be an excess duo such Company after charging the amount of payments made by the United States for interest upon bonds of the.
United States issued to any such Company; but the same shall be paid to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him withheld, as directed by existing Jaw. 45 Subsistence. That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, orSubsistence of army. so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, and may be applied by the Commissary-General of Subsistence, prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to the purchase of subsistence supplies intended for the posts supplied through the Upper Missouri, and for other distant posts; which amount shall be deducted from the appropriations for subsistence of the Army for the next fiscal year.
And this appropriation is hereby made available from the passage of this act. To pay the current expenses of operating the Des Moines Rapids Des Moines Rapids Canal.Canal on the Upper Mississippi River until July first, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. NAVY DEPARTMENT. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay certain indebtednessLabor at navy-yards. incurred for labor at the following navy-yards in eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, under the BureAn of Construction and Repair, and unpaid, as follows:
At the navy-yard, Portsmouth, during February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eight cents. At the navy-yard, Portsmouth, during March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty-two cents. At the navy-yard, Portsmouth, during April, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand six hundred and five dollars and seventy-four cents. At the navy-yard, New-York,during February, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, twelve thousand one hundred and one dollars and forty-one cents.
At the navy-yard, New-York, during March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, six thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy cents. At the navy-yard, League Island, during March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and six cents. At the navy-yard, New London, for the month of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three hundred and ten dollars. Marine Corps. For provisions for the Marine Corps, being a deficiencyProvisions, Marine Corps. for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, fourteen thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and nine cents.
To pay the expenses of observations of the solar eclipse of July,Solar eclipse. eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eight thousand dollars; and this amount shall be available until the completion of the work. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to print a set of watch andWatch and station bills. station bills at the Government Printing Office, nine hundred and fifty dollars; being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. To pay the New Brunswick and Canada Railroad Company for transportingNew Brunswick and Canada railroad, transportation of mails. the mails between boundary line, Saint Stephen’s, and McAdam Junction, from November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy two, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-three cents; from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, four thousand dollars; from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, four thousand dollars; from July first, eighteen hundred and 46 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 75, 76. 1878. seventy-four, to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-three cents. Approved, April 30, 1878.