Chapter 132. making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for prior years, and for those certified as due by the accounting officers of the Treasury in accordance with section four of the act of June fourteenth,
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CHAP. 132.— An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for prior years, and for those certified as due by the accounting officers of the Treasury in accordance with section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, heretofore paid from permanent appropriations, and for other purposes.March 3, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiency appropriations, 1881, and prior years.
That t he following sums be, and 415 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. ILL Ch. 132. 1881. the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter stated, namely: COURT CLAIMS. To pay judgments of the United States Court of Claims, four hundredJudgments in Court of Claims.*Proviso.**Proviso* and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That no judgment shall be paid until the right of appeal has expired: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be applied only to the payment of judgments of the Court of Claims, unappealed, or to judgments entered in accordance with mandates from the Supreme Court where such mandates have been issued prior to the passage of this act.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE. For compensation of a telegraph operator in the office of the President Executive Office.Compensation telegraph operator in office President of United States.of the United States from March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationeryContingent expenses. therefor, two thousand dollars.
STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. To enable the Secretary of State to meet the expenses of the internationalInternational Sanitary Congress.H. Res. May 14, 1880. Sanitary Congress, under House resolution of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, five thousand dollars. To pay R. C. Morgan, disbursing clerk of the State Department, forR. C. Morgan, reimbursement. lithographing and for books and maps procured and paid for by him, also for postage paid for by him for that department during the years eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, and eighteen hundred and eighty, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents.
To pay John jay, late envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiaryJohn Jay, reimbursement. to Austria, for an amount expended by him for telegrams on public business, two hundred and twenty dollars and forty-six cents. foreign intercourse For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountContingent expenses, United States consulates. of contingent expenses of United States consulates, namely: For the year eighteen hundred and eighty, twenty-five thousand and twenty-two dollars and thirty cents.
For the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-three cents: *Provided,* That this*Proviso* and the two foregoing paragraphs do not effect the payment of money from the Treasury, being only required to reimburse the account for consular fees. To pay drafts on the Secretary of State by consular officers on account of contingent expenses of consulates for eighteen hundred and eighty, four thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty- five cents.
For printing and distributing the publications by the Department ofPrinting and distributing publications. State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, six thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. territories.Legislative expenses of Territorial governments. For the legislative expenses of the Territory of Montana, six thousandMontana. and forty-five dollars. 416 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. 111.
Oh. 132. 1881. Dakota.For the legislative expenses of tlieTerritory of Dakota, six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. Idaho.For the legislative expenses of the Territory of Idaho, seven thousand and thirty dollars. Arizona.For the legislative expenses of the Territory of Arizona, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. internal revenue. Salaries and expenses of agents, surveyors, and others for 1880 and 1881;For additional amount to pay salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, and fees and expenses of gangers, and for salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses of internal revenue for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, six hundred thousand dollars; and for the year eighteen hundred and eighty, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. 1879.To pay amounts found due by accounting officers for salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, four hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Dies, paper, and stamps.For additional amount for dies, paper, and stamps for the use of the internal revenue for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred thousand dollars. Amounts due for punishments for violation of internal-revenue laws, 1879 and 1880.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of punishments for violation of internal-revenue laws for eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and seventy- five cents; for eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, eighty-one dollars and fifty cents. lifesaving stations.
Life saving service.For fuel for lifesaving stations, lifeboat 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 Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses that cannot be included under any other head of lifesaving stations on the coasts of the United States, including the rebuilding of the stations at Pea Island, North Carolina, and Brazos Santiago, Texas, and the renewal of apparatus and supplies for said stations, twelve thousand dollars. light-house establishment.
Commissions to collectors of customs for disbursements as Superintendents of lights.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers to collectors of customs for commissions, at two and one-half per centum, on disbursements made by them as superintendents of lights, during eighteen hundred and eighty, three hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-seven cents. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Items.For rent of telephones, and incidental expenses connected therewith, for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For arranging and binding canceled marine papers, requisitions, and other important records; sealing ships’ registers, newspapers, books, hand-stamps, and repairs of the same, for eighteen hundred and eighty- one. two thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, twenty thousand dollars. For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs of the same, for all public buildings under the Treasury Department for eighteen hundred and eighty-one, seven thousand dollars.
For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs of the same, for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, twenty thousand dollars. 417 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. On. 132. 1881. Furniture and repairs of furniture, and carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, thirty thousand dollars. For fuel, light, and water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of t he public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars.
For constructing elevator in the court-house and post-office building at Indianapolis, Indiana, ten thousand dollars. To pay B. F. Scribner, late special agent at the seal-fisheries inB. F. Scribner, payment to.J. W. Beaman, payment to. Alaska, salary and traveling expenses for eighteen hundred and eighty, three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ten cents; and to pay J. W. Beaman, late special agent at the seal-fisheries in Alaska, salary and traveling expenses for eighteen hundred and eighty, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ten cents.
To pay two assistant agents at the seal-fisheries in Alaska, at the rateAssistant agents at seal fisheries. of two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each per annum, one thousand and ninety-five dollars; and for necessary traveling expenses, at the rate of six hundred dollars each per annum, three hundred dollars; in all, one thousand three bundled and ninety-five dollars. To pay the judgment of the United States circuit court for the southernEdward S. Sherman , judgment for, against Moses II.
Grinnell. district of New York in favor of Edward S. Sherman, plaintiff, and against Moses H. Grinnell, former collector of customs of the port of New York, defendant, including damages, one thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents. For the expenses of providing suitable apparatus for the assay laboratoryLaboratory in office of Director of the Mint.Marine hospital, Wilmington, N. C. in in connection with the office of the Director of the Mint, three hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to perfect the title of the government of the United States to the marine hospital at Wilmington, North Carolina, once sold to Doctor J. Francis King, and now in litigation, the sum of two thousand and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the ninth installmentPennsylvania war-claim. of the war-claim of the State of Pennsylvania, duly allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury by settlement made February first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, five thousand one hundred and fifty- six dollars and six cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the war-claim of theConnecticut war-claim. State of Connecticut, duly allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, thousand and eighty-eight cents. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers underRefund to States of expenses for volunteers:Kansas;New York.International BureAn of Weights and Measures. the laws: To the State of Kansas, twenty-six thousand six hundred and four dollars and five cents; to the State of New York, twenty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-one dollars and thirteen cents.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the just contribution to the maintenance of the International BureAn of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for eighteen hundred and eighty-one and prior years, two thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents. For compensation of E. n. Thurston for two years services as secretaryCompensation to R. H. Thurston, testing iron and stool.1875, ch. 130, Stat. 18, 400. of the board for testing iron and steel, under act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, from the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars, being his fixed compensation.
