Chapter 76.
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CHAP. 76.— AN ACT authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and making an appropriation for the same; also making appropriations for detecting trespass on public lands, and for bringing into market public lands in certain States, 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*,Appropriations.Temporary clerks in Treasury Department. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ temporary clerks during the balance of the present fiscal year, and t hat, the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for that purpose.
Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department. For care andContingent expenses, Treasury Department. subsistence of horses for office and mail-wagons, including feeding and shoeing, and for wagons, harness, and repairs of the. same, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand dollars. For gas, drop-lights and tubing, gas-burners, brackets and globes, candles, lanterns, and wicks, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. For diagrams, furniture, and repairs in the General LandMiscellaneous items General Land and Office. Office, miscellaneous items, including two of the city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and for advertising and telegraphing, the sum of seven thousand live hundred dollars; for the actual expenses of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses oil the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, *Collections for depredations on lands.*seven thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That, all moneys heretofore, and that shall hereafter be, collected for *Wood cut on unsure eyed lands.**When may be siezed.*depredations upon the public lands shall be covered in the Treasury of the United States as other moneys received from the sale of public lands: *And provided further*, That where wood and timber lands in the Territories of the United States are not surveyed and offered for sale in proper subdivisions, convenient of access, no money herein appropriated shall be used to collect any charge for wood or timber cut on the public lands in the Territories of the United States for the use of actual settlors in the Territories, and not for export from the Territories of the.
United States where the timber grew: *And provided, further*, That if any timber cut on the public lands shall be exported from the Territories of the United States, it shall be liable to seizure by United States authority wherever found. Sec. 3. For the necessary clerical force to enable the CommissionerClerical force for sale of lands in Arkansas, etc.1876, ch. 165,19 Stat., 73. of the General Land Office to carry into effect the act of Congress approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy six, for bringing into market the public lands in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For heating and gas of the building now occupied by the PensionPension Bureau, miscellaneous. BureAn on Pennsylvania avenue, for file cases, desks, printing, pension-certificates, furniture, carpets, and other things necessary in said bureAn for the present fiscal year, the sum of four thousand dollars. For. printing and binding for the Post-Office-Department, to be Post-Office Department, printing, etc.done at the Government Printing Office, thirty-five thousand dollars. That the sum of six hundred dollars be appropriated to enable the Plans for repairing Interior Department.Secretary of the Interior to secure competitive plans for repairing and reconstruction of the Interior Department building, lately injured by fire, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior.
For detecting anti bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty ofDetecting violations of internal-revenue laws. violating the intern ah revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including 47 FORTTFIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 76, 78, 79, 80. 1878. payments for information and detection of such violations, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose, to be expended under the. direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, being a,Salaries, collectors of internal revenue. deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, twenty thousand dollars. For railway post office clerks, route agents, and mail-route messengers, Railway postal clerks.seven thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War be, and be is hereby, authorized to employ Clerks, etc., in pension division Surgeon General's Office.in the record and pension division of the Surgeon-General’s Office, during the balance of the present fiscal year, the following clerks and laborers in addition to the clerical force already provided by law, namely: one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; t wo clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one; and two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and the sum of eleven thousand nine hundred and (wo dollars and thirty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated tor that purpose.
The above sums are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Appropriations made available.Treasury not. otherwise appropriated, and shall be available immediately upon the passage of this act. Approved, April 30, 1878.