To pay John Scott Cunningham the sum as provided for in the act ofJohn Scott Cunningham. February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars and nineteen cents. To pay Mary E. Walker claim for services rendered by her as a temporaryMary E. Walker, payment to. clerk in the Treasury Department for one year from July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, nine hundred dollars. 418 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SESS. III. Ch. 132. 1881.
Repayment to importers.For repayment to importers the excess of deposits for unascertained duties, or duties or other moneys paid under protest, including interest and costs in judgment eases, three hundred thousand dollars; which sum is hereby made available- for the payment of all claims to which the appropriation is applicable which are not payable from the permanent R. S. 3659.*Proviso.*annual appropriation provided for in section thirty-six hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes: *Provided,* That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the payment of claims known as “ charges and commissions cases.
” E. E. Saunders.To refund to E. E. Saunders, master of the schooner Eddie Huck, the sum of forty dollars, being a part of the penalty exacted, but remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury. Connecting branch sewer from National Museum building with North B street sewer.For additional amount required for running the relieving sewer of the National Museum building into the North B street sewer instead of into the Seventh street sewer, nine hundred dollars. Transfer of collections to new National Museum.For expense of transfer to and arrangement in the new National museum building of the collections of the United States surveying and exploring expeditions, and of the specimens presented to the United States at the international exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy- six, ten thousand dollars, being for the service of the current fiscal year.
Steamer Fish Hawk.For expenses of lengthening the steamer Fish Hawk for the purpose of increasing her fish-hatching capacity, and for providing additional fish-hatching apparatus, twelve thousand seven hundred and nine dollars, which shall be available until used. Distinctive paper for United States securities, R. S. 5430.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for expenses incurred in his selection of a distinctive paper for the securities of the United States, such distinctive paper being required to be adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of seventy fifty-four hundred and thirty of the Revised Statutes, three hundred and twenty-one dollars.
Extra clerical service in office of Director of Mint.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, out of the appropriation for “collecting mining statistics” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars for extra clerical services rendered in the office of the Director of the Mint in connection therewith. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. office of the surgeon-general. Artificial limbs.For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, two hundred thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
For fuel, light, heating apparatus, matting, cleaning, labor, and incidental items, and care of two floors of the old Navy Department building now occupied by the Adjutant General’s Office, five hundred dollars. For fuel and gas, ice, carpets and oilcloth, plumbing, and repairs for the building number seventeen hundred and twenty-five F street, and for iron shutters for same, five hundred dollars. Pay, bounty, and prize money, expenses of payment.To enable the Paymaster-General to meet the necessary expenses of the payment of claims of colored soldiers and sailors for pay, bounty, and prize money, the sum of five thousand five hundred and ninety-five Reappropriation.dollars and two cents is hereby reappropriated from the unexpended balance remaining available for such purpose, to be available during the present and the next fiscal year. military establishment.Military establishment.
Mileage.For mileage of officers of the Army traveling on duty under orders, forty thousand dollars. 419 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. On. 132. 1881. For pay of Military Academy band for the year eighteen hundred and eighty, two hundred andMilitary Academy band. sixty dollars and four cents. arrears of pay and bounty. For the payment of claims for pay and bounty due to officers and enlistedPay of two and three year Volunteers. men of the volunteer forces, and their heirs and legal Representatives, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, so much as may be necessary to pay said claims, allowed during this and prior fiscal years, under the following heads of appropriations, as follows:
“Pay of two and three year volunteers,” and “ Bounty to volunteers and their widowsBounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs.Report made to Congress. and legal heirs”, not exceeding three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress, at the commencement of the next regular session, the amount that has been paid out under this provision during this fiscal year. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster's Department.
For horse and mule shoes, and horseshoe nails, and for necessary officeMiscellaneous. and barracks furniture, and other miscellaneous articles, fifteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops whenTransportation. moving cither by land or water; of clothing, 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 horse equipments 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 require 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, wharfage, 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 may be required for the actual operations of troops in the field, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
To pay laud-grant railroads fifty per centum of what the Quartermaster’sPayment to land- grant railroads, for transportation. Department finds justly due them for transportation during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and prior years, to be accepted in full of all demands for said services, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For Indianapolis Arsenal: For grading, curbing, and bowldering oneIndianapolis Arsenal. thousand one hundred and seventy-six and seven-tenths feet of the sidewalk on Clifford avenue, along the line of the arsenal grounds, for the service of the current fiscal year, one thousand one hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-three cents.
For reimbursing to Captain E. C. Bowen, the expenses incurred byCaptain E. C. Bowen. him in defending a civil suit brought against him by William Stuart a discharged soldier in Yankton County Court at Yankton, Dakota, seven hundred and eleven dollars and seventy-seven cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. For payment of amounts found due by accounting officers for the naval establishment, as follows: For pay of the Navy, seventy-five dollars and sixty-two cents.Pay. 420 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. CH. 132. 1881. Provisions.For provisions for the Navy, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and ten cents. Contingent expenses BureAn provisions and Clothing.For contingent expenses of the BureAn of Provisions and Clothing for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and nineteen cents. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Bureau of Steam Engineering.For the BureAn of Construction and Repair and the BureAn of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses Navy Department.For contingent expenses of the Navy Department, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars. Solar eclipse of July, 1878.For observation of the solar eclipse of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand two hundred and six dollars and sixty- eight cents. Jenkins and LeeTo enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay Messrs. Jenkins and Lee for a marine governor supplied the United States steamer Vandalia in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Dr. Emil Bessels.To pay Dr Emil Bessels for articles lost on board of the Polaris, one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents; for articles lost on board of the Saranac, one thousand and twenty-two dollars and fifty cents: to reimburse him for payments made by him in the preparation of the history of the Polaris expedition, three thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars and seventy cents; for salary from August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, to March first, eighteen hundred and eighty, four thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy cents. united states marine corps.United States Marine Corps.
Contingencies.For contingencies for the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, in the quartermaster’s Department, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy-nine cents. Pay.For pay of Marine Corps, one thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps, six hundred and ninety- one dollar and ten cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. patent office.Patent Office.
Carl Schurz.To reimburse Carl Schurz the sum he has paid as the costs in the case of the United States ex relatione Thomas McBride versus Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, said costs having been adjudged by the Supreme Court against said Schurz personally, the court declaring that no intentional wrong was charged or proven, against him, one hundred and one dollars and twenty cents. Photolithographing.To continue the photolithographing of the drawings for the current weekly issues of patents during the present fiscal year, eight thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and six cents.
Patent Office building.For continuing the reconstruction of the Patent Office building: For skylights and fitting hardware to windows, handrails, plain and ornamental painting, marbleizing, iron sills, paint for roof, india-rubber plates, asphalt, and miscellaneous necessaries, five thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars. pension office.Pension Office. Temporary clerical force.To enable the Commissioner of Pensions to continue the temporary clerical force in his office at the maximum of its present working capacity for the remainder of the present fiscal year, fifty-five thousand dollars. 421 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. For the contingent expenses of his office for the same period, ten thousandContingent expenses. dollars. public lands service.Public lands service. For contingent expenses of General Land Office for eighteen hundredContingent expenses General Land Office. and eighty, fifty-seven dollars. For reproducing worn and defaced township plats for the use of thePlats. general and local land-offices for eighteen hundred and eighty-one fifteen thousand dollars.
For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers of theSurvey of public lands. Treasury Department on account of surveying the public lands, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, four thousand and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-one cents. For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountPrivate lands. of surveying public and private lands, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars and twenty nine cents.
For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountSalaries and commissions of registers and receivers. of salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, nine thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-three cents. For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers of theInsects injurious to cotton plant and agriculture, expenses of investigating. Treasury Department on account of expenses of investigating the habits of insects injurious to the cotton plant and agriculture, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, one dollar and fourteen cents.
For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountYellowstone Notional Park. of protection and improvement of Yellowstone National Park, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, eighty-nine dollars and seventy six cents. For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountRocky Mountain locusts. of expenses of commission to report upon depredations of Rocky Mountain locusts, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two dollars and eighty cents.
For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountOffice surveyor- general Nebraska, Iowa, contingent expenses. of contingent expenses of office of the survey-general of Nebraska and Iowa, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty-two dollars and ninety-five cents. For payment of amounts found due by the accounting officers on accountLaud offices, contingent expenses. of contingent expenses of land-offices, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, two hundred and twelve dollars and ninety-eight cents indian office.Indian Office.
For this amount, for the care and support of the destitute HualapaiDestitute Hualapai Apache Indians, Arizona. Apache Indians in Arizona, for the current fiscal year, to be expended under -the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, fifteen thousand dollars. That the sum of twenty-eight thousand one hundred and nine dollarsWyandotte tribe. and fifty-one cents be paid to the members of the Wyandotte tribe of Indians, per capita, to be in full payment of their claim under treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
That the Secretary of the Interior, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be sold an amount of the stocks or securities now held by the government in trust for the Shawnee Indians, which, together with the accumulated interest thereon, will aggregate a sum not exceeding four thousand two hundred and' sixty dollars, sufficient to reimburse Daniel 8. McDougal, or his legal heirs, and Charles S.DanielS. McDou-gal.Charles S. Wilder. Wilder, for the money by them paid for certain tracts of land belonging to said Shawnee Indians erroneously conveyed to them, and to which tracts of land the government has given and can give no valid title. 422 FORTY-SIXTH CONGEESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. Daniel G. Major.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay balance due Daniel G. Major, out of an unexpended balance now on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Sioux Indians for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, the sum of one hundred and ten dollars and ninety-six cents is hereby reappropriated. Support of:Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas.Support of Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Oomanches, and Wichitas, eighteen hundred and eighty one:
This amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the support and civilization of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas for the balance of the fiscal year, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, thirty thousand dollars. Support of:Taboquache, Muache, Capote, Ween lin ache, Yam-pa, Grand River, and Uintah band of Utes.Support of Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands of Utes, eighteen hundred and eighty-one:
This amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the support of Ute Indians of Colorado for the balance of the fiscal year, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty one, fifteen thousand dollars. Ponca tribe of Indians,For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Interior to indemnify the Ponca tribe of Indians for losses sustained by them in consequence of them removal to the Indian Territory, to secure to them lands ip. severalty on either the old or new reservation, in accordance with their wishes, and to settle all matters of difference with these Indians, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, as follows:
Purchase of land.For the purchase of one hundred and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-tour acres of land in the Indian Territory, -where most of these Indians are now located, fifty thousand dollars. Distribution of money per capita.To be distributed per capita among the Ponca Indians in the Indian Territory ten thousand dollars. Stock cattle and draught animals.For the purchase of stock cattle and draught animals for Poncas in the Indian Territory, ten thousand dollars.
Poncas in Dakota.For the erection of dwelling-houses for Poncas now in Dakota, five thousand dollars; for agricultural implements, stock, and seed, five thousand dollars; for school purposes five thousand dollars; for general distribution among them per capita, ten thousand dollars. Perm anent fund.To be held as a permanent fund in the Treasury of the United States, at five per centum interest, the interest to be distributed annually among all the Ponca Indians, in cash, seventy thousand dollars.
Depredations by Kiowas, Comanches, and Sioux; United States reimbursements for; conditions.For the purpose of reimbursing the United States Treasury for a certain sum of money appropriated by this Congress for depredations committed by the Kiowa and Comanche and Sioux tribes of Indians, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to withhold from the annuities payable to said Indians an amount equal to said sum so appropriated; and he may withhold all of said sum out of the annuities due on or to become due to said Indians in any one year, or otherwise, as between him and the Secretary of the Interior may be agreed upon, due reference being had to the care and welfare of said Indians.
Arthur J. Carrier.To pay Arthur J. Carrier, late Indian agent at the Ponca Agency, Dakota, the sum of two thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty cents, being the amount advanced by him for the use of said agency during the first quarter of the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six in excess of the official funds sent him, for the use of said agency; and the further sums of three hundred and seventy five dollars, for salary as such agent for the first quarter of the year eighteen hundred and seventy six, and one hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty- five cents, for expenses incurred from January twenty-fourth to March twenty-eighth in traveling upon official business; in all, two thousand eight hundred and five dollars and fifteen cents; the same to be in full settlement and satisfaction of said claimant’s account as Indian agent.
Isaac L Mahan.That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, in the settlement of the accounts of Isaac L. Mahan, Indian agent, are hereby authorized 423 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. On. 132. 1881. to adjust and settle the same upon the principles of equity and justice, and to award him credit for disbursements as appear to have been honestly made in good faith, and have inured to the benefit of the Indians or United States. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. office of the postmaster-general.Office of Postmaster-General.
For the following deficiencies for the current fiscal year: For advertising, five thousand dollars.Advertising. office of first assistant postmaster-generalFirst Assistant Postmaster-General. For wrapping paper, five thousand dollarsPaper, twine. For wrapping-twine, thirty thousand dollars. For railway post-office clerks and for route-agents, forty thousand dollars,Railway post- office clerks, and route-agents. to be equally divided between these two branches of the service For compensation to clerks in post-offices, thirty thousand dollars.Clerks in post-offices.
To enable the Postmaster-General to refund to the rightful owner, upon satisfactory proof, the contents of a letter addressed to A. R.A. R. Brooks. Brooks, three hundred and seventy-three Pennsylvania avenue, containing the sum of fifty dollars; said sum having been erroneously covered into the Treasury. for office of disbursing clerk and superintendent of post-office building.Office of Disbursing clerk and superintendent of Post-Office building.Gas, telegraphing, miscellaneous.
For gas, one thousand dollars. For telegraphing, one thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, two thousand dollars. For deficiency in the amount appropriated from the revenues of theCompensation of postmasters. postal service for compensation of postmasters for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty, as per accounts audited by the- Sixth Auditor, payable out of the revenues of the Post-Office Department, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred and seven dollars and fifty four cents To refund to Cecilia L.
Faussett allowance of the Postmaster-GeneralCecilia L. Faussett. of a moiety of a penalty of one hundred and fifty dollars imposed on Eli Wright for violation of the postal laws, payable out of the revenues of the Post-Office Department, seventy-five dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For expenses of United States courts, being for deficiencies for theUnited States Courts. current fiscal year, namely: For fees of jurors, forty thousand dollars.Fees, jurors, witnesses.
For fees of ■witnesses, thirty thousand dollars. For support of prisoners, one hundred thousand dollars.Support of prisoners. For fees of clerks, twenty thousand dollars.Fees: clerks,District attorneys. For fees of district attorneys, twenty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account ofExpenses of Territorial courts in Utah. expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, one thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-three cents. To pay expenses of United States courts in Utah for the fiscal yearUnited States courts, Utah. ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, four thousand dollars.
For salary of the warden of the jail for the District of ColumbiaSalary, warden of jail, District of Columbia. for the next fiscal year, one thousand eight hundred dollars. 424 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. SENATE.Senate. Committee clerks and pages.For twenty-two clerks to committees, and eighteen pages, a sum sufficient to pay them during the special session of the Senate Officers, clerks, messengers, and laborers, salaries of.For salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, a sum sufficient to pay the twelve laborers, during the special session of the Senate.
Difference of pay to messengers.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to the messengers in his office the difference between their present pay and that of messengers of the Senate of the United States from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and forty four dollars, each. J. S. Hickox.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay J. S. Hickox for services as assistant in folding-room from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, inclusive, two hundred and forty dollars, this amount being the difference between the pay which he receives and that of assistants in the document room.
J. P. Ringgold.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay J. P. Ringgold, for services as clerk in folding-room from July first to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty, inclusive, two hundred and forty dollars, this amount being the difference between the pay of clerk and that of laborer received by him. George T. Howard.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George T. Howard the difference between his pay as a mail-carrier and that of a messenger of the Senate of the United States from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred and forty dollar’s.
George W. Kennedy.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George W. Kennedy the difference between his present pay and that of a messenger of the Senate of the United States from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty cents. George A. Clarke.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay George A. Clarke, messenger to the Reporter’s room of the Senate, the difference between his present pay and that of a messenger of the Senate of the United States from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty to June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty one, two hundred and forty dollars.
D. W. Curroll.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay D. W. Curroll for services in the folding room, three hundred dollars. L. Cowles.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay L. Cowles the difference between bis present pay and that of a skilled laborer, for the current fiscal year, two hundred and eighty dollars J. J. Sanborn.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay J. J. Sanborn for twenty day’s services as clerk to the Committee on Treasury Accounts during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one hundred and twenty dollars.
Capitol police uniforms.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to reimburse the Capitol police for the uniforms and equipments they were required to provide, the sum of three thousand and fifty-six dollars and forty cents, being the equivalent of one month’s pay at the rate of compensation now paid to each of them. G. M. Wight.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay G. M. Wight for one cylinder desk furnished the Senate during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, one hundred and twenty five dollars.
Joint Select Commit t e e on additional accommodations for Library of Congress, expenses of.To enable the Joint Select Committee on additional accommodations for the Library of Congress to complete the payment for plans, designs and other expenses incurred three thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the following accounts found just and proper by the Committee on Accounts, and sent with a favora- 425 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. ble recommendation to the Committee on Appropriations the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-one: To pay Franklin Temple tor services as messenger in the chief clerk’sFranklin Temple. office, the difference between the pay of a laborer received by him and that of a messenger, during the present Congress, nine hundred and sixty dollar's. To pay John P. Maloney for services as messenger to the official reportersJohnP. Maloney. of debates from December first to fifteenth, eighteen hummed and eighty, at one thousand dollars per annum, thirty-eight dollars and four cents To pay George T.
Rogers for services as clerk to the Select CommitteeGeorge T. Rogers. on the Yorktown Centennial, two hundred dollars. To pay W. C. Garrard tor services as clerk to the Committee on War-ClaimsW. C. Garrard. from April thirteenth to eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, six days at two thousand dollars per annum, thirty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. To pay James A. Diflenbaugh, for clerical work to be done during theJames A. Diffenbaugh. coming recess, as clerk to the Committee on Accounts, in completing the records of sad committee, a sum equal to one month’s pay, one hundred and eighty dollars.
To pay M. M. Herr for services as messenger to the Sergeant at-ArmsM. M. Herr. during a part of the second and all of the third session of the Forty- sixth Congress, seven hundred and ten dollars. To pay Adam Reisinger, for services as messenger in the Clerk’s officeAdam Reisinger. of the House during the present Congress, the difference between the pay of a laborer received by him and that of a messenger, nine hundred and sixty dollars. To pay H. Head for services as assistant clerk to the Committee onH.
Head. Elections from the sixth to the sixteenth of December, eighteen hundred and eighty, ten days, at six dollars per day, sixty dollars. To pay Charles E. O’Connor for clerical aid rendered the CommitteeCharles E. O’Connor. on Claims during the second and third sessions of the Forty-sixth Congress, the sum of five hundred dollars. To pay Beaufort C. Lee for services as laborer in the doorkeeper’sBeaufort C. Lee. department from October fifteenth to December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, seventy-five dollars.
To pay to A. Johns, J. J. Gilbert, E. W. Grant, and C. J. Hayes, forA. Johns, J. J. Gilbert, E. W. Grant, and C. J. Hayes. reporting done by them at the second session of the present Congress upon bills duly audited by the Committee on Accounts, three hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay Charles Christian for services rendered as laborer in the officeCharles Christian. of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House from March fifth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, two hundred dollars.
To enable the Clerk of the House to pay the following: To pay Samuel P. Ivins, junior, for the difference between what heSamuel P. Ivins, junior. received as an annual messenger in the House post-office and what he would have received if he had been a session messenger, four hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-nine cents. To pay James C. Saunders one month’s pay as clerk to Committee onJames C. Saunders. Ventilation of the Hall, one hundred and eighty-six dollars. To pay A.
W. C. Nowlan, Postmaster of the House, of Representatives,A. W.C. Nowlan. the difference between the pay of postmaster and that of assistant postmaster lor the period of time between the seventh of October, eighteen hundred and eighty and the fifteenth of December, eighteen hundred and eighty he having acted as Postmaster of the House during that time, ninety-two dollars and thirty-nine cents. To pay Edward F. Riggs for services in the Stationery-room, from andEdward F. Riggs. including November tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty to March fourth eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and seventy-six dollars. 426 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. C.S. Bundy,To pay claim of C. S. Bundy for services as acting judge of the police court of the District of Columbia, during the absence of the judge, from August thirty-first to October third, eighteen hundred and eighty, inclusive, thirty-four days, at ten dollars per day, three hundred and forty dollars; one-half of which is payable by the United States and one-half by the District of Columbia. Public schools, 1880.To supply deficiencies in the amount appropriated for the support of the public schools of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, one-half of which is to be paid by the District of Columbia, namely:
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-two cents. Public schools, 1881.To supply deficiencies in the amount appropriated for the support of the public schools of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, namely: Salaries of superintendents, teachers, and others.For salaries of superintendents, teachers, janitors, secretary of the board, and clerks, three thousand two hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, three thousand dollars. Furniture for two new school buildings.For furniture for the two new buildings now in course of erection, five thousand dollars. Reform school.To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the Reform School, and for temporary clerks employed in the office of the collector of taxes in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one-half of which is to be paid by said District, namely:
For support and maintenance of Reform School, six thousand dollars. Inspector of plumbing.For salary of inspector of plumbing to thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. Salaries, &c.Offices of District of Columbia.Salaries and contingent expenses offices of the District of Columbia, eighteen hundred and eighty. Contingent expenses.Executive office proper: Contingent expenses seventy six dollars and seventy-five cents; fuel, ice., repairs, general miscellaneous expenses and so forth for District offices three hundred and forty five dollars and forty-tour cents.
Public schools; repairs.Public schools: Repairs to school buildings three hundred and eighty- eight dollars and twenty-two cents; contingent expenses one thousand two hundred and twenty three dollars and ten cents. Metropolitan police.Metropolitan police: Contingent expenses, four hundred and thirty six dollars and eighty eight cents. Fire department.Fire department: Fuel, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty three cents. Washington Asylum.Washington Asylum: Contingent expenses, eighty-eight dollars and eighty two cents.
Transportation of paupers.Transportation of paupers and prisoners, District of Columbia: Transportation of paupers, one hundred and eighteen dollars and forty-two cents. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous expenses, District of Columbia: Rent of market site and so forth two hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three cents. government hospital for the insane. Government. hospital for the Insane.Current expenses, Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane of the Army and Navy, Marine Corps and Revenue Cutter Service and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, and of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. 427 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorizedCharles H. Nicholls. and directed to pass to the credit of Charles H. Nicholls, late Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, the sum of three thousand and thirty-seven dollars and nine cents, that being the amount disallowed in his accounts, and being the difference in salary between two thousand five hundred dollars and four thousand dollars per annum from June twenty second, eighteen hundred and seventy- four, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, said disallowance having been made to conform to the requirements of the RevisedR.
S. 4839.1867, ch. 167.Stat., 14, 464. Statutes, section forty-eight hundred and thirty-nine adopted June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four; and the salary of the said superintendent is hereby fixed at four thousand dollars per annum as originally provided in act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven PUBLIC PRINTING. To supply deficiency in the appropriation for public printing, for thePrinting and binding.Paper. public binding, and for paper for the 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, Supreme Court, Court of Claims, Library of Congress, and departments, and for all necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of said work, four hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Public Printer to pay for a hired horse lost while in thePay for horse. use of the Government Printing Office, through the fault of the driver, one of the employees of said office, two hundred and fifty dollars. To pay for the use of telephones during the fiscal year eighteen hundredTelephones. and eighty, ten dollars and eighty-four cents. To pay the Public Printer balance due for printing for the PublicPublic Lands Commission, 1880, ch. 234. Lands Commission, under act of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, four thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-six cents.Pamphlet laws, second session, Forty-sixth Congress, 245.1874, ch. 328, Stat., 18, 110.1878, ch. 191 Stat., 20, 130.
Sec. 2. For the payment of claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the. act. of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and prior years, and which have been certified to Congress under section four of the act of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as fully set forth in House Executive Document Number Thirty, Forty-sixth Congress, third session, and for other items, as follows:
COURT OF CLAIMS.Court of Claims. For contingent expenses of the Court of Claims, thirty-four dollarsContingent expenses. and eighty cents. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse. For relief of destitute American seamen, three hundred and eighty-sevenDestitute American seamen. dollars. For contingent expenses of United States consulates, ninety-two dollarsConsulates: contingent expenses. and six cents. For salaries of United States consuls, twenty-eight dollars and fifty-threeSalaries United States consuls. cents. 428 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. internal revenue.Internal Revenue. Redemption of stamps.For redemption of stamps, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents. Drawback.For allowance or drawback, seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirteen cents. Refund of taxes.For refunding taxes illegally collected, fifteen dollars and seventy-eight cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, two thousand nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety-six cents.
Salaries and expenses of supervisors, agents, and collectors.For salaries and expenses of supervisors and subordinate officers of internal revenue, eight hundred and one dollars and fifty-six cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of Internal revenue, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirty cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, twenty dollars. Expenses of assessments and collections.For expenses of assessing and collecting internal revenue, one thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-nine cents.
For refunding money erroneously received and covered into the Treasury, sixty-four dollars and ninety-five cents. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Assay office at Helena; mint at Carson.For contingent expenses of assay-office at Helena and mint at Carson, one hundred and forty dollars and eighty-eight cents. For contingent expenses of the independent Treasury, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-nine cents. For contingent expenses of steamboat inspection, two cents. For international exhibition of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, one dollar and nineteen cents.
Contingent expenses of United States mints.For contingent expenses of mints at San Francisco, Denver, and Philadelphia, and at assay-offices, four thousand nine hundred and thirty- nine dollars and seven cents. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Contingent expenses General Lund Office.For contingent expenses of the General Land Office, twenty-six dollars and four cents. Surveys, public lands.For surveying public lands, as follows: California.In California, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-five cents.
Now Mexico.In New Mexico, three hundred and five dollars and three cents. Louisiana.In Louisiana, six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-six cents. Survey of public and private lands.For surveying public and private lands, three hundred and ninety- four dollars and twenty-two cents. Surveyor-General, Arizona.For salaries in office of surveyor-general of Arizona, two hundred and three dollars and fifty-seven cents. Depredations on public timber.For depredations on public timber, eighty-five dollars and seventy- six cents.
Registers and receivers.For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, four thousand six hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-five cents. Land offices.For contingent expenses of land offices, one hundred and forty-seven dollars. Five, three, and two per centum fund to Kansas.For the State of Kansas, for amount due of the five, three, and two per centum fund to States, one hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
United States district attorneys.For salaries of United States district attorneys, twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents. 429 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. On. 132. 1881. For salaries of district marshals, fifty dollars.Marshals. For expenses of United States courts for eighteen hundred and seventy-eightUnited States courts. and prior years, excepting claim numbered sixty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-two, for three thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventeen cents, which is withdrawn from schedule herein appropriated for, nineteen thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-seven cents.
For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, eighteen hundred andTerritorial courts in Utah. seventy-eight and prior years, one thousand and thirty-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. treasury department.Treasury Department. For expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for eighteen hundredClaim No. 81,703. and seventy-eight and prior years, to pay claim numbered eighty- one thousand seven hundred and three, three dollars and fifty-four cents: *Provided,* That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury may appoint*Proviso.*Inspectors of customs. inspectors of customs at a compensation less than three dollars per day when, in his judgment, the public service will permit.
For expenses of collecting revenue from customs, eighteen hundredThomas Kearney.Hance Lawson.George Toy.Thomas S. Hodson.Robert Bell.M. Hopkins.Joseph A. Dreyfous. and seventy-eight and prior years, to pay Thomas Kearney, Dance Lawson, George Toy, Thomas S. Hodson, Robert Bell, M. Hopkins, Joseph D. Bates, Jack Wharton, Joseph A. Dreyfous, and the Union Pacific Railroad Company the sums respectively due them, amounting in all to one thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars and five cents.
Joseph D. Bates. Jack Wharton. Union Pacific Railroad Company. For contingent expenses of the lifesaving Service, fifty-two dollars.Life- Saving Service. For expenses of light-vessels, two hundred and forty-nine dollars andLight-vessels. fifty-one cents. For salaries of keepers of lighthouses, two hundred and six dollarsKeepers of lighthouses. and fifty-nine cents. For supplies of lighthouses, two thousand four hundred and seventy-nineSupplies. dollars and fifty cents. For expenses of buoyage, two hundred and two dollars and forty-sevenBuoyage. cents.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service and Marine Hospital Service,Revenue-Cutter Service and Marino Hospital Service. three dollars. For refunding moneys erroneously received and covered into the Refund of moneys.Treasury, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For reimbursing keepers at Timbalier Light-House for loss of privateKeepers of Timbalier light-house. property, one hundred dollars. To adjust the accounts of certain disbursing officers of the government on account of the appropriations following, involving no expenditure of money from the Treasury, namely, under the eleven paragraphs following:
For Anita Rock Beacon, California, one hundred and eighty-threeAnita Rock Beacon. dollars and sixty-eight cents. For expense of collecting the revenue from customs, twenty-two dollars and one cent. For repairs and reservation of public buildings, twenty dollars andPublic buildings. seventy-six cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits for unascertained duties,Repayments to importers. five hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-one cents. For lifesaving Service, forty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents.lifesaving Service.
For contingent expense of lifesaving Service one hundred and seven dollars and ninety-one cents. For repairs of lighthouses, twenty-five dollars.Repairs of lighthouses. For salaries of keepers of lighthouses, fifty cents. 430 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. Fog-signals.For expenses of fog-signals, four thousand four hundred and twenty two dollars. Light-house supplies andFor supplies of lighthouses, three hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-three cents. Light-vessels.For expenses of light-vessels, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Florida Volunteers.For pay of Florida volunteers, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. Mexican war volunteers.For pay of volunteers in the Mexican war, one hundred and eighty- three dollars and eighty-six cents. California and Nevada Volunteers.For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents First Michigan Cavalry.For traveling expenses of members of First Michigan Cavalry, one hundred and ninety eight dollars and fifty cents..
Mounted riffle men volunteers.For payment of mounted riflemen volunteers under Colonel John C. Fremont, in eighteen hundred and forty-six, two hundred and thirty two dollars and eighty-seven cents. Pay of Army.For pay of the Army, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and prior years, as particularly itemized on pages seventy-nine to eighty two of same document, thirteen thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-two cents. Recruiting.For expenses of recruiting, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and prior years, thirteen dollars.
Contingencies.For contingencies of the Army during same period one thousand and six dollars and fifty cents. Ordnance, Ordnance stores, and supplies.For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, during same period, two hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-five cents. For artificial limbs, same period, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty cents. Eight-hour law, allowances under.For allowance for reduction of wages under the eight-hour law, twenty- two dollars and thirty three cents.
Draft and substitute fund.For draft and substitute fund, nine hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-eight cents. Medical hospital department.For medical hospital department, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and prior years, one thousand and seventy two dollars and thirty cents. Collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers.For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, eighteen hundred and seventy one and prior years, three hundred and fifty-one dollars and eighty-two cents.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. indian matters. Indian agents.For pay of Indian agents, tour thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents; Inspectors.For traveling and other expenses of Indian inspectors one thousand dollars; Contingencies.For contingencies of the Indian Department, one hundred and twenty four dollars and eighty two cents; Indian service in Territories.For Indian service in the Territories, one thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and three cents;
Apaches of Arizona and Now Mexico.For support of Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico, two hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents; Chippewas, Pillager, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands.For support of Chippewas, Pillager, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands, twenty-four dollars, and fourteen cents; Chippewas of the Mississippi.For support of Chippewas of the Mississippi, two hundred and seventy- one dollars and sixteen cents; 431 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. For support of Crows, thirty dollars and thirty-three cents;Crows.
For support of Kickapoos, forty-six dollars and twenty-seven cents;Kickapoos. For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux ofSioux and San-tee Sioux of Nebraska. Nebraska, nine hundred and thirty six dollars and seventy-three cents; For payment to Upper and Lower bands of Sioux Indians, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; For transportation of Indian supplies, twenty three dollars and forty-fiveIndian supplies. cents; in all, eight thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and fifty- seven cents.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. For Army transportation, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight andTransportation. prior years, as particularly itemized on pages eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, and part of eighty-nine of the same aforenamed document, forty two thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty- seven cents. For regular supplies for the Quartermaster’s Department, eighteenQuartermaster #x2019;s Department supplies. hundred and seventy-eight and prior years, as particularly itemized on pages eighty-nine and ninety of same document, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty-two cents.
For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s Department, eighteenIncidental expenses. hundred and seventy-eight and prior years as particularly itemized on pages ninety, ninety-one, and ninety-two of same document, eight thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty cents. For barracks and quarters, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight andBarracks and prior years, as particularly itemized on pages ninety-three and ninety-fourquarters. of same document except for claims (both numbered ninety-nine hundred and seventy-two), for one thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and eighty cents, and for two thousand and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, which are excluded from this schedule, twelve thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventeen cents.
For horses for cavalry and artillery, eighteen hundred and seventy-eightHorses for cavalry and artillery. and prior years, as particularly itemized on pages ninety-four and ninety-five of same document, three thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars. For subsistence of the Army, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight andSubsistence. prior years, as particularly itemized on pages ninety-five, ninety-six, and ninety-seven of same document, two thousand two hundred and twelve dollars and forty-four cents.
For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States that were inCommutation of rations. rebellion prior to July first eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as particularly itemized on pages ninety-seven to one hundred and six of same document, ten thousand three hundred and five dollars and eighty-seven cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and WashingtonOregon and Washington volunteers. volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen bundled and fifty-six, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior year’s, as particularly itemized on pages one hundred and six to one hundred and eight of same document, six thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents.
For transportation of officers and their baggage, eighteen hundredTransportation of officers and baggage. and seventy-one. and prior years, sixty-two dollars and seventy cents. For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, eighteen hundred andClothing, etc. seventy-eight and prior years sixty-seven dollars. For horses and other property lost in the military service prior toHorses and other property lost. July first eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as particularly itemized on pages one hundred and eight to one hundred and twenty-one of House Executive Document Number Thirty, Forty-sixth Congress, third session, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
To pay the claim of George T. Wright, administrator of the estate ofGeorge T. Wright, administrator. John T. Wright, deceased, for value of steamer Peerless, lost at sea No- 432 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. vember fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, allowed by the Third Auditor and Second Comptroller under tho appropriation for property lost in the military service, thirty-five thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Pay of Navy.For pay of the Navy prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy- eight, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty three dollars and twenty- seven cents;
Pay of Marine Corps.For pay of the Marine Corps, same period, seven hundred and eighty- seven dollar's and ten cents; Contingent, expenses.For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and prior years, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and five cents; Provisions.For provisions for the Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and sixty four and eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; Bounty to seamen.For bounty to seamen, three thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents;
Bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels.For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars and thirty nine cents; Lost clothing.For indemnity for lost clothing, one thousand and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; Provisions.For provisions for the Navy, BureAn of Provisions and Clothing, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and prior years, one thousand and fifty- six dollars and forty cents; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the BureAn of Provisions and Clothing, twelve dollars and eighty-eight cents;
For contingent expenses of the BureAn of Equipment and Recruiting, four hundred and ten dollars and thirty-nine cents; Bureau of Construction and Repair.For construction and repair, BureAn of Construction and Repair, twenty-six dollars; Steam engineering.For steam-machinery, BureAn of Steam Engineering, thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; Navigation.For contingent expenses of the BureAn of Navigation, forty-four cents; Naval Observatory.For Naval Observatory, BureAn of Navigation, forty-one cents;
Yards and docks.For maintenance of yards and docks, BureAn of Yards and Docks, nine cents; Widows and Orphans of the lost on the Cumberland and Congress.Seamen.For widows and orphans of the lost on the Cumberland and Congress, two hundred and sixteen dollars; For gratuity to seamen, one hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-five cents. For compensation and expenses of direct-tax commissioners, eighteen hundred and seventy-one and prior years:
To pay claim numbered twenty-eight thousand one hundred and seventy-six, for two month’s Hiram Potter, jr.*Proviso.*salary, to Hiram Potter, junior, four hundred and eighty dollars and seventy cents: *Provided,* That this effects no payment of money from the Treasury. For fulfilling treaty with Apaches, Kiowas, and Commanches, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and prior years: To pay claim numbered Donald Carmichael.twelve hundred and sixty-nine, Donald Carmichael, detention of teams transporting Indian supplies, one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For Army transportation, eighteen hundred and seventy eight and prior years: To pay claim numbered ninety-six thousand nine hundred Andrew Woods, estate of.and ten, estate of Andrew Woods, deceased, one hundred and eighty- seven dollars and fifty cents. For pay of the Marine Corps prior to Julyfirst, eighteen hundred and Julius Boumel-berg.seventy-eight: To pay claim numbered two hundred and fifty seven, to Julius Beumelberg, two hundred and seventy dollar’s. 433 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. On. 132. 1881. For deficiency in postal revenues, eighteen hundred and seventy-eightDeficiency In postal revenues. and prior years, as particularly itemized on pages one hundred and thirty-two and one hundred and thirty-three of House Executive document Number Thirty, Forty-sixth Congress, third session, excepting the last two, marked with a star, for two thousand and twenty four dollars and seventeen cents and for seven thousand five hundred dollars, which are excluded, eighteen thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-three cents.
For payment to William Mathewson, of Kansas, of the balance ofWilliam Math-ewsop. amount due him for Hour delivered to the Indian Service at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy four, as passed and allowed by the Indian Bureau, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-four dollars. Sec. 3. That the sum of two hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to pay the Miami Indians of IndianaMiami Indians of Indiana. the principal sum that became due them on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty, in accordance with the amended fourth article of the treaty concluded with said Indians on the fifth day of June, eighteen10 Stat., 1095. hundred and fifty four, and ratified on the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty four.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint a competentCensus. and proper person to take a census and make a list of the Miami Indians residing in Indiana, or elsewhere, who are entitled to participate in the distribution of said principal sum, as provided by article four of the treaty that was made between the United States and the Miami Indians on the fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty four, as10 Stat., 1099.Claims under treaty, when barred. amended in the Senate.
Before taking such census, publication shall be made requiring all persons claiming under said treaty to make known their claim to such person so appointed, within a time specified in the notice, and failing so to do, they shall be forever barred. When said census shall be so made, it shall be the duty of the person so appointed to make such enumeration and list to report the same to the SecretaryList to distinguish males and females, and those under and over twenty-one years of ago.Payments, how made. of the Interior, distinguishing in his report between males and females, and between those over twenty-one year’s of age and those under twenty-one years, which list so made, when approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall stand as the true list of the persons entitled to share in the payments provided for in this act; and each person named in said list shall be entitled to receive the same amount, irrespective of age or sex, payments for minors to be paid to the guardians legally appointed, as hereinafter provided, under the laws of the State or Territory in which said minors reside: *Provided, however,* That any minor who may*Proviso.* be a resident of the ludiAn Territory and a beneficiary of said fund may receive his or her share thereof, as the case may be, through a guardian appointed by any court having probate jurisdiction in the State of Kansas.
The person appointed to make such enumeration and list shall,Enumerator to take oath. before entering on such duty, take and subscribe an oath that he will make a true and correct enumeration and report of said Indians according to the best information he can obtain, said oath to be administered and certified to by a United States commissioner or a clerk of a court of record; and he shall receive as his compensation therefor the sum ofCompensation of enumerator. five dollars per day and Iris actual and necessary traveling and other expenses while engaged in said duty, not to exceed four hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no persons other than those embraced in the corrected*Proviso.* list agreed upon by the Miami Indians of Indiana, in the presence of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, comprising three hundred and two names as Miami Indians of Indiana, and the increase of families of persons indicated in said corrected list, shall be recipients of the money hereby appropriated.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint some suitableAgent to make payments. person as an agent of the United States to make payment to each of said 434 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS- Sess. III. Ch. 132. 1881. Miami Indians who shall be more than twenty-one years of age whose name shall be borne on the list prepared as aforesaid the amount that he or she, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive; and he, in like manner, shall pay to the guardian of each minor whose name shall appear Guardians of minors.*Proviso.*on said list the amount that said minor shall be entitled to receive: *Provided, however,* That no payment shall be made to any guardian as such until he produce and deliver to the agent from whom he shall receive such payment the certificate of the judge of the court, attested by the seal of the same, certifying that such guardian has been duly appointed Bond.and qualified as such, and given bond, secured by unincumbered freehold surety, in the penalty of not less than three times the amount he shall receive from the United States on account of the payment so to be made for the benefit of said ward, which certificate shall be filed by said agent at the time of making of his report and final settlement.
A copy of said list so prepared as aforesaid shall be furnished to said agent, for his guidance in the performance of the duties aforesaid, by the Secretary of Receipt for moneys, how made.the Interior. Said agent shall take the receipt of the persons so paid attested in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, which receipt shall be a voucher for said agent in the final settlement of Compensation to agent.his accounts. Said agent shall receive, in full compensation for the services required by the provisions of this act, a sum equal to three fourths of one per centum on the amount that he shall receive.
The agent so appointed to make said payments shall before entering on such Oath.duty, take and subscribe on oath, before some United States commissioners or clerk of some court of record, for the faithful performance of Agent’s bond.the duties imposed by the provisions of this act, and make and execute a bond, payable to the United States, in such penalty and with such security as the Secretary of the Interior shall require and approve. And the receipt of the sum due under this act shall be a final discharge by each party so receiving of all claims whatsoever under said treaty against the United States Government.
Sec. 6. Appropriation. That there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, to pay the agents whom the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint for the services and expenses required by the provisions of this act. Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Claim of—Isaac Vandeventer and James F. McDowell, attorneys.Band of Mesh-ingomesia.examine the claim of Isaac Vandeventer and James F.
McDowell, attorneys at law, partners under the name of Vandeventer and McDowell, for services rendered in the defense of certain suits in the courts of the State of Indiana in relation to the taxation and partition of the lands of the band of Meshingomesia in said State, and for alleged services rendered said band in and about legislation by Congress affecting their said lands and the partition of their lauds pursuant thereto, and allow and pay to said attorneys such reasonable compensation as he may find legally or equitably due them for said services, out of the moneys due to said band, or out of the money due to any of said band, as he Testimony to be taken.may deem just.
And to enable the Secretary to properly examine said accounts, he may cause or permit testimony to be taken by said claimants and by said band, or by any individual or individuals of said band, *Proviso.*under such rules as he may prescribe: *Provided,* That in making any such payment no part of the same shall be deducted from the share of any member of said band who received no part of the land so partitioned, nor shall any part of any such payment be deducted from the share of any member of said band whose membership was contested, and who was required by proof to establish such membership to entitle him or her to share in the partition of said land.
Approved, March 3, 1881.